Overhead photo showing supposedly high attendance at "Occupy Wall Street" was faked?

[dogtowner]

Re: Overhead photo showing supposedly high attendance at "Occupy Wall Street" was fak

Who exactly gets hurt when these people shut down roads etc? Those middle class Americans on the way to work is who.

One local pol says they may need to close schools and firehouses to cover the costs. Yet another reason to avoid NYC as though one needed more.

The weeks of demonstrations could cost the New York Police Department hundreds of thousands of dollars, Councilman Peter Vallone told New York public radio station WNYC.


“We’re going to spend hundreds of thousands, maybe even $1 million on this that we don’t have. Because of these protests, we might even wind up shutting down schools and firehouses because this is costing a lot of money,” Vallone said.

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[dogtowner]

Re: Overhead photo showing supposedly high attendance at "Occupy Wall Street" was fak

On a side note, seems these folks are are lacking in the diversity area. Odd that the media chooses to ignore this point while it criticizes the TEA Party for it's supposed issues in this regard.

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Though a few representatives of minority groups have appeared among the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters in New York City, photos and videos of the left-wing mini-throngs indicate they suffer from a serious lack of diversity. And the protesters themselves told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that they are conscious of the issue, if not the inconsistency it demonstrates.


A 40-photo Washington Post slideshow showing hundreds of angry protesters in New York and other cities includes no more than 15 clearly identifiable minority protesters, and just six African-Americans. The rest of the protesters shown are white, and most are male.


In 26 photos from San Francisco and Chicago gatherings posted on OccupyTogether.org, only one person from a minority group is clearly visible, and it’s unclear whether he is a protester or a bystander.


Minority groups are similarly underrepresented in photos and videos posted on OccupyWallSt.org, the self-described “unofficial de facto online resource for the ongoing protests happening on Wall Street.”


Even the “unofficial” organizers of the protest events admit this is — or at least appears to be — problematic.


“That’s an interesting question, and it comes up often,” OccupyWallSt.org’s Patrick Bruner said in an email to TheDC. “Unfortunately, we have a very high turnover rate, and nobody as of yet has come up with official diversity related statistics for us. From observation, I can tell you that we’re not all white, and that we also have a huge LGBT [Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender] population.”


“We’re working on reaching out to minority groups as well,” Bruner adds. “Thanks for the food for thought, I’m sorry I don’t have more exact information for you right now.”
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