‘We’re the official OWS group!’ ‘No, we’re the official OWS group!’ and so forth
This is (almost) funny: So the upcoming OWS convention in Philly that we’ve been reading about all day? Another OWS group is publicly countering the legitimacy of that group now, claiming that the so-called 99% Declaration Group is not endorsed by the “official” group and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
What a bunch of pompous crybabies. Who gives a fuck? No one owns this movement. They can do it in their way, in their style and you can do it in your own way. Why try to hold this energy back in any way? What’s the point, you’re not on the same side?
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still looks like a good protest. OWS probably doesn't want people to think they are one in the same, because they are not.
Occupy may have their own protest in a different city on the same day. July 4th and all. THey just want people to be able to know which is which.
Yes the critics are quite laughable. They sound to me so much like the republicans hoping that shit will go wrong so they will look better. Makes no real sense to me. It's not quite as bad as bashing girl scouts, but it's a similar kind of thing. Why would anyone who is not on the Opposite side want to take time to bring down and insult the only people on this planet who are trying to make it change for a good way for the peoples? Just makes no sense.
for promoting abortion and just as accurate. 
I was literally about to bring up the "people's front" bit when I clicked to reply, and you'd edited to add that. 
That's just about as good an indictment of that as any, and the left is particularly vulnerable to it. Oh, it happens on the right too, but not one hundredth as much as on the left. Just look at people like Robert Reich and company, and imagine if a right-wing commentator had been as loudly and frequently critical of Bush over issues of style rather than substance. You'd have to imagine, because there are no actual instances to point at.
Some people just don't get that the entire point of party politics is to have one cohesive entity that can actually do something, and where multiple small organizations can come together under the same umbrella. Anybody who doesn't get WHY we have political parties shouldn't be pretending like they know anything about politics.
that's the way is usually is, though...
If you don't believe 100%...don't lockstep with the group...then you're not a REAL _______ (fill in the blank).
It applies to just about anything...politics...religion, etc.
That even applies here at DU, where one would think intelligent people would be able to agree to disagree on some things and get along with each other. One can't be a "real" Democrat/Liberal/whatever unless all the "rules" are followed.
Stray just a bit from those "rules" and risk being called anything from an "apologist" to a "Republican troll".
Really? That's your response here?
that this is just the internets and DU and no one cares or reads this place. Fine. I agree and laugh when they post stuff like in the OP. Monty Python is pretty dam funny.
They are right, none of it matters...it won't do one thing to the OWS movement. 
"since it is well known by now that OWS has been infiltrated by various police and government agencies, I wouldn't put it past them to try prop up some agent provocateur as being the "official" this or that of the OWS."
isn't all that important to you as long as your argument is bolstered.
Honesty matters. So you have a nice day now, ya hear?
Sid
That is perfect!!!! 
