Slideshow: Blaze Writers Show You Their Pictures From Today’s Occupy March
Early Thursday morning, Buck Sexton and I traveled to different points in lower Manhattan where we followed the efforts of the Occupy Wall Street protesters to block the opening of the New York Stock Exchange. The plan was not a secret and the NYPD was on the scene in substantial numbers.
Early reports say that 50 protesters were arrested and taken away in the flexible, plastic handcuffs carried by every officer.
In the moments when the group was not chanting “We Are The 99%“ or ”Wall Street Is Our Street“ I was given some specific instructions on what to do if I found myself arrested and hauled off to One Police Plaza and locked up in ”the tombs.” A man sporting the neon green hat from the free legal aid group told me the average detention lasts 15-20 hours and suggested that I avoid the milk and bologna being served in the holding tank at all costs. However, the peanut butter or cheese sandwiches should be suitable replacements. Good to know.
Here’s what we saw down at the march:
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We will be monitoring this afternoon’s anticipated attempt to shut down the subway system as well.
Stay tuned.
All photos from Buck Sexton and Mike Opelka.
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Comments (121)
quickstudy
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:57pmSilly monster its because THEY bake the cookies. Bake your own.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:47pmHe has to Fight Micheal Moore in the street to get Cookies. One of them Little Dang puppets cost an arm and a leg! They should give them away! Sharing means caring,unless you want an Elmo or Cookie Monster doll.
Report Post »Zombee
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:57pmObamaville. “This is what happens when you have a generation that got trophies for losing”.
Occutards Anthem: ‘I Don’t Want To Work! I Want To Bang On The Drum All Day!’
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:05pmObamaville. “This is what happens when you have a generation that got trophies for losing”.
Well said.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:07pmThese cretins are the tools who‘ll be ground up when Barry’s done using them,they don’t even have the mental capacity to comprehend what the end game will look like,bunch of morons.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:41pm“This is what happens when you have a generation that got trophies for losing”.
Wow!! So true Zombee
Silversmith
Report Post »mitchemm
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:57pmWell Zombee, that may or may not be the case. I am successfully employed, and I also think the Wall Street dirt bags need to be held accountable for bundling bad mortgages and selling them across the planet. While we are at, those insider trading dirt bags in D.C. need to be held accountable too.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:00pmYou make a lot of sense for a “Zombie”… Thanks and so true!
Report Post »GodblessGlennBeck
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:11pmMitchemm,
Report Post »You do realize that the whole reason the banks were bundling and issuing those mortgages for people who could not pay for them was due to the Clinton administration’s push for homes for everyone, including those who could not afford them? The banks were pressured to issue those. Believe me, any business hoping to stay afloat would NEVER have issued those loans unless they were FORCED to.
GodblessGlennBeck
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:11pmMitchemm,
Report Post »You do realize that the whole reason the banks were bundling and issuing those mortgages for people who could not pay for them was due to the Clinton administration’s push for homes for everyone, including those who could not afford them? The banks were pressured to issue those. Believe me, any business hoping to stay afloat would NEVER have issued those loans unless they were FORCED to.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:36pmThere appear to be more cops than protestors.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:56pmmitchemm,
Report Post »I contend there would be no need for bundling bad mortgages if the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT had mandated that they give loans to people who didn’t qualify. Further more the people who could afford homes wouldn’t have upgraded from the previous homes and now be in upside down mortgages. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT created the problem. Even less noticeable is the lack of people asking why exactly did the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT bail out these institution so quickly. The answer was to keep the big mortgage firms from using their influences and capital to show AMERICANS THE LEGISLATION THAT CREATED THIS DISASTER thus informing everyone on whose responsible.
someonewhocares
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:00pmSecular lefts.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »Nyle
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:15pm@mitchemm – Most of us believe that the banks should not have been bailed out – BY THE GOVERNMENT and that the housing market shouldn’t have been manipulated to force loans to unqualified individuals – BY THE GOVERNMENT. However, where we apparently completely disagree is that the OWS movement really has anything to do with either of these issues. I don’t think anyone paying attention to the OWS movement really thinks that they are there protesting the failure of GOVERNMENT. All I keep hearing from them is tired old Socialist and Communist rhetoric about the evil rich and a call for more GOVERNMENT. The very GOVERNMENT allowed both of these situations to exist and affect us all so negatively. If you look back through the history of this Country most of the economic woes stem directly from the action of inaction of GOVERNMENT.
To ignore this and call for more GOVERNMENT is not only ignorant, it is very dangerous. If you want to actually increase freedom in this Country then stop calling for an end to economic freedom(capitalism) and start calling for a return to a limited government. Tear down what the Social Progressive have built over the last 100+ years and return to our Founders ideals of the Individual.
Report Post »4blackhorses
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:20pmWhat the hell could we expect? The students of a mentor who was the recepient of a Nobel Peace Prize……. for noting.
Report Post »strgchris
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:31pmI am part of this generation, and I disagree with this movement on so many levels. I took out student loans and am paying them back like any responsible person would. I do not expect nor want handouts. With all of the loan consolidation programs, there is no reason someone can’t pay them back it just ridiculous. I am so sick and tired of hearing about these people blaming banks when they were the ones that took out risky loans and defaulted! It is just mind boggling to me that there are this many people who think like this. Its just scary!
Report Post »TXBadOneToo
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:49amWhat would Ronald Reagan have done? I think we know – just as with the Air Controllers strike he would have closed these Woodstock like camp outs down early. What good has come out of this? Rapes, drugs, thefts, vanalism and now murders?
Report Post »talldarlin
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:07pm@Nyle – Thank you for stating the truth on this mess the goverment has created. The socialist progressives want chaos so they get these useful idiots to do their dirty work.
Report Post »JS Phogbound
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:54amGreat anthem, only problem is the licks are so hot it almost makes me want to join them…
Report Post »maryanne3935
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:36pmthey can’t even put sentences together, professor Frances Fox Piven gives them the words, like parrots. They don’t even know why they are there, for a good time, to get loaded, maybe get an impersonal rape or murder in, defecate on the police cars or streets, stop small business from doing any business and in general acting like the dumb cowards that they are. Would like them to show some real guts and man up to the student loans they took out and get a job. Let people with America’s standards get to work and get their kids to school without these hoodlums harassing them.
Report Post »nobummer12
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:57pmHow much money is being spent on police overtime now? what a waste.
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:28pmyea let bloomberg pay for it
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:02pmHow much is a 50 box of 9MM? $12?
Ya’ know, they could put an end to all this for about $50
Report Post »BobM
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:22pmI say make about 200 dozen chocolate chip cookies with Ex-Lax and pass them out to all these friggin hippies. They‘ll nosh them down like nobody’s business! Then all you have to do is WAIT! When they’re all walking around with their pants full, they’ll go home..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:54pm“The crowd becomes a swarm”
Like locusts or termites
“More people arrive with more signs”
Soros buses arrive
“Cookie Monster Wants Sesame Street Occupied Too!”
Cut all PBS and NPR tax funding!
TEA!
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:28pmThe United State has become a nation of ungovernable people. In fact all the earth is ungovernable.
Is there a solution?
Report Post »Nyle
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:28pmYes, the solution is LESS Government. The more Government you have the more corruption there will be and the more repressed the people will become. America is hardly ungovernable – What America is is irrepressible. We won’t buy the Socialist and Communist rhetoric of those who would rule us like Soros. He couldn’t defeat us with his Nazi buddies in battle so now he spends Billions to try and buy the minds of our children and still he fails as he finds our just how irrepressible a Representative Republic the reveres the Individual, loves God, and rejects the ideals of SLOTH enshrined in the Socialist/Communist dogma.
Go home Bolsheviks and Progressive Socialists – you are free to protest peacefully, when you start to disrupt lawful commerce you are breaking the law. You may own most of the press in this Country but saying you are the 99% when you don’t even reach into the tweens is just sad, sad propaganda.
I won’t move to Russia to read the truth in my papers -
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/27-04-2009/107459-american_capitalism-0/
It is time to boycott completely every media outlet that spins the news to be pro-Socialist/Communist. It is time to boycott every advertiser that advertises using these pro-Socialist/Communist.media outlets.
Report Post »It is time for men of action and wealth to buy back the means to expose injustice and those who would enslave us with the lies of good intentions. Where are you men of action or is the 1% actually owned by the spiri
The Sergeant Major
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:53pmWhat would Big Bird say? It’s time to for everyone to sing “Rainbow Connection”
Report Post »lawrench
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:50pmI find it funny that they claim they are the 99%, but in the NY Metro area, they are less than .000099%. The 99% are the people who work everyday and do not have the time or energy to camp out in parks to protest. These people should be protesting the University system that has indoctrinated them into believing that they “HAVE” to go to college. Then those same universities raise tuition costs every year. Logic will tell you in every culture, you need “Ditch Diggers” and trade school grads. Sending every child to college has forced increased debt on millions of kids and parents, and what ends up happening to most kids after they have $100,000 debt for school loans?
Report Post »LostDog54
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:01pmHigher education = Racket!!!! Academics have made education a business.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:48pmI‘m guessing they didn’t wear “The Blaze” tshirts when they went down there.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:47pmI wonder if Stinky Harry can smell this too?
Report Post »TXBadOneToo
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:57amI druve my truck very proudly with Beck’s sticker with Faith – Hope – Charity on it. Nobody has messed with me – maybe the gunrack helps.
Report Post »Reload
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:44pmI hate a damm smelly dirt hippie.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:50pmDo you hate every iota of a damm smelly dirt hippie?
Report Post »Reload
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:59pmRoflmao @ gonzo!
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:12pmHahahahahahaha!!
Report Post »bassist237
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:44pmI think George Costanza says it best, “WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY PEOPLE”. These people contribute nothing. They wouldn’t last one day doing an ounce of real work in their life, it makes me disgusted and pissed off that people can be that brainwashed and whiny, and go around proclaiming that they are the only ones that think out of the box. How do they think that anything they are doing has any affect on anything? The only thing it is doing, is singling out the people you SHOULDN’T hire, and who are the real drag on our economy.
Report Post »junior1971
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:41pmIt is too bad that these kids are so intentionally misled by this evil regime in the white house, the colleges, the media, and wall street. One can only imagine the power these evil people would have if the gov they control was able to force their will on the people. Convince them wall street and capitalism is the problem. Convince them gov is the answer. Destroy individual liberty. It is a win, win situation for these wicked people. These poor kids dont even know that the same people control both wall street and the gov. Ironic!
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:39pmYawn – - I’m tired of looking at these obama losers – - rioting for obama is sooooooooo yesterday.
Report Post »Alan
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:39pmThe milk and bologna is to be avoided? Now I’m really depressed.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:35pmOk, gotta give props for that last picture of the Cookie Monster. That definitely made me laugh.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:14pmYeah, that was somewhat witty.
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:35pmI liked the Cookie Monster. Clueless but cute.
Report Post »agameofthrones
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:34pmAnd where, oh where, is Mr. Obama today?
Report Post »The Sergeant Major
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:55pmOn the tee box of the 4th hole?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:39pmObummer is in Australia telling a crowd how DUMB US students are…………
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:57pmWaiting for the transcontinental Railroad trip home from“Asia” one of the 57 States!
Report Post »LostDog54
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:34pmIf this really was the 99% wouldn’t it shut down any city they occupy? They are the 1%… Ridiculous
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:59pmIf 10% can turn the tide, then they are only 9% away from success. The coming financial collapse will certainly swell their ranks enough to accomplish their goals. Wer’e getting uncomfortably close to the “fundamental change” he promised.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:09pm@Gonzo we outnumber them by several orders of magnitude, and I don’t know about you sir, but I’m not going to shrug, say ok, and go with the flow if they start with the real mayhem.
Report Post »war7412
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:33pmThe N>Y>P>D> must be getting tired..Bring in the NATIONAL GUARD>>>>>>>>>>What has OBAMA said hm..hm. That’s right he is in another COUNTRY… 2012 is coming……………….
Report Post »PCistheDevil
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:36pmfunny I seen the national guard trianing here in Ohio the other day in the streets. I was wondering what they were training for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdm6rZ9ht8I
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:03pmAre you sure the National Guard hasn’t been infiltrated by the Marxists? You can be sure they are trying to “organize” the military as well as the general public, they have to in order to be successful.
Report Post »4GODUSAANDISRAEL
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:10pmMy husband is in the guard and has said that for about the last 4-6 months they’ve been training for crowd control and dispersment tactics.
Report Post »strongarm6r
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:11pmI’m pretty sure that most of the NY Guard infantry units are in or on their way to Afghanistan. Just had one of my officers transfer from here on the Left Coast to NY to go with them.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:50pmMe thought you were against martial law – now you want it?
Report Post »Founding Father2
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:33pmFunny how they fight the rich and poor divide but they live in it everyday at Zuccotti Park. They have class warfare inside their tent city: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/nov/ows_daily_show.html
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:32pmWhat I saw was more cops and photographers than protesters. Maybe they should have stopped at the bus station to pick up a few more. They could have offered free bologna and peanut butter sandwiches.
Report Post »Geminitis
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:32pmInstead of a shut down the government day, how about lock up the morons day and give the streets and parks back to the silent majority.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:54pmThere is a huge “silent majority”. There are just silent people who don’t care. they are, as you say a majority. This doesn’t “touch” them – and so they are not concerned. 80% of Americans don’t give a damn about anything but themselves – they have a job – they pay their bills – they don’t see the problem. And most of them just think God was too fast with his hurricane – He should have waited a month or two. Maybe He’ll come along with a blizzard.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:31pmIt’s just not funny anymore.
Report Post »These malcontents and miscreants are just the top layer of paint.
The danger lies with the people manipulating these losers….the unions, the communists, the anarchists, the nation of islam…on and on and on , who are trying to destroy us and create their new Order.
And let us not forget that obama, peolosi, reid, biden, schumer et al, and 95% of the media are solidly behind the “movement”.
It’s gonna get even uglier…
Gonzo
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:41pmThey are Obama’s “Civilian Army”. He called for this and it’s happening. This is exactly what a community organizer does.
Report Post »Misbegotten Angel
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:53pmYes; Well said; You got that right! I’m concerned about what will happen next spring/summer …when tempers flare and crime naturally increases in the warmer months; by that time, the organizers will have gotten all the kinks worked out.
Report Post »4GODUSAANDISRAEL
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:13pmInvest in gun and ammunition manufacturers. At my plant several departments actually have salesman of the decade plaques up with Obummer’s picture on them.
Report Post »7of 9
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:30pmThis is the fall of our discontent, the idled minded are hell bent. Seems to me that all these progessive mayors got more than they bargained for. Arres, arrests and then arrest some more. Take all the Occuputzs off the street.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:28pmWhat a bunch of fools.
There is less than 1/4% of this entire movements participants coast to coast that rises above the level of fool. And that 1/4% only rise to the level of moron.
Report Post »PCistheDevil
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:33pmLOL, Thats true. Most are idiots being used by the other useful idiots. This vidio sums up the idiots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdm6rZ9ht8I
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:28pmWhat… the ObamaFDA Milk & Meat… is no good? Yet, they want to shut down the direct offerings of Farms? What a sucky gov’t!
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:04pmI actively trade with an old farmer here in Ohio. He‘s pretty old and can’t hunt anymore, so I get him deer, pheasant, squirrel, and rabbits, and occasionally a bear that wanders into my sights (he loves bear, but I can’t eat it). I also grow a few different things, like cabbage, potato’s, peppers, tomatoes, watermelon etc. He keeps me supplied with fresh beef, bacon, and a variety of crops like corn, green beans, and some other stuff that I don’t grow. 3 times a year we get together and fish Lakes, and 2 times a year we hit the ocean. There’s a Dairy and Poultry farmer we deal with too.
Not a penny transfers hands
Our grocery bill is way less than half as those who go to Kroger, Walmart, or places like that. We gladly avoid the FDA because we treasure words from Thomas Jefferson.
“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.”
We don’t need food regulations. But since the fools in these protests want to be idiots. Feed em the crap of the FDA.
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:36pmI’ve never understood “anarchist-communism”. What a blatant contradiction.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:02pmAnarchists do the assassinations. Communists provide the ammo.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:08pm@Mamma
It’s not a contradiction, in fact it’s the last phase of communism as outline by Karl Marx. The ‘in between’ phase of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” is where it always grinds to a halt in the real world of course, as we’re all aware. In theory, the dictatorship is supposed to be benign (ha!) and to, among other things, help mold the “moral” type communist man who thinks only of the community and never of his own needs. Once that happens the necessity of a government becomes nil, so the government dissolves, having nothing left to do. Keep in mind I’m not endorsing it, just passing information along. And yes, it is silly. Karl Marx’s grasp of human nature is only slightly worse than his grasp on micro and macro economics, which is to say, he was a clueless moron who is celebrated today by people who despise having to provide for themselves (much as he himself despised such things). :)
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