As an early supporter of the #OCCUPYWALLSTREET protest movement, I wrote a request a few days ago to the protesters involved with that movement. While waiting to for a good time to make that request public, an online acquaintance put forward a statement (from a conservative perspective) which covered some of the same points I wanted to make... so I put it off a bit more. But now, I feel I need to put out the statement in a timely manner -- because my concerns expressed therein suddenly feel more justified. I will post that statement immediately before this one and point out, once again, that I was spreading information about this protest while few others were and have consistently done so from the beginning. And while I certainly claim no ownership of this movement (I can't and wouldn't), I humbly request that those involved with the movement read these messages from an early supporter.
Today, while looking at the Guardian's
"live coverage" of the protest, I came across some
statements and words which heretofore I had not regularly seen in association
with this movement. The first was a statement by someone name
Christopher Longenecker who was identified as the "head of march
planning and tactics." This title in itself struck me as odd in
the context of a heretofore leaderless movement but then the quote
given from this person was even more shocking: "We don't do
illegal actions."
