Occupiers are achieving NOTHING

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I'd like to put a few points in regards to these protests and rather the reactions to them.

I come from a country which always has protests, it is a slice of life. Protests for wrong reasons, protests for right reasons. Protests against the government, protests in defense of the government, protests in defense of illegal activities. Protests in defense of legal activities. Protests for better rights for the handicapped. Protests for money. Protests against drug dealing. Protests for drug dealing. Protests against violence.

They are all an annoyance and they never accomplish nothing many disturb the public property. Some block streets and highways. Some have been successful and dethroned two presidents. Some have not yet and thus we still have a tyrant in office.

However, I am proud of them. It is part of people's democratic rights to protest.

So, when I read the reactions to occupiers, I cannot help but feel very mad at the non-sense thrown at them.

First of all, you are American, you have had concerts and woodstock and shiot. You have footbal and conventions you have always have large amounts of people disrupting public property. In fact, your civilization almost collapsed one day there was a blackout for 30 minutes in NY. So, I don't really get what's the big deal about protesters 'disrupting' your lives.

Then we have the strange arguments against the protests: "They are achieving NOTHING". Of course they are not. However, is that a reason to disallow people from using their right to protest? Also, many times it seems that a protest is accomplishing nothing but at the end they do.

Another form of opposition is to say "They are marxists. They are radicals. They are anti-patriotic". In short, "They are wrong."... - Of course they are wrong. they definitely are. I mean, really. I do not agree with any of their crap. That is not a reason to oppose to them being able to protest.

The worst reactions though are generalizing them. We found a guy with tons of tatoos and thus that's proof that they are all unemployable and thus it is evil of them to complaint about unemployment. We have seen some of them scream and be violent and thus they are all criminals. Etc, etc, etc. I mean, Maybe... just maybe there is a fraction of them that are perfectly employable and were not able to get a job? It is not like the US is living its brightest economical day. There is a social crisis in the US and you will have to learn to admit it.

So we see images of the police in Oakland and other places being horribly violent to them because they were just blocking the public space? I cannot digest how could a country that presents itself as liking democracy so much would take this so lightly. You are a country that brags of being a democracy and a beacon of democracy in all the world. Your country was founded by rebels that were protesting against a british government and - let's be honest - many of them had ulterior economic motives to it. Just recently we started a whole invasion in Lybia to handle a government that was violent to demonstrators that were clearly violent as well. You will have to learn to admit that people can and are entitled to protest. In this case, they are wrong nuts. However, what will happen when your really have a reason to protest? Should the guys opposing to you be able to put some donations to the police and let them tear gas you into oblivion?

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I'd like to what the goals of the OWS movement are. Handouts? Jobs? Affirmation?

(Personally, I've thought all along that they wanted a share of some or all of the billionaire's wealth, but I could be wrong.)

How can the success or failure of their movement be measured if even they don't know what they want?