Intolerance

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Hey, don't knock Savannah!
Merc might be nearly opposite me politically speaking, but he's a true Southern Gent when it comes to offering hospitality.

I intend to visit him and his wife when my ship comes in.
I've been sold on Savannah since Bill Bryson recommended Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

You are welcome to my place anytime you want to come! would love to have you.

[classicman]

What PH said.

Oh, and Andrew Breitbarts little rant at the Occupy protesters out front of the CPAC conference was not only staged, but hilarious.
Their chants were far better (Occupy 1 - Breitbart 0)

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

You are welcome to my place anytime you want to come! would love to have you.

Ooh! And once you're in Savannah, Sundae, it's only a piddly little 1,171 miles to Austin!

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I am still trying to get someone from the Occupy folks to tell me who from their movement is going to get elected to Congress in 2012.

Well, its a movement - not a political party, so why should they necessarily put up someone for Congress? There are a few candidates out there seeking to affiliate themselves with Occupy. Whether these people will become serious contenders remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, Occupy does have a political PAC.

[Stormieweather]

As long as there is freedom in HOW members of an organization are allowed to express themselves, there will always be members who make asses of themselves (and thus, reflect badly on the organization). That's sort of a given.

If the entire organization (or majority) echoes this bad behavior or adopts it, then it's reasonable to assign such attitude to the organization as a whole.

Otherwise, no.

I do think that shouting down someone trying to speak is rude and not at all tolerant. Wait, who said Occupy was supposed to be tolerant? Anyway, it's JUST as rude to mock, deride and ridicule a group that doesn't fit your neatly defined idea of "how it should be".

In my opinion, of course.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by SamIam

Meanwhile, Occupy does have a political PAC.

or do they? Cross-thread discussion perhaps, but who is this?

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http://occupypolitics.info/we-do-not-endorse/

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I am still trying to get someone from the Occupy folks to tell me who from their movement is going to get elected to Congress in 2012.

Elizabeth Warren, for one. What do you mean by "from their movement"? Warren may not have been out camping with them, but she is one of the politicians whose ideology is most closely aligned with theirs.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I am still trying to get someone from the Occupy folks to tell me who from their movement is going to get elected to Congress in 2012.

The easy answer is - They haven't decided yet.
Seems you have something in common with them after all.

So far they have created a group called "Occupy the Congress" which was set up to collect funds for candidates who support the Occupy protesters and the 99%ers.
Link here if you care to donate.

As far as candidates from within Occupy -

Nathan Kleinman, a 29-year-old member of the Occupy Philadelphia movement, intends to run for congress in Pennsylvania’s 13th district against Democratic incumbent Allyson Schwartz.

“The petition gathering period starts today and lasts for three weeks, so I plan to file by then,” Kleinman told me over the phone today. “I’ll be running in the Democratic primary.”

Kleinman, who refers to himself as a human rights activist and organizer, served as an aide to Joe Sestak’s unsuccessful 2010 Senate campaign before becoming a legislative assistant to Pennsylvania State Representative Josh Shapiro.

More recently, he has been a member of the Occupy Philadelphia movement, participating in a number of associated working groups, including “Free University,” “Outreach Working Group,” “Process Working Group,” “Camp Liberty,” and “The Committee of Correspondence,” through which he became involved with InterOccupy.org, which he describes as “a central hub for communications” in the national Occupy movement.

Now, he plans to campaign for the House of Representatives, which would make him the first member of the Occupy movement to seek a seat in Congress.

You may be surprised to find out that he is running against Allyson Schwartz (D).

[ZenGum]

TACOMA, Wash. - Rick Santorum said on Monday that the Occupy movement represents "true intolerance" after he was faced with a handful of angry protestors who shouted through his entire event, ultimately resulting in the arrest of three of them.

Intolerance? Maybe, a bit.

Rude, certainly.

A strategic error, too. What could they possibly say that would do more harm to Santorum's chances of election than the things Santorum would have said himself if allowed to speak uninterrupted?

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

A strategic error, too. What could they possibly say that would do more harm to Santorum's chances of election than the things Santorum would have said himself if allowed to speak uninterrupted?

But people are voting for this man. There are obviously plenty of fruitloops absolutely lapping up his hatred and bile and twisted sense of morals.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by wolf

I'm trying to understand the dynamic here ... Conservatives and the Tea Party types are intolerant, but Occupy, the folks who destroy Starbucks at Global Whatchamacallit Summit Riots, and those idiots who throw pies at famous/powerful/rich people are merely expressing their opinion? Am I getting this right?

Are you equating shouting and throwing glitter with codifying the descrimination of a class of American Citizen and revoking a woman's right to determine what's best for her own body?

Originally Posted by wolf

I'm still trying to get members of Occupy to tell me who their two home state senators and representative are.

Wasn't it a tea partier who said "keep the government out of my social security". There are uninformed people everywhere.

[lookout123]

Out of curiosity, do you have specific examples of Santorum's hatred and bile?

[infinite monkey]

Here's some hate:

Originally Posted by Santorum

They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights, then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is the government that gives you right, what’s left are no unalienable rights, what’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the guillotine. Ladies and gentlemen, we’re a long way from that, but if we do and follow the path of President Obama and his overt hostility to faith in America, then we are headed down that road.

Here's some bile:

Last month Santorum blamed same-sex marriage for plummeting rates of marriage across the nation. In November, at an event sponsored by the Christian group the FAMiLY LEADER in Des Moines, Santorum said gay marriage could doom the U.S. "Unless we protect it with the institution of marriage, our country will fail," he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1178450.html

[glatt]

One of the most famous examples is probably the "Man on dog" interview he gave back when he was still a Senator.

In that interview, he says that he has no problem with homosexuals, but that he opposes their acting out on their urges. He says that he thinks that consenting adults do not have a right to privacy in their sex lives and that the government has a right to legislate what sex acts they can perform with one another. He says all this in a very loving way without any bile.


"And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution..."

and later:

"And that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that."

[Stormieweather]

Then there's the Santorum statement that babies that are a result of rape are a "gift".

Oh, and comparing gay marriage to bestiality.

And! blaming radical feminism for families where both parents work 'when they probably don't really have to'.

Santorum has pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception and allow the states to outlaw birth control, insisting that “it’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." You know, like, have 8 kids...

And then...the right to privacy is a made up right that the Supreme Court came up with and should be eliminated.