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A social experiment. The buzzwords "Arab Spring" were being heard on the news and people noticing that they have the facebook and the twitter. The idea originally was to get people to meet in real life in a protest setting.

That's really it. There's a lot of fun $10 words like "decentralized" and "autonomous" and other stuff you'd expect to see in a boring power point presentation in a stuffy room with a lazer pointer, but that's the idea underneath them all. Who are the group leaders?

The entire idea was "decentralization", which is a fancy way of saying "everyone's doing their own thing so that if one guy gets caught it doesn't matter". So their leaders are never going to admit that they're leaders. Whoever has a personality and a few dozen friends to make their ideas look important is a leader down there.

What do they do there? Camp, hold signs, and hope against hope they can make the powers that be look bad. It's a grown up version of hitting a kid and then making sure the teacher sees it when you get hit back.

Is it really just a big party or what? I think it is, or at least should be. Why the hell wouldn't you party?

You have an unpaid vacation, lots and lots of supposedly open minded people all around, good music, and let's be honest, some people there are junkies and those people brought their stashes with. But protesters get really offended when you insinuate that. Unfortunately, they don't offer any other explanations other than "join us we need more warm bodies".

Which, as anyone over the age of 14 knows, is code for "You are nothing but a potential source of free labor to me". How do they survive? Have you ever been backpacking?

It's ridiculously easy to survive anywhere near a source of running water with a tent, a campfire, some pots, some soap, and just a little bit of food you've brought with you for weeks at a time. And these people aren't in the wilderness. They don't have to drive back to resupply.

And believe me they've never heard of "leave only footprints". Oh man have they never heard of that. Who are they and what do they want?

They're people that asked that question and got suckered into going down there. Some of them made friends and took the excuse to leave their lousy jobs. Others didn't have those lousy jobs to begin with, seeing as how 1 in 10 people is unemployed.

Why are you such a negative jerk, Silas G? I know you didn't ask this one. The answer is that, frankly, I feel like OWS is counterproductive.

It's harder to get my voice heard now that that protest exists. My ideas have to be in line with the consensus ideas to get support from OWS folks, and the consensus ides are the same tired ideas we've had for decades that have been tried and failed too many times to count. Meanwhile, our government is smiling and nodding at the cacaphony the protesters have produced and are silently pushing garbage like this https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e... knowing all the potential opposition is distracted with simple slogans about being part of the 99%.

Obama,s plan may be working better than most think. The OWS Protesters may be merely a targeted group to be used as "tools". Today's events are straight from "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky, the Obama blueprint for his "Fundamental change of America".

The economic climate of this country has not been created and maintained in such poor condition without purpose for the past 3 years. The following quote from his book explains the strategy: "There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most.

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families – more than seventy million people – whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year in 1971. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging.

If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default." ($5,000 to $10,000 equals $25,000 to$55,000 today.) And, what is worse than being a "tool"? Maybe, a "tool" who doesn't realize that he is a "tool".

Someone who would never stop to ask,"Why are so many of the 1%"s like Pelosi, Michael Moore, and other rich elite supporting a movement directed against them?" It would appear that these elitist realize that by giving support, they, through default, actually become the "spokespersons" for the movement and perhaps, eventually, it's leaders.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.