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In reply to the discussion: You can slice the symbolism with a butter knife [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)24. Coming to America's towns and cities, over the next 18 months -
More actions like Ferguson MO.
Wherein the crowd has agent provaceutreurs embedded. They start the looting and the fires. The public at large gets blamed.
And while plenty of police protect Wells Fargo, et al, no police stop the looting. Sort of an American version of Kristelnacht, where we substitute African Amerian communities for Jewish synagogues.
Stage One of Police State Americana.
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NYPD has put up barricades to protect the "Charging Bull" aka "Wall Street Bull" sculpture.
NYC_SKP
Sep 2014
#2
I always wondered why they didn't have a "bear" somewhere in the vicinity as well...
MADem
Sep 2014
#11
Makes it look like a rigged game--or a bunch of clowns who don't get the Yin-Yan point of it all!
MADem
Sep 2014
#58
3.5 tons of bronze, 11 feet tall. How tone deaf that they didn't realize the message. Or DID they?
NYC_SKP
Sep 2014
#7
You'd think they'd just shrinkwrap it in some kind of protective fabric and leave it at that.
MADem
Sep 2014
#13
I don't care what the guide books say, I still say they need a BEAR! Maybe Yogi, or Boo Boo...
MADem
Sep 2014
#23
LOL! OK, here's two sculptures in Central Park, the first are three bears and the second one, well:
NYC_SKP
Sep 2014
#27
I think a decent message of protest would be to take a welding torch, and castrate that fucker =).
Volaris
Sep 2014
#33
Thanks! I was expecting these. Who needs symbolism when there's OT scripture.
ancianita
Sep 2014
#37
And oh how they worship it. From 9-5 M-F with tithings from each paycheck.
raouldukelives
Sep 2014
#49