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Posted by MH1 in General Discussion
Wed Oct 19th 2011, 10:16 AM
Ok I'm just putting this out there as a question.

OccupyPhilly has a Ron Paul campaign tent at probably the most visible, 'best' corner of the plaza they're using (Dilworth Plaza in front of City Hall and across from the main Center City transit hub).

To me, what the Occupy Wall Street movement was originally about, was rage against the Wall Streeters for ruining the economy and basically getting off scot-free ... and not even accepting reasonable regulations.

The core tenet of Ron Paul, as displayed on this 'keystone' tent at Occupy Philly, is that we can't expect the government to regulate corporations. (It uses some cute rhetoric to say that but that is what it says. Wish I'd taken a picture. But it shouldn't be shocking to anyone who knows Paul's platform).

Frankly, that Ron Paul tent and message is a huge turn-off to me and antithetical to what I thought the 'Occupy' movement was about. Yet it remains there, day after day after day.

Your thoughts? What if instead of Ron Paul, it was promoting the Tea Party? Would it still be there? Should it?
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