Occupy Sylva Videos

On Saturday, October 15, 2011, I traveled over eastward over the mountain to Sylva, NC to cover the Occupy Sylva protest that was held in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protest in the financial district in New York City. I disagree with virtually every thing these people stand for and hearing them speak was like hearing people from a Bizarro Universe. Surely these people had not been raised to believe in the same things I had, nor read the same US Constitution that I had. I thought about taking my copy of the US Constitution out of my pocket and asking some of them to show me where there beliefs were supported in that document, but that was not why I was there. I was there simply to get these people on the record and to show what transpired at the Fountain in Sylva, NC on October, 15, 2011, so that is what I did and here are the videos I took (plus one from someone else who was an ally of the groups participating who was also there), presented without further interpretation by me:



Full video of the portion of the event where the speechifying took place.



A portion of the event where Representative Phil Haire spoke (I previously posted it, along with a commentary Saturday night). He is the elected representative of the 119th NC House District.




This is video of Occupy Sylva shot by a local person who has a website and a Blog talk Radio Show.


And here are some very short videos I shot before the protest began of participants giving the reasons why they were there:

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Phil Haire Speaks at Occupy Sylva

I went to Sylva, NC this morning to cover the Occupy Sylva protest and this is the first video. It is Representative Phil Haire's remarks to the participants of the protest.

I disagree with everything that Phil Haire says in the video and present his speech here in full in the interest of making people aware of where he stands on the issues he spoke of this morning in Sylva, and so you can make up your own mind if you agree with him or not.

I disagree with his advice to the people of Sylva to not do business with the Roses Store located in Jackson Plaza just because the owner of that business donates money to the Republican Party.

What if all Americans did business that way? What if Americans chose their mechanic, grocer, doctor, landscaper or Realtor based on their political ideology? What right does an elected official have to recommend this type of behavior?

Democrats are always trying to claim that Republicans are trying to create divisions between people. It seems to me that if this type of behavior were taken to heart by people...we would be creating two nations, a house divided against itself in economic warfare.

Imagine if this event had been a Tea Party and a state representative had advised participants not to do business with a certain  business because the owner of that business donated money to the Democratic Party. I think it is safe to say that there would be outrage over the incident.

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