Gustave Le Bon : Occupy Wall Streeters say they are the 99 percent , as opposed to the wealthy . Protest : Members of the civic , religious and military elite used public spaces to present themselves and underline their claim of authority and status in elaborate and carefully choreographed processions . Protest is part of tradition started in the 1960s to take streets away from elites . Harsh police tactics softened as Reiss made martyrs of victims , he says . Reiss says movement has spread , started a public debate and forced media to report on it .
Gustave Le Bon : Occupy Wall Streeters say they are the 99 percent , as opposed to the wealthy . Protest : Protest is part of tradition started in the 1960s to take streets away from elites . Harsh police tactics softened as Reiss made martyrs of victims , he says . Reiss says movement has spread , started a public debate and forced media to report on it .