there's all that is happening at the d_n_c_ that no one's talking about and
that has to do with the occupy wall street protesters there are several
people protesting actually i have several i think is an understatement but
there are all keep my wallet
wall street protesters at the d_n_c_ and of course and surprisingly there being
completely ignored by the mainstream media david being ignored by a lot of
other independent organizations which is also a little
uh... discouraging but
i do want to give them a little bit of attention here today because
i think that they have an important message and
some people are probably wondering why some of my wall street protesting at the
d_n_c_ well it's because they feel that both parties are extremely similar
especially when it comes to economic policies a lot of the protesters there
are also protesting the fact that obon the has done the drone strikes in the
signature strikes some of the violations in our civil liberties are also
part of this protest and tab another really interesting thing that some of
the protesters have brought up
uh... was the national defense authorization act which allows ah... the
government to detain
suspected terrorists u_s_ citizens indefinitely
uh... without a trial on so
of course these are all valid concerns and this is something that i love
they're protesting about but no one wants to have an inconvenient protest so
there literally being pushed as far away from the d_n_c_ as possible similarly
noticing that and they're not really that inconvenient
unfortunately the turnout was a really that large
there were some protesters that we're going to you know do their thing at wall
street uh... they were expecting fifteen thousand people totally about eight
hundred showed up which kinda shows you that the movement is this going a bit
and it's discouraging it makes me a little sad but
i do wanna give them a little credit for you know it's for the people who are
still
staying true to their message i want to give them credit i wanna say people are
gonna continue discrediting u
keep working hard to spread that message
yeah i definitely it definitely has fizzled out anybody doubts that that's
partly why something the covers that was and also because
this is an
just any protest is that the d_n_c_ and you're not allowed near the convention
center there's lots of police and everything so it's hard to be in the
the eye of the cameras when you're
god knows how many blocks away
and the numbers with eight hundred people so a lot of people bizarre
fifteen thousand i don't know fifteen thousand be enough to be a lot of a lot
of notice in even if he did get notice would be too so interesting about these
protests in the way that
uh... the right wing romney supporters like to put re the purposely they if
again cover this here's what they would say
all these people just they're sick of all politics at the boys doing the
completely missing why they're sick of it
mhm would run has been running at three has disillusioned obama voters
disillusioned because like i didn't think he'd be this liberal he's just so
crazy look that's not the problem is that he's not being liberal enough
that's disingenuous to to betray these people as walt now we're sick of obama
we're gonna go for running that's not the case and all that is not the case at
all they feel like both parties are just unbelievably similar when it comes to
economic policies
and i can totally understand that i can relate to that and i
understand the democrats
want this to be a time to rally support for president obama and
when you really look at it obama is the lesser of two evils i mean romney would
be a complete and utter nightmare for reproductive rights for economic policy
for over a wide variety of things
but at the same time you know you have to find that federal balance
between uh...
holding the president accountable for his actions and also supporting the
democratic party and that's a very hard balanced set font
now on mark up all of you so here's some of that protesters and i think
a few of these signs are actually pretty good opted to corporate parties sell out
the people
i think that that's a pretty and straight forward message and its not
wrong
uh... more years of
drone attacks deportations signed amendment two indeed it without saying
we're from of they had to get the national defense authorization act
and what time of day alright so these are all messages that i feel like most
reasonable people who lived under research
can understand in iran with so it's not like
there is one of the show you
showing at those pictures is because
it's not like they're a bunch of lunatics out they're protesting without
a message
criticism of occupy wall street that drives me freaking crazy because
what do you have one message it isn't one thing that they're coming together
to protest for
because there's so many things within our system that are fucked up
that they can just use one thing
so bad they don't have one clear message
the world a little more complicated than that
yeah i i i look at
i like that they're protesting it's probably ought to have much of the fact
that a hundred people or whatever numbers are able to rally uh...
and don't like
it's it's it one step towards foothills of the stations say the parties are
similar in some ways and being able to lay out the ways in which a similar the
people don't know anything of politics can't see that so that's one thing but
today immediately say well then you should vote that that bothers me that's
not
they're not the same similar does not mean the same they're not going to have
the same effects to say that the democrats and republicans are the same
is to assume that
having george w_ bush offices same isabel gore was not the surrounding
about at the same happens at the same outcomes it's ridiculous to say
the country would be entirely different the world would be entirely different al
gore did elected rather than george w_ bush but there were people back then
saying the part of the same in your vote doesn't count so look your vote main ek
as much as it should that's electoral system that we have but protesting can
bring us closer to
the but the country and the global environment that you want