United States Marine Corps. Sergeant Shamar Thomas in a spectacular moment defended the protesters of Occupy Wall Street while staring into the faces of thirty NYPD officers, and now countless other Marines have organized in an amazing show of solidarity.
Sgt. Thomas’ gallant actions in standing up for American citizens being brutalized by the police were shown in a video which has gone viral with almost 2 million views. Marines have joined forces with #OccupyMarines in solidarity with the movement not just in New York, but nationwide:
“OccupyMARINES Are Currently Assessing The Current Situation To Ascertain What Is Currently Needed To Support OWS America. We Are Humbled At The Substantial Support OWS America Has Provided And Ask That Everyone Continue As You All Do While We Implement Organization Nationwide. As We All Know, ‘Occupy’ Groups Are Being Established Even Now And Would Like To See This Trend Continue.”
Their website OccupyMarines.org presents a post centering on continuing the Occupy movement throughout the upcoming winter. In their call for “Non-Active ‘Occupy’ Military Supporters Only” they’re organizing a dress code in order to identify their branch affiliation.
Instead of ostracizing the police, the Marines are attempting to reach out to them much like Sgt. Thomas did.
#OrganizeMarines states, “Security forces/police should be seen as potential recruits to our cause and message, not as adversaries. Ultimately, they are accountable to the people.”
During Sgt. Thomas’ bold speech, the police presence became suddenly solemn hanging on his every word. Perhaps the presence of Marines will awaken the Police force which has been overwhelming the protests.
Presenting their group and the Occupiers as a peaceful movement, no matter what, including verbal attacks and/or propaganda brought forth from those opposing the protest they state, “Defensive strategies never win. Do not respond to verbal attacks or hostile propaganda from Nay-Sayers by using the language of the opponent. Reframe.”
Meet Iraq veteran Alex E. Limkin:
“I swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against enemies both foreign, and domestic.”
Veteran Alex Limkin said:
“There is nothing more central to a free and democratic people than the right to dissent, the right to disagree, the right to stand up in the town square and be heard… I feel quite sure that in standing in solidarity with the peaceful Occupy Wall Street movement, I am doing no less than upholding my oath as an American soldier.”
Sgt. Shamar Thomas was the catalyst in this movie-like scenario with our inactive military standing with the protesters side by side.
These Marines’ actions are the definition of patriotism – not donning flagpins or waving Old Betsy — actions speak Red, White and Blue louder than feigning patriotism by displays which are born from a strong partisan stance.
Naysayers stand back, the Marines are coming.
#OccupyMarines, we are humbled.
Blogger Extraordinaire Anomaly100 is the owner of and progressive mastermind behind FreakOut Nation.
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Sarah Jones
Oct. 21st, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Hey girl, great to see you here. Great news:-)
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Anomaly100
Oct. 21st, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Hey, hey haaay Ms. Sarah! The Marines are a comin’!
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severio nesich
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 5:22 pm
this is scare, america fascist ? can’t believed ever this will happen to us, we suppost to be the symbol of democracy.
look like the lords coming back.. so,, the bastilles day too.
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Gina
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Fear not. This is Americans restoring America to her citizens. Fascisim is Chase Bank paying the NYPD three million dollors to brutalize protested three days after occupy Wall Street began. These marines are volunteers, not paid by banks and coorporations.
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Gina Riedel
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Fear not. This is Americans restoring America to her citizens. Fascisim is Chase Bank paying the NYPD three million dollors to brutalize protesters three days after occupy Wall Street began. These marines are volunteers, not paid by banks and coorporations.
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mitcoes
Oct. 28th, 2011 at 10:22 am
It is more like Portugal revolution where young soldiers put flowers at their guns and restore a democracy.
Perhaps marines should invade USA to give it back to the people because it has been stolen from them.
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Mark Weller
Oct. 24th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Hua!
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Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 21st, 2011 at 11:13 pm
No flag pins? Michelle Bachmann isn’t going to like this.
The sad thing I see is that the police are accountable to the wealth. Otherwise they would not be acting like they are all over the US. Seen a vid today where the cops went berserk on a completely peaceful crowd in Australia. The police do not answer to the people any more
Best of luck Armed Forces!
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Mr. Peabody
Oct. 21st, 2011 at 11:17 pm
The YouTube video of this is bad P.R.! Shamar comes off like a loony, yelling at bemused cops standing around doing nothing.
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DennisNYC
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 5:06 am
I don’t know what video you watched, but in the one that I watched, the cops were humbled by what he was saying. He completely disarmed them with his strength of message and his eloquence.
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Tom
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 2:02 pm
If you will note toward the end, a squad of riot cops arrived and the white shirts waved them off, because they KNEW if they abused this Marine like they have been regularly abusing the hippies and wannabe hippies that the war was over and they had lost. Shortly thereafter ALL the cops disappeared.
They know they are in the wrong.
White shirts are the new brown shirts.
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Julie Johnson
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 8:12 pm
“because they KNEW if they abused this Marine like they have been regularly abusing the hippies and wannabe hippies that the war was over and they had lost.”
Gee Tom, I’m not sure where you’ve been to call everyone involved in this movement “hippies and wannabe hippies”. There are people from all walks of life who are protesting. Most of us consider ourselves educated folk and don’t have time for labels and name calling.
Maybe you should actually stroll down to your local OWS movement and get to know your fellow Americans a bit better.
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Shirley Isbon
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 2:45 am
“Bemused” NYPD cops? Confused, chastened, embarrassed, guilty, YES, nothing humorous about it! God bless Sgt. Shamar; and, thank God, for more like him who are willing to stand against the abuse of American citizens by those who are supposed to protect us from the criminals, the police have now become. Never again, NYPD! New York’s “finest”?
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Anne
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 10:42 am
As always, you come across as being tone-deaf as to what’s really going on. He was not disrespectful in any way to those police officers, but very strongly reminding them that police brutality goes against what he, his parents, his grandfather, and great-grandfather have fought for in the military. One thing they fought for is the right of peaceful assembly, which is what the protesters have been exercising. The examples of police brutality have been completely unwarranted and, as Sgt. Thomas made clear, don’t show toughness but cowardice. And I say these things as someone who works on a police department. Obviously, I’m not against police but against police brutality. That brutality creates distrust among citizens, and has even led to the killings of officers made to pay for the irresponsible actions of some of their fellow officers.
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Shirley Isbon
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 3:14 am
What’s happened to “American values”? The police now act like cowardly brutes against fellow American citizens to silence their free speech, one of our most cherished Constitutional rights, because they, the police, no longer protect the innocent against criminals, these NYPD (and others across the country, like them) have become the criminals. All because they value the approval of the criminal bosses (whether they are “supervisors of NYPD,” or the moneyed crowd calling the shots at city hall and beyond, over the rights of ordinary citizens in a free society, where the innocent should not have to fear the actions of the police.
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Robyn Ryan
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 3:02 pm
oooooooo! What a horror! BAD PR!!!!!!!!!!!! Something to lay awake all night in fear of!!!!!!!!!!
We take an oath to defend the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That includes attempts by the ‘police’ to deny our civil rights. Anyone remember Birmingham?
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Purplemuse
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 12:04 am
This is a Marine who is completely dismayed by an arm of our local governments to the point of utter disgust. It appears that the video is spliced together, which only shows him yelling non-stop. Most of the cops, those that aren’t arrogant, are obviously humbled and somewhat shamed at the dressing down they received by someone who they consider a peer. They seem more upset by the depth of his anger, than they seemed bemused by a “loony”
What he said was absolutely true, and they knew it.
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Purplemuse
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 12:06 am
I tried the link in the article and the link leads to an advertising page? Is this a valid article?
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Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 12:12 am
The link works, the website is obviously not fully set up
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Anomaly100
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 12:56 am
It was working earlier.
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awlrite4now
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 12:24 am
I think someone meant “waving Old Glory” not Old Betsy. I support the peaceful demonstrations around our country as a veteran myself. Thank you #OccupyMarines. Semper Fi.
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KarenJ
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 12:24 am
Here’s an idea: Let’s hope those standup Marines and the returning soldiers coming home from Iraq see what’s going on with the Occupiers, and the difference between them and the Koch-supported Teapartiers — and this motivates some of them to run for state or U.S. representation of those people. It’s time the corporatists got run out of office, but we sure don’t need the extremist Teabagg…er, Teapartiers, either.
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t
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 1:00 am
Marines who support ows are awesome! Their the real great, great Americans.
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fred f.
Oct. 28th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
It Looks as though we need the Marines to fight one more battle. This being their most important one. Which will determine if all those that were fought in the past and any that are yet to come are worthwhile!
We cannot say we stand for Democracy and not allow it on our own soil.
Now is a time for patriots to step up.
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KatzKids
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 8:20 am
This is so awesome. Thank you Anomaly100 – And most of all THANK YOU MARINES! You are the epitome of Honor & Patriotism. I thought I couldn’t have been prouder of you than I already was – but I was wrong. Thank you!
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Frank
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 9:09 am
I see some borderline crazy guy yelling at a bunch of cops who seem to be completely bored.
Maybe youtube cut off the part where he did something heroic?
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Ex-Dominionist
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 11:42 am
You must have seen some other video.
When the TeaPartiers were shrieking at the Town Halls, you probably thought they were “committed and passionate.”
If it weren’t for double standards, the RW wouldn’t have any standards at all.
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Eykis
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Frank,
Dunno where you live, but it is going to get FULL SUPPORT when the “The Troops” you Repigs claim to support come home to NO JOBS in a couple of months.
It is going to be really interesting to see what happens around here with the 101st Airborne, Air Assault, Ft. Campbell, KY, same town as Clarksville, TN, 50 miles north of Nashville….the unemployment rate in Middle Tennessee is high and has been stagnant since the Great Flood of May 2010…..
You do realize, many of The Troops will leave the military, or you so ignorant to think they intend to stick around longer than they have to after being deployed for the past ten years and denigrated by RePigs who are trying to take away their VA benefits?
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Anachronus
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Civil wars are not good things. Be careful what you wish for.
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Francisco
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 7:59 pm
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” — Thomas Jefferson
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Obbop
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 10:25 am
“There’s class warfare, all right, Mr. (Warren) Buffett said, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
“There has been class warfare going on,” Buffett, 81, said in a Sept. 30 interview with Charlie Rose on PBS. “It’s just that my class is winning. And my class isn’t just winning, I mean we’re killing them.”
Bless the USA Marine Corps and all the true patriots within.
Good luck finding TRUE We-the-People-style patriots within bureaucracies such as civilian law enforcement, government, corporate USA, etc.
http://usahistoryalive.wordpress.com/
http://obbop.wordpress.com/
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Obbop
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 10:27 am
There will never be any meaningful change within the USA, especially economic change with the ever-upward stream of the national wealth into but a few hands and to corporate USA, unless a military coup led by honorable loyal-to-the-USA and ALL the citizens within officer corps and a large cadre of their troops, sailors, etc. forces the various entrenched systems, bureaucracies and multitude of governments from local to federal to change.
Voting does not and will not create meaningful change.
Many reasons for that requiring too much conveying of why that is so.
Of this I am convinced.
It took decades of reading, living life, etc. AND casting aside some of the implanted indoctrination by the most effective propaganda systems ever created that is designed to enforce the status quo so profitable to the small minority of people and institutions (corporate USA etc.) for me to come to the realization that ONLY a military coup can alter the USA.
Civilian insurrection or revolution is extremely unlikely to have any effect in either alter the existing systems or creating an effective new one.
I truly fear the USA is doomed to fall/fail.
The “house is divided.”
The upper-crust will have their oligarchy.
We, the People face a bleak future.
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Julie Johnson
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 8:25 pm
We reap what we sow. Change can always happen, even for better. This has been a long time coming and unfortunately people don’t get off their collective butts until trouble comes home to roost.
We MUST begin with out election process, take out the MONEY. Get the rich man who backs the other rich man and toss them out of the game. Get rid of the Electoral College so that every citizen’s vote actually counts. Also, how many voters from the later time zones don’t even bother to vote because they’ve watched the news on election night and have heard some analyst state that it’s game over because a candidate has enough votes to win already?? Lunacy! Politicians in the United Kingdom get equal air time via media and don’t raise money to campaign.
Lobbyists have to go! They pay for business and that is downright ugly.
What will come of this Occupy movement is a new political party and I would be thrilled if it was called “The 99% Party”, that way we wouldn’t forget who really matters in this world, the true majority.
Keep your chin up OBBOP, hope is on the horizon. If you want real change, WALK WITH THE 99%; GET UP STAND UP!
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SUSMAN
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 9:35 pm
@obbop~ I respectfully disagree. This has been a criminal conspiracy of heretofore untold proportions. We are not the only victims here, as any country or entity holding the US dollar,is a victim, and the good news?
THEY KNOW IT and are aligned for a global correction and solution. Will we pay for our apathy and ignorance? ABSOLUTELY! Were we the greatest society in the history of mankind? OF COURSE! Will we be again? Possibly, but that is not the point…we need to learn from our mistakes and try,try again. Any fool can cast shadows during a war, true men keep cleaning their weapons…the upper crust may well be eaten. Your either part of the solution or part of the problem, draw a line and decide.
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Anne
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 10:49 am
These Marines have fought in horrible conditions and have seen things that will surely haunt them for the rest of their lives. Since they’ve fought and in some cases died fighting to preserve American rights, I find their presence welcome. They have a credibility stemming from their experiences, and Sgt. Thomas exemplifies this. It’s proof that more and more Americans are realizing that OWS is speaking out for the interests of the 99% and it’s even sweeter that it’s occurring despite the worst efforts of demonizers from the media, from the fake Christians of the far right, or from Republican politicians.
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Eykis
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 12:10 pm
To give some of you an idea of how hated the Repigs have become by the military….Marsha Blackburn (Ridiculous-TN) has been hiding out and staying as far away from Ft. Campbell as she possibly can because she is HATED by The Troops. She is NOT INVITED to anything and hides in the Wealthiest County of Tennessee, Franklin, along with her buddy, TeaBaggerNation, don’t hire anybody, Jughead Phillips, the FAILED lawyer.
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DannyEastVillage
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Now what will Bill-O do with that? Or the rest of the scumsuckers comprising Fox?
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Military supporter
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 3:36 pm
We should all give our military the full support they deserve. Without them, we would not have our freedoms today.
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Theodore (ted-zee-man) Ziolkowski
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 4:26 pm
GOD BLESS United States Marine Corps. Sergeant Shamar Thomas for the courage he displayed in NYC. I hope that more Retired and discharged Military Persoell take the same type of action and leadership that he showed in support of the CITIZENS that he served while in the Military.
Right now the “Rich and Powerful” believe that the Military under the direction of the President will support them just as the Police are. I believe they are wrong, because the 99% are the Parents and childreen of these Retired and Discharged Military Personell
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severio nesich
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 5:49 pm
i hope if come to that, the marines will turn agains he opressors,and join the people, like did happened in the french revolution.
the marines won’t kill thier own family ? to deffend the rich money,
if come to that, we will be the second must hated nation in the world ,after nazi germany. well the ?, every body make jokes about them, and until was to late, they come with their fuerer.and hitler,was born.next is all history.
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Jake
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 5:20 pm
I wonder if this doesn’t take more courage than going into combat. If they’re killed in the line of duty their spouses and children will be looked after better than many two-parent families in the US. A dishonourable discharge on whatever the DoD can trump up to silence political activism among serving Armed Forces personnel will cost them their pension and their VA benefits as well.
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Sidjack
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Why wouldnt members of the armed forces want to participate in OWS. They have fought and died for what should be america’s place in society today and not onbehalf of corporations etc.. and their place within America and the world. Semper Fi ( an aboriginal Australians salute too the marines and the 99%ers)
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Trelli
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 6:35 pm
That is Awesome!!
Hey I have an idea let’s line up the marines that support the tea party!
Which group do you think would be Larger? hmm.. yep rhetorical question Farley :)
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A Walkaway
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Well, this gives me a little bit of hope.
With all of the things I’ve seen and read about (example – some of the stuff the MRFF gets into), I wasn’t sure if any branch of the military would live up to their oaths (the one to the constitution, not the one to the dominionists) and reading about this is reassuring. I’m also glad to encounter marines that care about things like freedom of the American people, and not just “Rah Rah War!!!” and “Obey the rules no matter how wrong or unjust they are!” like the few ex-marines I’ve encountered.
Now, if the cops would get on board (I would actually expect that from other areas… in this area I expect only more of the same), maybe the danger in this country to freedom would decrease.
I could whole-heartedly get behind the #OccupyMARINES movement and people.
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Van Lewis
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Hello All,
Thank you Sgt Thomas for truly honoring your oath to defend foreign or domestic threats to our liberty.
Every veteran must be reminded of the oath we all took. It is our duty to stand in solidarity with our Aamerican Family that we risked our lives to protect.
Our greatest enemy is domestic. The CEOs of Banks, Insurance Companies,Lawyers,Judges,Mayors, Politicians, Media, Foreclosure Investors, and many others that substantiate the 1% minority that steal from all of us.
Every wall of inequity, deception, injustice, distribution of wealth, healthcare discrimination, that this system has imposed upon the majority must come down.
We are fighting for our children and their future of peace and prosperity.
Thank you marines.
Now All Veterans Must Stand As One To Restore This Great Nation That Many Of Our Brothers And Sisters Died To Protect Our Freedoms.
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Steven
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 8:05 pm
This is all about limiting Free Speech. After all, censorship is everywhere. The gov’t (and their big business cronies) censor free speech, shut down dissent and ban the book “America Deceived II”. Free speech for all.
Last link (before Google Books bans it also]:
http://www.amazon.com/America-Deceived-II-Possession-interrogation/dp/1450257437
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John David Balla
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 8:10 pm
I am so moved by this. Semper Fi!
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TheAZCowBoy
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 9:28 pm
With the NY Police department acting like the IDF in Gaza (Thanks Mike!) in defense of the worshippers of the Golden Calf and the trillions that have been stolen from the Goyim it’s good to know that Michel baby doesn’t also own the military stationed in Jew York City.
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Francisco Guevara
Oct. 22nd, 2011 at 11:16 pm
Hooo rah SEMPER FI brothers
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John Paul Jones
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 12:23 am
He is not the first Marine to speak out about the injustice of our corporate run democracy. Look up US marine major general “Smedley Butler” and what he has said…”War is a racket”
He also exposed the coup d’etat that was planned against Roosevelt by the rich corporatist and bankers of the day…including JP Morgan. All because they were against the “New Deal” that helped with America’s recovery from the depression that they had caused. The “New Deal” used government funds to rebuild the infrastructure (amongst other programs) and put many Americans back to work.
Eisenhower also used government funds to create out Interstate system back in the 50’s, and created many, many jobs. So when one of these corporate cronies that call themselves politicians says, “Government can’t create jobs”…tell them where to stick it!
Glad to see this honorable soldier stand up for the protesters and our democracy, and I hope many more veterans with the courage of Smedley Butler stand up as well. Once the cops start to push them around…It’s ON!
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Kathryn
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 12:32 am
This is wonderful if it is indeed True!!
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Howard T. Lewis III
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 1:57 am
Let’s see…several hundred thousand private citizens, the Teamsters, United Auto Workers, United Iron Workers, American Federation of Teachers, OccupyMarines, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton,and more of the finest.
Someone should remind Obummer and Hitlery that America was not created by murdering bigots. The murdering bigots did their dirty work after the people dropped their guard.
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babotSOmom
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 10:14 am
Semper fideles!!! THANK YOU! This made me cry. This gave me hope for America. Sgt. Thomas’ passionate talking down to the cops in NY reminded me that there are still some men whose loyalties cannot be bought. Hurrah!!
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Lisa Doherty
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 7:52 pm
I felt the same way. He didn’t have to interfere, but he did…he said what he said from his heart, and he was right to do so. The fact that he inspired others to do the same is amazing, and I am very excited about the coming weeks and months ahead…
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Chris Herz
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 12:23 pm
There can be no success for the #OWS unless the military restrains the police. Perhaps this action by these Marines is an harbinger thereof. Let us hope for the best.
Personally I believe most military and police personel would love to do like their buddies in Egypt: Gun down the protesters.
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Bill J Canada
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 1:59 pm
This supposed marine Sargent did nothing but make a ass out of himself. He was creating a problem where none existed before he started running his mouth. I have a lot of respect for marine but this guy would not make a pimple on a real Marines butt.
Bill J. Canada USN RET.
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D. Walters
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 2:36 pm
-That’s what it takes sometimes, someone w/ balls enough to talk shit to those cops, and remind those cops, exactly what they are doing:
-Impeding the 1st Amendment rights we both served to protect…
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Jack Kelley USMC RET.
Oct. 24th, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Hey Bill, why don’t you tell him to his face he is a “supposed” Marine.
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Roger Moore USMC FORMER
Oct. 31st, 2011 at 3:58 am
A Marine that supports socialism or communism ? Really Jack ? I suppose they’re still Marines as long we get straight that they’re also traitors. Produce Thomas and I’ll glaldy tell him one Sergeant to another.
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Philip Tarnofsky
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Bill J. Canada,
You sir are a total asshole! Why do’t you mind your own business!
If the rich and the corporations in Canada were robing you blind,I bet you would just sit on your ass and take the abuse!
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Lisa Doherty
Oct. 23rd, 2011 at 7:49 pm
I am so excited about this…the few, the proud, the Marines…YES!!!!!
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Gil Villarreal
Oct. 25th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
With you 100% Lisa. He is one brave Marine.SOG Vietnam Vet.
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GDDaley
Oct. 25th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Does it ask too much to expect US pastors, rabbis, Imams and other faith leaders to join their voices for justice? Is it too much for the clergy to speak to the conscience of police workers, to ask why the occupiers have less right than they to walk our streets, or on what legal authority provisions of the Riot Act (demanding clearance of streets) is enacted? Is it asking too much for professors of Divinity to question police supervisors what they will tell their grandchildren as she sits on their laps and asks what is happening?
There are times in which clergy have spoken with magisterial authority approaching that of a President. Where are the Dietrich Bonhoeffers of our time? Where are the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Juniors? Where are the John Howard Yoders? Where are those who can teach us to answer Fuhrers, dogs and tyrants with a simple, ‘no?’ Clergy often bemoan the lack of public commitment to their faith communities. Might there be a reason for this?
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pamina
Oct. 27th, 2011 at 3:24 am
I see a coup brewing. It remains to be seen who is going to fund it. Unless military officers are ready to steal armaments and hijack congress and the presidency, and the FED. If that happens FOR the people, great. If it is for a wealthy few, then it’s another third world puppet dictatorship by the banks. Who is really running Egypt now? The Egyptians did not have the foresight to dismantle their political structure altogether; instead they put in new psople who will be blackmailed and whose lives and their family’s lives threatened by the banks’ economic hitmen. The banks love these kinds of movements becuase they can come in after everything is in disarray and sell the idea of their ‘nation-buildind/rebuilding’ using their loans. Until the country becomes dependent on them, like on a drug. As long as people accept the pricing system and the value of money, they will be slaves of those who have it. There is no price on life, on living decently, on the world’s resources. The price one must pay for getting food from the earth is replanting that food and replenishing the land’s minerals; the price one pays for using elctronics is to devise ways to have less e-waste and mining of precious metals. THIS is the new price system we need — one that puts life values in the mix, not a measurement of value via a piece of paper that can be printed irreponsbily, and that is determined by the ‘invidible hand’ of a market system, where a t-shirt that costs $10 to make is priced $1000 because someone put a designer’s name on it. THAT is what this market system is. It is ridiculous.
The market/money system does not suppor human and natural need. It supports the whims and fantasies of the wealthy that have cornered it. I am not against lusury and beauty, but everyone can and should be able to have that without the price system and without sacrificing the earth’s resources.
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Rockie32
Oct. 27th, 2011 at 4:18 am
When Sgt Thomas was galantly defending the protestors, the police only backed down because the police in the WHITE SHIRTS called them off and made them back off. They were smart enough to know that the four million that J.P.Morgan paid them off with would not stop a blood bath had they touched this marine. Lets hope that the marines and all the other services who come in can make them realize the truth of what Sgt Thomas was saying, they too are Americans and have a responsibility only to the people who built America, not the corporations and the Banks who are trying to destroy our country.
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fred f.
Oct. 28th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
“A Shot heard around the world”
Democracy in America is something to be preached but not practiced.
Be careful, the next war you call may have a low turnout.
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rene luna
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 1:15 am
Dear friends, here is a video of what happended today, the brutal repression to those who were
peacefully manifesting against feminicide (the unsolved murder of hundreds of women since 1994)
in Juarez, Mexico… it is a shame that local police is completely incompetent in solving a single
case of feminicide or violence related to the war on drugs, but it is very effective in arresting
30 people using half of the police force of the city!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6-12ywiJXbw
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