You know, say what you will for the Occupy Wall Street protest - their message is unclear, many of them look like hippies, the annoyance of their mass repetition of what someone says (which they do as a means of getting around bylaws around using a bull horn) - the one thing you have to give them massive credit for is being peaceful.
Three weeks in and not a single incidence of violence or property damage as a result of the protest, which is mind boggling when you think about how pissed off these people are.
In addition, various unions are now supporting the protest, mass media is now covering the protest daily, and dozens of videos telling the story of the protest are popping up on YouTube every day.
In response to their success, it would appear that some folks on the other side of the debate decided to send the protestors a message.
As you can see the signs in the window say "We are the 1%" The building is the Chicago Board of Trade Building (the occupy protests are in Chicago now) that has a variety of tenants, including derivatives and future exchanges operations. It's unclear though who was behind the signs.
Either way, what a stupid thing to do. Then again, maybe the signs were made by people supporting the 99% protestors, knowing that such a display would only fuel people's anger and participation.
This comes on the heels of Erin Burnett (a CNN anchor, previously of CNBC, and who is married to a Citigroup executive) being accused of mocking the protestors.
Her piece led to a Forbes article - Erin Burnett Is Vapid, Occupy Wall Street Matters - which given she is brand new to CNN and trying to make that leap from CNBC star to becoming a CNN superstar and household name around America, is not a good thing.
Even if the protestors are 100 per cent wrong about everything (and they aren't on many issues), mocking and belittling them only generates exponentially more support for them.
The best thing the one per cent can do is just stay out of all this (and that seems, wisely, to be what 99% of the 1% are doing). Ultimately this will become a political issues that will get resolved in the presidential election. That's if people don't mock the protestors and turn what is currently a peaceful protest in to something much uglier.
Three weeks in and not a single incidence of violence or property damage as a result of the protest, which is mind boggling when you think about how pissed off these people are.
In addition, various unions are now supporting the protest, mass media is now covering the protest daily, and dozens of videos telling the story of the protest are popping up on YouTube every day.
In response to their success, it would appear that some folks on the other side of the debate decided to send the protestors a message.
As you can see the signs in the window say "We are the 1%" The building is the Chicago Board of Trade Building (the occupy protests are in Chicago now) that has a variety of tenants, including derivatives and future exchanges operations. It's unclear though who was behind the signs.
Either way, what a stupid thing to do. Then again, maybe the signs were made by people supporting the 99% protestors, knowing that such a display would only fuel people's anger and participation.
This comes on the heels of Erin Burnett (a CNN anchor, previously of CNBC, and who is married to a Citigroup executive) being accused of mocking the protestors.
Her piece led to a Forbes article - Erin Burnett Is Vapid, Occupy Wall Street Matters - which given she is brand new to CNN and trying to make that leap from CNBC star to becoming a CNN superstar and household name around America, is not a good thing.
Even if the protestors are 100 per cent wrong about everything (and they aren't on many issues), mocking and belittling them only generates exponentially more support for them.
The best thing the one per cent can do is just stay out of all this (and that seems, wisely, to be what 99% of the 1% are doing). Ultimately this will become a political issues that will get resolved in the presidential election. That's if people don't mock the protestors and turn what is currently a peaceful protest in to something much uglier.
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