Argument Against Occupy Wall Street

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Occupy Wall Street The First Amendment guarantees both the freedom of speech and the right to "peaceably assemble." So why, on October 1, 2011 according to the New York City Police Department, were 700 Wall Street Protestors crossing the Brooklyn Bridge arrested, along with many more since then? From the Huffington Post Megan Barr says, “Some might say that the Occupy Wall Street Protesters are exercising their Constitutional Rights by calling for an overthrow of the System; The Constitution does not give us the right to overthrow the government because that is called treason”(Barr). To my knowledge our constitutional rights are always not certain. You have to somewhat read between the lines. When it says the right to peacefully assemble, we should know our limits. In the same way…show more content…
“The global media system is now dominated by a first tier of nine giant firms. The five largest are Time Warner, Disney , Bertelsmann, Viacom , and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation(McChesney). The press has the option to cover what sells news and what does not. As soon as one of the protesters does something illegal or outrageous, then you will hear about it. “It’s had to take a protest fully seriously when it looks like a circus – some participants seem to have taken a chute straight from Burning Man – and when its organized by Canadian magazine and a computer hacking group (Weiss). Maybe the government doesn’t want citizens to know and be informed, and that way there is less of chance of conflict, and if that’s what they might have been trying to do, it didn’t work. now there are protest growing , an article writer in The Gaurdian, Esther Addley says “The Occupy Movement went from local action to a global howl of protest, a month after its launch, more than 900 cities around the world have hosted protests affiliated to the occupy cause” (Addley). So I guess you could say that not only America but the world is coming together for something they believe
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