Comment by flyinRyan

>Were violence added to the mixture, I'd not have felt more sympathetic to a movement I perceived to have no practical goals.

Occupy needed to remain peaceful, no doubt about it. But without a large alternative group that wasn't afraid to use violence, Occupy was always going to be marginalized away. They had coherent messages. You and most people don't know them because they were bottled up, discredited and shut down. Exactly what will happen to any peaceful movement.

Personally, I think there's still time for a peaceful alternative though: we all need to start getting directly involved in politics.