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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””

  1. Mike, I feel the same way you do, this feels like ‘a moment’.
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    OS, !

    I’ll have to try to find a live feed if there are any around. Thanks for the update.

  2. Swarthmore mom, excellent links. The OPD appears to need to be thoroughly cleaned out/up.
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    Blouise, Thank you. I’m back on track now. Maybe 🙂

  3. In NYC right now the OWC protesters have taken over part of lower Broadway. People on scene report they took the orange netting that had been used for “kettling” protesters, ran off with it and stuffed it in garbage cans some distance down the street. One reporter who has been posting on Daily Kos as OllieGarkey had his backpack break open and he lost a bunch of his stuff. Only a few arrests.

    Most significantly, Marine vet Sgt. Shamar Thomas is leading a contingent of Marines down the street. I suspect the police will hesitate to take on the Marines, who have a motto that no one will be left behind. We met Sgt. Thomas in a remarkable video a few days ago when he managed to intimidate about 30 police officers.

  4. Woosty=^..^ I think they do. When the government serves the corporations then the power has been transferred from the citizens to the corporations. If the government acts with complete disregard for the wishes of the majority of it’s citizens on the big policy issues then who is really making the policy defaults to following the money. It’s not just the US, the entire Western world is being realigned away from working for their citizens to working for the benefit of their corporate wealth class at the expense of the citizenry.

    You’ve seen the diagram I’m sure but the abstract of the data is astonishing:

    147 tightly knit entities own 80% of global revenues and 147 super entities within that number control 40% of total wealth of the network; most are financial institutions.

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed–the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html

    The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies
    1. Barclays plc
    2. Capital Group Companies Inc
    3. FMR Corporation
    4. AXA
    5. State Street Corporation
    6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
    7. Legal & General Group plc
    8. Vanguard Group Inc
    9. UBS AG
    10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
    11. Wellington Management Co LLP
    12. Deutsche Bank AG
    13. Franklin Resources Inc
    14. Credit Suisse Group
    15. Walton Enterprises LLC
    16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
    17. Natixis
    18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
    19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
    20. Legg Mason Inc
    21. Morgan Stanley
    22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
    23. Northern Trust Corporation
    24. Société Générale
    25. Bank of America Corporation
    26. Lloyds TSB Group plc
    27. Invesco plc
    28. Allianz SE 29. TIAA
    30. Old Mutual Public Limited Company
    31. Aviva plc
    32. Schroders plc
    33. Dodge & Cox
    34. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc*
    35. Sun Life Financial Inc
    36. Standard Life plc
    37. CNCE
    38. Nomura Holdings Inc
    39. The Depository Trust Company
    40. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
    41. ING Groep NV
    42. Brandes Investment Partners LP
    43. Unicredito Italiano SPA
    44. Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan
    45. Vereniging Aegon
    46. BNP Paribas
    47. Affiliated Managers Group Inc
    48. Resona Holdings Inc
    49. Capital Group International Inc
    50. China Petrochemical Group Company

  10. lotta,

    I was referring to your post at 10:12 as HC

    It’s good for we the people that the world see us as we are, not as the 1% wish we were.

  11. Sock-puppetry is not my forte’, I never remember to change my name and I’m too lazy to go into my temporary Internet files and change my avatar 🙂

    1. I feel we are on the cusp of a great change for our country. Either we will see the re-birth of our democratic republic, or the death of our Constitution and descent into corporate feudalism. I may have great hopes, but don’t have a clue as to how it will turn out.

  13. HermanCainkatz,

    “…those 147 corporations that run it and own it.”

    they do neither

  16. Rafflaw, I like it that the world IS watching. It’s important that there be a distinction between the citizens and the government when the government is so obviously not working for the good of the nation and, in enabling/serving corporations that have world-wide influence and that have used that influence negatively, has caused grief world-wide. I don’t want the world to think our nations public face over the last decade is the face of all of the citizens. It’s important that the citizens of the world distinguish themselves from those 147 corporations that run it and own it.

  17. LK,

    Having been shot with a bean bag load as a teenager (as a “joke” no less), they are not your normal bean bag.

    Imagine getting punched by the Hulk.

    It’s a lot like that.

  18. I would not want to be an Oakland cop right now … and not for the next 6 months. You don’t hit a Marine when he’s down … period. Marines will be coming from all over the country and they won’t telegraph their efforts. Some will mix in with the crowds but the majority … well, they’ll be hanging out in cop bars.

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