Scott Olsen's message to the Occupy Wall Street Movement

Host Keith Olbermann asked Navy vet and friend of Scott Olsen, Josh Shepherd how Olsen was doing. Shepherd answered by reading the most recent text that he got from Olsen, "So he says what kind of pie, which goes along occupy. I see the success there. Keep it up. Non-violent in the face of police brutality."

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• operationleaks

[RyderSpearmann]

The huge rap sheet of this violent movement... the rapes, the shootings, the fires and vandalism... at the hands of some of the most brutally stupid young people I have ever seen. When asked what they would do to correct things... Occupiers say brilliant things like.. eliminate money... or eliminate all banks... totally ignorant of what it would mean to turn back humanity 4000 years...

When ignorance is your fuel... I guess anything seems reasonable.

[Independentsrock]

The Occupy movement is not a liberation movement and has nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with taking control of public and private property without remorse. If they wanted public support, they should have called Liberate Wall Street and give it back to the people, but this is about taking and why it is doomed to fail and will be put down swiftly as in Oakland when the far left is exposed for who and what they really are, fascists, selfish, and greedy in their own right.

[Independentsrock]

@curwoodm66

Now, the Oakland protesters are shooting people in the park and punching news cameramen in the head. The Mayor has now said the "encampment is now a tactic, not a solution...", and ordered the protesters to leave. Nobody shot Olsen in the face with anything, fool. You don't even know the definition of attempted murder and a real credit to your parents and educators. The audacity for anyone to claim they have the unlimited right to peacefully assemble on public property is freaky.

[curwoodm66]

@Independentsrock And your high school has done a fantastic job in turning you into an organic robot who churns out the programmed information fed it from birth. Shooting Scott Olsen in the face then shooting into the crowd that went to his aid is not 'a limit on free speech' it's attempted murder. The 'right to assemble peacefully has limits' is total and utter Owellian double speak. You are a slave and you don't even know it.

[Independentsrock]

If this is obeying the terms of your permit to assemble, I would hate to see what a riot looks like. This marching down a street and disobeying police orders has nothing to do with free speech. It was an unlawful assembly and everyone who participated knew it. I have no problem voicing my opinion, but free speech has limits, freedom of religion has limits, the right to carry a gun has limits, the right to assemble peacefully has limits. This was taught in high school for those who went to class

[Song4Alex]

keith olbermann is amazing. there's nobody i respect more

[beastshawnee]

18 veterens a day who should be coming home to protest these wars but they kill themselves instead...very sad, shameful for us all...

[beancube2010]

Return Bradley Manning to us! He is us, the 99% of the population of this country.

[CHOOSE42]

Thanks for the update. Glad to hear Scott's input.

Walk it tall!

[chuck3377]

99% of humans on the planet earth are united against corporate fascism. The corporate fascist propaganda no longer works on the people, people understand what corporate fascism is and how it has ruined their democracy and quality of life. Corporations should exist, they are not people, they are legal constructs. Corporate fascism should not be tolerated anymore, zero tolerance for corporate fascism.