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"Occupy Charlotte" has excommunicated a man credited with starting the local movement. (credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

“Occupy Charlotte” has excommunicated a man credited with starting the local movement. (credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

CHARLOTTE (CBS Charlotte) — “Occupy Charlotte” protesters have carried out an official coup within the group.

Thomas Shope, 47, credited with helping to organize “Occupy Charlotte,” was exiled from the group for claiming leadership.

A YouTube video broadcasts the group’s reasoning with an automated voice speaking over classical piano.

“Some of your actions have compromised the reputation, motivation and unity of the protesters of the ‘Occupy Charlotte’ movement,” it starts.

It went on to accuse him of posing as a person of power who positioned the local movement to invite ridicule.

“Occupy Charlotte,” like its counterparts in cities around the world, governs itself with a lateral democracy and voted him out.

So Shope shut down the Twitter profile and website’s domain for “Occupy Charlotte.” The movement now has several Twitter accounts and Facebook pages that broadcast muddled and conflicting messages.

“They’re a rogue group of kids,” Shope told CBS Charlotte. “They did anything a child can come up with to get people from the group on their side.”

Save a porta-potty problem, “Occupy Charlotte” has been lauded so far as being peaceful, respectful of city laws and cooperative with police.

According to Shope, the local movement is tripping over its own feet on the path to systematic change.

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  • Rupert Pupkin

    one individual human being was the progenitor of that “automated response”, one individual human being ultimately had to push the send button to upload it to YouTube. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE HIERARCHY OF SOCIAL ORDER IN ANY HUMAN ACTIVITY. Your new leader is the person who uploaded that message. Choke on that you idiots.

  • Martin Weiss

    What did you expect from a group of anarchists. Anarchists do what they’re best at – challenging authority – even their own. Doomed for failure. Unable to coalesce behind a common message, because of their anti-everything tendencies, they will continue to look like a bunch of whiny kids.

  • mpk

    4 legs good, 2 legs bad. So, who is Snowball, and who is Napolean.

  • caligula

    the occupusssies strike again…

  • caligula

    lulz…kids with computers are hilarious. go to school or get a job, moron. you sound so infantile.

  • trevor1331

    Another pointless nimrod who got his total knowledge of history from watching “V for Vendetta.”

  • orlandorays

    Nonono, mpk! It’s “Four legs good, two legs BETTER!”

  • pockets64

    Kindergarten Coup.

    Amazing. This is like a Romper Room version of the French Revolution.

  • FeedMe101

    Lets all go down there to eat. All of us, even the people that don’t agree with the Occupy policies. If we were respectful of the other people there we shouldn’t be turned away. We can even be politely vocal about disagreeing. It would be hypocritical for Occupy to deny us food and shelter. Let’s overload or highly tax their system and see how it is liked. Most of the non-working individuals there have been sponging off your tax paying way of life for years. Your tax dollars are still be used to keep police in the area and land upkeep. What better way to take some of that back? Be respectful, eat their food. (pig out for a while). Tax their system at the same time you are telling them you are not one of them. Take, take, take from them and give nothing in return. Don’t forget to be polite.

  • Fanuci

    funny.

  • dydx

    Hilarious! Love it.

  • Nick099

    Exactly. Which is why all attempts at a utopian society have failed miserably. If these imbeciles ever picked up a history book and read it, they would know of these past attempts that have occurred right here in the U.S. over the past two hundred years. So the advice to these primitives: Pay attention. Use logic. Stop voting Democrat…they are using you.Imbeciles.

  • dm60462

    “They did anything a child can come up with to get people from the group on their side.” .

    To quaote OWS: “This is what democracy looks like” No so funny when your slogans come back to pite you, is it?

  • http://www.dynamicsalesgrowth.com Paul McCord

    Great parody of a OSW protester–just the right “power to the people” hysteria along with a completely idiotic and nonsensical message designed to make the movement look as stupid as it is in reality. Very nice work.

  • AL

    I didn’t think Stephen Hawking would get involved?!

  • SunnyJ

    That is a great suggestion actually. You see how outraged they get when they wake up and someone took their laptop! Isn’t stealing just sharing…? This is an excellent suggestion.

  • http://phoebe53.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/%e2%80%98occupy-charlotte%e2%80%99-kicks-out-leader-credited-with-creating-group/ ‘Occupy Charlotte’ Kicks Out Leader Credited With Creating Group « Phoebe's Detention Room

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  • Ragner Daaneskjold

    What if I really need their laptop more than they do? What if I am a member of a group who has suffered injustices somewhere from somebody? Then that laptop is mine right? I hope they have some nice macbook pros.

  • D. Long

    These aren’t anarchists. “Anarchists for more government” is an oxymoron.

  • phillysmart

    They are brainwashed naive kids spoon fed the left wing doctrine and protected from its history lessons …they are a negative force in America manipulated by the truly evil puppemasters

  • Billy

    “Protesting” by cooperatingwith your overlords and being “polite” is pretty damn funny.

  • Spanky

    This 99% vs 1% thing is BS.

    It’s just a slick marketing saying.

    Suppose a group claimed to represent the 97% of the people who are straight and then called for harassment of the 3% who aren’t.

    What’s going on is the labor unions (who represent 9% of workers) know that they are going to lose their control of the White House and the Senate in the next election, unless they do something now. They are jealous of the truly grassroots nature of support received by the Tea Party so they are trying to manufacture something similar.

  • Spanky

    Look at political contributions – labor unions are a powerful special interest group. They’re the ones who should be controlled, not the corporations which actually provide jobs.

    Unemployment was 4.4% on December 31, 2006. Three days later, on January 3, 2007, Dems took total control of Congress. That’s when the misery started. And the misery escalated when Obama was inaugurated.

  • terry dudas

    Love the “Romper Room version of the French Revolution” comment. That one is the best!

  • Texas Freedom

    With any luck, pretty soon they’ll all start killing each other. Sorry, but I couldn’t care less . . . .

  • al

    Lord of the Fleabaggers

  • Spanky

    How many jobs have ANY of these “occupy” kooks created?

  • Robert Marvin Smith

    Those attempting to mount the mob usually ends up being eaten by the mob.

    That is the short and simple truth on the history of mobs.

  • Smashicus

    Misguided youth. “We need to bring the system down, I don’t know what to replace it with, but we just need to bring it down, because I’m unhappy”.

  • Texas Freedom

    Good one . . .

  • morrothmor

    the organizer was kicked out of his own protest. too funny. if you feel evil you can go back to city hall and pull you permit, allowing the cop to eject them from where ever there staying.

  • patmurphy1965

    So true… so very true!

  • Craig Brockman

    D Long, you’re not very bright are you? Anarchy means ABSENCE of government and authority. Buy a dictionary!

  • caligula

    Craig,

    D long is trying to say that these kids are asking for more authority from government in the form of regulations on “evil corporations”…which is the antithesis of anarchy.

  • caligula

    @trevor…

    it’s true. these losers have no idea what Guy Fawkes fought and died for, yet they wear his masks. He would see them drawn and quartered if he were alive today.

  • http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/politics-religion-society/65125-99-occupywallst-org-40.html#post1410654 the 99% (occupywallst.org) – Page 40 – SLUniverse Forums

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  • gnac

    It is all over except the crying. As soon as the temperature begins to drop they shuffle off to mommy nad daddies basements again.

  • Alice Polarbear

    These flea-baggers, nationwide, are mostly useful idiots spoon-fed leftist indoctrination by their leftist-teachers’ union infested K-12 public schools and then by their leftist college professors (assuming they were able to get into college). Those who are not useful idiots are America-hating radicals….like far too many in the Democrat Party.

  • http://www.dynamicsalesgrowth.com Paul McCord

    The problem is the immense damage misguided youth can cause. In my youth I attended a few of the anti-war shindigs. In our arrogance and ignorance we thought we were morally superior to those e v i l adults who started and managed the war to profit the “military/industrial complex.” We had no idea what the heckl we were doing and didn’t think past our nose–we were far too consumed with our own moral superiority. We won. Then the real killing started in Southeast Asia. All of us who sought to “end the war” not only have blood on our hands but we’re drowning in the blood of hundreds of thousand–millions–who died once the US military pulled out. In our misguided youth we created mass chaos and put millions at the mercy of murderers and psychopaths and we are responsible for the deaths that ensued because of our arrogance and stupidity. These f o o l s today are just as misguided, just as dangerous, just as morally bankrupt, and just as stupid as we were.

  • gnac

    I would except my time is valuable. I work and when I am not working I spend quality time with my family – instillng values in my children so they won’t ever act like the fleabaggers stealing from society.

    But I might just have to make sometime – to make the point.

  • Deniser55

    Well well Craig, maybe it is you who need the dictionary, because an oxymoron is a contradiction, which is what D. Long was pointing out. OOPS.
    Which means that Anarchists do not like government.

  • JustAGuy

    So, whose to blame for all the “occupy (fill in the blank)” protestors, their anti-social behavior and foolish opinions?

    I blame their university professors.

    Challenge to Americans: How can someone persue higher education without having ridiculous leftist doctrine crammed down their throats?

  • moovova

    The ‘‘Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery’’ or the ‘‘DIAPER Act’’…authored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D.-Conn.), will come in handy for all of these Occupy CryBabies.

    Lord knows these poor souls need them…along with A LOT of Kleenex…

  • Rupert Pupkin

    I can’t wait for this moment:

    [queue Fox Sports music] “The NFL on Fox…..brought to you by…..Occupy Wall Street…..Fight the power…..and by….Verizon.

    LOL!!!!!

  • SamInRockHill

    Sounds like the nuts are starting to crack.

  • Sashland

    Guillotines…


    already?

  • John

    Here are some things you’ve never seen at a Tea Party gathering:

    1) Rape
    2) Violence against police officers
    3) Theft of goods and cash
    4) People defecating on police cars
    5) Complete disregard for the laws concerning protest gatherings
    6) Vandalism of private property
    7) People blaming the nation’s problems on “greedy Wall Street Jews”
    8.) Mountains of garbage left to be cleaned by others
    9) Drug and alcohol use
    10) Exhortations to adopt communism, love expressed for murderers such as Che
    11) Calls to “kill the rich” or instigate a civil “class war”
    12) People exposing themselves to minors

    But Obama’s OWS protests, on the other hand…

  • http://www.carolinapoliticsonline.com/2011/10/21/%e2%80%98occupy-charlotte%e2%80%99-kicks-out-leader/ ‘Occupy Charlotte’ Kicks Out Leader | Carolina Politics Online

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  • p dirt

    On Phoenix Channel 10 News, anchor Rick D’Amico reported that the guy who was the chief organizer of the Arab Spring movement was hired by the Obama Administration to organize the OWS demontrations in our country. He reported it in a segment called “Had Enough?” on last nights newscast.

  • JustAGuy

    Dont forget fetish female foot sniffing and inviting others to drink urine.

    Those two happened at an Occupy Toronto event.

  • John Denver

    A quick guide for the intellectually challenged:

    Martin Weiss used the term “anarchist” as a pejorative, apparently without knowing what the word means, only that it “sounds bad” and is probably something kids would do (one can easily imagine Martin yelling “You kids get off of my lawn!!”)

    D. Long pointed out that not only was Martin wrong, he was close to being exactly the opposite of right, because someone who calls for additional government regulation and wealth redistribution can in no sense be considered an anarchist (one who seeks no or very limited government).

    Craig Brockman (lol if that’s your real name) blustered his way onto the thread, having completely misunderstood D. Long’s point. Since it’s always fun when someone accuses someone else of being an idiot, but is in fact himself the idiot, we’ve all piled on to laugh at “Craig Brockman.” (Kudos if Mr. Brockman is in fact a troll).

  • Chris

    They ARE creating jobs for security and police officers.

  • http://www.truckingboards.com/forum/washington-dc-holy-land/75098-revolution-hitting-u-s-streets-103.html#post943209 Is revolution hitting U.S. streets – Page 103

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  • Ken Puck

    The organizer be a brother. Cain’t have no dis of a brother.

  • satch

    These useful idiots want only two things.
    No responsibility for their actions,and free stuff.
    Just like most petulant children.

  • Malcom

    one thing you can say liberalism has achieved. Whites now hate thier country, hate working, hate their own race, hate capitalism and hate their own culture. Suicide by liberalism. Liberals have done more damage to America than ANY foreign army or terrorist could ever do. I fight my battles by trying to never use any business that supports democrats or liberals, NO GE products, NO GM autos. NO time warner, NO progressive Insurance, NO to any workers that are union members .NO hollywood movies and so on. If conservatives would make it an agenda to fight back and NOT give money to liberal businesses that use your money to destroy YOU and Conservatism, we would be in better shape. Learn something from the Civil Rights Era , Take the money away from your enemy and they will llisten.

  • Mark Chellis

    Lord of the Flies meets the French Revolution. It is exciting theater!

  • TexasRick

    Wait a minute….a group espousing Communist/Socialist ideals invoking Democratic rule???? That’s as hypocritical as that one protestor I saw selling t-shirts that said CAPITALISM SUCKS!

  • fbo

    Moronic filthy humans………….

  • Lilith

    Nothing that a few good drones couldn’t stop.

  • TexasRick

    Remember Nantzi Peloser tearfully expressing her fears about the Tea Party instigating violence like the 1960s? You tell me…..which crowd looks more like the flea bag deadbeats from the 1960s?

  • Den

    Lauded by whom? CBS Charlotte and the Charlotte-Observer? I live in Charlotte. Unlke New York, these people are camped out on PUBLIC property. I guess Mayor Foxx doesn’t care to do anything distasteful (like removing these trespassers) before the Democratic conventions here next year. So much for being “respectful of city laws.”

  • Deniser55

    Whats really sickening about this is the fact that these labor union are PUBLIC not private unions, so they are paid by us(the taxpayer). They are now using our taxpayer money to protest us(the private sector). It is what Gov Scott Walker and the Ohio Gov. Kasich were trying to fix in their state budget, so that the public sector is not overtaking the (private sector)taxpayer with their self-voted pensions, benefits and other perps. All of the democrat states are heading for bankruptcy because of the overinflated pension funds of public employees.

  • Hank Warren

    This is all about limiting Free Speech. After all, censorship is everywhere. The gov’t (and their big business cronies) censor free speech, shut down dissent and ban the book “America Deceived II”. Free speech for all.
    Last link (before Google Books bans it also]:

  • NCMike

    No surprise here. Whether it’s the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, the Democrat Party, or the Occupy Charlotte Clowns, lefties eat their own.

  • Deniser55

    And also responsible for the people who are still trapped in communism today. As we age we learn that what we do today affects tomorrow.. WE REAP what WE SOW>

  • NCMike

    Malcom is correct. I’ve done the same thing to the same organizations that he listed, but you can add Home Depot, Ben and Jerry’s, the Charlotte Observer, Pepsico, and also the NFL for stiffing Rush Limbaugh’s effort to buy an NFL team.

  • atlas shrugs

    OK, think about this. I know what you all are saying is true about the definition of anarchist. But an anarchist’s greatest tool to achieve no government is actually more government. Eventually, with ever increasing regulations and oversight, a government could actually turn enough people off that the ranks of anarchists would swell until they are acually relevent. Somaybe, just maybe, these people are anarchists, posing as liberals who want the government to wipe their smelly little butts, just so they can gain more support from people who are currently not anarchists.
    Just something to think about… but you are probably right and they are most likely just spoiled brats who still live at home with mommy and have always been told how wonderful they are and taught that winning is not important.

  • Tweety58

    Does it ever snow in Charlotte?Let’s hope they have major blizzards there.Come ON Winter!!

  • http://owsnews.net/2011/10/occupy-charlotte-kicks-leader-out-of-group/ Occupy Charlotte Kicks Leader Out Of Group | Occupy Wall Street News

    [...] Occupy Charlotte Kicks Leader Out Of Group by Occupy Wall Street on October 21, 2011 in Occupy Charlotte with No comments Tweet Source: CBS / Charlotte [...]

  • Me Too

    Q: How can someone pursue higher education without having ridiculous leftist doctrine crammed down their throats?

    A: Hillsdale College

    Hillsdale’s educational mission rests upon two principles: academic excellence and institutional independence. The College does not accept federal or state taxpayer subsidies for any of its operations.

    http://www.hillsdale.edu/

  • http://scrollpost.com/blog/2011/10/21/bizarre-occupycharlotte-issues-au Bizarre: #OccupyCharlotte Issues Automated, Anonymous Message After Banishing Group Leader – ScrollPost.com

    [...] on another level, it is a bit frightening. We are witnessing 1984 becoming a reality.From CBS Charlotte: Thomas Shope, 47, credited with helping to organize “Occupy Charlotte,” was exiled from the [...]

  • Eh2Zed

    You want to see a dumbfounded look. Ask a OWS supporter what happened to all the enclaves, communes and anarchisitc environs that were started in the 60′s, by hardcore peaceniks, and real hippies.
    Stand back though when you do, they tend to sputter and spray drool in their confusion to explain what happened.

  • Get Right

    I think it’s a fair point you are making, but these parental basement dwellers (who by the way are still protesting and not at home with mommy & daddy because the locks were changed when they left to go protest) are not smart enough nor do they look far enough into the future to come up with that scheme. Sounds like a great movie though!

  • P. hertz

    The south…clueless since 1865.

  • Tom in NY

    I guess Orwell had it right: Some animals are more equal than others.

    BWAAAA HAAA HAAA HAAA!!!

  • BeaneySue
  • Get Right

    @fecal_heroes- Is that you Jay Carney? You crazy propaganda, er press secretary!

  • GorBud

    Paul: That is the first time I’ve heard it put that way although I was very aware of the mega killing that went on after the war. This is not aimed at you since I don’t know you but is just a general observation.

    None of the protesters seemed to really care about all the people who were murdered. They were just smug individuals who won their point at no real cost to themselves. Then they went on their merry way patting one another on the back and finished school, jumped into the system they so loathed, made their fortunes, or not, and lived the American dream.

    Now years later when they have moved through mainstream society, made their money and raised their families I wonder if they ever really think about what they’ve caused? It is easy to rationalize your past but some things should haunt you. Maybe your young peers who were killed in the war (50,000) could have used your help over there but you chased deferments or were an outright draft dodger. Does it cross your mind late at night when there is no one to impress and you can honestly evaluate your past. When you strip away all the slogans and B.S. would your children be proud of your stance and actions? Just asking. Again NOT directed at you but kinda at people I’ve grown up with and worked with over the years..

  • jb2817

    EFFIN LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone of them 60′s rejects and whiny trust fund baby jerkoffs

  • Gorbud

    “We have to sign it before we can know what is in it.” Referring to Obamacare, will go down as the single stupidest words ever uttered by a major political figure in history. Except maybe the island of Guam tipping over if too many people go there. But that was generally dumb not politically dumb!

  • Johnny Calabro

    Was someone asking what a “Useful Idiot” is? Here is your answer…

  • Sam B Deakins

    How could anyone make it look any stupider?

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  • Deus Vult

    These occupy-(fill-in-the-blank) protesters are “USELESS IDIOTS!”
    The mojority of Americans are NOT supportive of them while they are getting the backing/support of communists, nazis and thug/dictators (IE: Iran, Venezuela) plus socialists & union thugs too!…and of course “resident” obama!
    They should study history, specifically Germany IE: the “Reichstad Fire”, the “Enabling Act” and “Night of the Long Knives”!!!
    2012-SAVE THE REPUBLIC!
    NO MORE “resident” obama, mooochelle “antionette” and the cabal of marxist czars!
    GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD “SAVE” THE REPUBLIC!

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  • Gibbs Bentley
  • oldmarine81

    The reason utopian ideals fail is that human greed and envy exist. You are exactly correct, there is no utopian answer. There will always be a struggle for balance, and change when the tools of oppression outweigh the results of apathy. The sooner we understand, accept and learn how to work within this construct, the sooner we will actually begin to grow as humans. With the exception of technology, we have not changed throughout history.

    Semper Fi

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  • Scott Glasel

    Liberals love mob movements because you can’t get mobs to think, which is perfect for Democratic ideas.

    Do the Wall Street protesters even know that Obama got more money from Wall Street than any other candidate, ever?

    These pea-brained protesters either admire or have never heard of the most egregious of the Wall Street looters and their co-conspirators: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick, Jim Johnson, Rahm Emanuel, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. Democrats all!

    They have no idea that George Soros has a hand-in-glove relationship with the Democrats, having bought a whole slew of them, including Obama, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, John Corzine, Barbara Boxer, Mary Landrieu, as well as the Democratic National Committee.

    Hamptons-vacationing, helicopter-flying, Russell Simmons party-attending New York bankers always give about 80 percent of their political contributions to Democrats.

  • Mike Alright

    This “progressive” protest will soon end. However, I believe the real revolution could began next spring.

  • OccupyThis

    Hey losers, Charlotte doesn’t want you. No one wants you but you. I’ll bet not even your mothers want you. So why don’t you go wash your mouths out with a revolver and get it over with.

  • kbernatovich

    I can’t wait til they up the ante and the cops bust some heads. I can’t wait for the yuotube uploads to enjoy seeing the trash get taken out!

  • Garr Obo

    It’s all Bush’s fault.

  • jasperddbgghost

    See but they keep saying that the Tea Party has no organization.

    This Occupy (Bowel) Movement is about as organized as vomit.

  • Dennis Wingo

    Another Anti-semite blaming the Jeeeeewwwwwsssss.

    Perfect OWS material

  • no_won_yuno

    Ahhh yes Totalitarianism, which I am sure is represented at these “sit in’s” as well. First thing with totalitarianism, is taking the peoples guns, everything else is easy after that.

  • GMO

    Congratulations Democrats! Pelosi blessed them and Obama praised them. This is now the face of the Democrat Party.

  • Sterling Headset

    How many Fleabaggers does it take to disrupt an entire nation???

    Just one or three or so… if the President of the United States supports them!

    Obama!! Obama!! Obama!!!!

    Four More Years!! Four More Years!!!

    Long live the Fleabaggers!!

  • http://www.politicalforum.com/political-opinions-beliefs/213186-ows-begins-fray-organizers-vs-organized.html#post4611408 OWS Begins to Fray: The Organizers vs. the Organized – Political Forum

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  • http://www.pagunblog.com/2011/10/21/have-any-of-the-occupiers-even-read-orwell/ Have Any of the Occupiers Even Read Orwell? | Shall Not Be Questioned

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  • Tom

    Too much of a loser for the losers. Classic!

  • Claire

    It is so nice to hear voices of reason and intelligence. Thank you for restoring my faith.
    Now, let’s lobby our school systems to teach history to every single American child!

  • eruthk

    Now that is clever!

  • CJFox

    This “movement” (and I do use that term loosely) lost me when their signs voiced anger toward corporate America …. but their hands held i-phones, feet wore Nike’s, and butts wore Aeropostle.

  • Linda McKnight

    Tom Shope is a professional organizer and self promoter who couldn’t even carry on a coherant conversation with WBT’S, Keith Larson, and embarrassed the people in the group that did have legitimate grievances. I heard the conversations on the air. Old Tom opened up a bank account, in his name only, for any donations given. The local folk’s smelled a rat!!

  • Seaislander

    This “movement” (and I do use that term loosely) lost me when their signs voiced anger toward corporate America …. but their hands held i-phones, feet wore Nike’s, and butts wore Aeropostle.

  • bill

    “Kill the pig, cut her throat”… you are right in line with exactly what I thought my friend.

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  • Jamie

    Good thing you have that iPhone to look up those big words like Capitalism… just too bad you didn’t read the definition. Who is getting their heads bashed in? Your heads were already dented by stupidity, but no one is bashing any heads here in the U.S. Please go to Greece, where the government will take care of your every need, till they run out of other people’s money! Oh wait.. they already did what you want the U.S. to do, ran out of money and they do bash in protesters heads there.. so be careful what you wish for, you just might get! While you’re at it, look up two words, IRONIC (in contrast your your accusation WE are “useful idiots”) and HYPOCRISY (in contrast t your anti-capitalism rant, yet pushing the enter button on your choice of technology) Nothing innovative and technologically advanced has EVER come out of a Communistic/Socialist country.. in fact, quite the contrary little man.

  • betty jones

    Linda is correct. Perhaps if you naysayers would do a little research, you might find “those idiot kids” are composed of people of all ages, races, colors and persuasions, including doctors, lawyers, monks, students, construction workers, small business owners, parents and veterans and anyone else who knows that they are getting shafted by a system that is stacked against us. Do you know that over 50% of working Americans make LESS THAN $24,000 a year?? http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2011/10/19/first-look-at-us-pay-data-its-awful/

    Open your eyes to the reality we live in. The Occupy Wall Street movement is trying to put the power back into the hands of the people. We use a direct democracy model, which can be tedious, but also helps make everyone feel that they actually have a voice in the process. This movement is strong because we realize that 99% of us are fighting for that next paycheck or trying to find that job or working 3 jobs just to barely keep on top of the bills. We are parents who care about the future of our children and we are children worried about aging parents. C’mon, naysayers. Do a little research and you might find that you have more in common with us than you think.

    As far as Mr.Shope is concerned, he threatened people within the movement who didn’t agree with his views, he set up accounts that held money donated to the Occupy Charlotte movement, but which they never received) he has verbally abused the people who actually camp there (which he never ONCE did), he never marched when they marched (he’d stay behind and talk to the CMPD). He accepted donations from local merchants on behalf of Occupy Charlotte for Port o potties–and, lo and behold–no port o potties!!! He has a pattern of doing things like this.One must question the motives of a person such as this.

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  • Thompson

    Can’t really kick anyone out of a public movement on public land…it was agreed that he be ignored and ties be severed with him. He was also guilty of threatening the people he ‘led’, who wouldn’t kick out someone who threatened them. Also, the movement isn’t about utopias, or communes, tearing down the government, or any political party. It’s about bank and big business crimes like fraudulent derivatives, subprime mortgage scams, tuition hikes, rate hikes, mass layoffs of workers, dead peasants insurance policies, buying politicians, and lobbying to get policies passed that affect everyone but no one got to vote on, etc..

  • karlthomas

    AnarchISTS are those who advocate for anarchy…

    D. Long is right…..these people advocate for MORE government…

    the resultant may be one of anarchy, but calling them anarchISTS is inaccurate…

    i counter that you are not very bright….

    i would remove the qualifier to “ask” you if you are bright….

    i believe you should buy a dictionary….

    though i don’t tell you you should…..

    education is your own responsibility…..

  • maxwell

    And while the Occupy people complain about corporations, Fearless Leader is handing these corporations billions in American taxpayer money to create jobs in other countries.

    “SunPower: Twice As Bad As Solyndra, Twice As Bad For Obama”
    10/11/2011

    “How did a failing California solar company, buffeted by short sellers and shareholder lawsuits, receive a $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee for a photovoltaic electricity ranch project -three weeks after it announced it was building new manufacturing plant in Mexicali, Mexico- to build the panels for the project.”

    “Marty T. Neese, the company’s chief operating officer, said, “Establishing our own manufacturing facility in Mexicali means we will be positioned to quickly deliver our high-efficiency, high-reliability solar products to a growing North American solar market.”

    “Mexicali Mayor Francisco Perez Tejada Padilla said he was thrilled. “Mexicali is rapidly becoming an industrial hub for high-tech companies, offering an educated workforce and a growing manufacturing area,” he said. “We welcome SunPower to our city and are pleased that they have chosen Mexicali to establish its solar panel manufacturing facility.”

    humanevents.com/article.php?id=46761

  • Fred

    well done occupy Charlotte kick the Globalist shill out be independent and free

  • T.C. Mallone

    Wow, I didn’t even realize we had an occupy movement in the area. Granted I’ve not been keeping up with the news lately. Been busy with my JOB (at one of those eeeeevil fortune 500 companies) and working on my house (which I own because one of those eeeeeevil banks saw fit to give me a mortgage) so I really don’t have the free time to go ad occupy a street corner somewhere. Mommy and Daddy aren’t paying my bills now, nor did they when I was a teen/20-something.

  • Cowboy

    Occupy Wall Street Leftist Organizer, “No Specific Goals, We Are Anarchists & Revolutionaries!”

  • Joe Martin Jr

    Meeting Collusion with Cooperation

    One could hope that at some point the more intelligent aspects of the “Tea Party” movement and “Occupy Wall Street” people might get their heads together and recognize their common interests and common enemies. If they do, the results could be a rapid evolution of the American political process.

    But unless or until each side frees itself from the constraints of “left vs. right” doctrines it won’t happen, or at least not up to the potentials of such a merger.

    Both groups recognize, at least to some extent, that the root of the problem is in the open collusion between government elites and financial elites. They even may say it out loud but none has the courage to openly label it for what it is; fascism.

    The “OWS” group is to some extent guilty of wanting to throw the baby out with the bath water. Their most strident voices seem to be little more than planted, would be communist college professors, or union activists, openly calling for the destruction of capitalism itself, preaching to a choir of poorly educated followers who couldn’t properly define communism, fascism or capitalism. That’s not to say that I don’t agree with the slogan; “the banks got bailed out, we go sold out.” Rather than thinking outside the constraints of conventional politics they are being led down the path to the left of more government and more dependency while ignoring the violent and deadly excesses of central planning collectivism. Even more dangerously it has allowed anti-Semitism to creep in from the fringes. Again ignoring not so historically distant dangers on that particular poison.

    Some of the more active voices among the “TEA” people on the other had seem to completely reject out of hand any concept of a “social compact” between citizen and government, or at the very least feel it has become so bloated and abused that it no longer functions in any positive manner and has become disassociative rather than cohesive to society in general. In this last respect they too are correct. This has lead some of them down the path to the right, where personal initiative and self-reliance thus becomes the be all and end all justification of their argument while ignoring the oft as deadly consequences of greed and unfettered laize-fair capitalism. This is how we get an almost knee-jerk reaction to the actions of the OWS by the TEA defending what they know to be the excesses of the very few on Wall Street with the mistaken attitude of “well at least they are capitalists.”

    Meanwhile the OWS compounds the mistake of categorizing the criminal behavior on Wall Street as definitive capitalism by attempting to tar the entire system and its participants with that same brush.

    Both sides need to recognize that it’s not a matter of the 99% vs. 1%. It’s more like 99.9% vs. 0.1%. If both sides could come to an understanding that the excesses of big government, as viewed from the Tea Party “right,” and the excesses of Wall Street, as viewed for the “Occupy Wall Street” left are but two side of the same coin, and that the collusion between them is working to keep them divided and more occupied fighting each other rather than addressing the issue of that fascist collusion that is at the heart of the problem. If such an understanding amongst the rank and file of both political sets could be reached then the more distasteful extremist elements, communist and racists, on both ends could be marginalized if not pushed out of the picture. And then something might be accomplished furthering work on those elements where there is agreement rather than expending and wasting energy fighting over those thing where there is not.

    Such a combination would not only marginalize the extremists but put the left and right wings of our one party state on notice that their game has been exposed for the fraud that it is and a new paradigm is in play that will make them obsolete almost overnight. The thesis of one side must meet the antithesis of the other and give birth to a new synthesis of political and economic direction. Without it only chaos and violent conflict lays ahead.

  • Northlander

    Bloomberg has turned NY into bedbug row with fleabaggers peeing in streets and taking dumps on people’s doorsteps. Why doesn’t he arrest the owner of that dump if the owner won’t even put up porta pots or ask police to kick them out?

  • BigBoa

    Ok,,,,,after putting up with these morons for over a month, we all could use a good laugh. Recently, the mighty Boa saw someone post a satirical rant as one might picture these clowns performing it. So, if you would, just imagine about 50 of these dummies marching in a circle and chanting the following again and again. For added effect, imagine the “call” portion being performed by Sharpton through his bullhorn….

    “What do we want?”

    “More for NOTHING!”

    “WHEN do we want it?”

    “NOW!”

  • JohnRalph

    Only socialism can save America! It’s proven to have worked in the past.

    National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party, referred to in English as the NAZI Party (socialism for the German ‘Teutonic’ Race), In reality though no different than the left’s socialism.

    Like Stalin, for the white Russians, or Pol Pot, for the Khmer Rouge, or Ho Chi Minh, for the Viet Minh, or Mao, for the Han Chinese.

    Socialist Gods that brought death and misery to tens if not hundreds of millions of humans.

    Let us not forget our SOCIALIST God, Mein Lord God High Führer Obama, for America’s liberal elite and welfare voters on the dole.

  • Cowboy

    Interesting thing about Fawkes…. He was descended from a respectable family in Yorkshire, and having soon squandered the property he inherited at the decease of his father, his restless spirit associated itself with the discontented and factious of his age.

  • Texas_Twister

    Actually the Cloward and Plivin plan, is just that. However the left believes, this will lead to total breakdown, with true socialism to follow. The truth is the total breakdown, will lead to military style totalitarianism.

  • Cowboy

    Common interests?

    Occupy Portland Protesters Sing ‘F*** the USA’…

  • Jerry Frey

    http://napoleonlive.info/what-i-think/occupy-wall-street-get-the-money-out-of-politics/

    An unscripted reality show, Occupy America is a populist movement in the tradtion of the nineteenth century Cross of Gold. Speculation (George Soros; hedge funds), long or short, oil futures, de-regulation, neo-liberalism, benefits the 1 percent connected class with no social benefit. Banks once organized and allocated capital in order to produce wealth, economic expansion, that benefited the many rather than the few. Globalists know no national loyalty and are detached from their nations.

  • Mark

    Tea partiers want less government, and they’re patriots, Occupiers just want a better one, and we’re anarchists? Makes sense to me.

  • Mark

    The problem is that the Tea Party is without a doubt a right-wing movement, whereas the Occupy movement is already free of right or left bias, I mean I’m a Libertarian, my girlfriend’s a socialist, my father is a Reagan-Republican, and my mother is a left-leaning moderate, and we all support the Occupy cause.
    The Tea Party is a group of Americans tired of their money being taken and giving it to the poor, and Occupy is a group of Americans tired of their money being taken and giving it to the rich, that’s it. And ultimately that’s why the two groups would never work together, you tell a tea partier about some of the basic demands of Occupy and they’ll scream socialism.

  • John

    Wow, can I have some of what you’re smoking?

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    [...] On Friday, Shope told CBS Charlotte that the group is now “a rogue group of kids.” Drudge Report has picked up the story and is running a link to the CBS Charlotte article under this headline: “ ‘Occupy Charlotte’ Banishes Organizer; He Calls Them ‘Rogue Group Of Kids’ ” [...]

  • Matthew

    From the behind-the-scenes coverage, these are mostly tea-party-minded libertarian type people. Apparently it was the Democrat’s turn to hijack the movement’s most recent manifestation: Occupy Wall Street. That is the untold story of why Occupy Charlotte kicked this guy out. They probably got wise and realized he wolrked for MoveOn.org.

  • Cobra 9R

    Well, after all anarchy is BETTER THAN no government at all. {Who said that? Steven Wright??]

  • tiredofidiots

    Unfortunately Nick099 most of these ‘imbeciles’ probably don’t really know how to read with comprehension. Most of what they have been told to read would have to do with Socialism and Marxist run countries. Since I live in the Charlotte area I have to say it is nice to read that at least the protesters that are here are following some rules. Now however that the original ‘starter’ of the occupy Charlotte is out and disorganized idiots are in control I wonder how long the ‘peaceful’ demmonstration will last….. It seems like if the demo. is peaceful then that is sending the wrong message. I could go on about how the protesters are now dictating to the press on how they must ‘show them’!!! The press is not allowed in the ‘private tent areas’ and must point cameras toward the buildings. This is in NYC, also a dog of one of the protesters actually attacked a newsman. Good thing he had on a jacket, otherwise his arm would be in the stitches now. Thanks to Mayor Blumberg this OWS has gotten TOTALLY OUT OF HAND.

  • Paul

    John Denver, King of the obvious.

  • http://www.thepiratescove.us/2011/10/22/occupy-charlotte-a-rouge-group-of-kids/ Occupy Charlotte: “A Rouge Group Of Kids” » Pirate's Cove

    [...] hunky dory within the Charlotte Occupiers group. Perhaps they just don’t have enough drums? (CBS Charlotte) “Occupy Charlotte” protesters have carried out an official coup within the [...]

  • Max17

    The only people possibly dumber than the OWS morons are those that think OWS is similar to a Tea Party. Meet OWS (2 1/2 minutes well worth the view): http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/10/are-occupiers-like-the-tea-party.php#more-30778

  • Bill

    “My wish was, to see both Houses of Congress cleaned of all persons interested in the bank or public stocks – cleansed, that is – of all corruption.”
    -Thomas Jefferson

    ‘It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.’
    -Henry Ford

  • Bill

    ‘I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.’
    -Thomas Jefferson

    “America “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
    She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own,”
    -John Quincy Adams in his oration of July 4, 1821.

  • raymondreason

    I’ve got news for you gnac and the rest of you. Most of the worlds offspring still live with their parents, because they don’t have the luxury of “making it” on their own. The irony is, you are actually the spoiled myopic American brat. But you will soon be “dis-illusioned”, and understand. The Great Society we once enjoyed, and which is still enjoyed by most Americans, was stolen from the mouths of the of the world’s poor via the Fed. The fat life for Americans is drawing to a close, as is the USD, the FED, and the US Military and Medicare. Welcome to life on planet earth, as most people know it. Learn to help your children into middle-age, and they will help you into old-age. The old American paradigm doesn’t work anymore. It’s time for the American brat (you and most of these other posters), to graduate to adulthood, and learn the harder lessons of humility, non-judgement, familial love, and self-sacrifice, and war. Welcome aboard, to the human experience. Now sit down and shut up.

  • ED357

    This is the results of raising children as participants……..

    THERE ARE WINNERS……..

    AND….

    THERE ARE LOSERS IN LIFE……..

    AND THERE’S NO WAY YOU CAN GET AROUND THAT FACT.

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  • PLC

    Anyone wants to know how all this “leaderless democracy” (an oxymoron- leaderless is anarchy, not democracy) turns out, just real “Lord of the Flies.”

  • Stevo

    Martin is right…

    Most of these kids ARE anarchists…

    Anarchists have a major issue with authority, not necessarily government. In situations where government wields authority over them they hate government.

    In this case they want government to wield that power over the other authoritarian grloup they despise even more…corporations.

    One definitely cannot blame these banadana wearing cowards of being consistent in their principles. Being mixed up kids is what they do, what they are…

    But anarchists they be.

  • Antonio Binggot Talisic

    funny how the left feels they are the only ones that can have freedom of speach.

  • Antonio Binggot Talisic

    You are an idiot Brockman Can’t you understand a point. Go back to your child porn and let the people with triple digit IQs post

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    [...] ago? It’s now made it into both onto the pages of the Charlotte Observer and the news site of CBS Charlotte. They’re STILL missing the most important part of the story, which is the “Anon” [...]

  • JHarnes

    Key problem – these ongoing demonstrations change over time from public outrage over the excess of rich international bankers to desires by Democrats and every other advocacy group to use these “live in” demonstrations as a means of gathering political power.

    Come on – The longer a demonstration continues the more flaws of the people involved become obvious. Who are these people who seem to be on multi-month vacations? They can’t be Middle Class workers who are forced to pay bills, providing health and car insurance, pay rent and mortgages and try to save some money to cover expenses for their children’s future.

    Some are paid professional demonstrators supported by advocacy groups and unions. Some are the same protesters who gather at every major demonstration around the world — that often lead to violence by the way – seeking to build a real revolution Of course you have idealistic students — many of whom are depending on parents to pay their bills. Will those be continuing after their grades or lack of grades go to their homes after this semester is completed?

    I have no love for these corrupt bankers and if the Republican and Democratic politicians were serious there would be hearings and prosecutions of these bankers and monopolists for looting of America. But forming collective “Soviets by another name” and claiming they are real Democratic voices – while using nonsense like “Mike Check” to drown out any voices of descent unwanted by group organizers, and demanding media only cover what they want covered, are the marks of true Fascists. Do I want these folks in charge – no never!

    An election is coming in 2012 and one wonderful quote by Benjamin Franklin proves so true as the public watches these occupiers force themselves as unwanted house-guests on American cities: “Fish and houseguests smell after three days.”

    As the working public grow disenchanted with these demonstrations the longer they drag on I expect politicians to see this discontent and flee rather quickly from the support they have given to these groups. The elections of 2012 will be here in moments and these protests offer no leadership on issues – just crying children saying something is unfair. The world is unfair the key is to push issues to make changes that will improve the country. The group that does that will gather the support to make real changes we can live with – not the ongoing nonsense of the current disorganized administration.
    .

  • Austin

    Since most of the protesters are receiving some sort of compensation-either directly or indirectly-from the unions and George Soros, Obama can oficially claim them all as jobs he ‘created’.

  • miss take

    They’re about as far-sighted as the Bush administration knowing how to destroy Iraq with no thought to what will replace it OR the long-term consequences (which in the case of Iraq was destroying Iran’s most formidable enemy).. or hippies in the sixties who thought free love and getting high were the only goals anyone needs.

  • John Frost

    LIBERAL PROTESTERS: “Burn down Wall St. but…..please re-elect Obama”

  • JPrimus

    These guys are ridiculous. It’s sounds like “Lord of the Flies.” If the Tea Party were to act like this at its own rallies, the media would be all over it and treating them like the goofballs that these kooks clearly are.

    Listen to the quotes. It sounds like it’s all coming from a tree house or a bedroom “fort.”

  • No One Important

    Losers. . .all of them.

    The only thing this “movement” is accomplishing is deficating on a police car.

    Keep it up. . you guys make yourselves look more and more foolish every day.

  • joey

    Funny how the right creates grandiose illusions in their heads.

  • joey

    haha antonio is flaunting his “triple digit iq” look out everybody. I’m sure Mensa is wondering where there shining star is. Little do they know he’s sitting at home trolling message boards, wasting that glorious brain he’s been blessed with. Antonio you are so smart!

  • jj

    so what do you suggest oh wise one.

  • you are so dumb

    and there are lots of ellipses apparently. and capital letters. and morons.

  • Steve

    Just got back from the grocery store and there is a Chase Bank next door that had a line out the door. It is always busy. If huge portions of the population would pull their money and services from the largest banks it would send a powerful message, but I suspect a huge majority are quite frankly happy with their current situation.

    All this gnashing of teeth over the banks is overblown.

  • Shirley Long

    I think a lot of these people across the country are so lonely and ignorant they will follow anyone who makes them feel a part of something. Then they feel like they have a cause, a life, friends. It’s terribly sad. Take a bath, comb your hair and stand on your own two feet. No one owes you a damn thing! Bunch of spoiled babies.

  • AnJo1

    Any history book written more than 20-30 years ago contains sexist, racist, ablist and/or classist language, and therefore cannot be included in a history curriculum. Most students learning history today must read it, if they can read at all, in sanitized versions that remove all chances of actually understanding past events in their own contexts.

  • AnJo1

    Great lines!

  • Jane Fonda

    I’m struggling to tough out the cold in my North Face
    Basecamp 4 season tent. It’s not like George Washington ever had to
    encamp in freezing conditions for extended periods of time. We have had
    casualties; Mike was forced to go home when his debit card got declined
    at Blimpie yesterday. Danielle caught a pretty bad cold and had to
    feed her cat. I am beginning to doubt whether Kelly is coming back
    with my latte.

    We have had new protesters join daily – mostly homeless guys
    who steal our socks. I hope my dad wasn’t serious about cutting
    me off if I don’t go back to class immediately.

    He went on and on about working his way through college and being
    wounded in Iraq and saving every dime for my education blah blah blah…
    He doesn’t know what it is like to make sacrifices, to do something
    meaningful.

    Where is that girl with my latte?

  • followshistory

    Wow they don’t even wait until it’s over before they start sending their own to the guillotine. Just a week or so more and they will destroy themselves. Inevitable.

  • waiting

    Oh Mark. Please explain how money is taken from the poor and given to the rich. I’ll hold my breath.

    Taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor is theft and slavery. Why do you think it is ok to enslave one segment of the population, steal their money and give it to the other? Explain how that is fair.

  • infalliblerhetoric

    It’s amazing to witness so much enthusiasm for conservative rhetoric and how all of your individual perspectives are meshed into a “group think” synopsis of our current “S.P.E.R.M.”, (social, political, economical, religious, and militant), situation.

    Congratulations! You all have a concrete objective and a common goal in mind! Shame on those unorganized “flea-bagger,” OWS protesters! For they have far too much to discuss. They are most certainly ignorant and oblivious of the benefits they reap daily from the corporations they protest. It’s like they don’t even watch the news on fox with Poppa-Bear Bill O’Reilly or some other bigoted pundit you idiots leach on for reason and manufactured inspiration.

    How about the fluoride that’s used to treat our water and that our state and local taxes pay for. The fact that the aluminum industry lobbied back in the seventies and got the FDA and EPA to state that fluoride provides strong enamel protection and is harmless to ingest. Then why does it say contact poison control if more than typically used for brushing is swallowed on the side of your tube of tooth paste? Why can a foreign company like BP or even a domestic company for that matter create an environmental disaster and only pay a fine that equals only a portion of their quarterly profits?

    Why is there primarily monopolies and conglomerates controlling nearly every industry where the majority population get their news from? Their food from? Their electricity from? Remember Enron? What happened to the 10 billion dollars they stole from the whole of California’s citizens? Ken Lay supposedly committed suicide and only a few other executives went to jail while all evidence of the crime burned up on 9/11 in trade tower number seven. Seems fair, or at the very least parallels the sentiment you bigots are preaching of “stealing occupiers lap tops”. Speaking of 9/11 what about the first responders? Oh, that’s right. I forgot you idiots link healthcare for 1st responders and citizens to a socialists doctrine. At least we, the youth have the mind to speak for our selves and not mimic the rhetoric of some over paid pundit like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Rush, Poppa bear or who ever you use to perpetuate an ignorant and fear accepting nation.

    Face it, we’re the majority of change. You’re the majority of idiots. So lay back and listen to the numbers gather. We don’t need a label and sure as hell don’t need fools like you to tell us how to organize mass change. You have no experience anyhow because you’ve just lie back and let corporations take piece by piece of American lives, (i.e. no bid contracts for Irag and afghan wars and the numbers that died for an unjust war in the first place), contamination of our water supply, (i.e. fracking, flouride, sewer run-off, pesticides), wall street bailout and the bonuses top executives where rewarded with, the housing crisis and de-regulations that allowed it to happen, the lie of the Gulf of Tonkin that lead to the Vietnam war, Congress and elected officials free healthcare for them selves and families for their entire life regardless if only served one year in office plus 67 paid holidays, 3 weeks vacation, and unlimited sick days, ect.

    The list is too long and although we disagree on everything I do agree we need to handle one problem at a time in an organized fashion.

  • wealthbad

    What are you talking about, Mark? The protestors have never been able to vocalize their demands. All we know is they hate rich folk. Are we supposed to kill all the rich people? Outlaw wealth? Make poverty a requirement? What?

  • gotohell

    Well I love this country, Joe so I feel I have nothing in common with those spoiled little brats playing dress up and demanding everyone pay their bills because they don’t want to while they spit in my face and insult my country. No. I have nothing in common with that. That is my enemy.

  • garcon

    I feel your pain, Jane. Chef is on his way with an heirloom arugula and white truffle salad. Try to keep your spirits up.

  • big owie protestor

    The money is the preciousesses! Give us the preciousesses! You greedy fat cats! It’s MIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!!!

  • ohtheywill

    wait for it…

  • rip300rog

    agreeed, they are oxymoronic. Emphasis on moronic

  • speciallikeme

    They are such free thinkers, just like everyone else in the mob. They are very special and unique, too. You can tell by how they all have the same tattoos, body piercings and hair. Very, very unique and special individuals. Who look, talk and act just like all their peers. That’s how you know they’re cool.

  • thereyago

    Just change the name from OWS to MEWANTEE. It would be more honest AND informative.

  • owsnotsomuch

    You’re right. A lot of these comments ARE funny!

  • LeTroll

    You right/left people are blind. Occupy is not a right/left movement. Your Pavlovian responses are evidence that any post on this subject outside of your paradigm will receive the reaction you have been trained to give. I should copy this forum and sell it’s contents as a reference for those who continue these inane online battles. Blind and stupid trained monkeys. You entertain me, most of the time. But this chatter is starting to get old.

  • Union Thug

    Lets see… to date the American Nazi Party, the American Commnist Party, and terrorist union mafias all back these drug addicts who are defecating in the streets and stealing from each other (even as they protest theft.) No wonder Obama likes them.

    Kookfest 2011.

  • pfllt

    You’ve said nothing.

  • Jim

    OWS List of Demands…

  • LeTroll

    Finally, the voice of reason. Thank you. I hope this message can make it through the noise that has been injected into the minds of the readers. The people who are against the movement are zombies of the PTB. Slaves, as it were, who refuse to be free.

  • Jim

    Guaranteed dispersal technique (sends them home to the basement)…

  • http://www.catwyp.com/2011/10/22/daily-tyranny-ticker-saturday-oct-22-2011/ CAT-WYP (Citizens Against Tyranny / Watch Your Politicians)
  • John Mc

    Decide if you want to write an article or an editorial. If you mean to report news, you can’t have lines like:

    “The movement now has several Twitter accounts and Facebook pages that broadcast muddled and conflicting messages.”

    That is editorializing, not reporting.

  • Tracy

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  • Marsha

    I really don’t know what to think anymore. For me this entire movement has no credibility. I don’t understand what it is they are after (clearly they don’t either) but, the one thing I see in coming through all the Occupiers around the country is that they don’t want to pay their dues. They want the silver spoon, easy ride, walk into the top job “cause I got a degree” but, have no experience at all with anything and since most of their socializing is done on line they can’t form a sentence. Not a big surprise they can’t land jobs. Moved here 35 years ago LEGALLY and became a citizen but, I moved here to get away from communist and not to become one. If you would like to see wealth distribution at work go visit Nicaragua or Russia, open your mouth once and see if you still have your tongue the next day.

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