Comments on: Left Justified: Occupy Rockford featured at Nov. 7 event

By: kitty

kitty — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:42:54 +0000

I noticed that the “pro-1%” have debased themselves to name calling AGAIN!! I just do not understand why that happens. I was taught in grade school that name callers didn’t know how to express themselves properly so they had to resort to name calling.
Anyway, HURRAY for the protesters!! At least they are NOT apathetic to what is truly going on in the country!! Remember that old chant “POWER TO THE PEOPLE”? Well, it is about time that happens!!

By: nobama4me

nobama4me — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:23:23 +0000

I will add, no poor person has ever been my employer!

By: Jolly Roger

Jolly Roger — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:44:36 +0000

John, you need to reset your moral compass along with your clock. Fortunately these demonstrations will have a greater impact than Fox and Friends.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:44:48 +0000

Woodstock returns and Poor Mary joins them because “We don’t want to be slaves to debt because we weren’t born with a trust fund or a healthy stock portfolio.” Tell that to Bill Gates or Steves Jobs when they started working out of a garage for years to earn their fortunes becasue of ther intelligence, work ethics and vison.

What makes you or anyone else think they deserve their share of the fruits of somebody elses labor.

If you think businesses and corporations earn to much or extremely profitable why don’t you invest in the company stocks and reap some of the profits. Or if you think CEO’S make too much money why don’t you go out and become a CEO rather than march on a courthouse or campout in a parki crying “Oh woe is me.”

By: John

John — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:34:15 +0000

Stanley’s back!!!! Finally, after months of an impersonator, the real left-nut, non-sensical socialist Stanley Campbell returns, and he brought a friend, “Mary.” How nice.

Just so you know, I am a Tea-Party supporter. I guess that calling me and people like me “teabaggers” is supposed to be an insult. Is that really the best you pea-brained zombies can do? Maybe you should go back to reading Karl Marx instead of talking and placing your ignorance on display.

I believe that our political elite are out of touch with America. I believe they need to be replaced by people who will spend our tax dollars like it was their own. I believe we need to get rid of Demo-rats who treat our hard-earned money like it was Monopoly money.

So call me all the names you want. At the end of the day, I’ll still be voting to get rid of the scum-bags who reside in Washington and Springfield. I’ll still be laughing at those un-employed idiots who prefer to “demonstrate” rather than look for work…Losers!

By: Richard Kanak

Richard Kanak — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:51:52 +0000

Gandi and Martin Luther King both ascribed their nonviolent protest methods to Thoreau and for both their lives were ended by violence.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:07:59 +0000

Obviously nobama4me isn’t paying attention to the movement (or the gradual dismantling of the working class by the few guys inhabiting that shining city on a hill he’s hoping to move into someday).

The Occupy movement has never claimed that it is against capitalism. Capitalism is BASED on the concept of competition, which is dying off in the face of the ridiculously imbalanced regulation our government applies (or doesn’t apply) based on the financial klout of the party being regulated. We want to work and earn, we want to give our children an economy they can work within. We don’t want to be slaves to debt because we weren’t born with a trust fund or a healthy stock portfolio.

The numbers that nobama4me is using (cute name, by the way -does your mama call you that or are you just too insecure to stand by your own regurgitated buzzwords?) are propaganda fed to those who’d rather pretend that they aren’t a part of the 99%.

By: nobama4me

nobama4me — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:43:51 +0000

I support your right to protest, as long as you do not trespass, litter, assault others, and leave areas at times required by law, with posted hours. Also, since you do not believe in capitalism, I hope you have no money in any stock, or any interest bearing account. But, our country, being based on capitalism, you do not have any right to any of what I have earned. If you wish to pay more taxes, or some taxes, as 47% pay no federal income tax, the IRS will accept your donation. I am a 53percenter, and pay plenty of taxes on my middle class income.