I agree with much of what OWS represents.  I don’t particularly agree that a mass sit-down at a university is really going to change anything other than garner press attention.  Then again, the press has only focused on the mace attacks and not the OWS message which is the really important thing.

I have had friends, friends parents, neighbors and my own mother who is NOT a cop but worked for the department for awhile.

Bottom line the police are NOT your friends despite appearances or Oh he a good guy.. Bullshit! You are right views can be skewed do some research on both sides good and bad. I am sure there are plenty of cops who have done good things and of course it goes unnoticed. At the same time those are the same cops that go home and beat their wife, kids and dog. 

I read that the peaceful protesters at Davis were sharing a sandwich and shooting the shit the day before with the same cop who sprayed them. Do you think he cares? Hell no he probably got paid leave for that. Awesome just in time for Thanksgiving and he’ll get paid not to work while the public foots the bill. How bout you do you have the same liberties?

I don’t think so

Check Xeni’s article take a look and see how much that guy gets paid a year compared to the Asst Professor

Believing that the police are good guys and are here to serve the public and your best interest is foolish and naive

-from youtube comments, video 2

OWS, has some good ideas but I learned (in college) that using your brain is generally better than using your butt.

You are insulting to everybody who works with their hands. I consider myself damn lucky to have a desk-job (I’m a programmer). But without a lot of people using their butts we’d ALL be using our butts.

OWS, has some good ideas but I learned (in college) that using your brain is generally better than using your butt.

If only you had been there to guide Ghandi and Martin Luther King.

Who obviously wasted the wisdom their advanced degrees gave them, over the knowledge you obtained from yours.

Now, I really hope they are faithfully recorded and immortalized, names and all. If conscience, civility or the threat of legal action don’t stop them, then public opinion and the mauling of their public life will make any future bully take a second to think. Little Brother CAN be rather harsh if enraged.

… how else do your force out a large crowd that won’t otherwise move[?]

Maybe you don’t force them? Change won’t to can’t, think of Hillsborough, then say that again.

CUNY has its own police force whose duties are to protect and serve all students and faculty members, and enforce all state and city laws at all of CUNY’s universities. The force currently has more than 600 officers, making it one of the largest police forces in New York City.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/CUNY

Unless of course we don’t want to listen to you.
Public meetings closed to the public, who might say something that would hurt our feelings.

Your a public institution, all of your funding should be stopped until you answer for shutting the public out of your meeting.

What is it with these overpaid administrators deciding the rules and law are for other people and not them.  Why is it they have been allowed to close a public meeting because people might demonstrate.  Why are they still employed, they obviously forgot they are representing the public and not their own interests so they should be shown the door.  This should be unacceptable no matter how you try to spin anti-OWS sentiment to your favor.