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Ben Stein Calls Occupy Protesters ‘Bums’, Says ‘Lighting A Doobie Doesn’t Advance Your Cause’

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On CBS’s The Early Show Tuesday, economist and former Nixon advisor Ben Stein lashed out against the Occupy Wall Street protesters, calling them doobie-smoking “bums.” “They’re a bunch of bums, as far as i’m concerned,” Stein observed. “If they had some specific ideas, if they had some specific proposals, if they were doing anything whatsoever besides sleeping in their tents and banging drums, I would say great, God bless them. I spent a large part of my life crusading against fraud on Wall Street — but to just bang a drum and light up a big doobie and go back into your tent, that does not do anything whatsoever to advance the cause of justice.”

RELATED: Bill Maher’s New Rule: Republicans Have To Stop Calling OWS Protestors ‘Hippies’

Stein earlier lambasted unemployed people who refused to take low-paying jobs. “There are an awful lot of Americans that will not work at a fast food shop or a clothing shop…say they’re artists. That’s nonsense. A person of good character will take any job rather than take welfare or take handouts. Any job with dignity is a perfectly good job. My old boss, President Nixon, now belonging to the ancient past, used to say emptying a bed pan, if you do it with the right spirit, has as much dignity as being President of the United States.”

In his remarks, Stein seemed to characterize the Occupy Wall Street movement as a bunch of slacker kids who were taking school off just to stick it to the man. Where have we seen that before? Anyone?

Watch Stein assail the Occupy Wall Street movement below, via CBS:

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  • Anonymous

    How many rapes have there been at these events so far? I know a few of the OWS protestors here in Denver were offering prostitutes and drugs to people!!

  • Anonymous

    The Jester Agrees With Ben !!

    However, it does make bumming it in the park more enjoyable !!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9zcLAUp5E0&feature=related

  • Bob

    More tired stereotypes from an irrelevant, has-been Boomer conservative who just doesn’t get it. Ben needs to stick to embarrassing Nixon worship. It’s what he does best.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve heard they’ve been smoking marijuana cigarettes at these dope fiend parties .

  • Anonymous

    They had rape camps in Marxist Communist countries, they are just getting ready when they try to destroy the country.

    Notice that Mediaite never wrote about all the rapes and rape cover-ups going on at OWS.

    So how many rapes were there at Tea Party rallies?

  • mosesdinoark

    Im sure he was down there and saw this first hand, right?  He wouldnt make this up..

  • Anonymous

    Here’s something they can protest :

    “Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac executives get big housing bonuses”

    “The Obama administration’s efforts to fix the housing crisis may have fallen well short of helping millions of distressed mortgage holders, but they have led to seven-figure paydays for some top executives at troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

    The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator for Fannie and Freddie, approved $12.79 million in bonus pay after 10 executives from the two government-sponsored corporations last year met modest performance targets tied to modifying mortgages in jeopardy of foreclosure.

    The executives got the bonuses about two years after the federally backed mortgage giants received nearly $170 billion in taxpayer bailouts — and despite pledges by FHFA, the office tasked with keeping them solvent, that it would adjust the level of CEO-level pay after critics slammed huge compensation packages paid out to former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and others.”

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67292.html#ixzz1cUn3tYyT

  • Guyoxim

    Why do these idiots keep pretending OWS has no clear message? Why do they keep pretending they’re stoners and hippies? News fleash Ben: The last of the hippies died off a few years after you and your old boss were tearing at the fabric of this country at The Watergate Hotel. You misrepresent them at your own peril. 

    So one more time, for the benefit of the purposefully ignorant:

    Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

    As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass
    injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write
    so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world
    can know that we are your allies.

    As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of
    the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system
    must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up
    to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their
    neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the
    people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the
    people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the
    process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when
    corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over
    justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have
    peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

    They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.

    They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.

    They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace
    based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual
    orientation.

    They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.

    They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel
    treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these
    practices.

    They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.

    They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.

    They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.

    They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.

    They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways
    to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.

    They have sold our privacy as a commodity.

    They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.

    They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.

    They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.

    They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.

    They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.

    They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.

    They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.

    They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.

    They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.

    They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.

    They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.

    They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*

    To the people of the world,

    We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

    Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space;
    create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions
    accessible to everyone.

    To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of
    direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the
    resources at our disposal.

    Join us and make your voices heard!

    *These grievances are not all-inclusive. 

  • Frod

    You should set up some kind of online Tea Party/Ocupy rape scoreboard. You sound like you’d be perfect for the job.

  • Frod

    Does nobody here ever get tired of spouting the exact same tedious propaganda in every single discussion?

  • Frod

    Also, Ben Stein is a complete numbskull and should not be on television unless it’s to say “Bueller” repeatedly

  • Anonymous

    You’re a compulsive liar.  All Republicans are compulsive liars.

    Did you think anybody would believe you?

  • Moderate

    There was a protester that agrees with you.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQlYC8Yjirc&feature=feedlik

  • Anonymous

    They are protesting those bonuses.  What did you think they were protesting?

  • Anonymous

    Ben Stein is right. OWS protesters are vermin.

  • Anonymous

    reported or unreported rapes?

    OWS is telling women NOT to report rapes at OWS because it might hurt the “collective” and the “message”.

    Even this girl says so;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGFeJ6gmJAE&feature=player_embedded

    What type of movement tells women and girls NOT to report rapes and sexual assaults?

    A Liberal one, that is what type of movement.

  • Anonymous

    “They” need to be beheaded and then consumed !!

  • Anonymous

    Ben, really just shut-up.

    Pot, that is your slander against people willing to speak out against the criminal acts of Wall Street – really.  Go back to denying evolution and your stupid talk shows we do not need your anti-middle class hate.

  • Anonymous

    All the negative comments here are from losers on “Win Ben Stein’s Money” !!

  • Frod

    I cannot begin to convey how disturbed and creepy you are coming across.

  • Anonymous

    Typical Liberal.

    There are rapes going on at OWS camps across the nation and in Canada and you don’t find THAT disturbing….only the fact that I pointed out that rapes ARE occurring at OWS camps and those running the OWS camps don’t want women to report them to the police.

    typical Liberal mentality.

  • Anonymous

    And Sebelius called the Tea Party patriots “teabaggers” the other day…but hey,she is part of the Obama administration and she didn’t get a headline here!  Wazzupwidat?

  • Frod

    What I find so objectionable is that you are taking such obvious and completely misplaced glee at the fact that you believe these preposturous stories to be representative of anything other than your own vile sense of projection. You are a deeply troubled individual if you believe anything that you have written on this thread.

  • Anonymous

    Yet you don’t find objectional the rapes and OWS telling women NOT to report those rapes?  How do you know if I am gleeful? That is an assumption on your part. In fact I am trying to get Mediaite to do a story about the rapes at OWS camps so that there is not a coverup or other young women won’t join the camps to meet the same fate.

    That shows you are are truly a disturbed person not to see that rapes and not reporting rapes is a terrible thing….why aren’t you concerned about THAT?

  • Guest

    That’s a game the ows “protesters” will surely lose.

  • Guest

    perfect monicker!

  • Guest

    I do. Your point? He states facts.

  • Guest

    “What did you think they were protesting?”

    That’s a very good question that has went unanswered.

  • Guest

    guyoxim? the fraud is talking to you!

  • Anonymous

    The “progressive” collective of OWS view the rapes as accomplishments.
    Why you ask?
    Because it’s the only thing OWS can check of their list as an accomplishment. The “movement” has been a complete failure when it came to achieving its other goals. Whatever those goals are, that is.

    You know what? maybe rape, selling drugs, public urination and deification was the goal of OWS all along. In that case, mission accomplished.

  • Frod

    I just watched the video that you posted and the only conclusion that I can come to is that you’re either a complete idiot or a troll.

  • Anonymous

    are you stating that she/he is disturbed and creepy for bringing up these happenings?  You think they should be handled “internally” and not discussed?

    Seriously dude – no discussion – go to police immediately.  What the hell is this?

    I cannot convey how sick your attitude is.  

  • Anonymous

    Here is another one showing that OWS is trying to prevent people from reporting rapes and sexual assaults to the police.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h1M4osgdPs&feature=player_embedded

    Proving that OWS is telling women/girls and even guys not to report rapes and sexual assaults and all Liberals, like the idiot Frod, have to do is call those who are showing that there are rapes and sexual assaults going on at OWS camps across the nation and Canada.

    You are the type of idiot who blames the women/girls for being raped and protecting the rapists. So why aren’t the Liberals upset with all the rapes and sexual assaults going on at OWS camps?

    Instead they want to COVER THEM UP.

  • SNAPTIE 53% taxpayers vs 99%R

    The OWS protesters are Occupying more than just Wall Street. Apparently the
    Occupiers are also Occupying free health clinics to cure the clap!http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/occupy_ball_street_aIoZXVqZ3hU8Zm9oX5aGWM#ixzz1cUYXbASS

  • Jeffy Proudly Teabagged

    Poor ol’ Ben,

    He is becoming Ron Paul’s nightmare.

    Are you fuggin kidding?

    “My old boss, President Nixon, now belonging to the ancient past, used to
    say emptying a bed pan, if you do it with the right spirit, has as much
    dignity as being President of the United States.”

    So Ben, tell us, and I can’t wait for the fugging gNOpig imbeciles to answers, what is EXACTLY this “the right spirit”?

    That is B.S.and Ben knows it.

    Win Ben Stein’s Money!

  • Anonymous

    Amen!

  • Anonymous

    He’s just a lying moron, playing to the inclinations of other lying morons.

  • SNAPTIE 53% taxpayers vs 99%R

    A 24 year-old repeat offender was arrested for having sex with a 14 year-old runaway at Occupy Dallas.
    Richard Armstrong sexually assaulted another 14 year-old girl in 2009. http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Occupy-Dallas-man-arrested-for-sexual-assault-133033828.html

  • Anonymous

    OWS is telling women NOT to report rapes at OWS because it might hurt the “collective” and the “message”.

    I really hope no one takes your word for this because I watched the entire video and she said the exact opposite of what you claim.  She said they encourage reporting but when they do the cops don’t seem to care and refuse to help them for the most part.  Legitimate news outlets have been reporting that the police in NYC have been actually telling the drunk and homeless and drug addicts to, in their words, “take it to Zuccotti Park”. 

     I was also in discussion with media OWS media on this exact topic last night and they want those assaulted to report.  These attacks are NOT being done by the protesters but by homeless wandering into the park …. sent there by the NYPD.  They have now set up their own security and have a separate guarded section for the women to sleep.

    I honestly don’t know how you live with yourself.  I pity you.  You are a LIAR!

     

  • Jeffy Proudly Teabagged

    Jeff Merrill believes on jackin’  off horses for fun and profit.

    Jeffy loves it. His horses and goats are laden with his STDs.

  • Anonymous

    I really hope no one takes your word for this because I watched the entire video and she said the exact opposite of what you claim.  She said they encourage reporting but when they do the cops don’t seem to care and refuse to help them for the most part.  Legitimate news outlets have been reporting that the police in NYC have been actually telling the drunk and homeless and drug addicts to, in their words, “take it to Zuccotti Park”. 

     I was also in discussion with media OWS media on this exact topic last night and they want those assaulted to report.  These attacks are NOT being done by the protesters but by homeless wandering into the park …. sent there by the NYPD.  They have now set up their own security and have a separate guarded section for the women to sleep.

    I honestly don’t know how you live with yourself.  I pity you.  You are a L I A R!  You are using the innocent, in deceit.  You will be shamed.

  • Anonymous

    You allow this post that is an outright lie to post uncensored but are monitoring my reply that tells the truth of what was actually said in the video?  Why? 

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    How many veterans have shown up to support OWS, a-hole. http://front.moveon.org/hannity-calls-ows-protesters-un-american-two-marines-set-him-straight/

  • Anonymous

    @1:disqus :00 into this video you can hear for yourself;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h1M4osgdPs&feature=player_embedded

    Once again another idiot Liberal who is so brain dead they can’t see it for themselves.

    Watch the video and at 1:00 you can see mentioned that there were sexual assaults at an OWS camp and the “collective” is saying NOT TO REPORT IT TO THE POLICE;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h1M4osgdPs&feature=player_embedded

    So you are an idiot and defending the tactics of OWS NOT to report rapes and assaults.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    I ask again, how many guns have been found at OWS!? You’re comparing apples and oranges, as usual.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Silly, lady. Why would they let a few facts get in the way of their revolting narrative?? :)

  • Anonymous

    The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff109180.html#ixzz1cVPxn25p

  • Anonymous

    He forgot the rapists. Now they are even raping men. How erudite of this civilized and genteel gathering.

  • Anonymous

    Here is ANOTHER one;

    http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-10-19/news/bs-md-ci-occupy-baltimore-rape-20111019_1_sexual-assaults-sexual-abuse-report-crimes

    OWS Baltimore camp asks women/girls not to report sexual assaults to police.

    So you are an idiot and dope and you should be ashamed of yourself for sticking by a movement that is ASKING women/girls NOT to report rapes or sexual assaults.

  • Anonymous

    You mean like this one from OWS Ottawa camp;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h1M4osgdPs

    and at OWS Baltimore;

    http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-10-19/news/bs-md-ci-occupy-baltimore-rape-20111019_1_sexual-assaults-sexual-abuse-report-crimes

    Proving I am right and Liberals are trying to cover up rapes and sexual assaults and idiot Liberals are trying to say they are not going on.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    *cough

    OWS Phoenix

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkM7cdMgcEc&feature=player_embedded

    White racist Nationalists show up supporting OWS WITH GUNS.

  • Anonymous

     :00 into this video you can hear for yourself;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    Once again another idiot Liberal who is so brain dead they can’t see it for themselves. 

    Watch the video and at 1:00 you can see mentioned that there were sexual assaults at an OWS camp and the “collective” is saying NOT TO REPORT IT TO THE POLICE;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    So you are an idiot and defending the tactics of OWS NOT to report rapes and assaults.

    First, this is not the same video you linked which said the exact opposite of what you said it did.  That was a video about OWS NYC.  You outright lied.

    Second, this new one you’ve linked in an attempt to support your case is Canada.  I live in the United States and my responses will stick to the country I live in.  If the protesters in Canada are telling the assaulted to lie take it up with the Canadians.  We have no control over what happens in other countries.

    I really don’t know how you live with yourself.  Your lack of integrity takes my breath away.

  • Anonymous

    And Koch brother bused in afternoon rallies to passive resistance encampments.

  • Anonymous

    uh…are OWS camps telling women/girls NOT report sexual assaults?

    I have proved you wrong and I was right.

    So are OWS camps telling women/girls not to report rapes and sexual assaults…YES.

    So once again. I prove that was going at OWS camps…last time I recall Baltimore IS in the USA.

  • Anonymous

    Silly, lady. Why would they let a few facts get in the way of their revolting narrative?? :)

    It’s just so repulsive.  I feel like I need a bath after every exchange.  And it’s the women that are the absolute worst.

  • Anonymous

    Are you people capable of understanding that these are open public parks that anyone is free to be in at any time?  I’m done responding to your slime.  It’s putrid.

  • Anonymous

    Repulsive.

  • Anonymous

    So, you idiot, you want to see what is going at OWS WALL STREET..here you go;

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP#ixzz1cHPRzWHX

    She said that weeks earlier another woman was raped.
    “We don’t tell anyone,” she said. “We handle it internally. I said too much already.”

    Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP#ixzz1cVV5gmSwLiberals sure are stupid and then they don’t want women/girls and even guys who have been sexually assaulted or even raped to report it to the police, but want to handle it internally….so once again..why are Liberals and the MSM not reporting the rapes at OWS camps?

  • Anonymous

    …..OWS WALL STREET;

    She said that weeks earlier another woman was raped.
    “We don’t tell anyone,” she said. “We handle it internally. I said too much already.”

    Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP#ixzz1cVV5gmSw

    Rapes and sexual assaults are NOT REPORTED those in charge of the camps, including WALL STREET, don’t want women/girls to report rapes and sexual assaults…gee, Liberals are stupid.

  • Anonymous

    What’s repulsive is  you claim you are a woman and you are siding with OWS which IS allowing rapes and sexual assault to go UNREPORTED.

    What a sick THING you are…I don’t even consider you a woman or even a human being for standing by OWS while they are allowing rapes to occur at OWS camps, and OWS camps are telling women NOT to report rapes and sexual assault, that is gruesome and sick.

    But then again you are Liberals

  • Anonymous

    Yet you don’t find objectional the rapes and OWS telling women NOT to report those rapes?  How do you know if I am gleeful? That is an assumption on your part. In fact I am trying to get Mediaite to do a story about the rapes at OWS camps so that there is not a coverup or other young women won’t join the camps to meet the same fate. 

    That shows you are are truly a disturbed person not to see that rapes and not reporting rapes is a terrible thing….why aren’t you concerned about THAT

    Of course one is concerned but the links you’ve provided are happening in Canada.  What’s your solution?  Invade a foreign country.

    I also find it interesting that you lied about the first video you linked where the women being interviewed said the exact opposite of what you said she said.  She stated that they are encouraged to report but get little support from the police when they do.  You’d think you’d might find it quite disturbing that it is the police themselves that are bringing these degenerates into Zuccotti Park to harass and assault the peaceful protesters.  You’d think you might feel a bit outraged that that is happening in the United States of America instead of saving your outrage at what is happening in Canada.

    What kind of human being are you?  You shall be shamed at every opportunity.

  • Anonymous

    This manifesto reads like the Una-bomber wrote it.

  • Anonymous

    The only “slime” are those OWS camps and those people who are defending them.

    Imagine telling women/girls NOT to report rapes and sexual assaults…what a bunch of filth and their supporters  are the same.

  • Anonymous

    You better leave the heads on.

  • Anonymous

    More tired stereotypes from a disrespectful, spoiled child of entitlement liberal who just doesn’t get it. Bob needs to stick to embarrassing Obama worship. It’s what he does most.

    You really make this too easy, kid.

  • Anonymous

    You are the one who is shameless and YOU consider yourself a woman. There are rapes and sexual assaults at several OWS camps across the country,  not just in Canada…INCLUDING AT OWS WALL STREET.

    She said that weeks earlier another woman was raped.
    “We don’t tell anyone,” she said. “We handle it internally. I said too much already.”

    Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP#ixzz1cVV5gmSwOnly an animal would side with people who are telling women/girls NOT to report rapes.

  • Anonymous

    It goes without saying, Mr. Stein is spot on!

  • Anonymous

    Veterans sanctioned by moveon.borg? Please spare us the load of bovine waste and try to cite a source that is not aligned with OWS.

    Your cronies have no great love of vets. I remember how they treated us in the early seventies. You are only interested in using veterans who are vulnerable to your neurolinguistic programming.  You find some vet with PTSD, and manipulate them to appear at your protests, or you just manufacture some fake vets when you can’t latch onto the real thing.

    You people are despicable.

  • Anonymous

    Please take note ….

    Sexual assault is one of the most under reported crimes, with 60% still being left unreported.Males are the least likely to report a sexual assault, though they make up about 10% of all victims.What happens to Rapists When They are Caught and Prosecuted?60% of rapes/sexual assaults are not reported to the police, according to a statistical average of the past 5 years.  Those rapists, of course, never spend a day in prison. Factoring in unreported rapes, only about 6% of rapists ever serve a day in jail.15 out of 16 walk free.  

  • Anonymous

    Trevor, you are a pathological liar, all communists like you are pathological liars.

    How do you expect anyone to believe your bullcrap? You are good at lying, but not so credible in the truth department.

  • Anonymous

    Are you talking about yourself again Trev? Indications are that you are indeed projecting again.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    How many baggers have cojones and conviction to camp out in the cold and winter?  ”I know a few of the OWS protestors …” REally? How is that exactly??? 

  • Anonymous

    The question is how many guns haven’t been found at OWS?

  • Anonymous

    Show us the proof. You’re a daisy if you do.

  • Anonymous

    They should be charged with obstruction and as accessory to rape. I’ll bet they back off of that crap as soon as the NYPD arrests them the first time.

  • Anonymous

    I’m quite aware of this.  That does not mean she was encouraged not to report it.  The first video you posted said when they try to report the assaults they get little help from the police.  Try a little outrage for that!

    Also it is the police that are directing these attackers to the park.   Try a little outrage for that.

  • Anonymous

    An illegal one as well. They qualify on both counts.

  • Anonymous

    You really do like getting kicked don’t you?

  • Anonymous

    What is repulsive is that OWS is telling women/girls not to
    report rapes and sexual assaults as crimes to the police.

     

    Rapes and sexual assaults have occurred at OWS camps at New
    York (Wall Street) Seattle,
    Portland,
    Cleveland,
    Lawrence, Oakland
    and in camps internationally. 

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/31/sexual-assaults-continue-to-plague-occupy-protests/

     

    Yet Liberals on here are attacking the messenger because to
    sick Leftists the “cause” is greater than the women/girls who are raped and
    sexually assaulted.

  • Anonymous

    No, she is not lying, but you have one helluva case of denial going on there. I think that you ought to cut your losses and run, but you really aren’t intelligent enough to know when you are wrong, do you?

    Enjoy having your butt handed to you. Lala3 has taken you to school. Too bad you are too stupid to just run away.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve not sided with people telling girls and women not to report rapes.  That’s just you making up lies again.  If I wasn’t concerned about it I wouldn’t have spent my time in conversation with OWS about it last night.  That more than you’ve done.  You prefer to use it for your own political agenda.  You’re repulsive.

  • Anonymous

    one

  • Anonymous

    uh…I proved that OWS WALL STREET has been telling women/girls that they will handle things “internally”, and you showed NO outrage over that…not once. Instead you are getting upset at the messenger who is telling Mediiate to write about all the rapes and sexual assaults going on at OWS camps to try to get women/girls to REPORT those crimes and make them aware that is going on instead of covering it up to make OWS look good.

    YOU as a woman, are siding with OWS to ask women/girls to COVER their rapes and sexual assaults.

    THAT IS SICK and repulsive and shows lack of character on your part, and you call yourself a woman…yuck.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently OWS is adding to those numbers of under reporting by telling women and girls NOT to report rapes and sexual assaults.

  • Anonymous

    LIAR!

  • Anonymous

    Actually I read the article you sourced from Murdoch’s newspaper.  No one actually said anyone is telling women and girls NOT to report rapes and sexual assaults.  What was actually said was ….

    A sex fiend barged into a woman’s tent and sexually assaulted her at around 6 a.m., said protesters, who chased him from the park.“Pervert! Pervert! Get the f–k out!” said vigilante Occupiers, who never bothered to call the cops.“They were shining flashlights in his face and yelling at him to leave,” said a woman who called herself Leslie, but refused to give her real name.WARZER JAFFCOLD DISCOMFORT: A pedal-powered generator lies idle yesterday in a wet and snowy Zuccotti Park.
    She said that weeks earlier another woman was raped.“We don’t tell anyone,” she said. “We handle it internally. I said too much already.”

    Read more:http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_perv_Qd8v3hCAnspzJ7VGC9nJZP#ixzz1cVlU1Z8p

  • Anonymous

    “She said that weeks earlier another woman was raped.“We don’t tell anyone,” she said. “We handle it internally. I said too much already.””

    That is obstruction of justice. If the OWS organizers don’t report these incidents to the police, then they have knowledge of a crime and are not reporting it.

    They just don’t want the negative press. They don’t care about the lasting effects on the victims. This is crap straight from the Pan Hellenic Associations on college campuses across the country – no police involvement, just administrative penalties, the main difference here is no one is detaining the suspects, so not even any administrative penalty is possible.

    The don’t care that crimes are being committed against their own people, as long as it doesn’t taint the image of the Occupy movement, and that is the bottom line.

    Why can’t you understand this most basic concept? You are a woman and you are apparently OK with giving sexual predators free reign over innocent people.

    Freakin’ Astounding!

  • Anonymous

    Are you capable of seeing that they are handling this internally because in another NYC newspaper it is reported that the police themselves are sending these degenerates into the park to assault and rape the protesters …. there standard phrase being “take it to Zuccotti Park”?  

    When in that first video you posted the woman interviewed stated that when they’ve tried going to the police about assaults the police were not interested in helping them?  Do you have even just a smidgen of compassion for the women who are being indirectly attacked BY the police?  They are handling it internally because it’s the police that are causing these attacks.  Try being nonpartisan for just one moment.  So if you actually have a soul.  

  • Anonymous

    You’re a repulsive partisan.  Get lost.

  • Anonymous

    You are projecting again, polecat.

  • Anonymous

    Have any complaints about calling these same women vermin?

  • Anonymous

    You are projecting again, polecat.

    My bad.  I keep making the mistake of trying to have  a sincere dialog with you guys.  Doesn’t seem possible at this point but I’ll hold out for the future.  Be well :)

  • david r

    ‘Lighting A Doobie Doesn’t Advance Your Cause’

    It helped get us out of Vietnam, that’s for sure.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    And rapists thrive at Occupy Wall Street.

  • http://twitter.com/RealKrisHardy Kristopher Hardy

    I’m still wondering when I am gonna get that evidence of those rapes. You know, actual evidence. Probably something reliable that doesn’t start with the word “Fox” and ends with them tracking your dead daughter for anything “juicy.”

  • Anonymous

    and your point might be…..?

  • Anonymous

    You want to go with the statement you just made that the police are sending people into the OWP camps to rape?  You truly said that?

    You’re one sick broad.

  • Anonymous

    I’m watching kitty completely unravel.  Her comments border on insanity.  Let’s not report rape – the police are sending rapists in the protestors camps.  Just freaking sick.  

  • Anonymous

    How does a bunch of nuts running around in Revolutionary war uniforms accomplish anything. Yes, some were voted in because of anger but almost every one of them will be voted out as fast as they were voted in. In short order this is why http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Kuo8lb6Bg

  • Anonymous

    I think for some reason ellen you’ve completely lost perspective on this.  I don’t know if it’s because you and yours are somehow involved in the protest but you are coming across in a light that you don’t even realize.  

    Perhaps a break from this issue because your attempts at dialogue indicate a very jaundiced view of authority in dealing with the protestors.  

    Your response to rape and violent acts against women and your feeling that the police are perpetrating it are frightening.  You don’t seem to be able to distinguish fact from fiction.  

    Take a break for your own sanity.

  • Texan

    can you remove the moosenuts from your mouth so we can understand you?

  • Anonymous

    This guy is a clown.  Once
    you start down the creationist (excuse me, intelligent design) path you pretty
    much lose credibility on any other subject. 

  • Anonymous

    Normally she has a few screws loose anyway, but on this I think all she has left is the nuts, and maybe a washer.

  • Bob

    and white nationalists in the form of American Third Position have supported the tea party.

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t say they were sending them in TO BE raped. What I said was that the newspaper reported that the NYPD were directing degenerates to go to Zuccotti Park.  Take it up with the newspaper if you don’t want to believe it.You’re one lying broad.  But we all knew that already.

  • Bob

    guess they have to get as many links to Murdoch propaganda tabloids in as they can.

  • Anonymous

    Most of the time you aren’t this crazy, but you have really outdone yourself this time. The NYPD is sending criminals into the area to assault and rape people? You have to be out of your mind to believe this, and what newspaper would print this kind of insanity?

  • Anonymous

    seek456
    Get lost pig.

  • Bob

    Ben probably keeps a poster of Nixon over his bed. He can’t quit citing that anti-semitic, racist crook like he’s some source of wisdom.

  • Anonymous

    Good advice; you should have taken it hours ago.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like you’re the one with the reality problem here. Did you run out your anti-psychotic meds?

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Because copy/paste is difficult to begin with.

  • Anonymous

    Ben your Franklinesk wisdom is once again a wonderful representation of the Right.  Keep up the good work.

  • Burningface

    I wonder how many of you supposed conservative commentators here are actually paid TROLLS…more then willing to sellout to the elites and hate on your fellow citizens/common folk…just to serve your own greed and masters…traitors,you should wipe the shit off your noses and chins…you are no better then the police who encourage antisocial elements to infiltrate the movements…but,what you don’t understand is that just because you are either callous toward your fellow Americans,virulently supportive of the status quo or abjectly apathetic…doesn’t mean that there will be any stopping of the coming revolution against the rapacious greed of the rich who use the common folk as feed stock to satiate their hunger for more power and more money at everyone and everything else’s expense…in other words,get with us or get the f**k out of the way!!!!!

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    BRAVO!

  • Anonymous

    Here are a few of the people who the right refers to as vermin and bums.  I’ve gotten to know Nate through the media live feeds.  He’s a sweet and loving kid.  I can’t believe what the right has become in this country I love.  It breaks the heart.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/28/private-college-students-ows_n_1064395.html

  • Anonymous

    “But while officers may be in a no-win situation, at the mercy of orders carried on shifting political winds and locked into conflict with a so-far almost entirely non-violent protest movement eager to frame the force as a symbol of the oppressive system they’re fighting, the NYPD seems to have crossed a line in recent days, as the park has taken on a darker tone with unsteady and unstable types suddenly seeming to emerge from the woodwork. Two different drunks I spoke with last week told me they’d been encouraged to “take it to Zuccotti” by officers who’d found them drinking in other parks, and members of the community affairs working group related several similar stories they’d heard while talking with intoxicated or aggressive new arrivals.”

    http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/occupy-wall-street-central-a-rift-growing-east-west-sides-plaza-article-1.969320?localLinksEnabled=false


    How Mayor Bloomberg & The NYPD Are Endangering The Lives Of Occupy Wall Street Protesters!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17egyc4NgX4&feature=channel_video_title


    NYPD Directing troublemakers to OWS?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq22_K30WxE

    http://gawker.com/5854870/is-nypd-sending-drunk-homeless-people-to-occupy-wall-street

    http://www.inquisitr.com/155511/nypd-try-new-way-to-break-up-occupy-wall-street-send-in-the-homeless-and-the-drunks/

    http://inthesetimes.com/uprising/entry/12203/former_ny_sun_editor_accuses_nypd_of_sending_addicts_to_occupy_wall_street/

    But you righties will deny that it could possibly be true.  You much prefer to blame the victims.  It’s just how you roll.

  • Rio

    What’s the matter, feral, don’t like it when your ox is getting gored?  You just said yesterday that you were a grown up that doesn’t use your sex to play the weak and helpless female card.  What?  you don’t consider that “clever wordplay?”  I bet Tina doesn’t think being called a tampon is clever either.  Just depends on what side of the aisle it is with you, what a hypocrite!  Since you walked down that path looking for fun and games with the pals, enjoy the scenery!

    Yep, if you aren’t strong enough to stand up for any woman when the time arises, then all women are fair game. 

  • Anonymous

    the media is purposely ignoring the violence within the occupy protests, thus leading to more acts of violence.   People joining have no idea how dangerous it is because of the self-policing stupidity and its simply the media choosing to hide the violence.   

    The media show the occupy as a filthy but peaceful place, and by perpetuating this myth, are culpable to the violence that happens.  The media should report the news, not make it up.  

  • Rio

    In New York:

    “Overall security at the park deteriorated to the point where many frightened female protesters had abandoned the increasingly out-of-control occupation, SECURITY-TEAM members said.”

    But PROTESTERS and a cop on duty told the Post that most of the crime goes unreported because of a bizarre “stop snitching” rule.

    “What happens in there, stays in there,” said the cop.

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_hell_kitchen_i5biNyYYhpa8MSYIL9xSDL#ixzz1c2ayMKmD

    In Baltimore:

    Baltimore rape victim begs for protests to be shut down

    In the video she explains that she received no help from within, all of her personal information was stolen, no one knows who is staying in the tents, know one knows who anyone is, such organization, eh?  and a man on the street took the reporter and film crew to one of the tents to show them where drug paraphernalia was in plain view because….what goes on in the tents, stays in the tents, and “stop snitching.” 

    http://www.talk1200.com/pages/jeffkatz.html?an=Occupy-Baltimore-Rape-Victim-Begs-for-Protest-to-be-Shut-Down

    Well, you threw that tantrum, you wanted this event to be reported, guess you got what you wanted.

  • Anonymous

    occupy telling supporters to ‘investigate police members on its live feed http://www.breitbart.tv/occupywallstreet-shows-an-organized-effort-to-intimidate-police/
     calling them nazis too.

    occupy dallas rapist arrested http://www.breitbart.tv/occupydallas-rapist-arrested/
    Protesters gave info to the police in dallas to ensure the registered sex offender was found and arrested.

  • KayAZ12

    For those of you who support OWS, if you are to be honest you MUST hold your own protest to the same standards you’ve place on TEA Party events.  If not your value system is suspect and not credible.  

    If OWS is about the 99%, ignoring the rule of law and sacrificing individuals in favor of an undefined  movement negates any positive message you may be trying to convey.  In civilized society it would even be considered cruel.

    They keep talking about fringe elements.  Okay, start adding up the fringe.  Socialist, Communist, Anarchists, Primitivists, anti-Semites, and now rapists and thieves.  It’s quite probable that in this movement “fringe” may be the norm and not the exception.

    Not having an organization or demands, let alone solutions, is all too convenient.  It absolves everyone of responsibility and the unpleasant chore or having to delineate solutions and hold people accountable for their behavior and actions.  

    Why should I take such a movement seriously?  As an adult, when critical, I give solutions to problems.  If I don’t have a pragmatic solution I either keep my mouth shut or pose the problem and come together with others to figure out solutions.  

    The general public is inconvenienced, expected to pay for clean-up, police, destruction of private and public property, and in some cases loss of business and livelihood.  These people, many of who are the 99%, deserve answers and solutions.  Most of all they deserve an apology and the ability to return to their normal lives and livelihood.

  • Anonymous

    First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Next they fight you. Finally they AGREE with you. America’s relationship with OWS is at the second  of the above four stages. Soon will come the fight.

  • Pablo

    Repulsive.

    Yes, you are. And seemingly proud of it.

  • Pablo

    Frod’s just upset because he’s finally seeing an opportunity to get laid, and you’re trying to screw it up.

  • Pablo

    Those are complaints. They are not proposals. They are not solutions. What you’re telling us is that OWS’ message is “WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!”

    We heard it. Now go home and get a job.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think he knows many artists.  Most artists that I know of, either personally or through their art, tend to have multiple low-paying jobs.  I’m pretty sure most artists are aware that you have to be extremely lucky to be able to live off of your work.

  • Anonymous

    stein is right.  period.

  • VV

    Anybody that uses Nixon as an example…well you sheep all follow right wing DJ’s so what do you expect..

  • Anonymous

    You are ignoring the issue. OWS organizers don’t want rapes and assaults reported to law enforcement, and they won’t be sending them to hospital emergency rooms either because the personnel working there are bound by law to report these kind of injuries. SO are they paying the victims to be quiet? My conclusion is yes.

    You are distracting from the real issue here, I don’t give any credibility to any of the sources you put out here because they are all biased towards OWS. When I see this from a credible source not quoting two anonymous drunks, then I will entertain your argument with a serious degree of believability, but so far you have provided no compelling support for your position.

    Did you do this poorly in college too? The profs must have kicked your carcass to the curb if this is how you structured any serious projects.

  • Anonymous

    You should know.

  • Anonymous

    Is Baltimore a foreign country? You need to get a grip on reality. Not reporting rape and assault is a crime. The OWS and the occupy movement in general is guilty of playing politics with people’s lives, and they don’t care about the victims.

    You should be ashamed for defending them.

  • AliveStillKickin

    All this time I thought the occupiers were a bunch of numb-brained,
    immature, slacker college dropouts, or general losers with nothing better to do
    than gather in groups for what they figured to be big
    party.
     

    Here is a
    short video of an interview that was done by a local radio station in
    Atlanta with
    one of the “occupiers”.  This person
    gives a clear and precise message of what the protesters are trying to
    accomplish…So glad that I finally understand what the protests are all about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Linda-Tucker/100000566042846 Linda Tucker

    What in the world were they trying to accomplish anyway? None of them had any  specific demands or goals. And now it seems it’s all falling apart. Good thing, I say. It needs to be stopped before someone gets killed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Linda-Tucker/100000566042846 Linda Tucker

    I think you’re delusional.

  • Anonymous

    Yep, The score so far…Tea Party 0 .. OWS country wide.. 2,230.. Those are only the reported ones… OWS organizers are trying hard to suppress as many as they can. 

    I mean I still haven’t heard one coherent demand form this crowd except repeal the Bush tax cuts which isn’t even part of the 13 demands are posted on their website with a disclaimer stating they are no official demands and the organization has no specific demands, but they still leave these demands up on their site. How can you take these guys seriously.

    http://www.occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/

    The disclaimer below..really?

    Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands.

    (Now you either believe these demands are their real demands or you believe their disclaimer that they done really have any demands even though they keep this posted. Either it’s a huge waste of time. BTW, who are “the collective” referred in this disclaimer? I don’t think this group or, the collective, as they call themselves could come up with any list of coherent demands). The truth is the leadership are Marxist and they are using their “useful idiots” to do their dirty work. You might want to look up that term “useful idiots.”

    Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

    Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

    Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

    Demand four: Free college education.

    Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

    Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

    Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.

    Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

    Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

    Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

    Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

    Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

    Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

    Now you either believe these are there real demands or you believe there disclaimer that they done really have any demands even though they keep these posted. Either it’s a huge waste of time.

    WHAT’S OUR LIST OF DEMANDS, FRODO? Care to add to the the list?

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/4/anarchy-in-the-usa/

  • Anonymous

    I  wouldn’t listen to Stein’s advice even if he was paying me to do so. The bum here is clearly this self-inflated blowhard, not these well-educated, brave and selfless kids. The fact that this giant slug of a man is upset means OWS is hitting a nerve and that is priceless.

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