Occupy Delaware evicted

[max1]

Good riddance, Patriots my ass.

[Curly]

About 50 people attended the dismantling of the camp on Sunday.

That explains the two hour backup on 95. Can't argue with support like that.

At least with the tea-party people, they got permits, paid for their own bathrooms instead of using the street and cleaned up after themselves. They made their point within a day or two and left, again cleaning up before they left. They didn't stay long because they had jobs and other responsibilities, one being a hot shower. Occupy overstayed their welcome, shit and pissed in the streets, demanded the hosting city to pay for everything and clean up after them. Still, 99% of the population doesn't know what these dirty assholes want. Maybe I'll go undercover, grow some dreadlocks, do bong hits all day and not shower for a long time and scream at mommy and daddy for more money to finance my pathetic existence.....just to relate dude.

[max1]

Go easy there my friend the southern poverty law center might put you on its list. Look at what the have to say about the tea party movement. Its very revealing, SPLC is a racist instution and its getting worse. Look at what they have to say, and a lot of it is against white conservatives in this country. Thats not an opinion its a fact.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informe...-united-states

[Curly]

Great, more manufactured hate to fit an agenda.

[EpicWin]

[Joe Walther]

The longer we live the greater the odds of us entering into the springtime of our senility. And even though some probably suspect that I’m already there, I’m not. I remain steadfastly attached to reality while firmly tethered to a reasonable sense of rationality—although I must admit that it’s wintertime.

For the record, I’m NOT anti-activism. Civil disobedience has ushered in some badly needed social, political, and economic changes. And as long as its purpose is the discovery of truth and it’s properly applied, it will continue the tradition.

But truth is rarely absolute and, because of this, it tends to go through three stages. First it’s ridiculed; then it’s violently opposed; and finally it’s accepted as being self-evident.

It isn’t the fact that the human race—even among the most emotionally and intellectually astute—possesses limited fields of view that causes all the problems. It’s our incessant propensity to assume that our individual fields of view are the world’s, as well.

But activism for its own sake begets nothing but prolonged chaos. It does nothing but add to the already overwhelmed array of cultural construction aimed at defining personal subjective reality in absolute terms.

It isn’t that the Occupy Movement, including the Delaware group, didn’t pose some valid questions and propose some well-needed changes. They most certainly did and I listed some of them in my original reply.

But when some clown claiming to represent Occupy Delaware enters a post on this forum implying that we’re all too stupid for our own good… ending with an admonition for us to WISE UP, I take exception.

And, adding insult to injury, this crowd’s implied claims of “standing up to power” in the images of the late Martin Luther King and our Founding Fathers is disingenuous at best and pernicious at worst.

I have friends whom I speak to regularly who marched with Dr. King. They’re very old now and they carry real scars from being beaten up by “power” for doing nothing but demanding their civil rights.

They risked their very lives, their children’s well-being, and all their worldly possessions in pursuit of their goals. These people stood up to REAL “power” and we’re all better off for it!

And I won’t even broach the subject of what our Founders put on the line in THEIR stand against REAL power.

No, the Occupy Movement, in Delaware or anywhere else in this country has already blown it. They’re not standing up to power; they’re merely using catchy slogans and stupid-looking costumes to gain publicity.

And, they got it, too. The only problem is that continually accentuating ignorance with certainty nets nothing by negative notoriety. It simply gives the assholes in phony movements a forum in which they can prove that they’re assholes.

Of course, they have this right. Our Founding Fathers guaranteed them this right when they succeeded in kicking REAL POWER’S kingly ass!

[max1]

Good post Joe, I said at the beginning that the OWS movement was a good thing. Then something happened and it all went to shit, and I think it was because it was co-oped by someone or something. We have seen it before where a grassroots action is taken over by politicians like some of the tea party folks. Its a shame.

[Joe Walther]

Good post Joe, I said at the beginning that the OWS movement was a good thing. Then something happened and it all went to shit, and I think it was because it was co-oped by someone or something. We have seen it before where a grassroots action is taken over by politicians like some of the tea party folks. Its a shame.

It went the way of most initially sound ideas. For example, the Tea Party movement at its conceptual level was a sound notion put forth by intellectually and emotionally sound people. Initially, both sides saw merit in its implications because of its underlying recognition of political, social, and economic reality: reasonable compromise.

Then, as it always does, it filtered down to the moron level where the true idiots reside. We can't reason with morons and we certainly should never argue with them. All they do is beat people down to their own emotional and intellectual levels and win through sheer experience.

In the meantime, our ratings-dependent news media pays all of the attention to the morons because controversy sells. In addition, morons are far more vocal about what they THINK they know than the rest of us are about what we ACTUALLY know. Not only do morons vote, they let their congressional representatives and their senators know it, too. Which brings us to the major problem in all of this: the United States Congress.

It's been a long-standing tenet of group dynamics that the accomplishments of a group do NOT correlate to the mean intellectual IQ of the group. They correlate to the mean emotional IQ of the group.

In other words, a group composed of an average intellectual IQ but an above average emotional IQ can get things done quickly and to the benefit of the whole, while a group with a HIGH intellectual IQ average but a group average emotional IQ that is LOW loses all ability to grab its collective ass with it collective hands.

We now have U. S. Representatives and U. S. Senators that give new meaning to incivility. They appease the morons because they're the ones doing all the calling and writing--with, I suspect, an increase in crayon sales at Staples, Home Depot, etc.

The bulk of the American electorate, as always, will see through all of this crap and make a decision come next November. And some folks are going experience the surprise of their lives!

[max1]

We now have U. S. Representatives and U. S. Senators that give new meaning to incivility. They appease the morons because they're the ones doing all the calling and writing--with, I suspect, an increase in crayon sales at Staples, Home Depot, etc.

Thats funny stuff right there :-)

[longnecker]

Thats funny stuff right there :-)

Yeah it's funny but unfortunately there is one hell of a lot of truth to the point he is making.