Occupiers scream for ice cream before getting around to screaming about their grievances
NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: About 60 protesters from Occupy and ACT UP took to the streets of Philadelphia – the city where the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 – to “shout indictments of banking giants UBS, Wells Fargo and Bank of America,” The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:
The march was supposed to begin at 19th and Market streets, where a handful of activists from ACT UP had promised to "storm the stock exchange," but instead held signs and chanted in front of the building. Occupiers had planned to join them, but got tied up when lunch was late at their encampment in Franklin Square. The delay lengthened when a Ben & Jerry's truck arrived at the camp to hand out free ice cream [emphasis, The Stiletto]. …
But several marchers said they accomplished their goal - broadly, to bring attention to abuses of power and inequality in American society. Of course, each protester had more specific areas of concern. …
A man from San Diego was carrying a sign decrying working conditions in Appalachian coal mines. But he said his biggest area of concern is land rights and protections for Native Americans. A woman from Buffalo, N.Y., cited the influence of corporate money on public elections. Others said they were there to protest economic inequality, government openness and corporate greed. …
With Occupy nearing its one-year anniversary, many have complained that an ever-widening array of issues might dilute the group's effectiveness.
How long will it take for Dems – who have pinned their hopes on the Occupy movement to check the progress of the Tea Party movement in electing Constitutional conservatives at all levels of government – to realize that these people are nothing more than fornicating freeloaders who are in it for the fun of it and for the free stuff that comes their way? Untaxable free stuff, by the way, so they are not even paying "their fair share" on the considerable aggregate value of the free grub and goods that they have been plied with by Ben & Jerry’s and other useful idiots for almost a year now.
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