Saturday Open Thread [10.15.11]
Anita Perry said that she could sympathize with unemployed people because her son Griffin had to resign his job at a bank in order to campaign for his father, Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
“I’m just sympathizing. Let me tell you. Our son has resigned his job because of the federal regulations Washington has put on us. He resigned his job two weeks ago. Because he can’t go out and campaign for his father because of SEC regulations. He’s got a wife; he’s got a job. He’s trying to start up a business. So I empathize with you.”
Mrs. Perry, your son voluntarily quit his job, and my guess is that he and his family are not hurting for money because of that choice. That is in no way analogous to being laid off and having no idea how to make the next mortgage payment, or even pay for it.
The Republicans (…I guess it is fair to say Republicans and incumbents) are sounding more and more like the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties.
I call bullshit on Anita Perry. She assumes that her husband is going to win the White House.
Guess some of her best friends are (………………), too.
I haven’t followed the Occupy movement very closely however I think there are multiple messages worth highlighting: corporate greed, economic inequality and the corporate $$$ influence & stranglehold on our politicians. I thank and applaud those who are participating. I truly hope that they occupy Washington and state capitals for our elected officials are as guilty, if not more so, than the corporate elite for today’s economic disparity. With few few exceptions, ALL elected officials are driven by their own interest to get re-elected and as such have forged relationships with those who have no respect nor interest in the well being of everyday American citizens.
I attended the Occupy Delaware rally yesterday at Rodney Square. There was a police officer there wearing a shirt that read “Crime Scene Unit.” This police officer filmed the participants. Why? And how is a peaceful assembly of people a “crime scene?”
In a police state, a peaceful demonstration against the state is a crime scene. Even in Delaware.
So now you know to have people out filming the police.
I call bullshit on Anita Perry too. Someone should ask her how many work venues are going to let you take months off campaigning while keeping your job. And if leaving his job was a hardship, he could have just stayed at his desk and let his father f*ck up his campaign all by his lonesome.
@Dana – when is it a problem to film people at a rally??
if the media does it and private citizens are doing it, why cannot the police do it? – and they are not trying to hide the fact they are doing it either.and were clearly Identified as Law Enforcement. I was there too.
you and anonone are both vastly over- reaching.
Perhaps, just maybe, it might be for your PROTECTION in case there were bad actors there that caused problems and tried to blame the peaceful protesters?
its foolish to always ascribe evil motives to Law Enforcement whene ever they do anything
They have a job to do as well, you do yours, they do theirs
either one of you step outside those bounds and there are consequences – and no, its not perfect, but its the best system we have.
Believe you me, if something bad DID happen, you would be the first one whining and screaming that no one was there to protect you,
and you would be grateful for the video that clearly showed the who did what to whom, when and why.
“if something bad DID happen, you would be the first one whining and screaming that no one was there to protect you”
Speak for yourself, please. You don’t know what someone else would do.
Perhaps, just maybe, it might be for your PROTECTION in case there were bad actors there that caused problems and tried to blame the peaceful protesters?
I thought that this *was* the job of the police — not their cameras.
The question is what they plan to do with that footage, and getting them on record about that seems worthwhile.
For the most part, I like police officers. I had them as students in college and they were among the best and most serious students I taught. Also, many of them had progressive views. Now I didn’t mind a police presence at the rally. But I didn’t understand why a police officer needed to film many of the people present, myself included. That seemed vaguely intimidating to me and totally unnecessary.
“… But I didn’t understand why a police officer needed to film many of the people present, myself included. That seemed vaguely intimidating to me and totally unnecessary.”
Mission accomplished. It probably prevented you and your comrades from doing something stupid.
Miscreat, “It probably prevented you and your comrades from doing something stupid.”
Clearly spoken by a true believer and supporter of the police state.
“Here are the jobs we have currently”
“I would never stoop to taking that job”
“Then you will be unemployed, we don’t have anything else”
“Then, I will protest the lack of jobs”
“There are jobs, you just won’t take them”
“Then, I will protest the lack of jobs I want”
“What jobs do you want?”
“The ones you don’t have”
“Who else in the world has those jobs and is giving them to someone like you?”
“Nobody, that’s why we are protesting them too”
“So, nobody in the world has jobs you want and you don’t want the jobs anyone has?”
“Right, we only want jobs we want”
“When you are done protesting, where will you find those jobs?”
“Protesting is the job we want, if we stop protesting, the jobs we want would cease to exist”
“So, the job you want is protesting the lack of jobs you want?”
“Right. Occupy… means to take up space”
“Well, any job worth doing, is worth doing well”
Keep on protesting!
By the way – do hear the drums of war starting to beat again?
Avagardo, there is no truth to your imaginary dialogue. The truth is that there are more job applicants than available jobs. That’s a statistical fact.