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Occupy Wall Street Lays ‘Siege’ to Wells Fargo Shareholder Meeting, Two Dozen Arrests Result

SAN FRANCISCO (AP/The Blaze) — Occupy Wall Street is back. Authorities have arrested about two dozen people who demonstrated inside and outside Wells Fargo’s annual shareholders meeting. Dan Gainor of CNS News Reports:

“Activists with The 99% Spring coalition already have disrupted shareholder meetings this year at EQT Corp. (EQT), Carnival Cruise Lines (CCL) and BNY Mellon (BK). Now they’ve announced a full schedule of ‘non-violent direct action’ at shareholder meetings,” according to Kent Hoover, the Washington Bureau Chief for the Phoenix Business Journal.[...]

The Occupiers have announced a partnership with hardcore radical AIDS activists ACT UP. According to the liberal Nation, “a quarter century afters [sic] its founding, one of the original direct action pioneers is joining forces with the new kid on the block: Occupy Wall Street.”

ACT UP is planning a “march on Wall Street this Wednesday, April 25, starting in the morning at City Hall and ending in the financial district. ACT UP is hoping the event will attract hundreds of protesters for what they describe as a ‘daylong siege in Lower Manhattan.’”

This “siege” approach has already born fruit. San Francisco police Sgt. Mike Andraychak says police arrested 20 protesters. At least 14 of them were inside the meeting in the city’s financial district Tuesday afternoon. Six others were arrested for trespassing.

Over Two Dozen People Arrested in Occupy Wall Streets Protracted Siege of Wells Fargo Shareholders Meeting

Watch video of the protest below:

Andraychak said the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department arrested another four people.

The bank protest drew several hundred protesters, many associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Over Two Dozen People Arrested in Occupy Wall Streets Protracted Siege of Wells Fargo Shareholders Meeting

The demonstrators criticized the San Francisco-based company for pursuing home foreclosures, predatory lending, not paying enough taxes, and investing in private prison companies.

Wells Fargo & Co. spokesman Ruben Pulido says the company respects the protesters’ right to gather but would work to keep its customers, employees and shareholders safe.

And for those who are curious about Occupy Wall Street’s new allies, ACT-UP, here is some relevant information from a source sympathetic to them:

One of ACT UP’s first targets was the Catholic Church, then as now quite comfortable placing its dogma -– contraception bad, homosexuality an affront to God, condoms out of the question -– over the needs of its own flock, let alone a public health crisis spiraling out of control. And while the church was perfectly willing to care for the sick, it was –- and is -– equally willing to lend its power and moral authority in support of the homophobia and misogyny that were enfeebling the public response to the epidemic in the first place. In short, as far as the AIDS epidemic was concerned, the church was very much a central part of the problem, and needed to be shaken out of its complacency.[...]

Four thousand angry queers were cordoned off on one side of Fifth Avenue, safely contained behind barricades, their chanting not quite loud enough to penetrate the heavy bronze doors and thick walls of St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Over the next few minutes, those queers fought their way across Fifth Avenue and stormed the cathedral, disrupting the Mass and igniting a firestorm, both inside the building and on front pages and newscasts around the world. It was the largest demonstration against the church up to that date in recorded history, an epochal event in the truest sense of the word.

One wonders what Wells Fargo did to make “angry queers” see them as the enemy.

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  • quiltgal
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:14am

    The phrase “acting up” is usually used to describe little kids who are misbehaving or otherwise carrying on in an unruly, abnormal, or annoying way. It’s also used to describe a disease that flairs up after a period of dormancy. ACT UP chose a fitting name. OWS chose a fitting partner.

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    • dimitrisokolov
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:20am

      I disagree with a lot of the OWS movement, but at least they are doing something. What the hell happened to the Tea Party? I also don’t see anything from Romney about these crooks on Wall St. What is he going to do about it? Nothing. If the Tea Party ever wants to be serious again, they need to break off and form their own real political party or STFU.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:30am

      DIMITRISOCKOFLOVE….nice try. I’ve seen you on these boards and you keep using the same line..”I’m no fan of (insert lefty group, politician or political party here) then proceed to sell the lefty line. In this case you’re repeating the latest lefty strategy..”where’s the tea party?”. You duplicitous piece of leftist filth when will you get it? YOU AREN’T FOOLING ANYONE!

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:34am

      Let me get this straight….homosexuals comprise over 55% of new cases of HIV infections in this country each year. They comprise less than 2% of the population at any given time. That’s an over-representation of 2,750%. Clearly the “put on a condom” slogan isn’t working. Clearly homosexuals can’t control their un-natural compulsions and it’s costing many their health and their lives. Yet ACT UP is saying it‘s the Catholic Church’s fault? No seriously?

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    • dejavu43
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:26am

      Dmitri–as with many, you have no clue what the Tea Party is, who subscribes to it or its purpose. We are every day people from every strata of society, across all races and nationalities, every age group and every political stripe. We offer support and presence to those already in the political world that support what WE would like to see in political reality. Forming a political party is anathema to most of us because that only dilutes our message and creates more problems. Where are we? We went back to work, to school, to reality. When it becomes necessary, we will once again coalesce into a noisy, but peaceful group to storm the ramparts and make our demands known. Don’t make the mistake so many have made and discount either our presence or our goals–we have NOT disappeared, much to their dismay.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:02pm

      I don’t support Wells Fargo Bank and the occupyers but someone needs to act against this bank. You need to read this weeks Coin World – April 30 th edition. There is a story about a coin dealer that sold $5,000.00 worth of coins, paid with a check on Wells Fargo. Days later by snail mail he was notified with a copy of the check stamped “Refer to Maker.” He went down to the bank and was told it was his problem to collect. His state Attourney General in Georgia can‘t help because state law doesn’t cover this new stamp. He contacted the customer and he laughed at him. This is a new way for Wells Fargo to shun the problem. The District Attourney can‘t help because the law doesn’t cover it. I’m sure all banks will get on this gravey train – leaving the customer out in the rain.

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  • BuggiOlleo
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:57am

    Close up media shots ARE much more dramatic–I thought of thousands; nope. Inside a city of 10 million–300 folks show up with a megaphone, a drumbox, and a wizorgan; they make a rant which sounds like children in the midst of tantrum tilly. 300 Union sympathizers…I guess Acorn is saving their cash for the big fight in Nov–they will need every penny; apparently, we are more than ready to relinquish our milk money for a tiff.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:36am

      Poster GONZO brought up an excellent observation yesterday about OWS. They demand others “pay their fair share” while they also demand someone else pays for them, their tuition, their housing..ad nauseum. Why doesn‘t OWS want to pay it’s “fair share”?

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  • brother_ed
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:26am

    “as far as the AIDS epidemic was concerned, the church was very much a central part of the problem..”

    Isn’t this typical? Blaming someone else (a third party) for your own problems is a practice all too familiar with the left.

    Too bad we see right through this claim of ‘victim hood’.

    It‘s hard to have a conversation with someone who can’t even see their role in the situation.

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    • asybot12
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:47am

      you know what made me LOL: 4000 angry queers were cordoned off their chanting not quite loud enough,well that is because sopranos can’t carry their voices very far in the first place (no balls FYI).

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:33am

      Wait a minute…

      I thought the Q word was supposed to be bigoted and homophobic.

      Must be like the N word where if it end with an “a” and is said by someone with the right amount of melanin it’s okay.

      Folks, if you want to paint words as hateful and bigoted, denounce the use of the word, no matter who says it. Otherwise, you just look like a f-ing hypocrite.

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:34am

      oh… and as for OWS: toss ‘em all in the gulag. That‘s where all useful idiots go after they’ve been all used up anyway.

      See also: the actual practices of the Soviet Union.

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  • J_Ruben_Kincaid
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:53pm

    Scape these leeches off and forget about them.

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  • wornoutoldfart
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:18pm

    They should spray them with soap and water, it would probably kill most of them….

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:03am

      These bums, Obama included believe trickle down economics don’t work. I work for a company, I get paid,I then use pay to pay for housing, energy, food, gas, services. I spend money when i go dine out, have a deck put on house etc. Trickle down works fine, as long as you are working . Nothing trickles your way when you don’t work, unless a democrat is in charge, then the money you earn and would spend that trickles to others is not there to trickle because the democrats confiscate your earnings and give it to those who do not work. Pretty simple, keep the government away from our earnings and all those who work benefit.

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  • barber2
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:38pm

    Act Up . New name for the anarchist crowd. Isn’t it wonderful to have all of the social misfits deciding that THEY are now in charge ? They do not represent any group other than the angry, dysfunctional, societal misfit group. There are plenty of gay, lesbian, whatever people who act respectfully and to NOT impugn the rights of others. These Act Up people are just misfits with social/mental issues whose parents were obviously either not present, or unable or unwilling to give them the guidance they so needed. And these kids have become prey for those adults who did take the time to twist their minds and to use them for their own twisted, angry agenda. The Angry mentors leading their angry acolytes . Bound to end up with chaos and destruction. Theirs will be no Brave New World. Theirs will be a Charles Manson World. ( And many of these children acolytes probably don’t even know who that sick dude was .) Very Sad. For everyone.

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  • Restore the Republic
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:10pm

    Parasites. Marxist Parasites. Every last one of them

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    • socialism.rocks
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:16pm

      actually its conservatives that are parasites blue states been paying for red-ones over a hundred years

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    • RLTW
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:36pm

      Socialism
      If, you really want to break it down like that, than it’s the red states that have been feeding your sorry a$$ But the truth is you’re FOS

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:55pm

      Actually, no. The colors as used now came to use in 2000 election. Before that, the association was reverse, more in line with a traditional European assignation. It may have been a media ploy to confuse the voters.

      Second, the political affiliation and relative wealth per state changed over time. For example California was solidly Republican, until the mass migration of fruitcakes in late 60‘s and 70’s. That skewed the political spectrum to the left. It was a net contributor before, but at the present time, the socialist policies are progressing to make it an economic basket case. It is true that OK, for instance, has a substantial net intake from federales, but it has to be taken into a consideration that a good chunk of that goes to tribes. UT, another red state, on the other hand, takes very little and is a net contributor. ND may turn from a poor state to a wealthy one, if/when the Bakken oil patch can be exploited.

      Also, the “blue” states aren’t blue as a whole. The county electoral map would make it clear that the major cities are blue pinpricks in the sea of red. Due to population density, the cities skew the election results, often by a narrow margin, so what you perceive as blue states aren’t that blue after all.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:04pm

      And last, socialism does not rock. The western type of socialism is only a transitory model. It is designed (by First Directorate’s International Section) to essentially wreck the societies so the takeover would be simple. Yes the directorate no longer exists, but the project is on autopilot. It is an irony that in today’s Russia, an agency that has an opposite set of goals (essentially, trying to prevent a blowback or import of the western model of socialism back into Russia proper because it has been designed to be as corrosive as possible) works on a full runner to mitigate the possibility of “infection”. That is not to say that Russia is not authoritarian. It is, but they know well what shambles the communist experiment left behind.

      I had the opportunity to see how socialism works (or better say, doesn’t work) first hand, for 30 years. Ask some people that lived through it. That would give you some idea what your life would be like if it ever came to a full power. You’d not like it one bit.

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    • EP46
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:39am

      @socialism.rocks
      What ? Red states have Republicans who WORK…Blue states have ‘victims’ who live off the government money paid by people who work ???????

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:41am

      SOCIALISM.ROCKS, trying to push the same BS still? You are partially right, but you really do take a simplified view of today’s status of these financially failing blue states. They were once strong industrial, and or farming areas that were eventually invaded by so many with their hands out demanding to be taken care of. And, those areas had the money at first. Unions, politicians, and those who have financially leased their souls and votes to the Dems have bled these area beyond dry. Businesses are voting with their feet and moving to the non-union states if not out of the country itself. If a new administration comes into office next year that will allow for a far better business climate you will see those red states where business has fled begin to flourish. Frankly, with the jack boot removed from their necks the remaining businesses in the blue states should begin to resuscitate itself as well. Regardless, if the government is not reigned back, the red as well the blue states will surely fail financially.
      I suggest that you pack your childish ideas away, stop belly aching and get out there and EARN YOUR FAIR SHARE. Then pay taxes on it.

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:05pm

    BOA/CHASE/FARGO/CITI/=USA Corruption. We are living on the last gasp of freedom left in this country….the freedom to go into debt up to your eyeballs and then some. Credit Card apps are flying my way for both me and the Mrs since we cleared all of our debts. No thanks! Never again!

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  • LetsBeSmartAboutThis
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:59pm

    Why does Occupy feel that acting like jerks will make them successful ? ? ?

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  • insight
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:57pm

    Wells Fargo is just as shady an operation as BoA but these 99%ers should just try to get people to pull their money out of Wells, thats the only thing that will truly affect them. As big of a joke as OWS is I have to agree with them calling out these less than ethical banks.

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:03pm

      Your right send all your money to me for safe keeping. I promise I’ll take good care of it.

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  • gpb129
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:56pm

    wellfargo only paid a couple 100mil$ fine for funneling drug money about 600bil worth. why arent the ceos arrested for this???

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  • gpb129
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:54pm

    Why arent wellsfargo ceos arrested for funneling drug money. they only got about a 100mil fine for funneling billions of drug money, if this isnt a crime i dont know what is

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:52pm

    Yawn – obama‘s ’skid-mark army’ strikes again. The ‘defecate for obama 2012’ movement is sooooooooo yesterday.

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  • barber2
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:35pm

    This is all part of the International Far Left’s War on Capitalism. Remember ACORN? Remember Obama’s anti-bank / anti-Wall Street rhetoric BEFORE we were infested with the Occupy plague ? This is an organized, orchestrated plot by all of the anti-capitalists crowd. Obama and our so-called Democrats included. We used to call them Communists but who knows what they are calling themselves today . BUT they are all trying to bring a proletariat “ revolution” of social justice to America. We used to call people like this “revolutionaries. ” Our government used to lock them up for treason and for fomenting civil unrest. Today, I guess, we just call them Democrats. And we look the other “PC ” way. Our government is much dumber today. And we citizens are much more vulnerable. Not good. Where did the adults go ? Where will this mess end ? Will our Democrat Republic survive the “ organized ” anarchy ? Are the police ready ?

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    • 22hornet
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:58pm

      This is a constitutional republic not a Democrat Republic as you say….!!!!!

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:36am

      22hornet, you’ve misunderstood the comment. At the moment it is a Democrat Republic. Hopefully not for long.

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  • normbal
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:15pm

    Arrests? There should be armed guards at those meetings and a body count.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:12pm

    This is going to escalate until someone on the Occupy side decides to use lethal force; then the mess and chaos will intensify like a firestorm.

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    • DEFCON4
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:48pm

      And the Firestorm Will Engulf The Mis-Guided Dirtballs……

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  • vidyohs
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:05pm

    Wells Fargo………gimme a break for God’s sake!
    The OWS jerks told you they were going to act to disrupt your stockholders meeting, they gave you ample warning, and you took no measures to check to see if the people you let in were actually stockholders, and you didn’t exclude all those who were not stockholders?

    You deserve what you got.

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  • gbfreak
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:45pm

    Payback for Travon!!!…oh wait….that’s their other dumasssssss cause. Nevermind!

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  • seeker9
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:44pm

    Have not been following OWS, but why Carnival Cruise Lines?
    I’d rather join the 1%.

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  • MiloArk
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:39pm

    I’d write a post…but it never posts.

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  • Logic77
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:36pm

    Wells Fargo must be doing something right.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:58pm

      Actually, Wells Fargo has bent a lot of people over the wrong way, myself included. I understand business, all I ask for are straight answers to help my end of the issues present with the situation, especially since they bought my mortgage from another bank, meaning, I had no idea what they’re terms were at the time. Instead of explaining things clearly, they’d rather play coy and at times, rude as they want to be. I won’t feel sorry for them at all should something bad happens to them, with the way they handled the housing situation.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:37pm

      Yes indeed Wells Fargo did indeed become corrupt in their ways of business and screwed a lot of people by performing unethical practices thats why they were sued by some homeowners.

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    • swalt
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:33am

      I have my home loan through Wells Fargo … not by choice as they bought my loan after I closed on my house. BUT … they have treated me fairly. And I treat them fairly. When I signed the papers on my loan I agreed to make a certain payment every month for the next 30 years. I have so far done just that. IF there comes a time when I don’t make my payments, I would expect them to foreclose. After all, the house I live in was PAID for with THEIR money and I am paying it back a little at a time. See, that’s how it works. You sign on the line and agree to make the payments, or they take the house. IT’S THEIR HOUSE UNTIL I PAY IT OFF. That just doesn’t seem to me to be that hard to understand.

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  • VoteRightDammit
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:31pm

    OWS mongrels, being illiterate mongrels, can’t read.

    How, then, can they possibly know WHEN a company is having an annual meeting?
    Moreover, how on earth can they stumble to the right place before it’s over?

    Methinks the communist handlers are being a little overt here …………..

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  • flatdaddio
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:25pm

    wait till these dopes wake up and find out their second amendment rights have been terminated..

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:42am

      You mean the first, the second one they don‘t care about because they don’t see the connection between the two.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:21pm

    The nimrods are in NH tonight to “disrupt” Romney speaking to those who want to hear what he has to say. It’s OK for THEM to yell and be heard, though. Good thing the conservatives now carry AIR HORNS! I know I DO.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:20pm

    Next… the Brown Shirts… will be at their Homes!

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:33pm

      or the purple shirts SEIU
      or the red shirts Commies

      OMG 2012

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    • barber2
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:40pm

      No remember the ACORNs bused in to the bankers’ neighborhoods ? ( Think I’d have pepper spray put in my lawn sprinklers ! ) Or hire neighborhood militias to protect the neighborhood. Thanks, Obama, for making it dangerous to live in an American neighborhood. Even if you own your own home .

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