Occupy Protestors Go To Far
Oct 28th, 2011 by davidjhinku
The Occupy Wall Street protests have gone global, including our home Vancouver. Protestors can be found in their “tent city” blocking the Vancouver Art Gallery and or parading through the streets disrupting local businesses; most recently their run on the banks.
The protestors lack a clear unified goal but the overlying message many of the global protests seem to be that people are not happy with the income gap and want change. In Vancovuer, protestors recently placed the burden upon the banking industry and moved in to “occupy” several banking establishments throughtout Vancouver including RBC and TD; chanting slogans like “Shut down RBC” or “hey hey ho ho big banks have gotta go”. The crowd ended at the TD bank next to the art gallery where miscreants played a loud stero while others danced on tellers tables.
Actions like these show that many of the people at the protest arent there to better the world, they’re jumping on the bandwagon and looking for a little fun, which masks many people who do have something important to say, and genuinely care about fixing the income gap. One thing that I couldn’t stop thinking about while watching the video was, “Do these people realize the country wouldn’t be able to run without a banking system?”
Check out the source video pulled from youtube below.