Occupy Wall Street live General Assembly meeting

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

Couple of questions come to mind.

Are the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders part of the 99% or 1%?

And are the Occupy Wall Streeters against providing food to vagrants, criminals and freeloaders or just THEIR food?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...hpa8MSYIL9xSDL

I think their opposition is toward the fact that they are working extremely hard and feel taken advantage of by some. Sorta like the reason behind the protests in the first place. Whenever you have a protest movement, you are bound to attract a certain amount of folks that are there purely for their own self interest (in this case free food and maybe a chance to steal from other protestors). Unfortunate on two levels, first because these folks take advantage of the situation and second because it give fuel to those looking for reasons to oppose the movement. Sorta like using the fact that a few welfare recipients take advantage of the system to cast anyone on welfare as a degenerate loser (you are familiar with that logic, aren't you?). In the 60's the Civil Rights Movement and later the Peace Movement saw the same thing...were there anarchists and communists who became involved in both movements...sure. But they were used by those in power to degrade entire movements....just ask J. Edgar Hoover.