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I actually like Occupy's broad-based palette of issues and thought it made for more inclusivity. However, I was something of a 'weekend warrior' with OLA due to transportation and parking costs downtown. I always tried to bring GA discussions back to the issue of excessive concentration of wealth, with greater and lesser degrees of success, when I attended. And that message seemed largely well received.
But between the ChemTrails, Anti-Illuminati, End-the-Fed folks and the constant white noise and babble of voices (and the latter-day drum-circle Dionysians), I think message discipline fell by the wayside. But, like I say, I was at best a 'weekend warrior' and was not even there when the raid on the camp took place, having come down with the flu from having been there two days earlier. I thus feel myself singularly ill-equipped to offer strident criticisms of a movement for which I was only a 'fellow traveller.'