Several Reactions to OWS:

So the irony of what some seek in freedom, others in contrast seek in control.

So the folks in the Arab world who were fighting to have freedom, to have self-determination and basic rights are compared with those who wanted to take them away in this country, more than have been done before. 

Clearly the oft spoken slogans by the Occupiers of "people before profits" is it not a paraphrase for central control of the economy?

  There are a number of contrasts that can be made to the Arab Spring: one values freedom and the other wants subjugation and a decline of freedom.

 

Several contrasting reactions to OWS.

 

Links:

 

OWS Intro page

AEI on Inequality and OWS

Bailouts for OWS

Occupy Movement

Economic Growth or Redistribution?

Moral Foundations of OWS

Occupy Blue Wall Street

OWS and Inconvenient Truths

Reactions to OWS

Responses to OWS

The Youth of OWS

 

In this video of Occupy Sacramento the message was anti-capitalism was pretty clear, even if they were not:

 

Reactions to OWS - WSJ:   Link

 
Garden State Gov. Chris Christie has a message for the top 1% of income earners: Please occupy New Jersey. "I'm going to start going after a lot of these hedge-fund guys who are in Connecticut and New York and say, 'You're going to get a better deal with us,'" says the country's most important Republican not running for president.
 
Mr. Christie's new tax-reform plan also offers an improved deal to the bottom 99%, which is why he may be able to move it through New Jersey's Democratic legislature: a 10% cut in tax rates across the board.
 
Still, the governor isn't declaring mission accomplished. "I don't want to sit here and take bows two years in, saying I've changed it," he says. "I think I'm making progress toward opening people's eyes and opening their ears to listening to a different approach.  And all the Armageddon that the Democrats predicted when I had to do the things I had to do in the first two years, people are waking up this morning going, 'Hmm. Yeah, the sun's still shining. My kids are still going to school.  My neighbor's got a job.  He didn't have a job before.  Maybe this guy knows something.  Maybe it's working.'"

 

Arab Spring and OWS comparison:   Link

Following Time managing editor Rick Stengel revealing the magazine's "Person of the Year" to be "The Protester" on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry attempted to compared the Arab Spring democracy movement in the Middle East to Occupy Wall Street: "Are there links between what had happened in the Arab Spring...and also what's happening now on Wall Street and all across this country?"
 
"Person of the Year" for 2011 is "The Protester," the men and women around the world, but particularly in the Middle East, who toppled governments, who brought a sense of democracy and dignity to people who hadn't had it before. And I think speaking of the year ahead, these are folks who are going to change – they are changing history already and they will change history in the future.
 
So the folks in the Arab world who were fighting to have freedom, to have self-determination and basic rights are compared with those who wanted to take them away in this country, more than have been done before.