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OWS Protesters Chant ‘Follow Those Kids!’ As Small Children Try To Go To School On Wall Street

Tiny Tots, Some As Young As 4, Overwhelmed By Hostility, Crush Of Humanity

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Occupy Wall Street protests impact schools

A small boy is seen trying to get through the chaos to his school on Wall Street on Nov. 17, 2011. (Photo: CBS 2)

Occupy Wall Street

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — They were caught in the middle of madness.

Some grade school students were forced to walk a gauntlet of screaming “Occupy Wall Street” protesters just to get to school on Thursday.

It was a wild day in lower Manhattan for most everyone involved, including elementary school children who had to brave the mayhem just to get to class on the other side of Wall Street.

GALLERY: Occupy Wall Street  “Day Of Action”

In the middle of thousands of protestors yelling and chanting — some kicking and screaming – CBS 2’s Emily Smith found little school kids trying to get to class. Nervous parents led them through the barriers on Wall Street. The NYPD helped funnel the children, anything to ease their fears while some protestors chanted “follow those kids!”

“These guys are terrorists, yelling at little kids,” one father said.

“For them it’s horrible. They’re afraid of all the crowds. We’re not even able to get through. They’re just, he’s … very afraid now,” a mother added.

One protester followed a father and his little daughter all the way down the block. As the school day ended just after 3 p.m. children trickled out of Leman Manhattan Prep on Broad Street. Smith heard a 4-year-old boy telling his mom he was scared. He told Smith it looked like a parade.

“There was a parade. It was scary — crowded with school,” the boy said.

“After a while it got so bad some parents couldn’t get their children through and they had to go late,” said Gary Goldenstein of Tribeca.

Some saw the day’s doings as chaos; others saw it differently.

“The parents actually along with teachers were at every entry point into this area, which is fantastic,” said Vicki Pitcock of Tribeca.

School officials said they haven’t had to change school times or cancel class, and are trying to keep it that way.

How far is too far? Please offer your thoughts in the comments section below.

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  • NDSue

    There’s no excuse for adults to be screaming at little children and intimidating them. None. Blaming others for their boorish, self-centered behavior is just what is causing this “movement” to lose the little, if any, support it has had across the country – among the non-hating non-rich, anyway.

  • Adam

    All of you that respond approbatively to this destructive, incoherent and decidedly stupid mob, especially regarding the actions described above, are not only complicit, but beyond redemption.

    That, or you’re all under 20 years old.

    • jane doe

      That, or they’re just sick of greed and corruption.
      How immature of them.

      • Japes Macfarland

        The corruption which allowed the inherent greed of the banks and big buiss. was only possible because of your left wing politicians. It was *risk* the held back their inherent greed, and the Left took away that risk by saying they’d insure bad loans if they weren’t paid back. So of course the banks took advantage! They’re greedy, duh. You should be protesting the Dems., frankly.

        • jane doe

          Really? And this is your informed opinion is it?
          Fascinating.

          • Japes Macfarland

            Are you honestly ignorant of all this, or just pretending to be? I’m honestly curious.

            • Tim

              Funny how the liberal doesn’t respond to you. She’s probably answering nature’s call in front of a school. It’s one thing to protest, it’s another thing to scare little kids, and disrupt the work day of the “99%” that they claim to be. They are quickly changing from a nuisance to a threat – not to the so-called 1%, but to the real 99% that have just about had it with them.

              Since they’re out playing hippy, I think I’ll live in the past for a bit, too. Why not tell the NYPD to go home to their families and send a horsemounted charge of Pinkertons at them? :)

            • Anonymous

              Japes, baby, I doubt that you are ‘curious’. I doubt that you are capable of giving any rational consideration to facts that fall outside of your pre-conceived rhetoric and comfort zone.
              Time is on my side here. I don’t HAVE to make any kind of case here because I’ll just wait you out.
              In 6 months, you’ll be on the streets yourself.Or you will know people who are.

              You’ll come around.

              • Japes Macfarland

                Well, I guess by your response you really are ignorant of who’s really at fault. (and so, how to fix it)

                “The bigger the government the smaller the citizen.”
                Dennis Prager

              • Jorge

                Anonymous, great name for a chicken sh@t that prob. hides behind a mask. I don’t think Japes or anyone else is worried about being on the street because most don’t give up. your obviously not just a coward but also a bum whoes made excuses his\her whole miserable existance and has never amounted to anything. Poor sad little rabbit. You finally found something to give you poor souless life meaning, but no one cares. Your words and arguments are as pointless as you. There is no 99%. It is a typical Marxist ploy to over inflate numbers. You represent no one but you own bloated self. Please don’t shoot yourself because it would be a waste of a good bullet. Why don’t you and your companions drink real hard then form a line on a set of railroad tracks outside of town, then you can all lay down in a line go to sleep and let a speeding train do the rest. Then you will have truly served your country.

                • Anonymous

                  tl;dr
                  you need a hug?
                  That sure was a lot of botheration just to tell me you doesn’t care, Jorgey-Porgey..

          • Biteme

            Funny how even PMSNBC pointed this out, and Janie still doesn’t get it.

            • anonymous

              PMSNBC?! OMG! really? How about Fox? did they, did they???
              WELL. IT MUST BE TRUE THEN.

              • Ginger

                F- Off Jane Anonymous you tired tramp

      • sodacrackers2

        They are not sick of greed, they are sick with greed, not wanting to pay their own bills, or get a job. Didn’t your mama ever tell you that she didn’t care what anyone else did, she just cared what you did. Live your life honestly, don’t be envious of those who have more than you or gloat over those who have less. And if you truly think that sleeping outside in a filthy, disease ridden tent city will rid the world of corruption, than have at it! It might be better if you went to some country where refugees are forced to live like that and can’t sneak home to get a shower and a good night’s sleep.

      • Ginger

        So abuse children?! Jane you ignorant ______

  • SickOfOWS

    This message brought to you by MoveOn, the DNC, Obama, Pelosi, SEIU, and AFL CIO

  • Paul Wolf

    Why doesn’t the Occupy Crowd get together and buy an island or take over a state like RI or Vermont and get their own crew in there (Politicians) Run the way the want to kick all the big bank and corporation out and show the rest of America how its done right . Funny ha

  • ProudOnePercenter

    I know how I would explain it: every society has its parasites and every once in a while they make things uncomfortable and then they need to be fumigated. They may get loud and nasty, but in the end, as all loosers, they are impotent to actually do anything and end up crawling back under the rock whence they came.

    • Big Bear

      The media needs to start ignoring them. Most of their rallies have fewer participants than a bagpipe concert. It’s getting boring, hearing the same chants, seeing the same scruffy idealists. Boring.

      • sodacrackers2

        It is better if we see it all. They are literally exposing themselves for all to see and it is not pretty. It is nice to see some in the msm not afraid to report the truth for once.

    • too true

      Well said.

    • Anonymous
      • jane doe

        wow.
        how come the rabid right didn’t comment on this?

        • Towlie

          Foaming spittle in their eyes no doubt. I have never seen such seething hatred outside a Fox site. Note that this level of ignorance and rage is the only way conservatives have to advance their agenda right now. Get the rightie mob foaming about the people trying to stop the country from falling into a state not unlike Somalia, so they can push us one step closer while we rail at each other on sites like these, leaving them free to carry on unmolested. The mob is so ignorant they fall right for it. Fooking Puppets. Funny how they say the same about us. And sad.

          “Yer a towel!” “No YER a towel!”

          • Tim

            And, you mean to tell me that the park where you flea baggers are hanging out doesn’t smell like mule $h!t and look like Mogadishu? If that’s your vision for America, well …

            • Anonymous

              Timothy, stop now.
              You’re changing the subject.
              Would you tell retired Philadelphia Police Captain, Ray Lewis that he is a ‘flea bagger’?? TO HIS FACE?

              • jane doe

                haha I’d love to see Japes Macfarland call him a racist to his face :)
                But i suspect young japes is a coward, tbh.

                • Japes Macfarland

                  Why do you suspect I am a coward, Jane? Would you like to contact me off the forum and I can see if I can help you?

                • Tim

                  To Anonymous and Jane,

                  I wouldn’t care if he had the Congressional Medal of Honor around his neck. If he, like the others, hasn’t showered, shouts at little kids, destroys private property, and acts like an animal? Damn straight. And, I’d stand there and see what he does about it, too. Just like I would do to the two of you.

                  So, Jane. What are you wearing?

  • Jerry Brant

    These OCW terrorists are pure evil. They have no shame or decency scaring the children. They have no problem abusing little kids like this. They are sick. The movement is pure evil and to think this is sponsored by the Democrat Party.

    • anon

      the movement is pure evil?
      how so, foamy?

      • Tim

        Easy. Aside from the current topic of scaring school children: Rapes, murders, theft, drug-dealing, threats of terrorism, indecent exposure, destroying (and defecating upon) public and private property … do I need to continue? Are you going to refute this? Or, are you going to channel one of your heroes and say “One must break a few eggs to make an omelette”? Here’s a hint, and I think that what I have to say speaks for many parents: Should you consider my child an egg, take caution. So much as breathe on her or spill filth from your diseased little mouth towards her, I’ll break you in half.

        Stop whining and crying about your damned cause, and look at what they hell you’re doing!! You are doing nothing but further dividing this country. I am terribly sorry to inform you, but you have no idea precisely what little percentage of this country you represent – surely not the “99%”. Find another Communist slogan to bleat.

        Hugs and Kisses.

        • Anonymous

          “Rapes, murders, theft, drug-dealing, threats of terrorism, indecent exposure, destroying (and defecating upon) public and private property”

          Ummmm it wasn’t the protesters, you wool-blind little sheeple.

          don’t take my word for it – do a google search using these key words -cops send homeless to zuccotti

          • Adam Wentworth

            Actually you intellectual neophyte is is the OWS that are doing it. You sure talk a lot of smack anonymous yet you lack the balls to post with a name. Have you ever had to fire a weapon in anger? I’ll bet not. you’ll will be fighting many of us who have though anon…….. You better think long and hard about that fact boy.

            • Tim

              These guys don’t get it. They’re beginning to change from being an irritant to the general population to being a threat to the general population. They are being ignored because they have either a message that is incohesive or incompatible with the views of the people whom they fantasize of being “about”. Because they were being ignored, they have now begun to turn to violence.

              OWS, if you are arrogant and stupid enough not think we will defend ourselves against them, they’re sadly mistaken.

            • No, I’M Adam Wentworth

              See? Posting with a name here!
              In fact, Adam Wentworth is going to be my new handle on all my hippy-loving homsex sites.

          • Ginger

            IT WAS TOO THE OCCUTARD YOU MORON!!! MY God, how are you sooo stupid!! GET Take your OCCUTROLL check and leave already. Are all your body parts as small as your brain!? You F-idiot.

  • carla t

    harassing innocent children, a new low. these kids have a right to walk to school without having to run a gauntlet of protestors kicking barricades, yelling, reaching over barricades. the goon who followed a father and his child is lucky i wasn’t that parent. leave the kids alone. i know miranda and can recite it, and will if i have to.

  • Bill Clinton

    Looks like the dregs of society (OWS people) have taken over this thread…

  • Tomas

    It’s time for all Mayors and businesses affected by this madness to sue the organizers. Who are they? It’s easy, find a ten year old, ask them to look up SIEU’s Steven Lerner’s op ed from March, any of his audio and videos on line. Van Jones’s videos. The Main Stream Media has been deceiving the American people for the last two months. They’re not worth our time or a dime. Sue them into a financial coma!!

  • ron

    attacking kids ??? do the protesters think that will move public opinion to their way of thinking ???? stupid

    • Anonymous

      attacking children, now, is it?
      ATTACKING??

      F for reading and comprehension skills, chief.

      • Japes Macfarland

        Yes, attacking. Making little kids cry and afraid can be considered ‘attacking’ just as much as someone using a politically incorrect phrase at one of your leftist seminaries (universities) is considered an “attack” on another.

        • Anna Key

          wow. so sending a kid to his room for a timeout is an attack, too?
          Or only if he cries….?

          • Japes Macfarland

            If you were a stranger, yes, genius. It would be an attack to force them to go to their room without their parent’s permission. Or do you want bureaucrats to further take over raising our kids? Don’t you know that growing the government is the problem, not the solution. When you guys insured the loans of banks, why do act surprised that they took advantage. It was risk that was holding back their greed, and the Left took away the risk and also told them they’d be called racist if they didn’t make the loans. They made gabs of dirty cash and stayed out of trouble with the Left. Now everyone hates, good. But you should be hating the leftist politicians that caused this more.

            • Anna Key

              You think everything is very black and white, don’t you?
              Does it make it easier for you to understand if you just ignore whole nuances of meaning, simply because you lack the capacity to adequately express yourself?
              That IS what you are saying, isn’t it?

              • Japes Macfarland

                No Anna, for nuances are part of the real joys of life. Yet I do believe that if I was in a large group of adults, protesting “the MAN”, and another group of kids were trying to get by and looked scared, I would not yell out “Let’s follow them!!” I’d like to think that I’d stop my chanting and yelling, and even run over to comfort them. I certainly wouldn’t follow them and continue being what was obviously perceived as intimidating (and scary) to them.
                You don’t understand or empathise with what I am saying because you are a secular leftist.

                • jane doe

                  don’t believe everything you read, bozo.

          • Ginger

            If you cannot determine the difference, I am sure Social Services will be taking your children soon. In any case, clearly why you and your occutrolls, and occutards should not be in the general public and kept from children

      • Ginger

        FU for comprehension skills you sick F### Chanting at 5 year-old that you tower above in adult clusters is attackking. Hence the cops. Attacked by same!

  • none

    you people are human garbage. scaring and chasing children. what the hell is wrong with you? get a job you bums.

    • The Sage Waitress

      OWS types think getting a job is a violation of their civil rights.

      • Anna Key

        Because they don’t want to be a waitress all their lives?
        Yeah. How ignorant of them.

        • Anna Key has anal fleas

          Got a problem with people who work, Anna? You just insulted a lot of good, decent people, turdbasket!

          • Adam Wentworth

            haha. yeah. The internet = serious business.

        • Ginger

          Because that is the highest level of achievement that occutrolls and tards as yourself will ever reach. Oh, and taking a NYCC check to protest and troll

  • Bill Holland

    Sorry kids, liberals don’t like anyone that have more money than they do! They would rather whine and complain about it at your own expense than to take steps to better their own lives.

  • David

    The only thing worse than what these thugs did to a bunch of young children are the people who are trying to excuse and justify it.

    That said, I’m glad everyone has a chance to see just who and what these people really are. I’m also glad that in this election year, Democrats from Obama on down have ( by choice ) hitched themselves to this group of thugs and degenerate bullies.

    Stay classy libs.

  • http://coalitionheroesmemorial.wordpress.com Heroes Memorial

    Donnie, your attitude is part of the reason why OWS won’t succeed. They claim to be targeting rich Wall Street executives, but all they’re doing is annoying regular people. Actually, my theory is that the protesters are just a bunch of attention wh*res.

  • gdogs

    Just another negative view of the OWS. These guys really aren’t doing themselves any favors. Does pi$$ing off the general population really seem like a good idea to the OWS crowd? How does slowing down traffic and commuters help your cause? Do yourselves a favor and think about how the average person is affected by your actions.

    • yiddishlion

      All you stupid liberal fools are starting to see the ‘change” you voted for. How do you like it so far? It will only get worse. If you had any brains you would be protesting the White House and the Senate. But being that dumb has it’s consequences…..like,… misdirected anger…….

  • Mike Wilson

    Wow three stupid ignorant comments in a row! Yes let’s scare the crap out of these little rich kids!! And since the Obama green economy is such a disaster, lets spend Billions we don’t have and build a high speed rail system!! That way, losers from around the country can crawl out of their parents basements and quickly get to the next occupy rally! Brilliant!

  • Muddywood

    The ends justify the means, right?
    Right?

  • poorhardworker

    Pathetic display.! Where is their humanity? The kids have nothing to do with their complaints!!! Have they no shred of human decency left>

    • tboyz

      Think about this. Most of the OWS crowd are college kids who are routinely used and manipulated by college professors. These professors, even though they are well aware of it, just disregard that young people are naive and can be coerced into doing things. They just use them, because they can.

      So is anyone really surprised when these college students do exactly the same thing to kids younger then them.

      That is what they have been taught to do, and they are doing it. There professors I’m sure are beaming with pride at this very moment.

  • jnsesq

    This would never have happened in Rudy’s New York. Yeah, now go ahead and call him a fascist, Lefty morons. (Oh, and me too, of course.)

  • John Moser

    Surprising that none of these creeps waved their pickles at the children. They seem to like that(the occupy perverts, not the children)..

  • Tom Smith

    What a bunch of idiots. If your not going to protest like normal human beings get a life and do something better with your time and life.

  • lee

    sad sad commentary when you try to justify scaring kids who havent done anything

  • Gregory Miller

    If the parents are concerned about the safety of their kids–they should move upstate. If their rich parents would demand High Speed Rail Service and break up the Republican desire to stop such a project, they could live in Utica New York and be in Penn Station everyday in 1 hour and 20 minutes for their daily commute.

    • AtlasObjectivist

      Is it fun to be so painfully stupid? Unfortunately everyone who has wasted their time reading your post is dumber because of it.

    • Get ajobhippie

      If you want socialism, move to Cuba, Venezuela, or North Korea. nobody will miss you, less burden on the rest of us. It’s not all about YOU

    • Daniel

      Right. Because the people who take their kids to school are the problem.

      This is greed: verbally assaulting children because you are jealous of the wealth of their parents. Fools.

      Stop being ignorant, expecting the government to solve your problems, and go out there and do something with you life. Drop the entitlement, get a job, start a career, find a hobby. You’d be amazed at how easy the real world is if you stop expecting handouts and start providing for yourself.

    • jnsesq

      LOLOL. Sadly, your hilarity is simultaneously disturbing.

    • Uncle Samantha

      That’s just a band-aid that won’t fix any real problems. In fact, that would just add to our problems. You see, WE’RE BROKE. The Chinese credit card that taxpayers have to pay off has 15 trillion dollars on it already. We can’t build some Disney Epcot fantasy land future train right now.

    • fizzbin

      Live in Utica? Please, just shoot me!.

    • Japes Macfarland

      Lol., high speed rail?! Leftists are always trying to get us out of our cars, because the car is the working symbol of American independence and freedom. I can where I want, when I want. I can listen to what music I want, as loud as I want it. I can smoke. I can pull over and look at the sunrise, and take a nap. Leftists can’t stand this.

    • Tim

      Gregory,

      You must be an idiot. They should move upstate if they want their kids to be safe? Does that mean you admit these occupy thugs are making the city unsafe? You actualy found a way to blame a political party for the mob that is making life difficult for everyone else. How about this…..they have the right to protest, but they DO NOT have the right to disrupt the lives of people around them. Or frighten children, which I’m sure goes without saying for everyone but you.

    • jasmine

      You, sir, are an idiot. So, all of these people should have to move so they will be safe. Are you saying that they are in danger from the Occupiers? Sure sounds like it to me. Why not have the occupiers go back home and leave these people alone? Yes, the occupiers should be the ones to have to move. Why don’t the occupiers do something constructive instead or standing around the streets all day long, yelling, screaming, banging drums – in other words – harassing anyone and everyone who doesn’t agree with them? Why don’t they find a candidate that they trust and work to get them elected? If they want the system to change, they have to work from within the system. But, of course, they won’t do that and I’ll tell you why – it would mean they would have to actually work for a change. Its so much easier to hang out with your buds, smoking a little weed (or snorting something else), and just walk around carrying signs and screaming at little kids.

  • Donnie Dionne

    Sorry guys,this is what protesting is all about,if it makes you uncomfortable, it’s suppose to,if it disrupts your life, it’s suppose to !

    • ron

      attack kids ???? that what its about to you ???

      • ALibertarian

        Well kids, this is what democracy looks like, as the crybabies say.
        Be glad we live in a Constitutional Republic.

        • jsamine

          Thank you for pointing out that ours is a Constitutional Republic. Most people these days don’t know that, since they don’t teach it in schools anymore (thanks to the liberals).

    • yiddishlion

      So terrifying little children is what it is all about? You better pray to God you don’t run into someone like me. I would k i l l you on the spot if you got to close to my child.

    • kimo

      then why be upset when what wall streeters make you uncomfortable?

    • Chip

      …and what in Hades do you think gives these screaming loons the imaginary right to disrupt the lives of innocent strangers? This is one of the reasons we have police and the military — to protect normal working responsible people and their childern from the crazy violent lunatics and fanatics of the world.

      And by the way… do you also then accept the fact that SELF DEFENSE is supposed to make violent lunatics and fanatics “uncomfortable”??

    • pr

      In America we don’t terrorize children… the right to protest peacefully is American, you communist thugs think kids should be a target. This is what you are…thugs.

    • Tim

      No, Donnie, you’re wrong. You can think of protesting how you like, but it doesn’t change the fact. You have a right to say what you want and come and go as you please…..AND SO DO I !!!! You don’t have the right to impede me from going to work or the store or taking my kids to school. Freedom goes both ways, chucklehead.

    • Ione

      This is not protesting nor is it free speech it is Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is ILLEGAL. If you do it to make a point plan on getting arrested. Civil Disobedience (and scaring little children) is what you do when you are not the majority and don’t have an idea the majority would except. You stamp your feet, scream louder, break things, refuse to go to home and hold your breath until you turn blue. Kind of like when you were two. Only as a grown up you get to go to jail.

    • Tim

      Hey Donnie.

      If your movement isn’t careful, it is going to start to make the real 99% mad. Some of that 99% might be willing to return the favor of having their lives “disrupted” by “disrupting” the lives of Occupiers … permanently. Especially when you screw around with kids. If Occupy wanted to be responsible, as that seems to be a word they toss around a bit, perhaps it would serve them well to warn the schools of where they will be so that they can make sure that kids are out of their way.

    • Ginger

      No it isn’t. “Peaceful assembly” is a right. If it makes me or other citizens uncomfortable or disrupts my life — by definition, it is not PEACEFUL. So, therefore, all protesting that “makes you uncomfortable or disrupts my life” — is ILLEGAL. Chargeable as disturbance of the peace, harassment, and then the charges rack from there — endangering the welfare of a minor, by kicking at barricades, screaming at 5-year-old passing by it. Like you have some nerve justifying that crap.

  • Gregory Miller

    Kids going to school near Wall Street? It’s a shame they were exposed to so much anger–I am sure they will never forget it. I hope when they get older they ask their parents why the people were so mad and yelling. I wonder how the rich parents will explain that Wall Streeters greed caused this whole mess.

    • ron

      so greed made them go after kids ??? FUC# you

    • AtlasObjectivist

      Gregory – how is the weather on planet Loon today?

    • GetAJobHippie

      And the parents will say “Envious lazy hippies caused it”

    • idesign

      Washington makes the rules not Wall street….

      Idiot!

    • Chip

      Yes, the children will remember it, and this will give the parents a perfect opportunity to explain the concepts of laziness and mental illness to their kids. Also, some day the kids will then thank their parents for raising them better than the failure parents of the protestors.

    • Del

      Yea traumatize a little kid, that will show them. What a bunch of creeps.

    • Japes Macfarland

      It wasn’t Wall Street greed any more than it’s ever been. Bank and big buiss. have always been greedy, this is nothing new. It’s been *risk* that has held back the major excesses of their inherent greed. Yet the Left (in political power) took away that risk. That’s what is new. This idea was stupid, and they’re still too stupid, apparently, to admit it.

      • jane doe

        just because banks have always been greedy, doesn’t mean it should continue this way. If you are too small-minded to envisage a future without greed, then stand aside little boy, there’s real work to be done and you’re just gettin’ underfoot.

        • Japes Macfarland

          You wrote: “just because banks have always been greedy, doesn’t mean it should continue this way.”

          Wrong again, Jane. I said that the government insuring the loans of the banks was a *new* idea. And a bad one. I also said that it was *risk* that held back the inherent greed of the banks, and it was your leftist politicians that took away that risk by insuring the loans. Pay attention!

        • Ginger

          Yes, Jane you ignorant _____ apparenlty, like the little children were getting underfoot today? So that justifies their torment. The greedy banks that lent you money to go to college, must be eliminated? “Too small minded to envisage a future without greed” O.k., you Brit commie s___. Troll on. Take a look at your failed banks, failed healthcare system, London burning from the riots, the Islamic marches, and pay us back for WWII then get out from underfoot. If you don’t like “greed,” put down your keyboard and volunteer in a local London shelter.

    • Steve

      More likely they will ask their parents how a whole generation of Gregory Miller’s managed to get through 12 years of public school without a 3 year old’s grasp on reality.

    • ProudOnePercenter

      I know how I would explain it: Every society has its parasites and every so often they come out and need to be fumigated. They may be loud and nasty but as with all losers they are essentially harmless and will crawl back under the rock whence they came. It’s a good lesson for children.

    • MikeATL

      Really you are trying to justify scaring children over your protest? How do you know all the parents are what you deem rich? Some might be going to that school on grants and charity. Did that ever dawn on you? What a cowardly excuse to scare children.

      • Steve r

        What is really funny..They will grow up thinking, “I don’t want to be a loser like that…I better study hard!” And in 20 years these OWS protestors will be interviewing for a job and these kids will be the hiring managers! Ha!

    • VA_Dan

      The more likely explanation given by the parents will be that a bunch of people with entitlement issues decided to a fit in public, and that they were so far detached from reality that they thought scaring children was a valid form of political discourse.

    • Tim

      Gregory,

      Wall street greed alone didn’t cause this mess. Lots of people’s greed did. Plenty of people bought plenty of houses they really knew they shouldn’t, then forclosures shot up. Congress pushed Fannie and Freddie to make riskier and riskier sub prime loans, then forclosures shot up. We can’t blame this on any one group. I will say this, I hope you jobless morons don’t take this too far with the kids. You scare the crap out of one too many kids and some father is going to throw you a beating.

      Who knows, though, maybe you’re not a jobless moron. Maybe you just feel for them, but don’t have time to join because you’re a grown who either has a job or is busy looking for one.

      • ruffsoft

        Of the top 45 corporations in China, the state owns 41. The markets are controlled by the government. This is authoritarian state-run capitalism, in other words fascism. We have corporate run government, which is still fascism.

        The conservatives in Canada would be leftists in the US, support universal healthcare and education, etc. Canada is much more socialized, yet freer. This refute your dogma. German has big government and big unions and is the most stable economy in the world today. Denmark with the highest taxes has the most satisfied (because best served) citizens, with an admirable record of civil rights and peace. You are ignoring the historical record and repeating your dogma like a religious catechism.

        I do not support Big government. I have explained it is the creation of Big Industry and in cases like china, is authoritarian. I support decentralized pluralism, or left libertarianism, which is a hybrid system of employee owned enterprise, non-profits, and private enterprise with strong workers rights in sharing profits and management (like European co-determination). The big banks and big oil and big pharma all want big government; I do not: I want decentralized enterprise with govt acting as cop to make sure everyone plays fair. You got me all wrong, you are so blinded by your polarizing ideology of a mythical small goverment/big freedom scenario. In fact, small governments have the most corruption and violence. That is because they are outpowered by private interests, warlords, global corporations, etc.

        My vision is of a hybrid system of many forms of economic organizaitons, based on successful models like Southwest (39 yrs profitable and 90% unionized), the Mondragon in Spain, a workers coop of 92,000, and the non-profit credit unions with 92 million member/owners in the US, as well as the thousands of successful workers coops from steel manufacturing to baking. This system assume the “crushing of the moneyed aristorcracy (Jefferson)” so that the various forms of enterprise can compete in free and competitive markets on an equal footing, without the ability to corrupt government to distort the market and gain special interest advantages.

        You got me all wrong because your ideology is rigid and has no room for creative alternatives to our current system of corporatocracy and plutocracy.
        Unless we can agree on some basic facts, there is no hope for productive discussion. Repeating ideological dogma only blinds us to the complex reality in which we actually live. In blinding us, it prevents us from imagining new solutions.

        PS, sorry I killed those 40 million.

    • WOW

      No I’m pretty sure their parents will tell them how pathetic the people are who tried to scare them and tell them that if they stay in school and work hard they will never end up like those insane people who scared them. They’ll be motivated to actually get a job and not cry to the rest of the world and want everything to be handed to them. Keep trying to justify scaring children, cause it’ll never happen.

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