Occupy Wall Street is sitting on $450,000, yet not 1 penny for their victims

I'm very curious to know the source you are citing. What leaders have the money? Also, one of the comments on this thread asks if the OWS protesters realize that big business is responsible for their modern conveniences, and technology. To that I say, I don't think they are against big business in general. They are against corruption in big business. They are against, for instance, using bailouts to pay millionaires millions of dollars in bonuses. Money meant to save the businesses, helped to make the rich richer. Corruption, unethical loopholes, those things need to go. I'm pretty sure nobody wants iphones to be banned.

You may have noticed I've pretty much stayed out of most of the discussions I've seen here about the OWS. That's been because I realize there's no point in trying to ague with anyone who's already made up their mind about this movement anymore than there was any point for anyone to try to change MY mind about some within the tea party awhile back. I remember very well being told here on myLot, maybe by YOU, that the tea partiers with the Hitler signs were probably planted there by liberal organizations. Whenever anyone at a tea party even did something questionable it was either a plant or it never really happened. I got trashed here many times for even suggesting there may be some within the tea party with bigoted views. I never said nor would I say they were representative of the group but it seemed like some of their supporters were in total denial of there being a single bad element in the entire movement. I think the OWS and the tea party movements may actually have a thing or two in common. I mean the actual rank and file participants, not the lobbyists like D1ck Armey and the Koch brothers who have funded the tea party. I also think whenever you have a large group of people there are going to be some bad eggs among them, that's the law of averages; since there are many more OWS members than tea partiers the law of averages also says there will likely be more total bad eggs in that group as well. As far as any funds the OWS is "sitting" on, I wasn't aware of that and I don't even know who the actual "leaders" of the group are. I do agree that when damage is done to someone's property it should be fixed and/or paid for by the ones who did the damage. However, blaming the entire movement for what a tiny few have done isn't fair. It wasn't fair when it was done to the tea party and it's not fair now. Annie

and with all their blathering on against banks, and their call to take money out of banks, and put our money in credit unions.. all that money is in a BANK account, not a credit union. While I agree with some of what they claim to stand for, there is nothing about their actions worth respecting.

Very well could be that those that are 'sitting' on the money...intend to donate it to Obama's re-election committee! They all are destroying so many things that belong to others, yet complain when the same is done to them. They are costing others their jobs by making the companies close due to their "protesting". They are only "against" all they are protesting about if it happens to them. Them doing it is fine and dandy in their eyes...or they wouldn't be doing it. It'd get them a whole lot more respect and possibly even accomodations if they'd protest more peacefully and for most...know what they are protesting about!

These Occupy folks are nothing but grubby socialists. Who do they think takes the monetary risk to develop their iphone? Who builds and finances the factories that produces their clothing, their shoes? Corporations do. Unless these yahoos make their own clothes, grow their own food, go to a small shoemaker and have their shoes made for them.

I hadn't heard of much violence from the OWS movement, except a bunch of arrest and not so nice action from police. Having talked to a guy who is involved with it in my city he stated that they were against any violence as it's not only bad PR but not what they are trying to accomplish. Either way, it's worth noting that historically all "peaceful protests" have always involved some violence at the national level. From the civil rights movement to the protesting against the Vietnam war. Usually when it's at the point of nation wide or even now basically world wide protest. It should be a clear indicator something rather important needs to be addressed, but even with all of our great technology it's still a slow process of even pointing out the issues much less doing anything about them.

They just don't care. In my experience in reading about these types of movements and talking to some people involved, they don't mean to be destructive but the destruction doesn't register with them--everyone outside the movement is dehumanized and the people in the movement are pretty much the only ones that have cognitive thought or awareness. Those that oppose the cause are evil, those that don't care are enablers for the bad guys. In short, they are narcissists and incapable of caring about the damage they cause. It is like the typical person who hears of an earthquake on the other side of the world and briefly feels sympathy for the victims but then promptly forgets about it as they go about their daily lives.