Occupy Wall Street - Shut 'em Down
The occupation is over in New York City.
It took 150 sanitation workers from all five boroughs several hours to haul 26 truckloads of trash, tarps, junk and other crap out of Zuccotti Park. They disposed of garbage, human waste, drug paraphanernalia and other crap. All this after very diplomatically and efficiently removing the squatters.
New York Sanitation cleaned up 2 months worth of filth scrubbed everything with industrial strength cleaners, scraped, scratched and took down signs/posters. On top of all that, the City is still even allowing the OWS folks to come back and demonstrate, but they just can't live there.
Sounds fair to me.
Protest is good. However, one has to make sure they are fighting the right fight. Again, being zealos is a good thing. We just need to be zealous about the right things.
The only revolution that will have lasting impact is the revolution in an individual's heart. Until the heart is changed, nothing really changes.
http://utmost.org/the-changed-life/Kudos to the NYPD for not being baited into anything stupid. Kudos the OWS folks for doing the right thing and getting out of the park peacefully. Evidently there is still common sense in both groups.
Occupy Wall Street got 2 months of attention. That occupation needed to be shut down. Now folks can use the park for what it was originally intended.
The OWS folks need to figure out another strategy if they really want to make a positive difference and not just look like a bunch of bums griping because life is hard.
This is a real opportunity for them. An opportunity for them to change THEMSELVES.
One O'clock in the morning, time to WAKE UP! - NYPD
Clearing the park gives these folks a chance. A chance to go out and build a more promising future for themselves and for others. A chance to make a potoitive impact on their world rather than sit around and complain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbMXPsmyA...King's X - Complain
Giving up never got anyone a victory. Camping out in a park all day should be seen as equivalent to giving up in any reasonable person's book. It's time to take full responsibility for one's lot in life and stop blaming others. Move on.
If a person is not floating resumes, setting interviews, networking and going for success like their next breath of air, I don't want to hear their noise. Plain and simple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH0vUu0l6...Nido Qubein - The Pain of Changing Yourself
Now they can spend the time looking for and creating opportunities rather than cussin', fussin' and doing nuthin.'
God has indeed blessed this country whether some want to see it or not, acknowledge it or not, like it or not. But His grace is not going to strive with this land forever. Especially not when we want to run the show and leave Him out to the point of scrubbing His words off the monuments in Washington.
http://religiousliberty.com/article-wash...When images of our country go out, I don't want them to see vagabonds spitting profanities at politicians, cops creaking folks over the head and tear gassing them, or dumb azzes throwing Molotov cocktails. This is America for goodness sake. We spawned in persecution, birthed through blood sweat and tears. All of our ancestors have prayed and paid too high a price for us to throw that away to anarchy and socialism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr41skFqz...Kirk Franklin - REVolution
I read "The Wretched of the Earth" back in the day too, but we have to have grown out of that stuff by now. Right?
There are institutions that need to be held accountable. There are individuals out there who abuse power and need to be either put out of business, locked up, or both. Tactics are everything and OWS is a tactic that needs re-thinking and not re-establishement or even encouragement.
None of us should sit around and watch the Dream get flushed down the toilet by malcontents. Too many folks have sacrificed and died to pave the way to our success to let it be taken away by those who trample our liberty underfoot and take our blessings for granted.
Thank you for reading,
HN
UPDATE - 6 months ago
Not all the people in the streets downtown are losers. However many of them are. Many have been enabled.
Like I said before, just out of college does not mean instant job.
If there were no jobs all the job search sites would be shut down. I'm not saying it's easy, what I am saying is it's doable.
If Nido could do it, we all can do it. It's not a matter of finding opportunity necessarily; it's a matter of making opportunities.
It really has nothing to do with education as much as it has to do with determination. There are those out there with a high school education that will outshine some of these recent college grads who have no jobs at present. The reasons why will be because of humility and hard work. Some American will not start at the bottom or at minimum wage.
Despise not the day of small beginnings. We must work our way up instead of expecting to be molly coddled.
If this system didn't change a lick, I know I'll still be successful. I've been empowered to prosper and no devil in hell can stop that. I'm blessed and we are all blessed to be Americans and to live in this country. Period.
The key is to keep things from getting worse and hold those in power accountable. Those are good objectives.
No tantrums allowed though. No throwing bottles at cops, bashing windows and all other kinds of foolishness. That's for the immature and unfocused.
We cannot get positive action with profanity laced tirades at authority. That's just dumb and counterproductive to any good that one tries to accomplish.
Even the riff raff, if they change their ways can make it. But it's going to take repentance, determination and hard work, not just blocking the city streets and trying to make the 99% that the occupiers claim to represent miserable and unable to get to their jobs or make it difficult for the young people to get to school.
That's just wrong and when that happens I have no sympathy whatsoever for the so-called protesters. At that point they are just shiftless and non-caring bums and need to be removed to let those who would actually be productive to society through.
The OWS movement may have some good folks in it, but quite frankly it's mostly an embarrassment.
It's an embarrassment because if all those folks put forth that effort in other areas like getting a job, they would have one. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not at the exact amount of pay they want, of maybe not in the field of their choice, but they would have work. If they spent that time getting themselves in position where they actually qualify for a loan, they would get one. Or put forth the effort to continuing their education, they could do that.
But, no. Blame the system. Blame the people who have jobs. Blame the people who have worked hard and have taken advantage of the tremendous number of opportunities available here in America. Blame the people who are living the Dream and then claim that it's dead.
It's only dead to those who see themselves as having NO HOPE.
To me that's just a moronic outlook on life. When a person is lobotomized to that degree it's no wonder success always evades them. They have set themselves up to be failures.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrhi_JaQM...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uzlXLzTD...If you always see your glass as half empty, don't be surprised when one day you look around and what you did have is now gone.