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HOMELESS AT UNOCCUPIED OCCUPY DC (Original title was all caps)
PJMedia.com ^ | 10-29-2011 | Byron York

Posted on 10/29/2011 4:28:34 PM PDT by BAW

I had to be up early this morning to appear on Fox & Friends. I was finished by 6:30, so I decided to stop by the Occupy DC encampment at McPherson Square in downtown Washington. Conditions were miserable; 40 degrees, dark, windy, muddy, steady rain. The weather, predicted to deteriorate even more later, was enough to test the resolve of the most dedicated anti-capitalist.

The small park is filled with tents. At times there have seemed more tents than protesters, and indeed, a friend who has kept a close eye on Occupy DC suggested to me that many of the tents — which convey the impression of a substantial, permanent protest — are actually unoccupied. That’s hard to prove, short of barging into randomly-selected tents. But even among the tents that are in use — and I saw a total of four early-risers in the park Saturday morning — there is the question of how many Occupy DC protesters are actually homeless people who have come to McPherson Square for shelter, a hot meal, and companionship. . . . On Saturday morning, I met a man who said he was an artist and told me that “the world’s f—ed up” in large part because “Bush took all the money and gave it to the Chinese to pay for the war.” After a while, he told me that he normally lived at a couple of “squats” in other parts of town but that he had met some people from Code Pink who told him they had a tent in McPherson Square. So he came to the park. He’s certainly not alone — there are plenty of other homeless there, he told me — but it’s hard to say how many homeless are part of the permanent Occupy DC contingent.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: codepinkos; occupy; ows
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It's being reported that Occupy London has many, many unoccupied tents at night time. Thermal imaging reveals which tents are occupied, and which are phony props. And, now it seems that the tents in DC are a homeless camp. Can't someone take a thermal imaging thingie to the DC camps too???
1 posted on 10/29/2011 4:28:38 PM PDT by BAW
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To: BAW
Can't someone take a thermal imaging thingie to the DC camps too???

You have to remember that even though Byron York is a a conservative journalist, he's still a journalist.

2 posted on 10/29/2011 4:31:47 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: BAW

I heard some liberal talking head say that the Occupy movement will never give up, never go away, even if there is bad weather.

I wonder who is behind the Occupy movement, and if what’s going on now is a dress rehearsal for next year and the election campaign.


3 posted on 10/29/2011 4:33:01 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Lurker

I heard that the cooks are angry. The volunteer cooks are tired of working to cook organic chicken and vegetable medleys for homeless and other drifters who are coming into these camps. They only want to cook for genuine protesters.

But the homeless are part of the 99% who are exploited by capitalism, aren’t they? Aren’t the cooks being very bigoted and judgemental about homeless coming to the occupy Wall Street camps?????


4 posted on 10/29/2011 4:38:23 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
" I wonder who is behind the Occupy movement, and if what’s going on now is a dress rehearsal for next year and the election campaign."

Humm, well lets look at the facts here. We have a far left president who was once a self proclaimed "Community Organizer" and a lawyer for the now illicit Acorn organization and a willfully complainant news media. . . Nah, I don't see any connection to next years planned mayhem. lol

It's all "Grass Roots" man, really! Just ask Brian Williams. lol

5 posted on 10/29/2011 4:48:38 PM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard / The democrat party "Can Go Straight To Hell".)
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To: BAW; CodeToad
The police could easily remove any unoccupied tents over night as abandoned property.

The next thing, is an IED will go off at an OWS site, probably put there by a radical leftist as a false-flag op, knowing the bomb will only kill or maim a few homeless men.

Totally worth it, “for the cause.”

“You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.”

The MSM will totally blame it on the right.

But where else could abandoned property be sacrosanct, in a politically charged setting? Leave a parcel on a subway, and the entire bomb squad will be called out.

But leave abandoned tents, bags and property at an OWS site, no problemo at all.

6 posted on 10/29/2011 4:49:14 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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7 posted on 10/29/2011 4:53:31 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC BY DONATING NOW! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“I heard some liberal talking head say that the Occupy movement will never give up, never go away, even if there is bad weather.”

And I heard some cop saying they’re going to bust heads, remove the leftist scum and bury their azzez so the cops can go home and enjoy dinner with their kids.

My “what i heard” is as relevent and truthful as the crap you posted.

Let’s stop posting leftist crap, shall we?


8 posted on 10/29/2011 4:58:41 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Travis McGee

They have alread called the Tea Partiers terrorists...... the left could get out of hand then when “Tea Party” types fight back it will be a “Terrorist Act”.....Time for Homeland Security to be called out and “Secure” the peace...esp. the Polling Places....


9 posted on 10/29/2011 5:01:01 PM PDT by jakerobins
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To: BAW

This is the ‘movement’(BOWEL) version of a modern day filibuster.
Remember when a filibuster would consist of a person reading a phone book, the bible, (now they could read the tax code and guarantee themselves the podium for several days) and being allowed a ‘head break’ once in a great while.
Today they relieve each other, have breaks etc etc..

Well these so called ‘protesters’ just stay there on nice days and go home at night, letting the ‘homeless’ live in their digs so they don’t get accused of abandoning them.

This whole thing is so full of ironies (read BS), they accept the backing of Soros, Politicians, accept pricy donations and accept ‘things’ from the people they are supposedly protesting.

They ‘raise hell’ because the homeless (actually the downtrodden who the protestors claim to be) are infiltrating their ranks and ‘they’ are being forced to share with the needy.


10 posted on 10/29/2011 5:04:28 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) If govt involved, the more outlandish a scheme appears, the truer it probably is.)
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To: Travis McGee

Imagine the dirty tricks that could played on these pinheads?! Empty tents? Cold, wet, and dark? My kind of playground!


11 posted on 10/29/2011 5:05:11 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They wish to emulate the TEA Party and its popularity with the masses of voters that support a return to sanity in gubamint .. A tall task. ;-)

Who’s behind it?
All the usual suspects.


12 posted on 10/29/2011 5:09:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wonder who is behind the Occupy movement...

The answer to that is pretty ceeretain: George Soros, among others...

13 posted on 10/29/2011 5:14:04 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"Aren’t the cooks being very bigoted and judgemental about homeless coming to the occupy Wall Street camps?????"

What is the matter with you? Do you expect moral consistency from Marxists and other Liberal pukes?

C'mon, Man!

14 posted on 10/29/2011 5:16:36 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: sergeantdave

On second thought, forget what I said.

Oh, no..........here comes Mr. Yukon Jack.

Yes, sir, may I have another.


15 posted on 10/29/2011 5:19:18 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: BAW

When the clean-up in these cities finally begins, HAZMAT crews are going to have to be employed to deal with the rancid, fungus infested camps left by the hippies there.


16 posted on 10/29/2011 5:42:57 PM PDT by az.b1bbomberfxr
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To: az.b1bbomberfxr

Well, at least the homeless will have nice expensive new tents.


17 posted on 10/29/2011 6:10:52 PM PDT by mia
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To: Dilbert San Diego

What kind of communist would deny a commrade’s needs? After all, ‘From each according to their ability....(aren’t they able?) to each according to their need. ( and there are needy people out there) -Socialism is for the people, not the Socialists.


18 posted on 10/29/2011 6:29:59 PM PDT by griswold3 (Character is Destiny)
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To: Lurker
You have to remember that even though Byron York is a a conservative journalist, he's still a journalist.

I am not sure of your message ????

19 posted on 10/29/2011 6:53:57 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wonder who is behind the Occupy movement, and if what’s going on now is a dress rehearsal for next year and the election campaign.

Probably. The Left is also working hard to gin up racial unrest to add to the mix.

20 posted on 10/29/2011 6:55:10 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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