OWS kitchen blues.

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Occupy Wall Street kitchen slowdown targets squatters - NYPOST.com


The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday -- because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.
For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.
They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.

/facepalm

I guess actual homeless people are too real life for the 99% folks.


I have a feeling they wont learn any lessons from this. Giving things away for free is generally a bad idea.

Some protesters threatened that the high-end meals could be cut off completely if the vagrants and criminals don’t disperse.
Unhappiness with their unwelcome guests was apparent throughout the day.
“We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out” to curb the influx of derelicts, said Rafael Moreno, a kitchen volunteer.

Hahaha, people living in a park calling others derelicts.

A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.”

Now you understand how the American taxpayer feels.

Overall security at the park had deteriorated to the point where many frightened female protesters had abandoned the increasingly out-of-control occupation, security- team members said.
Rumors swirled that one homeless man had pulled a knife in a dispute the night before -- and that there had been yet another case of groping.
But protesters and a cop on duty told The Post that most of the crime goes unreported, because of a bizarre “stop snitching” rule.
“What’s happening in there is staying in there,” said the cop.

Bwahahahaha.
 

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I honestly don't care anymore.

I talk about how sick and disgusting the attitude of the Tea Party is but you know what? I'll be honest. The Occupiers I see protesting on the streets aren't exactly five-star model citizens either. It seems like more and more of the wrong type of crowd are coming out. I'm really pulling for the more reasonable people to eventually pull through, but as I've learned on this board, the most vocal are the ones that get the most noticed.

The... most... vocal... that gives me an idea.

Sheep's milk... what?!? What makes milk from a sheep better than a cow?!?
 
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serenity now

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I'm starting to get tired too, especially with the New York crowd. I'm surprised it took this long for incidents like this to come to the surface. From what I hear these are mostly college students, and if they're anything like the idiots at my school, they're, well, idiots. Perpetually drunk idiots. And they're being mentored by aging hippie-types. There are some genuinely rational, eloquent people there, but they're drowned out by the ones vandalizing local businesses.

Hopefully they'll be gone before too long. Maybe to regroup and be a bit more organized next time. I really do sympathize with the cause, but we haven't had effective protests since the Vietnam War (to my knowledge) so maybe we just need to get warmed up. Perhaps one of the groups in another city will have a breakthrough; I hear tell of some sort of boycott planned in Oakland. Don't know exactly what they mean by that but it sounds like some of them are at least going to try to be a little more proactive.
 
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Heck there have been reports of people stealing things, people getting assaulted, women getting raped...

Not a group I'd like to be stuck in.
But it's the Tea Party that's dangerous, right?
 
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