Occupy Wall Street To Hold National “General Assembly” In Philadelphia On Fourth of July…
Instead of waving the flag like most Americans on the fourth they will be burning it.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A group of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement plans to elect 876 “delegates” from around the country and hold a national “general assembly” in Philadelphia over the Fourth of July as part of ongoing protests over corporate excess and economic inequality.
The group, dubbed the 99% Declaration Working Group, said Wednesday delegates would be selected during a secure online election in early June from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.
In a nod to their First Amendment rights, delegates will meet in Philadelphia to draft and ratify a “petition for a redress of grievances,” convening during the week of July 2 and holding a news conference in front of Independence Hall on the Fourth of July.
Any U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident who is 18 years of age or older may run as a nonpartisan candidate for delegate, according to Michael S. Pollok, an attorney who advised Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge last year and co-founded the working group.
“We feel it’s appropriate to go back to what our founding fathers did and have another petition congress,” Pollok said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We feel that following the footsteps of our founding fathers is the right way to go.”
In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia and cited King George III’s failure to redress the grievances listed in colonial petitions as a reason to declare independence.
One man and one woman will be elected from each of the 435 congressional voting districts, according to Pollok, and they will meet in Philadelphia to deliberate, draft and ratify a “redress of grievances.” One delegate will also be elected to represent each of the U.S. territories.
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Is this assembly being funded by the Unions?
Declaration of Dependence.
Turning Philadelphia into Filth a delphia.
Nobody shows up for their crap anymore. It was a left-wing fad for a while but it got old. As the professional radicals and sex criminals made it too risky for the “Little Rascals Go Camping” types who started it, they just wore out their welcome.
@ J in MS …… LOL Very good!
How are the 876 getting to Philly? In Cheby Voltrons?
The Constitution was born in Philadelphia… full circle, sadly.
Occupoders: “We feel that following the footsteps of our founding fathers is the right way to go.”
Yeah,………….if your founding fathers were Marx and Engels.
Pray that they don’t damage Independence Hall.
I have an immense attachment to the place. I grew up on the outskirts of Philly. As a child, I always asked my mother to take me there, whenever we went to center city. I would imagine those brilliant men in those great halls, discussing points of law and philosophy, forming the bricks and mortar that built the foundation of this great republic.
I still pay a visit when I’m in town. It’s such a beautiful and amazing place.
I am so afraid.
‘a petition for redress of grievances’
That can be summarized easily :
Yo bitches, give us more FREE stuff.
A bunch of freaking losers.
I’ve told the leaders to start the stink-out (not bathing) at least 2 weeks prior and I’ve told them to tear up anything linked with the founding of this nation. Just wait and see the mess my minions make.
I just. Threw Up. Not a little bit, but everything I’ve eaten for the past 33 years of my life.
I’ve tried to alienate myself a long time from this city, but hubby worked there, and it made me vulnerable to wishing it well.
NO WAY, NO LONGER, NO MORE!
Hey OWSPHL- GET A JOB like the rest of the intelligent population!
Oh awesome.
Occu-pussies on parade.
Anybody got a gatling gun?
876 delegates equals 15.36 per 57 States.
Where’s the Syrian style crowd control when you REALLY want it?
@chickadee says:
February 24, 2012 at 9:17 pm
‘a petition for redress of grievances’
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It’s Festivus silly.
This will turn out well…
They are so going to get rolled by the Unions, it will be interesting to see what happens the first time this “Working Group” gives the useful idiots marching orders.
@Keep Honkin – The NBPP poll watchers are in charge of crowd control.
To the OWS douche bag holding the sign that says “I will never own a home in my life.”
It’s easy….work, work harder, save, drive car, don’t have the latest electronics, stay away from bars, save, work more, grocery shop for just the basics, avoid credit card interest, work, save….
I did it, and so did many more here on WZ. I’m now in my 6th house…buy cheap, paint and fix up, sell and make a little profit…buy again, etc.
Currently the mortgage company owns about 20% and I have 80% in equity. It’s just about having a goal and working for it, so quit your bitching and get your ass to work.
oops….should be “drive used car”
@Defarge – He has moms basement, free internet and tofu sandwiches.
When OWS walks a mile in a tax payers shoes I may listen to them.
How did it get so twisted that bums think they should have everything they want just because they are bums. The left is fcking nuts. What an insane game plan.
Compliments of the grifter in the WH.
He has no idea who we are.
PA is a conceal and carry…detestable puddle scum your days are numbered
Philadelphia should place its order for bleach, rubber gloves, delousing agent and Lysol now.
@Dapndico
I had room and board with my parents as well, however I had a major desire to be “independent” and venture out on my own. It sucked at first and I struggled, but eventually I figured out the economics to be self sufficient.
This is nothing new and is simply the natural order of things (or was). I am not different or special to millions of others out there. Set a goal and go for it.
INDEPENDENT and SELF SUFFICIENT…these are alien terms to these OWS whiners.
After looking at the photo why do I have an image of The Walking Dead zombies?
it is hot as hell in Philly during July.
and remember Phila people throw snowballs at Santa and really have little patience for BS
warning to owies
im 30mins from filthadelphia, these stinkin hippies gonna be too close for me. i can only hope they piss off some very drunk phillies fans after the game
Will Kim Jong O be the keynote speaker? I’m sure there will be a steady lineup of Dronecrat speakers.
@Defarge – I hear. Did the same. Joined the U.S. Army at 17.
@J in MS — Declaration of Depends.
I think some of the Tea Party people should infultrate and get elected. That would put a “down twinkle” into their plans. Don’t they have to have unanimous votes in order to do anything? He he.
@Dapndico
Seems like you and I are “old school”. I steered away from the military but often wish I had enlisted just to get the discipline to accept responsibility sooner than I did.
For your service to our country, I am forever grateful.
So the big issue remains…the liberals have destroyed ambition in our youth….what to do about it?
@Defarge – Stop the degrees on ____________(fill in the blank) studies and allow parent to apply the boot to the ass discipline. When I got my drivers license at 15 and wanted a car, I had to buy one. Gas, oil, tires, etc., were on my dime.
@Dapndico
It’s funny you mentioned that. When I was 11 yo, I wanted a 10-speed bike and pestered my dad relentlessly. One Saturday, after my persistence, he got up and drove off. I figured he’d come back with a new bike. He returned with a lawn mower and a gallon can of gas. He said “You want a bike, get your ass out there and earn it…by the way, you owe me $80 first for the lawn mower.”
I had a new bike in 3 months…lesson learned.
“We feel that following the footsteps of our founding fathers is the right way to go.”
Nice place to start. That and the library to see what our founding fathers really wanted, designed, and bolted down. Until you do that, shut up and get a job.
Nailbomb. Game over.
Ok, am I reading this right? Americans no longer want to have a republic. What should those who still want a republic do? Is there a section of the United States we can all move to and still be Americans? With a Constitution?
Texas? Louisiana? Missouri? Alabama? Georgia? Mississippi? Help!
The “Declaration of Dependency” and “Declaration of Depends” comments that were mentioned above pretty much sums up their “movement”.
So what happens when Obama loses? Are all the miscreants gonna threaten to riot, thinking that we are ready to back down and run like at the OJ trial?
@Meenie:
Remember the eight year long trashing of George W Bush in the media, and pop culture? The ginned up protests against the war in Iraq, and Afghanistan? The occuvermin protest mobs are already in place, and ready to focus on their next target: any Republican president.
JWM
I wonder how these jerks are going to try and ruin it for everybody with their dirty pig habits? Frankly i hope a fireworks ruins their plans
September 6, 2012 in Charlotte , North Carolina dickwads – Democratic National Convention. Be there to light the city up or STFU.
Ok. Let’s all go, vote each other in, and take over.
TJ’s crib is right out my back door and some days I have my moments. It is painful.
My founding father was Benjamin Franklin. Also my progenitor. I believe that makes me a First Citizen 0f the Republic of the United States 0f America. I also believe Uncle Ben used to lead prayer meetings for guidance in sessions for the formative Consitutional initiatives in a country that would come to be the last great hope of the world in my generation 250 years later. I weep for the generations who knew not the country I grew up in and loved with all my heart and soul. You became, instead, the antithesis of all my fondest hopes for all mankind. May you rot in hell and every pore on your body turn to a **holes and you die of the dripping shits. You neither deserve to live here nor be a part of my forefathers heritage….. so, get the f**k out! Now!!
@Robin…just saw your post…yep.
It indeed will be hot as hell w/100% humidity. Philly will stink. Pooping in public won’t be like it was in the fall. If we are lucky the flies will spread disease and nature will take care of it.
@J in MS
LOL.. Very good… I’m stealing it.
You folks are dissapointing as usual……Yes they look nasty and can be nasty at times, ( of course ALL the worst about them is TRUMPETED by rags like Weasel Zippers) But have any of you EVER stopped for just ONE MINUTE, and thought about the ‘goings on’ in the U.S.A? OUR ‘GOVERNMENT’ started the entire miserable Vietnam war/killing ground for WHAT?? It’s COMMON KNOWLEDGE a naval incident was FABRICATED. UH, DUH? 50,000 dead americans, what a quarter million wounded. WHAT THE FUCK FOR?? The ‘flag’? Bin laden wasn’t in Iraq. The WMD’s that we sold them were. How about the Kennedy era plot, (LOOK IT THE FUCK UP), TO LITERALLY BOMB U.S. CITIES AND KILL U.S. PEOPLE SO CUBA COULD BE ATTACKED???? Why in God’s name aren’t any of you even upset just a little about that? Because you’re flag-waving, dumb-ass SHEEPLE who don’t know or give a shit about the TRUTH? By the way, just how ‘stinky’ and ‘nasty’ and/or ‘pissy’ do you think it was to to have your guts shot out in ‘Nam, and die slowly in the heat and the mud? For a war the Govn. started, against a people who didn’t want a war??? Assholes. NEVER LET FACTS OR TRUTH DETERMINE WHAT YOU STAND FOR. Iraqi war vets coming home that have views about abortion being wrong and or other things of CONSCIENCE are now described as potential DOMESTIC TERRORISTS according to the ‘PATRIOT’ law handbook, and are subject to arrest without cause or charge, detention INDEFINITELY, without a trial, or even council. UH DUH????? Lets hope the first folks to get in trouble are some of you. We’ll see just how much of ‘my country right or wrong’ you all will be then……
@J in MS: ‘Declaration of Dependence’….how appropriate!
Anyone else following the story there in Pa about the muslim judge taking sides with the muslim assaulter against the victim of the assault? I say we apply his EXACT standard to those who would burn and desecrate our flag…get, and I quote…”very, very, very emotional” and respond in kind, just like the muslim did! The judge set the precident, we just have to follow and use it now…anytime, anyone attacks any item we hold dear, we CAN and SHOULD respond violently to that and stomp some asses! Lets see how THEY like it then….LMFAO!!!!
@JackBootedThug: (more likely just another whiney wannabe, but…) Have you gone OFF your meds, again? DUMBASS…anyone wanna bet Jack Boot here is a Paulbot voter? LMAO…man the fuck up, many of us have gone to war, it sucks, it smells and good men and women die, but for you to lose your mind almsot 50 years later is evidence of a deeply rooted mental illness manifesting itself now….GROW the FUCK up…ok?
The irony must escape them…IF they would just occupy a job, things in this country would have ALREADTY gotten better…but like losers and slaves, its just easier to whine and complain while doing NOTHING about their alleged plight….I hear the military is still looking for a few gay men….LMAO!!!
You can bet that the Philadelphia City Hall, the Mayor’s Office, and even the city Police Force will be standing right along with them as the riot and burn the place down.
By July, the polls will be showing a landslide defeat of the Kenyan Commie, and his Riot Squad will be in full SEIU mode.
There will be signs and speeches calling for the “New American Revolution”… a ruse to hide what their real plan is… to stop the defeat of their hero.
Fly over and drop a few million of these….
The BILL OF NO RIGHTS
We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior and secure the blessings of debt free liberty to ourselves and our great great-great grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and other liberals.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That a whole lot of people were confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim that they require a Bill of Non Rights.
* ARTICLE I — You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV or any form of wealth.
More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.
* ARTICLE II — You do not have the right to never be offended.
This country is based on freedom, and that means the freedom for everyone, not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc., but the world is full of idiots and probably always will be.
* ARTICLE III — You do not have the right to be free from harm.
If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful. Do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.
* ARTICLE IV — You do not have the right to free food and housing.
Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generations of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.
* ARTICLE V — You do not have the right to free health care. (This will come back into play in 2011)
That would be nice but, from the looks of public housing, we’re just not interested in government run health care.
* ARTICLE VI — You do not have the right to physically harm other people.
If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim or kill someone, don’t be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.
* ARTICLE VII — You do not have the right to the possessions of others.
If you rob, cheat or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don’t be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won’t have the right to a big screen TV or a life of leisure.
* ARTICLE VIII — You don’t have the right to demand that our children risk their lives in foreign wars to soothe your aching conscience.
We hate oppressive governments and won’t lift a finger to stop you from going to fight, if you’d like. However, we do not enjoy parenting the entire world and do not want to spend so much of our time battling each and every little tyrant with a military uniform and a funny hat.
* ARTICLE IX — You don’t have the right to a job.
All of us sure want all of you to have one, and will gladly help you in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful.
* ARTICLE X — You do not have the right to happiness.
If you agree that a understanding of no rights is necessary to “Secure the Blessings of Liberty,” I strongly urge you to refer this to as many people as you can, or link it from your own webpages. No, you don’t HAVE to …. Nothing tragic will befall you should you NOT refer it. I just think it’s about time common sense is allowed
Being an American means that you have the right to pursue happiness — which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the 1st Bill of Rights.
What could possibly go wrong?
Why Philly? Why not DC ? Why not aim for the bulls eye?
“So what happens when Obama loses? Are all the miscreants gonna threaten to riot, thinking that we are ready to back down and run like at the OJ trial?”
If Obama loses. If Obama wins. If Nike comes out with new sneakers. If the lakers win the finals. If the Celtics win the finals. If the Heat win the finals. If they cancel _____. If McDonnalds runs out of syrup. If ect ect ect ect…..
Shame Frank Rizzo isn’t still around. He could really mess with this group. All would have lumps on their heads. Cops in Philly didn’t used to put up with much. City has gone to hell since Rizzo’s time.
Maybe if we burn some copies of the Communist Manifesto, the little Marxists will become even more ‘outraged’ and start killing each other.
With a light change in verse 2.
Boy the way Glen Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days.
And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man
Like Frankie Rizzo again.
Didn’t need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.
Good hotels will be clamoring for their business, I’m sure. They certainly want to have 10 or more slacker slobs cramming into a room.
I like their grievences….life, liberty and pursuit…Oh, nope……Pay for my student loans, pay for my mortgage, give ,give me ……..
So, the media is still trying to make a bunch of moronic, infantile, lazy, clueless, drug addled, incontinent savages into a viable political movement.
I hope the Democrat party and Leftist academia are proud of their creation. It is a living manifestation of their beliefs.
American Infidel; hey, take the booze bottle out of your mouth for a few minutes. You didn’t fucking answer just ONE OF THE FUCKING QUESTIONS, did you? Pussies like you always attack the messenger and NEVER TOUCH the questions, or the facts. By the way, Asshole, try reading up on what Top Military Brass are saying about the FACT that ANYWHERE outside any U.S. camp in Afcrapastan is Enemy held territory, period. Walk 40 yds. and your a dead G.I. Our Govn. is bleeding the best we have in a SHITHOLE for what? 9-11? Same thing as ‘Nam?? Want to ask the 50,000 dead from ‘Nam how they feel about it, as well as what they think about your Pussy-Attitude that says, D-D-Dude, WTF, I mean, like it all happened YEARS AGO, MAN. IT’S GOING DOWN now, YOU STUPID SHIT SO MAN UP, if you CAN’T EVEN ANSWER OR ADDRESS ONE QUESTION, OR ONE FACT, YOU MAKE MY POINT PEFECTLY. HAVE YOU EVER READ THE PATRIOT ACT? Here, I’ll make it EASY for you. LOOK UP HR.8791, AND WATCH, LISTEN AND LEARN. The POINT is men and women are still going to WAR FOR THE SAME STUPID, ASSININE, AND FUCKED REASONS AS 50 YRS. AGO. Get it yet? Nothing has CHANGED. lOTS OF DEAD G.I.S AS WELL AS CIVILIANS. Maybe the govn. could try to care for this country for once. ASK SOME WHO LOST LOVED ONES IN ‘NAM, ALL THE WAY UP TO TODAY if it just doesn’t matter, cause like you said, M-M-Man, it wuz like years ago and shit, Man, wtf Man, WOW, shit happens and stuff. 50,000 dead because of a FUCKING LIE, and you’re O.K. with it? Pop open another cold one, and watch some more T.V. Hey dumb-ass, in Artical VIII, does any of that right wing, conservative, by God bullshit apply to the dead I was talking about? Or to the over stressed, and mind-fucked soldiers, who CONTRARY to their military rights, and military law, have been FORCED to do TOUR AFTER FUCKING TOUR, with all leave being confiscated and sent right back ? Do ya think that’s AOK? If it was your child looking to finally get out, come home, only to get fucked over like that? Quick NOW, Think up some conservative bullshit to print, BUT ABSOLUTELY DON’T TOUCH THE FACTS OR THE TRUTH BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION. IF YOU LIVED 200 YEARS AGO YOU WOULD BE WRITING THAT THE BOSTON TEA PARTY WAS NOTHING BUT SOME SMELLY, STINKY, BOOZY, WHINY, LEFT WING-TYPE LOSERS WHO THREW THE TEA OVERBOARD, RIGHT??
During the Vietnam era, the United States was in the midst of a cold war with Russia/China and Cuba pitted against the idea of the spread of Communism. Vietnam was in the midst of a civil war since freeing itself from the control of the French. America backed the South, led by a corrupted incompetent leader soon to be dealt with. The Vietnam war was simply the battlefield for halting the spread of Socialism and Communism, just as the Bay of Pigs was our covert attempt to thwart a dictator that has by the way oppressed and killed thousands on an island not 90 miles off our coast that was being prepared as a missile launch pad for nuclear warheads aimed at our Cities…that is why and what for..and by the way, JFK was President followed by LBJ that when asked why the escalation of the War, he pulled out his penis and replied that is why!
Bin Laden wasn’t in Iraq but the Shiite and Sunni factions of Islamic radicalism were as IS Iran’s radical arm of Islamic indoctrination. I personally do not agree with what went down and the way it did, but if we were to complete the job of establishing a Democratic society in the middle east, perhaps much of what is transpiring now would have been inconsequential. Let us not forget the vast oil fields of the region that will soon go to China as they bypass us as the leading world Nation, anyone like $5.00/gallon gas and following China from behind, thank Bill Clinton, huh?.
You can’t handle the truth as sometimes the truth is apparently unpleasant and does not abide to common sense or our compassion, life is hard but much harder when oppressed…
Abortion, right or wrong is not truly the argument…the argument is that the
Federal Government should not be taking my tax money and spending it on providing a service that I would not necessarily approve of for someone else. Last time I looked, every service man and woman that went to Iraq or Afghanistan was of their own free will…they joined to serve, they were not drafted…I bet you were.
If it was your child looking to finally get out, come home, only to get fucked over like that?
If my son joined up to do the duty, then he would do the duty after all it’s not just a job, it’s an adventure, puss cake.