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   Dredd said on 12/29/2011 @ 1:56pm PT: [Permalink]

   Thanks for the info Earnie, that is way, way cool.

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   Darryl said on 12/30/2011 @ 7:52am PT: [Permalink]

   Yet another blaring example of a misguided waste of time and money…
   I suggest “Occupy Soup Kitchen”.. a true value to the cause..
   http://darryls-soapbox.blogspot...p-kitchen.html

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   Ernest A. Canning said on 12/30/2011 @ 9:52am PT: [Permalink]

   In his linked article, Darryl @2, who displays his elitist disdain for the working class with the words, Occupy Soup Kitchen, states:

   What if these millions of man hours were allocated to actually improving the human condition?

   With all due respect, Darryl, that remark suggests that you are absolutely clueless about the “why” of Occupy Wall Street.

   As I previously explained, Occupy Wall Street is a genuine democratic uprising that has emerged from a profound contradiction between America’s “promise” and its “reality.”

   The American “promise” is embodied in the lofty, egalitarian principles of the Declaration of Independence, in the recognition provided by the U.S. Constitution that the purpose of government is to “promote the general welfare,” and in the concept inscribed above the portico of the U.S. Supreme Court — “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW.” The “reality,” as noted by former New York Times journalist Chris Hedges, is that political power in the U.S. has been seized by a “criminal class” of rapacious oligarchs, whose radical goal is not merely the ability to carry out their criminal pillage of the economy and the environment with impunity, but the decimation of “all impediments to the creation of a neo-feudalistic corporate state.”

   By taking on the systemic threat to our economy, our environment and humanity’s survival posed by the criminal oligarchs, OWS is investing “man hours…to actually improving the human condition.”

   Meanwhile, Darryl, perhaps you can inform us about the number of man hours you personally have invested to “improve the human condition,” and just what you’ve done towards accomplishing that task.

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   Nancy Anderson said on 1/2/2012 @ 11:50am PT: [Permalink]

   Of course they did not allow news coverage! They cut it off right after the last float came into view. We figured that’s what they would do but, to the OWS group – GOOD JOB! Maybe it’s not the best way to “occupy” their time but I still feel that it’s necessary for them to put the pressure on.