Police Scuffle With Protesters As Thousands March To City Hall As Part Of ‘Occupy Wall Street’

Nationwide College Student Walkout Planned; 'Anonymous' Goes After NYSE

October 5, 2011 11:59 PM

Members of trade unions join “Occupy Wall Street” protesters as they march to Foley Square on October 5, 2011. (credit: STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The “Occupy Wall Street” rally gained thousands of new supporters as New York City became protest city on Wednesday when the group marched to City Hall. The protests, however, were not without incident.

The NYPD said that there were about a dozen arrests Wednesday night. Most of those were for disorderly conduct, but at least one arrest was for assaulting a police officer. Police said a protester knocked an officer off his scooter.

Photo Gallery: Wall Street Protests

It was night of fury, and physicality by protestors and police, CBS 2′s Sean Hennessey reported. Chopper 2 captured an image of an officer with a baton hitting a protestor as other police surrounded him and tossed the protester to the ground.

“I saw night sticks fly. I saw cops on the floor. I saw them charging groups of people,” Jack DePalmer said.

“There’s been a few agitators here, people real angry — which is understandable. But at the same time, we have to be peaceful about it. Cops are going to be cops — they have to make a living. They’re not the real enemy here,” Ty Davis said.

Meanwhile, there is a sense that the vaguely focused frustration of the demonstration, which was in its 19th day Wednesday, is beginning to resonate more widely. Al Jones of 1010 WINS reported that protestors had marched from Zuccotti Park to Foley Square.

1010 WINS’ Al Jones Reports From The Protest

Jones also reported that Foley Square was filled with people, including union members, college students, some clergy members and regular New Yorkers, listening to speakers argue against what they call corporate greed.

The hundreds of protestors who have taken over Zuccotti Park for more than two weeks got reinforcements Wednesday when they were joined by MoveOn.org and other community groups.

CBS 2′s Lou Young described the crowd gathered at Foley Square as “immense” and pointed out that there was even an overflow of people who did not fit in the area.

“We are the 99 percent, you know, and it’s not fair that people don’t have to pay taxes, that corporations don’t have to pay taxes and like we do. It’s like my mom pays more taxes than like Walmart does,” Helen Curran, a student at Pace University, told Young.

"The Occupied Wall Street Journal" is seen in Zuccotti Park - New York, NY - Oct 5, 2011 (credit: Peter Haskell / WCBS 880)

The rage against the machinery of Wall Street is loud and getting louder. So much so that deep inside the financial center, regular workers are feeling maligned and misunderstood.

“Those of us who are still here had to take pay cuts just to keep our jobs. So, they clearly don’t know who they’re going after. They’re going after the guy down the block, not some guy in a castle,” Stephen Guilfoyle, an economist at Meridian Equity Partners, said.

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Protestors in Zuccotti Park on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 (credit: Al Jones/1010 WINS)

The group also called for a student walkout at college campuses across the country to protest “against unforgivable student debt and soaring tuition rates.”

“Professors are asking their classes to take the day to actually go to this rally,” said Camille Rivera, a spokesperson for “United NY.”

Some students at Brooklyn College heeded the call and joined the protest early Wednesday afternoon. About 150 students walked out of class at Brooklyn College to join the Wall Street protesters.

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Students at Brooklyn College participate in the Occupy Wall Street Protest on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 (credit: Marla Diamond/WCBS 880)

WCBS 880′s Marla Diamond With Students

Arud Sheikh said the struggle is the same.

“We are the 99 percent. We’re the 99 percent that don’t own the majority of wealth where we’re disgusted… There are clear policy changes that could be made,” she told WCBS 880 reporter Marla Diamond.

Protests took place Wednesday at several other CUNY schools over tuition hikes and cuts in tuition assistance.

“We’re feeling like we’re under attack,” said Brooklyn College senior Daryl Barney. “Tuition is going up and then we’ll be graduating. We have no hopes. We have no real future.”

Walkouts were also scheduled at State University of New York campuses, including Albany, Buffalo, Binghamton, New Paltz and Purchase.

Meanwhile, a video claiming to be by the group “Anonymous” has surfaced on YouTube. “Anonymous” said it will shut down the New York Stock Exchange website Monday.

The video is addressed to the media and says that Anonymous has been witnessing the events of the weeks-long Wall Street protests and has had enough.

Watch the video below:

“We will not stand by and watch the system take over our way of life. We the people shall against the government’s inaction. We the people will not be witnesses to your corruption and ill-gotten profits. We will not labor for your leisure. We will not assist you in any way,” the video says.

It goes on to say that it will attack the New York Stock Exchange‘s site.

“This is why we chose to declare our war against the New York Stock Exchange. We can no longer stay silent as the population is being taken advantage of for the sake of profit. We will show the world that we are true to our word. On Oct. 10, NYSE will be erased from the internet. On Oct. 10, expect a day that will never, ever be forgot.”

In September, Anonymous released the name of a New York City police officer who was seen pepper spraying protestors in a video that was also posted to YouTube.

On Thursday, demonstrators are planning to rally in front of the Goldman Sachs offices in Jersey City at 2 p.m. In addition, protesters plan to gather at the same time in front of the Statehouse in Trenton.

A spokeswoman for Goldman Sachs declined to comment on the planned protest.

For more information about Occupy Wall Street, click here.

What do you think? Sound off below in our comments section…

Police Scuffle With Protesters As Thousands March To City Hall As Part Of Occupy Wall Street

support the cause but not the methods

I’m sorry to see someone’s solution is to bring down the New York Stock Exchange website Monday. Many of the OWS supporters, including the teachers and unions, have their retirement money tied up in there (the stock market). Even if what they have left isn’t much, it is what they have. Seems odd to me and rather short-sighted to cause further financial problems to the people they are claiming to help and speak for.

Nobama12

Since when have liberals ever cared about consequences or cutting off their nose to spite their face? When you are ruled by emotion, you seldom care about things like that..certainly not the truth.
Ahh.. Useful Idiots…Obama and his Wall Street support thank you.

Merrill Lynch Manager

Those protesters need to get a job and a life. Be productive not destructive.

ironage

If you listen to what they are actually saying….they don’t WANT a job. They want the government to take care of their every need! They are Marxists.

ironage

There apparently aren’t any good mental hospitals in your state.

Earl

Har!

FredIsDead

Hey moron .. the 85% don’t care about the 5 and 10%. Get a job and shut the hell up. Join the Army, they’ll take just about anyone, give you food and board and an education. Then in 5 years you can leave and start your own life with a tidy nest egg and lots of benefits.

If you don’t want to do that, then you aren’t hungry enough yet.

me

That’s your solution? Surrender you life to the goverment in exchange for money? That’s sounds like communism to me.
Mr. B

The military is a socialist institution. You and people like you are too stupid to get that.

Klaus

That’s a very important point. The military trains humans to abandon their individuality and sacrifice their lives for the collective. Anything in a uniform is a socialist tool. They merely serve to animate the uniform. A free man does not subordinate himself to such dehumanization.

Jack

Take a look at the very theme of this report and the reporter. from CBS. I saw him in action at a healthcare town hall meeting. I was sitting 2 seats to the right of his camera and watched him direct the soundman to keep placing his boom mike at all the most virulent anti healthcare shouters who were in the minority. I spoke to the reporter after the meeting and tried to voice an opinion but he already had his piece ste and I have a DVD of the entire piece so I know how he manipulated it. He is one of the “if it bleeds it leads” ilk ERvery time I see anything by this character I hold it in contempt for I know he is not a journalist but a tabloid style schlock.
John

wow…another useful idiot who thinks he’s a genius. who’d a thunk it.
soldier

Klaus, you have never been in the military I can tell. The military does not train its sailors or soldiers to do any such thing. Boot camp gets rid of the mamsy pamsy whiney individualist ideals while the rest of training makes you work for the USA’s best interest. The Military is not a socialist tool, as the indistrious seek to rise through the ranks through accomplishment and are rewarded with that rise.

Do not attack the military using the freedoms they safeguard.

Dan

With all due respect, even though the military filters out the wimps, they are in fact a socialist and even communist organization. It’s not an attack, just a simple fact. They provide “common” defense. In this country, our safety from common enemies is a right enforced by our military. With or without the weenies, extend the same idea to healthcare and you’d call it what it is, socialism. I urge you to think about it. It is possible this country has slipped more than you realize.

John

thanks for the commentary, useful idiot.

digger

You are the 1%, i.e. fools and or whiny children kicking and screaming for something you have no intention on doing – working for a living and earning it what businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals alike that pay for your sorry entitlement mentality all at the expense of the country. You and your ilk are greedy and envious of those who have done well for themselves. Stop being a drain upon society by destroying what others have achieved so you can share your misery by bringing others down to the sewer where you reside.

adice

I agree with your sentiment but unfortunately it’s abput 50%

The 1%

How about using some of this “energy” to actually start a business, rather than whining about how one hasn’t been handed to you straight out of college? Do you think that most RICH people got rich by sit-ins? I imiagine that in your minds that people get rich by STEALING from others. Funny, but the people I know got rich through hard work and sacrifice. Give that a try.

Kevin Pearson

1% 1% … phooey…/
It’s time to go after THE ONE.

patmurphy1965

In Alabama they are paying $100.00 per day just to harvest sweet potatoes. There are many jobs available; this generation is just not willing to work. The American culture I respect, includes a bit sweat and toil… Don’t be spoiled and lazy!!
OctaviusMaximus

You’re not the 99 percent. I am. My brothers and sisters are. And we see the occupy movement for what it is. It’s doubling down on the mindless hope and change crap that brought us this far. Do us all a favor and stay the hell away from the voting booth next year.

Mack

do us a favor and commit suicide.

Frank Johnson

There are lots of jobs available. I am retired and just checked the on line posting and got a job in 20 minutes–maybe not as CEO as you feel you are entitled, or $200,000 a year as you feel you are entitled. Join the military they could use some man power–sorry I said man power. I retired from the military–good pension. WHAT ARE YOU QUALIFIED TO DO??? I said qualified not entitled.
littlekittie

Are you for real??? I lost my job in 2008. It was a FANTASTIC job, which I loved. And believe me, I made great money. Well, I got laid off, just like millions of other people. As my savings were dwindling, rapidly, it became painfully apparent that I wasn’t going to get the same job for the same money anytime soon. So, I reinvented myself. It didn’t cost me a nickel. But, I thought very carefully about what to do and I did it.

Fast forward 2 1/2 years. I’m beginning to do well. What I’m doing now will end up paying better than I ever had done before. And yes, I employ a couple of people. As my business does better and better, I will employ more. So, according to you, I must be one of those greedy people who just doesn’t understand the issues our country is facing. Really?? I don’t think the people I’ve hired, in a rough economy, who are able to support themselves and pay their own bills because of MY business will quite agree with you.

Get off your butt, figure out what to do, and DO IT.

I’m ready to start my own protest. STOP THE ENABLEMENT = END THE ENTITLEMENT.

horseshrink

I think few should be in government leadership positions without having first been “producers” whose own business was their only source of income.

Without such a critical lesson in reality, stupid policies and laws seem like really good ideas.

Me

You do realize that people quit their jobs and traveled across the country to complain about this stuff.

Bob O’Link

I’ve listened to the Wall Street protesters being interviewed by the news media, and the protestors sound like a bunch of idiots.

Kenneth

You’re an idiot if you don’t realize the media is just showing the morons.

UnionParisites

Clear the crowd by bringing out some soap
sycodon

Lots of morons to show!
mike

Just showing the morons. You are so right. Morons all of them.

Wall Street Trader

That’s because they are a bunch of idiots and crack heads.
Lunaluvs

How about calling them severly ‘MISINFORMED’???? But, I know what you are saying, just saw a young woman say ‘It’s ridiculous, my mother pays more in taxes that Walmart!” Wow, didn’t know we had the child of a multi mult BILLIONAIRE! According to Forbes, Walmart paid nearly $6 billion in taxes to the U.S. last year. Don’t go on rumors people! Anyhoo… I do not blame anything on the banks or wallstreet, nope, they just are making money on what they LEGALLY CAN. Where people should be marching? Head on down south a few hundred miles, start on either Independence or Constitution Aves, protesting at the buildings there marked Senate offices or House of Rep. offices, then head on over to FIRST AND EAST, the CAPITOL, where everything is VOTED ON. After spending adequate time there, (and please make sure they are in session, they do take EVERY 3RD WEEK OFF and GO HOME to their Congressional District or Senate office). After that, MARCH, MARCH, MARCH on over to 1600 PENNSLYVANIA Ave, doesn’t matter if the president is there or not, Mr. Obama will get wind of it. Okay, maybe not all of these people are responsible for the state everything, but it is THE OFFICES that put the bill up, VOTED ON IT, AND SIGNED IT INTO LAW. Everything that Wall Street, the Banks do, they do it because they legally can. And they legally can, because a law was written or TAKEN AWAY.And NOT JUST THE LAST 10 YEARS!!!!!!!!

http://luxomni.wordpress.com luxomni

A corporation like Walmart actually doesn’t pay taxes. It collects them from its customers and passes hemt through to the government. Every cent they paid came from a customer. Nowhere else. $6 Billion in taxes? That’s six billion from the pockets of their customers.

luxidiot

Brilliant. So, apparently you don’t pay taxes because all the money you get is received from the company you work for..so they pay the taxes.

See how idiotic logic can be turned right around on you?
IgnoranceIsBliss

So…are you saying Walmart should pay no taxes or give everything away for free so they don’t take money from people? Are you texting this from the crowd on Wallstreet?
torre

Most of these unemployable fools are liberal arts majors with no future marketable skills.

When you head off to college take up a major with a marketable future. If you don’t, blame yourself and get ready to line up at the handout counter…

Goldman Sach VP

The ‘Bailout’ was only a loan and was REPAID IN FULL WITH INTEREST.

Banks paid back

You are 100% right Goverment made a boat load of money on interest .
mike

So not true
Profits for pimps

Don’t forget about the DISCOUNT WINDOW, that baby is giving money away so fast you can see the smoke a block away. Zero %. Free money!

Wall street owns the government. The federal reserve is the muscle.

Bye, bye ms. American pie. Sold my chevy just to get by.
Jimmy O’Faolin

Now if you could only pay back all the people who lost thier homes and futures due to your little ponzi scheme. How about a 2% income tax boost on your income over $500000, to help dig us out of this hole.No you”ll fight that tooth and nail. It might affect your bloated year end bonus too much.

torre

If you’re so great with numbers you’d realize there isn’t enough we can tax from everyone in this country to dig out of this hole.

Mortgages were made to people who should never have qualified to begin with. Your govt. strong-armed the banks to make them available.

Get your facts straight so you don’t come off sounding like a media-trained troll.
Kevin Pearson

You make it sound like they have been forced out of a family farm that had been handed down from generation to generation since the Revolution.
The “homes” that people lost were homes that they purchased with a mortgage that they would not have received in a sane world.
Nobody lost their rentals that they were living in before they took on these mortgages that they shouldn’t have ever have. The “homes” that they lost were places that they were essentially squatting and didn’t belong there in the first place.

fk

do the protesters realize that, BESIDES GE (and the unions) which will cost the government money in the end, the tax payers have actually BENEFITTED from the bailout. Everyone, except GE, has or is in the process of paying back TARP money. Plus the taxpayers made a profit. Maybe they should ask their union buddies why GE is the only one that we are long on? Look it up and get educated before you attack groups of individuals
M.M.O’Reilly Jr.

These young folks don’t wish to be in debt all of their lives as this
country from college tuition on makes them never catching up
with that debt,then as they get old like me that debt from all the
BS we have to live with is handed down to them from again from their parents
when they die. Thats why this movement is growing but it needs direction.
You can’t shut down Wall Street that idea is idiotic,you can change the laws.
JUST US

Do not despair. Think of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ. In Matthew 21:12, he entered the temple and drove out all who were buying and selling there. Wall Street was built on hallowed ground…baptized by the blood of those buried there. It’s about time the present day money changers tables were tossed.
ann

When a lot of people’s ancestors came to America, they were poor but worked hard to achieve.A big problem is that young people are encouraged to go to college and get white collar jobs instead of working blue collar jobs.Then, a lot of blue collar jobs have been shipped off to China and other countries and there is a lack of training in blue collar jobs and too many regulations for businesses to succeed and labor unions that are always asking for more pay so that jobs become scarcer. factories to Also, everyone thinks that all the new technology is a necessity, instead of saving money.

Cribster

I agree!

College is immensely overrated, they are turning into nothing more than indoctrination centers.

I couldn’t afford college, I didn’t expect anyone to pay for it. Instead I got a job and have been working ever since and thankfull, I’m doing better then most college graduates.

sjs

This week is the holiday of yom kippur, the day of atonement. The story of how Jonah told the inhabitants of Nineveh to return to God and how they repented is read on this holiday. God, the Creator and Sustainer of the world, provides for us but we have to trust in God, pray to Him, and follow His ways.America needs to return to God-this applies to the protesters, Wall Street, the government, and everyone else. Look up at the seven laws of Noah on the internet and see what God wants from us.
J Occupy WallSt Levine

Well, if Move On is in, I’m certainly OUT.
UNeedMeds

Can you repeat that?

sycodon

Meds…take them

Truth

Wall Street and much of this city’s renowned financial district were built on the burial ground of African slaves. New York’s prosperity stems in large part from the grotesque profits of the African slave trade and African enslavement.

Paul Evans

What does that have to do with you? Horrible things happened to lots of people of many different races in the past, we make sure they don’t happen again. Is everything Aristotle and Plato wrong simply because they owned slaves and believed slaves incapable of thought? No they were simply products of a different time. The protesters are out there for themselves. They see what the wealthy have and they want the government to take it from them at the point of a gun. It really is that simple.

You want it? Earn it. Equal opportunity, not equality.

Truth

It has EVERYTHING to do with me. My ancestors’ very life blood is in that ground.

I work. I pay taxes. I’m doing well. But unlike my RICH WHITE relatives who inherited the fortune of our white great, great, great, great, great grandfather, I got nothing as the great, great, great, great, great grandchild of the African woman he enslaved, raped, and impregnated. The black kids went the way of their mother and had no legal claims to their white father’s wealth. The very wealth he made off their backs.

What you reap, you will sow. What goes around, comes around. It’s karma. The FREE LAND & FREE LABOR they thought they were getting… well, it’s time to pay the piper.

America’s check is still coming back insufficient funds…though…not for too much longer.

I just want what’s due. I just want what’s right. This system has been ROTTEN and unfair from it’s inception. It’s time to install an equitable system not based on exploitation and greed.

It doesn’t have to come via the barrel of a gun. It can come via a change of heart.

Amused

Goog thing you didn’t inherit that wealth because then you would just be another evil, greedy person instead of a paragon of virtue.

My ggggggg’s were serfs in England. I’ve moved on.
horseshrink

Hope you can find an better path to significance than what you just wrote.

Entitlement = social cancer.

You’re not even entitled to your life. THAT was given to you. Do something useful with it instead of stewing in ghosts.

littlekittie

Nicely said. I couldn’t put it any better.

brooklyn

What else do you want asshole…reparations? I was waiting for someone to pull the race card…what else is new? It always happens.

Truth

Reparations are not needed. Justice is needed. This unjust system must be dismantled. I OWE it to my ancestors and to my children. The buck stops here.

MACK

you are a loser and defunked of intelligence turd smoker. Lets start the shooting.

Ticked

Yes, lets’s. I’ll be aiming at YOU Mack!

coneyislandbaby

Save America. Smash Wall Street. Democracy Yes. Aristocracy No.

ironage

Save America. Smash Marxism!
horseshrink

Yawn.

StayWoke

Wall Street was built by enslaved Africans on stolen Native American land and its environs built on top of an African burial ground. This is hallowed ground. This is karma. This is divine justice at work. Expect us.

StayBroke

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

TRUTH

Wake up! The TRUTH will set you FREE.
http://peoplesworld.org/slavery-in-new-york-uncovering-the-brutal-truth/v

sycodon

I can smell you from here.
Paul Evans

Your paper fails to cite any sources and is filled with such obvious historical flaws that a basic American history undergrad could spot them. Open your mind and actually look at more than obviously biased sources.
Paul Evans

Yes you Matt Parker have a very unbiased website.

ironage

OK so lets just give it back to the Arapaho….and we’ll all go back to dancing around the fire…chanting and worshipping the sun god!
Paul Evans

New York was purchased from the North American natives by the Dutch who had a very good relationship with the natives. The British then took over New York in a bloodless invasion. New York then joined the colonies in overthrowing the British. New York was not built by enslaved Africans, it was actually one of the first states to emancipate slaves even before America was a country.

If you are going to blather about history and how it is on your side, at least know it.

the historian

Paul Evans: New York City was actually one of the most enslaved places in colonial America; in fact it was the second most enslaved colonial city and slavery did not end in New York until July 4, 1827. The prevalence of slavery accounts for the African Burial Ground National Monument (nps.gov/afbg/) the cemetery of 10-20,000 free and enslaved Africans from 1640′s-1790′s. They are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their rediscovery right now, this week. Slavery was present in the first 1-2 years of New Amsterdam and it was enslaved people who built our city, including the wall which wall street’s name recalls. Wall Street and water street was the site of the city’s slave market for over 50 years in the 1700s. I think this topic is actually exhaustively covered by better historians than me, so I’ll just repeat you, “if you are going blather about history and how it is on your side, at least know it)

As for Dutch/Native American relations, you might want to know about Kieft’s War. Look it up! It was an unprovoked war against native americans that nearly wiped out the dutch. anyway, I’d love to hear an answer from you, Paul Evans.

Joel

So we should judge people for the actions of 200+ years ago? Somehow I don’t see you telling these stories to Muslims and other nations about their atrocities. This is proof of what I’ve been saying all along – these protests aren’t about money or jobs. It’s about Anti Jew/Anti American propaganda. Too bad you are too chicken to admit it publicly.

Kirby

You are out of your mind. Wall Street was there befor any slaves were brought to America. It isn’t Karma….you are just stupid and probably on drugs.

jayyy

so wall street was around in 1619? even wikipedia knows that ain’t so. but he’s stupid? talk about three fingers pointing back at you
the historian

Kirby: You are wrong, sir, wrong. Wall Street was built by enslaved people and New York City was practicing slavery in 1626. Look into any history of new york city. In fact there were slaves in NYC before WALL STREET

Janet

I keep wondering what the precise agenda or goals of the protestors is – what would constitute a victory? When will they say – “We accomplished what we set out to do and can now go home.” Would it be bringing Goldman Sachs execs to trial in a federal court building? Or what? When I was in college, the protests were “End the war in Vietnam” and “End the draft” – concrete, measurable goals. These protests are too scattershot and vague to be really effective.
Janet

I keep wondering what the precise agenda of the protestors is – when will they know when they’ve “won” and can go home? What – exactly – are they trying to accomplish, and what would their victory look like? When I was in college, we had protests of “End the War in Vietnam” and “End the Draft.” You could agree or disagree – but you knew what exactly was wanted.

http://algoa456.wordpress.com algoa456

They demand that everyone has a job. In addition I am sure they are demanding peace and love and happiness for all. And while you are providing it please throw in nice cars for everyone and free pot.

And if you don’t agree you are a dirty capitalist.

ironage

Come on people now….smile on your brother…everbody get together, try to……oh!!! nevermind!!! :/

SmallerGovt

I remember most demonstrations in the 60s where about getting government out of our hair….my how things have changed. Bigger government, more regulations and a nanny state. Wonderful.

LiberalsRDopes

Unwashed liberals, unions, move-on. org. Local brotherhood of shovel leaners.. What a waste of dna…..Unions, where businesses go to die……

Lou Stoole

Yeah…why lean on a shovel and do practically nothing if you can lean on a Gulfstream V and do practically nothing. But you’ll need a lot more of American money to do it. Maybe you could raise everyone’s debit card fees or speculate on oil and drive up gas prices. Too though for that small mind of yours? Don’t worry…Dancing With The Stars will be on later and you’ll watch just ’cause you wanna see Chaz Bono lose.

Lou Stool Sample

Oh those bad bad wealthy people…you should have everything they have..it’s your right, isn’t it stooley?
Maybe you could have tried a bit harder in school..but now it’s easier to be angry at others to avoid realizing your own failing.
LouEatsStool

Stool breath. Sounds like you hate living in mommys basement. Maybe you should have stayed in grammer school. Then you wouldn’t be so angry about selling batteries on the subway…

Bill Galluccio

These socialist anarchist are such hypocrites. Nobody forced them to go to college. Nobody forced them to go to a school like NYU or Columbia. They could have gotten the same education by going to a local community college, but they CHOSE to go to a school that charges $40,000 a year. Now they graduated, realized their degree is worthless because a company could care less about if you took classes gender studies, and upset because their “liberal arts” education is a joke. The ones that have jobs are complaining they don’t make enough money. Tough. I graduated in 2008, got a crappy sales job, went back to school, did unpaid internships and finally in late 2010 got a full-time job. These kids expect instant results and fell entitled to be making $60,000 when they take off their cap and gown.

Cgallicchio

Totally in agreement, graduated in 92′,with philosophy degree but now own my own business and don’t even use the dang thing.Get OUT OF DEBT AND SAVE SAVE SAVE IS ALL I CAN SAY.

JC Guerrero

Wall Street and corporations should be counting their lucky stars. If only 2-5% of everyone who currently is unemployed, underemployed, homeless or had their homes foreclosed on were to show up and protest the system would most probably crash.
Karen

Good for these people. Finally, people who will stand up for what should be right in this country. In this recession the only ones who have made out are the corporations and banks. Let’s take America back. Then maybe people like Eric would be able to get a job that offers opportunities that this country used to offer. For some reason we don’t get mad at CEO’s who make 300 x’s what the average worker makes. We get mad at the average worker and expect them to take less. We need jobs that offer the same benefits CEO’s and politicians get not the crap that is being put out there. The true morons are the people who sit passively by and allow their fellow Americans to be taken advantage of.

Joel

Jay Z and Arod make 300x what most people make and more than most CEO’s. Funny how we never hear about them when we demand less wagers/earnings. Live in Cuba, seriously. They need more mediocre crybabies who don’t have passion.

http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com The Underground Conservative

“22-year-old Eric Sundman of Chatham …”

Yeah, right. His tax dollars. Go get a job and actually pay taxes, ya miserable parasite. And get out of Mommy and Daddy’s basement and try making your own way. Same with the rest of this rabble.

CBond

Pretty sure that’s their point. There are no jobs to “get.”

Craig Smith

Alabama has recently had several new openings in manual and farm labor jobs since the illegals departed. These kids can head down there and work. Of course, If they have the teacher’s unions opinion of what work is I’m sure they will will consider that beneath them.

horseshrink

Manual labor. Ughh. It’s so beneath me! I’m entitled to an upper middle class income in a job of my choosing when I want it.

21

Just because someone is young doesn’t mean that they have no job, and it certainly doesn’t mean that they’re any less aware than you are. I’ve been working and paying taxes since I was 16, and I moved out of “mommy and daddy’s basement” when I was 17. Get off your pedestal, you old fart.

brooklyn

@ 21
You act like you did something special. That’s what you’re supposed to do, little boy/girl. We’re all so proud of you!
littlekittie

Good for you. You joined the real world. Now, do us all a favor and spread the word to others in your age group.

Don Shappelle

Anonymous DOES NOT support #invadewallstreet

Check twitter, fact check!
N Y P DrP I G S

How is this “Anonymous” group able to say so…anonymous? I can’t even walk down the street to but a loaf of bread without everyone finding out if they really wanted to with cameras and internet tracking everywhere nowadays.

This being said, I do support what these people are trying to do. Just not fair that someone like Gloomberg has billion$ that he certainly does not need (especially at his age of 69), while people are still sleeping on the subway and streets. Just not right.

And anyone that tells me otherwise is probably either a cop (aka pig) who is merely a puppet of the corporate party politicians who just LOVES arresting, pepper-spraying, even drawing his gun on people for the fun of it while padding his pension; or someone who squeezes millions themselves like the one on here who calls himself ‘Wall St bond trader”. More like inside trader who should take his 2 or 3 million (probably more) already taxed dollars and go retire in Florida. No reason for someone like him to squeeze any more money out of a had-working, a$$-busting citizen like myself.

HUGH BLOW

how can you comment that bloomberg doesnt need his $$ and that its not fair that he has it? He EARNED it the AMERICAN way. wake up
Ronny

you sir are the pig. A very un-american dolt who has been victimzied by the Democrats so you actually beleive what you have written….sad really just pitiful and sad. You failed to understand what America is about, due mainly to our histrouy been distorted by the leftiest in school.

HINT: the secret is SELF-RELIANCE and DO FOR YOURSELF.

Tricia

Terrorist threats against the financial sector of our country. What is Sec Napolitano and Mr Holder doing or saying about this? Maybe the news media should ask them?

karen

These people are terrorist because their fighting for rights that have always been a part of America. The only terrorists are people like you who sit idly by and let the financial sector screw this country. That is exactly what real terrorists do they they follow their leader no matter the consequences to others. Obviously your leader is the Financial Sect

Practical

Believe me when the public sector unions are involved, the only right they want is the right to more money.It is how they became so powerful, they settled everything when politicians caved to the bottom line. There may be some idealists in the group,but they will gladly become the satanic demon that they despise for the right price.Now that a few elected officials dare to say No,or to question the fiscal responsibility of more debt for taxpayers to bear,the unions resort to name calling.Look at all the fat jokes about Christie in NJ.Public unions want the only fat cat in the room to be themselves.
horseshrink

Perhaps they should retreat to Galt’s Gulch.
This protest costing millions New yorkers thank u NOT

These people are costing New York city millions in NYPD overtime.Any Unions that march this is a reason there will be no money for your raises or pension all this overtime for stupid protest like this in a economy like this is just plain stupid just like this protest.

Jeanne

I was thinking the same thing. Protesting is legal; making terroristic threats is a crime. Why haven’t these criminals been arrested?
Move on losers

These marchers are the real terroist.New york has suffered enough not everyone who works on wall street makes alot.We have families to support and bills to pay too.It is only a matter of time before people start fighting with these outsiders and free-loaders.
lois

always a cause. vote the bums out….get really organized. your show of less then strength is laughed at by the older politicions who could care less… throw them out…
DoubleDuty

Not sure what attacking the NYSE web site will do. It’s an auction base system and 99.95 percent of the the electronic orders are sent via private networks outside of the internet.
Earl

Mr. Holder knows nothing about this and didn’t know anything about it until recently.
ironage

Because…..in Sec. Napolitano’s world….the TRUE threats to America is are returning military veterans….white males in particular.
beth

Thank you Tricia, the list of demands is absurd and never will come to fruition. The cost the NYPD has incurred due to a bunch of unemployed hippies is another reality that those with negative common sense just don’t get, that money has to come from somewhere, I think they should take it from the welfare checks of those occupying morons. Holder wouldn’t do a thing, he himself is a criminal and Nappy, well – I will bite my tongue about he/she.
John Gulbunnie

Sure Tricia…just as soon as the Michael Jackson trial ends. Don’t be so thick that you fail to realize the media doesn’t care about you nor want you to be educated on important issues that affect you directly. Have some fluff instead.
Jim from Boston

Tricia,

Napolitano? Holder? Who do you think is behind all of these “Occupy” protests?
This is all part of the Obama reelection campaign. Obama is the one stoking the flames of class warfare and this is what it leads to. Note all of the “usual suspects” getting involved. Obama now seems to have no chance of winning a traditional reelection effort so he is reverting to type. Our community organizer-in-chief is in full flower now.
Tulip Trace

A dying breed….the RNC used to be the best Party. Look at it now – it’s managed to attract more Corporate Freeloaders, Gay Bashers, Anti-Semites, Nazi, Racists, Tax Evaders, Tea-baggies, mental patients and Hillbilly meatheads……Not to mention the very wealthy and financial fraudsters ….Haah! And the latest is a Black Uncle Tom Cain who believes that if you lose your job due to downsizing…it’s your own fault. What is this world coming to?
John Galt

N and H support the threats. Lots of luck.
jerry988

maybe they should be rounded up and sent to a “reeducation camp”. The survivers will be more then docile.
commonsense247

or maybe they are turning a blind eye because it fits their politics and that of this administration… ?
LIGHTHORSE

Those two are playing strip poker, omg I’m goning to hurl. In case people don’t realize it by now, those two used to get the orders wrong at the drivethru and now work for the guy who never held a real job.
cleatus

Holder is to busy ducking questions from Fast And Furious and these wack jobs are not the Tea Party so “Big Sis” isn’t interested! These people are echoing the same things Obama! Makes myself and others wonder if this was another secret Government project started by the Left!
Ray

Has the news media asked why Obama who has ruined the economy and is making it worse is getting a pass from protestors. Coulld it be ideolgoy that these oxygen theves are really pushing?
hotpickle

You’ll hear nothing, because the White House is BEHIND the OWS “protest”. In fact, the talking points they’re using were supplied by the WH! (Not to mention the list of “official goals”, which include free health care for all, free higher ed for all, etc.)
cntrlfrk

Well said Tricia.

The silence from the so-called leaders in Washington is deafening.

And the media is just as traitorous.
kshanks

They don’t so or say anything bout this because Janetalia Nippletano and Hindrich Holder ARE part of the problem.

This entire thing is right out of Barry’s “Dreams of my Father” book, Obama Sr won his election by mob rule. Barry is just following in daddies foot steps
Joel

Will NEVER happen. Just as ‘anonymous’ won’t ever attack Al Queda propaganda sites. They are all slimebags.