Great, something else we have to deal with.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/1...-occupy-targets

Just saw a local Los Angeles news report that the Occupiers who were evicted from the city hall's lawn/park, were at the trustees sales today held at the courthouse in Norwalk about 20 miles away from downtown disrupting the foreclosure auctions.

My occupiers just got the boot. I walked past the camp a couple weeks ago and the occupiers are the same homeless people who begged money daily when I worked Downtown 10 years ago? Basically its a homeless camp.

I still don't get what it would take for them to pack up and go home?? I don't think they know what it would take. The fastest and easiest way to become a 1%er is to hit a megaball or powerball lottery. Perhaps their energy would be better spent formulating a winning combo of numbers for the next big drawing.

global recession, widespread fraud in the financial industry, criminal banks and wall street firms....


"Great, something else we have to deal with."

How about the millions of dollars these occupy morons are costing the taxpayers with all the overtime money spent on police details and court costs, safety and health inspectors etc.

Peanuts compared to the 11+ Trillion Dollars that the banks printed and stole.

You're silly to think that change comes without a cost.

Two things:
First - the city gov'ts know where the occupy folks are going to camp - the only reason the sanitation/health concerns exist is because the cities want it to. It gives them an excuse to boot these folks. Huge parades, outdoor events - porta potties and showers show up. If the city wanted to work with these folks they would - but we all know they don't. Go onto facebook and like your city's occupy movement. You will get daily updates and see - very organized and at least here - very well supported. They post on facebook what they need - food - tarps - sign board - propane - and boom - it shows up.
Second: I find the timing of this email interesting - based on the "occupy" folks going after vacant houses:
From Bank of America:
"Due to recent increases in trespassing on our vacant properties by squatters across the United States, our agents must take additional precautions on all Bank of America REO properties.

As an approved Bank of America REO agent, you are asked to proactively manage our properties to ensure they are secure and to prevent any damage.

Immediate Action Required:

1. Review your Equator profile for all Bank of America-assigned properties.

2. Visit those properties within the next 24 hours to confirm they are secure.

3. Notify your asset manager via Equator that the properties have been viewed and secured.

4. Report any properties that have suspicious activity or recent damage.

Additional Action Required:

· Check properties weekly until we notify you otherwise.

· Immediately present any concerns regarding damages to your asset manager via Equator for review.


Our agents' safety is a top priority. If you feel you are in danger while at a property, leave and call the police, if necessary.

We appreciate the attention to detail that you continue to provide on all Bank of America properties."

Sorry, but banks don't print money. Our wonderful government does. They then turned around and handed it out to anybody and everybody. I'm not defending banks, but you might want to know where this meltdown started--it wasn't in the private sector.

I am not defending the banks. All I am saying is that these occupy people are making things worse by causing the areas that they occupy to waste millions of dollars of taxpayers money. How is that helping?

Boston just got permission from the court to evict the occupy people. I think the mayor gave them until midnight tonight. We shall see what happens. I don't think they will leaving willingly. They love the attention that they are getting. Besides, what else do they have to do?

Someone living in a home that they aren't paying for! Does that happen?

psssst...you REO agents, the banks frequent this forum. they know who you are. If you bad mouth the banks, they'll pull all of your listings, and then you'll be sorry. LOL

"My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.

I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked, around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted “We Are Peaceful” and “We Are Nonviolent” and “Join Us.”

As we sat there, encircled, a separate team of LAPD officers used knives to slice open every personal tent in the park. They forcibly removed anyone sleeping inside, and then yanked out and destroyed any personal property inside those tents, scattering the contents across the park. They then did the same with the communal property of the Occupy LA movement. For example, I watched as the LAPD destroyed a pop-up canopy tent that, until that moment, had been serving as Occupy LA’s First Aid and Wellness tent, in which volunteer health professionals gave free medical care to absolutely anyone who requested it. As it happens, my family had personally contributed that exact canopy tent to Occupy LA, at a cost of several hundred of my family’s dollars. As I watched, the LAPD sliced that canopy tent to shreds, broke the telescoping poles into pieces and scattered the detritus across the park. Note that these were the objects described in subsequent mainstream press reports as “30 tons of garbage” that was “abandoned” by Occupy LA: personal property forcibly stolen from us, destroyed in front of our eyes and then left for maintenance workers to dispose of while we were sent to prison.

When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor’s legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor’s left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor’s right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor.

It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us. At least I was sufficiently terrorized. I unlinked my arms voluntarily and informed the LAPD officers that I would go peacefully and cooperatively. I stood as instructed, and then I had my arms wrenched behind my back, and an officer hyperextended my wrists into my inner arms. It was super violent, it hurt really really bad, and he was doing it on purpose. When I involuntarily recoiled from the pain, the LAPD officer threw me face-first to the pavement. He had my hands behind my back, so I landed right on my face. The officer dropped with his knee on my back and ground my face into the pavement. It really, really hurt and my face started bleeding and I was very scared. I begged for mercy and I promised that I was honestly not resisting and would not resist.

My hands were then zipcuffed very tightly behind my back, where they turned blue. I am now suffering nerve damage in my right thumb and palm.

I was put on a paddywagon with other nonviolent protestors and taken to a parking garage in Parker Center. They forced us to kneel (and sit--SEE UPDATE) on the hard pavement of that parking garage for seven straight hours with our hands still tightly zipcuffed behind our backs. Some began to pass out. One man rolled to the ground and vomited for a long, long time before falling unconscious. The LAPD officers watched and did nothing.

At 9 a.m. we were finally taken from the pavement into the station to be processed. The charge was sitting in the park after the police said not to. It’s a misdemeanor. Almost always, for a misdemeanor, the police just give you a ticket and let you go. It costs you a couple hundred dollars. Apparently, that’s what happened with most every other misdemeanor arrest in LA that day.

With us Occupy LA protestors, however, they set bail at $5,000 and booked us into jail. Almost none of the protesters could afford to bail themselves out. I’m lucky and I could afford it, except the LAPD spent all day refusing to actually *accept* the bail they set. If you were an accused murderer or a rapist in LAPD custody that day, you could bail yourself right out and be back on the street, no problem. But if you were a nonviolent Occupy LA protestor with bail money in hand, you were held long into the following morning, with absolutely no access to a lawyer.

I spent most of my day and night crammed into an eight-man jail cell, along with sixteen other Occupy LA protesters. My sleeping spot was on the floor next to the toilet.

Finally, at 2:30 the next morning, after twenty-five hours in custody, I was released on bail. But there were at least 200 Occupy LA protestors who couldn’t afford the bail. The LAPD chose to keep those peaceful, non-violent protesters in prison for two full days… the absolute legal maximum that the LAPD is allowed to detain someone on misdemeanor charges.

As a reminder, Antonio Villaraigosa has referred to all of this as “the LAPD’s finest hour.”

So that’s what happened to the 292 women and men were arrested last Wednesday. Now let’s talk about a man who was not arrested last Wednesday. He is former Citigroup CEO Charles Prince. Under Charles Prince, Citigroup was guilty of massive, coordinated securities fraud.

Citigroup spent years intentionally buying up every bad mortgage loan it could find, creating bad securities out of those bad loans and then selling shares in those bad securities to duped investors. And then they sometimes secretly bet *against* their *own* bad securities to make even more money. For one such bad Citigroup security, Citigroup executives were internally calling it, quote, “a collection of dogshit”. To investors, however, they called it, quote, “an attractive investment rigorously selected by an independent investment adviser”.

This is fraud, and it’s a felony, and the Charles Princes of the world spent several years doing it again and again: knowingly writing bad mortgages, and then packaging them into fraudulent securities which they then sold to suckers and then repeating the process. This is a big part of why your property values went up so fast. But then the bubble burst, and that’s why our economy is now shattered for a generation, and it’s also why your home is now underwater. Or at least mine is.

Anyway, if your retirement fund lost a decade’s-worth of gains overnight, this is why.

If your son’s middle school has added furlough days because the school district can’t afford to keep its doors open for a full school year, this is why.

If your daughter has come out of college with a degree only to discover that there are no jobs for her, this is why.

But back to Charles Prince. For his four years of in charge of massive, repeated fraud at Citigroup, he received fifty-three million dollars in salary and also received another ninety-four million dollars in stock holdings. What Charles Prince has *not* received is a pair of zipcuffs. The nerves in his thumb are fine. No cop has thrown Charles Prince into the pavement, face-first. Each and every peaceful, nonviolent Occupy LA protester arrested last week has has spent more time sleeping on a jail floor than every single Charles Prince on Wall Street, combined.

The more I think about that, the madder I get. What does it say about our country that nonviolent protesters are given the bottom of a police boot while those who steal hundreds of billions, do trillions worth of damage to our economy and shatter our social fabric for a generation are not only spared the zipcuffs but showered with rewards?

In any event, believe it or not, I’m really not angry that I got arrested. I chose to get arrested. And I’m not even angry that the mayor and the LAPD decided to give non-violent protestors like me a little extra shiv in jail (although I’m not especially grateful for it either).

I’m just really angry that every single Charles Prince wasn’t in jail with me.

Thank you for letting me share that anger with you today.

Patrick Meighan"

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above article, a good example of the abusive police state the US has turned into. these citizens are not terrorists, they're not unemployed, most are responsible, employed citizens who simply are fed up with the fraud and corruption in our country.