‘Trespassers’: Occupy Wall St. Protesters Begin Taking Over Foreclosed Homes
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Police officers stand guard during a tour of foreclosed homes by Occupy Wall Street activist in the East New York neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
SEATTLE (The Blaze/AP) — The Occupy Wall Street protests are moving into the neighborhood. Finding it increasingly difficult to camp in public spaces, Occupy protesters across the country are reclaiming foreclosed homes and boarded-up properties, signaling a tactical shift for the movement against wealth inequality.
Groups in more than 25 cities held protests Tuesday on behalf of homeowners facing evictions.
In Atlanta, protesters held a boisterous rally at a county courthouse and used whistles and sirens to disrupt an auction of seized houses. In New York, they marched through a residential neighborhood in Brooklyn carrying signs that read “Foreclose on banks, not people.” Southern California protesters rallied around a family of six that reclaimed the home they lost six months ago in foreclosure.
See the Brooklyn march, below:
“It’s pretty clear that the fight is against the banks, and the Occupy movement is about occupying spaces. So occupying a space that should belong to homeowners but belongs to the banks seems like the logical next step for the Occupy movement,” said Jeff Ordower, one of the organizers of Occupy Homes.
The events reflect the protesters‘ lingering frustration over the housing crisis that has sent millions of homes into foreclosure after the burst of the housing bubble that helped cripple the country’s economy. Nearly a quarter of all U.S. homeowners with mortgages are now underwater, representing nearly 11 million homes, according to CoreLogic, a real estate research firm.
Protesters say that banks and financial firms own abandoned foreclosed houses that could be housing people.
Seattle has become a leader in the anti-foreclosure movement as protesters took over a formerly boarded-up duplex last month. They painted the bare wood sidings with green, black and red paint, and strung up a banner that says “Occupy Everything – No Banks No Landlords.”
While arrests have already been made in a couple of squatting cases in Seattle and Portland, it remains to be seen how authorities will react to this latest tactic.
In Portland, police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson said he’s aware that the movement called for people to occupy foreclosed homes, but said it’s difficult to distinguish between the people who would squat in homes as a political statement and those that do it for shelter.
“The vacant property issue is of concern in cities nationwide,” Simpson said. “We’ll treat them all as trespassers.”
In Seattle, protesters took over a boarded-up warehouse slated for demolition last weekend. In an announcement, the protesters said they planned to make the warehouse into a community center, and hosted a party the night they opened the building. Police moved in soon after, arresting 16 people in the process of clearing it out.
Seattle police spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb said his department sees squatting in private properties as the same violation of trespassing Occupy Seattle made when it camped in a downtown park.
“It’s no different than when people were trespassing (in the park),” Whitcomb said. “We went nights and days, letting people camp in the park. We relied on education and outreach, rather than enforcing the law to the letter.”
Atlanta protesters took a more aggressive approach in trying to disrupt the home auction. The auction went on but the whistles and sirens made it difficult for the auctioneers to communicate, said Occupy Atlanta spokesman Tim Franzen.
“We don’t know how many homes we saved for one more month during the holiday season,” he said. “It was kind of a Christmas gift to the people.”
In Riverside, Calif., Art de los Santos arrived in a U-Haul with assorted furniture and about three dozen supporters at his former three-bedroom, three bathroom home. He broke the lock and moved back in.
Reclaiming his old home is his last resort to get the attention of bank JP Morgan Chase after he applied three times for a loan modification to no avail.
“I’m getting down to my last option,” he said. “Nothing seems to work. Maybe if I protest, it’ll get their attention.”
The home, which was foreclosed on, is sitting empty while he, his wife and four children, aged 11 to 7, are squeezed into an Orange County rental apartment. He’s also renting a storage unit.
“It’s sad because you have all these memories there,” said the 46-year-old. “My kids were running around the neighborhood on their bikes. It’s a nice little community.”
Tom Kelly, spokesman for JPMorganChase, had no immediate knowledge of de los Santos’ case and could not comment, but noted that he is trespassing.
New York protesters introduced members of a homeless family at the end of their rally and said they plan renovate and clean up the house so the family can live in a house they said had been abandoned by a bank.
In Portland, a press conference was held at the home of a woman facing foreclosure next March. She vowed to stay in her house until authorities take her out.
“We belong here,” said Deb Austin, who said she fell behind in payments after a cancer diagnosis and after her husband lost her second job. “And we’re not leaving.”
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raderby
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:09amSTEVEN LERNER- SEIU plan from early 2011. ACORN. Same crap, same crappy ways.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 1:18pmExactly Raderby—and while I think the banks are jacking around when it comes to short sales (I am in real estate) and in some cases making it impossible for some to get up to speed, the bottom line is these houses aren’t free, which is what the occupiers want. Thank Barney Cant Win Again Frank for forcing banks to give loans to people who could NOT pay them back.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 1:32pmGee. I wonder how those ‘homes’ came to be?
Do you suppose that someone built them? Why aren’t these people doing that? You know, working?
America has to stop carrying the dead weight. We have to.
Idiots, morons and the intellectually challenged, such as those defined by the OWS movement are a social burden. They are a personal burden. They are a civic burden. They are a resource burden. It’s time to cut the losses and dramatically reduce (cut) welfare, food stamps and other forms of “social” welfare.
While ‘charity’ is a large part of the American culture, socialism is not. The OWS groups have shed new light, thank you, on the intellectually dishonest argument that society should carry the weak ad infinitum.
Sorry. Too lazy or too stupid to exist? Well Darwin had a term for that. Remember? You insisted that Darwin was right. It’s called: Survival of The Fittest. Natures way of culling the stupid, weak and incapable.
Now, don’t try to tell me that we are all human and should love one another. Because you also taught us that a boy is a fish is a dog is a horse is a tree is a bush. And if that perspective is true then your existence is really just a coincidence and meaningless in the over all big picture of humanist existentialism.
It’s time we feed these clowns their own medicine until it hurts.
Report Post »TimH
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 3:41pmExodus 20:15, “Thou shall not steal.” This is simple stuff.
Exodus 20:17, “Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s house.” Excuse me, but nowhere does it matter who owns your neighbor’s house.
Who ever is willing to disregard God’s law, what value is man’s law. Or, “we don’t need no stinking law.”
http://www.BornAgainHeathens.com
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:44pmNeed a laugh ???? I did! Watch this….
http://99percentnorthpole.com/
Report Post »Nyle
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:03pmYes and yes. Now that they are trespassing I hope the system throws the book at them. The longer this goes on the more we see the true colors of the left.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:39pmMalingerers. Professional malingerers. Kudos for the NEA here too-your end product is on display here too.
Report Post »Tea Party Animal
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:54amCarolyn has lived in the house for 50 years and her father built it….but still has a mortgage? Gee, sounds like someone has been taking out home equity loans? Did she complain when the bank put the CASH into her bank account from the equity loan? Bet not!
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:03amExactly, people are stupid as hell, if you have a loan against your house after 50 years you are not a responsible human being.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:13amLiar, there is no such thing as predatory lending. Stupid, you are in a home for 50 years and have a mortgage. Liar, you miss a payment for one month and you are in foreclosure. Can’s fix the stupids in this world, Can’t trust the liars in the world either.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:26amI am getting upset. I keep reading this B.S. One year before election Socialist Media had these fools on programs telling how bad the economy was. They were bashing President Bush, and it was all Bush’s fault. These animals are so stupid. Why aren’t they on the Whitehouse lawn protesting their messiah? Finally someone was going to pay for their gas. They would not have to worry about their rent. How is that hope and change working?
Report Post »IndianaJan
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:34amTotally agree!! There is no way this story is what it is. We have struggled through hard times, but have 100% work ethic, individual responsibility, and pride in our selves and our lives. These “intitlement community” people must learn the hard way to play by the rules, like the rest of us. No one bailed us out either, and we are not part of “affirmative” anything. Cry me a river.
Report Post »PS: There are a couple of forclosed homes in our area, but if the “Occupy” mob shows up, they are not going to get the Welcome Wagon.
rose-ellen
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:36amYour Tea party is dead. OWS will prevail in the 21st c america and like europe will recognize the right to a home, food, medical care and a job or living wafe as human rights befitting an technologically advanced society of 350million people. You right wing hypercapitalists are the last remnant of laissez faire calvinist puritanical dog eat dog -pull yourselves up by your own boot straps -if you’re rich you muist be good american mindset. AAn enlightened european style entitlement democracy will be the norm here too in the future. And you die hards will catch on -like you have regarding other social issues. Long live OWS -all debts should be forgiven in the housing market-if you’re in it you own it and if you rent ,your rent should be cut in half to reset the corrupt housing market.Bail out the people like you did the unethical hedgefund derivitive speculators which deregulation of baanks allowed thanks to your greedy manipulated right wing policies.Equality of outcome IS part of a just society in so far that everyone needs a home, medical careand job or living wage. Long live the peoples’s century where socialist/capitalist hybrid and a parliamentary democracy will finally arrive in america too.
KickinBack
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:48amYou know the world is coming to an end soon when rose-ellen begins using spaces in between sentences, making the posts about .099% easier to read.
Report Post »Matrix22
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:58amThe problem with people like Rose here is that someone might actually listen to her and be stupid enough to agree. As a struggling land lord of a rental property, if you cut my rent in half, not only would I default on the mortgage for that home, it would probably make it extremely difficult to pay my mortgage as well! I’d default on 2 loans, and unlike you parasite libs, I wouldn’t ask the bank to forgive my loan. I signed on the dotted line knowing full well the risks. And why on EARTH would you want to be anything like EUROPE! Are you insane?! Are you not seeing what’s going on in Greece, Spain, Italy, etc.!
Get a job and stop encouraging people to be lazy.
Report Post »RightyTightyLeftyLoosey
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:05amBwahahaha!
Nice one, Kickinback!
Report Post »Unix
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:07amLookit, some of these foreclosures are due to people losing jobs, sure, but the vast majority were the NINJA idiots, who had no business getting loans in the first place…unions, aclu, naacp and yes our own govt coerced banks to make these bad loans, by threathening them with picketing boycots, and futher regulation…then they took out CDO’s, etc to cover these obviously bad loans as a hedge, now we are all in deep dodo…thanks to the liberal freak show in this country, we have now paved the road to hell with good intentions…what morons…hey there were some RINO’s in the mix too – get rid of them ALL (progressives), they are communists in sheeps clothing.
Viva TEA
Report Post »God Bless America (all 57 states)
atechgeek
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:07amROSE-ELLEN : The OWS 99% is a media lie. Socialism has been tried and has failed. If this type of socialism comes here, it will be at the cost of a lot of lives and blood shed. It’s the losers who make up the OWS movement.
Those who can’t do .. teach .. those who can’t even teach .. occupy.
Report Post »Hire a conservative and fire a liberal.
rifradio
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:26amRose-Ellen: Tell the truth. You’re posting this from one of the OWS tents, correct? That could be the only explanation. So here’s one for you to think about and for America; throw everyone out that wasn’t elected in the last mid-terms and replace them. It’s the only way to clean house.
Report Post »Cynic-clinic
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:27am@ROSE-ELLEN: Hey hun, you don’t have to wait for all your Communist dreams to come true: Free home, free of debts, great job, guaranteed wage, free medical care–no prob. Take your pick of your new, glorious world in Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela or maybe Siberia. Choose Cuba if you don’t like cold winters. Stick it out and check back once in a while to see if the US has become utopia yet. but do GTFO of the US.
Report Post »donnyb
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:31amRose-Ellen
If we…
“recognize the right to a home, food, medical
care … human rights” ??
If those are “human rights” Wouldn’t it be pointless to have a job since people that work,
work for the very things you claim to be rights?
Are you advocating Communism? I’m no expert but I understand that under Communist rule
Report Post »We all work where we are told to work then all necessities
“home, food, medical care” are distributed equally to all. Is that what you
are advocating?
Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:36amThis is MORONIC!!! WTF??? How can they make a story about a woman who has had a mortgage for 50 years. We’re talking about not pay off your home for 50 years, nobody is going to ask the simple question as to why this moron has been paying on a home for 50 years?
Why don’t we all just go buy homes and then never pay for them, ma’am! Where do you draw the line? Did anyone in your family ever think it might be a good idea to actually pay off your home in the 50 years you’ve been living in it rather than take out another loan to buy whatever you wanted?
Did you not agree that you would pay your loans off. Did you not understand that when someone gives you money and you say you are going to pay it back that you in fact, pay it back????
Report Post »Unix
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:38amROFLMAO – hey rose-ellen, you cross-eyed amoeba, leftist lemming, when we boot all of your liberals and progressives out of office come 2012, you will be crying a rivah, but no one will care much. You freeloading, tree hugging, communists are going DOWN!!!! Take that to your bank and cash it. Then go to huff&puff compost with your drivil…
Report Post »Unix
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:41amoh BTW way rose-ellen, just open your eyes for just one minute and look to the EU, it is on FIRE, and you think that is success? Man, you are crazier than I thought, and you are a dumb bunny, now hop along to your burrow, daddy rabbit wants you to pump out more bunnies for the welfare check.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:51amRoss-Ellen
Report Post »You propose a parliamentary system in which only the majority gets a say instead of a republican in which minority views are protected. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about economics knows that forcible lowering the rent on housing and apartments would FORCE landlords to close down said properties because it’ll cost them more to maintain the property/pay of the mortgage than they could ever make off of rent. Look up Price Ceiling. It is one of the most destructive economic policies in history next to the Price Floor. Incidentally you also propose a “living wage” which generally is a price floor that forces employers to hire fewer workers at higher wages. So in essence you support the two of the most destructive economic policies ever conceptualized.
InversionTheory
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:21amRose-Ellen
How do you guarantee outcomes? I have never played an instrument. Should I be able to demand a sold out concert? Everyone should, if all outcomes are equal.
If I have the same guarantee of outcome whether I sit on my butt or work that butt off… Why bother to do the work? The only people who would still work are the people who are passionate about what they do. I‘m doubting people at McDonald’s will be showing up. I know I only do my job because of the rewards I get. And I bust my BUTT to do it for $17/hour and in hopes of proving myself EVEN more valuable in the future so they give me a raise. I won’t be working hard, if at all, if I get no more and no less than someone who sits back and collects.
If you get what you want, I’ll go Galt…Well… Maybe I’ll go Ragnar Danneskjöld instead. Steal from the useless to bring your system down as soon as possible.
Report Post »InversionTheory
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:26am@Tzion
I always loved the living wage nonsense. Though the trainwreck would be immediate… I‘ve always been willing to prove they’re morons by proposing the minimum wage be hiked to $50,000,000/hour. By their theory, it should GUARANTEE that everyone joins the 1%, but reality doesn’t work that way.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:28amWhat happens when you mix ACORN with Occupy you get eminent domain. These people have the same mind set as teacher unions and government employees there just to lazy to get a job.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:31amHey I got caught up in all the stupidity myself, did a debt consolidation folded into my mortgage, took out an equity line, now my home is about 1/3 less then what I owe…
I made this mess and I’m getting out of it on my own, I’m struggling here and there sometimes to make the mortgage payments, but I’ve sold some personal assets and luxury items to cover the bills, I’ve set the temp on the house lower then normal to bring my heating costs down, I make sure lights are turned off, I‘ve paid off my 2 cars so that I don’t have those bills to worry about and since I need a car and my wife needs one and public transportation is not feasible where we are, those had to stay. I’ve paid off my credit cards and I only spend what I have in the bank. I’ve tried to work with the mortgage comp, they refi‘d me for 3 years at a lower rate and I’m going to apply again to see if they’ll extend me for a while longer, but I’m making the sacrifices and paying my OBLIGATIONS that I got into of my own accord, the bank didn’t hold a gun to my head and make me sign anything, I knew what I was doing, but thought rosier times were ahead and for that I was stupid for not planning for the worst just in case, I’ve learned my lesson, and I’m painfully relearning it each month, but I WILL make my obligations and I will pay my debt and bills.
Report Post »LeadMetalGuitarist
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:47amHey there Rose-Ellen, let me just show you how stupid you really sound right now…
Report Post »Rose-Ellen: Your Tea party is dead (are you so sure of that? the tea partiers have not gone away, I am one PROUDLY I might add)
Rose-Ellen: [...] the right to a home, food, medical care and a job or living wage [...] (you have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As far as a home, food, medical care, a job/living wages go, you have the right to PURSUE those goals, to have the gov. provide them is to have the gov. be bankrupt forever)
Rose-Ellen: You right wing hypercapitalists [...think] if you’re rich you must be good american mindset (I am definitely not rich, I am struggling like alot of good people are, the posibility and journey of becomming rich is the American dream, we do have something called EXCEPTIONALISM)
Rose-Ellen: [...] entitlement democracy will be the norm here too [...] (Europe is doing TERRIBLY! Do some research! I fear for this nation)
Rose-Ellen: [...] debts should be forgiven [...] if you’re in it you own it [...] (When you buy a house, you borrow money from a bank, therefore the bank owns it, as for rent the owner has to charge to offset expenses)
Rose-Ellen: Bail out people like you did the [...] banks [...] (simply not possible, bankruptcy inevitable)
Rose-Ellen: [...] everyone needs a home [ect] (nothing can be 100% free, if so death of freedom would happen)
Rose-Ellen: [... socialist america will happen] (If so, We are as good as dead
JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 12:33pmFinally, excellent point! WTG! Long live the Tea Party!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 12:43pmKOYETTSU .. I am not condoning what these people are doing but please… have you ever heard of re mortgaging your home for remodels.. repairs.. 50 years is a longtime to not do anything to a home.. tell me if 50 years in a home don’t you think it would be irresponsible not to do either, repairs or remodels.. Try living in a house that was decorated 50 years ago..I am not saying thats what they did, but when my husband and I bought our house 3 years ago we paid cash.. the kitchen was probably a 1940 design which we knew we would have to remodel, then we had to replace the roof, even though we had been told it had been repaired we were lied to.. then we discovered some bad windows.. and then we had a new mortgage.. its not what we wanted, but its life.. God help us!
Report Post »wtfhappend
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 1:02pmYep I bet there is a Cadi on 20inch rims in the front.
Report Post »Ortho
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 1:26pmRose Ellen – You along with everyone who believes like you are lazy, opportunitistic, idiots. No one owes you anything, not now , not ever. I can not wait to see the day when the money is gone and people like you are forced to finally take responsiblity for yourself.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 2:04pm@ run on Ellen.
Report Post »Piss off already. You sound like a raised on the dole lefty Brit crying about austerity you caused. Liberia is real nice this time of year. It is pretty scary that morons like you actually put a few sentences together and get 1% of the morons to listen. As you spout your text book new wave hybrid poop consider your need for myriad fools like yourself to take the brunt of your misguided political leanings. You dyed in the wool socialist are actually getting real close to fighting words. Merry Christmas troll.
Not here-keep that crap in Europe.
SoupSandwich
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 2:06pmShe probably teaches math and economics at the local high school. How could you question her financial position?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 2:37pm@RoseEllen
Report Post »If you really believe the crap you are spouting, then how about you send me half of what you earn? Let’s just cut out the middle-man government. Somehow, I get the feeling you didn’t “earn” all that you have, that it came from someone else’s hard work. I am 1/2 European and even my aunts are wise to the BS socialism that is Europe. They would much rather remain here in the US, where they get to keep what they earn, earn as much as they want, and, so far, don’t have to put up with muslim apologist, socialists such as yourself.
CHIEFSMOKE
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 3:59pmTO: ROSE-ELLEN
The red diapers are full of excrement and are spilling over into the cradle of freedom.
Report Post »Lady Liberty is being domestically abused and can no longer clean the soiled babies.
The Father of Right Authority shall soon step in – then the real crying begins!
You’ll see biting and scratching, for sure. The babies shall suffer rashes and chafing. When the tantrum is broken up and the score is settled – the miscreants shall be in the long Time Out; the adults shall be in charge!
CHIEFSMOKE
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:09pmTo: ROSE-ELLEN,
The red diapers are full of excrement and are spilling over into the cradle of freedom.
Report Post »Lady Liberty is being domestically abused and can no longer clean the soiled babies.
The Father of Right Authority shall soon step in – then the real crying begins!
You’ll see biting and scratching, for sure. The babies shall suffer rashes and chafing. When the tantrum is broken up and the score is settled – the miscreants shall be in the long Time Out; the adults shall be in charge!
fatjack
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:57pmrosie dear, come lay down by my side, until the early morning dawn, then get your ash out of bed and get a job and learn how to earn a day‘s wage or don’t come back home.
No rosie dear we are not all equal, what gives to the right to demand equal pay. Oh well go and sleep in the alley with your equals.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:53amSee what happens when you allow “occupy” to become a household word ? This is exactly why the Democrats are using that human- mic/ repeat the Lie tactic… “We are the 99 %” Big Lie is still being yelled and it is totally untrue..
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:57amThis is the generation of children , who got a trophy when they lost…. And theyre still losers !!!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:37amAll mortgages should be forgiven.That includes the landlord who is charging someone for rent. And all rents should be cut in half. Start the whole housing market from scratch and recognize that a home is a right in our 21stc society. That is progress and one day even you puritanical laisez faire capitalists will recognize-or your children or grandchildren will. You’re on the wrong side of enlightened values-barbaric in your own way even as you demean the fundamentalist muslims for being backward. One day you’ll catch up with enlightened european values just like one day the muslims will catch up with more western values too. I’m not in a OWS place, yet this is something I’ve dreamed about for years.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:50amdamn rose-ellen, you are a idiot of great magnitude, it will be a priviledge and an honor to see you cry and moan, when we turn the spiggot off from you welfare cheats…then when you revolt, it will be my duty and honor to put you all down for good!
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:02amRoss-ellen
Report Post »Start from scratch huh? In that case lets burn every home to ground and every man must now build his home by the labor of his own hands. The lazy people may even hire the hard workers to build their house for them and we’ll be capitalists again. Saying people deserve to live in houses they don’t own is like saying that an unemployed person deserves to be paid with the wages of someone who has a full time job. You’re advocating the end of property rights, patent rights, and the inalienable right of the pursuit of happiness. You like Europe so much go there. If I felt I could have a better life in New York instead of Pennsylvania, why would I insist on living in PA?
Rayze78
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 12:57pmRose Ellen, do you believe also, that all mortgages should be forgiven (or rents cut in half) for the upper class, and the “1 percent”? How do you even “start from scratch”? Your logic doesnt even make sense. How is it good business, or good for the economy when all mortgages are forgiven? Who’s going to pay for it? Someone will, and I assume you believe the so called “1 percent”. Is this what you socialists call a fair share?
The article says it remains to be seen how the police will handle this. I have the solution: SWAT teams with riot gear, rubber bullets, tazers, those big cool shields. These people have gone from comitting disorderly conduct while camping on public places (while holding idiotic signs) to trespassing. Time to spend some time in jail.
Report Post »MaxineH20Sux
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:48amOh my goodness I said this would happen! If they end up in foreclosed homes as squatters it is near impossible to get them out for months and months! THIS is a disaster situation!
Report Post »diesel49
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:42amto get them out just bulldoze the house or remove the windows and heating system. no power, water heat it becomes a health issue and you throw them out and arrest the for trespassing
Report Post »Rayze78
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 1:06pmThis whole thing is ridiculous. They are also vandalizing, and ultimately turning the place into a dump and lowering the value. I know with repo’d cars, if the car sells at the auction say for $4000, and the loan is $6000, the person still has to pay the $2000 deficiency. I assume its the same for houses? So they are actually hurting the people they are supposedly “for”, if that person has to pay the deficiency, which would have been less if the house wasnt vandalized or damaged (maybe someone can back that up who knows for sure).
The way I see it, the empty houses are the banks property. If the police arent arresting these people, the bank could hire a private security force to clear the property. Its their property and their right to protect it. Say I was in the 1 percent (sarcasm intended), and I went to my winter home in Hawaii, I come back to my house in the spring and its full of OWS turds, I DO have the right to protect my property. Hopefully they crack down on these idiots and make an example out of them.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 2:40pmDisaster? This is just the beginning. Next thing they‘ll be occupying your home because you aren’t paying your fair share. They are already living in houses that aren’t theirs so why not?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:48amThe president, in Kansas, spouted the newest Big Lie from these Lefty thugs: ” it’s not about class warfare.” Yes, Mr. President it is about class warfare. Yes, Mr. President, Joe Wilson was correct : you DO lie. Repeatedly. Your teleprompter Democrat 2012 campaign rhetoric is straight out of the Chicago Playbook . You , your propaganda MSM outlets , and your SEIU / ACORN/ student militias just keep repeating the “99%” Bull – hoping that the world will believe these lies. Heard on NPR this morning that in D.C., the latest phony phrase is “ take back Washington ” which is your Lefty militias latest attempt to BULLY congress ( whom you have already targeted repeatedly ) . Call off your troops. Call off the mobs. Stop the campaign lies and class warfare rhetoric. This is America. We use the ballot box . None of our presidents have used mobs to bully their agenda into place. You and your campaign handlers are a disgrace to freedom of speech and all that this nation holds dear. Wonder if Joe Wilson will attend the next State of the Dis-Union speech . Wonder if you will bully the Supreme Court members will be bullied again this year. With you, sir, the presidency is truly a “bully pulpit.” ( Yes, it is time to “take back Washington.” For the taxpayers to Take back Washington from the union mobs which have infested our cities , invaded our media, and destroyed our local and national budgets. )
Report Post »dicklexic22
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 1:11pmyeah, and guess what all those right-wing governors that attacked the unions are paying for it and are going to get booted out of office. So sorry. people identity with middle-class public workers and they don’t identify with the rich. I know you wish they did. The rich are the true parasites. The rich are the ones who started the class war. It‘s payback time but a good technocratic liberal like Obama doesn’t have the balls like TR and FDR to really go populist and rally the working class against the laissez faire fundamentalist and plutocrats.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 3:06pmhey there Dick, you suck on them much? you must…
Report Post »Thors Hammer
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:47amIn a way, this is great, because the sheeple that ‘supported’ the OWS from a distance (like you watch the things in a zoo) now will have them next door, making their own property values plummet. It was just fine when it was taking over a park, or some streets in somebody else’s town, but now it really hits ‘home’. (Pardon the pun)
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:28amyes, yo notice that Bivens, Moore and that crowd dont practice what they preach. You notice them paying their bills mortgage, etc. I wish they would step up and get booted. Hypocrites.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:47amhey francis fox pivin is this your idea or just van jones or steve lerners, these people are cockroaches, the city should kick them out and make sure there are no utilities to these homes pronto could you imagin if the Tea Party would have tried this stunt, oh but the Tea Party people have honor and character two words these people don’t know the meaning of
Report Post »right
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:37amGive ‘em an inch ……….
Report Post »See what happens when you let people get away with breaking the law. What’s next?
I for one think it‘s time to enforce the law a put a stop to ’Occupy’.
We all live by rules. Get over it. Get a job and contribute, quit thinking everything should be free. Who do you think owes you? Not me. I work for what I have. No one gives me anything. And I do not want my tax dollars spent on folks that refuse to work to take care of themselves.
tzion
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:06amIf they are allowed to occupy foreclosed homes, they’ll then start occupying our homes where we live and raise our families. If your house is “too luxurious” they will take it. If you own multiple properties they will take them.
Report Post »Lordchamp
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 12:36pmPlease OWS come TRY to “occupy” my property. It’s going to be a rude awakening for them when they start branching out like that. Unfortunately, at first we will be labeled as the bad guys but in the end we outnumber and out-arm them so they lose. I’m not advocating violence but as a veteran, I will not run away from it and will protect what I EARNED along with my family and friends.
Report Post »Carter John
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 8:43amThey will try to take my home over my dead body. In FL you can use lethal force if you feel your life is threatened. I plan on using that law to it’s fullest extent.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:35amThe only peopole who should have the right ot these homes are those who lost them–not these freeloading criminals.
Report Post »ExpertShot
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:44amThere’s a group called sovereign citizens that has been running this racket in GA for over a year now…they’d go to foreclosed homes, print up their own deeds, change the locks & claim the property is theirs, because they “don’t believe” in government. The only difference, they were taking over very nice homes in well to do neighborhoods.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:47amWhat kind of crazy world do these fools want. Everyone work for no pay because everything is free. How long would it take till they were fighting over who gets what and trying to get something better. How long before no one felt like working. These mindless idiots should all be shipped to China or Iran.
Report Post »Buggs
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:55amWhat are you talking about, the one who lost them? The ones who purchased them originally are as bad as the others, if not worst.
If you lent someone a hundred grand to buy a home, then they give you the bird and never pay you back, do you think the house really belongs to them still?
Report Post »Bill in Texas
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:22amNow they’re breaking and entering and vandalizing private property. Throw their buts in jail!
Report Post »olddog
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:34amEveryone OWS me. OOps they left out the e ..
Report Post »medic506
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:34amHas lived there for 50 years and still has a mortgage?
Report Post »Perspective
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:31amJust more of the typical OWS crowd wanting something for nothing.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:31amKeep up the good work you Occupy guys! Conservative landslide, 2012!
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:42amYou got that right!!
Stand Strong America
Report Post »dicklexic22
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 12:59pmin your delusional mind it will be. guess what, day by day, conservative economic tenets and policies are revealing there true basis: PLUTOCRACY. Trickle down rings hollow for more and more people including conservatives. You’re siding with the banks and the rich and you and Republican Party on the wrong side of history at this juncture. The class war is on already. pick a side.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:55pmDICK: ” Pick a side ? “ ” The class war is on already on.” Your words sound like more of the threatening, bullying, union mob behavior and rhetoric the Democrats have been using since Wisconsin. We are a country ruled by law, not by union mobs, thugs, and bullies.
Report Post »Carter John
Posted on December 8, 2011 at 8:57am@DICKLEXIC22
Report Post »Plutocracy is also considered a large Oligarchy. Which unless my history is wrong is what Russia and China turned into once they turned to communism/socialism. In China’s case the Oligarchy is the Military. By tearing down the individual’s rights to make a good or a bad choice, you put us in the control of an Oligarchy. The people that started these banks had the choice to start them maybe as a group consolidating money. But they CHOSE everyone has a choice in their life, I and most Americans CHOOSE to work hard and make money. They CHOOSE how to use it, when you leave other people to CHOOSE for you they usually CHOOSE to help themselves at your cost. So tell me will you let someone choose which house YOU live in? Will you let someone else choose what YOU wear? Will you let someone choose which job YOU do? Because once a Socialistic Government is in place these people will have no choice but get a job or in extreme(which it can very easily transition to) situation refusing to work is considered TREASON. Tell me would you rather have your choices or the result of someone else choosing for you?
fixer
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:30amSo occupying a space that should belong to homeowners but belongs to the banks seems like the logical next step for the Occupy movement,” said Jeff Ordower, one of the organizers of Occupy Homes.
the logical next step is to kill these SOB’s
Report Post »Non-regulator
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:47amThe pendulum analogy is at work with this statement. I wonder if mass murderers had similar thoughts, or I wonder if you are a seminar poster. douche
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:41amOf course you right wing hypocrites had no problem when the european zionist s took homes from the palestinians[by hook and by crcrook]and set up their own state to boot. Hope these OWS complicate your hypocritical lives by doing this everywhere in this country.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:13amROSE: As far as I know, no “right wing hypocrites ” were lobbing mortars or i declaring war on our cities or our foreclosed homes. The Democrats, however, with their lying “Affordable Housing Act” lobbed one huge bomb on our economy. Grow up. Wise up. Or shut up.
Report Post »dicklexic22
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 1:04pmBarber2, you’re a fool if you actually by into the Fox News theory that Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac caused the economic downturn. It defies logic to believe a recession this deep and widespread could be caused by a policy aimed at giving low income people housing. You might want to consider the thirty years of deregulating the financial sector and free trade policy that preceded this recession and all the blips before (S&L crisis, dot.com bubble, Enron,….) when coming up with a theory about the financial crisis, but oh wait, that would contradict you’re undying faith in the fantasy of self-regulating markets and trickle down.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 4:15pm@Dicksuxit
Report Post »I have never heard anyone make a dumber statement. You are probably too young to remember Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act, that Clinton gave more power to. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Franklin Raines were repeatedly warned by GW, as late as 2006 (and who was in charge of Congress then?) and many others that what happened would happen if they didn’t put a stop to loaning people money who would never pay it back. The loans piled up and caused a domino effect on housing prices, which in turn caused other economic problems, of which the current president pretender has done NOTHING about, but blame others. A role model for OWS and people like you.
barber2
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 6:24pmDICK: That is no “ Fox theory” that Fannie and Freddie caused the economic meltdown. The bankers were fools to give in to the ACORN/Democrat pressure regarding the Affordable Housing Act and their clever bean counters who came up with ways to diffuse these crazy loans were just as wrong as the people who started all of this mess. The Democrats always pressure for more entitlement spending ( vote getting underlying all of that “humanitarianism” ) and even today, they fail to address the deficit issue with more budget busting giveaways. These Democrats and the Republicans who continue to give into this pressure are the reason for the emergence of the Tea Party. The Tea Party wants to stop kicking the spending can down the road. That is not foolish.
Report Post »Marilyn
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:43pmGood answer. Lock and load.
Report Post »Vitalissue
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:29amHow will the Occupupoops pay for their Utility and water bills, that is if, they can have it turned on at all.
Report Post »SecularConservative
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:38amExcellent point!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:46amThe Libs will not allow them to be turned off its their right the have
Report Post »tweet
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:27amI would love to buy a Forclosed Home but they make the buying process a pain in the butt! You would think the banks would WANT to sell them but they don’t act like it
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:42amNo it doesn’t surprise me at all.For every two morgage holders who have bailed,I’ve read where the holders asked lo even begged the banks to work with them for modification.Why won’t they?Admittedly there might be a legitimate reason in some cases but there are to many foreclosures for that to be the excuse for all of them.
Report Post »Personally I think that the right and left money makers got together behind the scenes to sow the seeds of this countrys destruction.AGENDA 21 made manifest.
drago
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:26amJust kill em all, and let God sort em out…….Its past time to put an end to this crap…..
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:29amCharge everyone caught breaking into homes with felonies remove their ability to keep socialist in power by removing their vote.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:51amSMITH: Seattle. Another Democrat controlled city. Don’t you imagine that this will be a Democrat, totally organized , campaign 2012 orchestrated tactic ? Time for conservatives to start holding these mayors/ city councils responsible for representing all of the people and law and order.
Report Post »TxSon
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:25amBilly, you might consider proofreading your work BEFORE it’s published…
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:31amThey need to charge these people calling for the others to commits crimes across state lines with Federal rico and orginized crime charges.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:25amSMITH: Great idea for all of the union involvement in this mayhem and law breaking.
Report Post »virgie morgan
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:25amYou can’t judge all home owners who are being foreclosed on by a few. I think the banks could work with the home owners a little more than they are, especially those who have shown they have kept up with their payments until an unfortunate crisis occurs such as losing your job or something. If the banks would work with these people to perhaps lower the payments so that they could remain in their homes then it would be better for them and the banks as well. An empty house tempts vandalism whereas a home owner would be able to protect against that at least. I think it’s a case by case evaluation and banks should work more with people especially since they were bailed out by those very same people that they refuse to work with now.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:48amThey do work with people. But you cannot get blood from a turnip, if somebody has no money they have no money. They should never have gotten a loan in the first place in many cases, but you see, the government mandated to banks to give bad loans.
The OWS thugs need to be treated like the criminals they are and locked away for criminal tresspass and vandalism of private property, and most likely with breaking and entering as well. But noooo, the law doesn’t apply to leftist thugs.
Report Post »bringbackSAC
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:14amWhat did you get with second mortgage numb nuts. Live within your means.
You would think if you built a house 50 years ago it would be paid off but they were greedy and got burned by it. Do not whine, no one held a gun to your head to get the third and forth mortgage. Also remember it was the Clinton Administration that removed or changed mortgage laws.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:20amBANKS WEREN’T BAILED OUT BY PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO WORK,THEY WEREN’T BAILED OUT BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE GOVERNMENT JOBS,THEY‘RE WEREN’T BAILED OUT PEOPLE IN LOW INCOME BRACKETS…….THESE PEOPLE PAY NOTHING IN TAXES MATTER OF FACT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE BAILED OUT PAY 70% OF THE TOTAL INCOME TAXES IN AMERICA. THEY BAILED THEMSELVES OUT SINCE IT WAS THEIR TAX DOLLARS THAT WERE USED…..
Report Post »And while I didn‘t agree with a bail out without a restructuring clause I also don’t agree with the tax code itself.
raderby
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:21amAs I remember, the SEIU guy, Steven Lerner, said this was part of the plan for OWS in Glenn‘s now unavailable FOX tapes showing expose’ on the overturning of the USA crap they were planning – and now are implementing. This is an ACORN move.
Report Post »virgie morgan
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:29amI saved the written transcript of that audio and ran across it recently and reread it. It’s exactly what is going on as you said.
Report Post »Maidoff101
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:21amIf allowed to get a criminal pass on this, it will only be a matter of time before the OWS ers decide to evict mortgage paying, taxpaying citizens, Their reason will be They have a nicer home, and call it Home inequality. So Everyones Home will look equally like Trash.These Moron Socialists need to be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest, before this Stupidity gets even more out of control!
Report Post »Perspective
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:32amHeheheh let them come try to occupy my house. .45,proven man stopper for over a 100 years.
Report Post »Vitalissue
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:33amThe leading people behind this movement needs to be prosecuted….Van Jones, George Soros, Obama UNIONs
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:19amBurn them down, then what?
Report Post »raderby
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 8:08amrake the ashes and rebuild
Report Post »M24
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:18amYou Protesters Make Me Sick ,You Lazy Stupid Brainwashed Idiots Hows Obama Doing For You Now? Your Tresspassing, Your Breaking The Law Stupid. Welcome To The Real World ,Do You Really Think That The Chase Bank Gives A Rats Azs If Your Homeless ? When You Signed The Mortage Loan Application You Agreed To The Terms ,You Cant Pay You Have To Leave Society Doesnt Owe You A Place To Live Thats Up To You ,Your No Better Than Anybody Elese ,Suck It Up Go Find Another Job Doing Something ,America Is Already Sick Of You Whinning Protesting Butt Wipes .What A Bunch Of Weak Loosers!!!!!
Report Post »steve-in-pa
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:06amNo one forced these people to get a mortgage. The banks held up their end of the contract by lending them money. Now it‘s the bank’s fault because people don’t want to pay their mortgage because they are underwater? They were smiling when their home values increase. It’s amazing how people justify their actions by blaming someone else…kind of like barry.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:04amMost of these foreclosures set around until they become trash anyway. The banks are as stupid as the occupy people, so let them stay till they burn them down with some stupid action they are sure to do.
Report Post »GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 7:16amExactly.
Report Post »Charles
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:01amAnd when they start a fire don’t let the fire dept. put it out unless it threatens adjacent property. These are useful idiots for the communists and make no mistake – they are working for obama. When that marxist college professor was elected I knew it was the end
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 7, 2011 at 10:04amAgree . The Democrats and their Occupy militias are bullies. The Democrats, like all bully regimes, will keep pushing until pushed back. Wonder when they will hold their Crystal Night ?
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