Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Yes Mr. Warhawk I agree here. Zucotti park is privately owned, they should not try to take ownership.

But...

The list of demands given is fair. It would go a long way to bring justice...Which deep down inside is all we all want. Even if you see them as pinko commy traitors, dirty lazy Obama and Ron Paul voters, you realize their gripe has merit behind it.

They are fair demands. Thieves should go to jail. To bail out the banks was vile. you do that, you may as well bail out all the moron homeowners too.

Too much favoritism when it came to giving out aid...Glass-Steagall would have prevented most of this to big to fail mess.

Agreed. Anyone who says that this is about "redistribution of wealth" or getting rid of capitalism in favor of socialism is an idiot. Real capitalism is letting companies who screw up feel the repercussions of their screwups. It's not using taxpayer money to bail them out so they can continue to screw everyone.

[flatsixes]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

... Anyone who says that this is about "redistribution of wealth" or getting rid of capitalism in favor of socialism is an idiot....

Well, okay then. Now at least we know who's camping out in Zuccotti Park. You guessed it: a bunch of "idiots."*

The protesters have a distinct ideology and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies. On Oct. 10 and 11, Arielle Alter Confino, a senior researcher at my polling firm, interviewed nearly 200 protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park. Our findings probably represent the first systematic random sample of Occupy Wall Street opinion.

Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn't represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.

The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%).

An overwhelming majority of demonstrators supported Barack Obama in 2008. Now 51% disapprove of the president while 44% approve, and only 48% say they will vote to re-elect him in 2012, while at least a quarter won't vote.

Fewer than one in three (32%) call themselves Democrats, while roughly the same proportion (33%) say they aren't represented by any political party.

(*Not that there anything wrong with that!)