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What's it Like at an Occupy Encampment?

There is so much happening at Occupy that you won’t find in the big papers and won’t see on TV. How does it function on a day to day basis, who attends, what kind of work needs to be done, does anyone want to do that work? There are similarities across the various sites; in fact we now know that many of the occupiers travel from one site to the other, and they definitely share information via conference call and by internet.

Here at Lollipops we’ve got numerous pages giving the low-down on several occupy cities. In fact there is so much information right here on this one blog, its hard to find what you are looking for. To that end, today’s post is a recap, with all the links you need, to navigate to the city/issue you want to read about first. 

And why, you may ask, would this blog cover Occupy at all? As our tagline denotes we are ever
QUESTIONING OUR PRESIDENT'S PROMISE TO GIVE THE MIDDLE CLASS ALL THE GOODIES THEY COULD POSSIBLY DESIRE, YET NEVER ASK THEM TO PAY. 

The entire Occupy movement has come into being because of that empty promise. The president swept into office on the oath that he would provide health care, education, higher wages,  and a carbon free environment, and a host of other enticing things, at no cost to the middle class voter. We'll get the rich to pay,  he promised. And now the occupiers want that promise kept and are mobilizing to demand the heads of the so-called rich.

DC Occupy
There are many tents at Occupy DC, but who is living there and how do they think? And how are they going to know when to stop the occupation? They are constantly talking peace, but they plan and carry out actions that almost dictate that violence will result. They are making plans to insert themselves in the area community for months to come.

Who is hanging out at the DC occupation?

Roadmap for Violence

Logic Difficulties

The Goal of Occupy

Working Groups at Occupy  

Boston Occupy

The vast majority of people at Occupy events are not enamored of the founding documents of the United States. In Boston they have been jotting down some ideas for a substitute constitution. On the other hand, occupy events sometimes attract a handful of Ron Paul supporters and Tea Partiers. Some people in Boston know that the 99% definition is pretty fuzzy. Do all the ninety-nine percent wish to help do the work, or to wait patiently for the redistribution of Occupy Wealth?

Not me--Let some eager beaver pick up that trash

Gimme mine

Co-opting the language of Occupy

The new Boston Tea Party?

Boston's new constitution. 

Chapel Hill Occupy 

Here is how things all started at Chapel Hill in October 2011. From the first day, Chapel Hill Occupy offered a table spread thickly with literature from causes and perspectives they clearly hold near and dear.  

And who is living in the occupation? Perhaps not the poor, who seem to lack the motivation to join up. And where do they use the bathroom and what are the arrangements for rain in Chapel Hill? Which nearby organizations offer their support to Occupy Chapel Hill? Here are all the posts we have so far from Chapel Hill. And there's a video of that first day  as well.

First Day in Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill Literature Table

Not appealing to the poor

Churches provide bathrooms

Occupy Boston starts a New Constitution

Occupy Boston wants a New Constitution

I got to spend the morning at the occupy thing in Boston this weekend. I got myself a tour and took plenty of pics. Maybe I will write up a few posts from my notes in the coming days. For today, their thoughts about a new charter.

The Occupy Boston people don't seem to have much enthusiasm for the  United States Constitution.  They have plastered some paper on the sidewalk and invite you to add your thoughts about what the "new" constitution ought to say. Their invitation reads "We can do better. Here goes.....".

And what are the occupiers adding? The things they want in a new constitution seem to fall into a few general categories. Each bullet point entry is a quote from the poster.

STUFF WE ALREADY HAVE 

• Equal rights

NEW RIGHTS

RIGHT TO FOOD AND SHELTER. AND LOVE.

• Free Food!!

• Right to nourishing food

• Right to a home to live in

• Right to food,shelter, healthcare and more understanding/love!

RIGHT TO WAGES, EARNED OR NOT

• Right to a basic survival wage regardless of ability to work or access to waged work.

RIGHTS FOR THOSE WHO MAY NOT EVEN BE CITIZENS

• Access to ESOL lessons for new immigrants.

RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE 

• Healthcare for EVERYONE.
• Affodable healthcare
• A RIGHT to Healthcare.

PUNISHMENTS OF VARIOUS KINDS FOR THOSE IN AUTHORITY

• Police would face harsher penalties than the general public. No more crony cops.
• IRS should be outlawed!
• FED Abolished too!
• Term Limits!
• (S)he who does not contribute to the common good deserves no common good.

DREAMS OF THE IDEAL

• End America's cycle of poverty.
• Get $ out of politics. 
• We can end LGBTQ partner abuse....we can do this as a community.
• Stop violence.

GENERAL PABULUM

• Everyone is important.
• Free HUGS!
• The earth, air and water cannot be owned. They are free resources that must be preserved for use by all.
• A better tomorrow.
• Live Love Learn
• love
• more fishing poles
• Ministry of Partying
• Re-think the American Dream!

THE OBLIGATORY RAILING AGAINST CORPORATIONS AND LAW

• Corporations are not people.
• Corporations should not have the same (or more) rights than citizens.
• People before corporate profits. 
• A legal system not based on precedent.
• Keep jobs here. Stop outsourcing.
• No bailouts for corporations.

ONE PERSON seems to get that we can just amend the document we have. This contributor, however, might have missed the part where our founders inserted checks and balances and a balance of powers, precisely to make it harder for the powerful to find ways to subvert the Constitution. Here is what (s)he wrote:

New Ammendment (sic)

• Our political leaders should abide by the constitution instead of continuing to find ways to subvert it.

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Astroturf. Now there is Proof.

Sorry to burst your bubble. There is now confirmed proof that the grass roots you have been part of is nothing but astroturf.

The display of outrage made recently by a thousands of Americans (or as Pelosi might call them, "un-Americans") is just a setup after all. There is nothing genuine about it. We have all been hearing nasty reports (rumors) from MSNBC for some time now, postulating that the angry mob is just a front. The whole charade has supposedly been financed by insurance companies which provide posterboard and crayons



with which thousands upon thousands of angry people are making signs. These hapless automatons are connecting with neighbors, leaving their grandbabies for the afternoon, and/or taking time off of PTA meetings or whatever, or work, to go to town halls. It is all about doing the bidding of lobbyists who want to protect the income stream of the very rich. When these innocent shills get to the meetings, they sometimes yell, mostly when being lied to. One might think this is because these Great Americans are angry about what is being done to their country. But no. Chris Matthews, that crackerjack anchor over at MSNBC assures us that all of these thousands of concerned patriots are acting as part of a coordinated effort in response to The McGuffie Memo.

The main point of the plan, we are told, is to bring down Obama. We don't even know WHY anyone would want to bring down Obama, because he is a very affable guy and he is leading the country we live in. After all, we need for our country to succeed. Many of us don't entirely like Obama's dreams of the world as it "should be", and even more of us just don't think it is practical for him to try and create a utopia on Earth. With our money. For silly reasons like that, we don't support Obama policies. But most people have no interest in bringing Obama down. They just want him to keep his big fat hands off our liberties.

But Mort Zuckerman and some pretty-man anchor from what many insist ought to be called the MS-LSD network, has given us a clue. It has something to do with the word Socialism being spelled wrong, lo these many years. Turns out Socialism should always have been spelled beginning with the letter N! Confused? Let pretty-man anchor explain:




And now we find that this scheme, this conspiracy to bring down Obama, goes back many years, further than that McGuffie Memo and further than the involvement of the insurance industry. (Did we mention that Matthews seems to think the insurance industry is pouring out millions to buy those crayons for the tea partiers, despite the fact that they are at the very same time, spending big money to buy ads to support Obamacare? (The logic dispenser over at MS-LSD must be on the fritz)."

It was really all just rumor, until now. Just today, a reporter has caught it on tape. And now we can conclusively prove the whole thing is in fact, astroturf, carefully laid by a gang of men who pranced about in fancy clothes. The scheme to incite Americans to stand up against tyranny did not start during the week in which Obama ordered the House to pass HR 3200. No, and it did not begin when tea parties were held across the land on April 15th in response to the 787 Billion dollar stimulus plan and other run away spending. The conspiracy did not even begin when Rick Santelli got mad on CNBC's air and bellowed out the famous rant which is famous for having given Americans the idea to have tea parties.

No.

Here is the proof of where all this dissent comes from . Look at this video. One Katy Abram spoke at the Arlen Spector town hall today and she SPILLED THE BEANS!




Did you hear what Abrams said? She is caught red-handed for all the world to see. There is no denying it now. She must not have been very well trained, because she lets the secret slip, at 1:25 in this video. Apparently a group of several dozen schemers were determined to bring down Obama, before he even got elected. Yes, it was some guys you may have heard of, acting in concert with a gang of lesser knowns. In a very sinister manner, they assembled and decided to make life a living hell for today's proponents of a health care plan of the unaffordable lollipop variety. It was THEY who decided to make people rise up against Obama and his nocialist dream.



Amazing when you stop to think that this happened almost twenty decades before Obama even enrolled in that fancy private school in Hawaii. Also involved in the plot were men by the names of a Mr. Adams and a Thomas-something-or-other, though each was out of the country at the time of the dastardly deed and thus unavailable to sign some kind of a memo to mark the occasion. There was a memo, though. And it, (NOT the McGuffie Memo) is the memo which Katy Abrams read, the one which propelled her on her mission to stand up and speak her mind and defend what is rightfully hers. And THAT is the memo which got so many Americans (real ones, thank you, Ms. Pelosi) all hot and bothered and ready to strike out and attend a bunch of boring old meetings with sourpuss congressmen and senators. So you see, it was all contrived, all planned, and all brought about by that little four-page memo written by a bunch of guys in fancy clothes harboring delusions of grandeur. Somehow they thought that simply by writing some flowy-looking words in cursive on four pieces of paper, they could reach right ahead through the centuries and give people courage and strength to stand up to Obama and others like him. And thus the plot began. Thousands answered the call of the memo. And thus the crowds were manufactured. Astoturf!

Check it out. It is a good memo. It is all the rage right now, and roaring right back into fashion. But be careful and read this document at your own risk. If you succumb to the temptation and actually read it right through, you yourself just might be incited to start shouting at town hall meetings too.
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I Took Some Steps to Protect My Freedom Today. Wanna Help?

Thanks to all my new followers! I am loving checking in to your blogs as well. It is great to be able to share information this way.

I am working hard with my Lollipops blog to make sure we keep the president to his promise that the middle class will not have to pay for fancy-sounding, unwieldy, ineffective programs which sound good, but which will only lead to further troubles, and indeed to tyranny. Lollipops (free stuff from government) may seem tasty at first, but they are addictive and they are not a healthy food. Freedom, and independence and self-responsibility ARE. Our diet of LIBERTY has allowed the USA to inspire its citizens to be the best they can be. Millions of people working their hardest and taking care of themselves when they are able, has created the greatest country on the face of the Earth. Lollipops are overpriced, and they never guided a country towards greatness, but they have put many a country into great debt. The best way to keep from paying for Lollipops , is not to taste them in the first place!

Right now the challenge is how to keep the revolution going, and to resist the "free" Lollipops. Accepting government largesse will only weaken us and destroy what we have created. But how to do it? What can each one of us do, today, to get the word out to others, and to put pressure on Congress? What exactly do we say? Who exactly, should we call?

Luckily, there is a very handy to-do list from the Tea Party Patriots which spells out concrete, manageable tasks we can each do in no time at all. You can have this list sent to you each week by signing up on the site.

I would love to hear from anyone who is also following this organization, or others organizations are showing us exactly what we can do today to protect our freedoms and say no to the Lollipops.

Today, I already sent the suggested article to some of my centrist friends. I would love to stay and chat some more, but now it is time for me to call the members of the House Energy and Finance Committee.

NOTE: I called the following from the list, and it only took a moment

1. (202) 225-2565 Jason Altmire Democrat PA (Blue Dog) Spoke to a nice person, told them to stand strong against this bill which I have read all of and which I do not like.
2. (252) 237-9816 GK Butterfield, Democrat NC Told them government is never the answer to keeping costs down, bill needs to be changed to give more individual freedom and control, not LESS!
   
3. (302) 736-1666 Mike Castle GOP DE (took my name, told me that they are going to respectfully ask me to call my own representative because I don't live in DE).
4. (202) 225-4076 Marion Berry Blue Dog Democrat from Arkansas. I told them we are standing up strong for him as long as he continues to resist the Lollipops!
5. 202) 225-3731 Christopher Carney Democrat (Blue Dog) PA. I told the nice lady I have read the whole bill and that I do not like it. She congratulated me and asked me how long it took me. I said I was up until 4 AM, and I though I did not understand the whole thing, I kept going. I think that if I can do it, the Congressman should TOO!
   
6. (202) 225-6131 Dennis Cardoza Democrat (Blue Dog) CA. I said we have been watching CA very closely and don't want the country to go down the same road towards IOUs, etc, and the best way is for Cardoza to stand up against the President and says "no thanks" to the free stuff!