Occupy Youngstown - Saturday, October 15

[Towntalk]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez condemned the "horrible repression" of the Occupy Wall Street activists and expressed solidarity with the movement.
Socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez condemned on Saturday the "horrible repression" of anti-Wall Street protesters and termed a U.S. Republican presidential candidate "crazy" for his criticism of Cuba and Venezuela.
"This movement of popular outrage is expanding to 10 cities and the repression is horrible, I don't know how many are in prison now," Mr. Chavez said in comments at a political meeting in his Caracas presidential palace shown on state TV.
The Korean Central News Agency of DPRK commented that the Occupy Wall Street movement were "in protest against exploitation and oppression by capital, shaking all fabrics of society."
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran commented that the protests are because a "corrupt foundation has been exposed to the American people."
The Chinese state news agency Xinhua said the protests had exposed "fundamental problems" with the US economic and political systems, and that it showed "a clear need for Washington, which habitually rushes to demand other governments to change when there are popular protests in their countries, to put its own house in order."

[sfc_oliver]

I don't think they got even close to their projected 300 people.

Though as expected they were sending mixed messages.

There were the anti banker/ corporation bailout people. I bet they don't work at lordstown.

There was the expected anti SB 5 Pro union folks

There was at least one guy who was Anti war.

Another who was simply a patriot.

Another who wanted to "find common ground with the Tea party.

There were several Anti Fracking, I wonder if that was Dennis?

And if you didn't bring your own sign they had a nice selection for you to chose from.......

[stewie]

It is good to see the masses gathering.  Congrats to Jacob Harver for organizing this fine event. Way to spread the word via all of your Iphones. That will will show Apple you mean business.        

[Towntalk]

The entire 60's era was bad ... there is no question about it ... the Chicago riots during the DNC convention ... the Chicago 7 ... the Weather Underground ... the riots at Berkley ... the Manson Family murder spree ... The Hell's Angels ... the list is a matter of history. During that era I got to know a lot of the locals thanks to the book store I managed at the time and most of them were doing drugs in one form or another.

Were there "normal" folks who opposed the war? Sure there were, and I was one of them but we didn't do drugs ... we didn't riot ... we didn't do marches. In my case I did show prep for a local talk show in opposition to the war even though as a Democrat I supported JFK and LBJ, the very presidents that got us into that war.

Did I support their war views? Absolutrely no, and for that matter neither did my family and my father was a decorated WWII/Korean War vet.

As to the situation today ... sure I question the baleouts ... but who did the baleouts, a Democratic president.

If the Democrats are "the people's party" why are the liberal pro Democrats protesting their president?

You'd think that they would be supporting him.

[irishbobcat]

Sorry Towntalk....ther were more than illterate druggies protesting the Vietnam War.....

Middle America opposed it.......The Vietnam War was wrong.....and it was the best for America

to get out of it.......


The same goes for this protest.....once again.....those on the right describe protesters
as  being uneducated.....

What about all the Tea Party protesters?  I could say all those old folks have lost their marbles and need to be committed......

And then we have Shrimp's buddies on his fracking forum......right winged, armed, anti-society anti-government lunatics who make the

Uni-Bomber seem sane.....those extremists on the right are a far more dangerous threat to America.....

[Towntalk]

Wisdom beyond belief

In observing the latest protest fad, it seems that we are seeing a replay of the 1960's. Then it was against the war in Viet Nam; today it's against Wall Street, but in both instences the babble seems to be the same. Then it was illiterate druggies doing the babbling, so how would you describe today's protesters?

[Youngstownshrimp]

Real numbers do not lie, I found that out, what a joke...... here 160 hits on the occupy subject.  Gomarcellusshale.com same subject, 1,600 hits of blue blooded Americans, armed and ready to protect their property.  They see the unrest in the urban centers with all the non-productive running around screaming "give me, give me, share the oil, share the wealth and we want to be green too."

[irishbobcat]

Y-Towner and Ricky are boycotting the Lemon Grove?

wow....now I know why the Grove is a great place to hang out......

no right wing radical neo-cons in the building!!!!!!

[Rick Rowlands]

I won't eat at the Lemon Grove for that very reason.  Cafe Cimmentos gets my downtown dining business.   Seems like every left wing group meets at the Grove.

[ytowner]

What a joke... There is a boycott of the Lemon Grove due to Harver's involvement in this. His restaurant is the liberal's home in the MV.

[jay]

According to the newspaper, no more than 300 are expected to attend.

[sfc_oliver]

And now I understand that they are joining forces with the Anti SB5 crowd..... Like we never saw that coming.......LOL

[stewie]

100, 1000, or even 10,000 protesting big business in Youngstown really isn't anything in the grand scheme of things.

If you really think about it, these protesters regularly use the products and services of the same companies they are protesting on a regular basis.

That is funny.  Watching the videos on youtube I wish I could tell these goof balls sleeping in thier tents, "The CEO of Coleman Sam Solomon thanks you for purchasing his products and helping fund a couple of cigars for his nights of relaxing and watching them on TV." LOL

[irishbobcat]

Funny when how the liberals in this country protest they are called out for being stupid, out of touch,
and just misinformed poor folks because they protest......

yet when the whacko right tea party folks protest, they consider themselves Patriots and real Americans.....


The folks who are doing the real harm to this country are folks like Shrimp who kiss the arse of dirty fracking companies
and steal property for the rich gas and oil companies.....and folks like Why? Town, Rowlands, and the Sarge who blindly
goose-step to the powerful corporations and support all real money in America going to the richest 1 percvent of this country....

Folks like Why? town, Rowlands, and Sarge won't get the message until the 1 percent wipe the 99 percent off the face of the earth....

[Youngstownshrimp]

Go to Gomarcellusshale.com and see what the rural citizens are saying, much more unity with them and they seem to be big on hunting, rifles and survivorship.  If the entitled gets out of hand, I see the containment of the Cities with marshall law and a backlash from the majority who are productive in life, thank God there are more of them.