Image is not the issue as this college editorial would have all believe. The issue is the oppression of the Middle Class and how the 1 percent has marginalized the constitutional rights of the people to carry out a protest.
There are all sorts of ways to oppress people. If every inch of a public area is owned and operated to standards that do not allow protests (The EXPRESSION) of First Amendment Rights then that is a very overt oppression of those rights.If every public space is operated with a corporation's name on it and to specifications that reflect the values of that corporation which excludes venues of protest then the very naming of a public space is oppression.
Governments have to provide for Freedom of Speech (Exprssion). When there are no venues for the expression of discontent that is oppression. Where is freedom when it is inconvenient of 'image brokers?' The #Occupy Wall Street movement has a solid reason for its presence around the country and around the world. So long as the oppression of free people continues by their government and the corporations that feed on them there will be discontinuance of demonstration.
Occupy Denver protest fights with police goes against Constitution: Our View
By Collegian Editorial Board
RMSMC
Updated: 7 hours ago
...We’re all about a little bit of civil disobedience, since battles with the police have been defining moments of successful protests in the past, but getting in fights with cops is not suddenly going to give Occupy Wall Street legitimacy, something that probably motivated some of the protesters to cause trouble in the first place.
We understand that protesters feel wronged by the 1 percent and want to act out (or whatever Occupy’s about), but they’ve got to have a purpose behind it, something that, given the information we have, the protesters lacked, aside from simply the presence of police at the protests.
By the same token, Denver Police needs to stop over-reacting to the protesters who, when members of the Editorial Board visited Denver and saw Occupy firsthand, seemed more like homeless people playing music in a park than a genuine threat to public safety.
It doesn’t look like Occupy’s going anywhere anytime soon, and to avoid future altercations between police and protesters, both parties need to chill out....
...We’re all about a little bit of civil disobedience, since battles with the police have been defining moments of successful protests in the past, but getting in fights with cops is not suddenly going to give Occupy Wall Street legitimacy, something that probably motivated some of the protesters to cause trouble in the first place.
We understand that protesters feel wronged by the 1 percent and want to act out (or whatever Occupy’s about), but they’ve got to have a purpose behind it, something that, given the information we have, the protesters lacked, aside from simply the presence of police at the protests.
By the same token, Denver Police needs to stop over-reacting to the protesters who, when members of the Editorial Board visited Denver and saw Occupy firsthand, seemed more like homeless people playing music in a park than a genuine threat to public safety.
It doesn’t look like Occupy’s going anywhere anytime soon, and to avoid future altercations between police and protesters, both parties need to chill out....
