At Oakland City Hall - A Three Minute Video

[MineralMan]

If you haven't seen this video, it's something worth watching. It's three minutes long and covers the entire flag burning incident. It's self-explanatory. Form your own opinion.

[Lionessa]

1. I don't see any violence or anything the OPD claimed.

My only real concern was when they raised and waved it while burning, in those close confines people could have been hurt if the flag bits got airborne as embers often do.

[morningfog]

2. That's a helluva statement. Is this getting much play outside DU?

[Auggie]

3. Pointless and stupid. Burn flags of Citibank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs ...

this alienates a lot of fringe OWS supporters.

[think]

4. +1 for focus

[Lionessa]

5. Except that the gov't is now complicit with them and part of the problem.

[Auggie]

6. How many people do you think who watch Fox News

will understand that message?

[Lionessa]

7. If we are trying to make decisions based on FNC watchers, we're screwed anyway.

I can't believe how many on here seem to care what wingers think about civil disobedience.

[MineralMan]

8. Nobody cares what Fox News watchers think.

There are far more people who are part of the 99% that we should care about. Their reactions are important.

[Lionessa]

9. I was responding to a particular comment. That said...

If we cater to the ignorance of people who can't recognize the realities of today in the USA and the appropriate reasons for burning the flag, we're screwed.

[MineralMan]

10. Yes, and I was responding to your post.

Fox News watchers are not the only people who need to be reached. Fox News watchers probably aren't going to respond to anything. That leaves a huge part of the general population, though, who are still part of the 99%.

[Lionessa]

11. And I replied to that as well in the post above. Read the whole thing, not just the title.

[Auggie]

12. My mother watches Fox news and I care about what she thinks

Despite what she hears from them (she's 82), she's slowly been coming around to understanding the message of OWS. Flag burning is the worng message, especially taking into account the spin Fox and other repub outlets put on it.

And it's not just Fox Network. Hundreds of local news shows pick up the same footage and add there own opinions. Millions see it, and we should all care about that.

It was dumb stunt that played perfectly into the hands of the 1% (It was so dumb I wonder if it was staged by infiltrators).

[Lionessa]

13. Oh my! Poor you. Hopefully you will be able to save

your mother from her choice to remain uninformed and ignorant. I don't see how that's OWS's responsibility before it is yours. You want her to think better, then talk to her about the realities and reasons some might burn the flag, don't bow to her FNC fed ignorance.

[Auggie]

14. You have some nerve to call my mother uninformed and ignorant! n/t

[Lionessa]

15. Not my opinion, research supports my implication.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-uninformed-npr-listeners-not-poll-suggests/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-less-informed-people-fairleigh-dickinson_n_1106305.html

http://occupywallst.org/forum/fox-news-viewers-uninformed-npr-listeners-not-poll/

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/22/374434/fox-news-viewers-misinformed-study-jon-stewart/

Want more?

[Auggie]

16. Jerk