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In reply to the discussion: Karen Beck of MoveOn says she will call the police on #Occupy if their actions upset her [View all]limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Does this really change anything? Everybody is going to do whatever they were going to do anyway. This lady is not anybody's boss.
The Mainstream Media is going to try to discredit Occupy every chance it gets. Same shit different day.
Is vandalism, like spray-painting, a violent crime?? Not in my book. Personally I couldn't care less.
But almost nobody was doing that stuff anyway and many of those were planted by the cops. It costs nothing to agree with "no vandalism" so who cares? If anything it will make it harder for the undercover cops to instigate stuff.
It's really similar to last fall during the really big marches when there was a large labor turnout. Occupiers did their thing. Unions kind of did their own thing, separate sometimes but connected sometimes. The only difference now is MoveOn found a way to get their fingers in it. But BFD. Ignore them. Carry on as usual.
Anybody who was thinking about walking onto a bridge is not going to be swayed by that lady to stop. And anyone who wasn't going to still isn't going to.
Those big union crowds from last fall, they're cool. They're in. That's who alot of the 99%spring people are, I think. I went to one of their events and it was mostly union people.
They probably don't trust Move On anymore than you do or I do.