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Fifth Column
Thousands pack Wall St. protest at Washington Square Park
2011-10-09
[NY Post] Thousands of anti-greed protesters
Or completely deluded idiots, take your pick...
These are the same people who would have been wearing gray flannel suits and horn-rimmed glasses in 1953: conformity is the highest form of... ummm... well, it's not originality, is it?
invaded Washington Square Park today, vowing to fan the flames of dissent and putting them toe-to-toe with cops ready to enforce a curfew.
The reporter is selling it awfully hard, considering he's working for one of those greedy corporations.
The estimated 3,000 people flooded the iconic park compared themselves to the "Arab Spring" demonstrations that have toppled totalitarian governments in the Middle East.
Does that make them the spontaneous gang of woman-molesters or the organized ranks of hard-eyed Islamists?
One speaker urged the crowd -- that hooted and waved hands instead of clapping -- to squat in empty or abandoned buildings and declared, "they have theird debts and we have our revolution."
Good luck with that, guys. Really.
An estimated 3,000 people packed Washington Square Park during an Occupy Wall Street protest this afternoon.

Cops kept a close eye on the protest but there were no reports of violence or arrests. Police fenced off grassy areas in the park, and erected 10-foot high chain link fences around public bathrooms before the march from Zuccotti Park to Washington Square began.
Group front man Patrick Bruner said there were no plans to force a confrontation with police that appear determined to enforce a curfew and prevent protesters from camping out there as they have done for weeks at Zuccotti Park.

But another organizer, Justine Tunney, 26, was more blunt. "We plan to stay in Washington Square Park and form a second permanent occupation," she said.
Posted by:Fred

#9  "I think Obama's reelection campaign is centered on starting a 'class war.'"

Class war perpetuated by the class-less.
Posted by: Barbara   2011-10-09 22:11  

#8  I think Obama's reelection campaign is centered on starting a 'class war.'

Even though Class is actually a Euro/UK issue and doesn't mean the same thing at all here. But I guess that's what Alinsky & Co are all about.
Posted by: Free Radical   2011-10-09 21:36  

#7  Back in the days of the filthy, stinking Hippies, who as a matter of principles refused to bathe, there was an old guy who proposed a novel invention: a "poo gun".

Basically, a waterproof, paper container that could hold several odoriferous "smokers", which could then be launched out an open car window at the targeted low life.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-10-09 12:51  

#6  P.S. NYU is a private university. When I lived near there, it was infamous for its very high tuition coupled with its low entrance requirements (i.e. rich, spoiled, lazy college students).

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2011-10-09 11:48  

#5  Washington Square is about 3 miles north of Wall St. and part of NYU campus. It was always full of druggies, panhandlers and hustlers when I lived near there (1st job out of college).

This is a great place to ensure a crowd of unemployables and naive college kids.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2011-10-09 11:28  

#4  Or in NYC....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-10-09 01:23  

#3  I'd say it's a good time to own a bussing company in Washington D.C. They must be making buckets of money hauling those Union Mobs around town.

Or does the Transportation Union make them do it for free?

Interesting Observations:

Life from Wall Street
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-10-09 01:23  

#2  Vagrants! Throw them all out Mayor Bloombugger, then throw yourself out after them.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-10-09 00:52  

#1  You want a piece of the action on 'The Street' you little 6o's throw-back wingnuts, you'd better forget about hanging around in parks and streetcorners and get a job! LOSERS!
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-10-09 00:51  

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