In earlier posts you where insisting people come up with ‘specifics’ and claiming the movement was far too wide in its scope. You are the now contradicting yourself by labelling us as radicals. WAKE UP!!

1 – I agree with you and am glad your at last not suggesting that ‘occupy’ are representing ‘99%’ or even indeed a majority.

2 – Good. Again you are getting somewhere; categorical things that you are protesting about, though I think you still need to be more specific. i.e. who is greedy and corrupt (or does it count for every banker, financial worker, politician, policeman etc. ?) ?

3 – Why? I in no way support you, but I am also against excessive greed and corruption. Just because I don’t agree with your ‘movement’, the way in which you go about things, the lack of direction, the flouting of the law, etc., it doesn’t mean that I ‘have my eyes shut’ as rather arrogantly stated by many on this web site. Perhaps the tented ones should take their own advice on that front and stop drawing conclustions on the large majority of the population.

4 – Agreed, though it is by no means the exclusive contributing factor.

5 – I’ve heard that statistic but have no way of verifying. However, I agree that whatever the number, kids should not be dying unnecessarily.

6 – So why stop there? Surely its only one more ill informed leap to conclude that anyone that doesn’t support you and is not out squatting in a bank or cluttering up public streets is a child killer? Brilliant. That should round up support for you.

7 – Good.

If you are so concerned about your democratic rights, try standing for election somewhere using a pornographic pseudonym and see how far you get with the Electoral Commission.

According to the Independent on Friday, it is the banks that are overthrowing governments. Here’s a link for you:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/what-price-the-new-democracy-goldman-sachs-conquers-europe-6264091.html

I would love to hear your thoughts on this…

I am sorry you feel that way. Please be assured London will not become the new Bagdad – it has no oil fields.
Please do read more posts and comments on this site. I hope you will be heartened to see that a great many of us care deeply about the future for everyone and are working hard for a better life for all.
I too was disheartened to hear about the death in America, please Google this though and you will see he did not die in an occupation camp but on the streets of Oakland. I too was saddened to read reports of assaults on females. The Occupy Movement has responded to this by setting up tranquility groups. They patrol the camps at night and do their best to make the space safe for one and all. In London the tranquility group have already prevented one homeless man from committing suicide.
Speaking from personal experience, I have been down to Occupy LSX on my own ( I’m female ) on several occasions at night and have felt the camp to be a haven from the threats of city life. I ‘ve been given blankets when I was cold, food when I was hungry and have engaged in some of the most intelligent debate I have known in years. I encourage you to go down to one of the camps and have your own experiences.
I’m afraid I haven’t seen any videos of protesters attempting to bait police officers into violence. Could you perhaps provide some links to corroborate this?
I have however, seen many videos of un-provoked police violence. If you have the time here are some interesting links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDolkwG2oKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJmmnMkuEM&feature=youtu.be

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/occupy-wall-street-nov-17-journalists-arrested-beaten_n_1099661.html

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/police-pen-up-and-mace-female-occupy-wall-street-protesters/

http://againstpoliceviolence.blogspot.com/2011/08/three-deaths-in-one-week-after-non.html

It is well known that violence begets violence and I urge protesters to remain peaceful in response to police brutality. Also, it is logical that with anything on such a huge scale there will be a minority of people who see violence as a means to an end.

I’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of the power of non-violent protest. Here are some links to some well thought articles on the matter.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/the-power-of-nonviolent-resistance/71544/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/25/martin-luther-king-washington-tar-sands-protest

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-schwartz/the-sometimes-incredible-_b_823654.html

1. Some support Occupy; some don’t; many have yet to decide.

2. Occupy is against greed and corruption.

3. Those who are opposed to Occupy therefore support greed and corruption.

4. Greed and corruption lead to hardship for many, including children.

5. A child dies of hunger every five seconds.

6. Thanks for confirming your support of the needless deaths of a million children per year, Dill Doe.

7. I have no further comments to make.

Yes I accept some local to st. pauls may be being affected, but I would suggest this is as much to do with economic crisis as it is the ‘camp’, and perhaps on the contrary, the fuss around the camp may well be bringing more people to the area than might have been the case had they not set up there. I believe that, other than a few businesses at st. pauls, that there are millions of people being affected adversely in London, the Uk, Europe, the western supposedly civilised world, etc.
This is about the bigger picture.

Please watch the clip, sincerely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoG9PmdGaT8&feature=youtu.be
and this one is very enlightening too, whatever way your views sway.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01771pd/HARDtalk_Kyle_Bass_Founder_Hayman_Capital_Hedge_Fund/

Just like to say nice going down the route of the autocratic leadership and the path the real USSR did, as with third world dictators you are wielding your power over free expression even Youtube and other websites allow you to post comments when you can and through all the spam and offensive comments have never needed to consor anything so it’s very shady your website decided to implement this.

But I suppose it doesn’t surprise me, I mean the hacktivists Annonymous claim to be for the freedom of speech and they attack anyone who doesn’t agree with them so I guess if we believe that bour government doesn’t really let us have free speech and your not now then history is repeating which begs the question as to the legitimacy of your movement, if YOU could overthrow the government and remove capitalism would you turn this country into Afghanistan and take the throne that the Taleban did?