Felt an anti OWS slant today as Takeaway converted official police estimate of 32000 to "thousands", highlighted "300 arrests" but not reported police brutality. This was 30 cities and dwarfed crowds going back decades for other causes. Please just state the facts and let us decide what to Takeaway.

The cultish chants of the two month anniversary is a reminder of today being the 33rd anniversary of the Jonestown massacre which only happened because of the "progressive" political and media support that the Marxist People's Temple enjoyed for years in San Francisco. In truth that was the biggest political scandal in US history where "a huge cross section of people, all different kinds of people" were used, abused and slaughtered in the name of socialism and Marxism.

Has the "progressive" media and the politicians they shill for learned nothing from that disaster 33rd years ago today?

"The occupy movement does have chaotic and negative elements present in its makeup. This confirms its grass roots authenticity"
Nonsense. It can (I am not saying it has to) confirm manipulation by various sources.
How a movement which was started by an organized group ABROAD can be called grass roots is beyond me.
Kelly, I am not in a mood of reading a long post which repeats and repeats 1% endlessly. Every society and particularly as complex as this one is more complex than the foreign organizers want us to believe. Is Russell Simmons 99%? Is Julia Dreyfuss (born billionaire) 99%. Is Paul Krugman (approaching his billion?) 99%? Is Al Gore? What criteria are you using? A dishonest and manipulative billionaire who chants with the crowd "kill 1%" is 99%? Why is that?
And a quiet person taking care of her family, work, community etc. and making 40 thousand a year is 1%, just because she isn't chanting there?

The occupy movement does have chaotic and negative elements present in its makeup. This confirms its grass roots authenticity. It validates the humanity of its messages.
If the occupy movement had been hatched by the 1% the imagery, themes and pyramid organization favored by the elite would have been in place prior to the first PR event. The lapdog media would have slavishly featured every bit of propaganda issued. And a fully formed fund raising apparatus complete with legally sanctioned tax free status would have begun mass mailing appeals for donations
several months before their first event.

That organizational sophistication, so recently demonstrated by the astroturf tea party, is completely missing in the occupy movement. The "branding", message manipulation and business structure the tea party "populists" are so proud of was paid for and implemnted by elite, ultra conservative and Bank Freindly members of the ONE PARTY which currently owns the US Government; the PROPERTY Party.
The sham display of a two party system is actually the inparty struggle between two wings of one small clan whose only entry fee is ownership of land and capital. And they do not recognize mortgages and other debt as membership cards to their club.
This is why both Democratic and Republican party actors are so silent about the occupy movement. They were vocal about tea party "populism" because they had paid for it and they wanted it to fuel interest in their puppet show.
Occupy Wall Street actually sprung from the frustration and despair of a cross section of American Citizenry.
In 2008 the massive bailout of large institutional Investors offended almost all Americans. The 1% propaganda about capitalism rewarding success and punishing failure was revealed as false. The vast majority of Americans had their eyes opened. They saw the casino was running a rigged game. Americans have no tolerance for cheaters.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is one thing the 1% fears. The movement lacks centralized targets such as leaders to bribe or manifestos for the media to focus on or committees to buy their way onto. The security apparatus is still infiltrating the movement and good intellignce is scant. The swirling welter of messages and statements present in Occupy make it impossible to engage in media manipulated debate.
The so called punditry cannot critique intellectual foundations and political underpinnings because there are so many. Which one is primary? Only the people in Occupy can say. And the house slaves of American Media cannot understand the language they are hearing.

Occupy Wall Street is speaking from the Heart. The 1% has not had to hear this kind of speech in a long time. Not since the days of Hoovervilles and the Bonus Army. And the volume is only getting louder.

I would like to remind to those who elevate the word "activist" to the divine status that both Hitler (had his time in prison) and Stalin were activists and "community organizers. So, were countless other scoundrels, monsters and sickos.
This country like any other has its heroes. In the U.S. it's usually quiet, decent folks who object to unfairness and injustice in the workplace and are thrown out (and disappear) into mean streets of New York (and elsewhere), often by "conscious" marchers.
The demagogues, the scoundrels, the sick prosper in corner offices of corporations, Ivy league campuses, Hollywood studios and ... everywhere else.

OWS started when someone with an ugly past and agenda design a poster, invented the theme and the name and ordered to show up at a certain time and a certain place.
NOT A GOOD BEGINNING for a movement.
Not surprisingly, OWS with its dishonest and manipulative 99% theme is a toy for assorted manipulators and charlatans DISTRACTING from real problems this country is facing.
A couple of weeks ago, billionaires and multimillionaires (e.g. Julia Dreyful and Robert Redford) gathered at a lily white march in Washington to protest a pipeline. There were a couple of token Native Americans and a couple of real issues speeches, but the thrust was obvious.
These billionaires and multi-multimillionares who added to their billions and multimillions air and road miles in their earnessness to place themselves into 99% were pushing THEIR AGENDA of distracting of the population. Interestingly, the same people who have the largest abuse of energy, and oppose to any American use of own energy resouces, usually love Arab oit countries. HMMMMM.
A "heroic" face of OWS showed up last week -an 84 "Jewish" woman who left the country she loved (yes it was the most antisemitic nation in Europe - the country of Hitler and Himmler and their friends) - in 1956 only because ... it was too bureaucratic.
She dedicated the following decades to fighting the country she hated (no, no, no, not the country of the Nazis and neo-Nazis - this country is wonderful) but ... you guess it - the country which assorted forces - neo-Nazis/Soviet Communists/Arab oil tycoons ordred her to hate - Israel.
The face of this sicko is now celebrated by the movement which not surpringly is seen as antisemitic.

I was there at Foley Square last night and I'm disappointed in your reporting about it. Yes, there were a couple of hundred people arrested, but the real news was the enormous size of the crowd -- according to police estimates reported by NBC it was at least 30,000 -- and it's diversity, from toddlers to seniors with canes, union members college students and unemployed people, families, every ethnic group, people in wheelchairs. That's a news story that was obvious to anyone on the scene and yet your reporting ignored it. You can do better!