Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops — and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.
“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
“I had my Mac stolen — that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”
Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.
Who’d have thought that a crowd of people demanding the seizure of wealth from banks, corporations, and the wealthy might also have a few thieves? I’m shocked, shocked to find theft occurring in a group that has hijacked private property it refuses to leave. I can’t imagine that a crowd that demands free higher education and the forgiveness of tens of thousands in student debt would also think of someone’s Mac or an iPhone as equally as communal as a college education.
If you think it’s okay to take from others because they have more than you, then you must think it’s okay for people who have less than you to take your shit too.
Is that anarchy or freelance marxism?
Meanwhile:
Identity politics and the usual lefty crapola
Reporting from the trenches, Riverdaughter reveals that some of my original fears about OWS are coming to pass…
Toldjaso toldjaso toldjaso!!!
The Crawdad Hole 
I didn’t know Joseph Cannon was a Beckistani.
When did TC turn into a right-wing hate site?
I’d say during the Glenn Beck live blog.
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/unnamed-sources-up-the-ante-on-massa-accusations/
I love it Joe Cannon starts sounding like the reasonable one.
Whaaaa…?
Did I miss something?
Beck enabler is the new raycist.
Inside joke – according to *some people* anything less than unqualified approval of OWS is proof you are a Glenn Beck fan.
“Hive mind” means she didn’t get to do all the talking, with others listening adoringly.
If she’s the queen of the HIVE, she’s cool with it.
Please. Easy to discern. Due respect.
BTW, Ralph has been “absorbed.”
You mean assimilated
That, too. 🙂
I think the proper term is owsimilated.
no! 😦
They have ralphie? ohhhhhh noes !!!!1
Miss him 😦
Maybe he’ll come back when they start calling him a Republican Ratfucker over there.
Or the Occupiers want to tattoo the *O* logo onto his forehead..
FIFY
Word. You’ve pegged her exactly. And this:
Just makes me want to slap her. Pretentious much?
She may not be a 1 percenter, but I suspect she could hang with them.
I said this below, but I’m bringing it up here too, because it fits:
Re: the police video, the comments on the youtube are just sickening. We have a country full of angry young dudebros who want to smash it all to pieces and then have “the people” (i.e. them and their thug compatriots) rule the world in some little Lord of the Flies commu/anarchist fantasy.
You know why I like a Republic and the rule of constitutional law rather than mob majority rule aka direct democracy – that MANY of the left are now calling for? Shit like that is why. I have no illusions about the ability to live in peace harmony and love of most of the human race, or any confidence at all in what a majority will do once they decide that there are no rules except “Do enough of us want it?”.
If believing with all my heart and brain in the wisdom and balance and efficacy of our Constitution, and the protections of our form of govt, now makes me a winger ratfucker and teapartier, then think whatever you want. But it is what I have ALWAYS believed, and what Liberals have traditionally believed.
The fact that a large portion of the left have seemingly decided that unless you want to be a batshit crazy revolutionary remaking the entire system, or at least support them, then you aren’t “on the side of the people” is their delusion, not mine.
Could not agree more!
HONK! 🙂
Honk.
new experience for some of the ows people
dumpster dive
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/yuck-occupy-chicago-loons-ask-for-food-donations-from-dumpsters-video/
has anyone else noticed this at ows sites?
neo-swastika
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/17/bizarre-neo-swastika-reminiscent-of-the-great-dictator-used-as-power-symbol-by-ows-leaders/
I think it’s just meant to be a hashtag #
Cannonfire:
Quite a few of you are probably bursting at the seams right now, desperate to tell me: “But this movement isn’t about partisan politics! It’s about raising consciousness and awareness and establishing a New Age and heralding a We Century and proving how virtuous we can be by eating lots of tofu!”
If you want to give me that rap, please…just die. Preferably in pain. I want no part of a “consciousness raising” exercise, and I don’t care for tofu.
LOL!
They are the ones they have been waiting for. I never figured out the part about if they are the ones why have they been waiting for themselves.
He did have a few takers!
I’m in Philly and I work pretty closely with the recruiting manager of my company. I already recommended to him that he set up a table at Occupy Philadelphia. He laughed, but I was dead serious. We do tech support and lots of the protestors appear to be tech savvy. Let’s see how many of them really want a job.
Check out the new post first
Can you imagine that megaphone girl in tech support?
I zipped over to The Confluence and read about Riverdaughter’s concerns. I think you may be toldjasoing too soon yet, though events could prove you correct.
If I understand Riverdaughter correctly, she suggests ways the OWSers could contain or at least ghettoize the veganazis and keep them from scent-marking the assembly-movement. Hopefully the OWSer majority will see things that way and will smother the emergent
veganazism under a beautifully scented wet blanket of polite distaste.
Hopefully the OWSer majority will see things that way and will smother the emergent veganazism under a beautifully scented wet blanket of polite distaste.
*snerk*
Well . . you know . . “keep hope alive” . . .
I prefer to contain veganazis by eating a blood-dripping rare steak right in front of them and telling them to mind their own fucking business, authoritarian little busybody do-gooders.
Normal vegans, as a few of my friends are, I am quite polite to, and make sure they have something to eat if they come to my home. 😀
Well, that’s a distinction I need to remind myself of, sometimes. Yes, some of the nicest people are vegans.
Sometimes I visit relatives in Saratoga Springs, New York. There is a health-food store there with a legacy-hippie-co-op feel to it called the Four Seasons. They have a little restaurant-cafe division with strictly vegan food. But even though it is vegan, it is good enough to eat. In fact, it is good enough to pay for.
Early vegetarians returning from the hunt
Awww…did her dogma get in a fight with another person’s dogma?
LOL She doesn’t really mind dogma “hives;” she just insists they be HER dogma “hives.”
“Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind…”
Relax, they’re just redistributing the wealth. Freelance marxism, indeed.