It appears some of the Occupiers discover reality

[Streck-Fu]

Eventually they will learn that people are people and any attempt to organize looks a lot like government and managing money looks a lot like banking.

The drummers claim that the finance working group even levied a percussion tax of sorts, taking up to half of the $150-300 a day that the drum circle was receiving in tips. “Now they have over $500,000 from all sorts of places,” said Engelerdt. “We’re like, what’s going on here? They’re like the banks we’re protesting."

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“Someone has to be told what to do," she said. "Someone needs to give orders. There’s no sense of order in this fvcking place.”

[Badger52]

Collateral story here.


The leaderless Occupy Wall Street encampment is shifting away from its anarchic roots to something resembling a governed society, and not everyone in Zuccotti Park is happy about it. Daily Intel's Alex Klein investigated the rifts within the movement--where a general assembly model is giving way to a "spokescouncil" model where people can make rules about things like cleanup, neighborhood relations, security, and--perhaps most ominously for inter-demonstrator harmony--money. Says one member of the drum circle who've had to quiet their percussion section in the face of noise complaints:

The drummers claim that the finance working group even levied a percussion tax of sorts, taking up to half of the $150-300 a day that the drum circle was receiving in tips. “Now they have over $500,000 from all sorts of places,” said Engelerdt. “We’re like, what’s going on here? They’re like the banks we’re protesting."

But organizers have a plan to weed out such dissidents. Said one organizer: "Personally, I cannot wait for winter. It will clear out these people who aren’t here for the right reasons. Bring on the snow. The real revolutionaries will stay in -50 degrees."

Let me know how that works out. (Cue horses & sabers from Dr. Zhivago action scene.)

[Dusty]

Wait 'til it gets cold.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Wait 'til it gets cold.

...and wet...!!!

Richard

[JJ_BPK]

I think we are watching the resurrection of a New and Improved 21st Century Tammany Hall..

http://www.racontours.com/archive/tammany.php

Is Barry The Street Organizer,,
The new Boss Tweed incarnate???

Is the Mexican Drug cartel,,
The New Five Points Gang??

[Guy]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Wait 'til it gets cold.

Originally Posted by Richard

...and wet...!!!

Richard

And the crime rate will go down also....

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Guy

And the crime rate will go down also....

Yep, those walking event horizons carrying the signs are currently prey items for the regular denizens.

[rdret1]

I guess all of that "Happy Happy Joy Joy" ain't so happy when the reality of trying to actually control and "Govern" something hits you in the face. These knuckleheads want a socialist form of society but can't even get it to work in their own little world.

[longrange1947]

Also note that the ones making money are getting pissed because of the money being set aside for the do nothings.

[bubba]

"There are 2 things I know of to be endless: The universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the universe" A. Einstein........

[Baht Dog]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

Eventually they will learn that people are people and any attempt to organize looks a lot like government and managing money looks a lot like banking.



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It reminds me of that South Park episode where a bunch of hippies say to the effect of:

Hippie: "YEAH! And we'll make, like communities of people and stuff"

Stan Marsh: "Yeah, we already have those. They're called towns."


Hippie: "Yeah and we'll like have guys who make like you know, uh bread and bake it and stuff."

Stan Marsh: "Yeah dude, we already have those. They're called bakers".


Hippie: "Dig it dude, and we'll like have people who you know, go around and protect other people and stuff"

Stan Marsh: "Yeah you stupid douche, those are called cops".


And so on.

[hetzer]

George Orwell was a genius. To paraphrase, "All Wall Street Occupiers are equal, but some are more equal than others."

[Box]

Originally Posted by longrange1947

Also note that the ones making money are getting pissed because of the money being set aside for the do nothings.

Now, isn't that just the gem in the crown!
How dare some third party bureaucrat redistribute the fruits of their labor!


They curse the corporate world, but they do it on FaceBook from an iPhone...

[casey]

Originally Posted by Billy L-bach

Now, isn't that just the gem in the crown!
How dare some third party bureaucrat redistribute the fruits of their labor!


They curse the corporate world, but they do it on FaceBook from an iPhone...

They have the ability here to curse them in much lesser numbers now brother.

Our local homeless toads who were moved off their RON's and feeding platforms by the OWS types have returned, and thusly began "redistributing" alot of those OWS owned Macbooks and iPhones to themselves.

Usually, the theft reports start off with " I had just gone home to Mt Airy to feed my cat" or "while showering at the William Way (Quaker) Center", I returned to my tent to discover .....

Last Tuesday they - the OWS "haves" did then make requests of the gestapo occupation force to notify/keep the "have nots" (homeless toads) from the public property wherein the OWS crowds tents and belongings can be found - my new definition of IRONY !!

They're chatting up a "world occupy Philadelphia" from July thru October of 2012 ..... I'm dusting off my tour guide hat now - and of course discounts will be afforded to all PS.com membership.

[longrange1947]

Start posting on twitter and facebook about all the "free stuff" just laying around for the indigent to have as they are being "donated" by the "anointed socialists" of OWS.