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It really comes down to lobbying lots and lots of politicians who can stop the NSA by significantly slashing its funding or by enforcing existing laws. The Occu
by arkitaip 13y ago
It really comes down to lobbying lots and lots of politicians who can stop the NSA by significantly slashing its funding or by enforcing existing laws. The Occupy movement showed that revolutions don't work in a state where government and police will conspire against its citizens by infiltrating and undermining its civil rights movements.
- einhverfr 13y agoThe problem with Occupy was that there was no demanded reforms, only complaints and protests against things. Protests aren't ever enough though. It is telling how little credibility Occupy had with Washington when Obama, giving his jobs speech during the protests, called for the deregulation of Wall St.
- pdkl95 13y agoWhile Occupy DID make some demands; they were just made by the individual groups. It would be more correct, though, to say that "demands" weren't really the point of Occupy. They changed the national dialogue, and made a LOT of traditional euphamisms and arguments obsolete and useless by putting the core issue of class warfare back up in front where it belongs. "Cutting out decades of distraction an propaganda" may not have been an explicit "goal", but it was certainly a victory for the movement.