Occupy Hand Signals

[Oftencold]

Originally Posted by Comet

I am sure many of the OWS protesters are good, decent people there to make a change. Unfortunately, a good amount of them are loutish. And those are the ones you see plastered all over the news and on videos.

Why in Earth would you assume that in profound contradiction of the evidence?

[AZRWinger]

Originally Posted by Oftencold

Perhaps, but the analogy is thin.

The American Revolution was something of an anomaly. The principles of the the Revolution did not include enfranchising the poor and uneducated, women and certainly not Indians and slaves.

It promoted the idea of transferring leadership from a distant, unconcerned ruling class, to a domestic, more sympathetic one.

We did not even begin with much of an idea of "all men being equal before the law," despite Mr. Jefferson's Declaration to the contrary.

In the Early republic, the idea of a ruling class of naturally superior men was a well established mode of thought. The idea of an empowered and enfranchised rabble was quite distasteful to the founders. The other great Republican Revolution of the period, in France, espoused the idea of "equality," which lead promptly to the Terror and thence to Napoleon.

America gradually, (but with amazing speed when compared with the general progress of social evolution throughout history,) developed the idea of an expanded franchise, but also worked to raise the sophistication and education of all social and economic classes. By this approach, we did not place automatic equal value upon the opinions of all men -- a patent absurdity, we provide almost all of our people with the tools needed to raise the value and quality of those opinions.

Minor point of difference, Jefferson never claimed the DoI contained new, innovative ideas. It was an aggregation of established ideas along with a coherent explanation of greivances against the Crown justifying severing their relationship with the King.

The contrast between the DoI and the OWS mob couldn't be more stark. The FF were willing to risk everything to shoulder the responsibility of being free. The OWS mob just wants another slice of government cheese to buy them off.

[AZRWinger]

Originally Posted by Comet

I wonder what the hand signal is for, "Run, the cops are coming!"

Then there are these vital hand signals. I am probably going to hell for this.

You forgot the hand sign for live long and prosper.

The use of hand signs by the Occupy bums shouldn't surprise anyone. Hobos have been using symbols for years to communicate places to get a hand out. And, violent street gangs, where the Occupy movement is headed, have used them for years.

[Calypso Jones]

Up Twinkles Everyone! LoL