Occupy Wall Street can NOT become Violent

Run time: 07:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i1eP5AG6cM   Posted on YouTube: November 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: WeirdLiberalHead Views on YouTube: 6   Posted on DU: November 05, 2011 By DU Member: Weird Liberal Head Views on DU: 2016

 
Just a reminder to be non-violent at these protests, hopefully you don't need it.
If any of you disagree with my (and Ghandi's, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s) belief in nonviolence, please explain why it would be a good idea to violently clash with the police and potentially military with rocks and broken bottles and cause the entire world to (accurately) view the Occupy movement as a violent fringe movement after the protestors are wounded, maimed, killed, and ultimately crushed.

For those of you who disagree with the protests themselves, kindly explain what big corporations have done for the bottom 99% American people (because it certainly hasn't been their biggest priority to employ them).

For those who agree with me, I hope you can help me explain my position to those who disagree with it. (Then again, if this video didn't explain it, your assistance to explain non-violence for it probably wouldn't be much use, but thank you anyways)!

Not sure when my next video will be, so enjoy this one, or better yet, learn from it.

A HORRIBLE CRIME by these evil far-left fringe protestors!!!~ http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/05/occupy-wall-street-p...

The Black Bloc are not our friends.

But I would like to know whose friends they are.

They're friends of our friends.

we must report violent police officers.

See what happened in Seattle in 1999 (I mentioned it briefly in this video).
Whether it'll be from members of OWS (anarchists or even people pretending to be Occupiers but really aren't) or the police, I fear the possibility that violence could absolutely ruin these protests.

Anyone who denies the danger this scum posses is either being obtuse, an idiot or are themselves trying to discredit the OWS movement.

This is not some abstract high-brow intellectual argument about whether or not one believes in principle that violence is sometimes necessary or whether or not someone feels sympathy or disdain for banks and such institution that are being hit with violence. Of course everyone who supports OWS does not have any soft and gentle feeling for these wretched institutions. We all disdain them. The success of OWS is absolutely dependent on winning the hearts and minds of ordinary people most of whom are not left-wing activist. Almost all of whom will turn against OWS and cease listening to the message of this once in a generation opportunity if they come to believe OWS is a destructive and violent movement. If OWS comes to be seen as violent - then the message of this movement is lost. The cause of economic justice suffers a mortal blow.

OWS is the first real opportunity progressives have had in more than generation to completely change the direction of the country and the world. If a handful of scum ruin this with their violent and destructive antics - they are not just enemies of OWS - they are enemies of the human race.