Reply #21: I agree with some of what you have written......

[FrenchieCat]

while at the end of the day, to believe that Cities, Counties and States would not confer
with each other on a similar issue that is occurring nationwide would be naive and
unreasonable.

For those bent on believing that this President would be personally involved is stretching the matter
in order to make him the responsible party, and to turn Occupy Wall Street into a
movement like the Tea Party, which rather than concentrating on issues and how they
can make a positive difference, would prefer to simply blame one man for all of the
perceived problems in the world, in order to simplify the aim of their ire.

At this point, those active participants of Occupy Wall Street will have to determine whether the
goal, at the end of the day, is to be mad at everyone based on speculative heresy or murky causal link, and start to activate as a spoiler in the upcoming elections, or whether they actually want to affect change towards the positive, and in so doing, not react based on rumors which will only make them vulnerable to manipulation by those players whose biggest wish is to see this President fail, no matter how the end result might affect those currently in the 99%.

To this point, I have been a supporter of this movement, and have donated to the cause.
I have also written to the various elected officials in the California State government,
registering my contempt for their methods and their approach in dealing with the movement. I have written to the governor, the CA Attorney General on down to the Oakland US Representative of the district and the mayor (as I am in Oakland), and also to Pres. Obama.

However, if the OWS movement wants to find a way to shrink their numbers, I would suggest that they go after Pres. Obama, and act as spoilers. What they will find, is that many will stop supporting them, as they start to understand that this movement may only lead to an all Republican government in the near future; something that would be very harmful to the overwhelming majority of the 99%, and would be advantageous to the 1%; which is a complete contradiction to what the movement presented itself to be about originally.

Pointing fingers has consequences, and so as long as everyone fully understands what that might mean, then they should go for what they know. If they lose support due to it, well, at least they understood that could be the case. If they choose to place blame as their overarching concern, then they should know that taking actions that would eventually put the 99% in a worse position then they are now will only demonstrate that even those who mean well can sometimes hurt the cause. Unintended consequences or not, it all will have an effect.....and that will be the lasting message.

This is the place in history where the OWS movement can either go the way of the 1968 protests which gave us Richard Nixon, or not....and I guess it will depend how much some in the movement, who call themselves speaking for it...have to lose, as sometimes not having anything to lose personally can make one less sensitive to what others may have to lose in a long run. None of us are perfect, and I would not assume that some who believe themselves to be the exception truly are.