Occupy Wall Street: A U.S. version of the Arab Spring?

Remember Crony Communism in the eighties?? How different is Crony Capitalism??

Wouldn't that be great? All these suits that thought they were above the law, facing the music?? What better reality drama than that?
Or we could just let our children become further corrupted by sending the message that America will tolerate such acts and that everything their parents taught them is out the window in the "real world"

Someone wants to know the point. Besides putting some fear into the ethic-less bourgeios, perhaps this well bring justice to those who committed these white collar crimes. Which seem to have gone unpunished for almost 5 years now......

They should march from Wall Street to Pennsylvania Avenue!

If history tells us anything. Power, greed, and complacency will eventually be our demise as it was in other great western civilizations.

AMERICANS when GOLDMAN SACHS monetized USA HOME mortgages then sold them in packages as FRAUD AAA rated securities and SHORTED (bet against) them at the same time it DESTROYED YOUR HOMES VALUE. YOU did not ask for this! Your GOV did not protect YOU. YOU did not have a say in the matter either! The Wall Street CEO’S responsible were actually put into high level GOV positions and they PROTECTED their INTERESTS for example PAULSON protecting GOLDMAN SACHS all at YOUR EXPENSE!

Americans are victims of a massive WALL STREET FRAUD and a class action lawsuit is needed. Begin with GOLDMAN SACHS because GOLDMAN SACHS did more damage to the financial well being of every AMERICAN than any TERRORIST GROUP could ever manage! This CRISIS was an inside job and every AMERICAN needs to see the movie “INSIDE JOB”.

Can anyone explain to me what happens if this "demonstration" is successful and brings down "whatever"? Then what happens, who rules, who works where? What is the ultimate goal? Anyone? Hello? (crickets) Thought so.

Unless your money is stashed somewhere where you can get your hands on it ...
You control nothing.

A kid that gets punched by his dad still has something to complain about, even if he gets three meals a day.

99% of Wall Street workers are middle to lower middle class, making under $70,000 a year depending which job classification they are in. Office managers, supervisors, team leaders, secretaries, receptionists, cafeteria workers, janitors, office cleaners, etc. If they all make millions, I'm moving to NYC and applying for a job! Seriously now, people need to wake up and use common sense. Wall Street isn't the problem, Washington is.

Start making comparisons if the NYPD starts shooting. Until then, it is just street theater.

Take it to DC - Over 70% of trades fueling the wild market swings are automated high-speed transactions using supercomputers. The system is broken and a handful of investors are stealing billions from peoples 401k's.

Uh excuse me? The Arab spring was from freedom of oppressive governments. People were getting shot at. The Wall Street protest is about forcing people, through government, to give up their money. If anything it's a protest for MORE government. Wishful thinking on the Week's part. PRAVDA.

Better now than in January.

There was two ways to approach the bailout, the first is to buy the loans of the individual businesses, and people with mortgages and that would have been a peoples bailout, and the banks would have got their money back too, yet we had a mass bank bailout were the bank's got blank checks and still foreclosed on properties. The banks gave people no second chance even though they gave the banks a second chance; no wonder people are upset with Wall Street. Another thing at the time of the bailout Paulson a staunch conservative pushed for the bail out of only his old company letting his competitors, like Lehman bros to fail, talk about being hypocritical.

The real revolution will not be televised.

Had to laugh. Media interviewed the protestors and they really don't have a clue why they're there! Jay Leno, FoxNews, CNN....all they know is they want to tax the rich and don't realized that 99% of Wall Street employees make $70,000 or less. Wall Street is also the engine in our 401K and pension funds, we wouldn't have them if it weren't for Wall Street! The employees who work there are office managers, supervisors, tons of secretaries, receptionists,cafeteria workers, janitors, office cleaners, etc. Those are NOT rich people!

I think they are comparing it only how the word is getting out - i.e. through social media. I don't think they mean by the risk they are taking. On the course we are now, sooner or later something has to give and America will change for the better or worse. I for one think that the two major political parties will split and we'll see "splinter" groups formed.

When do the War Crimes trial begin? I want a ring side seat to see these killers tried and hung.

Arab spring....This is what democracy looks like.
American Autumn..........This is what a port'o potty smells like.