Occupy San Diego

I had the opportunity this past Friday to go out under the stars with the Occupy San Diego protestors. I was there several hours with other friends of mine who are apart of another social solidarity movement. There were probably a total of 15 to 20 protestors, it was a fairly quiet night. The most sound came from San Diegans walking by, to and from night clubs. There were several police officers around, just enough to keep them things quiet and in control.

Arriving there, I handed the OSD peeps a box of trash bags. I remember listening to a local radio broadcast several weeks ago how local police officials put an end to the high volicity of protesting by brute force and how they mentioned that the reason for their action was mainly due to environmental purposes, to much trash build up. The city workers came in right after with high powered water hoses to flush out everything any one left around. Of course, all of the trash went straight to the cutters and into the drains. No sense what so ever!!!

My observation was that it was a pretty glume night...nothing much going on. My buddies and I shared commonalities with the OSD peeps. Interviewing some of the OSD people, they mentioned that they were there because they were fed up with the whole "Wall Street bail out" scheme. "Billions of tax payers money went to help out the fat cats, but how did the fat cats help out the tax payers?"

Another OSD protestor mentioned a little about how the police were some what successful with slowing down OSD's movement and cause, by using guns, fear and ammunition, a lot people think twice continuing this.

As I was standing there, I couldn't help it notice people walking by to take pictures, take pictures with them posing in front of the OSD protestors as if saying I know who these guys are, but rather than being apart and picking up a sign, I will just play apart and express ignorance.