CNN Asks Protester If OWS Rivals Civil Rights Movement
By Matt Hadro | November 15, 2011 | 20:19
CNN's Poppy Harlow asked an Occupy Wall Street protester on Tuesday if the movement was "at that scale" of the civil rights movement, and if the cause was "as important" as civil rights.
In turn, the occupier answered that the Wall Street protests are "much grander" than the civil rights movement. [Video below the break. Click here for audio.]
Harlow was interviewing the protester in the aftermath of a New York City judge ruling in favor of the city's crackdown on the protest's encampment in Zuccotti Park. She referenced his earlier comparison of the protest to the civil rights movement and asked him "Do you think that this is at that scale? Do you believe that you are fighting for something as important as civil rights in this country?"
"Oh far more important," answered protester Amos Fisher, "because it has nothing to do with – it has nothing to do with any designation, class, gender, anything. It has everything to do with humanity..." Fisher added later that the protests are "much grander than simply civil rights movement."
Fisher had earlier attacked the "legality" of the eviction of the protesters by calling it an unjust law and likened the protest to Rosa Parks's stand.
"So the idea – the question of whether we, it's legal for us to be in here is kind of a moot point, because Rosa Parks was certainly not allowed to sit where she sat, and that sparked a whole movement, and the point was made, because the law was unjust."
A transcript of the segment, which aired on November 15 at 5:03 p.m. EST, is as follows:
[5:03]
POPPY HARLOW: I want to get to your point – quickly here, Wolf. Amos, you – you likened this to the civil rights movement, to Rosa Parks. Do you think that this is at that scale? Do you believe that you are fighting for something as important as civil rights in this country?
AMOS FISHER, Occupy Wall Street protester: Oh far more important, because it has nothing to do with – it has nothing to do with any designation, class, gender, anything. It has everything to do with humanity, and how – because like, we're in, I heard it described as our form of capitalism is a corporate capitalism, which is actually sort of like – someone referred to it as an inverted totalitarianism where the power structure is actually nameless, insofar as the corporations hold sway over the government. So that, I feel like, in the same way that a corporation has no loyalty to a nation state, this movement has no loyalty to any particular class of person. So I think it's much grander than simply civil rights movement.
HARLOW: Really?
FISHER: And I think that these days, a lot of these wars between – battles, prejudices that exist, human rights and such, are often serve as no more than a distraction from the real issue, which is keeping people with – keeping people at the bottom by dividing them.
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Poppy? You're kidding, right?
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 8:25pm.
Poppy Harlow? I"m just LMAO over this, I haven't even gotten to the idiocy escaping that Occuturd's mouth.
Need to get my glasses adjusted!
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 8:31pm.
At first glance her name looked like "Preppy Harlot".
And for the self-righteous OWS protester: don't even dare compare yourself to the civil rights protesters of the 50s and 60s....you are NOWHERE near them....not even by lightyears....
Robespierre
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 8:27pm.
Things went well for a while. Then they lost their heads about the whole egalitarian thing.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Did the civil rights movement
Submitted by Van Halen on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 8:37pm.
Did the civil rights movement demand bailouts? Did the civil rights movement get caught with any of the following crimes:
defecating on police cars, complaints of public masturbation, smoking dope, selling drugs, lice outbreaks, sexual assault, disease outbreaks, arson, drug overdoses, trashing everything they touch, walking around naked, having sex publicly, parents abandoning their children to join the protest, pimping/prostitution of underage kids, investing their donations in a bank, repeating en masse what they are told in strange organized rituals, spitting on military members, desecrating the American flag, getting support of Iran, North Korea, David Duke and the Nazi and Communist parties, not working, lying, cheating, stealing, and generally damaging all the businesses around them?
Blacks should be furious that CNN lumped them in with this bunch of criminal psychotics.
Don't forget the drug-resistant tuberculosis...
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 8:40pm.
...isolated in the OWS shelter in Atlanta. I don't know what that looks like from CDC's point of view, but it is potentially an extremely serious outbreak.
useful idiots for the Leftist media
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 8:40pm.
Why is this giving me flashbacks of Cindy Sheehan? Media coverage made her believe she was all that and more. ....and now where is she? These OWS believe the coverage they get is because they are important and not because they are useful. They better go have a talk with Cindy.
MidAmerica - interesting that
Submitted by Van Halen on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:15pm.
MidAmerica - interesting that Sheehan has been kicked SO FAR under the bus that even OWS woudn't give her a stage to blast America from.
Oh, the humanity!
Submitted by kata on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 8:42pm.
Because.. like.. we ... like.. heard... umm... capitalism is evil.. uhmmm.... what was the question?
I can't say it enough: We
Submitted by Van Halen on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:19pm.
I can't say it enough:
We have yet to see a single OWS accomplishment other than a rolling crime wave, filth, rambling nonsense, and the disgust of most everyone who is unfortunate enough to encounter them. They have not helped the community in any way. They do not get along well with anyone outside their movement, much less each other. They are destroying every place they are encamped. They do nothing positive for anyone.
They are the 99%, but anytime
Submitted by Van Halen on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:19pm.
They are the 99%, but anytime something bad happens it is always someone who is not affiliated with the movement?
Martin Luther King would have
Submitted by Van Halen on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:20pm.
Martin Luther King would have been furious and disgusted with this bunch. Freeloaders, drug-addicts, felons, bums, liars, thieves, perverts - he would have had nothing to do with them.
Pulling a Lothian
Submitted by MCLIJazz on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 10:36pm.
Harlow pulled a Dan Lothian by serving up a softball question for Fisher to hit out of the park.
What were they saying about the Tea party?
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 10:10pm.
These OWS Communists look very homogenous. Not too many people of color in this group.
Soros make sure you get some real poor people the next time rather than the bonus babies and the malcontent anarchists that hate America before you stage your next hate America event. But those real people are out working , maybe part time and not exactly what they want , but hey are not standing with their hands out expecting government to take care of their every need. See the demands of this group it is nothing but the updated Bolshevik demands made back in the early 1900's in Russia.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 10:14pm.
Dr. King encouraged those who marched with him to dress nicely to show the world that they were the equal of persons anywhere. He would be appalled at the ghettoation and the breakup of the Black family that is so common today. He also would NOT associate himself with the rabble that is the OWS.
give me a break
Submitted by michiganruth on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 11:07pm.
this is disgusting. to compare these self-absorbed iPod-wearing Starbucks-drinking spoiled children with people who offered up their LIVES for freedom in the 1960s...that's just ridiculous.
if this clown truly believes that OWS is "grander" than the sacrifices made during the civil rights movement--by blacks and white alike--this country's in worse trouble than I thought.
These dopes haven't figured out they're the laughingstock...
Submitted by krendler on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:16am.
...of the country at this point. Perceived as just a bunch of spoiled brats who want to experience the whole sixties protest thing. As the guy in the story illustrates, they...like.. have absolutely...like....no message. I have yet to speak with a single person who empathizes with these slugs.
And "much more important than the civil rights movement"? Why haven't Sharpton and Jackson and Brazille and the rest of the professional race-baiters started freaking out already? Imagine if someone in the Tea Party had said that. Just imagine the media meltdown that would have ensued.
It is actually
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 2:57am.
disgusting to compare and correlate that 'fleabagger' movement to the Civil Rights movement.
I don`t recall MLK defecating on police cars. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046586/Occupy-Wall-Street-Shock...
Nor do i remember the Civil Rights movement desecrating the American Flag. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/vile-ows-protesters-desecrate-am...
These people,IMO, are disgusting and un-American and have no grasp on history.
Poor msm - again they see
Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 3:42am.
Poor msm - again they see what they want and try to frame it so others will buy in, but 2008 showed a lot of formerly clueless to dig a little deeper.
You blew your wad in 2008 msm - now slink off and give it up. You don't get to frame the narrative any longer.
Ronald Reagan
Amen
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 3:44am.
amy