So...was the "99% Spring" doing anything today?

[Ken Burch]

6. btw...it's fine to offer suggestions to OWS. People WITHIN OWS do that all the time.

Where did the idea EVER appear that OWS can't tolerate dissent?

That's an especially weird given that those who spread it also say that OWS has no structure.

Either you have no structure or you brook no dissent...logically, it can't be both.

People within OWS do, however, reserve the right(as does everybody else, including the Democratic Party and the "99% Spring" splinter group)to disagree with the suggestions...especially when those suggestions are essentially to give up everything they stand for and just campaign for Obama.

I'd compare the reaction to the emergence of 99% Spring among OWS types to the reaction Eugene McCarthy supporters had when Robert Kennedy, after promising he WOULDN'T enter the '68 presidential race, got in anyway. I actually would have supported RFK in that contest, but I understand the rage the McCarthy people would have felt and accepted it as justified.

99% Spring should have informed OWS of what they were planning to do and should have made it clear that they weren't trying to supplant OWS. 99% Spring did neither. Clearly, you'd have to agree that they were wrong not to do either of those things.