FARK.com: (6691475) NYPD might be sending drunk and aggressive homeless people to the Occupy Wall Street park in order to discredit the movement. Protesters can't kick them out because... well, they're the 99%, too

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		NYPD might be sending drunk and aggressive homeless people to the Occupy Wall Street park in order to discredit the movement. Protesters can't kick them out because... well, they're the 99%, too (gawker.com)		604
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Runs_With_Scissors_

2011-10-31 02:56:15 PM

That's super farked up, Bloomberg. You take all the people you kicked out of the mental hospitals and move them over to OWS. It's brilliantly sinister.

Dusk-You-n-Me

2011-10-31 02:59:01 PM

@Xeni (new window) has been all over this.

Nadie_AZ

2011-10-31 03:03:28 PM

I'd call this psychological warfare. They are trying to break the willpower of the OWS people.

The 1% are still fighting. It may be a while until they begin to bend. Sadly, this might not be until after the snows of winter.

Cythraul

2011-10-31 03:08:12 PM

It wouldn't be the first time a police department has attempted to subvert or sabotage a protest movement, and it probably wouldn't be the last.

GAT_00

2011-10-31 03:10:49 PM

What, you expected them to treat the American people with respect and listen to their voices?

Dancin_In_Anson

2011-10-31 03:18:12 PM

Why would anyone have to send them?

Bloody William

2011-10-31 03:19:36 PM

I don't think the cunning plan has been thought all the way through. If the homeless drive out the OWS protesters... this means the NYPD has succeeded in forming a farking shanty town on a valuable, if small, private park near Wall Street. And would they rather deal with hippies or a bunch of strung-out, crazy smackheads who are probably a lot less willing to do things quietly?

bunner

2011-10-31 03:20:31 PM

A lot of people are putting a lot of work into discrediting this "meaningless" movement. Stop stealing and replace what you stole, sh*tbags.

Aarontology

2011-10-31 03:20:59 PM

I wonder what America's reaction would be if some other country tried something like this.

Wait.

isn't that what happened in Libya when Ghadaffi was trying to discredit the rebels early on?

Nadie_AZ

2011-10-31 03:21:31 PM

Bloody William: I don't think the cunning plan has been thought all the way through. If the homeless drive out the OWS protesters... this means the NYPD has succeeded in forming a farking shanty town on a valuable, if small, private park near Wall Street. And would they rather deal with hippies or a bunch of strung-out, crazy smackheads who are probably a lot less willing to do things quietly?

They want to take the whole thing down- so they plant people who will create problems. When those problems erupt, take em down.

So when do we march on the Kochs'?

Ah (new window). That's a start. What about their homes?

serial_crusher

2011-10-31 03:24:17 PM

Two different drunks I spoke with last week told me they'd been encouraged to "take it to Zuccotti" by officers who'd found them drinking in other parks

That's their evidence? Cops probably just couldn't tell the difference between a homeless bum and a "real" protester.

Apparently the amount of "freeloaders" caused the Occupy Wall Street kitchen to scale back operations for a few days in protest

I'm shocked that homeless people might gravitate towards an environment that gives them free food.

Are these protestors fighting for the bottom 99%, or the top?

bunner

2011-10-31 03:24:36 PM

Aarontology: I wonder what America's reaction would be if some other country tried something like this.

Wait.

isn't that what happened in Libya when Ghadaffi was trying to discredit the rebels early on?

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Shostie

2011-10-31 03:31:28 PM

Two different drunks I spoke with last week told me they'd been encouraged to "take it to Zuccotti" by officers who'd found them drinking in other parks, and members of the community affairs working group related several similar stories they'd heard while talking with intoxicated or aggressive new arrivals.

Personally, I trust alcoholics to be truthful at all times.

ChiliCon

2011-10-31 03:34:44 PM

YOU GONNA GET..... OCCUPIED!

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WTFDYW

2011-10-31 03:38:36 PM

Seriously. How can you tell the difference between one or the other?

The Stealth Hippopotamus

2011-10-31 03:44:02 PM

Dancin_In_Anson: Why would anyone have to send them?

Free food and housing. And in some case free drugs.

The question is not how do you get them there, the question is how would you keep them out??

Nadie_AZ

2011-10-31 03:47:41 PM

WTFDYW: Seriously. How can you tell the difference between one or the other?

IDK, my bff Jill?

Dancin_In_Anson

2011-10-31 03:57:09 PM

The Stealth Hippopotamus: The question is not how do you get them there, the question is how would you keep them out??

No shiat eh?

muck4doo

2011-10-31 04:00:59 PM

Apparently the amount of "freeloaders" caused the Occupy Wall Street kitchen to scale back operations for a few days in protest.

Y No Share The Wealth?

TheDumbBlonde

2011-10-31 04:01:33 PM

LOL.

Aarontology

2011-10-31 04:08:22 PM

I hope when some tweaker kills a bunch of people or something, they can trace it back to the NYPD releasing him.

Weaver95

2011-10-31 04:19:28 PM

that's actually an amazingly brilliant (if completely amoral and evil) plan. In fact, it's so smart that I have problems believing that a Republican came up with it.

Nabb1

2011-10-31 04:26:41 PM

Weaver95: that's actually an amazingly brilliant (if completely amoral and evil) plan. In fact, it's so smart that I have problems believing that a Republican came up with it.

Let me get the straight: The heavily unionized NYPD is now acting on marching orders from some GOP operative somewhere? I think you need to open a window and let some oxygen in.

Weaver95

2011-10-31 04:30:30 PM

Nabb1: Weaver95: that's actually an amazingly brilliant (if completely amoral and evil) plan. In fact, it's so smart that I have problems believing that a Republican came up with it.

Let me get the straight: The heavily unionized NYPD is now acting on marching orders from some GOP operative somewhere? I think you need to open a window and let some oxygen in.

interestingly enough, it's not the rank and file cops that are the ones causing the friction - it's the white shirts (middle management) that seem to be breaking the law and trying to smash down the protesters.

it's not 'organized' tho, seems more scattershot. like the shift leads are just being casually cruel if/when they think they can get away with it.

Runs_With_Scissors_

2011-10-31 04:35:36 PM

Weaver95: that's actually an amazingly brilliant (if completely amoral and evil) plan. In fact, it's so smart that I have problems believing that a Republican came up with it.

My thoughts exactly. It's psychological warfare. It will probably work, and they will likely discredit the movement.

Jake Havechek

2011-10-31 04:36:02 PM

Bloomberg and his Blue Nazis strike again.

yert

2011-10-31 04:37:51 PM

Birds of a feather.

Headso

2011-10-31 04:37:57 PM

It'll be great once the people these human trash are busting heads for fight take away their pensions.

fearthebunnyman

2011-10-31 04:38:05 PM

They've been doing this is Dallas already, according to the Occupy Dallas website.

way south

2011-10-31 04:38:26 PM

Not sure if its a conspiracy or just the homeless doing what the homeless do... which is gravitate towards the free food.

coeyagi

2011-10-31 04:38:54 PM

Until such time as this information appears in a locale other than Gawker, I will withhold judgment.

yert

2011-10-31 04:38:58 PM

So OWS has an A camp.

IYKWIM

BroadbandGremlin

2011-10-31 04:39:25 PM

Runs_With_Scissors_: That's super farked up, Bloomberg. You take all the people you kicked out of the mental hospitals and move them over to OWS. It's brilliantly sinister.

How do you think the protest started?

LarryDan43

2011-10-31 04:39:45 PM

Paying homeless folks with the flu to go in and cough on kids was batted around our executive offices.

LasersHurt

2011-10-31 04:39:49 PM

derpdeederp

2011-10-31 04:39:56 PM

Or maybe the homeless are just going over there because there is free food, clothing and shelter.

coeyagi

2011-10-31 04:39:57 PM

BroadbandGremlin: Runs_With_Scissors_: That's super farked up, Bloomberg. You take all the people you kicked out of the mental hospitals and move them over to OWS. It's brilliantly sinister.

How do you think the protest started?

0/10. Here we go again.

Aigoo

2011-10-31 04:40:29 PM

ordinarysteve

2011-10-31 04:40:34 PM

it is 2011 still, right?

BroadbandGremlin

2011-10-31 04:40:54 PM

way south: Not sure if its a conspiracy or just the homeless doing what the homeless do... which is gravitate towards the free food.

Indeed, the mistake of this protest was "occupying" a space for a long period of time. The Tea Partiers were effective in part because they made a huge build up to each event and then flooded the place with protesters.

groppet

2011-10-31 04:40:59 PM

Runs_With_Scissors_: Weaver95: that's actually an amazingly brilliant (if completely amoral and evil) plan. In fact, it's so smart that I have problems believing that a Republican came up with it.

My thoughts exactly. It's psychological warfare. It will probably work, and they will likely discredit the movement.

And if the homeless havent bathed in a few weeks itll be biological pschological warfare

Alphakronik

2011-10-31 04:41:12 PM

Maybe they should take some of that $500,000 and hire some off duty cops to run security for them.

Nabb1

2011-10-31 04:41:26 PM

Pretty sure the homeless dudes were probably there long before all this, anyway. The police are just returning them to their native habitat. Kind of like re-introducing wolves and bears into national parks.

badhatharry

2011-10-31 04:41:55 PM

The bums should start their own protest. Occupy Occupy Wall Street.

NallTWD

2011-10-31 04:42:11 PM

I'm sure this had NOTHING TO DO with the $25m grant JP Morgan Chase gave the NYPD last month. Nope. Nothing at all.

Nothing to see here citizen, please move along.

/HE MOVED ALONG, ARREST HIM!

coeyagi

2011-10-31 04:42:18 PM

It wouldn't be a Monday if there wasn't a person in a OWS thread complaining about the 1 dude who crapped on a cop car. To you, my good troll, I preemptively salute you!

TheShavingofOccam123

2011-10-31 04:42:26 PM

Who knew the cops would be sending in outside agitators?

newsbusters.org

Headso

2011-10-31 04:42:45 PM

BroadbandGremlin: then flooded the place with protesters.

it's easy to "flood the place" when the organization that is astroturfing the rallies just lie about how many people were there.

Weaver95

2011-10-31 04:43:00 PM

coeyagi: It wouldn't be a Monday if there wasn't a person in a OWS thread complaining about the 1 dude who crapped on a cop car. To you, my good troll, I preemptively salute you!

we need an iPad/iPhone reference next. that's like...double shot worthy!

ghare

2011-10-31 04:43:09 PM

Dancin_In_Anson: My Butt Hurts

Yes, we know.

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