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QuoteQuoteQuoteMore at the link.
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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!”
Looks like the folks in favor of redistributing things don't like it when it's *their* things being redistributed.
Crime in NYC!!! WTF!!! This is huge news.
What evidence was there that their fellow protesters were responsible?
Guess you missed that whole "within their ranks" thing too, eh?
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QuoteQuoteOne way or another, the crowd is meeting the expectations of what the Tea Partiers claim it is.
Those "expectations" were met long before this story ever surfaced. Perhaps your saying that every group has it's fringe, like when some in the TP were waving their racist signs and voicing their support for the murder of President Obama.
Yep. And those people were being asked to leave, if I recall.
Every group has its fringe and indeed its criminal elements. the Tea Partiers (like the assholes holding racist signs). The anti-Tea Partiers (the assholes who immediately blamed the "Tea Party" and "Sarah Palin" for the shooting of Gabriel Giffords despite an absolute paucity of any evidence other than their subjective feelings and hopes that it was a Tea Partier). The republicans. The Democrats. All have their fringe.
And the Occupiers have their fringe. For example, it takes a special sort of blissful ignorance and self-aggrandizement to suggest that the few thousand people nationwide represent 99 out of 100 of the rest of the population. No you don't. You represent yourselves. That's all.
What we are also seeing with the Occupiers is that they may be getting their very first instruction on the realities of life. I can admit to being stunned at the resources they had available. The gal reported that she lost a $5,500 Apple computer. I mean, huh? $5,500 for what is in high probability a personal computer?
That takes resources. Big resources. Perhaps there has been some degree of sheltering. The people you trust can screw you the most. I take it that the thief who stole her computer probably caused her as much - if not more - pain than did a bank.
To their credit, many of them are doing something spectacular - looking within themselves. This is something that I can respect and admire. They aren't just looking at it in some paranoid way.
I think it's refreshing.
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Those "expectations" were met long before this story ever surfaced. Perhaps your saying that every group has it's fringe, like when some in the TP were waving their racist signs and voicing their support for the murder of President Obama.
Ron Paul seems to think the "Occupy..." crowd has a case.
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