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‘Occupy Sacramento’ Protesters Struggle to Explain Why They’re There
The Blaze ^ | 10/7/11 | Buck Sexton

Posted on 10/07/2011 1:16:50 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative

As the Occupy Wall Street protests surge in size and spread across the country, the Occupy Sacramento offshoot appears to be both confused, and angry when asked simple questions about their purpose.

About 300 protestors showed up in a downtown Sacramento park Thursday morning to kick off the Occupy Sacramento movement, and they did not take kindly to the the presence of a local CBS reporter. They also couldn‘t agree on why they’re there.

When the CBS reported asked the organizer of the movement what the 300 protestors were doing there, his response was “right now its kind of vague..as it stands right now that message team will reveal that tomorrow morning.”

Others listed a litany of random complaints, some with a tenuous connection to being “angry over corporate greed.”

Another protestor said into the camera, “I‘ve heard it’s anti-capitalist; I’m a socialist, I’m a Marxist communist.”

But the most vague response of the day went to a young woman who said, “I’m here to support people.”

And although the Occupy Wall Street movement has been trying to get as much attention and press coverage as possible, many of the unknowing activists became aggressive and yelled at a reporter for asking basic questions. One of them even began to swat at the camera with his hand in response to the reporter’s question.

You can watch the full video of the CBS reporter’s confrontation with Occupy Sacramento here, courtesy of KOVR-TV:

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


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It's important to take this movement serious because you know it's going no where good. That said, It's hard to not seriously laugh at the video linked.
1 posted on 10/07/2011 1:16:53 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
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To: Wilderness Conservative

So far, it appears as though none of these morons know why they are “occupying” the places that they are “occupying”. It’s really weird. They could be sleeping in fart sacks, eating pizza and singing Beatle songs in their college dorms. That’s what they normally do anyway. It doesn’t make any sense to do it out in the streets. I guess it goes to show that they’ll let anybody into college these days. Even the not so bright.


2 posted on 10/07/2011 1:22:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Contrast the urban anarchists with the way people are behaving in flyover country.


3 posted on 10/07/2011 1:22:16 PM PDT by cripplecreek (MLB Playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786167/posts)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Colleges are another fine place to cut taxpayer funding.


4 posted on 10/07/2011 1:23:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (MLB Playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786167/posts)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Many things are awful about this “movement” one of them being these protesters may never realize they are being used.


5 posted on 10/07/2011 1:24:32 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Democtrat born, Democrat raised, Democrat Miseducated, Democrat brainwashed/propagandized, the feral pool of future Loughners. All non-survivors.


6 posted on 10/07/2011 1:24:41 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi)
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To: Wilderness Conservative
“I’m here to support people.”

Seinfeld episode
"Gotta support the team."

7 posted on 10/07/2011 1:24:55 PM PDT by giotto
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To: ColdOne

Loved Jay Carney’s comment that “One man’s mob is another man’s democracy”.

Man these people are idiots from bottom to top.


8 posted on 10/07/2011 1:26:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (MLB Playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786167/posts)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

http://abc.go.com/shows/jimmy-kimmel-live/video-detail/featured/occupy-wall-street-protest/pl_PL5520977/vd_VD55146139


9 posted on 10/07/2011 1:27:32 PM PDT by wolfpat (Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
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To: cripplecreek

I agree. There are too many people in college that have no business being there. They’re stupid when they go in and they’re still stupid when they come out.


10 posted on 10/07/2011 1:29:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

the GOP needs to say when asked about this protest

“We do not blame people for being angry they want jobs and a good economy, they are fed up of how Wall street gave a lot of money to this Govt and how millionaires and billionaires like Soros is using his money to manipulate this country, I hope this sends a clear message to this administration that people are fed up with them”

Not only will make many watching their local LSM think it is against obama but also hijack the protest thus pissing off the protesters and getting them to argue and go home.


11 posted on 10/07/2011 1:30:48 PM PDT by manc (Beckett08 an anti war Answer troll who had to re-register. don't feed the troll, they'll send PM's)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I just received this email in my neighborhood newsletter. If you want to know what you need to do to train, organize, mobilize, and direct groups like these, consider the call to duty below.................

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12 posted on 10/07/2011 1:31:50 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I say we should cut all public funding to colleges. Pay the tuition or stay home. If philanthropists or corporations want to pay scholarships for smart kids of lesser means, more power to them.


13 posted on 10/07/2011 1:33:16 PM PDT by cripplecreek (MLB Playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786167/posts)
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To: Wilderness Conservative
Alinsky Rule #5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

Mocking the ignorant hippies will defuse this astroturf garbage rather quickly.

14 posted on 10/07/2011 1:34:31 PM PDT by PDMiller
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To: DGHoodini; All

I suspect that a lot of these people are real mental cases. Serious mental disease. It is why they cannot articulate well. One of the characteristics of the left is that they hate reality, and want to change it. If you deny reality too much, you have a serious mental problem.


15 posted on 10/07/2011 1:39:54 PM PDT by marktwain (In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: PDMiller

Futurama Hippies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u_g1KrMsMQ&feature=player_embedded

Dr Farnswoth: Unless this is a nude love in, get the hell off my property.

Filthy Hippie: You can’t OWN property man.

Dr Farnsworth: I can but that’s because I’m not a penniless hippie.


16 posted on 10/07/2011 1:40:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (MLB Playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786167/posts)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“They’re stupid when they go in and they’re still stupid when they come out”.

...stupider.


17 posted on 10/07/2011 1:40:05 PM PDT by albie
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To: cripplecreek
It is ABSURD for the government to hand out grants and loans to poorly educated public school grads planning to major in Gender Studies or other equally foolish courses of study prolonged adolescence. Let the kids who actually want to go to college pay for it themselves.
18 posted on 10/07/2011 1:42:30 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: Wilderness Conservative
the most common answer...

"I got nowhere else to go...(cry)... (sniff)...I got nowhere else to go".

19 posted on 10/07/2011 1:46:35 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Can’t wait for the message team revelations.


20 posted on 10/07/2011 1:47:13 PM PDT by kallisti ("fall mountains, just don't fall on me...")
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