By Popular Demand: Occupy Davis - The Truth

I agree. It was provocative and threatening to the police and after watching the whole video I'm impressed with how well the police handled it.

It still doesn't play well when armed police engage with unarmed civilians.
The cops are in a quandry for sure. Verbal threats aren't enough. Sitting in the road aren't enough. The threats to the police need to be greater before they're exonerated for acting in the court of public opinion.

My $.02

 

Is that what the whole movement is about? I was hoping that it was more than that, like the corporate quest for profit over all or something meaningful. F'ing stupid.

 

they need to stop labeling generations with letters "X gen" "Y gen"

the current phase of protests are populated by the "self-entitlement" generation.

IMHO

 

about .1% of them are protesting about the rich that evade taxes....I think

 

I love it when indignant hippie kids get pepper sprayed in the face.

 

so shouting "F#$% the Police" while doing all of those things isn't enough?

 

I'm with the officers, even before seeing this extended video.

 

Still dumb.

 

The Occupiers in San Francisco\Oakland have had the balls to compare themselves to the Civil Rights Protesters in 50's......Am I the only one who absolutely loves seeing the "children" get hit with the pepper spray? God I love watching that!

 

No. Sadly.
And to be clear, I'm just talking about the court of public opinion.
If the officers didn't do anything then maybe the news channels would have to play the chants of F the police for their news story. That might have swayed public opinion. Or maybe they wouldn't play anything on the news at all. Not a fair shake for the cops.

But once you pepper spray an unarmed civilian it's up above the news anchors shoulder when the story is being told. No matter how unbiased the story that image is what lots of people will form their opinion on.

 

The police showed way more restraint than I could have. Any one who does follow orders given by the police deserve there heads cracked open.

 

slightly off topic, but the pressure of "education with a degree" is doing it's part in the economy and the "classing" of citizens.

this country was not founded on people who..... i think you can figure out the rest.




Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs host and "skilled labor" advocate) has been trying to shine a light on this for some time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3h_pp8CHEQ0

http://www.mikeroweworks.com/2011/05/mike-rowes-oral-testimony-to-the-senate-commerce-committee/
http://impact.discovery.com/press/testimony-mike-rowe-us-senate-committee-commerce-s/

 

it sucks how the police get such a bad rap just because the news needs something to say!! I knew something was up.. you dont just mace someone for the hell of it.. under no circumstances should anyone ever even think about trying to free someone who has been arrested. They were all surprized to get maced because they thought it was a game but they should have known police in riot gear DONT PLAY GAMES!!! Im all for their movement being a college student myself but this is not the way to go about it.. the bastards were lucky to not have gotten the shit beat out of them with a baton.

 

i think it shows how effed up our media is too


they do nothing but lie to us, and yes i consider withholding info to be lying when portrayed in that manor. i hate im considered part of that generation, kids now a days are just lazy, they want the easiest least amount of work to be done possible way of making money. get off your ass and go work. its not handed out to you on a silver platter

 

This is exactly what the movement started as (except I'd never heard the TSA part).

But like you said, the Occupy movements can't seem to get a decent spokesperson in front of the camera to articulate this properly. Part of that is disorganization, part of it is the media's insistence on running the more ignorant sound bites they get (it's the "the tornado sounded like a freight train" philosophy of ratings-grab).

Many people are angry because they are doing what they can to carve out a little piece of the American Dream by getting an education and trying to get a decent job so they can CONSUME, but the 1% gives them a gigantic shitburger to eat in the form of unemployment so they can afford another yacht.

 

amen.

another Mike Rowe observation of Americas relationship with "work"

@ 5:26 is the meat of the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=Qo-cUZ2aRKc

 

Thank you Mike. I can certainly understand the validity of all of those points. I. like you, wish that someone would get that message out.