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Feb 15, 2012 12:23

About a week and a half ago I drove up to DC and went to the Occupy DC movement, not as a protester but an onlooker. It was crazy. And I really do mean crazy. People all over the place. Police. Protesters. Onlookers. Media. It was chaos ( Read more... )

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cheriecherie February 17 2012, 07:24:45 UTC

It's interesting, I left the country when the occupy movement started to grow, and coming back into it, I still don't fully understand.

People in Japan say "America is free, more free than here." But there's a difference in the people. People in Japan could protest this ridiculously if they had the cause and will; I think they are just as free; but Americans are a different breed entirely. They feel entitled to things they don't deserve. This showed on both the protesters and the "authorities" sides, didn't it?

xxxnightrainxxx February 23 2012, 02:35:43 UTC

It's...hard to explain. I don't particularly side with one or the other, nor do I consider myself a part of the movement. I just think things like this are very interesting, and in some respects need to be dealt with ( ... )

xxxnightrainxxx February 23 2012, 02:35:58 UTC

Here in America, we have rights. One of those is to protest. In our constitution it states that, should the people disagree with the government, they have the right to over throw it. But everything should be taken into the context in which it is written, and this- just like in religion- is something people tend to overlook. That was written in a time when we were desperately trying to get away from a Monarchical system and in some ways, still had a threat of the British taking back over. We are long passed that now. But the thing is, we can only protest so far and so long. When I was in DC, the protestors were gathered in locations that were of no real harm to the people around them. They were peaceful. And they weren't blocking the flow of traffic or anything like that. But the government wants to contain it. This could perhaps come from past experiences. During the Great Depression, things called Hoovervills emerged. These were encampments set up by veterans of the first world war who wanted to get the bonuses that they were ( ... )