What the Wall Street protests will accomplish: 3 theories

Protest the same way you would fight on Okinawa or Tora Bora-communications,masks,cs filters,helmets,boots,bayonets fixed,backup on the roofs,and under the streets-do it right or stay home.

If you really want to protest Wall Street do it with your money. Put your money in credit unions and buy insurance from mutual insurance companies where you are the owner. Take their money away and you take their power away.

Too much lobby money going to Washington for anything to change. We need to make lobbying illegal then Washington can get on with reform.

People know things aren't kosher on wall street, the meltdown should have never happen if the Feds were during their job. Many people should be in prison for what happen but if you know the right people nothing will happen. The system runs on trust and if you can't trust anybody the system will collapse.

What do you call 100 dead Wall Street traders? A good start.

God Bless the protestors! Wall Street has gone far enough. LONG LIVE DEMOCRACY!

The only answer is:#1

I think what they are going is GREAT ! Most americans have such short memories of the trillions of dollars Wall Street bilked out of every retirement fund in america and around the globe that Wall Street will absolutely do it again when they think the timing is right. Remember......."Money doesn't just disapear, it changes hands." And in the case of the financial meltdown the money went from your pockets into their's. Why do you think there are so many mult- multi- millionairs and billionairs made since Bush went into office in 2000, while everybody else flatlined or fell into poverty, lost their home, or job. it wasn't tax cuts alone that surged the money to the top. Republicans say the liesure class's top 1% pay 95% of all the taxes whereas the truth is the top 1% OWN 90% of all the wealth in the country. Somethings wrong with this picture, you know it and so do I.

Wall Street just hired the cops to clear them out.

If this is a test on how Arab Spring protests will work in the U.S., it will be a dismal failure. U.S. authorities will not shoot protesters in the streets, thereby creating martyrs and boosting the protesters' cause.

Arab spring not! Ghandi, 60's anti-war protests, sit-ins all aver the South for civil rights

Ooooo, a commission! I tremble!

Hopefully this will lead to some concrete changes in the banking and investment industry.

May the Force be with you.

Cuba tells America don’t tell me what to do; your government is worse than ours. In Cuba the Castro family runs the Government. In America a greedy Wall Street runs the government.

By not enforcing regulation and providing stringent oversight, congress (all of them) are complicit to fraud and criminal acts. Congress will, of course, deny responsibility and offer up political excuses. But the truth remains that not enough of our representatives are doing their jobs. There should be a strict no tolerence attitude with serious consequences. The Wall Street demonstration was misdirected and reflects poorly on the miniscule group of wannabe commies ...as evidenced by the small crowd. People saw right through the charade.

Gwawr, the plan to reform it is in John Medaille's book "Toward a Truly Free Market." The runaway abstraction and concentration of ownership that Wall Street calls "capitalism" is really the same as socialism.

Protest is all fine and good BUT unless these protestors actually some kind of plan to help reform it, it won't do any good. Okay, protest that it's wrong, unfair, corrupt, etc, but without some kind of plan to help reform it, what good is it then?

Protesters without AK 47s will accomplish nothing

The only thing they are accomplishing is trashing my neighborhood. I hope they leave the FiDi soon.