Saturday, November 19, 2011

Protests and Signs

Since the protests began, there have been a number of messages that are displayed in the park.  Messages range from "End the Fed" to "9/11 was a government conspiracy" to "Free Puerto Rico"  And then there are just the crazy people who like to hang out in the park and bang on drums all day and wave anarchist type flags. 

So, the other day I was telling you about the "Nazi Bankers" sign and how that was historically not correct.  Last night as I was leaving with A.S, we saw a large sign from a group that read "Jews for Racial and Economic Justice".  What does that really mean?  Does that imply that there are Jews who are not for racial and economic justice?  Because if there were, I would like to know where that group was gathering.

On another note about the protests, it seems that if you put the verb "occupy" before any type of noun, you would have some kind of event.  Occupy Wall Street is the start, and then you had Occupy Boston, Occupy Seattle,  Occupy Des Moines.  Occupy Des Moines?!?!?!?  I think it should be changed to Evacuate Des Moines, no one wants to be there!!!!!

Occupy Wall Street has been trying to get organized, so they have a daily agenda of things to do, such as 7 AM General Meeting, 10AM Education committee meeting, in fact Friday and Saturday nights this week, they are doing a Family sleepover night, they have snacks and a play area for children.  This may seem outrageous to some, but I find it amusing. The funniest thing on the schedule is the proximity of certain events on the agenda.  As I mentioned before, if you place "occupy" in front of any noun, you would have an event.  Today, they plan to OccupyTimesSquare during the afternoon.  Then at 6:30pm, they plan to occupySubway, which I can only assume that they mean the mass transit system and not the sandwich stores.  Then at 7pm, they have General Assembly down at Zucotti Park (Liberty Plaza).  If OccupySubway is going to do what I think they want to do, then everyone will be very late for the General Assembly meeting downtown at 7pm.

They should really have a reality show on this protest called OccupyRealityShow.

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