From disorganised slackers to terrorists - the Occupy movement has seen its media image go from bad to worse over its nine months of existence. Protesters now even face accusations that they pose a threat not just to Corporate America, but to the country as a whole. But activists say it's all just scaremongering to stifle the movement. Watch the video for the story.

"some say angry activists could replace scarey muslims as the so called, new face, of home-grown terror"

Oh fucking really...

I noticed too how each time a newsreader said the word 'anarchist' they empathised it far too much and one of them almost spat the word out!

Wankers. All of them.

You have to love how they've attempted to get two birds with one stone by throwing in the Anarchist bit.
It is my considered opinion that Anarchy is the thing that those who pull the strings fear most of all. Absolutely nothing compares, everything else is too easy to steer. And so over the years Anarchy has been defamed, slated and tarnished with the terrorist brush.
Anyone who has been active will have come across the fake Anarchists. For sure many are just ill informed egotists latching on to something they perceive to be "cool", though there are without a doubt many many plants walking beneath their Anarchist "flags". Most of them apparently wearing state issued boots .

One day, just maybe one day, people will realise that states are not exactly there for the people. Maybe, perhaps.
In the mean time, they'll keep up this left, right pendulum paradigm of changing the mouthpeices of the state......
Occupy is compromised, that much is clear but at the root level it grows from a place resembling aspects of Anarchist thought. It hasn't gone away or been totally absorbed so it has inevitably come to be treated with the same propaganda that Anarchy has suffered for years.

dubmeup wrote:
Well said that man. And welcome home, brother dub.

eyyyyy, welcome back dubs

dubmeup wrote:
The fact that they have to go to such great lengths to defame the movement and an ideology shows just how insecure they are with their own systems. If it were as perfect as they claim, people wouldn't be protesting or reevaluating what anarchy is really about (as you have pointed out). Great post, Dub.

I'm actually a little surprized that it's taken them this long to roll out that old chestnut.

(Ya know, the T word....)

phemohilia wrote: Who exactly IS the target audience for the um T word nowadays anyway???? Everyone from Joe Bloggs to Jeremy Beedle must have realised it's a scam now surely

dubmeup wrote:
It's for these people.

dubmeup wrote:
Whoever they be, I bet the majority of them are sat around half pissed, round about now, wearing a silly plastic Union Jack hat.

Ha. I'm so harsh with my judgements. And what? Royalist scum...

Mrindigo wrote:
See.

dubmeup wrote:
I would certainly hope so by now! But then again, there's always:
Mrindigo wrote:
And by the way, he don't mean that shit if that ain't real ink!!!

phemohilia wrote:
Hahahahahahaha owned

Ab Origine wrote:
Tiz never harsh to speak truth Ab