This is immensely clever.

I’ll go with insane.

Demonstrably.

It’s immensely fun to participate in as well.

It’s not a “human microphone” thing, it’s a collectivist unity thing. 

The anti-individual chants go on even where there is bullhorns, like OccupyPhilly where I live or in Georgia where the “democratic collective” wouldn’t allow John Lewis to speak.

Silly white kids.

Free food , condoms, clothes , bedrolls …drugs , alcohol and liberals .

What more do you need ?

They are fighting for their rights — to partay!The Occupy Wall Street protest has drawn an unwelcome crowd of freeloaders who joined the movement for the sex, drugs and free food — and they are blending right in.
The opportunists — ranging from addicts in need of a meal to well-off teens looking to hook up — have in some cases taken up residence in the demonstrators’ makeshift village in Zuccotti Park, upsetting the movement’s organizers.“Most of the kids are trust-fund babies. They don’t need to be here,” said Andre, 40, an activist. “I’ve seen some making out, having sex. It doesn’t look good.”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/park_wreck_freeloaders_GyDZGW4tFXDRx0oNRycVvK#ixzz1aO6CmFAv

You know what’s an immensely clever protest maneuver?

Crapping on a police car:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046586/Occupy-Wall-Street-Shocking-photos-protester-defecating-POLICE-CAR.html

Stupid teabaggurz! Look at what you’re making the Obamacrat mobs do now!

The police car defecation is clear evidence of that liberal “intellect” the liberals are continually telling us about.

So RRK, while we’re here. What is your take on the “occupy” attack on our nations air and space museum. As I remember you held the entire Tea Party to account for the action of one or a few people.

So… do your standards hold true for the “Occupy” crowd?

I know this is off topic. But as Mediaite had chosen not to cover this I’m just being curious.

Immensely clever if you’re an immense dullard.

Robert stands with the ” whippersnappers and beatniks “, as he calls them ,whatever damage they cause ,  because they are lefties .

I thought the two funniest things I’ve seen about the protests, and how they are conducted, are this headline:

‘Occupy Atlanta’ Silences Rep. John Lewis Via Jazz Hands

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/10/09/video_occupy_atlanta_silences_rep_john_lewis_via_jazz_hands

And this tweet and video:

Hidden footage of the first #OccupyWallStreet meeting - 
http://youtu.be/LQqq3e03EBQ

 These guys are OK but nothing compared to those storming the Smithsonian in DC last weekend.

http://youtu.be/wc9OSFLnyUI

Here’s part of the response: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201110100001

The Real Royal Emperor

A totally pointless, non-substantive post that does nothing to advance the national dialogue. Please, when you have nothing to offer, just don’t post.

Priscilla Grim is the face of this movement. Go Grim!

http://gothamist.com/

I was unimpressed with this. Often, demonstrators must show their concern for the law and their contempt for lawmakers by engaging in action not strictly legal. The lunch counter sit-ins, for example, were all illegal. And, the demonstrators engaging in illegal activity, even for good motives, have to be willing to take the consequences. When my commitment to the USN ended, I as very active in the Peace Movement. I was detained a couple of times. Tear-gassed a few times. But, I’m not sure that this incident rose to anything of that level. It was silly. Silly and illegal are toxic.

I do think some dialogue on the use of drones is in order. This is powerful technology, and it can be very beneficial, but it can also be very dangerous. An educational demonstration would have been welcomed.

I did not welcome this effort, and I found it ill-conceived, ill-executed and deeply troubling.

That was, indeed, disgusting.

I assume you didn’t mean funny in the traditional sense Americans use the word?

Priscilla Grim is the face of this movement. Go Grim!

http://gothamist.com/

The Real Royal Emperor

A totally pointless, non-substantive post that does nothing to advance the national dialogue. Please, when you have nothing to offer, just don’t post.

Speaking of disgusting , Robert , rein in some of your characters like LLoyd C or the lot of you will get banned again .

Serves a dual purpose – it carries the word to those outside of earshot and assists in the further brainwashing of the OWbots. I first saw it in the video of the obviously racist Atlanta protesters who wouldn’t allow Rep. Lewis to speak and I ended up with snotbubbles in my mustache.

Robert and BFD get teargassed and arrested on a regular basis when things get rowdy at Ramrod’s All Male Revue .

Robert likes BFD to get put in jail occasionally , then he knows BFD will at least get deloused .

Only a double rainbow would make this more fun to watch.  #occupyreality

Why aren’t all of the lying liberal politicians and back-slappers down on Wall Street wallowing in the stink and filth they have created?
Hypocrites!!

How amazing that the ‘Occupy Wall Streeters and the Tea Partiers have some of the same grievances against Obama. When Rick Santelli and the Tea Partiers told Obama not to bail out greedy Wall Street and not to bail out the corrupt banking system who would have thought that so many in the country outside the Tea Party would agree. Sounds like Obama loses in a landslide.

Herman Cain-2012!

A right winger were responsible he was an assistant editor for the conservative The American Spectator. 

 ”Movement”?….ROFLMAO!!!
The only “movement” I have seen is a bowel movement by one slug defecating on a police car.
Other than that….they just lay there and stink up Wall street.
Must be doing hell with the ozone.

Good Luck with that my friend.

Good Luck with that my friend.

Is that all you got….
ROFLMAO!!!

Keep a rolling and laughing. I’m glad to bring such joy to you;-+

I’m glad that you accept that Obama’s corruption in bailing out Wall Street and the banks has shown that he paid back his campaign contributors. Barack Obama took more money from Wall Street and the banks during his presidential campaign than any other candidate in American history. Talk about corruption!

The human microphone thing is creepy. Like Jonestown/Heaven’s Gate kind of creepy.  

But then we’d never hear from him at all!

Hey, that’s a great idea!

 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brad-bannon/2010/09/09/Bank-Bailout-Spawned-Obama-and-Dems-Tea-Party-Problem

It’s IMMENSELY TELLING! When you have to listen to someone tell you what to think and say, YOU’VE LOST!!

Kinda like a seal, clapping and barking for a fish, isn’t it?

You mean the one where Patrick Hawley, the conservative _American Spectator_ reporter who bragged in an article afterward that he was there only to discredit the movement, acted as an agent provacateur and rushed past the guards, only to realize the actual protesters were not following him in his invasion of the museum? Shouldn’t CONSERVATIVES be disavowing HIS lawbreaking and HIS attempts to incite violence?

More like just plain annoying and schtoooopid!

The
extreme left of Michael Moore and Slavoj Zizek plus no doubt Noam Chomsky and
if he could he would arise out of his grave Jacques Derrida, want to, repeat,
WANT TO, no NEED TO own this movement. Anything to make it not look like a Tea
Party gathering. What happens between people in the group must under no
circumstances by what happens in people between groups. Before that happens,
brains must have been washed by the ultra-left. It is okay to deconstruct the
fabric of social reality into the nothingness these left elites supposedly live
and have lived themselves, but it is not okay not to let people constructively
recollect their own backgrounds, pride, joy and happiness. That is exactly
where the defecating on police cars begins, where the smile on Moore’s face
widens twice as much, where the old hippies congratulate themselves for bein
the new elites, as if that really changes anything. As long as people are not
allowed to be their own person with a voice, but must as individuals submit to
the group, on the left, just like groups must submit to the top dog on the
right, groupsism is just as bad as cronyism and the dangers of polarization may
be greater, since people on the left don’t even CARE that they lose themselves
for the group. As sociology has taught us, the canvas of society is made of
power-distances and as long as mobs can make it look as if everybody is equal
and everybody is together during the mobbing, the new elites can position and
divide everybody between them, after they won, which this is all about, no
doubt.

It’s creepy! PLEASE STOP!!!

When everyone speaks at once it appears like this group of people shares a brain. As much as I support OWS, this kinda thing is creeping the F*** out of me!

I don’t care how “effective” it is (which it’s not – because who can ever understand what a crowd of people says – it took me years to figure out that the Denver Broncos fans were yelling “IN-COM-PLETE” and they’ve been doing it since god knows when). It seriously sounds like groupthink.

Not only that but repetitve speaking is used in memorizing and brainwashing. Not that anyone at OWS is trying to influence or brainwash anyone else, but they could inadvertently do so. If a large group of people chant something, even once, it has far more legitimacy in the subconscious than just one person’s words.

PLEASE, I SERIOUSLY BEG YOU TO STOP! It’s not cute or clever. It’s creepy and potentially dangerous.

insane

Nothing I disagree with here.

No, it’s entirely a ‘human microphone’ thing.  You should attend a general assembly, where these are used most often.  Most often, this is used to spread information about procedure and proposals for people to vote on.  Occasionally, they’ll have a speaker and this will be used.I have yet to hear a person there decry the ‘individual’.  

The TARP money loaned to the banks was paid back in full with interest. The bankers that packaged the high risk housing loans should have been prosecuted.

So, you were probably the typical corrupt, millionaire wannabe making probably 50-75K a year and you figured damn right I deserve that $500,000 home with a subprime, adjustable rate mortgage didn’t you? After all those bankers and politicians twisted your arm and forced you to sign the paper work. You’re probably also pissing and whining because the $75,000 student loan you took out to be a chef somewhere that pays only $12.50 an hour and you want the government to forget about it. YOU’RE A VICTIM, CORRECT? You’re a fucking punk!

It sounds like mindless drones that came straight out of Children of The Corn. 

Jim Jones is laughing in his grave.

Subject: [mediaite] Re: Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Human Microphone’: Insanely Brilliant…Or Just Insane?

Although I agree with this post, it is not mine. I have posted 2 replies about OWS and both have not appeared on this page.

It takes all kinds to make a movement…..and your attitude is offensive.

Those who finally are taking the initiative in rebelling against the uber right wing destructive attitude and actions against our country may not be the countryclubby churchy authoritarian bunch who have been having their loud and rambunctious say up to now,  but they are just as entitled to make a fuss as those tea potties that disturbed public meetings in my community. 

Your cant is contrived and canned by the people who attract your attention on the TV, and thinking people recognize this…..

I think you mean: Jim Jones, JIM JONES, is laughing, IS LAUGHING, in his grave, ISNT THIS GRAY

Its an effective way for a single speaker to be heard by a lot of people. Its simple, and it works. I don’t see how problem-solving suddenly became a reason to call a group a cult.