No, Rep. Peter King, Occupy Wall Street is not anarchy, it's about RESPONDING to anarchy

ck4829

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Sat Oct-08-11 01:06 PM
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No, Rep. Peter King, Occupy Wall Street is not anarchy, it's about RESPONDING to anarchy

What have you done about the crimes that resulted in the meltdown of the economy? Nothing.

What have you done about the vicious circles the long term unemployed face? Nothing.

What have you done about corporate excess at the expense of the average American? Nothing.

What have you done about debts and lack of opportunity strangling the American Dream? Nothing.

Who is the real anarchist here?

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shraby

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Sat Oct-08-11 01:07 PM
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1. One more....What have you done about the jobs? Nothing

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ck4829

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Sat Oct-08-11 01:17 PM
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2. We could probably make dozens of these statements, it would only scratch the surface.

Good to see people turning off American Idol and doing something, maybe it's not too late.

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ixion

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Sat Oct-08-11 01:23 PM
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3. actually, let's try and keep our political models straight.

Neo-liberalism isn't anarchy, it's corporatism or fascism.

Anarchy is actually an enlightened philosophy based on intellectualism. It is non-violent.

Punks who claim to be 'anarchists' are actually nihilists.

Just sayin... we don't want to fall into the same set of bad habits as our corporatist counterparts.

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Fantastic Anarchist

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Sat Oct-08-11 01:27 PM
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5. Thank you. See my post below.

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ck4829

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Sat Oct-08-11 01:30 PM
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7. Nihilists...

Edited on Sat Oct-08-11 01:34 PM by ck4829

"Tax cuts, nothing, privatize, deregulate, free market, nothing, tax cut."

All of these ideas involve doing zilch or passing the responsibility onto someone else (Who is usually not accountable to voters or the public).

Sounds a little nihilist in itself, doesn't it?

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ixion

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Sat Oct-08-11 02:05 PM
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9. I can see your point, but

Nihilism implies purposelessness or pointlessness or despondence. Granted, it also refers to amorality, which is the part you're talking about, but Neo-liberals definitely have a purpose and a pointed objective: to enrich themselves, and are quite gleeful about doing that.

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Fantastic Anarchist

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Sat Oct-08-11 01:25 PM
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4. "Anarchy is order!" - P.J. Proudhon

The chaos is the actual economic and political structure we have now.

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The Traveler

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Sat Oct-08-11 01:28 PM
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6. It seems the financial elites Mr King represents

have torn up the social contract, but still expect us commoners to hold up our end of that now dead deal.

But I think people are starting to think about some other arrangement .... sorry, Mr. King. You have demonstrated you have nothing for us.

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dkf

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Sat Oct-08-11 01:42 PM
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8. The government sets the rules. What you are really complaining about is DC.

If the rules are broken it is the government's role to enforce and punish. Wall Street doesn't punish itself.

In reality this is a protest of President Obama and Congress.

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State the Obvious

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Sat Oct-08-11 02:49 PM
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10. Rep. Peter King MUST keep his base fearful, and caged within....

the confines of Republican dogma.

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spanone

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Sat Oct-08-11 02:56 PM
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11. mr king had no problem with the teabaggers going to rallies with weapons

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