History is filled with tent-city protests, many of them quelled by military violence. Most of them rose up when things were going badly, but each had a specific purpose.
Your comments suggest you haven't been paying attention to the message, clearly articulated by many: Things aren't just going badly, they are being manipulated for the benefit of a very few to the detriment of everyone else, and that must end.
I can see where you are coming from but i'd have to disagree.
Here in the UK we are undergoing quite crappy period of austerity measures.
I don't think it's to help a few however and whilst i don't like it or fully agree with everything that's being done it's better then the alternative which would have completely messed up the country probably in about 3 years time.
There were, and are, more alternatives to "austerity". The problem is usually, at its heart, based in greed and control; and there is no solution to these things without a change in culture and overall behavior. Austerity per se takes the blame away from the greedy, and places the payment for their misdeeds upon their victims.
In which case why is the occupy movement not doing a lot of charity work, actually being productive rather then just occupying?
The only other alternative as well would be to continue to push the country further into debt, we can see how well that worked in Greece, yeah let's go that route...
How about in Argentina, where the IMF (and other foreign financiers) was told to go home? They seem to be doing reasonably well after a bit of a rocky footing, instead of relying on more and more external resoruces with restrictions on their use. If a nation cannot develop and maintain its infrastructure, then its economic structure will decay.
How about in Sweden, Norway, or the Netherlands? The question of austerity arises in societies and nations with a high GINI quotient -- and this is typified by societies which give to the rich while harming the poor and middle classes.
As to charity, the Occupy camp in my town has been providing shelter and food to all who come, no questions asked. This has been a pretty strong theme in every Occupy camp. If that's not charity, what is? What charity would you have them do, when they have gathered in one place with the specific intent of making the mighty feel the pain of the small?
I would suggest that a march in the street, even one which interferes with traffic, is different from a riot.
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Your comments suggest you haven't been paying attention to the message, clearly articulated by many: Things aren't just going badly, they are being manipulated for the benefit of a very few to the detriment of everyone else, and that must end.
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Here in the UK we are undergoing quite crappy period of austerity measures.
I don't think it's to help a few however and whilst i don't like it or fully agree with everything that's being done it's better then the alternative which would have completely messed up the country probably in about 3 years time.
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The only other alternative as well would be to continue to push the country further into debt, we can see how well that worked in Greece, yeah let's go that route...
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How about in Sweden, Norway, or the Netherlands? The question of austerity arises in societies and nations with a high GINI quotient -- and this is typified by societies which give to the rich while harming the poor and middle classes.
As to charity, the Occupy camp in my town has been providing shelter and food to all who come, no questions asked. This has been a pretty strong theme in every Occupy camp. If that's not charity, what is? What charity would you have them do, when they have gathered in one place with the specific intent of making the mighty feel the pain of the small?
I would suggest that a march in the street, even one which interferes with traffic, is different from a riot. ( ... )
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