Departing from the thread ..just for a tiny bit.. TM's description of the event..I can read past the obvious hyperbole, I think all of us can..It was the "event" itself which caught my attention.
TM's description:
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" don't happen to know anything about 1 million protestors stuff...
, but I happened to be in NYC yesterday (son had a gig on Bleeker St). As I was walking up 6th Ave in afternoon I caught some of the raucus down at Zucotti Park, now re-named Liberty Square by the rebels.....The rebels consisted of all sorts of people, anti-war types, marxo-socialist reformers, usual NYC exibitionists, also some well dressed intellectual types maybe from nearby NYU, also some Wall St types themselves. There was also a
bare breasted young lady carrying some kind of sign and I was waiting for the gov loyalists to rip that sign out of her hands
...Lots of Onlookers were stopping to watch the show...the rebels handed out flyers and talked to folks. BTW,,,,these rebels not only want regime change in the Wall St de facto governmnet,,,
they want OBama deposed asap--not supporting BHO..!! Gov loyalists, uniformed and not so uniformed, and gov shock troops outnumbered the rebels 3 to one....helicopters, paddy wagons and all the paraphernalia. Tremendous traffic jam...funny how ambulances and PD continue to blare sirens when traffic is dead stanadstill and can't go anywhere....but that added to the exicitement of the show"
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Now, I know some denizens of the Big Apple like that stuff, but it also explains why in my 75 years, I only passed through NY City twice..because I had no choice. Army sometimes takes you where you may not like to go.(Europe & back 2.5 years later).
Now, Gotham dwellers may like that stuff...but for me it would be torture, having to spend any time there..It sounds like one huge squirrel cage ! I hear they have such pockets of madness on the "left coast" also..
Yes, we have some nutcases up here on the western end of NY State..but they just don't run around in such big bunches...
I dfon't condemn what anyone else likes..but that stuff is pure junk, to me .
So, back to the thread;
Young minds, just entering college, can be very susceptible to brainwashing...and be convinced they are learning..