OWS plans march on millionaire's homes

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  1. Mad Conservative

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    If this doesn't have the fingerprint of the unions on it nothing does. And this will likely seal the fate of the democrat party that this weekend has thrown it's support behind the Wall St. squatters.

    NEW YORK – Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement plan to leave their downtown Manhattan headquarters Tuesday and head uptown as part of a "Millionaires March" visiting the homes of some of New York City's wealthiest residents.

    Between 400 and 800 people are expected to take part in the demonstration targeting the homes of JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire businessman David Koch, financier Howard Milstein, hedge fund maven John Paulson and News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, Crain's New York Business reported.

    The marchers will hold oversize checks they say demonstrate how much less the wealthy will pay when New York State's two percent tax on millionaires expires at the end of the year.

    "Ninety-nine percent of the residents of New York are going to suffer from this tax giveaway so the one percent who already live in absolute luxury can put more money in their pockets," Doug Forand, one of the march organizers, told the New York Daily News. "This is fiscally, economically and morally wrong."

    The march is scheduled to begin at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue about 12:30pm then continue to the Upper East Side.

    Organized by lobby groups the Working Families Party, New York Communities for Change, Strong Economy for All and United NY, members of the Occupy Wall Street movement are expected to form the bulk of participants.

    Now in their fourth week, the Occupy Wall Street protests began in New York's Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan and have since spread across the United States.

    Demonstrators are also expected to gather Saturday in the Swiss cities of Zurich, Geneva and Basel for protests modeled after the marches against U.S. authorities and the banking industry. And a dozen protest actions are planned throughout the day in Austria -- including in Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Graz and Innsbruck.

    On Monday, as temperatures in New York pushed past 80 degrees, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he would allow the protesters to remain in Zuccotti Park indefinitely if they abide by the law.

    He also speculated that changing weather might limit the protest's duration, The Wall Street Journal reported.

    But the protesters themselves said they have no plans to leave once colder conditions set in.

    "We might have fewer people stopping by in the winter months but we'll plan, mobilize, organize, maybe get some permits during the winter," said Ed Needham, part of Occupy Wall Street's press team.

    Protesters insisted that they are marshaling donations to prepare for colder conditions. Organizers have already designated a team to handle donations of clothing and is encouraging supporters to send sleeping bags, blankets, coats, hand-warmers, gloves and hats.

    A slew of celebrities joined the protests Monday afternoon, with hip-hop moguls Russell Simmons and Kanye West taking in the sights and sounds of Zuccotti Park.

    "I just walked @kanyewest thru the#occupywallstreet," Simmons wrote on his Twitter account Monday. "I love how sweet and tolerant he was to the crowd."

    Earlier Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton broadcast his nationally syndicated radio show from Zuccotti Park. Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Mark Ruffalo and "Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley have also been spotted at the protests.

    Large labor unions have also thrown their support and resources behind the protests and the Democratic Party Monday moved a step closer to embracing the movement as its own with the top campaign arm for House Democrats sending a petition urging people to "stand with" the protesters, FOXNews.com reported.

    In an email Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) director Robby Mook appealed for signatures to an online petition in support of those who want "to let billionaires, big oil and big bankers know that we're not going to let the richest one percent force draconian economic policies and massive cuts to crucial programs on Main Street Americans."

    The DCCC is trying to gather 100,000 names on the petition to "send a message straight to Eric Cantor, Speaker [John] Boehner, and the rest of reckless Republican leadership in Congress."

    The appeal comes after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and other Republicans sharply criticized the protesters Friday. At a Values Voter Summit in Washington, Cantor said he was "increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country."

    He described them as "the pitting of Americans against Americans," and scolded those who would condone them.

    "Getting America back to work means fueling a culture of entrepreneurialism, a culture of competitiveness, a culture of inspiration and optimism," Cantor said.

    But House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Cantor was being selective in his criticism of popular movements.

    "I didn't hear him say anything when the Tea Party was out demonstrating, actually spitting on members of Congress right here in the Capitol, and he and his colleagues were putting signs in the windows encouraging them," she told ABC's "This Week."

    In Washington, protesters were given a reprieve Monday with police granting an extension to their permit, allowing them to stay camped in downtown Freedom Plaza for another four months, The Washington Post reported.

    The Stop the Machine group -- which has been voicing opinions on the economy like those in Occupy Wall Street -- had thought it would be told to move on Monday evening.

    Meanwhile, a gathering of protesters from a variety of community groups congregated late Monday afternoon outside the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, where more than 2,100 people in the mortgage-banking field were attending their industry's annual convention this week, MarketWatch reported.

    Protesters demanded relief for struggling homeowners, including loan-principal reduction for those underwater on their mortgages, said Tracy Van Slyke, co-director of New Bottom Line, a campaign that challenges big bank interests on behalf of struggling and middle-class communities. The group also thinks banks are not paying their fair share of taxes and wants them to invest more in small businesses, she said.

    One estimate put the crowd at 250 people, many of them chanting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Wall Street bankers got to go." Some hoisted signs, including one that read, "They get rich. We get foreclosed."

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/1...to-tycoons-new-york-city-homes/#ixzz1aT8wwKWG
     
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    webrockk Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You're right, MC...these sheep are being organized by class warfare pimping collectivist elites to go after fellow Americans...instead of their beloved and REQUIRED authoritarian central government.

    Divide and conquer.....
     
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    That is exactly what the socialists are doing. And I'm afraid there will be more disastrous things to come. You heard about these 53%-ers, haven't you? They are planning a counter protest today.

    And then you have Bloomberg telling the squatters that they can stay as long as they want to? What about the people who live in that area and used that park? Where are their rights?
     
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    I hope the socialists in our current administration and their useful idiots in the media tie themselves securely to these protestors.
     
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    One of these rich guys should bump a bag of hundred dollar bills out the window and watch real chaos.

    Holder might arrest him for bribery instead of arresting the Soros robots for extortion.
     
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    I wonder if they are including the UNION BOSSES main house..along with Football stars.. basketball players..NFL and golf professionals ??

    I wonder if they know that all those Wall street guys gave most of their money to Obama ?

    Transparency ?

    The road to my house is on a dirt road miles from the largest town..
    Look for the chickens.
     
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    I think you're wish has come true. At least I'm hoping so because it will be a real blow to the dems to hitch themselves to this failing protest.

    LOL That would be chaos worth seeing!

    Did you read the name Jamie Dimon in that story? He was on Obama's short list for treasury secretary and a big donor to Obama's '08 campaign. He recently hosted a little party for Romney.
     
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    That would be awesome to see. Watch the greedy, selfish entitlement babies run each other over for the money they don't deserve.

    After dumping the money, the zombies would try knocking down the door for more. I would be sitting with a squad of body guards armed with shot guns just waiting for any of them to step foot inside.
     
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    From the new movie ..

    OBAMA ZOMBIE LAND..

    People board up houses...ban together to defeat the hordes of Zombie like creatures bent on destroying mankind.
    Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson play themselves..
    With Reid and Pelosi.. dying in the opening scene as they attack a home defended with EXXON oil filled moats..ACK ACK :)

    The main bait ?

    Dollar bills tied to brush..tress ..and filled into automatic deer feeders that turn on just before dark.
    The Zombies rush into the openings ...gathering up the free money..making them easy targets for those defending America..
    The dollar as become so worthless it is a cheap and easy bait..and the mindless zombies cant seem to catch on ..
    To be released October 2012..in time for the elections.

    Directed by Al ignore Gore..
     
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    They would be protesting at the home of the elitist Barack Obama, but he's out flying around in AF1 today, raising money from the rich & powerful for his re-election campaign.

    Could these idiots be any more naive?

    [​IMG]
     
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    Spitting indeed. That's an outright lie as has been proven. She's a real fetid piece of work. Wow, just wow ! :omg:
     
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    And it's a privately owned park too.
    So much for owning anything. Wonder how they'd like it if I took their cell phones and other gadgets???
     
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    You notice they won't protest at the homes of the rich living in Texas. I wonder why that is??
     
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    Pelosi's son was pulled off a lay-off list when he was employed by Country Wide. Did you hear that news yesterday?

    But she's all for the protester's anti-big business/big banks agenda! After Angelo whateverhisnameis personally pulled Paul Pelosi Jr's name off the list. That's some payback, isn't it?
     
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    I love hysteria on the right, be afraid, be VERY afraid, clones.... :)
     
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    Rapidly moving rock salt projectiles?
     
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    Soooo... How many of these RICH are Democrats?
     
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    Because Texans will murder peaceful unarmed protesters expressing their Constitutional rights?
     
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    The protestors are looking in the wrong direction. Did you see this?

    Uh huh-

    The hypocrisy never stops.
     
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    Jamie Dimon used to be. He was an Obama short lister for secretary of the treasury.

    He just recently hosted a party for Romney, however.
     
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    Wow! that is really interesting!
     
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    I'd give 'em the Flying Circus Treatment:

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s"]Monty Python and the Holy Grail - The Insulting Frenchman - YouTube[/ame]

    :-D
     
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    This ^^^ is what is known as projection.....his goose stepping "non-conformist" leftist drones are inciting chaos and hysteria and fomenting hatred for fellow Amercans...

    yet, it is those who will happily and calmly oblige them...

    who are labeled 'hysterical'
     
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    Consult constitution first... You conservatives tent to cite constitution only when it fits your agenda. This is a democracy, not some theocracy or monarchy.
     
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    Your constitutional right ends where mine begins, and mine begin on my front lawn. Try saying you're peaceful when you are trespassing.
     

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