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djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. A few reasons IMO.
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 07:50 AM
Oct 2013

1. OWS did not align itself with the Democrats.
2. OWS was demonstrating against Wall Street, and Wall Street owns both parties.
3. At this point in time, giving those demonstrators the OWS treatment would have further inflamed the GOP and all of its motley hangers-on.
4. The media and police were given their orders. Neither party wanted OWS pointing out inconvenient truths.
5. If Palin and Cruz want juicy clips of themselves being arrested or roughed up, they will have to create them themselves.
6. All of this kabuki and charade is about elections and campaign financing - the state of the United States and the rest of the world does not matter in the least, and both parties count on people to vote like they always do.

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A few reasons IMO. djean111 Oct 2013 #1
That and the Right Wing likes to play with guns and that could turn nasty. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2013 #16
And that's the question I've been asking on Facebook, to which there are no replies. canoeist52 Oct 2013 #2
IF THAT blueknight Oct 2013 #3
Locked up? MynameisBlarney Oct 2013 #10
Because OWS JackInGreen Oct 2013 #4
Because the DC police are not the NYPD? jberryhill Oct 2013 #5
Tear gas pepper spray beatings and bullets are for the left. nt. Warren Stupidity Oct 2013 #6
It could be because this is DC. freedom fighter jh Oct 2013 #7
Are you kidding? LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #11
Star Ledger? (NT) The Wizard Oct 2013 #19
yep. worked there 11 years LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #20
Are you unaware of DC police pepper-spraying OWS protestors? Try this as a start: AnotherMcIntosh Oct 2013 #21
Maybe the cops did nothing b/c they didn't want to have to do mouth-to-mouth on all of the Dustlawyer Oct 2013 #8
Perhaps to give them as little media ink as possible? LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #9
Should we maybe send sympathetic messages to these police officers? raging moderate Oct 2013 #12
um...there were a lot of US vets in that crowd? ellennelle Oct 2013 #13
That was my thought. Please don't give the wingnuts any martyrs. Especially if there is video. Dollface Oct 2013 #17
DC is one thing Plucketeer Oct 2013 #14
because the teabaggers heaven05 Oct 2013 #15
Radical right wing extremists The Wizard Oct 2013 #18
They shot and killed a woman just 2 weeks ago IronLionZion Oct 2013 #22
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