I agree but it does show the ridiculousness of starting a movement without first having a list of grievances. In a void people will look for and assign whatever list of demands is available.
Is this a reasonable representative of the movement or a crazy person shouting into the air? If it's just a random crazy then the reasonable voices of the movement needs to jump on in this and squash it fast. Because is this represents the reasonable voice of the movement they've instantly all support I may have had for their cause.
Can't stress enough that this is a PROPOSED list of demands by one guy.
The Occupy Wall Street people on the ground actually have a pretty good democratic system setup with committees and a pretty fair voting process. I hope it continues to grow and the worst thing they can do right now is nail down a set of demands. Let this thing grow for a while until it becomes national, gather as many people as possible and see what comes out of it.
To the people that are saying "what are they about? what are they against?" check the name again. Look into it. Don't wait for the media to copy down a press release, because there isn't one.
"Now that Electronic Jim-Crow has officially stolen the 2004 presidential and congressional elections it can be officially declared that the South has finally won the civil war. It took a 150 years for the proslavery, segregationist, white supremacist movement in America to accomplish the task but they finally did it.
With the entrenchment of the Right wing sponsored unverifiable touchscreen electronic voting system as well as with the Trident, Diebold and E&SS controlled optical scanner and punch card electronic counting systems primarily in the southern states, but not exluding Ohio, the Dixiecrats' that split from the Democratic Party when the Democratic Party went pro civil rights and that took over the Republican Party can finally claim victory in the civil war that really began in the American Revolution when rich propertied slave owning white men chose not to include the freeing of the black slave and not granting the vote to women in that so-called revolution.
Yes, we're all black now. Disenfranchised from the electoral process in America and soon to be purged from public life altogether. The great irony is that rich propertied white men in the U.S. Senate got to vote on January 6, 2005 to not only hand the South and it's white supremacist leadership the victory in the civil war but also provide them with a well organized fascist dictatorship as the crowning achievement of the complete and total subversion of American democracy. "
this looks like internet cointelpro, honestly. who owns that domain? my money's on koch industries. doesn't seem in keeping with the #occupy movement to require a login to comment on such a post.
Statements like those alienate the rational people who may have sympathy for your plight.
In itself, outlawing credit beureaus doesn't create any jobs. As a matter of fact, that would put people who work at credit reporting agencies out on the street.Yes, it's an unpopular business to be in for sure, but without some form of system to verify the creditworthiness of a person applying for a loan or credit, banks and lending institutions would have to return to the old ways of requiring letters of credit from your bank(s) and proof of employment, a time-consuming process that would have the effect of not only slowing the economy down, but also allowing for increased fraud in the transaction.
With a population in excess of 300 million people, a nationwide hawala wouldn't work. What needs to be done is reform the laws that govern the system to the benefit of the community, not outlaw agencies that aren't working in one's particular benefit.
