New Occupy Posters

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Occupy Christmas - Because the kids deserve it

Occupy iRony

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BREAKING NEWS - Good Bye OWS - Toronto

Dear Occupy Toronto, Fuck off! Love, Mayor Rob Ford

By: Colin Perkel

TORONTO - Allowing Occupy Toronto protesters to remain in a downtown park would amount to supporting anarchy, something Canadians have rejected, a judge ruled Monday in upholding the city's trespass bylaw.

There was no immediate word on when the demonstrators might be evicted or whether they would appeal the ruling.

But the city's mayor said he expected the protesters to get out of the park immediately.

"We've asked the protesters to leave as soon as possible," Mayor Rob Ford told a news conference.

"We'd appreciate their co-operation."

In a 54-page decision, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Brown upheld the city's trespass bylaw as a "reasonable" infringement on the demonstrators' freedom of expression.

"Anarchism has a long political history," Brown stated in his ruling. "But Canada has not chosen anarchism."

Some protesters in the park said they would defy any attempt to remove them, while others did not want to risk a confrontation with police.

Sakura Saunders, a volunteer with Occupy Toronto, said those who choose to stay will be "non-violently resisting" attempts to tear down their mini-village of tents and other shelters.

"That's simply us standing our ground," Saunders said.

"We do have charter rights to be here and it is the opinion of everyone here that our charter rights should ... be greater than the right of someone to walk their dog through this park."

Brown, however, disagreed.

"The tents and other shelters hog the park land, and non-protesters who seek to use the park face a chilly and somewhat intimidating reception," he said.

"The charter offers no justification for the protesters' act of appropriating to their own use — without asking their fellow citizens — a large portion of common public space for an indefinite period of time."

Members of the Occupy Toronto protest, who took over St. James Park in the city's downtown Oct. 15 as part of the global protest movement, went to court to block the trespass notice issued last Tuesday.

In its notice, the city said putting up tents or being in the park between midnight and 5 a.m. violated bylaws.

City Manager Joe Pennachetti said the city did not consider midnight to be a deadline for the protesters to be gone.

"We want to move quickly and hopefully beat that time frame," Pennachetti said.

Police said they were in discussions with the city, but would not speculate further.

Five protesters argued the occupation of the park, including tents, were an intrinsic part of their right to protest and hence their ability to assemble and express themselves.

Brown rejected the notion that the Occupy Toronto protesters were worthy of a special exemption.

"It would be a most curious constitutional exemption which would have the effect of excluding many members of the public from a park, while granting a small group exclusive possession of it," he wrote.

The judge, who heard a day of arguments on Friday, said the notice represented "minimal impairment" on the protesters' freedoms.

On agreement of the parties, Brown made no order as to costs given the "public importance" of the issues.

Across the continent, civic authorities have either evicted, or moved to evict, their Occupy protesters.

Most protest sites in Canada have already been dismantled but some remain.

A judge in Victoria has said the demonstrators have to go, but has not yet given the city the authority to evict them if they don't.

In Vancouver, a judge has given Occupy protesters until Monday afternoon to clear their camp in front of the downtown art gallery.

Montreal has taken no action against its downtown protesters.

Police have also cleaned out Manhattan's Zuccotti Park near Wall Street, where the Occupy movement began in mid-September.

While most of the protests have been peaceful, there have been violent clashes as police moved to evict the demonstrators in places such as Oakland, Calif., and mass arrests in New York City.

SOURCE: The Canadian Press

Read this: Ocuppiers Right, Wrong

Source: Toronto Sun

BY LORRIE GOLDSTEIN ,

Recently I’ve been writing about some of the views I share with Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York, Toronto and elsewhere.

Today I’m going to write about my disagreements.

To review, I agree with them financial fraud on Wall St. and political corruption in Washington are largely responsible for the global economic mess we’re in today.

I agree the public justifiably feels betrayed by how stock markets were manipulated and banks and investment houses bailed out with U.S. taxpayers’ money.

I agree key regulations governing stock markets were gutted by Wall St., which bribed politicians into stacking the rules in their favour, a phenomenon known as crony capitalism.

I agree public anger at corrupt Wall St. executives and their bought-and-paid for politicians — Republicans and Democrats — is justified.

But I disagree with the Occupiers’ view capitalism itself is the problem and wealth redistribution by the state is the answer.

Wherever this has been tried, the state becomes the ultimate crony capitalist and it does to the public exactly what Wall St. and Congress did to them starting in 2008, only on steroids.

The solution is not to replace capitalism but to fix it — by restoring laws for the proper regulation of the financial services sector that arose out of the stock market crash of 1929.

Things like keeping the activities of commercial and investment banks separate, so commercial banks that accept depositors’ money can’t use it to speculate in high-risk securities in the stock market.

Things like placing limits on “leveraging,” meaning buying investments using debt, which can result in huge financial losses.

Things like regulating the use of derivatives such as collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps.

These were the two weapons of mass destruction in the subprime mortgage securities scandal that wiped out trillions of dollars of people’s life savings and pensions world-wide, while costing tens of millions their jobs and homes.

But I disagree with the protesters who say they are against the bailout of Wall St. banks, but in favour of bailing out giant auto companies, which they’ve indicated by accepting the support of the Canadian Auto Workers.

That tells me these protesters aren’t really against the government picking economic winners and losers. They just want it to pick the winners and losers of which they approve.

I also disagree with the Occupiers’ failure to condemn the roles played by government entitlement programs and public sector greed in the ongoing global economic crisis.

Indeed, excessive entitlement programs and runaway public sector spending lie at the heart of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, that could cause another global recession.

The problem with countries like Greece — as in much of Europe — is their economies were already basket cases before the contagion of toxic subprime mortgage securities spread around the world and sent their finances over a cliff.

As former Wall St. money trader Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, widely considered to be one of the best and most understandable accounts of the 2008 subprime mortgage securities scandal, explains in his latest book, Boomerang, Travels In The New Third World, the Greek economy was basically a giant Ponzi scheme before it imploded.

For example, the wage bill of Greece’s public sector has doubled in real terms in the past 12 years.

The average government job pays almost three times the salary of the average private sector one.

Greece’s state-owned railway has annual revenues of 100 million euros, against an annual wage bill of 400 million euros (average salary, 65,000 euros per worker), plus 300 million for other expenses.

Greece’s public school system, among the lowest ranked in Europe, has four times as many teachers per pupil as the highest ranked, in Finland.

The retirement age under Greece’s prohibitively expensive public pension system is as early as 55 for men and 50 for women for over 600 professions classified as “arduous,” including hairdressers, radio announcers, waiters and musicians.

Finally, bribery and corruption are widespread in the public sector.

To sum up, the Occupy movement is correct to condemn the greed, fraud and corruption on Wall St. that led to the global economic mess we’re in today.

But to ignore those same things in the public sector, and their contribution to the economic tsunami we’re now experiencing, is absurd and blatantly inconsistent. 

Source:The Toronto Sun

Occupy Wall Street at it's finest

Here are a few videos that show the vagabonds that can be found at these "liberating" protests

In this video, this young man is displeased and has joined the OWS protesters to show his frustration.  He argues that corporations in America are not paying enough taxes and that many of his social "rights", such as a government sponsored college education, are disappearing.  I love the way this young man obtained all his "stats" from online sources and claimed them as facts.  Also, I adore the way this young man is panhandling while wearing a burberry scarf.  Even if this scarf is a fake, his trendy t-shirt, well groomed hair and eye brows, and perfect teeth show that he himself is a superficial person who is more than willing to spend his own money on luxuries rather than necessities.  Having trouble paying for your education? how about you stop spending your money on teeth whitener and go to work rather than protesting on Tuesday Morning?  This moron definitely has a Mac and iPhone.

This guy must have really thought this through...Anyone who has a sense of intelligence knows that the worst thing you can ever do is to enter a financial institution while wearing a SKI MASK...I love the way they planed their "sit in" prior to their actions...morons.

I am pretty sure this guy was in Scream and She's all That!

Which brings me to my final point.  Just like most of the social movements that have risen from the left over the years, the recent rage has the same pro-communist, anti-semite message being spread.  Many communists and racists use the rage of the protesters to disguise their message amongst the many circulating.  Don't believe me...go see it for yourself....

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