OCCUPY OAKLAND VIOLENCE!

A rant about the Occupy Oakland violence

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[kenji4861]

I don't understand why if you are foreclosed on, you get mad at the 'big corporations.' It's a risk investors took like every other investment. When I lost a lot of money to the stock market, I knew the risks going in so I had no one to blame but myself. I didn't go out on the streets saying I can't feed my child. If I had bought a home and was foreclosed on, I would blame myself for not reading the fine prints and not calculating the risks.

[HannySocks]

@kenji4861 what if you're foreclosed on because you were laid off from a job by a corporation reporting record profits? and in the process you also lost your health care coverage? what if you busted your ass and devoted your life to a corporation that did this to you? do you really think you are exempt from this happening? really? come on. stop watching fox news.

[JBeerline]

Some people do not have the ability to look at a situation and form their own opinion about it, which is really sad. they just assume that what they're being told about it is absolute proof--- they're sheep. I appreciate that you're one who can form an opinion, and I enjoyed watching you're expression of it.

And I would fight to protect what is mine...even if it was violent. Nobody should have to struggle in the "richest country in the world". Period.

[HannySocks]

@JBeerline 100% agreed.

[TheCakeIsNotaVlog]

The level of bigoted ignorance in these comments is appalling

[DaveSquibbSr]

quit drinking the cool-aid

[HannySocks]

@jpkm123 no, what i'm saying is that to expect people who have nothing left to lose to not become violent in all situations, is absurd. you most likely would, too. What needs to happen to end the violence, is to end the economic breakdown that is creating these throngs of people who have nothing left to lose. Pretty simple and basic and straight forward. Don't be naive enough to fall for them turning supporters against each other and taking our glare off the true offenders.

[TammyFlores1]

@jpkm123 I spoke to some of the leadership behind the movement, the problem with a grassroots movement is that it can be hard to control. I agree, they have to be more organized in getting their message out, but I do understand why some are angry. To feel like you have no hope and that you don't matter is not a very good head space to be in. People do not think rationally under those circumstances and to group them all to say that they are "andre scumbags elements" is unfair.

[TammyFlores1]

@jpkm123 means are missing the point of who allowed them to do it. Where's the bail out money for all those people that lost their jobs, their homes, their lives? People are not important it seems. It's like they don't have a name, just that they are a number. But the banks... they are too important and it's the peoples fault that they were going to fail right?

[TammyFlores1]

@jpkm123 I think she is addressing the ones that are anit-occupy.I spent a bit of time last night to understand their purpose. What they want to accomplish is something good for all. I had this conversation with someone last night. Have we forgotten that the banks are too big to fail? OR that there was just shy of a trillion dollars to bail them out that went to bonusing the leadership that put the banks in that perdicament to begin with? Those that say people were living beyond their (con't)

[jpkm123]

@TammyFlores1 his video is very reasonable to be hoinest. Basically this silly girl is taking issue with him for identifying that their andre scumbags elements involved. bolied down she's saying if things are tough for me economically and if i make bad decisons that don't work out that gives me the right to be violent