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Protesting Mom Called “More Disgusting Than Any Of These Filths Down On Wall Street”

I saw this amazing clip this weekend from FOX where the anchors attacked a women because she left her kids with family and friends to participate in the Occupy Wall Street protests.

The mother, Stacey Hessler of Florida, was saying that she felt this was a historic moment for citizens to take to the streets. It is funny how such commitment is inspiring in those who share your views, but disgusting for those who do not.

The New York Post has a decidedly negative profile of her, though it seems short on independent sources. What is striking about the Fox report is the view that any mother who leaves her children to join such a protest is “filth.”

335 thoughts on “Protesting Mom Called “More Disgusting Than Any Of These Filths Down On Wall Street””

  2. ekeyra

    Then looking even further back, where did the government get the trillions it handed out, considering it is trillions of dollars in debt too? Hmmmm sounds like an oroborous, a snake eating its own tail. This is situation most of the OWS dont even want to think about, probably because it makes their heads hurt.

    Spot on !!!!!!!

  3. SWM
    Thats done behind closed doors not in the street,

    and two wrongs don’t make a right.

    Typically, If a cop can’t see you doing an illegal act, he can’t arrest you.

    It’s amazing all the shit said about T-Partiers compared to this

  4. Wall Street Guy,

    Do you honestly believe I think you are a Wall Street Guy? Sock puppetry nonsense …

  5. Otteray Scribe,

    It’s the only way these politicians and their bosses know how to fight. During Civil Rights they used fire hoses, dogs, clubs, teargas, and thugs. During the Nam protests they used the same except heavier on the thugs.

    During the Suffragette Marches women were beaten, burned with cigar buts, spit on and the police made not one move to protect them except of course to arrest them for walking on chalk lines in front of the White House.

    But guess what … nobody gave up and today women have the vote, blacks have advanced all the way to the White House, and the Nam war ended in chaos.

    The fear is palpable but it ain’t coming from the protesters …

  7. I usually tip well. I never tip in cards, unless I am breaking the bank. I suspect you are used to tips.

  9. Wall Street Guy,

    Give it a rest … you’re over the top as usual and tipping your hand …

  10. What has happened in Oakland is a police riot. I have not seen this kind of thing on US soil since the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

    One of the regular bloggers on Daily Kos was assaulted by police and arrested. She managed to keep her phone concealed and got out some tweets. When she was released a few minutes ago, they refused to return her car keys, telling her she will have to come back tomorrow to get them. Also told her that if she returns to Oakland she will be arrested. Some of her tweets describe conditions in the jail with injured not being treated. I suspect they are keeping her keys so they can tow her car and make sure she has to pay exorbitant towing charges and an impound fee.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/25/1029859/-Occupy-Oakland:-What-I-Feared-Came-To-Pass-Updates-Alie123-Released!?detail=hide

    In San Diego, the city council had an OWS speaker allotted a three minute time slot for a presentation. When the OWS speaker started to talk, the City Council got up and walked out en masse. Only one Council member stayed and listened.

  11. All I will say is the effort to discredit the OWS is growing and becoming more devious. Never worked for a bank or used cocaine.

  13. I have to admit that i have lost the thread here.I’m not sure what the lastest news is about this woman and her family.
    I think the issue comes down to a simple question as far as she is concerned.
    Was she motivated by patriotism and social conscience or was she just coming to escape her family and meet a lo-vare?
    Or both?
    In either case, did she provide for the needs of her family in such a manner that her absense was tolerable?
    I won’t judge her actions from a moral standpoint. it’s not my business and neither is it the business of the news anchors, anon or anyone else but her and her god.
    Whatever else she is doing there, she is apparently working and participating in the protest. So that is good. I say welcome and I’ll let her work out her own family issues.
    If she was a he anon, my answer would be the same.
    It’s not our business to question the motives and morals of every protester who shows up
    Asking OWS or anyone else to do so and spotlighting specific protesters and sigleing them out for abuse is just another tactic of the Bankers and Fascists to confuse the issue and defame the charator of the protesters so that they look like a bunch of irresponsible vagabonds.
    it’s a shame the liberal media didn’t have the forsight to use such underhanded tactics when the Tea Party was still of any consequence. they could have looked into the closets of a few of those “Protesters”. I’ll bet we would find some real blood and guts there. But hey, I understand why you do these things. You’re scared. And you should be. I imagine the Money Mongers are wondering when the Guillotines go up. And I can’t say there wouldn’t be some justice meeted out if they did but nobody wants your life. In fact Damned few of us want your lifestyle. Most of us just want ………..your money. yeh that’s right. we want your money so we can learn how to be conscienceless, thieving, lying criminals like you. Come on. I know that’s what you think. You think you and your friends and the life you live is so righteous and clean and wonderful that like you, anyone would do anything to ascend to your exalted level of radient excellence. Well, gag me with your big solid gold spoon. I and most people wouldn’t take your lifestyle as a gift if it meant becoming like you. I am not by nature nor would I ever wish to be the kind of cut-throat backstabbing people it takes to become as wealthy as you are. And how do you sleep knowing that your actions are causing the suffering of millions of your countrymen and the people whose backs you walked on to get where you are.

    Personally, I would have packed up the kids and taken them along. I think that participation in the “Occupy Any” where protests should be a valid excuse for missing school for up to two weeks and the kids should receive Credits for their Civics or Government class for their participation in the Protest

    Generally speaking though, I believe it is the duty of every American who cares about this country to go to a protest if you can. Stay as long as you can. And go back as often as you can. There are other ways to contribute to the work of the movement such as blogging or even just telling everyone you meet about the movement, it’s goals, and how they can help. But there is no substitute for bodies in the streets.There is nothing that point out and showcases a “Movement of the People” like a movement of the people.This is a grassroots movement. If we are the 99%, we need to show up in numbers that reflect that. Make a day of it. Pack a lunch. take the kids. Show them what being an American Patriot means and looks like. Let them see that you care. that you want a better country.And you are willing to do more than just mumble about it when nobody is listening. we have all been mumbling and grumbling for too long.Finally the 99% have come to a point of critical mass and the bomb (proverbial bomb that is) has detonated. The fallout is reaching every corner of this country and this fallout is beatiful. Multi-colored, multi-denominational, multi-cultural, multi-income level, multi-sexual and anti-corporation, anti-politics, anti-corruption, anti-Fascist, anti-violence, anti-bigotry, and PRO-Constitutional.
    And listen. this movement is no longer just a movement of the American people. In Rome, thousands are turning out to tell the Prime-Minister We are the 99.” “We are the 99.” You should hear them yelling; in English.
    The movement is spreading all over the world. And we are the 99% so that places us firmly in the majority.
    The time has come to take advantage of those numbers and exert the pressure required to bring home the changes that we need.
    We must stay united. We must make our stand. We must save this country and maybe save the world for us, for our kids, and for the sake of what is right.
    We all know what is right. And we have surly had enough exposure and experience to recognize when something is WRONG.
    And we do. We know that what the Uber-wealthy bankers and Corporatations have been doing is wrong. We know what our politicians including our President has been doing is wrong.
    This is not the nation or government that we were promised 235 years ago.
    This is the Corporate funded and operated semi-police state that we were handed while our back was turned.
    We are right.
    we are strong.
    We are powerful.
    And we are many because:

    WE ARE THE 99%

  14. Are you still a carrier of STD’s? I hope you are at least having protected sex. It is people like you that don’t bother to check.

  15. Woosty,

    I had a rant, blog ate it, I was pressed for time. Cut and paste.

    I will repeat what ive been saying all along, looking to the government to protect you from the banks they just handed trillions of your dollars to, is naive is best, and will most likely have disastrous consequences. The reality of this movement is that it is petitioning one side of an organization to protect it from the other side it is in collusion with. There is no “enlightenment” to be had. It is a misguided effort to think that empowering the government will somehow deleverage the power of the banking cartel that is a vital branch of our ruling class. WIthout the endless supply of credit minted from thin air the government would have no lenders to finance its global empire of remote control slaughter abroad and encroaching domestic police state.

    If this movement was focused solely on disassembling the incestuous relationship between central banking, fiat currencies and political power, I would support it one hundred percent. However, like the tea party, any solidarity I may have felt was obliterated when i realized that they do not wish to truly attempt an understanding of what the root cause of a very complex issue is and just want to rail against the status quo. Thats fine, I would encourage anyone to express themselves this way, but at least try to understand the nature of what it is you are against. I dont dislike the OWS people because they’re “hippies”, “commies” and “socialists”. I dislike them because their solutions to the problems they see is to champion the institution that created those problems.

    Yes there is inequality of wealth, some of it natural (people with more talent, or who work harder and longer make more money). Some of it unnatural ( I wholeheartedly agree that if you ran your company into the ground and needed billions of taxpayer dollars to continue to operate it is an outrage that you would make an absurd six figure bonus). But look at who facilitated that, if the government hadnt given out trillions of dollars to failed businesses they wouldnt have the money to pay out ridiculous bonuses and salaries. Then looking even further back, where did the government get the trillions it handed out, considering it is trillions of dollars in debt too? Hmmmm sounds like an oroborous, a snake eating its own tail. This is situation most of the OWS dont even want to think about, probably because it makes their heads hurt.

  16. Were you an IB at one time? I suspect so, they burn out and get bitter. If you can’t use responsible, then don’t use. You are a blight and make us all look bad.

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