SACRAMENTO- After federal indictments and search warrants have been issued to Occupy Wall Street protest leaders, the Occupy Living Room protests have been continually pressing on, despite harsh criticisms.
Although the Occupy Wall Street has lost momentum since last year, the Occupy Living Room movement has been gaining speed and intellectual gravity.
“Those Occupy protests had it all wrong,” states Jeremy Weiz, a Sacramento business owner who hasn’t left his living room since the protests began last year.
“They’re all out there in various economic centers, trying to protest to people walking the streets. What they don’t get, is that the people in the streets are all looking at their phones and iPads.”
The Occupy Living Room movement relies heavily on social media outlets such as Twitter, or Facebook to get their message across.
“I know all of my friends love to read about the smart things I think about politics,” says USC sophomore Katelyn Albright. “They’re always liking what I post and stuff. It really makes the difference. I started taking my classes on line so I would never have to leave my living room. Or at least until they meet our demands.”
When asked about demands, none of the Occupiers seemed to be able to identify them.
Although the movement has been gaining more and more attention, it has come under harsh scathing criticism by some.
“He just sits there, tweeting mean things to say about politicians he doesn’t like,” explains Christina Weiz, Jeremy’s wife. “Luckily the coffee shop manager is an old friend, so we can trust him to run the business, or else, I’m not sure what financial state we would be in.”
Karl Rove, former advisor to President George W. Bush, stated “If I thought that the Occupy Wall Street movement was full of stoner slackers, this movement is the stoniest and slackest movement of them all!”
Criticism has been coming near and far to the protesters but this doesn’t seem to weaken their resolve of posting inaccurate statistical analysis on their social networking pages.
“the 1% creates 0% new jobs,” exclaims one thread on an Occupy Living Room forum.
“Why can’t we have a president who makes sure we have jobs?” Asks another, not realizing the lack of accountability the office of the President has over the financial sector.
The FBI has not been dispatched to any Occupy Living Room protesters house, as they have been ordered to do to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters, but this has not stopped them from surveying the account activity of Occupy Living Room members.
FBI Director, Robert Mueller, stated that “we have been watching them like hawks, and to the best of my knowledge, there doesn’t seem to be enough factual evidence to view the movement as a threat. Actually, the biggest threat is the lack of factual evidence. These people are just posting their political opinions on blogs and Facebook pages. It seems relatively harmless, in the fact that it doesn’t challenge the status quo in the slightest. If anything, the misinformation tends to help corporations by completely misrepresenting what they do. That goes for public officials as well.”
Jeremy Weiz explained, “as long as I have a laptop, an opinion, and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia, there is nothing this government can do to shut me up!”
I’m particularly upset that the one movement i saw potential in my generation for starting was one that implied sitting around in a public place. in other countries when unemployment rises over 8%, they torch buildings and overturn cars. here, apparently, we just congregate then bitch. given that model, sex and the city are the biggest advocates of the upper middle class
Why do so many tear down the one group that did some standing up to the economic terrorists who brought us the recession and would happily have all be minimum wage peons?
Never mind, I know the answer. The right wing slander machine did its job very efficiently.
Well now you’re just making stuff up.
In Seattle the cops mauled a 70+yr old woman who wasn’t even part of the demonstration, she was just on her way home.
So clearly the fantasy world you live in is totally sane, just like you.
Hmmmmmmmmmm…I don’t recall Tea Party demonstrators rioting, breaking windows, looting stores, taunting police, raping fellow demonstrators, or defecating in the street..Other than that, you’re right!
I’m sad that occupy didn’t work out. The cops and mayors sure cracked right the hell down on it, and with impunity at that. You don’t see any Tea Partiers getting attacked.