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Piven Uses Class Lecture to Lay Out Strategy to Illegally Occupy Foreclosed Homes, Default on Student Debt

Frances Fox Piven Offers Advice on Occupying Foreclosed Homes

  • CUNY Prof. Frances Fox Piven gave a recent talk laying out new, radical plans for the Occupy movement
  • According to her, the movement has to relocate, change tactics 
  • Public sociologists should help students “refuse to pay their debts” and avoid consequences when they default
  • Academia should also assist in the reoccupation of foreclosed homes
  • Occupy should exert “pressure” so that the illegal occupation of homes become legal ownership by occupiers
  • Occupy should even figure out how to get the “utilities running” in illegally occupied buildings

The radical organizers of the Occupy movement are becoming notably desperate in their strategies for disruption. And as the movement continues to try to remain relevant, longtime Occupy cheerleader and radical CUNY professor Frances Fox Piven has offered her advice for some of Occupy’s most radical tactics.  In a Skype interview with UC-Berkeley students recently, Piven seemed to offer a game plan by expanding on illegal, and possibly dangerous, actions the movement has toyed with before.

Piven began by admitting to the classroom that Occupy should look beyond camping in city parks.

“My vision of the Occupy movement is that– well, I think it should find some new spaces,” she conceded. “I think Occupy has to relocate, occupy some other spaces.  Maybe it’s — it doesn’t have to be in Wall Street – it could be a university building.”

Piven proceeded to expand the idea of not paying back debt, an idea that’s been at the forefront of the movement since the beginning: “Here’s something public sociologists could do – I think we need to figure out exactly how students can protect themselves against reprisals if they refuse to pay their debts.  How can they protect themselves against having their wages garnished?”

Frances Fox Piven Offers Advice on Occupying Foreclosed Homes

But defaulting on student debt was just the start. Piven also offered advice (by asking strategic questions) on the recent practice of occupying private residences: “How can we defend if the reoccupation of foreclosed homes grows in scale? How can we defend those houses that are occupied?  How can we exert enough pressure so that the occupations become legal ownership?  I think– there are real, big strategy questions.”

Piven went into detail on the subject, and the complications associated with squatting on private property”

“In the occupation of homes, we have to figure out how to provide services, how to reconnect utilities often.  Or if what we’re doing is we are defending people who are occupying multi-family apartments in big cities, we have to figure out how to get the services running in those buildings.  And they, if the landlords, the new predatory equity landlords, had not succeeded in forcing them out — but once that stage is reached, the tenants have to figure out alternate ways of providing services to the building — heat and hot water, things like that.”

Watch the comments to the classroom below:

The Blaze’s Erica Ritz contributed to this report.

Comments (461)

  • blkbelt7
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:09am

    I wish she would do us all a favor and DIE already!!!

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:26am

      I agree with her, if I got a worthless degree, from a worthless liberal college, I wouldn’t pay for it either…..in fact nobody should pay anything to these worthless crap holes…….let em go belly up, including whatever one this scarey lookin Hag works at…..

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:30am

      Sea Hag………faces like that have been haunting sailors for centuries !!!!!!! Ughhhhgly

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    • SLEUTH
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:30am

      if the students wont pay their debt, the govt should send the bill to the college/university.
      i guess congress will have to change the student load law.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:33am

      Obama shut up Osama Bin Laudin, so I’m sure orders are out to send her to Gitmo.

      “The philosophy of the classroom will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.” – Abraham Lincoln

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:48am

      Take a look at the faces of those students! Pay attention to those colleges this hag has corrupted with her communist ideas and never do business with those who follow her, if they are able to get a job after the likes of her takes the American people down the primrose path to destruction of our Country, following the path of Communism. Take a look at the countries who’ve taken this path. No freedom.

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    • CombatMutt
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:54am

      These people chose a liberal arts degree; well, someone has to work at McDonalds.

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    • JWINK56
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:01am

      Why dont they occupy her frickin house and they can all sing kumbaya and beat drums! useless forms of life!

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:03am

      Let me deflate JZS before he attempts his usual routine….
      “What?“ ”What’s all the fuss about?”. “Why does the Blaze insist on running articles on fringey college professors that no one cares about or knows?”. (Channeling Sir Alec Guiness…)- “This isn‘t the lefty radical you’re looking for”.

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    • Marci
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:06am

      We all knew that was coming. What these commies want is to steal the homes of those who were even just unfortunate in this economy–to romanticize it as anything other than taking things by force that do not belong to them is insanity. And she is hoping squatters rights come into play, but she apparently does not understand the law in any way. They would have to go on for years and go through court battles to establish that nonsense. Given that the homeowner couldn’t stay, she is dreaming. If any of these idiots show up in my neighborhood, Sheriff Joe will get a call immediately.

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    • Uncurable wound
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:09am

      She did,look at her…

      She is the Nazgûl: Ringwraiths, neither living nor dead.

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    • okredstate
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:38am

      Hey paperboy: Now that the government holds all the notes on the student loans, that means that everyone else would have to pay for your college degree. I see that you have a liberal arts degree, and that you are a paperboy. It appears that your degree has put you in the position you are most qualified to perform.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:42am

      Shouldn’t she be nitting or baking cookies, oh, she must not have a permit.

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    • Freedom from liberals
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:17pm

      So the wicked witch of the west is recommending to break contractual law, (student loan contract), and common law, trespassing. This is borderline inciting a riot, arrest her please! Water boarding her is too tame. How about piss boarding?

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:25pm

      So… Miss Piven advocates theft…

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    • nomoresocialism
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:25pm

      Actually thought she was dead when I saw her picture…but there she is, alive and talking.

      She is definately brain dead though!

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    • Freedom from liberals
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:28pm

      So she is recommending to break contractual law by not paying your loan and to break criminal law by trespassing in foreclosed homes. This is inciting a riot and lawlessness. Arrest her? Water boarding is to tame for this wench, how about pisss boarding.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:31pm

      Get her address , these lazyass students should occupy this Hag’s House, illegally , let’s see how long that lasts, before she calls the cops that she hates…..somebody twitter her home address to these students please……raid her fridge, fart on her couch, sleep in her bed…..stink up her bathroom….

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:37pm

      Here is the dirty little secret …I will use a real life example I know about. This person defaulted on two thousand. When it was all said and done, twenty thousand was paid; garnishments, and fecal matter credit on top of that.

      The fed has no problem with defaults, it is a highly profitable situation.

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    • Treaty
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:40pm

      It’s the Liberal way. No need to be responsible for your choices – someone else will pay for it.

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    • myway
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:41pm

      She works for Obama! They won’t stop them they will encourage them to win an an election.
      The planned end-game:

      Does Obama look worried about the upcoming elections? Look at his lavish vacations, his limited work schedule, and those with whom he is working. This is a very dangerous man who has, as his closest advisers, people who have orchestrated the revolutions of the 1960s. They know the “trigger points” in America.

      The Obama administration, including his czars and along with his closets Progressive supporters, are planning a manufactured insurgency against America. He is using the media to his advantage to garner both sympathy and support for his unfinished goals. He is desperately seeking a way to remain in office, even if it means the surreal prospect of an indefinite postponement of elections – if it can be pulled off. So far, he’s got the support of the majority of the DHS “brass” behind him, according to my source.

      “They’re power hungry, and they want to remain in charge,” stated this source.

      The “surreal” aspect of suspended elections won’t look so surreal when you see any or all of the “trigger points” take place in the not-so-distant future.

      “The end-game plan for America is its destruction as a Constitutional Republic, with the assistance of the agencies under the umbrella of the DHS.”

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    • Vrilgesellschaft
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:53pm

      That could certainly be arranged! What does NY State law say about tenured faculty who flagrantly violate the law? Let me once again remind the squeeling liberals and “committed” leftists that the pendulum always swings right again, and when it does, the results are going to be draconian and hideous (for you). I can’t wait!

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:55pm

      Sounds good to me. Then there would be NO money to pay for her OVERPRICED SALARY !!! What a joke and no one in the MSM even thinks this is THEFT. Here is an idea, DO NOT TAKE OUT THE LOANS !!! These OCCUPIERS all have places to live already, they have parents basements and Computers. They have MATERIAL things like Iphones, that many of us that DO WORK cannot afford !! Because WE PAY RENT !!!! Oh and they ALl dress COOL too.. Real homeless people LOOK homeless and do not have time to PROTEST !!!

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    • JRook
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:59pm

      ” In a Skype interview with UC-Berkeley students recently, Piven seemed to offer a game plan by expanding on illegal, and possibly dangerous, actions the movement has toyed with before.” How exactly is a Skype interview a class lecture. There is some form of editorial review isn’t there?

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    • mtcountrygrl
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:59pm

      You all are missing a big point here. If the students stop paying their student loans what will the effect be? What happened when lots of people stopped paying their mortgages? Banks clamped down and it is now WAY harder to get a mortgage. If these students stop paying their loans (it will forever damage their credit and make it impossible to get loans for years to come) and the banks will tighten restrictions on who can get a student loan, which will backfire on these expensive colleges. This might be a good thing.

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    • mike1956will
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:01pm

      @Detroit paperboy, if not for unbelievably horney sailors, ugly sea hags like Piven would never get laid!!! ;-)

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    • little big man
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:18pm

      I hope they all don’t pay their debt see what that gets them. sometimes lessons learned are learned the hard way. stupid is as stupid does. D’oh”””””””””””””””””

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    • 1961
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:33pm

      I thought she had when Dorthy threw the bucket of water on her and returned the broom to Oz

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:35pm

      I only hope I could reach one of her Useful Idiots when I say this:

      Occupiers, this woman has absolutely no interest whatsoever in your well being. She’s telling you to commit theft and ruin the only thing in life that anyone really ever has: their good name.

      If you follow her advice, in the end all youlre going to end up with is an arrest record, possible jail or prison time, and horrible credit. Non-payment of bills can lead to (as she said) garnishment of wages. You think you’re having a hard time now? Wait until 25% of your income vanishes!

      Don‘t say you weren’t warned.

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:38pm

      Tax payers to colleges take them all to court and remove their names from graducating classes.

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    • 1961
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:39pm

      I thought she had when Dorthy threw the bucket of water on her and returned the broom to Oz!

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    • Richalu
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Piven: “Here’s something public sociologists could do – I think we need to figure out exactly how students can protect themselves against reprisals if they refuse to pay their debts. How can they protect themselves against having their wages garnished?”

      What wages? These fools don’t plan on working to collect a wage. They’ll be busy illegally occupying our homes while sucking off the government teat. They’ll be collecting OUR wages.

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:46pm

      Ugly is as ugly does.

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    • jonnydoe
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 2:22pm

      Detroit,

      Well, here’s 3 addresses and 2 phone numbers.
      35 Claremont Ave. NY, NY 10027

      11 Hanover Square 24th Floor NY, NY 10005

      37 Resseguie Rd
      Millerton, NY 12546 or
      Pine Plains, NY 12567 (same address for both)

      (212) 316-2027
      (212) 758-7335

      HAVE AT IT!

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    • DesertDave54
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 2:29pm

      Put a black hood on her and who would she look like??? THE EMPEROR FROM STAR WARS!!!

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 2:44pm

      Self destructive mentality just like the unions default on loans education is free who pays the teachers salary ?
      Somehow I don’t think they will do it for free.
      Something is lacking in the libs thought process.

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    • Tom K
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 2:49pm

      @BLKBELT7: From her photo, I thought she was already dead but the pure evil and hate of America deep inside of her was keeping her in motion, like a zombie. Not exactly your kind grandmotherly type, huh. ” Don’t pay your debts; steal a forclosed house; your signature on a contract means nothing. ” The wicked witch of the North ! If she hates America so much, why doesn’t she move to Europe ?

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 2:53pm

      I was going to say that she didn‘t need to tell them to ’default’, that was the intent of the government taking over the loans in the first place. But on second thought, I believe she probably did need to tell them that. It’s obvious, they aren’t the sharpest crayons in the box.

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    • witchrunner
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 3:02pm

      Two thoughts on this article. First of all I think CUNY aught to fire her. Advocating stuff like this proves she’s worthless as a professor. Secondly, the government should get out of the student loan business. Actually, it should get out of all lending businesses.

      You can’t stop people from being advocates for irresponsibility and anarchy, but you can stop giving them the money and tools to support them. If someone wants a higher education, let them pay for it. If someone wants a house or a car, let them pay for it. If someone wants to lend them money so they can do so, let them. But that doesn’t mean the taxpayers should be on the hook for it. One reason things have gotten so expensive, including education, is all the money thrown at it with no real responsibility for it. Look at the secondary mortgage crisis that bubbled in 2007. That was because government backed the loans and pushed for the loans that banks wouldn’t ordinarily make. If not for the government, we’d still have a healthy economy.

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    • Ray2447
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 3:42pm

      It sounds like just another sermon, preached from the pulpit of the church of Marxist/Leninist indoctrination (formerly known as our U.S. taxpayer funded, educational system) – as shown in “Marxist Valley College” at Youtube. http://tinyurl.com/7ub3dv7

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 3:50pm

      KEEP this Zombie away from my Kids !!!!
      Ship it to Cuba or Venezuela..Commie POS.

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    • Iswingright
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 3:54pm

      They need to go and occupy that old bag’s house.

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    • ScottG-CO
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 4:00pm

      Detroit- although I like your idea, the institutions have already been compensated, the debt lies elsewhere. And, like the ad on the radio, ‘geez, I can‘t make enough to do that making pottery’!

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 4:05pm

      One word, dementia.

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    • Conservative1234
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 4:19pm

      She really needs to kick the bucket; she does look like the crypt keeper gone insane but then again she’s not alone. The SDS had a lot of young loonies who are now really old decrepit loonies and she may have been one of those. It seems a lot of the old hippie radicals from the 60‘ and 70’s became professors so that they could continue spreading their message of lunacy until they finally go belly up and get put into the ground. She looks like she’s got one foot in the grave; is she like 90?

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    • ACLUHater
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 4:32pm

      Why does this rat NOT get arrested for this crap? She is a nasty excuse for a human.

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 5:22pm

      Anybody stupid enough to listen to this idiot needs to re-take some classes, they missed something!

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    • cmi
      Posted on May 14, 2012 at 2:16pm

      I’m amazed that swiveled up old bat can get away with this BS!! How do we allow idiots like her in our university’s,…..much less in front of a class of students????

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:09am

    “My vision of the Occupy movement is that– well, I think it should find some new spaces,” she conceded. “I think Occupy has to relocate, occupy some other spaces.

    Here’s a new place you can occupy you communist heathen,hell you and all your communist heathen can go there.

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    • lynnissmart
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:19am

      I couldn’t have said it better!

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:20am

      Look at those angry, indoctrinated young people. That is a very ugly picture of our youth. One question – why isn’t Pivens in jail. She is asking people to break the law and inciting violence. I hope that university that employs her gets eaten by the young people. Come on law enforcement and lawyers, put her in jail!

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:39am

      Send Piven and her occupy followers to China and Cuba. If they want communism, give it to them.

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    • Uncurable wound
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:11am

      NH winter no jail,This wich needs a dirt bath!

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:35pm

      Maxine Waters said that she would help the tea party to go straight to hell, so maybe Maxine can help the exhumed corpse to go there too.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 5:22pm

      Mortgages consist of Three Parts… a Title: legal discription… Ownership: Lein upon property by Agency… Loan: Servicing of Payments upon Debt. In most cases, Banks sell off Ownship to a Government Agency… and if a Bank cannot collect Payments, they Foreclose as part of the Debt Servicing which they are paid. So… if the Government will not evict a Squatter… the property is open to be Occupied! HAIL OBAMA!

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  • Sniprfire
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:07am

    Frances Frances Frances…. I dont know which is worse… the Stench come comes out of your mouth or the Stench that oozes from between your cold wrinkled crotch… One thing we know your poision to our Young People. You should be prosecuted like a Pedofile and Stalker. You are inciting violence, riots, and illegal actions that will ulitmately lead a whole generation of Entitled, Lazy, Spoilt, Everybody gets a Trophy, Feed Me, School Me, Pay Me, Look at ME, lot of Losers. These Losers will never amount to anything but a drain on our society and a poop stain on the Economy.

    I suggest you just go home and wait for dementia or a massive stroke….

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    • jujubeebee
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:16am

      She should be arrested and should not be allowed to have a job any where.

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    • Razlord
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:21am

      nice…but she should be shunned, ridiculed and driven back into her slimy h ole.

      choose a side people…the fun is coming…

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    • FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:32am

      Sniprfire,

      Well said. You hit the mark on this one.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:40pm

      SNIPRFIRE, Right on, and if I may expound…. Bathe me, wipe me, burp me… Thanks Sniprfire!!!

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    • starman70
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:48pm

      She needs to be arrested for inciting and abeting illegal activities such as TRESPASSING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, INCITING THE THEFT OF POWER AND WATER FROM UTILITIES. I know the power companies will prosecute those who actually make illegal hook-ups but SHE should be charged also for inciting the poor ignorant , naive students to do it.

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    • FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:49pm

      Also if one looks at the picture for this post where the so called students are all screaming holding a banner………….don’t they all look like HOWLER MONKEYS? Well I guess if we act like animals we will also look like them. Not exactly what GOD had in mind for his “children don’t you think?

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  • mike057
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:03am

    November can’t get here fast enough. The communists, socialists, marxists need to be run out of this country.

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    • GERATMO
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:52am

      I wouldnt doubt it if Obama called a state of emergency and canceled all elections. He wants to be king so he can change this country and burn the Constitution.

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  • poster
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:01am

    Piven says… “I think Occupy has to relocate, occupy some other spaces. Maybe it’s — it doesn’t have to be in Wall Street – it could be a university building.”

    You know… I LIKE that idea. Let all of the lazy, good-for-nothing parasites occupy the institutions of higher learning for a few years or more! Let’s see how the universities like it when what they teach “comes home to roost” (if I may quote the incredibly Rev. Jeremiah Wright).

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    • jujubeebee
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:17am

      Trespassing is a crime and should be enforced.

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    • DonnaA
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:30am

      I like your idea, then we should bolt the doors shut & call it a prison for idiots.

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    • SoCalWalt
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:45pm

      Frances probably hasn’t noticed, but they’re already occupying the university buildings. They’re majoring in Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology, etc. In short, they’re her students.

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:48pm

      @juju

      Agree! Especially here in the west…..when we saw/see a NO TRESPASSING sign posted there were words that followed and some of the words were very creative at times. Regurgitating this news from awhile back, problem with the wording, illegal aliens…well, here is a universal-sign that is understood by all…NO TRESPASSING. ..Trespassers(formally called illegals) will be prosecuted or (fill in the blanks). This sign DOES NOT descriminate!!! Since most trespassers are from other countries & know “some” english..the signs along the borders, north & south borders, will be posted in ENGLISH ONLY!!! Drones & simple wording sign, will be understood. Keep it simple…..and enforce THE law, trespassers will be (fill in the blanks).P.S. If the trespasser is caught & seen littering, I would prosecute for that too. Warning: Don‘t Trespass and Don’t Litter Our Country…have seen pics of all the litter & garbage these trespassers leave behind. A big deal, yes….citizens of USA are fined for littering….

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  • countryfirst
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:01am

    There are some in Florida very close to sink holes. Fill them to full capacity

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    • Dizo
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 4:44pm

      Soon this disciple of destruction, thievery and darkness will be meeting her maker. It would be better for her to tie a millstone around her neck and jump into a river then to face Him having misled all the young people she has infected with her venom.

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  • djmaine
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:59am

    At what point does this woman become a criminal and get thrown in jail?

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    • friedclouds
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:58am

      January 2013, at the earliest, considering the fact that Holder would never press charges

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:27am

      DJMAINE….she’s protected under the constitution and her job. But you have to be a student of history to know what Piven is doing. The “thinkers” never do the dirty work because there’s political concerns to be observed. You can‘t be seen actually doing the harm you’re asking others to do because then you risk losing your position of influence and the forum from which you speak.
      Did Hitler do the killing and destruction during Krystalnacht? Did Adolf burn down the Reichstag? Lenin yelled “Peace, land and bread”- the same kind of “free stuff” Piven calls for- while his followers did all the dirty work. This is how it works….the Pivens of the world exploit the very protections they seek to eventually undermine. Once in power…they silence all opposition, nothing but party line is tolerated. This is the history of socialism and the left.

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    • RedDirtTexas
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:58am

      @ AVENGERK Well said!

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    • djmaine
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 2:16pm

      Thanks Avengerk. Well put.

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  • amerbur
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:57am

    This women should be tried for conspiracy to defraud and anyone that follows her lead should be jailed. This is a government of laws.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:10am

      Not if the government officials don’t bother to follow them…

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:26am

      I thought that as well.Seems to me she wants the kids to default.Parents called into pick up the loan.If they can’t then any collateral they put up would be lost.Imagine if it were there house.Orchstrated foreclosures cause a glut of housing on the market that any buzzard could take advantage of.Even her and her cronies.Imagine that the voice of protest for communism is a closet capitalist.If my scenario is right it gives a whole new dimension to the word vulture rip off artist exc.

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:40am

      If any of the listeners do trespass and take property that is not theirs, the rightful owners might have standing to file a tort suit against her. Then they could seize any speaking fees or other assets she might possess int he United States.

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:54am

    Spewing hate is all the commies know….they have no morals and no values…..just self hatred……you can see it in their eyes and the contortion of their mouths when they speak…….Can you think of any more just like this one???? huh!?

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  • lembrandt
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:52am

    let’s see…did the first post make it online….?

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:30am

      Yeah I hear you.I’m about tired of having mine thrown in cyberspace too. If it weren’t for the fact that someone else may be censoring my posts I think I would have left this site a long time ago.I don’t need to be bashed for being an independentNor do I have the time and energy to waste with a bunch of cry baby children who get their control fix from censoring posts.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:51am

    When did the Crypt Keeper gain tenure? Hell, when did he start TEACHING??

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:51am

    This shrivelled up old hag needs to be put away in a dog pound, although that might be considered inhumane treatment…to the other dogs in the pound.

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  • Viking64
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:50am

    Has she ever heard of Botox treatments?, guess not? She is a devil! With over half the country now on the big gov dole, that’s what we need more defaults on student loans, bank property problems, etc.
    What a bunch of lazy,non responsible, entitlement idiots trying to become even more a problem for the givers. This situation will not or can not go on like this, if the system fails, we will all be worst off!

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    • Popp40
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:04am

      @VIKING64….this is exactly what they are doing. They are causing the system to implode and they are doing a very good job at succeeding. My question is when will we finally stand up to these people?

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  • Atilla
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:49am

    Piven is the face of evil

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    • GERATMO
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:54am

      Commies always have a strange look to them. Most of the time, I can spot the good and the bad by their looks alone.

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  • lembrandt
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:49am

    Gonzo, is right, although I think there will be much more violence before it does, eventually, “swing right”.

    Also, how far right will that be? Too far will not be good either and we must guard against that…I think a large percentage of the left hanging from trees before we stop moving to the right would be good, though.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:56am

      Believe me, with Romney at the helm, it won’t swing too far right.

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:49am

    Why hasn’t this broad died already???

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    • The Sergeant Major
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:34am

      I’m not a doctor, but I stayed in the Holiday Inn for 9 months. Mz. Piven looks like she has pancreatic cancer, her skin looks jaundice. Maybe obamma care will take care of that for her.

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    • Atlanticgrl
      Posted on May 14, 2012 at 3:27pm

      Aww, don’t you know…evil never dies…it just gets uglier.

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  • Grillmark55
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:48am

    Please stop putting her picture on the blaze without a big huge warning banner. I am tired of throwing up in my mouth when i see that withered old hag.

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  • aquablue
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:48am

    if she gets a teacher’s pension, then she should give it up if students shouldn’t pay their loans. i see her as the teacher molesting your kids and teaching them how to smoke dope. piven’s is dereanged.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:47am

    Isn’t this old demented fool dead yet??

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:47am

    More and more the treasonous and sedition calls of Piven are declared; and the media of course is in league with her and the administration – chaos and pressure until everything collapses. This is a similiar tactic that Karl Marx called for in the pre-civil war articles published in the New York Tribune.
    (Ref – The civil war; strange and facinating facts by Burke Davis)

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  • momrules
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:46am

    This old communist feels let down. Occupy hasn’t panned out to meet her expectations as of yet.

    She needs confrontation with police, violence and hopefully a few deaths to rachet up even more self righteous anger of the OWS. Her solution is to Break More Laws!

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    • friedclouds
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:52am

      Seems to me Piven has made a mistake. A case could be made for: 1. Conspiracy to commit fraud. 2. Conspiracy to commit grand larceny and felony trespassing, 3. Well, you get the idea. Any lawyers out there want to comment? Let’s let her rot in prison….finish rotting that is.

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  • HKS
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:44am

    It would behoove any financial institution to suspend payments, reduce payments on a temporary basis or do anything else possible to keep people in their homes. Failure to do so is about equal to burning it down with no insurance and the financial institution looses it all. It‘s not just the people that were screwed with the financial institution’s self inflicted injuries, how fatal the injuries depend on how they handle the exit from this damage they created.

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    • vrodder
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:54am

      The banks did as they were forced to do by the government! The PEOPLE that begged for that mortgage carry MOST of the blame! No payments, no house! They should be foreclosed on!

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  • vrodder
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:43am

    “How can they protect themselves against having their wages garnished?” Don’t you need a job before you get “wages”?

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:23pm

      Lol, good one VRODDER!!!!

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    • Julyjeanie
      Posted on May 9, 2012 at 9:15pm

      @VRODDER – You have it backwards sir. It is the (Banksters), who controls what our Government does. The Federal Reserve and it’s owners, the Rockefeller‘s the Rothschild’s, and the JP Morgan’s who are very much in Control. Believe me when I say…..Congress doesn’t make any IMPORTANT decisions, or LAWS, without the approval of the FED. The Federal Reserve is a “Cartel” of Bankers who pretty much own this Country, and until we stand up together as one and get rid of these EVIL people, they will just keep on printing money out of thin air, and devaluing the dollar until it has NO value at all. All the BIG BANKS and Financial Institutions are in bed together, and through the years they have managed to corrupt almost every Political Official in office. The Big Corporations and Big Pharma have their Lobbyist’s who pay the players in Government BIG BUCKS, to serve their “Special Interests. It is one great big happy family! Until someone tries to blow the whistle, those who try, well……they end up disappearing or have a sudden and “unexpected” heart attack. JFK was going to shut the FED down back in the 60′s……….and we all know what happened to him. Oswald did not assassinate Kennedy. He might have pulled the trigger and shot the 1st bullet, but the other TWO were not from Oswald’s rifle!! Believe me, it is NOT a Conspiracy Theory, it is the TRUTH. The Federal Reserve has been very quietly stealing the Wealth of American for many years.

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  • MiCurmudgeon
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:42am

    Time to open up some debtor prisons and occupy them with Occupiers who break the law. They will then be getting the free room and board they are demanding.

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:57am

      They will not go to jail because they are working for the Obama`s. Could you imagine if they were Tea Party People?

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:39am

    Keep pushing you old communist hag. America doesn’t like what it sees and is about to swing hard right.

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:52am

      Anyone have a hungry wood chipper available????????????????????

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    • RedDirtTexas
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:56am

      I’m right beside you Gonzo!

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:01am

      You got that right Gonzo,Piven and the rest of the communist heathen will see their boy lose in a landslide.

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    • RedDirtTexas
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:38am

      Mortgage holders might want some carrying house sitters to look after their LEGAL interests. I know some folks that are feeling the economic pinch who are NOT socialist rabble that would protect private property on a rent to own basis. Win Win situation.

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    • RedManBlueState
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:15pm

      Too bad it’s only May. The rate of decline is increasing exponentially. I don’t know if we have 6 months left before they manage to manufacture a “crisis” big enough to declare martial law and cancel the election.

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