Michael Moore at The Nation and The New School Panel Discussion (11/10/11)

"They're so frightened about this movement right now that in the republican debate last night it was brought up two or three times. The republican presidential candidates -- one of the candidates had to say 'I'm part of the 99%.' They're even using the language now. They're so frightened by this, Bank of America had to get rid of the shitty $5 bank card fee. ... 'We'll feed them a lot of nonsense on TV and that will make them afraid and we'll make their schools so crappy that they'll be ignorant and they won't know when we're trying to manipulate them with fear.' This is how they do it. ...

"Occupy, until seven weeks ago was really a dirty word 'cause we knew what it meant. Those lands that are occupied by us in the Middle East -- the West Bank and Gaza by another country. Occupation is a dirty word. And you have taken this and you've just -- all of us, everyone's a part of this -- everybody turned it completely on it's ear and now we own the word. ... We've occupied you now. We've occupied the Washington Post. We've occupied the Wall Street Journal. ...

"This is our moment. This is the moment for it to happen. It will only happen if every single person in this room, tonight, when you leave and you go home, you have to say to yourself, 'What am I doing? What can I do to be part of the occupation? What am I going to do to Occupy Wall Street?' ...

"I've seen occupies that are two people big and this is where it's got to start and it always starts that way. Marx, he just had Engels. They were just two old farts sitting around keeping their hands warm over the fireplace in London talking shit to each other and they came up with this idea. And J.C. -- J.C. just had 12 fisher guys and look what happened to that. Woah! ...

"You have been occupied by Wall Street. Your homes have been occupied by Wall Street. Your government has been occupied by Wall Street. Your media has been occupied by Wall Street. And it's okay for you to say, 'Not anymore. Those days are over. End of story.'" -- Michael Moore, Tishman Auditorium, Thursday, November 10th, 2011

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[vrove8]

MM is a national treasure!

[MishuTaste]

Michael Moore should have some cross-country town hall discussions about America's problems (in all 50 states) and make it into a film.

[Boris82much]

@n8glenn Lame answer, glenn. The E.U. embraced marxism and look at 'em now. I was union once, til I figured out what was coming down the pike, due to GREED. What is now unsustainable was created by some unions that simply got greedy. Not the government...unions...oh and the incredible spendable Democrats.

[n8glenn]

@Boris82much Now, everyone starts out at the bottom, or most people do, and many people stay at the bottom their whole lives! It's not so wrong to ask that children who start out at the bottom have a CHANCE is it? I don't think so, and I started out working as a roustabout on oil rigs, I worked in mechanic shops, I manned cash registers, I worked mostly two jobs at a time, so I think I know about starting out on the bottom.

[n8glenn]

@Boris82much It's not too much to ask to get an education without being put into debt slavery for the rest of your life. It's not too much to ask to have a decent wage which allows you to live with some level of dignity and enjoyment in the richest country in the history of mankind. Those tax payers you keep talking about, THEY are the ones who want those things! They pay taxes, WHETHER OR NOT they get anything for them! So yeah, they should get something in RETURN for taxes!

[Boris82much]

@n8glenn Bingo: "affordable education" (The taxpayers who work hard pay for it again as usual); "decent jobs which allow them to live COMFORTABLY" (LMFAO!!! none of you are willing to start at the bottom flipping hamburgers and work your way up...my grandfather started pumping gas in 1920 and retired COMFORTABLY); "some want pot legalized" (no duh!!!). YOU ARE DESCRIBING THE VERY SYSTEM THAT IS SINKING THE E.U. AS WE SPEAK!!!!! LMAO!!! Look dear, do the world a favor and please stay in school.

[n8glenn]

@Boris82much Let's just think about this for a second, the tea party started over objections to the bailouts, but the people who got the bailouts and of course the koche brothers quickly coopted the movement, and now what are they advocating? Smaller government, less regulation of wall street, lower taxes for the rich, etc. Those are exactly the things which got us in this mess, and made wall street powerful enough to demand bailouts, while sinking our economy.

[n8glenn]

@Boris82much Yeah, you just described OWS as well. They are soldiers, students, small business owners, concerned citizens of all stripes, and they don't hate the tea party, members, even though they recognize, like most people do, that the tea party got misdirected early on to do the bidding of the rich who just got the bailouts. Sorry, but the tea party got taken over by the very people they are against and they don't know it yet.

[Boris82much]

@n8glenn The Tea Party, made up of small business owners, people who started working from the bottom up never looking for hand-outs, union members, soldiers who put their asses on the line for you and Americans from all income levels, started while Bush was in office, over the fear the government was going to screw around with their SS, Medicare and Medicaid...which is why one OWS GROUP IS NOW BACKING THE TEA PARTY IN THEIR CITY.

[n8glenn]

@Boris82much And btw, if moore has some scheme to make money off of OWS, then explain it to me, I'd like to hear about this, I don't know how he would do it, and actually I think he's doing pretty good with that book he just released.

[n8glenn]

@Boris82much Great! I like Moore and I despise obama! Listen, if you want to know what the OWS is about, just read the declaration of the occupation of new york, google it. You're exaggerating what they want, they want affordable education, and decent jobs which allow them to live comfortably, no more, and some want pot legalized, why not? We drink, we smoke tobacco, why not smoke pot? It's ridiculous to fill up prisons fighting the "war on drugs", it just prohibition part duh.