Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested

[Gerald]

Demonstrator Henry-James Ferry: "'The police moved in with orange mesh barricade". Footage courtesy Robert Cammiso.

More than 700 people from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement have been arrested on New York's City's Brooklyn Bridge, police say.

They were part of a larger group crossing the bridge from Manhattan, where they have been camped out near Wall Street for two weeks.

Some entered the bridge's roadway and were met by a large police presence and detained, most for disorderly conduct.

The loosely-organised group is protesting against corporate greed.

They say they are defending 99% of the US population against the wealthiest 1%.

Occupy Wall Street called for 20,000 people to "flood into lower Manhattan" on 17 September and remain there for "a few months".

Several hundred remain camped at Zuccotti Park, a privately owned area of land not far from Wall Street.

A police spokesman quoted by Reuters said the arrests came "after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15140671


Note: 2 October 2011 Last updated at 06:26 GMT

[Betonov]

It looks like the biggest jaywalking incident in history

[Gerald]

Just as practicing for the marathon,

[soopaman2]

Good for them, it is entering it's 3rd week and the media can't ignore it anymore. It is our right to demand better governance.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ***8212; That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ***8212; That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
-Excerpt from the American Declaration of independance.

As of now corporations and banks hold too much sway over Americas political system, citizens are systematically ignored by our so called "representatives" in favor of moneyed interest.

More should stand up, I sent 5 pizzas down there yesterday, it's small but I'm sure quite a few were grateful.

Maybe the media will stop calling them dirty hippies like they did to the Vietnam protesters, they are college students, war veterans, blue collar workers who watched thier pensions evaporate. They are PEOPLE standing up for thier rights as human beings.

Edit:On a side note today they are marching to City hall to let Bloomberg (the same owners of Bloomberg news, and Wall street billionaire) know this isn't ending. And look up Anthony Bologna (Tony Boloney) on you tube, and see how a supervisor rushed to mace peaceful protesters.

Bought and paid for by Mayor Bloombergs Billions.

[the_tyrant]

on one hand, by arresting them you are infringing on their right of peaceful protest

on the other hand, they are infringing on other's right of free movement

[Rockstar]

These jaywalkers were not arrested because they were protesting therefore their rights were not trampled. They were arrested for jaywalking and impeding the flow of traffic. They should do time and be put to work painting the bridge and sweeping streets

[gimpy117]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Good for them, it is entering it's 3rd week and the media can't ignore it anymore. It is our right to demand better governance...
...As of now corporations and banks hold too much sway over Americas political system, citizens are systematically ignored by our so called "representatives" in favor of moneyed interest.

More should stand up, I sent 5 pizzas down there yesterday, it's small but I'm sure quite a few were grateful.

Maybe the media will stop calling them dirty hippies like they did to the Vietnam protesters, they are college students, war veterans, blue collar workers who watched thier pensions evaporate. They are PEOPLE standing up for thier rights as human beings.

Edit:On a side note today they are marching to City hall to let Bloomberg (the same owners of Bloomberg news, and Wall street billionaire) know this isn't ending. And look up Anthony Bologna (Tony Boloney) on you tube, and see how a supervisor rushed to mace peaceful protesters.

Bought and paid for by Mayor Bloombergs Billions.

I agree with you man. lots of people look at these protests and say "well who are you to dislike the wealthy, There is nothing wrong with profit" and that may be true, but in my mind there is something wrong with profit which is made unfairly at the expense of others whilst congress is too busy being bribed to do anything about it. Sure, There are winners and losers in business, but that saying has always been in the context of a level playing field, which i feel america is not anymore, due to the level of palm greasing in Washington. The saying "winners and losers" does also in my eyes not really apply in the context of all the predatory banking, loans, and business that is being done these days either, as congress sits idly by, counting campaign contributions and lobby gifts.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Good for them, it is entering it's 3rd week and the media can't ignore it anymore. It is our right to demand better governance.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ***8212; That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ***8212; That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
-Excerpt from the American Declaration of independance.

As of now corporations and banks hold too much sway over Americas political system, citizens are systematically ignored by our so called "representatives" in favor of moneyed interest.

More should stand up, I sent 5 pizzas down there yesterday, it's small but I'm sure quite a few were grateful.

Maybe the media will stop calling them dirty hippies like they did to the Vietnam protesters, they are college students, war veterans, blue collar workers who watched thier pensions evaporate. They are PEOPLE standing up for thier rights as human beings.

Edit:On a side note today they are marching to City hall to let Bloomberg (the same owners of Bloomberg news, and Wall street billionaire) know this isn't ending. And look up Anthony Bologna (Tony Boloney) on you tube, and see how a supervisor rushed to mace peaceful protesters.

Bought and paid for by Mayor Bloombergs Billions.

There is no rights unless it is enforced. There's no law unless it is enforced. There is no state unless it is governed.

Thus the idea of liberty and rights will always be a struggle. A perpetual dynamic struggle of ideas in the people's mind and then in their practical day to day life.

It can be robbed, destroyed, denied or protected and ensured.
It's all up to the people consent whether they want to abdicate those rights and social contracts or they want to demand them to be held up.

In other words, constitution, rule of law, and rights all fall under the category of political ideas. They are intangible and not real. Of course they are the product of enlightened minds but they can be honored only by other enlightened minds as well. And that is a big ifs, generation in and generation out.

[Torplexed]

If all these Wall Street protesters look like her, I'm on the next plane.

[yubba]

Gee it's almost sounds like you guys never heard of voting, it's like you can't remember 2010. I know your in denial, I know it must be awful that your dreams of a Socalist Republic here in America has been dashed, so sorry, but there's more of us god fearing, America loving folks than the commie nerds that are protesting in the streets and we will prove that at the polls, so if you want to be a commie might I suggest you move to Cuba I hear that they started flying there, good luck getting the internet there, give me a call and tell me how that works out for you.. Herman Cain will fix this vote Cain

^Definately a room full of monkeys

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by yubba

Gee it's almost sounds like you guys never heard of voting, it's like you can't remember 2010. I know your in denial, I know it must be awful that your dreams of a Socalist Republic here in America has been dashed, so sorry, but there's more of us god fearing, America loving folks than the commie nerds that are protesting in the streets and we will prove that at the polls, so if you want to be a commie might I suggest you move to Cuba I hear that they started flying there, good luck getting the internet there. Herman Cain will fix this vote Cain

Is your world view black and white as it appears to be or does it come in technicolour?

[yubba]

So what, or who are these protestors, what are they protesting, they protest big government but want more government, that doesn't make scense, guess these folks aren't the Tea Party or it would be all over the news. So if these folks aren't the Tea Party then who are they ???????