Costs of the Occupiers; Plus: Friday showdown in NYC, Boston backlash, Austin arrests, Denver arrests
Photo source: Ironic Surrealism
My column today tallies up some of the taxpayer costs imposed by the Kamp Alinsky Kids across the country so far. There have been other nasty consequences, too — like the cancellation of a food drive and festival in Boston due to Occupier overload. Go here to donate. Latest word from NYC is that protesters are gearing up for a sunrise showdown to fight clean-up evacuation by Zuccotti Park’s private owners. (Update: The rabble-rousers got into a scuffle with police, as they wanted. The rabble is still piling up. Several arrests. See NYPost.) In Austin, TX, four squatters were arrested after refusing to leave while city workers power-washed the filthy plaza that served as Occupation Central. We’ve only just begun to see the dark side of the movement. They’ve been spoiling for a fight long before Day One of the Month of Rage.
More updates: The occupiers have met the enemy and it is…SANITATION!
Update: Denver clears occupiers’ camp at the Capitol, arrests 23.
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Costs of the Occupiers
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011
The trash generated by the “Occupy Wall Street” protests keeps piling up. So do the bills. Liberal media outlets claim the anarchic, anti-capitalist movement is more popular than the Tea Party. But wait until Americans across the country get a full picture of the costs of the aimless occupiers.
In New York City, government officials estimate the month-long siege of Zuccotti Park has now imposed $3.2 million in overtime police costs on the public. On Thursday, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office pressured left-wing activists to vacate the park for cleaning, Occupy Wall Street urged sympathizers to flood the city’s customer services lines: “Call 311 and tell Bloomberg not to evict us!”
In Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter told the press that demonstrators outside city hall have incurred $164,000 in overtime public employee costs and $237,000 in regular time. “At the current rate, if Occupy Philly continues to the end of the month, the city would spend another nearly $690,000 on police overtime alone,” the local NBC affiliate reported. “Besides the extra police presence being dedicated to the Occupy Philly protests, other city departments have also incurred costs.”
In Seattle, police have so far billed $30,000 in overtime and the parks department racked up nearly $4,000 in additional costs related to the protests there. Occupiers have blocked traffic, assaulted an officer, and pitched illegal tents. Merchants in the area have been hurt as the riff-raff deter customers. One business owner in Westlake Park, where hundreds of protesters remain camped out, told Seattle TV station KIRO: “There’s definitely fewer people you can identify as people out, just walking through the area.”
Seattle’s pushover mayor, Democrat Mike McGinn, now faces even greater demands from the insatiable mob – which wants a “guaranteed parking
space near City Hall Plaza that allows for around-the-clock parking,” “24-hour access to the first floor of City Hall for restroom access, and a written statement from the mayor approving the protesters’ long-term occupancy of City Hall Plaza.”
In Boston, City Council President Steve Murphy anticipates a $2 million hit to taxpayers if the protests refuse to disband by the end of October. The local Fox affiliate notes the tab represents 8% of the yearly budget for police overtime. “While we’re all sympathetic with
our protesters down there,” Murphy said, “Wall Street isn’t picking up the tab on this thing. It’s the Boston taxpayers.”
When fiscally conservative Tea Party activists held protests over the past two years, they filed for all the required permits and paid for their own power. Occupy Boston, by contrast, neither sought nor obtained any proper permits at any level, according to the Boston Globe. Instead, city and park officials have been cowed into providing them gratis electricity and camp space lest there be “conflict.”
Many of these occupiers are primarily occupied as paid rent-a-mobsters for unions, left-wing think tanks, and the radical Working Families Party. While one collective hand soaks the taxpayers, the other hand is busy soliciting free stuff. Occupy Los Angeles activists took to
Skype on their laptops to solicit donations of iPhones and iPads.
Occupy Wall Street members on Twitter organized an ongoing “#needsoftheoccupiers” drive for everything from batteries and tarps to “gently used” coats and sweaters, wool socks, sleeping bags, and energy bars. Occupy Austin organizers publicized their wish list, including a free barbecue grill, port-o-potties, extension cords, a Bobcat forestry cutter for clearing brush, and network cameras for a livestream.
These are not principled advocates of fiscal responsibility. They are professional freeloaders.
Unlike Tea Party activists who focused like a laser beam on politicians in both parties responsible for redistributing wealth to Big Business cronies by force, the Occupy Wall Street movement is everywhere and nowhere. The entitled Kamp Alinsky Kids are poaching WiFi and trespassing on private property under the guise of “social justice,” but in plain service of themselves.
Their t-shirts and speeches glorify Marxist radicals Che Guevara, Emiliano Zapata, and Chairman Mao. They lionize convicted Death Row cop killer Troy Davis and WikiLeaks collaborator Bradley Manning. They condemn “Nazi Bankers,” Jews, Fox News, the American Legislative
Exchange Council, Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker, the Koch family, and the New York Police Department (“pigs!”). They promote the illegal alien DREAM Act and 9/11 Trutherism.
They spout bumper-sticker profanities and inanities: “F**k banks.” “Unf**k the world.” “Fuuuuu*k.” “Free education.” “Smash nationalism.”
“People not profits.”
They flash peace signs while celebrity supporter Roseanne Barr calls for beheading financial industry workers and fellow marchers call explicitly for “violent revolution” or for Obama to “Send Seal Team 6” to Wall Street.
Then they huff and puff (preferably in a creepy, uniform chant they call the “human microphone”) that we just haven’t taken the time to understand what they’re all about — as they hawk $20 “Eat the Rich” polo shirts and license their protest photos to Getty Images.
Viva la revolucion! Up with people! Stop the greed! (Cha-ching. Cha-ching.)
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Related (h/t Hot Air): All I can say is: Mother Fudge Biscuits, these people are ridiculous….
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Gee with all the Overtime being paid, could it be a AFSCME/SEIU redistribution tactic.
A Job is a Right ???
Really?
And Capitalism doesn’t work.
That’s priceless.
All of them should be rounded up and put on a plane to China. Or maybe North Korea.
Seriously. They don’t deserve to be in this country.
Not so fast, Murphy. Who’s this “we” you’re referring to? You know where you can find my sympathy for your protesters? In the dictionary between sh*t and syphilis. Why should Wall Street pick up the tab for this filthy mob. They didn’t invite this. And the people like you, who are responsible for letting it happen, aren’t picking up the tab with your own money either. You’re sticking hardworking taxpayers with it.
I fear it will get much uglier before it’s over. What a contrast with the tea parties, who focused on specific issues, and cleaned up after themselves, costing the local authorities virtually nothing. I would turn on the fire hoses and clean them out in a hurry. Also I haven’t really seen any black people at these stirring rallies. They are obviously RACISTS!
3As we discussed in a prior thread. Call in the aerial tankers.
http://aerialfirefighting.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1349&g2_GALLERYSID=408f33a70379b39e21e3c85e1a85756d
If this does turn into a cops vs. protesters clusterfark, the 1968 flashbacks will be so vivid that Obama will need bed rest. According to a new poll from National Journal, Democratic insiders are already almost evenly split on whether the party should ally itself with the movement. If the optics tomorrow are bad, that split won’t be even for long.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/13/occupy-wall-street-vows-to-resist-nypds-efforts-to-clear-park-for-cleaning-tomorrow/
Smelly Boston moonbats spit on and hurl epithets and bottles at uniformed Coast Guard servicewoman.
http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/occupy-boston-protesters-spit-on-coast-guard-member-20111013
This has been confirmed by the Coast Guard, which makes it an infinitely more credible charge than similar charges by the Congressional Black Caucus.
Dave (in MA)
I’m getting a big laugh out these protesters. Most cities that have them are liberal. Although it is not fair to the business’s these morons are hurting, these cities deserve what they get. The lefts indoctrinating education system is starting to pay it’s dividends in pure unadulterated stupidity.
My thoughts exactly. See how neatly everything dovetails in Prog-world?
The very same dynamics have been playing out ever since 9/11. Abusing our intricate, efficient yet fragile society simply by overloading it. The only thing they’ve learned is how much easier it is to destroy/trash than to build/cherish.
And how’d “the Jews” make the OWS hitlist..?
maddmatt3131 said:
Kinda’ got a point there? Doug Ross recently described these Demoprog strongholds as “piled up” or double-stacked. You WIN already!
Beck was right , top down bottom up , Cloven-Piven Strategy ! Collapse the system .
Andrew Breitbart: I Have E-Mails Showing Organized Plan For #OccupyWallStreet Protests To Destabilize Government
Andrew Breitbart told FOX Business tonight that he has emails proving the organizers behind Occupy Wall Street aim to destabilize the American government.
Breitbart also laid out the case against the organizer and professional activist Lisa Fithian who has a long history of organizing violent protests. Big Government will release the emails in the next few days.
Via Breitbart TV and Free Republic:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/andrew-breitbart-i-have-e-mails-showing-organized-plan-for-occupywallstreet-protests-to-destabilize-government-video/
Green eyed Lady,
After hearing Andrew it’s clear that Fithian, Lerner and others want when they say “de-stabilize government” is just the Conservative half that’s clinging by it’s fingernails right?
Thanks and I’ll be looking forward to what AB has to share.
Looks like mother nature is having her say as rains are pouring through NYC at present. Seems the rain cleared out Chicago protests today and rain is forecast for the entire weekend, so I guess we’ll see, at least in some places, what kind of mettle these cold and soggy meddlers have. Yep,nothing like a cool fall rain to wash away the dirt, mud, muck, grime, gunk, crud, scuz, sleaze, slime, dregs … hokum, hypocrisy, hanky panky, pretense, flimflam, fraud, contrivance …
here in san diego, the alinksy squatters asked for donations of canned food and condoms.
also, how are they disposing of the gallons of raw sewage they generate? unless a rent-a-can was donated, they are violating health codes.
Well, the nastiness is coming to Tucson.
A vibrant, almost recovering downtown is likely to be ruined…
The politicians might complain about costs and human resources being allocated, but in reality, they love the commotion. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum a politician belongs to, they all love an increase in the ‘need’ for their services.
The only politician that shows some promise is Ron Paul.
I plan to be ANYWHERE ELSE on Oct 15.
I suppose that’s a bit cowardly….
But my .410 would be impolite.
We should send a thank you to John McCain for supporting these idiots. Thanks Arizona for putting him back in the Senate.
It was only out of morbid curiosity that I watched that video. What a waste of a minute forty one.
I “down twinkle” these filthy clowns and their supporters.
The interesting thing to me is how the “occupy” people are everything that the liberal media said that the Tea Party was, and the Tea Party is everything that the liberal media is claiming that the “occupy” people are. Note that I’m not even bringing up liberal politicians.
They all live in another reality.
Woke up around midnight last night to a massive thunderstorm that lasted into the early AM (I live in NYC). To paraphrase “The Night Before Christmas,”
Visions of soaking rains and nightsticks danced in my head.
Travis Bickle may be on to something here…
Regarding the OWS/NYC/Boston protestors; where is a good, early season nor’easter blizzard when you need one? Is it just me or do the photos of the bearded, filthy punks having their prolonged sleepover make you feel itchy all over? They look like they smell really, really bad (do you suppose it’s a halitosis fiesta, too? Eeeewwww). I’m waiting to see how Law & Order will spin this one in a future episode. My guess is it will be a rogue Tea Party member or a rogue cop doing violence against a peaceful, loving, “sit-in” blonde-haired chick.
I waded through this same hippie scum in the 60s. If they don’t get they raunchy butts out of the streets then run them out with fire hoses, riot gas and rubber bullets. This is a land of laws not mob rule.
End it!
I’m occupying the #needsoftheoccupiers hashtag with my own suggestions, like pachouli, breath mints, and spittle to aim at Coast Guardsmen. Come play this hashtag game!
Yes, I have a gently used energy bar. I will “drop it off” near one of their tents.
There is a part of me that wants to see if we could buy a large amount of land in Siberia and we could drop off the occupiers there. Let them have their utopia and their freedom from capitalism and let us go on with the business of earning a living.
I think I got a couple bags of expired potato and tortilla chips I could send them. No, wait, I doubt that they eat junk food …
I was shocked…SHOCKED.. to see (in some of the other PDX videos) some former 1960′s protestors enjoying the event/helping the slackers/occupiers.
One last hurrah in their [radical] lives. A chance to relive their, likely, one moment in the sun before they have to spend the rest of their lives protesting … the source of the coffee at “the home”.
“Down tinkles”, indeed
Haven’t heard anything about Madison, WI. There was a practice session for OWS there in the spring. Anything happening in Mad Town?
I just heard that the Wall Street Occupiers say that since the demonstrations have taken hold elsewhere, they’re no longer needed there. Nice segue into bowing out from the chill and pouring rain … or have their short attention spans just had enough?
The OWSers remind me of “onlies”:
“Down with Grups! Bonk, bonk on the head!”
Bloomberg: “No blah, blah, blah! I’m a Grup, and I’m here to help!”
Twinkles? Really?
I’ve got a hand signal for you.
I love how they think capitalism should be smashed, yet want ‘free’ everything. It’s gold, Jerry!
Well, I for one am surprised that our liberal governator John Hickenlooper (Colo. – D) told the protesters that their occupying the state park was illegal. The police have been trying to clear them out since 3AM this morning. Will have to watch the updated news here in a little while. They have had live coverage since 2 or 3am.
Something from the press:
Yeah, sounds like Tea Partiers, alright. /sarc /sarc
Bloomberg backed down and is letting them continue their filthy, destructive protests. He and that entire city government are a bunch of cowards. It’s time to confront those pigs and drive them off the streets. We’re headed for street wars so prepare yourselves.
Stop right there.
That tells me all I need to know about this guy.
He’s either a socialist and an anarchist sympathizer, or he’s a useless squish.
Either way, to me, he seems to be part of the problem.
Sounds not unlike the useless college administrators of ~40 years ago.
The Jenkem Party.
You’ve obviously never smelled a dirty, wet dog.
Anybody know the hand signal for STFU you brainless idiot?
And this is the hand sign for ” who has a rolling paper?”.
I do believe it’s the same one you use when someone cuts you off in traffic. I could be wrong though.
I saw that and my first thought is how long will it be till the first lawsuit is filed because one of the protestors got sick from unsanitary conditions.
Rusty Nail: I like the rain. Keeps everybody inside and washes everything clean.
Send the bill to their supporters – San Fran Nan, the unions, Susan Sarandon etc, etc.
Don’t look now brats, mom and dad decided to change the lock on the basement door while you were gone – because you gave them enough time to rehab their sanity.
Travis Bickle: Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.
Travis Bickle: All the animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets
If I were to begin to discuss all the ways these protests make ZERO sense, MM would toss me for trying to take over her page.
However, our local Occupiers are starting tonight in Harrisburg, PA. If you’ve been reading national news, that would be the state capital that just filed for bankruptcy. So, thank heavens for all the money we are getting ready to spend to kow-tow to the incoming unwashed masses. I, for one, am totally excited. (please duck, flying sarcasm)
Chip Monk: “To get back to the warning that I received. You may take it with however many grains of salt that you wish. That the Mother Fudge Biscuits that are circulating around us aren’t too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it’s your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?”
Laced with too much Solyndra perhaps?
With facial recognition programs readily available, all of these protesters should be identified and all Federal assistance cut off and any Federal grants revoked.
I’m one of the 53%, I pay taxes, I have a business and a job. I don’t have a College education, that is the reason why I own a business and have a job. I have a grip on reality and know that rainbows and unicorns don’t pay the bills.
About 400 years ago the Pilgrims crossed the north Atlantic in a ship that wouldn’t be considered seaworthy today just for the right to worship God and live their lives on their own terms. They neither wanted nor expected the Government to help them. On the contrary, they wanted the Government OUT of their lives.
They are spinning in their graves now at how far down their descendents have fallen.
That sign in the photo “a job is a right + capitalism doesn’t work”
Why are these commies carrying signs in the city when they are supposed to be harvesting crops on the collective?
When government decides that your job is a ‘right’ – it will make certain that you have no right to refuse it.
For a few laughs, check out Practical Pete’s Advice to the Occupy movement.
Pete’ also got some good protest sign ideas, in case you want to join the movement, or just fit in with the 99 % of Americans (or is it 99% of the people in all 1000 countries, I forget)who support the movement.
Off topic:
This should get ya riled a bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoohkS6iyhY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Dear Lord in Heaven – twinkle fingers probably votes and could possibly procreate. What a bunch of whiny pantywastes these people are!
And while the rest of us are working to pay for the overtime of police officers and clean-up crews, they’re “ordering” condoms and ipads. Scumbags.
Caught a fleeting comment on Huffpo before it was quickly deleted by the censors:
On October 14th, 2011 at 9:25 am, USA Patriot said:
“With facial recognition programs readily available, all of these protesters should be identified and all Federal assistance cut off and any Federal grants revoked.”
Does anyone really want to know what the person looks like under the several layers of dried feces and semen? That stench alone should mark them for life as a memebr of the sub-culture known as
“The Wad”
So, basically, we have a bunch of unwashed hippies with nothing else to do, living in less-than-hygienic conditions in support of a cause that they can’t really explain.
But we’re the bad-guys for pointing it out.
Green eyed Lady said: #7
GeL, IMO that poorly written title was sorta misleading. Just cogitating…
This is just horrible, spitting on a militay member! Hubby was in the Navy, Nam, and he had things like that happen to him as did hundreds of others when they came home. I just makes me sick and things are going to get worse, IMO.
Please pray for our Republic, thank you.
L
The Tea Party was and is about Constitutional government, freedom from overbearing regulation and living within our means. The Occupy “movement” is more about anarchy.
Sort of like the difference between the purposeful American Revolution which brought us freedom, and the disorganized “kill the rich!” French Revolution which brought mostly chaos…
Some Jenkem Partiers spit on a U.S. Coast Guard officer in Boston. And the Coast Guard’s response? Issue a memo telling their people to stay away from the protesters while in uniform. WTF!!??
We are no longer circling the drain, we are down the drain.
I guess the shallow pond sailors now won’t even traverse a wad of spit. Just kidding, Hangfire made me do it.
I’m retired USCG and this makes me sick.
Punk ass communists.
She’s right, who’d want to work when you get all this free stuff. At least she recognizes it’s paid for by taxpayers and not from Obama’s stash.
On October 14th, 2011 at 10:31 am, Rogue Cheddar said:
“shallow pond sailors ”
heh…
Since I’m one of those evil capitalists that owns and runs a company, remind me again why I should hire any of the OWS protesters. What exactly is it they offer? I might be inclined to hire a hard worker with a demonstrated track record of showing up and doing their job. In return, I would offer pretty good pay and some decent benefits. (Of course, politicians at all levels keep working to make hiring somebody less and less attractive as they keep raising the cost of said employee)
I can’t see a single thing about the OWS group(s) that would encourage me to hire any of them.
It’s worth noting that the radical Working Families Party has strong ties to ACORN (the same Bertha Lewis was both ACORN’s executive director and Working Families Party’s co-chair).
It’s worth noting that the Working Families Party has had the both of the following as their candidates on election ballots:
– Barack Hussein Obama
– Dede Scozzafava (who ran as a Republican and received Newt Gingrich’s endorsement over Tea Party Republican Doug Hoffman)
With Newt Gingrich now coming in 3rd in Rasmussen polling, it’s important to remember that Newt Gingrich endorsed a “Working Families Party” wolf in RINO clothing, instead of supporting a true conservative Tea Party candidate.
An ACORN-Friendly, Big Labor-Backing, Tax-and-Spend Radical in GOP Clothing
By Michelle Malkin • October 16, 2009 10:09 AM
The GOP elite’s $1 million object lesson — and the message of NY-23
By Michelle Malkin • November 4, 2009 02:14 AM
I would hose them down with one of those highly aromatic liquified manure trucks that they use on farms. It might improve things.
On October 14th, 2011 at 10:33 am, conservativesRus said:
I can’t see a single thing about the OWS group(s) that would encourage me to hire any of them.
Precisely. The Jenkem partiers underscore the fact that the unemployment problem we have in this country is at least equalled by the “unemployability” problem we have. These college grads have learned only a couple things well … how to use the Internet to chet on term papers and exams, how to play videogames and how to while and play the victim… Truly a pathetic bunch…
d’oh typose fixed…
These college grads have learned only a couple things well … how to use the Internet to cheat on term papers and exams, how to play videogames and how to whine and play the victim… Truly a pathetic bunch
FYI that Coast Guard link was first provided by GreeneyedLady. I felt the title of the article was so poorly written that at quick glance, it looked like the CG did the spitting!
(Just giving credit to GeL…)
I have an excellent book on the subject of “rain”…
Hard Rain: The History of the Browning Machinegun
I found it so inspirational that I just HAD to go out and get a couple (a .30 M37 and a .50 M2HB) just in case my family or property is threatened by communist moonbats who advocate “fundemental transformation will require violence…”
I guarantee, the violence won’t last long.
Josie Wales: “Dyin’ ain’t much of a living, boy…”
Manure truck or better yet — Bed Bug Ballons — here you go kiddies, enjoy!!
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Chief: ‘Hell has come to breakfast’
How much more proof do we need that leftists are bigoted and utterly hateful toward taxpayers?
Reminds me of a line from the late, great Johnny Carson when the Tonight Show was in New York –
I tried to hail a cab over here in the rain tonight. The driver of an empty cab went right by me and flashed a peace sign, half of which was returned.
They should all be rounded up all over the country and bused (deported) to the WH lawn. Let Obama take a look at his “peeps” who like voting for him because of his Marxist views for America.
Occupy Wall Street Protestors (OWSP) don’t have corporate jobs because:
14. OWSP react to the sunrise the same way vampires do.
13. OWSP abhor a merit based reward system.
12. OWSP don’t know who the Secretary of State is, but can easily tell you who lives in a pineapple under the sea.
11. OWSP can’t articulate a sentence without the word “like” in it.
10. OWSP think worplace rules are facist.
9. OWSP don’t accept responsibility for their own actions.
8. OWSP think the occasional weekend day of work, or an occasional 10 hour day, is slavery.
7. Corporate recruiters dislike dingy teeth, bloodshot eyes, matted hair, and week old facial stubble.
6. Sneakers, flip-flops, sandals, tie-dye shirts, and wool caps are not proper corporate attire.
5. OWSP can’t hide their neck, hand, and finger tattoos from interviewers.
4. OWSP appear at interviews with canvas shoulder bags covered in Grateful Dead and anarchist patches.
3. OWSP wasted their own time and somebody elses money on arcane liberal arts degrees.
2. OWSP can’t pass a drug screen.
1. OWSP would rather stew in their own stinking filth in Zuccotti Park instead of look for a job.
Saw the twinkles video. For some reason ex-game show host Bob Barker popped into my head.
Michelle, the costs will go even higher once the unsanitary and crowded conditions at the ‘protests’ lead to:
- viral hepatitis
- STDs
- disentary
- cholera
- E-coli infections
- parasites
Capitalism creates opportunity and freedom.
Socialism creates uniform poverty, misery, discontent, apathy, mental illness, unrest, class envy, hatred, and severe depression.
Those who are unwilling to see this, are either morally corrupt, brainwashed, or pure anarchists. Unfortunately, our public school systems are filled with this category of envious ideologues.
Mine too!
Josie Wales:(Paraphrased) “It’s always like that…every time I get to likin’ someone they ain’t around for long…”
Chief Dan George: “I notice that when when you start dislikin’ someone they ain’t around long neither…”
It ticks me off to see so much tolerance for chaos and lawlessness. Madison, WI set a very bad precedent.
Given how much public employees are making in overtime, no wonder the unions support these Commie campouts.
And let’s not forget the big ‘T’ of unsanitary conditions – typhus.
They claim they want free education; That is already free through the internet and public libraries. What they actually want is free certification from universities. So talk to your brothers and sisters in higher education. Thay can do that without taking a dime from taxpayers.
The costs incurred by these protests should be taken directly from welfare funds. After all, it IS public support.
And it’s funny, because I’ve been having the same thoughts, from the same episode, but about the ‘human mic’ thing. Only instead of chanting
they’re just repeating what each other says, and they think this is helpful, intelligent, and productive. They sincerely think that ‘crowdsourcing’ and groupthink is going to give them some kind of über-intelligent gestalt. Poor creatures. How little they know about humans, if they truly believe this. If their mommies didn’t teach them that large groups of people can be deadly dangerous when they stop thinking as individuals and start acting as a mob, then all their “higher education” can’t help them.
Twinkles? Down twinkles? This twinkler makes Liberace look like George Patton. They should discard the hand signals, since they’re just days away from communicating exclusively through a series of grunts and excretions.
So they wont move protestors out of the park in NY to clean, but they will remove 75 protestors in Seattle so that a labor rally can go on in the park:
I vote for useless squish. Typical lib politician wants to get along with everyone instead of doing what’s right. Look at the cesspool NYC was before Rudy took over (and is becoming again under Bloomberg). It just amazes me how the left wants to coddle criminals and thugs.
I’m sure most of those OWS miscreants believe passionately about the right of women to abort unborn children. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t want to avoid that trauma, and just go for self-imposed sterilization? That way, they could fornicate all they wanted, without the country worrying about taking care of their future deadbeat children.
Heck, I wouldn’t even be opposed to the government paying for the sterilization procedure for self-avowed Marxists, socialists, militant progressives, and the like. That single act of “kindness” would insure the continuation of a free republic for decades, and insure domestic tranquility (not to mention reducing the amount of Democrat zombie voters.)
think of all the babies they can abort that are conceived during the ‘protest’!
This Malkin lady is full of it.
She claims to care about government money – what a joke.
She sat and watched Bush cut taxes while waging two wars; those actions drove our county’s debt through the roof.
Dear Mrs. Malkin – please stop telling lies and try to do something good for this country.
Thanks,
ILMC
I haven’t read all the comments yet, but what a bunch of whiners and bullies. You could give them everything they demanded and they would still want more. Never satisfied, blame everyone else for THEIR problems, and can’t understand why they are unemployed.
If the occupiers choose to remain, the city employees should still power wash the areas. I’m sure the protestors could use a shower.
I hope someone donates sleeping bags and apparel containing itching powder.
By the way, Andrew Breitbart has obtained archived e-mails of the movement.
I have been praying for our country, but I encourage all of my brothers and sisters in Christ to join me. In the Bible, the Lord often delayed Israel’s punishment when the people repented and prayed and turned back to Him. This is more than the occupiers vs. the rich … it is a matter of good vs. evil. While there are rich, greedy folks, there are also rich, generous ones. It’s not the occupiers place to force the rich to spend their money as the occupiers see fit.
ILMC:
Taking time off from occupying? Tell us, where are you occupying?
Dear Mrs. Malkin – Thank you for telling the truth and for all the good you do for this country.
San Diego occupiers are being evicted by the city government and police.
ilmc; are you txtng from your iphone at the occupation site?
Interesting how ILMC can’t discuss the issue at hand, but rather starts with ad hominem attacks against the messenger. Good job! Alinsky would be proud!