Unhappy Campers at #OccupyWallStreet: ‘I’m Leaving Today, Because This Is No Longer Safe’
by PubliusThink it’s a worker’s paradise at Occupy Wall Street? Guess again –there’s strife, dissent and violence. Two people who have been at Zuccotti Park from day one discuss how the internal order hasn’t worked for them.
Sage: I’m leaving today, because this is no longer safe. Like, I had somebody–
Q: I’m still recording.
Sage: Sure. I had somebody in our sanitation team take a swing at me. And then I had like three really calm, friendly individuals telling me that they–that they didn’t just take a swing at me. It was, like, I was just…
Channing: Yeah. I had beef with sanitation ’cause they took my s*** down. They took my, like tent thing down that I made.
Sage: Oh, sure, sure, I was just saying that.
Q: But yeah, yeah, all I–
Channing: Yeah, no–they took my stuff. They–I had like a little tarp tent at the end of the park. Their whole thing was they were trying to clean out some of the people that were doing, like, drugs and stuff. But they started with–
Q: Drugs?
Channing: Yeah. Oh, my God. But they started with my tent. And, like, they threw away my toiletries, my food, and, like, a bunch of papers I had, that were really important from the hospital. And then, like, I tried to get them to help me, like, rebuild the tent or something, and they’re like, “We didn’t do it, it wasn’t us,” and I’m like, “I saw you doing it.” Like, I got called from direct action because they doing it.
Q: But I’ve got–
Sage: Yeah, so–
Q: –let me get you to just finish that, because–
Sage: I’m just gonna say the same thing. I don’t call it corruption anymore, ’cause corruption is when a good thing goes bad. And what I think this is–people go, “Oh, they’re so stupid.” No, they’re not. They’re smart, for their purposes, which are not for this camp to function as a community.
Q: Who’s “they”? You say, “they.” What do you mean–who’s “they”?
Sage: Well, once you start pointing fingers, you get–you’re already co-opted.
Q: Well, I mean, just general–I don’t know who you mean. I don’t know who you mean.
Sage: It’s an entire–it’s an entire attitude and community of apathy, and focusing on problems. And focusing on–and I’m a part of it, and that’s why I’m leaving, ’cause I can’t get out of it. Like, just by being here, I’ve started focusing on good things, and then all of a sudden I get integrated.
Q: How long have you been here?
Sage: My name is Sage. I’ve been on the ground since Day One.
Q: Since the 17th [of September].
Sage: Yeah.
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Michael Moore should go there, and walk on the waters, and calm the seas.
Well what they hell did they think was going to happen!?!?!?!
These morons keep denying the communist/anarchist CRIMINAL element within the left wing, and when it is pointed out to them, they just demagogue.
This is Barrack Obamas AMERICA.
I hope people think long and hard when they vote next November
Reminds me of what happened in the Soviet Union once the Communists took control. Slowly devolving into the worst kind of class warfare. Those with power and those that have none. Let the pogroms begin…!!!
I feel sorry for that poor delusional, misguided girl (who has been in numerous videos).
Watch it at about the forty-three second mark.
"I just wanted some help to rebuild my tent" (paraphrasing).
How phucking hard is it, to put up a tent?
You don't need a college degree for it.
You don't need help for it.
It is either up, or it is down.
Fer Chrissakes, it is a phucking tent, not a condominium project!
Michael is fat enough to , if not walk on water, surely float… : -)
Just beware of the global "fatting" and the associated rise in sea level.
Awww… so sad for Channing… Poor thang… it's hard when the idealist first begins to realize that the com-
mune is not operating fairly (pure democracy can be ugly).
Those ol meanies took her "stuff"… Drat, I hate that!!! Amazing that she will just leave, go back to safety of
the very representative republic she has shunned, when the cold, hard reality of communism surfaces.
I wonder if she learned a lesson from this little experiment? Funny, but she would advocate WE all live
under the system she now chooses to walk away from… So cornfused…
I've got an idea, lets build a summer camp for idealistic college age kids, where they can go to practice what
their profs have taught them the previous semester. That way they can live the communist life without harm-
ing the rest of us. Nothing would shock them into reality more quickly, and we might be able to avoid these
expensive, destructive little experiments, like this occupy movement.
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I reckon his Man Mammary's would make him quite buoyant.
They thought a Pixie riding on a Unicorn was going to lope by and sprinkle them all with Fairy Dust, and they all would sing Kumbaya and live happily ever-after.
Look, the poor girl is slowly starting to realize her life has been filled with liberal lies and you are still mean to her.
Are these the highly educated and oh-so smart people that comprise the Occutard movement? Good lord, what a bunch of incoherent babble. These people should be suing the universities they attended for malpractice as they obviously were the recipients of highly inferior products. The fact that they're surprised or dismayed that a mob is acting like a mob is further evidence that they are completely devoid of reason and logic. God help us if these people are ever in charge of anything more than the deep-fryer at Mickey D's.
What did she expect – some utopia moment? This girl has apparently always been protected from life's little realities and is now facing some hard lessons.
Hello! Earth to useful idiot at OWS! Be careful what you ask for. You wanted anarchy or communism and you got it.
Now maybe you'll grow up and get a clue…and a life. You've been used and abused by the very "system" you said you wanted. Numbskull. "Like, fershure"!
Sage – disillusioned but not any smarter.
This is what happens when you allow anyone in – troubles are caused by vagrants and the like mostly. The analogy is how we allow foreigners in this country.
The tragic thing is that she will not learn this lesson that is what happens in socialist cultures.
You nare talking illegals only, right?
I agree.
My people have been saying that, since 1492.
There ya go now Scooter, let me see you step off of that landmine.
This idiot is a perfect example of why we shopuld not fear a second American Revolution against the useful-idiot Left! Dumber than boxes of Corn Flakes and totally inept at everything they attempt.
In all seriousness, I feel sorry for that poor delusional, misguided "Channing" girl.
She seems so sad, so lost.
I wonder if I could adopt her?
Take her home, give her a bath and a hot meal, and try to teach her values.
But only if I can get the Tax Deduction for a Dependent.
Look on the bright side.
If they had weapons, and were issued the order Fix Bayonets,
they would slice their fingers off.
Sometimes you just grow up a little quicker than you want.
While some of their ideals may remain intact, these people have witnessed first-hand the ugly side of things. They'll be able to compare it to what was going on at Tea Party rallies and see the difference. It probably won't result in a public declaration of "I now see the light. I have changed.", but it will be in the back of their mind as a little seed of doubt that will grow as they move into the "Why are my taxes so high? What the Hell is the government doing with my money?" sector of Society.
Granted, the Anarchists and other rabble-rousers are too far gone, but there is hope for the few that actually do have brains and initiative.
wah!
Mommy! These people are no fun anymore! This protest stuff isn't what they promised!!
wah!
Can't make this stuff up, folks…
Sounds like they both need to go detox in Mom's basement. Poor Mom, failed parenting is not pretty.
Sounds like Sage has been seeing too much of Hemp at the Park
and what they found out was,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
lions and tigers and bears OH MY!
OWS should look at Jim Jones:Ghana. Democrats are just using you as useful idiots while they loot this country of everything from freedom to money and keep their power intact.
You would be much better off investing pork futures and buying some pigs. Probably much cleaner and smell better too.
sorry Cowboy,
you can't fix stupid
It's tough losing your rose colored glasses only to discover that Utopia looks a lot like a ghetto.
You owe me a keyboard.
"Sometimes you just grow up a little quicker than you want."
When I was their age, and substantially even younger than a lot of them, I was laying in the jungle, in the mud and the slop, getting shot at, watching friends on either side of me die.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4bc9UwZsYs
That fits!
Poor thing, she's being integrated and co opted.
She's upset that the "community" is focusing on problems. Isn't that the whole reason they are there. They are focused on problems, not solutions. They think everything is unfair to them and they want to complain about it in a way the whole country will see how unhappy they are. Isn't being focused on problems and whining about them the whole purpose of OWS?
I have finally found the right song that truly fits them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4bc9UwZsYs
…nor HIV.
lmmfao!!!!!
* Spits out coffee*
Oh, you mean like a Leper colony?
Heard this morning my backyard is now the HQ for this movement…..Oakland. Home of Van Jones and Code Punk. How nice.
It won't be much longer before Jones comes out as the savior and coordinates this movement into what they truly want.
Archived Q & A May 12, 2003 Criminal Law What Does Inciting A Riot Mean?Jeralyn Merritt Q. What does the charge inciting a riot mean and what will happen?
A. Under federal law, a riot is a public disturbance involving an act of violence by one or more persons who are assembled in a group of at least three people. The act of violence must be one that presents a clear and present danger of injury to another person or damage to another person's property. Threatening to commit a violent act in such a group situation that could injure another person or damage property is also considered a riot if one of the persons in the group has the ability at the time to carry out the threatened violence.
Inciting a riot applies to a person who organizes, encourages, or participates in a riot. It can apply to one who urges or instigates others to riot. It does not apply to someone who merely advocates ideas or expresses beliefs, if those ideas and beliefs do not involve advocating violence.
The federal crime of inciting a riot carries a possible penalty of up to five years in prison a fine.
State and local governments also have laws that make it a crime to incite a riot. The penalties range from fines only to jail time. It is important that the law, even if only a municipal ordinance, specify the conduct that that is prohibited with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited.If you have been charged with inciting a riot, I recommend you seek out a criminal defense lawyer in your area who can tell you exactly what conduct the law prohibits in your jurisdiction, and advise you as whether the law is subject to a challenge on the grounds that it is unconstitutionally vague–either because it fails to sufficiently set forth what conduct is prohibited, or fails to set minimal guidelines for police to use in enforcing the law.– Jeralyn Merritt
"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
George Washington
and we'll see just how long California stays a Progressive haven. When exposed people usually turn on them. So there IS hope…
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Dee,
I think the tide is beginning to turn.
Gotta hand it to the liberal masses, they just don't have the staying power.
True to form, they always go limp, and pull out too soon.
When people who wish to impose their beliefs on others start occupying, there's no surprise that they want to impose their beliefs on each other as well and steal from each other and hurt others.
No surprise there.
He should try sleeping there. And bring a bunch of his stuff with him.
(You know, like donuts 'n hot dogs 'n stuff.)
Everything is hard after her drugs have been confiscated… don'cha'kno?
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Once she moves past recognition and actually starts showing some remorse (repentance), THEN we'll welcome her to the group. I think an open apology to America would be a good step in the right direction for her to take.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Sheesh, you sound like that mean judge that beat his daughter with a belt. Have you no compassion?
ho!
Good one…
They suffer from the same thing all progressive movements do. Organized rabble usually implodes when shown reality. They hope their 'useful idiots' will have served their purpose. But, invariably, the 'masses' they hope to engage, and enrage, turn on THEM.
Happens every time…
Don't kid yourself CL. Skunks do hibernate.
My people have been saying that, since 1492.
Priceless.
The Marxist Stenographer Media isn't even bothering to cover the violent nature of these allegedly "organic" protests..
Maybe open a school?
For idiots who are old enough to know better?
No.
You know ocp, just got to thinking, we should create a new reality TV show. Take two groups of people, maybe 20 in each group and place each one on a remote island.
Run one with Capitalism and one with Communism. Let the populace see which one works best.
Most people have utterly no idea what Communism is, yet they support it.
Nope. Its clockwise the vile racist and anti-Semite, so he's talking about anyone who isn't White and Christian (by his twisted definition of Christian).
D'uh, this is the pattern in every communist take-over. If the revolution was a real success this girl would either be shot or put into service in a community brothel for inner party members.
Way to pick your side regressives! YEAH! This is mainstream America, right? This will fix problems?
But it’s The Tea party that is dangerous, right? Remember that one time the old lady passed a parking meter and didn’t add coins to benefit the person who had parked there? Yeah, dangerous f***ing activity.
By the way Sesame Streeters. What you’re too f***ing stupid to realize, thanks to a diet of proganadized classroom material and state media, is that the Tea Party saw all of this coming YEARS ago, and protested for this exact reason! WE saw the gov’t killing the private sector, taking away freedoms, in bed with big corporations. You all are YEARS late to the ball and mad despite being told by us for YEARS that bad times were coming.
Go ahead! RAGE! Kill each other. Show this country what you are about. The state media can't cover for you forever. YOU all voted for this s***. Now LIVE WITH IT! You wanted big gov’t, crony capitalism, Keynesian economic experiments on steroids? Well you F***ING GOT IT !!
And we were all like…and like we were all, and like they were like doing like, this thing, ya know? Like we all got here, like, and it's all like, and like we all, and like and like and like and like.
Guarantee you they've never read below. They just know it's a button on facebook and a word to use frequently in failed attempts to form a complete sentence with a coherent meaning. And they wonder how they got suckered into overpaying for college and why they can't get a job.
Preposition:
Having the same characteristics or qualities as; similar to: "they were like brothers".
Conjunction:
In the same way that; as: "people who change countries like they change clothes".
Noun:
Used with reference to a person or thing of the same kind as another: "the quotations could be arranged to put like with like".
The things one likes or prefers.
Adjective:
(of a person or thing) Having similar qualities or characteristics to another person or thing: "I responded in like manner".
Adverb:
Used in speech as a meaningless filler or to signify the speaker's uncertainty about an expression just used.
Verb:
Find agreeable, enjoyable, or satisfactory.
Synonyms:
adjective. similar – equal – analogous – same – even – identical
adverb. as
verb. love – please – fancy – want – be fond of – wish – relish
After several minutes studying this young lady's vocabulary, emotions and body language, in conjunction with reviewing the printed text version of same I have concluded that I can truly reach this poor victim and explain to her the reasons for her unfortunate and heart-breaking disappointment in a language that she should clearly understand……"like, Duuuhhh!!!!"
Walden pond. This girl could be, um, like, um, Boopsie.
That is EXACTLY what she expected! Young skulls full of mush are so gullible. No critical thinking skills whatsoever. These are exactly the type of people Charlie Manson preyed upon.
They're always shocked and stunned when their 'commune' turns out to be a cult. They sicken me with their collective stupidity.
Ironically, she represents the smartest among them!
They better not mess with the raiders game on sunday. Funny when the weather got cold they got violent.
Maybe I could get a whole busload of wayward girls.
Depending upon their demeanor and temperament, i could open up one of two businesses.
Xenophobe!
Good idea Petro, but we can't afford an island. Bring them out here to stix-ville, and offer the
successful ones a trip to town, as a reward… heh, heh, like I did my kids growing up. Nothing
clears up their thinking better than the direct application of capitalistic principles. I NEVER
had a single issue with either one of them being confused by some commie professor. LOL,
but I did have a few problems with their inability to keep mum in the classroom when the
principles of stateism were being openly taught to their piers.
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Had to get that blood flowing……likely better than snuggling up with STD's…
Add to this the act of sedition. How many of these Van Jones types advocate the violent overthrow of the government? How many urge the crowd to violence and riot? They hide behind the first amendment as if it was their right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Despicable, disgusting cowards.
The former junkie Channing (we've seen her admit so in earlier clips) is aghast that when the Action Committee to rid the "ghetto" of drugs goes to her makeshift tent first.
hmmm… no surprises here
Spare the rod and spoil the child. Your lack of critical thinking skills tell me you're no better than the girl we're discussing. Indulgence was her parents mistake in the first place. Now you want to repeat it?
The skull is thick, but the message is powerful. She may yet 'get it'. Like many other reformed liberals, it may take 30 or 40 years to sink in.
Pure democracy is 5 guys and one girl voting on if there is going to be any sex that night. I'll stick with a republic even with all its faults.
Comfort workers?
Like, OMG. Like, that's rilly bogus, man.
Maybe this experience is just what the liberals newest little zombies need to snap them into reality. What did they think was going to happen to them? Oh yeah they believed the jazz the Michael Moores' were selling. Grow up already. http://www.takingonissues.com
I think they are learning about his being part of the 1% (?) they hate. They are a little slow.
He has to find another bunch of dimwits who won't heckle him about his fortune.
I suspect these people were picked on for specific reasons, something was said or done by them that wasn't approved of or cleared by the people controlling this behind the scenes. Speech is monitored at these Occupy sites, I did notice that. People have to go who might be a problem and the easiest way to that is to use thugs. Hey guys welcome to the world of Van Jones and Obama, the world they want for all of us, similar to the utopian countries under Maoist, or Leninist or Stalinist rule. Unfortunately people seem to disappear a lot in their worlds.
They HAVE to use violence to get their way. Most of these kids do not know the history of communist organizations. Most of them probably don't remember the USSR, or the violence used by the chicoms. They will be used as cannon fodder , while their "leaders" direct the action from afar.
Nice strategy, guys. Bravo!
When you see a young, unwise, exploited liberal begin to realize who she's surrounded herself with and begin to move away in disgust and despair . . . GLOAT!
The "I Told You So" approach is a marvelous idea. Its how we at the Bigs make the world a better place.
"Conservatism — It's not just on our minds . . . its also something that we think about!"
Well, like, this is, like, freaking, weird, like, ya know? I'm, like, proud to be, like, an American?
Yeah, amazing ain't it? Wonder what her opinion would be if that same principle were applied to her
19th amendment right? Ahhh so much ignorance, so little time…
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‘I’m Leaving Today, Because This Is No Longer Safe’
FINALLY, a statement from an OWS'er that I can believe.
And if the socialists take over. No one is safe.
FREE….. means, "AT NO COST" OWS is not FREE by this definition….
Millions of $$$$ have been spent by organizations fostering this NON-Grass Roots movement, and Cities and States have had to pour out MILLIONS to provide services and protection for them. Incoherent rantings from street people, union thugs and leftest Anti-Americanism, has in reality taken more money from the very needy they claim to be fighting for and wasting it on their own selfish misguided lunatic raging.
NEVER….. at any Tea-Party gathering did you see angry, vicious behavior unless it was a counter protestor doing it that tried to infiltrate and cause a disruption. They were dealt with by outing them, most just left as soon as they were uncovered.
THIS….. OWS crowd…. THESE people…. THIS movement IS "THE FACE OF THE MODERN DAY DEMOCRAT"…. These are the democrat base that President Obama and the UNIONS are relying on to continue their rein of terror voting in 2012.
The most disturbing factor in all of this is that some of their legitimate gripes about corporate greed and banking hanky-panky, and even unfair taxation IS a valid topic to discuss. Government Overreach and authoritarian dictatorship type regulation against the average citizenry and private small business is a conversation to have….
They have however made their own message moot either by design or by ignorance… in either case…. This President and this administration will go down as the worst Presidency in history. All I see is a petulant Angy spoiled rotten to the core divider in Chief…. HE choose sides when the country needed to replicate it's very name… "The UNITED States of America" Epic failure on all fronts and accounts.
You're assuming that they actually thought this far ahead.
If they were ordered to fix bayonets, they'd probably complain about being issued broken ones.
Publius, I think you meant "dissension" instead of "distension."
It's not her fault she was brainwashed with liberal BS since birth. Now that she is finally an independent adult she has the opportunity to see liberalism for what it really is.
The tragic thing is that most of this conservative group is making fun of her. Don't get me wrong, it will be for the best if she's able to look back at this moment in her life and be a little embarrassed–but that's growth.
Yep, Lenin broke the code after decades of failing as a community organizer! Once he took control of the government from within (dissolved the Duma when only 25% of members elected were Bolsheviks) he used class warfare. Then, even though 89% of peasants owned the land they farmed, Lenin set the peasants ON EACH OTHER to steal land, after he had confiscated all the money in the banks. This went on for three years with millions dying of starvation and murder by the government. That is what the protesters are begging for? Oh yes, no social justice either-just the political elite and the terrorized useful peasants left working for the state now at 10% of their previous day wage. Great book on Amazon: Communism, A History, Richard Pipes, 2001, just 175 pages. You can quote paragraph by paragraph to you left leaning acquaintances.
Lets send them to the outback of China, away from the model cities of skyscrapers. Plenty of land. The Chinese would LOVE more workers. Six months of communism and they'd be killing themselves!
Maybe Obammy needs to appoint a "Safe Mob" Caesar.
Let's see – - – that homo who was Obammy's Safe School Ceasar is looking for work – hmm hmm hmm?
Everybody has a good reason for not showing compassion.
An "open apology to America"? Because that's how late teens and young adults move past troublesome behavior, right? I disagree with this child's politics 100%, but she owes me nothing and she owes you nothing.
Good thing the Right can have your vote and leave the rest of the carcass behind.
What do you call Israel? Japan?
Hmmmm……..
L4S would say "F-U for being such a stupid gullible b-****"
I would of course sympathize with the poor girl after being betrayed her whole life by false liberal propaganda. You should show compassion towards future potential supporters, not everyone is born as smart as you are.
Mickey Moron is no doubt making a movie about this in order to make more money as a capitalist. He may double his capital using these idiots as fodder for the movie. I would say Mickey Moron is two-faced, but that would be a compliment. Even physically, he has enough faces for the entire Obammy regime and then some.
His face is so fat and large it is difficult to see it.
Perfect. And thanks
We get it. WHO is going to prosecute? Jails will be overflowing. Let's start at the federal government level first.
Start with the leaders.
@Tyrant
I'm might not be a person you want associating himself with your name or complimenting you. But for whatever it is worth, thank you for what you're doing here. This means a lot to me.
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