Initially residents of the deeply blue cities of New York and Washington, DC were sympathetic to the message of Occupy Wall Street. Having dozens of unwashed campers with a history of rape and assault occupying their public parks for months on end, however, quickly evaporated any goodwill the city’s residents may have had towards the group. This week the patience the residents of New York City and Washington, DC was worn to the breaking point by members of the movement in two unrelated incidents that show just how little regard the campers have towards their fellow man.
In Washington the normally sympathetic DCist reports,
Last night, in the span of about two hours, Occupy D.C. managed to get on the nerves of two groups that tend to be progressive: LGBT activists who organized a 700-person march in support of hate-crime victims, and City Paper readers in attendance at a debate of at-large D.C. Council candidates sponsored by the alt-weekly.
The march last night was meant to be a mostly quiet affair, with some participants taping over their mouths as a way of expressing the silence they feel when a member of their community is attacked. The marchers who didn’t seal their mouths spoke quietly, save a few quick speeches by the organizers and some District officials.
But the 50 or so members of Occupy D.C. who joined up couldn’t stick to the script. They mic-checked, chanted and lingered in busy intersections as police officers escorting the march reopened the streets after rolling closures. Some said they were part of a “radical queer bloc” that was enjoined by members of Occupy D.C., but with the “mic checks” and chants that wouldn’t be out of place at an Occupy rally, the distinction was unclear.
This is far from the first time that Occupy D.C. has been loud and disruptive in a public meeting, nor is it the first time they have blocked traffic. It is the first time they’ve taken aim at their fellow liberals, and given the tone of the DCist’s coverage, liberals don’t like the taste of their own medicine.
In New York City, since the return of the warm weather, OWS is back to its old tricks organizing marches and butting heads with the Police Department. In a stomach-turning protest against what one would assume to be against the banking industry, one member of Occupy Wall Street dragged a large tub of human waste through the city in order to pour it inside a Chase ATM vestibule in downtown Manhattan. Who was the first person to make this stomach-turning discovery? My guess: Not a member of the 1%. Whose job was it to clean up these gallons of human feces and urine from inside the ATM vestibule? My guess: Not a member of the 1%.
I’m not sure what Occupy Wall Street is protesting anymore and it doesn’t appear they do either. Their fifteen minutes are up and they know it. The only thing left to do now is stir up attention in any way possible, even if the attention is purely negative.
" … incidents that show just how little regard the campers have towards their fellow man." Indeed, as it turns out, when one's sense of self-righteousness is so inflated, as is common with Leftists, small things like courtesy and human consideration just aren't important. n nThey have long since become the people they have been warning us about.
You have that backwards, government is corrupting business. However, either way the solution is for government to not have that much power. If it doesn't have the power it cannot abuse it or be pushed into abusing it by dishonest business people who use government regulations to hinder their competition. The solution is smaller government.
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They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind. n n