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A Lost Cause
Posted by: Paul Dhaliwal | November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
While surfing through Terry Lee’s Business Blog, I came across a post of his that was written on the Wall Street protest movement. Terry voiced his skepticism about the entire movement, as it did not have a chosen leader or even an appointed spokesperson for that matter. Also, he argued that the conditions in America do not reflect the conditions needed for a revolution.
A month after this post went online it has become clear to me that the Occupy movement is indeed mislead and without direction. Not only has their “Manifesto of Demands” been ridiculed and called ignorant, the movement has suffered from several media debacles recently. The Occupy Vancouver movement was shut down after a 23-year old woman died due to an illicit drug overdose on the Occupy campsite. This and the alleged rape of two females at the Occupy protest in New York City gave a large amount of Canadians and indeed North Americans in general the image that the Occupy movement is made up of “hippies” and people of questionable habits.
As for myself, I am quite against this movement for reasons I have voiced before. The fact that the Occupy sites double as crack-houses only reaffirms my opinion against the movement.