Forum Post: Getting the Facts Straight

I’ve seen a lot of misinformation circulating on these forums, and on News sources in general. It’s my intention to completely dissolve as much confusion and misrepresentation as I can. I believe that anything I am about to say is without controversy.

Untrue Statement #1: The Occupy Movement has no Goals.

This is the most egregious of the errors that is constantly perpetrated.

Very early in the movement’s existence, they released this statement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8o3peQq79Q

Over time this statement has been encapsulated in the simplest of statements. “Get the Money Out of Politics.” This was articulated very well by this gentleman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IzhvRakiXc and this gentleman: http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/russell-simmons-occupys-goal-take-the-money-out-of-washington

So any time someone states that the Occupy Movement has no goals, they are either misinformed, or lying.

Untrue Statement #2: The Occupiers are an Unsanitary, Unorganized Rabble.

The Occupy Wall Street Site itself debunks this one. http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-wall-street-improving-quality-life-99/ And http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-wall-street-adopts-spokes-council/

Here we see clearly that this movement is working, very hard, to become organized and to reach an acceptable level of sanitation. They have done this while receiving no support from their elected officials, in a period of less then two months.

It becomes obvious that Bloomberg’s reasoning for clearing Liberty Park, under the guise of “Sanitation Concerns”, is a lie. If anyone paints the Movement in this light, they are misinformed, or lying.

Untrue Statement #3: The Occupy Movement is Violent.

Again we turn to their own statements. http://occupywallst.org/article/good-neighbor-policy/

This shows a clear agenda to engage in a Peaceful Process in a Policy that passed the General Assembly. That means that over 90% of the people in the park agreed to this Policy.

There have been attempts, by the Main Stream Media, to blow individual encounters and engagements out of the water. This is the equivalent of condemning all Police Officers for the actions of one erratic element.

If this http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/ows-protester-arrested-at-mcdonalds-20111104-lgf#ixzz1cqEFzH62 condemns the entire Occupy Movement. Then this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZNJcBBtMGQ condemns the entire Police Force, and takes us back to square one in any case.

You can’t have it both ways. If you wish to condemn an entire organization based on a few erratic people, then you have to apply that standard to everything. If someone tries to paint the Occupiers as all Violent, they are misinformed or lying.

Untrue Statement #4: The Occupiers are Occupying Illegally.

For this I turn to the United States Constitution.

The First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The Constitution is very clear. “Congress shall make no law.” That means that there can be no law prohibiting the rights of the people to peaceably assemble. Bloomberg is in clear violation of the highest law in America.

This is encapsulated nicely by this man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIJAZ90Dk8o

If anyone states that the Occupiers are Occupying Illegally, they are misinformed, or lying, and are making a statement that directly contradicts the Constitution.

Untrue Statement #5: The Occupiers haven’t done anything, so it’s a bust.

The amount of time between The Boston Tea Party and The Declaration of Independence was approximately three years. The amount of time between The Declaration of Independence and the First Elected President was approximately thirteen years.

The Occupy Movement’s first statement came out in approximately a month. It’s been less then two months. Anyone that says this movement is done is either misinformed, or lying, and most likely has no grasp of Revolutionary History.