Police to Shut Down Occupy Wall St?

[nimdabew]

Just go ahead and fence them in, post a guard or two so they can't escape.

Imprisonment without due process? What the hell are you thinking? Use your head before you open your mouth and you will look a lot smarter.

Do any of us really care what happens to these socialist/anarchist bastards?

Give-a-**** meter [E-|----------------F]

I don't think a little gas and water cannons would be too much to assist in dispersing said travellers!

You mean like this?

Leave them be, and reduce the police presence.

This. The more media presence they have, the better their "case" becomes. I personally don't see anything holding the group together except for a common grip about not getting what they want without working for it.

[Abraxas]

Imprisonment without due process? What the hell are you thinking? Use your head before you open your mouth and you will look a lot smarter.

Yes that is exactly what I want. Oh good god, relax Francis, it was a joke. What has caused so many to lose their sense of humor?

[nimdabew]

Yes that is exactly what I want. Oh good god, relax Francis, it was a joke. What has caused so many to lose their sense of humor?

Sarcasm is transmitted so well via text.

[Irish]

Leave them be, and reduce the police presence.

It's already cost the taxpayers $2 million in overtime for NYPD.

[variablebinary]

It's already cost the taxpayers $2 million in overtime for NYPD.

Waste of money. If it turns WTO, send riot control and national guard. Otherwise the police are not helping. Keep police presence at normal levels.

[JSantoro]

Sarcasm is transmitted so well via text.

Whereas clouds of ivory-tower smug may be clearly seen by all via the exact same medium.

Granted, I'm a genius, but I was able to precisely discern the tongue-in-cheek tone that they were successfully conveying prior to reading your own submission. Given that, I'm going act in precisely the same arbitrary manner you chose to assume by chastising them, bu tin a somewhat different form.

In the same manner that you failed to comprehend the sarcasm that might as well have been painted International Distress Orange (the water-cannons remark was immediately on the heels of a smiley-using staff member's remark about Pinkertons; can't help but notice that you didn't have anything smart to say about THAT. Biiiiig Maaaaannnn, going after the rank-and-file and not the staff...), failed to utilize the Report Post button to alert the moderators and staff to your extreme offense at what was posted, and subsequently took it upon yourself to fail to resist the urge to play :internetJiminyCricket: ...

...I'm going to fail to allow a crystal-clear case of baiting language slide.

This message has been brought to you by the following simple, yet blithely ignored, philosophical construct: There is no such thing as humor that is NOT cruel to someone or something.

[nimdabew]

Ok, let me be clear about this response and say that I have had my foot in my mouth more than once. I am being entirely sincere in this response with no sarcasm or even intent to try to piss anyone off.

Look at this from an outside perspective as someone that may have had the same stance as me from the comments with no abckground as to the humor or jokes that M4C participates in. There are a bunch of gun owners ona very pro-gun conservative board saying get the water cannons out, fence them in and imprison them, and otherwise disregard the civil rights that we as Americans uphold as a country for every livng human on this earth. In my opinion, it makes us collectivly look like hypocrits when we all dog pile on something that is clearly against our political and socioeconomical backgrounds and viewpoints. M4C get pissed off when "Liberals" and people with different viewpoints try to take away part of the Bill of Rights, specifically the First, Second, yet openly discuss taking away the Fourth, Sixth, and Seventh.

You are right, I didn't take a jab at the Pinkerton comment, mainly because I didn't get the reference. If I take jabs, I take them at everyone. You are right that my comments construed a holier-than-thou attitude at those people that I pulled out of the heap and you smacked my peter for it and I deserved it. It is good that you called me out on it because it gives us a self policing factor that other boards are lax about or don't even follow at all. The only reason I don't bitch and moan about this is because I respect you as a person from what I can tell over the internet, not because you are a red shirt.

My point is all of this should be looked at from an outsiders perspective before you post stuff. What if someone came here looking for information on building their first rifle, saw the wealth of knowledge, and then came down to the bottom of the boards and said they don't want to be associated with a group of people that openly discuss disregarding the civil liberties of fellow Americans, even if it is under a joking manner. JM2C

[skyugo]

Do any of us really care what happens to these socialist/anarchist bastards?

I care about their right to do what they are doing... I don't think that what they're demanding is very cohesive or well thought out, but silencing them would be the opening of a very dark chapter in this country's history.

[Honu]

read they are now going to march onto rich peoples homes !

[variablebinary]

I care about their right to do what they are doing... I don't think that what they're demanding is very cohesive or well thought out, but silencing them would be the opening of a very dark chapter in this country's history.

Damn right. Is this still America? Protest and political dissent are our god given right. And make no mistake, this is a political protest.

This shit storm is blow-back from the stupid ass bailouts passed by that crook Bush, and President Obama. That was a huge eye opener for all of America.

People saw all too clearly that the game was rigged, and that the globalist scumbags, the bankers and corporations owned this nation and the voting masses weren't worth a damn in this Republic.

We are a stones throw from the guillotine in this nation if we don't return to the values of a constitutional republic, and abandon the culture and policies of an oligarch democracy.