Posted on 10/23/2011 3:41:23 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Occupy Wall Street campground becoming spot for vagrants, ex-cons & 'takers' to call home
BY Christina Boyle DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, October 23rd 2011, 4:00 AM
Zuccotti Park has become a haven for the homeless.
Enticed by the allure of free food and a community of open-minded people, increasing numbers are leaving New York's shelters to join the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
"I think this is a better situation to be involved with," said Matthew Maloney, 49, who was released from prison on Sept. 30 after serving time for a probation violation.
Maloney moved into a shelter in Staten Island and learned about Occupy Wall Street while watching television. Then the ex-con headed to Zuccotti Park on Oct. 13 and never left.
"I am around a good cause and around positive people, rather than in that other environment," he said.
Maloney has drifted in and out of the state prison system for more than three decades for a variety of crimes, including robbery and possession of stolen property.
"Everybody is being real with each other here," he said. "This is like a 'Twilight Zone.'"
Bronx couple Yvette Vigo and Orlando Nieves say they were forced into a shelter a year ago when they could not afford their rent.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Gee. What. A. Surprise!
Who would ever imagined that a bunching of sponging freeloaders attracted a bunch of sponging freeloaders.
Takers being victimized by takers. Karma.
If only they could see...
Schumer or Dodd or Feinstein or Pelosi can put on fancy cloths but this bunch of freeloaders is who they are. Dirty stinking Godless scumbags
Oh, the irony is unbearable.
” Occupy Wall Street campground becoming spot for vagrants, ex-cons & ‘takers’ to call home “
Are they talking about “OWS” or “Congress”???
Society in a petri dish. It is interesting watching them evolve/devolve.
Well, the 1960’s hippies have gone full circle.
First, they became the very same “establishment” they once hated.
Now they’ve rebelled against themselves, and seek to become homeless, unemployed gypsies.
Hello muddah, hello faddah. Here I am at Camp Obama. Send more money.
No doubt in my mind Obama would like to see this play in the park run forever. It’s a better stakeout than the GZ mosque. It’s Place de la Concorde without the guillotine; but give it time.
“This is like a ‘Twilight Zone.]
That’s correct.
from the article:
“If you’re going to come here and get our food, bedding and clothing, have books and medical supplies for no charge, they need to give back,” Digioia said. “There’s a lot of takers here and they feel entitled.”
NEXT you know they’re going to start “charging” people for these supplies: Welcome to Capitalism!
Correct. And fascinating.
When it becomes apparent to those funding this circus, that it’s not helping - they’ll stop wasting money subsidizing all these vagrants.
The moment that happens, the vagrant movement will go one of two routes:
1) Communist, with a clique of dictators at the top doling out rules and rations
2) Capitalist, with food carts, and an increasing number of small enterpreneurs springing up with basic essentials for sale perhaps even from carts, similar to the food carts.
I think the second route is more likely. Which will be incredibly entertaining when it happens, and the reality of what they’ve just done dawns on these clueless nitwits.
Have you seen this FR original research?...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2790976/posts?page=1
“This is like a Twilight Zone.”
No doubt.
Barbarians do as barbarians do.
“I am around a good cause and around positive people” — Matthew Maloney, 49, a state prison convict guilty of three decades of crimes, including robbery and possession of stolen property.
Clearly he is a man of sound judgement and discernment regarding human character.
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