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So How Did it End for the Chicago Protesters Who Dumped Trash at a Bank?

Occupy Chicago

“Occupy Chicago” and similar groups have been materializing in the Windy City. Protesters have been calling for an end to corporate greed and money in politics, demanding their right to have a job, calling for higher pay for teachers while bemoaning a broken education system, protesting Congress (the one in Washington), fulfilling a self-proclaimed “religious imperative,” and other protesters are seemingly just celebrating their right to zone out in a drum-banging, trancelike march:

On Monday, thousands in the “Stand Up Chicago” movement, inspired by but not officially affiliated with Occupy Wall Street, marched in downtown Chicago tying up rush-hour traffic for hours, according to the Chicago Tribune. NBC Chicago reports that “Occupy Chicago” joined community groups and local unions to target financial events throughout the city Tuesday,  including a conference of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Sixteen of the twenty-one protesters arrested by Chicago Police Tuesday were apprehended at the conference according to the Chicago Tribune.

Occupy Chicago

Five other women aged 55 to 80 from the “Action Now” group were also arrested Tuesday, after they took garbage from a foreclosed home owned by Bank of America and dumped it in one of the bank’s branches:

The arrested women were part of 100 protesting outside the Bank of America branch with garbage, the group explained: “Since Bank of America will not go to our neighborhoods and clean up their vacant properties, Action Now members brought the neighborhood to them.”

Police said that both groups of those arrested at the Bank of America branch and at the conference, were facing charges of misdemeanor trespassing.

NBC News spoke with some of  the protesters at a “Take Back Chicago,” event Tuesday, who were taking “Action Against Banks Forcing Renters Out of Their Homes!”:

Occupy Chicago “sit-ins” began September 23 with a march from Willis Tower to the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.

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  • beentheredonethatsoiknow
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:39pm

    I’m not underestimating this movement, but it really only looks like 1/1000th of 1%. They that be with us are more than they that be with them, if you get my drift.

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:36pm

    Why don’t they throw garbage on Barney Frank he set this mess up.

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:53pm

      They aren’t smart enough to figure that out.. I mean you have mindless people repeating everything someone says.. hanging signs around their necks saying Occupy.. Shame!

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    • azjoannie
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:18am

      I cry for what is happening to our people. They are now brainwashed, dead, zombies – which is what they worship. So sad

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    • nocalifornia
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:22am

      There only doing what Soros told them to do!

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    • artistskeptic
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:24am

      Look at them !! Immature, snotty-nosed, spoiled kids brain washed by liberal accademia, what else could you expect. Makes me very fearful of the world my grandchildren will be doomed to.

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:37am

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_2J1Luyi24 why do OCCUPY CHI protesters support palistine so much… i mean a 40×15 flag….. and very few US flags… go home bums

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    • stifroc
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:56am

      I think the tea party should drop a couple thousand rattle snakes on the congress steps. We could get away with it if we spray paint “Don’t tread on me, we’re the 99%” and then follow it up with smokin pot, getting drunk, and acting like mindless zombies.

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 2:16am

      It was true then it’s still true now!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=SkzV5AIK8iM

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    • Wabbitseason
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 2:57am

      Former Obama voters….or non-voters…

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    • mad_hatter
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 3:32am

      It is now open season on all Democrats for their pushing and exciting of violence of those protesting: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/open_ows_democrats.html

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 4:53am

      Look at the Nazi Police State Thugs protecting the Robber Barons from the people.

      Who do they work for again?

      Oh yea, they work to serve and protect the robbers from the people, paid for with the people’s tax dollars.

      Happy Serf Day!

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    • SLEUTH
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 5:53am

      GYPSY123, there are too stupid. they dont even know as to why they are there. there are many different groups protesting different issues.

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    • UrbanCombatSurvivor
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 7:09am

      Because Masta Barney gives em they’z free check.

      They live on the Liberal Plantation, and Barney is one of their overseers

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    • wethepeoplepress
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:16am

      Patriots who live near the OWS protests, go find a magic shop in your local area and with cash purchase some stink bombs. Cut a whole in your pocket and let one slip down at a time to the ground as you walk through the crowd. The zombies will find the mark and step on the foul smelling stink bombs. Let them embrace the potent stench of what they have become, rotton eggs.

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    • AZindependent
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:24am

      We all live and work on the “plantation”, and it is run by the master banksters. The politicians are just the “house ni**ers”. You are either a debt slave or a tax slave or little of both. The only way to try to free yourself in this perverted system is to be debt free and pay no income taxes. We are all renters too, since everyone who owns property must pay property taxes. Go to youtube and search “Money Masters”, you will get an education, and you will feel the urge to join the protesters down at your local “Federal” “Reserve” “Bank”.

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    • DanWesson455
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:32am

      Chris Dodd got the sweetheart home loan from Countrywide. They could have dumped it on his house. DIP WADS!

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:59am

      These Obama voters are too stupid to know what led up to the economy crash in 2008 and who was involved. As far as they know, their messiah tells them it‘s Bush’s fault and they miserably go on with their day.

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    • atechgeek
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:30am

      These kids are uneducated fools. Read your parents history books !!!!

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    • Simple Skeptic
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:34am

      @AZINDEPENDENT
      The difference is that debt is an individual choice, taxes unfortunately is a collective choice. Does anyone trust these people to help make tax decisions? Most of them pay no taxes so of course they’d call for more.

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    • proudinfidel54
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:21am

      As I watch these drone zombies walk by I half expect them to start chanting “Imhotep…Imhotep…Imhotep”(The Mummy Returns)…lol

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:28am

      That’s all this “occupancy” seems to know is garbage, filth, feces, urine…..

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    • M1A2_Tanker
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 5:46pm

      Here is proof people are being paid to protest. http://proxyprotester.tumblr.com/

      http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Quitmeyer/100000603354425#!/people/Andrew-Quitmeyer/100000603354425?sk=wall

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    • Americanius
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:25am

      Oh, is that what that first picture is about? I thought it was another free housing sign up day.

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  • TexasKnight
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:28pm

    I hope bank of america sues the heck out of them.
    Each and every one of them. Then use the Rico act to take everything they have.

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    • joe conservative
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:43pm

      You are the first I have heard that mentions the RICO act. I couldn’t agree more. If this doesn’t meet the RICO criteria, I don’t know what does. As most who follow Glenn know, this has been organized a long time ago by the SEIU and other groups from the far left. Interesting how they marched right by the Soros empire on the way to the 5 private homes they marched on yesterday. Great point. These people are such hypocrites as evidenced by “A Day in the Life” video.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jvMojZc_bE

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:08am

      How could the RICO act be used in this instance ? Please explain further if you have time.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:49am

      As much as I deplore these mindless drone “protesters”, I have no sympathy for the Bank of America that was among the first to belly up to the bar and soak up all the TARP cash they could get their hands on, all the while rushing through foreclosure paperwork in ways that were not even LEGAL so they could get their grubby paws on as much real estate as possible.

      Bank of America is not a very good representative of true capitalism, as they sure bought into the “welfare state” fast enough while they were lining their pockets with {our} cash because they were among those annointed by Obama as people who supported his election . . . er, I mean who were “too big to fail”.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 6:53am

      Isn’t Bank of America the one who was accused of giving bank accounts and credit cards to illegal aliens? they don’t require a social security number to open an account.

       
    • Gonzo
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:26am

      loriann12
      It‘s not Bank of America’s job to enforce U.S. immigration laws, it’s the Federal Governments. It‘s a bank’s (and any other business’) job to make money. If a business is caught gaming the system then they should be prosecuted but, it’s unfair to put the burden of border control on private business.

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  • independentvoteril
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:20pm

    I realize people are mad.. heck everyone is taking a hit in this economy however to act like PIGS only makes THEM not the BANKS look bad..and no these aren’t very big protests for a large city.. MOST of them don’t even LIVE in the state they were brought in by UNIONS and community organizers AND are being paid.. it’s a SCAM ..

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  • tkelly33
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:18pm

    I volunteer to man the water cannon in any Occupy city to give these people the bath they are so desperately are in need of!! After their bath, I volunteer to douse them with the fragrant aroma of pepper spray and then provide them with free jewelry – plastic zip tie wristbands.

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  • eramthgin
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:06pm

    Just wait for winter it will be all over. These are not the types that would endure a winter for thier ideas. Unlike the troops at Valley Forge.

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    • jackbauer
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:00am

      The sheep may return to the barn for the winter but spring will come soon enough. The shepherds plot where the sheep will summer pasture, as we speak. God help us!
      You can’t reason with sheep. They wander aimlessly. They will follow themselves over a cliff on a whim! These sheep are not your average sheep though. They have told us as much. Remember the statement they made in their propaganda, “We are Legion.” They either have blind leaders or leaders who recognize from which this comes. Either way it is what it is.
      Sheepdogs get ready! Get out your compass (Bible) and prepare (pray).

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  • B4REALITY
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:49pm

    Wow – did you know … the CONGRESS passed laws, can you imagine, that FORCED the banks to give mortgage loans (starting in 1994) to individuals that couldn’t pay the money back. The congress was actually DEMANDING banks to provide loans to indigents – even people on welfare could get a home loan! Imagine that – no job, but people could get loans for houses because they “lived” in a certain area. This is what caused the bank (TARP) trouble. Sounds like the government is trying to cover up it’s error – and these people are blaming the wrong people! It was called The Community Reinvestment Act.

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    • MontanaRob
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:11pm

      Yes, some of us have known that for years. It is the real reason for the collapse.

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    • Ex-Democrat
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:15pm

      It goes back even further than that. The Community Reinvestment Act was a created and passed under Jimmy Carter in 1977. You seem to be referring to Bill Clinton who ratcheted the CRA up into hyperdrive, forcing banks to issue more and more unsustainable loans under the CRA and threatening the banks with fines and jail if they didn’t comply.

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    • bmwrider
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:23pm

      You do realize that most subprime loans were made by non-regulated mortgage companies rather than banks? Oh well, never let facts get in the way of a good rant.

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 2:26am

      bmwrider
      Ex-Democrat
      MontanaRob
      B4REALITY

      Come on! Don‘t you know these Marching flea bagers haven’t a clue as to historical evidence as to what, who, when, why and how the collapse started. Stop spewing the truth otherwise you’ll be called racist bigots who support the system.

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  • Van Bones
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:47pm

    I was trying to think of some use for these people, so far the only thing I can think of is speed bumps. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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    • What_Did_I_Miss
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:54pm

      Bio-degradable speed bumps! How Green of you.

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    • Delaware Patriot
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:58pm

      Fertilizer?

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    • Mohawk1773
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:59pm

      Come on now… we have enough threat of Soylent Green with Obamacare. These people are just confused by lying government and a complicit media.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:07am

      Bullet catchers…would save paper. See, I am eco-friendly

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  • JQCitizen
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:45pm

    Well the young man who thinks he is paying too much for his education is certainly right.

    If what he is getting is indeed an education, IT DEFINITELY IS NOT WORKING!!!

    On the other hand maybe this is proof that sometimes you DON’T GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!

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    • rth1145
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:16pm

      love your Post.

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    • Mohawk1773
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:11am

      It’s a Marxist based education and should be free by that standard. The government should absolve all of their reeducation debt and force objective standards on colleges and universities, and end the Progressive Brain Trust.

      No more Women’s Studies, African American Studies, Blah Blah Studies… Multiculturalism is Segregation by another name.

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  • Rightsofman
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:42pm

    When they get bored and go home it would be nice if the Hollywood/ Democrat Occupy endorsers (espcially N. Pelosi) volunteer to pay for cleaning up the mess. Hey it will be a real shovel ready job!

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:39pm

    Beck, please, talk about how tiny most of these protests are. They have to concentrate on major cities, because there just aren’t enough people to make huge enough crowds in most towns and cities — and thousands? That isn’t much, for Chicago. I know you’re the ultimate sharp-seeing nailbiting alarmist, and lots of paranoids hang out here, and that’s why I post here. To calm people.

    Don’t make people hysterical because you feel hysterical.

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    • Cosmos102
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:46pm

      Rush Limbaugh has taken that bull by the horns…assuring people that the protests are small in number and that the MSM is trying to make it seem larger than it really is.

      Never have liked the way Beck love to proselytize gloom and doom.

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 2:30am

      I live in a small town and this guy with a sign strapped to his back beating a drum with one hand and holding a bull horn with the other all the time running in circles yelling down with wall street we’re 10,000 strong!

      Nahhh I’m lying but I thought the vision in my head was funny enough.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:26am

      Cosmos102

      What is needed is to sum up the total number of protesters & relate that to the total number citizens

      # protesters / # of U.S. citizens. x%

      These people were always working against us.
      - In how they answered opinion polls
      - In who they voted for
      - In who the donated money too.

      They are just more vocal now & maybe somewhat more organized.

      We need to be more vocal, better organized & vote.

      We also need to talk to some of them. We cannot persuade them all but if we persuade 10% it would start having a good effect for us & a deleterious one for the left.

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  • Carl1 Supports Israel
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:24pm

    Brainwashed idiots!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:17pm

    One guy said he was paying too much for education. Well, I would agree with that. However, what has that got to do with Wall Street? Why not protest in front of the Universities who are charging huge amounts for your education? These people are targeting the wrong people. How about also targeting the Obama administration for not providing an atmosphere whereby people will go out and create jobs and protest in front of the White House where the occupant has crowned himself King?

    And if there are CEOs who need to be prosecuted, like the CEOs of Fannie and Freddie, how about protesting outside their homes?

    Some of these people have legitimate beefs but they are protesting the wrong people.

    Get a clue guys and start targeting the right people. Those responsible for the mess America is in. Not those who are succeeding and creating the jobs!

    It seems to me that these people do not understand that this Obama administration is to blame for not putting the right CEOs on the chopping block. They actually bailed them out! People like the CEOs for Fannie and Freddie went scot free!

    And if you’re going to target the billionaires, what about Al Gore and George Soros and Bill Clinton and all the rest of the thugs that have gotten rich off exploiting others? I suppose you don’t see them as the parasites.

    They are the 99%? They are the loud 3% maybe. The rest of us are doing the hard work. Get out and create a job for goodness sake. And quit your whining.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:50pm

      He obviously did pay to much for education because it certainly didn’t make him intelligent. Unless he took a course on showing his A$$. I hope his parents didn’t waste their money on his schooling. It seems he has no appreciation for living in a country where education is possible, and that opportunity isn’t high on his priority list. Ummm, I think that at the time of registering he had to sign the papers agreeing to the terms of the loan. Last time I checked there were no goons at the universities holding guns to students heads forcing them to sign. Wonder how he feels about his portion of debt that he is responsible for thanks to Obama. And he is protesting Wall St instead of the White House? He needs to get rid of his laptop, cell phone, ipad, blackberry and all the other technology that he can’t live without . If people did not purcase these products these big rich companies would not exist.

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  • 82dAirborne
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:05pm

    I’ve given this “occupy” thing a lot of thought…… Maybe Roseanne Barr had something when she called for the return of the guillotine. Just sayin’…………………..

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:02pm

    Shove will soon turn to shoot, how soon until the blood is spilt and the nation fully ignites?

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  • paulusmaximus
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:55pm

    Pray for rain! :)

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    • Goldenfoxxx
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:01pm

      The lady carrying the sign “Honk if you are in debt.” How did she get into debt? Why should we the taxpayer give anyone anything who got into debt on their own? Did they buy a house they couldn’t
      afford, or a car that they couldn’t pay for? I’m not in debt, paid it all off – I was being responsible. These protesters don’t know what being responsible is all about, they would rather leech off of others.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:14pm

      I’m a fan of ice storms myself. But that’s just me…….

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  • piper60
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:55pm

    Now we know from hence the occupier of the oval office gets his politics.

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  • TheLadyJ49
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:55pm

    What has happened to personal responsibility?? Why blame the banks for the trash left in the homes by the people that lost the houses?? Sure the banks were greedy, but weren’t the buyers foolish for taking out loans to buy the houses that they really could not afford??

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  • GoingBeck
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:37pm

    I’d like to call the illegal Occupiers sub-human, but even felines know to clean themselves and bury their feces, and they earn their keep by being good mousers. So, I‘ll have to settle for calling the illegal Occupiers ’sub-feline’.

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:28pm

    The more I see of these protesters, the more I KNOW their head is filled with things a dog would not eat and a cat would want to cover up. Some where in their past life some Union teacher must of filled their head cavity with buzzard vomit and/or HOG SNOT.

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  • Whitey4West
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:25pm

    hey dumba$$es….you don’t pay your bills, you don’t keep your stuff. It‘s a simple concept that’s been around for a while now.
    These people act as though banks just kick these poor innocent people out for no reason.

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  • wisehiney
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:24pm

    You raised em Chi town. Enjoy em.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:22pm

    Chicago is Communist Central! If you are a Leftist, get out of there!

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  • demint.disciple
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:21pm

    Ok ok did you get your attention fix for today ? Now whats on the agenda for in the AM ? Riding skateboards on the public sidewalks of Citicorp ?

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  • CottonMPG
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:20pm

    I think I’ve figured out what the “occupiers” want!!! They want to make everything and everyone as smelly and dirty as they are. Err…maybe they just like to litter and don’t like to bathe. Oh well, I guess we will never know what they want.

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    • Darla_K
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 9:10am

      I don’t think they know what they want either.

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