"I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day"
Todd Rundgren - Bang on the Drum All Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZclddLcOYYA
Indeed, a microcosm of the liberal ideal. Perhaps we have to go through the commune movement again to cure people of it. This time though, it was on the news for all to see and learn from.
Hours After Manhattan Residents March On City Hall, Bloomberg Responds
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"...The OWS movement in New York City had become a serious detriment to residents and business owners living and working in the area near Zuccotti. Bloomberg was constantly under siege from residents to do something about the noise and reports of unsanitary conditions, in addition to the negative impact the demonstrations were having on local businesses.
Residents got so enraged they decided to do something about it on Monday by marching on City Hall.
WCBS 880′s Marla Diamond On The Story (see link)
“No, I’m not going to take off my mask,” one woman, who was wearing a white hockey goalie-style mask when meeting the media, told CBS 2′s Kathryn Brown.
The masked woman, who said she covered up out of fear of retribution from Occupy protesters, wanted the city to take lower Manhattan residents’ claims seriously.
“A lot of them would have done this, but a lot of them are very scared to show their face and come out here,” the woman said. “I mean I’m even scared to show my own face because I’m afraid of the backlash.”
Protesters have been camped out at Zuccotti Park for nearly two months, weathering the elements and the near-constant criticism from those who live and work in the area. They have complained the protesters’ presence has become a quality of life crisis.
Residents say poor sanitary conditions, loud noise from round-the-clock drumming sessions and rowdy drug-fueled parties have made their lives a living nightmare. And, they said, the movement was killing their businesses.
“We close our gate at night time and they move their bowels all over the gate, our gate, you know what I mean?” one business owner said. “They pee all over the back of the store. They are not nice. They push customers.”
“A lot of waste is being dumped behind my alleyway where I dump the garbage,” another owner said, reiterating the waste he was witnessing was indeed human waste.“
“As long as the protesters are here, our businesses are threatened,” another man said. “I don’t know how much longer we will be able to hold on.”
Mayor Bloomberg had waffled between supporting the protesters’ right to freedom and sympathizing with those who say the movement was restricting their own.
Earlier Monday — once again — the mayor refused to elaborate on what, if anything, he was going to do, but the actions of the NYPD early Tuesday morning clearly showed Bloomberg;s patience had reached its end. ..."
"I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day"
Todd Rundgren - Bang on the Drum All Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZclddLcOYYA
Community Board Asks "Occupy Wall Street" Protesters To Clean Up, Quiet Down
NY-1 News ^ | Oct 20, 2011 | Michael Herzenberg
“This has been a nightmare,” said Brian Summers, who lives near Zuccotti Park.
Summers said those trying to force corporations to become better corporate citizens should learn to be better citizens themselves.
“It makes us feel horrible. We work down here, we live down here,” said Summers.
Drums are played each and every day. The noise registers as 117 on a decibel meter.
According to the federal government, regular exposure to 110 decibels can lead to permanent hearing loss.
From blocks away, it might not be physically harmful, but neighbors say it's damaging lives.
“We support the message, and a lot of residents do, but they also want to have a good night sleep,” said Manhattan City Councilmember Margaret Chin.
Local officials have been swamped with neighborhood complaints.
That's why they invited protesters to hear them firsthand at a Community Board 1 meeting Thursday.
Besides the noise problem, residents say protesters are pouring urine in the streets.
“Our neighbors do not urinate and defecate in the street. These occupiers need to vacate our neighborhood,” said one resident.
(Excerpt) Read more at ny1.com ...
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(ooh) That Smell — Lynyrd Skynyrd:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22+that+smell%22&aq=f
Funkytown - Lipps Inc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liuCTk2nPG8
While not as detailed as your description, I noted the same progression. They seemed determined to show the failures of collectivism for all to see. Too bad the MSM covered for them. We would not know about the failures except for the new media.
A good point, and one I hadn't thought of.
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
Excellent!
These are unhappy empty people who can’t successfully cope with life. They want to be bailed out and cared for as children.
An incredable observation of this group. Thank you for sharing.
This was posted yesterday.
It is relevant.
Look out! Full revolution is on the table
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2808027/posts
The OWS claim of representing the economic grievances of the American majority is impaired by bad math and lawless behavior. The mainstream media spent Obama’s entire first term falsely condemning the Tea Party as a potentially violent hate-filled mob, only to embrace one that actually is. As the OWS violence escalates, sympathetic liberal mayors give them free rein to break the law as they call for the redistribution of others’ incomes rather than work for their own. As these wannabe revolutionaries are becoming more desperate to justify their time on the “job”, their violence escalates. Baiting police and random citizens, sexual assaults, overdoses, murders, we see it’s only a matter of time until even more people die. The only question left is how big the body count will be. Is the Obama Administration inflaming the vices of these undisciplined citizens in order to destroy the business class and establish a tyranny? There’s no doubt that Americans are suffering under tough economic times. Americans are frustrated, decrying out-of-control bailouts and corporate subsidies. The jobless rate under the Obama Administration hovers at 9 percent while Washington raises taxes to finance more government spending. Despite their chants, these Marxist Occupiers are not the 99 percent, and perhaps not even the 9 percent. In a nation of 300 million people, however, even an estimate of .9 percent would provide the self-proclaimed leaders of these mobs, 2.7 million clueless dependents to follow them into the abyss of anarchy, which is all they deserve to occupy.
It isn’t over yet though the deems let it go on far too long to stop it like this.Now they are p*ssed and are threatening to root tomorrow.The headline said something to the effect of “seeing what a Molotov cocktail would do to Macy’s” scary stuff they are saying.
It isn’t over yet though the dems let it go on far too long to stop it like this.Now they are p*ssed and are threatening to root tomorrow.The headline said something to the effect of “seeing what a Molotov cocktail would do to Macy’s” scary stuff they are saying.
The best thing about OWS, is that I could tell my kids when seeing them on TV, “This is what can happen to you if you don’t study hard in school.”
It’s like the Prison Experiment in another context. I’d like to run that experiment, only instead of prison, have it be a commune, and tell certain members that they are on the Ruling Committee and see how they behave.
Just this morning I thought of something to add to your wonderful list:
A short-term phase of apparent prosperity which only exists due to outside subsidies from those seeking to use the new society as a proxy for their own political purposes. (E.g., gourmet meals served via donations from fellow travelers, not as a result of any productivity of the members.)
