Comments on: Burn Wall Street: An Update from Otto Von Danger

By: FM Bandit

FM Bandit — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:42:40 +0000

While I appreciate efforts to stay superficially nonpartisan, the Occupy movement is not a left-wing Tea Party. Occupy is, strictly speaking, a loosely-organized group of people from a variety of political perspectives (most of them progressive, sure) who engage in civil disobedience in order to obstruct complacency with a broken system. The Tea Party is a media creation designed to prey upon ignorance and identity politics in order to give the illusion of mainstream legitimacy to far-right beliefs and complaints.

Finally, the two stated goals are, against their best efforts, quite political. Regulating the financial system and removing money from politics are things you’ll hear over and over at any Occupy event, whereas the Tea Partiers like to squawk that financial regulation is a step away from Nazism and their perspective benefits immensely from the amount of corporate dollars in politics.

Because of Occupy’s image problem, I understand wanting to distance oneself from their platform, but if you’re Occupy then own it. It’s a bit like me saying that I have nothing to do with the Tea Party, but I want to cut all entitlement programs and demand the President’s birth certificate. Preach what you practice!

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By: tika

tika — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:57:10 +0000

protesting capitalism at a capitalist event.

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By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 15:53:50 +0000

I do not concur with Otto on regulating Wall Street. It is HEAVILY regulated now. Just like the fat cats like it. Regulation stifles competition and breeds corruption. If DC and WS were disconnected WS firms that screw up would lose customers and go out of business and fresh new competitors would create trading floors to sop up the disenfranchised customers. Lobbyists love regulation, even the root word, regular, smacks of status quo. That’s who really runs this country, Lobbyists.
BTW, I probably align with Otto on other issues so I will continue to let him address them.

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