Protesters want world to know they're just like us

Google ^ | 10/8/11 | JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer

[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.

[mdittmar]

Well,they ain't nothing like me,that's for damn sure.

[cripplecreek]

I’m gonna go crap on the hood of my neighbor’s truck in solidarity.

[Sooth2222]

Nope, nothing like me. You can't even convince me we belong to the same species!

[gunnut]

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.

[FlingWingFlyer]

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.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

How many of us crap on police cars? I guess Clyde the Orangutang is pretty close.

GO OU!

[shankbear]

Nutty Larry O’Donnel was slamming Cain on this same subject.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"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>

[Right Wing Assault]

Here, I got a picture of you!

[Last Dakotan]

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.

[windsorknot]

I’m betting that many of the malodorous malcontents are students attending P.U.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I’m gonna go crap on the hood of my neighbor’s truck in solidarity.”

LOL!

[Charles Martel]

Here, I got a picture of you!

I still think that's a pic of Keef Olbermann.

[rockrr]

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”

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...find the most normal person they can in this whole circus and present that person as the representative.”

Exactly. My first thought as well.

[mdittmar]

She must have been thinking of the Communist Party’s civil rights movement.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Happening this week in ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ as well:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2789852/posts

[Ernie Kaputnik]

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.

[Little Bill]

All these years and all of our FReeps, seems like Deja Vu all over again.

[Oceander]

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?