7 dead,
91 jobs lost,
5,464 arrests,
rapes, thefts, assaults, drug dealing, public defecation, in a really long rap sheet,
and TIME is so desperate for attention that they name “Protester” Person of the Year.
Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles, has offerred the Occupiers office space, housing, and farmland, proving that insanity is alive and well in La-La Land:
city officials have offered protesters a $1-a-year lease on a 10,000-square-foot office space near City Hall. He said officials also promised land elsewhere for protesters who wish to farm, as well as additional housing for the contingent of homeless people who joined the camp.
As Jim Hoft said, “this won’t end well.”
Two #OWS leaders are staying at the W Hotel in downtown Manhattan. Their idea of being “the 99%” includes spending $700/night.
Peter Dutro, member of the group’s finance committee, charged the room to his American Express card.
“Don’t leave home without it!”
More on the #OWS organizers here.
Elsewhere,
Hazmat Crew Called in to Remove 200lbs of Human Feces Near Occupy Santa Cruz (h/t Instapundit).
The NY Daily News has been liveblogging.
Power Line detailed why Zuccotti Park had to be cleaned up.
Jim put to rest any comparisons between #OWS and the Tea Party,
More, lots more, at OWS Exposed.
UPDATE,
Via Instapundit, A List of Occupy Mayhem Sorted by Type
Police Clear Zuccotti Park of Protesters; the protestors must have been adding transfats and too much salt to their food since Bloomberg finally got around to it,
The mayor, at his news conference, read a statement he had issued around 6 a.m. explaining the reasoning behind the sweep. “The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day,” the mayor said in the statement. “Every since the occupation began, that law has not been complied with” because the protesters had taken over the park, “making it unavailable to anyone else.”
TOTUS, the Teleprompter of the US, was kidnapped from the Virginia Center Commons Courtyard Marriott and released, unharmed, at the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Express near the Henrico airport.
TOTUS was able to return to work on time for President Obama to say
“In some ways, they’re not that different from some of the protests that we saw coming from the Tea Party. Both on the left and the right, I think people feel separated from their government. They feel that their institutions aren’t looking out for them,” he said.
The redistributor in chief missed the point.
In many ways, they are different: For starters, Tea Partiers don’t steal from each other the way OWS Thieves preying on fellow protesters
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.
Mostly because Tea Partiers stand for hard work and property rights – Taxed Enough Already is their motto.
UPDATE, Wednesday, 19 October,
Connan on TOTUS, via Ace,
A look at the Zuccotti Park zoo on Columbus Day:
Millionaire celebrities Kayne West, Russell Simmons, Mark Ruffalo and Penn Badgley (never heard of Penn before) – and, what would a protest be without Susan Sarandon and Al Sharpton? – joined the affluent and effluently odorous crowd. The Daily Mail has the details, plus fashion show,
A very privileged protest: Wearing $300 jeans and from some of the most exclusive schools, the children of the one per cent out for a good time at Occupy Wall Street
Teens from Bard and Parsons show their solidarity in NY
Chicago protesters heckle financial industry events
Dozens are arrested, including girl, 14, in first Des Moines protest
Mayor Bloomberg blames protest on warm weather
Wall St demonstrators plan march today on millionaires’ mansions
Does that mean they’ll stop by Bloomberg’s own abode? He’s The Man, after all. He says he won’t throw out the occupiers “as long as they’re not breaking any laws“, so one must guess that in Mike’s book loitering, drug use, public defecation, and what in olden days was called “creating a public nuisance” are not against any laws. Makes me pine for the days of Giuliani.
But to answer the question of whose houses, who’s heading there, Matthew Vadum reports,
Radical labor organizer Stephen Lerner of SEIU intends to terrorize the families of bank executives in their homes as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
The rest of the occupiers are best represented by this character (click here for larger version),
The NYTimes says the Protests Offer Help, and Risk, for Democrats. Help! I’m being repressed!
If anything, the self-esteem generation ought to just shut up, shower, and stop bothering people. In the meantime, here are a few #OWSPickupLines: What time do you get off not working? More at Twitter.
On a personal note,
For years I worked in downtown Manhattan, but had never heard of “Zuccotti Park” until this latest fiasco. As it turns out, I walked past the “park” every morning and every evening but never stopped to find out if it had a name. It’s mostly a plaza.
Better there than at Louise Nevelson Plaza down the street. I’m rather fond of Louise’s sculptures.
or as much as $650,
depending on responsibility and length of time on staff
Courtesy of the Working Families Party.
UPDATE,
Job benefits include Sex, drugs and hiding from the law.
Characteristically, Hugo Chavez is propagandizing against the USA, siding with the Occupy Wall Street protestors while calling Mitt Romney “crazy man” and President Obama “a big fraud”;
Chavez slams “horrible repression” of U.S. protests
Socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez condemned on Saturday the “horrible repression” of anti-Wall Street protesters and termed a Republican presidential candidate “crazy” for his criticism of Cuba and Venezuela.
Although still convalescing from cancer surgery in June followed by four rounds of chemotherapy, the 57-year-old Venezuelan president is quickly returning to the tough rhetoric and strong views that have made him famous worldwide.
Not surprisingly, Chavez expressed solidarity with American activists who have been staging rallies and marches against what they view as corporate greed by Wall Street.
…
“This movement of popular outrage is expanding to 10 cities and the repression is horrible, I don’t know how many are in prison now,” Chavez said in comments at a political meeting in his Caracas presidential palace shown on state TV.
Hugo looooves the filthy hippies, unlike the workers whose businesses are in the line of feces, fire:
Over at the NYT, Jennifer Preston writes that Protest Spurs Online Dialogue on Inequity. Inequity, as in, lazy freeloading dirty hypocrites demanding $20-per-hour pay for doing nothing, while defecating on police cars, and tearing down sinks and vandalizing honest businesses struggling to stay viable in this economy?
Or perhaps the hundreds of companies suing Chavez for nationalizing their businesses in Venezuela?
No, I didn’t think so.
More like iniquity, from the Grey Lady.
Help! I’m being repressed!
Cross-posted in The Green Room.
