Matthew Harbo

1.) I am not with this protest by and large. Certainly not in agreement with the possible consequences that this movement may bring about. I haven't found a reason to join the Occupy WS for one overlooked fact: it is an incredibly complex issue with many inequalities. This cannot be simplified or reduced to a wrongful statistic like 99% and 1% because that is just not accurate across the board. Here's the reality: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has always been this way. Nothing new. Some feel that it is getting drastically worse here but you must look at the bigger picture. The world economy is very bad right now (cites September 11th, 2001). When the economy gets bad than everybody gets poor except for the super rich. I don't appreciate those unemployed protesters disrupting business in the area of the occupation. There are more inteligent forms of protest if you want to get something done. Violence is often the result of violence. That's as real as it gets and as Americans we should be aware of the real threat of violent revolution. Violence just doesn't help anything. That's the way for things to get much worse. This could all come at the high cost of racial easing and the civil rights movement. Let everybody hear this message from me: until it sinks into your hearts and minds consider what you have begun and think about what you have done.

2.) Declined to respond to question of new world order or speak to anarchists. Although their actions seem to attract a crowd and re-iterates that use of fear and hate through vandalism and destruction. I think the desire for revolution is selfish and regretable (Again cites September 11th, 2001).

3.) I jsut don't see what exactly the end goal is. 99% is likely a hyperbolized fact that is not new to most people. This does not parallel the civil rights or pro-life movement.

4.) Speaking to the economy of death: No one is arguing to that point. It's easy to blame the 1% for the economy of death but again that is an over-simplification. The problem is blindness. We need to raise awareness of the issue. The 99% would benefit from reading Walter Hoye. Implications of condoms and contraception on women are shameful. We again view women as second-class citizens good only for their bodies at best, or objects at worse.