Steven Navarro at Occupy Charlotte - Don't get co-opted!

If you like this, please check out the whole video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0NOsf8DnfE

Don't go for all of those slogans! Our country is bankrupt, Roman empire style, and we need to be honest with each other about it, and deal with it. The REAL reason most of the country supports this movement, is because of police brutality in NYC. If it's all socialist slogans, it will not persist. Even if it's your persuasion, our country is not ripe for socialist revolution. The ONLY hope we have is if the anti-war far left and the anti-war far right find each other before the politicians destroy the dollar through inflation. If this is about anything else than ending the empire, ending the FED and balancing the budget, the only thing all of these efforts will result in will be to give Obama a few extra points on election day. Both parties are exactly the same! Just because the wars aren't on TV anymore doesn't mean they aren't a drain on our economy! We can pull ourselves out of this - we have our creativity, our willingness to work hard, and in this age we have the internet. But none of these slogans and promises can work. There simply is no loot to be handed out. The economic collapse was predictable, and the "Austrian free market economists" predicted it. We need to educate ourselves on these issues, and have debates. And before anyone attacks me - we don't have the first amendment to talk about the weather - we have it to discuss controversial things. The people who are trying to take charge of this are philosophically the kind of Democratic hacks who were against the wars when it was under Bush, but support them under Obama. You should not listen to anyone who flies under that banner. Foreign policy never changes. Civil liberties are always under attack. All elections are about is who is in charge of who. Do public service unions (something FDR thought was a REALLY bad idea) get to screw us over, or do big businesses get to screw us over? I'm an Army Veteran, and if you want to thank me for my service before we duke it out about the issues, please watch my video. We all just happened to come out and meet each other in the streets all over America in solidarity with anyone who gets brutalized by the police, but that doesn't mean everyone out here wants more socialism to mend this. We aren't in this mess because the rich are exploiting us - it is because the wars have bankrupted us. I DARE anyone to have a problem with this message.

Also, check out the whole speech if your interested. "Steven Navarro occupy Charlotte - part 1" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0NOsf8DnfE

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[benknefelkamp]

steven, most of what you say is not true. Politics (from Greek πολιτικός, "of, for, or relating to citizens")

[stevenavarro]

@benknefelkamp If I got to redo a part of the presentation, I would have articulated POLITICS as "the adjudication of power", then said the whole "who rules over who" thing. See, a lot of young people think just because you write a law, good things always come from it. Not really the "dangerous servant and a fearful master" government sentiment of our first president. Please tell me how "most of what I say is not true", and watch the economics class - its all REAL information and no propaganda.

[teknomage2012]

In Support of Occupy Portland (Wall Street) whole neighborhoods set up tents on their lawns today. Spread the news, set up a tent on your lawn to show support. Time to audit the PRIVATE federal reserve, fire them, and print our own money as a nation in solidarity!

[stevenavarro]

@teknomage2012 I'd rather have government not be able to print at all, but you're on the right track. Ron Paul is saying we shouldn't even pay interest debt we have to the FED, which makes sense because they created it out of this air. The reason I don't want Government to be able to print is because that is how they finance wars.

[Chandleresque]

Ah! The great old If-you-are-not-with-us-then-yo­u-are-communist trick. I'm not going to fall for that one. Why is your video the first in the 'occupy' query that are reserved for sponsored video? Who's sponsoring you? You are the one who's trying to co-opt the Occupation.

[stevenavarro]

@Chandleresque I wouldn't rubricate it quite that way... It was an anti-war message. And, I encourage deliberation - did you even read my video description? This is from a class on economics, and it's all real information - no propaganda. I describe the housing bubble, because if you don't understand WHY it happened, you can't really begin to address the problems we have. Please check it out, and THEN rip me apart.

[texaswoodsmith]

I like you brother. We gotta get past this Left/Right paradigm. Our division and separation is OUR enemies greatest strength. It was created by the man anyway. There is only right and wrong. And, none of us are always right. I really, really know that we all want the same thing. Peace, freedom, equality, justice.....

[psa637]

Where's the rest of this event. Thank you, Steven. I get it. I'm spreading the word, AND I want to hear more from you!

[texaswoodsmith]

@PatriotWatchUSA Listen Brother, I wish you & the Tea Party luck. But, I know there is not a lick of discernable difference between Democrats and the Republicans. "Left" and "Right" is an illusion. If I we want ANY change we must sway the minds of the men who control the means. WOW, that would be Goldman Sachs, et.al. And, Ron Paul WOULD agree with that. There is no hope left in the vote. All that we have now is violent revolution. I am neither Liberal(D) nor Conservative(R).

[PatriotWatchUSA]

@texaswoodsmith I'm folowing you but rubbing up against OWS doesnt help the cause. I'm a registered Independent with conservative values because they work. I will not vote for Romney if that helps you with my position. OWS has NO idea who the enemy. If they did they would be out of the ports and parks and at our elected officials locations. For the unions to send three idiots to yell my Michelle B is speaking is stupid. Go to congress, go to the White House, go to your eected officials homes

[texaswoodsmith]

@PatriotWatchUSA I know that brother. But, we still gotta get past this Left/Right paradigm. We still gotta get connected. This bit is about "not" getting co-opted when the whole thing is a co-op.  But, likewise, I'm not going to be co-opted by the bullshit alledged Conservative Republicans. Left and Right is an illusion. Each side plays us like a puppet master. We gotta find common ground and understand that our enemy is one and the same...

[PatriotWatchUSA]

@texaswoodsmith OWS is a progressive group. PERIOD. They share very little with Ron Paul. That is my oint. If you want to hang with Ron Paul people find a Tea Party. Only afew OWS people will vote Paul. The majority will vote Obama or Hillary if she slides in there. I do NOT need a Paul lecture from you my friend. Ive been following him for a long time. BELIEVE me Paul and OWS have very little in common.

[texaswoodsmith]

@PatriotWatchUSA The illegal wars WILL stop. Congress alone WILL coin money, not the Federal Reserve. Political lobbyism (bribery) WILL stop. The Patriot Act & the NDAA WILL be repealed. Nafta/Gatt WILL be reigned in to provide competative atmospheres for US industry. Our soveriegnty WILL NOT be shared with the UN, et al. The Federal Gov. WILL restrain itself to the specific & enumerated powers. The States WILL enjoy the 10th Amend. Or, their WILL be revolution. Ron Paul 2012!

[PatriotWatchUSA]

@texaswoodsmith TEXAS go find a Tea Party. You are standing with the wrong group. THESE people are all about taxing the crap out of you till your blind. You don't get it yet. OWS might start a revolution my friend but they will be fighting other Americans. They will be fighting me. The true Patriots of this country. They want to tax the crap out of the guy you live next to who has bsted his ass his whole life. What do u think the guy next to you will do if these people get the OBAMA way?

[PatriotWatchUSA]

The only thing he is right about is you are nowhere near the 99%. You will never be the 99% because you are a left wing group who is looking to tear down the Amercan way of life. Tea Party members DO NOT buy into rob the rich to create your perfect world. That is not freedom but slavery for those who work. WE are tired of paying public employee retirement. PARTY IS OVER OWS and you all will learn math soon. YOU cannot TAX your way to freedom

[PatriotWatchUSA]

The "students are so happy whats happening in middle east" that was such a crock of shid. Those people are more represt today than they were before Obama stirred the pot. Keep aligning yourselves with the Nanacy Pelosi and Michael Moores of the world and than say you are a nuetral group

[PatriotWatchUSA]

@texaswoodsmith OWS does not want freedom and I don't mean to break up your LOVE session here but OWS is fully paid for by UNIONS and the OBAMA wrecking crew. Your from Texas you should know better