NP - OWS is Winning

[Henry M]

And I'm genuinely sorry that I reacted so badly, but it's not easy being a
lefty who supports centrist pragmatism in what I believe are genuinely
scary times.

AsB4,
٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry, Henry, I woke up cranky and reacted like a cranky kid.
>
> Even so, I do support the movement.
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ian, I have never seen you write like such an adolescent.  The juvenile,
> > unreasoned, but passionate taunts of OWS become you!  I have no wax over
> my
> > ears and, unlike many, I will not extol the emporers new clothes, as I do
> > not have the party-line wool pulled over my eyes, and I have not drunk,
> and
> > I will not drink, the any demonstration and any change is good kool-aid.
> >
> >
> > AsB4,
> > ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> > Henry Mu
> > http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Ian Livingston <
> igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, Henry, you can continue with the wax over your ears, and your
> >> rose-colored glasses. Me, I'm on board for the duration. OWS has
> >> started something bigger than happened in the 60s and 70s. You can let
> >> that pass because the new set of protesters doesn't do it the way you
> >> want it done, or you can pick up the lesson book and take it to
> >> school.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > That OWS is a mob (a large or disorderly crowd of people) did not
> >> > detract
> >> > from the message going into month two of the occupancies.  That it
> never
> >> > became more than a mob, and has not since developed new ends or means
> >> > (with
> >> > the exception mic-checking) has.
> >> >
> >> > There is no comparison with the sixties.  There is no draft.  There is
> >> > no
> >> > carpet-bombing.  And in the sixties, we expected to be arrested when
> we
> >> > broke the law.  I'm down with the goals that came out of OWS; out of
> the
> >> > mouths of babes, and all that, but OWS has been seen, and there is now
> >> > very
> >> > little worth hearing.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > AsB4,
> >> > ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> >> > Henry Mu
> >> > http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
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