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  • Elite Berkeley Students Upset They’re in the 1%, Throw Occupy Tantrum [ZOMBIETIME post]

    11/10/2011 4:01:23 PM PST · by MeNeFrego · 12 replies
    Pajamas Media ^ | 11/10/2011 | Zombie
    A clique of privileged U.C. Berkeley students, upset that they’re the top 1% of elite students in the state and thus disqualified from participating in the Occupy movement, could no longer contain their frustration on Wednesday and threw an Occutantrum, attempting to “occupy” a few square yards of the 1,200-acre campus. The police dutifully played their roles in the street theater performance, showing up in riot gear and looking scary so the privileged students could shout at them and feel properly revolutionary, as instructed by their professors. Following the script, the police repeatedly removed the handful of occupation tents so...