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| 10/8/11
| JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer
Posted on 10/08/2011 11:36:40 AM PDT by mdittmar
NEW YORK (AP) As other protesters chanted vigorously around her, Nancy Pi-Sunyer stood off to the side at the Occupy Wall Street rally, clutching her sign, looking a little like a new teacher on the first day of school.
In a way, she was: At 66, this retired teacher was joining a protest for the first time in her life.
"I was too young for the civil rights movement," Pi-Sunyer said earlier this week as she joined thousands of protesters marching in lower Manhattan. "And during the Vietnam War, I was too serious a student. Now, I just want to stand up and have my voice be heard."
As the protests have expanded and gained support from new sources, what began three weeks ago as a group of mostly young people camping out on the streets has morphed into something different: an umbrella movement for people of varying ages, life situations and grievances, some of them first-time protesters.
There are a few common denominators among the protesters: their position on the left of the political spectrum, and the view that the majority in America the "99 percent," in their words isn't getting a fair shake.
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Well,they ain't nothing like me,that's for damn sure.
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:36:41 AM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
I’m gonna go crap on the hood of my neighbor’s truck in solidarity.
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:38:52 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(MLB Playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786167/posts)
To: mdittmar
Nope, nothing like me. You can't even convince me we belong to the same species!
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:39:29 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: mdittmar
Right here, “I was too young for the civil rights movement,” you know she is a liar. She is 66 years old so sher was born in 1945. The civil rights movement was in the 60’s so she would have been right at the age of many of the protestors. She was probably too busy getting high to care.
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:41:08 AM PDT
by
gunnut
To: mdittmar
Nope! They’re nothing like me. I work for a living, don’t have time to “protest” and my wife and I PAY TOO DAMN MUCH OF OUR INCOME TO THE ASSORTED GOVERNMENTS FOR TAXES.
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:41:08 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.)
To: mdittmar
How many of us crap on police cars? I guess Clyde the Orangutang is pretty close.
GO OU!
To: gunnut
Nutty Larry O’Donnel was slamming Cain on this same subject.
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:43:17 AM PDT
by
shankbear
(Bush's fault......that is more in bad taste than my old tag line........)
To: mdittmar
"I was too young for the civil rights movement," Pi-Sunyer said earlier this week as she joined thousands of protesters marching in lower Manhattan. "And during the Vietnam War, I was too serious a student. Now, I just want to stand up and have my voice be heard." Trying to relive the radical youth she never had.
Isn't that sweet? </sarcasm>
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:50:44 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." --Ronald Reagan)
To: cripplecreek
Here, I got a picture of you!
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:51:57 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: mdittmar
You just know the directive is to find the most normal person they can in this whole circus and present that person as the representative.
To: mdittmar
I’m betting that many of the malodorous malcontents are students attending P.U.
To: cripplecreek
“Im gonna go crap on the hood of my neighbors truck in solidarity.”
LOL!
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posted on
10/08/2011 11:59:42 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Right Wing Assault
Here, I got a picture of you! I still think that's a pic of Keef Olbermann.
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posted on
10/08/2011 12:00:07 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: mdittmar
I wonder what her opinion of the TEA Party is? I bet she sees us as extremists. I doubt the sincerity (and mental stability) of someone who would reject the true nonviolent activism of the TEA Party in favor of a bunch of commie agitators.
“A man is known by the company he keeps”
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posted on
10/08/2011 12:00:07 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Last Dakotan
“...find the most normal person they can in this whole circus and present that person as the representative.”
Exactly. My first thought as well.
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posted on
10/08/2011 12:01:19 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: gunnut
She must have been thinking of the Communist Party’s civil rights movement.
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posted on
10/08/2011 12:01:51 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(i)
To: mdittmar
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posted on
10/08/2011 12:02:24 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Sooth2222
Agreed.
Hippies are dirty, unsanitary, smell like shiite and wear grungy clothing. I’ve never owned a pair of Birkenstocks or a tie-dyed t-shirt either.
I also hear that like most rodents, they spread diseases, which is why their parents make them live in their basement when they return home from college. It’s much easier to hose down a concrete floor with bleach than a bedroom upstairs. It would ruin the carpet.
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posted on
10/08/2011 12:02:55 PM PDT
by
Ernie Kaputnik
((It's a mad, mad, mad world.))
To: mdittmar; RaceBannon
All these years and all of our FReeps, seems like Deja Vu all over again.
To: mdittmar
Nancy Pi-Sunyer is nothing more than a protest-whore, a coddled baby who likes to imagine herself as a "revolutionary" fighting against "injustice" when, in fact, she's a parasite who enjoys unfair benefits that the rest of us have to pay for through unnecessarily higher taxes because of the incestuous, crony-capitalist relationship between the teachers' unions and City Hall - particularly in NYC.
Not only that, she's part of the problem: she is one of the cadre of so-called "teachers" who have utterly failed to teach the kids in their classes how to think logically, how to spell, and how to even exercise the common sense God gave them. Here are two examples of the results of the "education" Pi-Sunyer and her co-conspirators in the teachers' unions:
There is some sense in the demands that the upper management of the large banks that were rescued by the federal taxpayers give up some of the performance bonuses and benefits they're being paid because of their ultimately dismal performance; however, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and since the failures of Ms. Pi-Sunyer and her co-conspirators in the teachers' unions are just as epic as the failures of any of the upper management of Citigroup, B of A, and etc, they should lose their diamond-plated benefits as well.
How d'ya like them apples, Ms. Pi-Sunyer?
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posted on
10/08/2011 12:08:37 PM PDT
by
Oceander
(If you're going to "occupy" Wall Street, shouldn't you be IN Wall Street?)
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