Comments on: Occupy Portland Briefing 11/11/11

By: MJ

MJ — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:00:56 +0000

I wouldn’t hardly consider a bank tellers as a similar entity as rape, murder and arsonists. That’s a bit of a jump don’t you think. You are the funny one – or not so funny if you really consider that relevant. It’s people like you that make the rest of the movement look bad. You are the pollution this city needs to rid itself of.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:06:58 +0000

Lindsey,
All day I’ve been thinking the same thing that you’ve so eloquently put into words.

Thank you for putting them out in public.

Kim

By: Liane

Liane — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:52:26 +0000

LOL – you’re too funny.

By your logic, we desperately need rape, murder and arson to continue – otherwise, who will employ the maximum security prison guards?

By: Connie

Connie — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:20:08 +0000

Xpio
Thank you for expressing so eloquently your support for Occupy Portland. I totally agree with you.
I have visited the encampment probably 10 time; I’ve brought food, needed items and money; I have felt welcomed – never did I feel endangered.
The occupiers are doing the hard work – the least we can do is support them.
I’m getting ready now to join the goings-on tonight.
Here’s hoping the police will not follow Oakland’s horrible example.
Connie

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:28:06 +0000

Of course money is the root of all evil, but we live in a country where money rules. You want a different way of life? Form a capital government where everyone is supported. I do see the homeless – not even a year ago, I was one. So don’t preach to me about not seeing what the dark side of society is, I know it. I lived on the streets, I lived in a shelter, I lived where I could because I had no job. But I found my way out of it. I don’t support the corporations, I support the people who have no choice but to work there because otherwise they would be on the streets as well. My best friend was killed in Afghanistan, so don’t even go down that road with me either. I supported him until the day he died – and as per his every request to me – I support the troops wherever they are.

Basic human rights aren’t something that money can buy. So therefore the lack of money can’t strip it from you. I know just as many people who are happy and healthy on the streets, than I do living in big houses living pay check to paycheck. Why? Because they do what they can with what they have – and they don’t expect a government that they support to do things for them.

Democracy is all based on money – you want to change that, then have a capitalist government. Don’t expect a government founded on tyranny and theft to be anything other than what it is.

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:20:59 +0000

Because Anarchy and mutiny is a much better alternative compared to the way things are now? I can think of someone else who had similar take to the government – he of course can’t join you as he was killed in Waco. But you’re movement isn’t any better than his was…the only difference is he did his in a building, and you do yours in a street…

By: J.k.b.

J.k.b. — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:17:30 +0000

No. The system is the bad guy. You work for everything you have, and want your children to see beauty, not tents. Well lady, im sorry to say, but your “children” wont have any food to eat, water to drink or air to breathe if the corruption of an already inherently unfair system isn’t changed. I apologize that homelessness is a problem, but I guess it is the American way to only drive through the parts of life you want to see, and scoff at the rest.We are all working class folks who work to get what we want, the problem is, the work we are doing isnt even getting us what we need to survive. The most heavily TAXPAYER-funded food in this country is poison, the farms that produce it have to use chemical pesticides and fertilizers, polluting our water, and just look at the sky, we dont have clean air. Not to mention, were still cutting down tons of trees…for profit! The police are people who got involved with an institution of power. They love to assert it. If you look at what the police do, and the way they do it, you wouldn’t want to support it. And finally, 6 more soldiers and veterans killed themselves this year than those who died during action. I have a very hard time believing that keeping the soldiers there is supporting them,i think its killing them. So instead of victimizing yourself and talking about your struggle, informing yourself with sound-bites, eating into the stereotypes, look around you. Look and the real beauty and ugliness of our society. Is it right that you sacrifice almost all the time in your life for a little bit of money, knowing that if you stopped you wouldn’t eat, have health care or shelter? Is it right that basic human needs are stripped for profit? Is it right that even as a movement for the good of the public, we are still marginalized by them? Is it right that if we don’t stop the way things are moving, we will all be GONE. Money doesn’t save us, it destroys.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:17:17 +0000

Lyndsey’s voice resonates beautifully with being the change we want to see. Her letter represents all that draws my heart and support to the Occupy Movement. And I would imagine why our mayor lent his support until it truly became unsustainable as a positive force in its later stages. It demonstrates all the positive things that inspired anyone who first visited the parks and marches.

Those with vision and commitment such as Lyndsey’s will be the force that shows Occupy is bigger than a camp on two city blocks. That the eviction is not the end of a movement but an evolving to continued constructive, peaceful, non-violent protest that can continue to ignite our city and country to stand up for all of the 99%.

May many hearts and minds be touched with the wisdom and foresight of her words.

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:55:37 +0000

So I guess I am the bad person here. I work for a large bank in the foreclosure department. I have to deal with telling people all day long that they have 30 days to vacate, and this after months and months of trying to work with them to help them with their payments – yet I’m still the bad guy. My husband and I support our four children on a limited income, and live paycheck to paycheck just like most people do. We both have students loan that need to be paid and both are still trying to attend college. We have two boys in high school, one boy in middle school, and one in elementary. We fight with the education system, and now fight to keep our children able to ride a bus to and from school because of budget cuts. Yet, we are the bad guys.

We are the bad guys because we don’t support the movement. Because we think that there is a peaceful way to solve the resources, and because we both have to fight with Occupiers to do our jobs. We are the bad guys because we go to work, and then come home and want to be able to show our children by example, that sometimes life is unfair, but you work for what you want, and don’t expect handouts.

We are the bad guys because we support the police officers, and their need to do their job – and not wanting them to get hurt. We are the bad guys because we support our soldiers in a war that we don’t like.

We are the bad guys because we want the city parks to be a place where our children can look and see beauty and peace – not tents and trash.

We are the 99%…low income – but not low class. Working to gain what we need – and VOTING to change the laws we don’t like. But we are the bad guys.

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:45:40 +0000

Yeah, and just think of all the people who will loose their jobs who work as tellers, or other people in those banks. Way to help the economy by making other people unemployed.