Occupiers Under Attack – Are You Happy Nao?
Occupy Toronto’s eviction brought out a surprisingly vocal cheer amongst a surprisinglier (shutup) large 
segment of the population. Even a card carrying cynic and outspoken critic of People like me was left largely stupefied. What exactly are you happy about? Let’s deconstruct this argument. This might be fallout from my artsy-chick phase.
If you think you have it tough, it’s worse almost everywhere else. Yes, and your point is? Fighting to halt the slow but steady erosion of your quality of life is a bad thing? Canada IS awesome, but if you deny that there’s a persistent push in the wrong direction then you’re ignorant, deluded, oblivious, or all of the above. I didn’t say retarded, because retarded people can see it. They’re often victims of this sort of government and they’re not blind. Warrantless Online Surveillance, super jails, punishing domestic pot growers harder than child abusers, all while CRIME RATES ARE DOWN, and now allying with Monsanto(are you fucking SERIOUS), these sound like Canadian values to you?
Below – this isn`t so bad eh?
These ‘spoiled brats’, anarchists and hippies are clearly smarter than you.They oppose the direction Canada is heading in and if you pull your head out of your ass for 2 minutes you’ll see it too. Having a better life is why people live here, and there’s nothing wrong in dreaming big and wanting the best for everyone. If you prefer the noble struggles of the oppressed in other lands, you’re free to go and shit in a hole in the ground and pat yourself on your shirtless back. The rest would rather fight to preserve what’s right in the world.
Count me in as someone who opposes the way things are going, but like most people in the city we can’t identify with the method the protesters have chosen. Its hard not see this as a big party with a lot of joiners who aren’t actually into the cause but more for the weed and the bongos, which they would be doing down on Queen West if this weren’t happening.
Instead of disrupting a park, it would be far more effective to march on Bay Street EVERY SINGLE DAY and make life difficult for the 1%. This action is basically inaction, sitting around a park where everyone can ignore them and walk around it. They need to get in the banker’s faces everyday, but I fear that is too much effort for this crowd, which may be the real reason why they are part of the 99%.
Fizzle,Fizzle, Pop!!! RIP Occupy Toronto.
There are certainly many poser protestors looking for a good time, however the method chosen by the Occupy movement globally has been quite effective, making salient the very real yet understated issue of inequality. That is not inaction.
The method is unprecedented, therefore probably not relatable, making it easier for the 1% to divide the populace against a group that’s fighting for them. Daily marches to Bay Street would not be sustainable nor effective, and would make life difficult for ordinary citizens more than any bankers.
This is just the beginning.
Yeah, you’re way off there, Ezra. Sounds like you’ve had a few too many helpings of the wrong kool-aid.
How anyone can be against the Occupy protests is beyond me (aside from the rich and greedy, of course).
People who support the dismantling of the camp and who feel a sense of relief at things returning to business as usual are almost worse than the people who are being protested against.
I haven’t participated in the protests but I am fully supportive of them, and even moreso of the Occupiers right to protest in the way they’ve been doing it. Any fight against this bullshit system is one I can get behind.
People are talking about the protests, and in turn, talking about the issues that the protests are based on. It’s all over the news, all across the world. Sounds like it’s working to me.
Disrupting a park? Give me a break. How about disrupting an entire society? A world?
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