Posted on 10/11/2011 11:55:55 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA
Well, now the British paper The Daily Mail is helping answer that question. The answer? Some of them seem to be quite privileged.
“A closer look at some of the impassioned protesters is starting to suggest that while many of them have genuine grievances,” the Daily Mail writes, “all may not be completely as advertised. “
Here’s what it means:
Among the hardcore of well-intentioned protesters sleeping rough in Zuccotti Park are also the children of the wealthiest ‘one per cent’ – taking a break from classes at private schools to show their solidarity… and join the fun.
As millionaire celebrities pledged allegiance to the protesters despite very healthy bank balances, MailOnline spoke to youngsters who have joined the movement, many of whom study at colleges which cost their parents up to $200,000.
Sleeping beside the hardcore activists are increasing numbers of wealthy students turning up to make the most of the party atmosphere, drugs and free food.
While they dress down to blend in, the youngsters’ privileged backgrounds are revealed by glimpses of expensive gadgetry or the absent minded mention of their private schools during heated political debates.
One student, who did not want to be named, admitted she had been sleeping at the protest site with her boyfriend despite living in nearby TriBeCa, a neighbourhood which is home to many of New York’s A list celebrities.
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Ah, the arrogance of youth...:{)
Political revolutionaries are almost never poor. The Jacobins and Communists always tried to pretend they were part of them and their champions, but the peasants and poor are always very conservative and opposed to radicalism.
Why else would the French revolutionaries have to massacre the peasants in the Vendee, and the Bolsheviks have their campaigns against kulaks?
I wonder who is forking up the money for these little snots to go to college? Don’t these idiots know that when Obama talks rich, he’s talking about their parents? Their brain cells have taken a nose dive.
White Punks on Dope.
The girl on the left should have to pay royalties to P. J. O’Rourke for stealing his line...he wrote a book with that title.
Then Aerosmith should pay him too.
just like the Battle in Seattle where they had all the latest techie toys and bicycles made from carbon fiber and titanium
These Commie’s parents must be..so proud of the vermin they created
I bet all four of them are “majoring” in something like “Political Science”, and none of them have done anything remotely resembling an honest day’s (or eve hour’s) work in their pampered princess lives.
ROFL
“Wall Street
Look at your life
Look at your choices”
Oh Baby, ur killin me!
BTW, Unpretty In Pink
Pinky looks like the love child of Roger Ebert and an owl.
We’re white punks on dope
Mom &Dad moved to Hollywood
Hang myself when I get enough rope
Can’t clean up, though I know I should
White punks on dope
White punks on dope
Looks like the female version of “The Big Bang Theory”.
But stupid.
Took a British newspaper to bring the poor babies out.
Girl #1 on the left is kind of cute.
But she can pay off her own student loan.
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