Bigdogg;1013701 wrote:59 pages about the Wall Street protesters? Your heads about ready to explode! The Tea baggers never got this much publicity. What ever happen to those guys anyway

I Wear Pants;1013533 wrote:Executives shouldn't be liable for the fraud of their companies?

believer;1014001 wrote:Only if Congressmen should be held liable for the fraud of their government.

BGFalcons82;1013724 wrote:It would only be about 20 pages if IWP didn't post anything.

iclfan2;1014130 wrote:Occupiers causing small business to close. Good work : http://nation.foxnews.com/occupy-wall-street/2011/12/13/nyc-cafe-close-because-occupiers-90-now-unemployed

Btw, SOX testing sucks. It may help catch fraud from a low level employee, even mid management, however if the fraud was from the top, even a fully integrated audit would likely not find it.

iclfan2;1014130 wrote:Occupiers causing small business to close. Good work : http://nation.foxnews.com/occupy-wall-street/2011/12/13/nyc-cafe-close-because-occupiers-90-now-unemployed

Btw, SOX testing sucks. It may help catch fraud from a low level employee, even mid management, however if the fraud was from the top, even a fully integrated audit would likely not find it.

believer;1014312 wrote:Not to mention that SOX compliance is a huge waste of resources and a hit on legitimate profitability.

IWP, I do believe that the handful of corporate execs who cheat and break the law should be held accountable. I just don't think it's fair that the sins of a few should wreak havoc upon the many as a result of rules and regulations written by a government that has plenty of its own sins.

I Wear Pants;1016051 wrote:The owner of that cafe wanted the barricades removed even during the protests. The barricades weren't placed there by OWS but by the mayor and police.

Glory Days;1016495 wrote:what about the rest of the owners in that area? why couldnt the protestors just respect his business?

WebFire;1016661 wrote:I wonder why they put the barricades there? Hmmmmmmmm? :rolleyes:

I Wear Pants;1016545 wrote:How did they not respect it? Did they vandalize it or something? If there weren't barricades the dude probably would have seen business from normal people and protesters alike.

WebFire;1016661 wrote:I wonder why they put the barricades there? Hmmmmmmmm? :rolleyes:

Glory Days;1016813 wrote:do you really want me to post the news stories of the business owners bitching about the protestors just walking in trashing the places and not even spending money at the businesses?

"Occupy Oakland protesters say they will gather outside City Hall on Saturday, march to an undisclosed vacant building and commandeer the space as a social center and political headquarters for the movement.
If police prevent the seizure, the protesters warned Wednesday, they will take further actions. Possibilities include future blockades of Oakland International Airport, the Port of Oakland or City Hall, according to a letter to the city from Occupy Oakland."

"The city won't guarantee the 99 percent what we need for a healthy community, like housing, education and basic health care," said Martha Lincoln, a 34-year-old graduate student, reading from a statement by a group of Occupy Oakland medics. "So we are reclaiming them for ourselves."

Oakland police used tear gas and "flash" grenades Saturday to break up hundreds of Occupy protesters after some demonstrators started throwing rocks and flares at officers and tearing down fencing. Three officers were hurt and 19 people were arrested, the Oakland Police Department said. No details on the officers' injuries were released.


Police said the group started assembling at a downtown plaza Saturday morning, with demonstrators threatening to take over the vacant Henry Kaiser Convention Center. The group then marched through the streets, disrupting traffic.
The crowd grew as the day wore on, with afternoon estimates ranging from about 1,000 to 2,000 people.
The protesters walked to the vacant convention center, where some started tearing down perimeter fencing and "destroying construction equipment" shortly before 3 p.m., police said.
Police said they issued a dispersal order and used smoke and tear gas after some protesters pelted them with bottles, rocks, burning flares and other objects.
Most of the arrests were made when protesters ignored orders to leave and assaulted officers, police said. By 4 p.m., the bulk of the crowd had left the convention center and headed back downtown.

"We're tired of one faction using Oakland as their playground," Mayor Jean Quan said.Arrests from the protest are expected to top 400. Some protesters broke into City Hall. They smashed display cases, cut electrical wires and burned an American flag.
In a morning tour of the damaged City Hall, Quan pointed out that a room with a smashed door and toppled soda machine is used for classes for low-income, first-time homeowners. Several flags that had adorned the grand staircase were missing.

City Council agendas and trash littered the floor in the building's grand lobby. Although some graffiti had already been removed, evidence of the previous night's mayhem was visible in broken display cases.

OWS needs to adapt. It needs to come to its senses and better involve us, the youth. It’s time to occupy foreclosed homes, not city halls—and engage in politics, not street level scuffles with police.

WebFire;1069915 wrote:I didn't even know it was still going on.