After the violent clashes between police and protesters at Saturday's massive Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Times Square, a marine who served in Iraq delivered an impromptu speech in front of some NYPD officers, denouncing their crowd-control methods and police brutality. "This is not a war zone!" he yells at NYPD officers.

Posted Oct. 17, 2011, 8:20 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Movement For Economic Justice Gains Global Momentum Liberty Square, New York, NY - One month ago today about 2,000 people rallied in Lower Manhattan and marched up Broadway. Stopping at Zuccotti Park an estimated 150 stayed the night and began an encampment.

There's one message from the 2010 elections that many so-called policy makers, political elites and analysts did not hear. Namely, the American people are not as uninformed and stupid as they think we are. President Obama's Debt Commission and the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force have both floated their ideas for reducing our nation's runaway national debt.