Occupiers To Infiltrate Wall Street By Dressing Like People Who Work For A Living
Ed Morrissey suggests that maybe this whole “occupy” thing was just a really, really complex marketing scheme for…Men’s Warehouse.
The “day of action” is to begin early, with protesters converging on Wall Street camouflaged in business suits hoping to blend in with office workers trooping out of the subway.
“We will rise from beneath. They can’t stop all of us. It’s going to get crazy,” vowed one organizer. “They took the first shot Tuesday night. [Thursday] we return fire. We will be peaceful, but we will resist.”
The city said it was bracing for tens of thousands of people in the streets.
“The protesters are calling for a massive event aimed at disrupting major parts of the city,” said Howard Wolfson, deputy mayor for governmental affairs. “We will be prepared for that.”
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, occupiers seized control of a Bank of America branch, scaring away customers and employees and generally vandalizing the place. Because that’s what democracy looks like, or something.
Protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement seized a Bank of America branch in the city’s financial district Wednesday, a demonstration that forced jittery customers and employees to flee and ended in nearly 100 arrests.
It took about 40 police officers in riot gear nearly four hours to clear the bank, but no one was injured. Police said many of those arrested were UC Santa Cruz students who were protesting fee increases and budget cuts. …
They scrawled messages in chalk on the bank walls — “Greed!” and “Give Us Back What You stole!” — and plastered pink phone message slips on desks and computer screens. One man was seen urinating in a corner.
Interesting that the occupiers are worried about theft. Because concern over theft speaks to a concern for property rights, yet so far this movement seems to have little regard for other people’s property.
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