Anything to demonize people upset with the assholes responsible for the current financial straights of the country.

They aren't if they clear more than $350k/yr.

sweetmelissa31: Thanks to their total takeover of Zuccotti Park, the Occupiers have forced farmers at the longstanding Zuccotti Greenmarket to relocate to a street corner nearly half a mile away. Way to ruin organic apples for EVERYONE, guys!

A half mile! Good lord. How can a person be expected to make such a strenuous journey?

People in Yorkville have to walk farther than that just to get to the subway stop in the morning. Manufactured outrage.

Plus, they kill animals to keep those animals from eating their food. Satanic!

Nadie_AZ: I shop farmer's markets weekly. I would be MORE THAN HAPPY if the market had to move 1/2 mile away to accommodate these people protesting.

Much ado about nothing.

I agree, the protesters are making much ado about nothing. Damn smelly hippies the lot of 'em.

I think the corpses of the protesters would make an excellent organic fertilizer for these farmers.

Too much?

"Way to ruin organic apples for EVERYONE, guys!"
really? this what what worries the writer when people start taking to the streets to demand change? as part of the 99%, get some perspective hippy
/that said, i do love apples

impaler: Occupy Wall Street displaces ONE farmers market a 1/2 mile.

Clearly everyone should now ignore them and everything they say.

Sarah Palin is now President and her AK-47, Calista's Eyes, and the ni*BONG*head sign are appointed to the Senate.

What's up with the valley girl speech pattern of all these occupiers? It's especially the dudes who are fashioning this strange dialect. There must be someone here who has studied dialects that can explain how this phenomenon took hold.

I believe they were planning to set camp on Wall Street but were re-directed to Zuccotti Park for some reason. Why don't we just move the protesters to Wall Street, and re-open the farmers market?

It's the narrative.

The monied interests will take every non-story and spin it to villify the protestors. This is just another example.

Reality: "People exercise their right free speech to protest the corruption of money in politics, private rewards for public losses, and outsourcing."
Spin: "Dirty hippies, unemployed layabouts, and entitled college students whine to government for free money."

Within 48 hours we will hear: Protesters bought so many apples the stand was unable to maintain inventory, angering regular customers.

omelet making, eggs breaking, yadda yadda yadda.

They aren't. Or at least anyone who can afford to buy their food isn't. Stupid overpriced apples.

A New Yorker complaining?

I hope they moved it upwind, at least.

What happened to that big Farmers Market in Union Square.

Is that still around ?

Noam Chimpsky: What's up with the valley girl speech pattern of all these occupiers? It's especially the dudes who are fashioning this strange dialect. There must be someone here who has studied dialects that can explain how this phenomenon took hold.


what? you sound butthurt. by the way, you stole your handle from a monkey (nim chimpsky) in the study of primate linguistics . also noam was a linguistic, so maybe you should know about the dialect, troll

However misguided they may be, the OWS protesters are sincere in their efforts to effect change. If only people would listen to what they have to say, I'm sure they would calm down. That's the simplest way to diffuse all that random anger.

The occupiers don't give a shiat who they inconvenience, that is readily apparent and no surprise.

But it would have been funnier if the farmers market actually moved to wall street, which is about 1/2 a mile away from where the protesters have squatted.

Thanks to OWS the terrorists have won.

I'll bet they just moved their lips when the Pledge of Allegiance was said in grade school.

Reminds me of the awesome Penn and teller bullshiat episode about organics.

When the concentration camps in Germany were liberated a lot of jews were killed by Nazis. If the liberators loved jews so much then they shouldn't have liberated the camps because those jews that were murdered during the liberation were totally like the posterboys of jews.

/terrible argument deserves a terrible analogy

letrole: However misguided they may be, the OWS protesters are sincere in their efforts to effect change. If only people would listen to what they have to say, I'm sure they would calm down. That's the simplest way to diffuse all that random anger.

They don't have anything to say. That's the frustration. They squat and make incessant and sometimes contradictory complaints without offering any concrete platform or even any suggestions. I guess they learned that from actual politicians who know that it's better to repeat populist platitudes than make any policy proposals.

It's too bad, because if they could make actual proposals they might be able to effect some of the change their looking for.

It's not your park. Get over it.

Interestingly, it's not the protester's park either, but that's for a different thread.

Debeo Summa Credo: letrole: However misguided they may be, the OWS protesters are sincere in their efforts to effect change. If only people would listen to what they have to say, I'm sure they would calm down. That's the simplest way to diffuse all that random anger.

They don't have anything to say. That's the frustration. They squat and make incessant and sometimes contradictory complaints without offering any concrete platform or even any suggestions. I guess they learned that from actual politicians who know that it's better to repeat populist platitudes than make any policy proposals.

It's too bad, because if they could make actual proposals they might be able to effect some of the change their looking for.

Your post needs more "dirty hippies" and "love it or leave it".

hailin: Class warfare pisses me off.

Obviously not enough, since the protesters aren't the ones that instigated this war.

Man, the media really seems to hate OWS.

impaler: Occupy Wall Street displaces ONE farmers market a 1/2 mile.

Clearly everyone should now ignore them and everything they say.

In Gandhi's immortal words, "the end always justifies the means."

letrole: However misguided they may be, the OWS protesters are sincere in their efforts to effect change. If only people would listen to what they have to say, I'm sure they would calm down. That's the simplest way to diffuse all that random anger.

These people are nothing new. I grew up amongst their kind. They come and go for protests every few years. They are a mix of different kinds of fools and malcontents.

The best thing for them is to let them suffer their own stinky mess for weeks and months. Just like magic, some of them will turn into conservatives.

Debeo Summa Credo: They don't have anything to say. That's the frustration. They squat and make incessant and sometimes contradictory complaints without offering any concrete platform or even any suggestions. I guess they learned that from actual politicians who know that it's better to repeat populist platitudes than make any policy proposals.

It's too bad, because if they could make actual proposals they might be able to effect some of the change their looking for.

It is perfectly reasonable to point out a problem without also having the solution to said problem. The mechanism of the destruction of the economy is irrelevant to the economically destroyed; all they need for a legitimate grievance is the fact that they've been shat on due to the economy collapsing and the knowledge that, in some proportion, the government and/or the extremely rich have significant responsibility for that. They don't have to have a doctorate in economics or political science to protest their plight.

sweetmelissa31: Thanks to their total takeover of Zuccotti Park, the Occupiers have forced farmers at the longstanding Zuccotti Greenmarket to relocate to a street corner nearly half a mile away. Way to ruin organic apples for EVERYONE, guys!

A half mile! Good lord. How can a person be expected to make such a strenuous journey?

I think there is a problem with parking and old people.

SandMann: These people are nothing new. I grew up amongst their kind. They come and go for protests every few years. They are a mix of different kinds of fools and malcontents.

The best thing for them is to let them suffer their own stinky mess for weeks and months. Just like magic, some of them will turn into conservatives.

This isn't even worth addressing. Either you are an idiot or you are acting like one.

Jesus Christ someone's been inconvenienced. When will the madness stop?