How not to win friends and influence people, but to turn them against you—and possibly 5 or 6 of their friends:

Use your first sentence to state what you believe to be true and you hope your opponent will understand. Then use your second sentence to insult your opponent.

Score zero.

No Peteo. Whether you realize it or not, you joined the Marines to do the dirty work of the corporate elite. Shame you’re too dumb to see that.

Where is it said Occupy Wall Street is communist, except by morons from the right, who have cloned soundbite mentalities!

With the three branches of the U.S. Government now under control of the independent wealthy Banking, Financial and Credit companies - and with their paid stooges in the Media - we’re one step away from Martial Law. The only thing stopping Wall Street in its tracks right now is the guaranteed response of many groups of people who have been holding back and not joining OWS - but who most certainly WILL take to the streets and Join - if Wall Street tries one more thing - and may anyway, since there has been no positive sign of any Corporate Major Player in the banking or Financial/Credit/Mortgage Industry changing it’s game plan.

  This may be the Day - or maybe Tomorrow - or the next Day - but soon I suspect Wall Street will wake up to find it’s offices in ruins and the Military defending the OWS side…

Peteo,

I joined the Marines to fight Communism; not promote it.

Curious statement since being in the military with its structured taxpayer funded lifestyle is the closest thing to communism we have.

Peteo, it is a good idea to understand the difference between the word “community” and the word
“communism”.  Though they come from the same etymological (language development) root, history has pulled them very far apart.

Peteo,

Communism? You’ve really taken the cool-aide. What most of the OWS appear to want is a return to a regulated financial market so banks and Wall Street can no longer steal from the savings, pensions and 401ks of the middle class.

They don’t want corporations to be considered individuals which allows them to control the political system through campaign contributions, drowning out the free speech of the rest of us with torrents of money.

They want reasonable access to higher and vocational education without being drowned in debt.

Most want a single payer national health insurance program.

Meanwhile it would help you personally to find out what communism, capitalism, socialism…etc., etc., really are.

I joined the Marines to fight Communism; not promote it.

i choose to call ‘war on afgh’n’ an invasion of a de facto dismembered
evil empire.

and put together by other evil empires and in order to keep the three
main peoples there fighting one another for long time and empires such
as france, italy, u.k, russia wdl us ethese peoples just as nato alliance
does now.

there is no war going on now in afgh’n. what we have there after very
easy invasion of pashtunstan is resistance to an occupation of it. tnx

What marvelous substance and meaning the VFP give to the OWS movement. I’m inspired.

Official VFP Statement Regarding Occupy Incident in Oakland

Veteran For Peace member, Scott Olsen, a Marine Corps veteran twice deployed to Iraq, is in hospital now in stable but serious condition with a fractured skull, struck by a police projectile fired into a crowd in downtown Oakland, California in the early morning hours of today.  Other people were injured in the assault and many were arrested after Oakland police in riot gear were ordered to evict people encamped in the ongoing “Occupy Oakland” movement.  Olsen is also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

VFP members are involved with dozens of these local “occupy movement” encampments and we support them fully.  In Boston, for example, our members, wearing VFP shirts and carrying VFP flags, stood between a line of police and the encampment, urging police to “join the 99%” and not evict the protesters.  In that case, several of our members were banged and bruised when the police decided instead to carry out their eviction orders.

In Oakland, last night, a similar thing happened, according to VFP Chapter 69 member and Navy veteran, Joshua Sheperd, who said he went to downtown Oakland “to see if, as a VFP member, I could help still the anger…to be between the police and the protesters…it seemed unconscionable to me that the police use the cover of darkness like that to do what they were doing.”  Fortunately, he was not injured in the police assault that left Olsen with a fractured skull

As with virtually every example of the occupy movement across the country, those encamped were conducting themselves peacefully beforehand, protesting current economic, social and environmental conditions in the U.S. brought about by decades of corporate control, a criminal financial industry and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are driving the U.S. global empire into bankruptcy.  These “occupy movement” participants are telling us something we need very desperately to hear.  They should be listened to, not arrested and brutalized.

Police in the majority of cities are acting with restraint and humanity towards the encampments, but Veterans For Peace will not be deterred by police who choose to use brutal tactics.  In fact, as happens with repression everywhere, more people join the cause.  We do believe that the rank and file police officers are part of the 99%,  the overwhelming majority of Americans who are suffering at the hands of an intolerable system.  Layoffs and cutbacks in city after city prove that we must join together to demand justice for all.

We send our very best to Scott Olsen and his family and wish him a speedy recovery to health.

We shall not be moved.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/bring-it/

These veterans are the tip of the sword of the new American revolution.