I beg to differ. They have already garnered much attention and are continuing to shine a bright searchlight on the selfish and, dare I say, unpatriotic and un-American activities of the 1%. Although I have yet to see signs that the 1% are taking this as a serious threat.
Hopefully I'm wrong and they are privately considering these Occupy events behind closed doors.
Exactly. OWS whines that wall street owns government, but doesn't want to do anything about the government, they just want to whine about wall street. Newsflash: if government wasn't so corruptible and powerful in the first place, there wouldn't be any issue.
From what I have seen they want to expand govt. These people complain about wall street corruption but want to make the coffers more enticing for corruption by expanding govt.
Surely you don't think that's where the real power lies in the US? The political system is bought and paid for by Wall Street, so that's exactly what should be occupied.
You're not wrong, the 1% could care less about the OWS movement and never will. The only people that have been affected by these protests are regular working stiffs and the small businesses that employ them.
There's no point. All this camping out and general assembly nonsense and two months later they haven't changed a molecule of the situation, much less making a dent in it.
If the OWS protesters start building guillotines and/or start kidnapping family members of the 1% and holding them for ransom South American style, they might start to take notice.