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Miranda Leitsinger/msnbc.com
The Brooklyn, N.Y., home that Occupy Wall Street protesters intend to seize on behalf of a homeless New York City family.
Marchers have arrived at the vacant foreclosed Brooklyn house they intend to “liberate” so a homeless New York City family can move in.
"This is no longer a house, this is a home,” the Rev. Patricia Malcolm said moments after the throng gathered in front of the home. “... Where the people are one, we can achieve anything and everything.”
A yellow sign reading “Foreclose on banks, not people” was hung from the upper floor before the marchers arrived. The front gate was festooned with bundles of balloons, rising above umbrellas carried by the marchers amid a hard rain.
Nonetheless, marchers have called on musicians to set up, saying that a "block party" will begin in 10 minutes.
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Now they wait around for someone in the group of yuppies to have the balls to smash the window and break-in.
I recall being on an OWS article weeks ago telling you all that it was only a matter of time before these protesters would be stealing property, breaking into houses, and taking them because they deserved and needed them...
And here it is. On the front page.
Who's paranoid now?
Yep - This IS bullsh|t!!! If ANYONE deserves to be in this home, it's the folks who lost the home. This home does NOT belong to the people and I will be praying that they are arrested and prosecuted to the FULL extent of the law!!!
The Banks with their reckless greed destroyed our economy! All foreclosures should be made illegal and the Banks forced by law to provide term so that families and individuals do get to remain in their homes. There is no Justice for the homeless in our country. The envy and jealousy and outright hostility and resentment by so many commentators against a family who received help turns my stomach! They have a right to have a roof over their heads. Most people once they become homeless remain homeless because the decks are stacked against them. They have no rental references. It is very difficult for them to be hired for a job because they have no address. It is too bad that the original homeowners could not be found and helped to reoccupy their home. But giving a home to a homeless family is the next best thing. Better than having it sit empty and become a liability for the neighbors and the neighborhood. Most unoccuppied homes in any neighborhood turn into a blight on the neighborhood. Too bad your heart is full of Bullsh/t!
bravo! In a time when the me firsts are dominating, it's great to see people working for people and helping people. This is something our government should do, but instead they allow banks to make people homeless. I hope this family stays at the house and is able to get back on their feet. Now that they have a place to call home, they have stability and can look for steady work, get their kids into a school, etc. This brings stability to the country. I bet the republicans will be allover this with negative comments. Can anyone name any politician who has gone above and boyond to help the homelss? I can think of only one: Jimmy Carter. He's the reincarnation of Christ. He's a carpenter, helps the poor and his initials are J.C.
Remind me to take over your house the next time you leave. We'll see how well that goes over.
@holly
Has it occurred to you that this IS theft???
Homeless people smell bad. I try to avoid them.
@Holly - You don't know the Word if that's what you think... better go back and do some REAL reading...
You think Jimmy Carter is the reincarnation of Jesus? bwahahaha
WOW. of all the crazy things I've read today, that wins. hands down.
holly - you know how they could have gotten back on their feet ten years ago? By getting a job, and not having two kids while living in homeless shelters. Giving them a house will only allow them to make even more bad decisions.
And if you think that actions like these bring "stability" to a country, then go live in Greece, and let us know how "stable" socialist policies really are. But you'd better make it quick, they might not be around for much longer...
holly get back on there feet???? read the article these people have lived in homeless shelters for ten years and have two kids one 5 the other one 9.. not had a job in that ten years he was 17 she 20 when they meet.... so tell me how they get back on there feet????? read the article please ....who has two kids living in a shelter? ten years ago one of them could have had a job i would think....
Breaking the law will not win them supporters. A home in foreclosure is still private property, and you can't just break in and squat without consequences!
@Tony
I hope they are prosecuted to the full extent of the law...
It is corporate property on which no taxes are paid and no maintenance is done. These extortionist forclosure laws written by banks and corporations to extract wealth from the vulnerable and everyone else. People like you should be prosecuted to the full extent of the Just Law that protects human rights and dignity instead of a corporations right to profit at the expense of people in crisis.
"Capitalism: God's way of determining who is smart and who is poor." ~Ron Swanson
Amen!
@Da Troof
Wrong! Sorry, I disagree 100%. Important TRUTH for ALL to read from Matthew 25. Correct Answer:
14For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his
own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
15And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to
his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
16Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them
other five talents.
17And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
18But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
19After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
20And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou
deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
21His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful
over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
22He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents:
behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
23His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few
things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
24Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard
man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I
reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
27Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I
should have received mine own with usury.
28Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
30And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
I'd say that should settle this matter. Our POTUS acts and teaches exactly the opposite at every opportunity and OWS believes that they can simply steal instead of working for what they attain - wicked and slothful servants that they are... and they love to quote the WWJD thing... but they know NOT what the word says... Don't let the fool you. The Word states unequivacally Work with a glad heart as unto the Lord...
Who said I was talking about your phoney baloney God, Cowboy?
WoW - Pretty arrogant... You really ought to be careful about what you say... that kind of thing WILL come back on you...
However, that said, you quoted a man who said the word "god"... Gee, what god was he referring to? Apparently, you don't know...
god is dead...and no one cares!
@Andy
And the same shall be said of you by God...
God is incapable of entertaining such cruelty! Only Greed can dream such nightmares up!
Robin Hood was a thief, we made him a legend. Our Founding Fathers stole tea and threw it into Boston Harbor, committed Treason against their Crown and we idolize them. The Law is not always right and the Rich don't always deserve what they have. I find it stunning how many people were not paying attention in History class.
They also stole an entire country, enslaved millions, murdered, raped, pillaged, and plundered. pay attention in history class.
SillyBilly - your screen name says everything we need to know about you and then some!!
You're right, they did all of that, they still do things like that. So why do you support them in any way? I fail to see why we should disagree on this.
Thank you for your useless contribution to our honest discussion.
I agree SillyBilly. We should enslave the homeless.
SillyBilly - life isn't fair, never has been, never will be. But one thing is certain - work harder and you will do better in life. Sit on your ass all day and you will end up homeless and hungry. These occupy morons seem to think that prosperity grows on trees, but what they seem to miss is that while they squat in parks and abandoned houses all day, the evil "1%" are the ones still going to work to support everyone else's standard of living. The only stealing going on here is the government stealing from the hard working and successful and giving it to the lazy and weak, and only a fool would idolize that. Sure, there are the trust fund brats who never lift a finger, and there are the disabled that deserve the help of the government, but those are the exceptions, not the rule.
Make better decisions in life (e.g. don't have two kids if you can't afford a roof over your head) and you will see the world as a much more fair place.
@mt83 and what about people who make all their money in mortgage back securities that were rated as A and not as sub-prime when they were sub-prime? A clear example of fraud but not punishable under current federal laws except under SEC regs that do little more than slap people on the wrist. Then after all that fraud they committed that screwed up the economy, we the tax payer were forced to bail them out. They then received a 6 figure bonuses which came from Tax Payer money because their contract called for it and the government tied no strings to the bailout money.
Right now you're saying Fraud=Hard work.
I think you are mistaken Silly, I never said that fraud and hard work were one in the same. I merely said that if you work harder, you will be better off, and if you don't, you won't. You seem to have interpreted that statement as "if you are better off, you must have worked harder," which is not at all the same thing (and not even true, as you correctly implied).
You also have a very weak grasp of finance - if you hold mortgage backed securities which are rated A when they should be have been rated sub-prime, then you are certainly not going to be making any money. But why even blame the people that made money on bad mortgages, when it was the government that pushed so hard to get those sub-prime borrowers into houses that they couldn't afford? The government created an environment in which it was in banks' best interests to lend as much as possible, because at the end of the day Fannie and Freddie were going to assume all of the risk, and the banks simply operated under these incentives to the best of their ability. You should be blaming the government for creating these incentives, not the banks for following them.
Naturally if you're the one holding them not if you're selling them. Hence the financial crisis. The brokers selling them made nice fat commissions on every one they sold and so did their bosses. You have a weak grasped of a commission based pay scale if you think people weren't making tons of money doing that.
Especially in our country since it is the 1% who dictate the laws to legitimize their self interest. Thus today white collar crime PAYS and the criminals go free!
first things first...banks dont want to foreclose ,they are not in the business to have people not pay their mortgage..i wish these ows people would show up on my doorstep so i can fill their behinds full of buckshot...lol
If that is the case then why have numerous banks falsified documents to move foreclosures along? Why are 5 of the major banks including Bank of America and Citigroup being sued by the Mass. Attorney General for these false foreclosure practices?
Those lawsuits are nothing more than a populist move by politicians to get more votes in the next election cycle. People are pissed at banks, and politicians are jumping on the bandwagon. These banks have hardly "falsified" any foreclosure documents; there have just been so many foreclosures that in order to keep the paperwork from piling up, they automated the document signing process. The fact remains that people missed their mortgage payments, and the bank had the right to foreclose.
Obviously you failed to watch 60 minutes on Sunday or read a single news article on it. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck do not count as reliable news outlets.
I sympathize with the occupy movement in principle, but this is where I get off the bandwagon. Working to get people back in their homes would be ok, breaking and entering is not. I wonder how the house's former owners feel seeing this. There is alot to reform in this country. This is just ruining any hope of the movement ever becoming useful.
@Freakz11114
Yeees... Exhilarating isn't it??? Isn't conquest great?
(make a smart-ass remark, get a smart-ass remark)
The two are not even comparable... OWS squatters have no right to this home. If anyone should have it, it's the bank who LOANED the money to the previous owners who clearly couldn't pay. Who will pay for the damages these idiots will do? How much RENT are they going to pay? Let's call the bank and find out how much they expect...
Holly: First of all, I am not a liberal. I am staunch fiscal conservative. I was once homeless and slept on couches or my car. I even went as far as to sneak into a school to sleep when it was cold. But I did something about it. No handouts, no charity, just hard work and never spending more money than I had. I am not in debt today. My home and cars are paid for and I still never spend more than I bring home. Which is why I find the statement "Back on their feet" at the ripe old age of 27 and 30 having lived in shelters for 10 years, it sounds like they never were on their feet to begin with. The fact that they had two children while homeless doesn't necessarily show a high level of thought either. If you want to put someone in the face of the public to gain support, try someone who had a job and home and lost them because of the economy, oh say in the last 5 years, not people who have made a career of the system.
I left home when I was 15. I slept on bus benches and in all night laundry mats until I had earned and saved enough to get my first apartment which took me around 8 months with the deposits. I was emancipated by the courts so I was lawfully allowed to sign for the apartment where I remained for 2 years since I didn't want to go through that again. That was what caused me to become a conservative!!!
@DMSMD
Great so you admit to breaking and entering and trespassing to keep warm. From what you're revealing so far it seems you were lucky enough to not get caught. Now lets pretend for a minute you did get caught. You now have a criminal record. How easily do you think you'd get back on your feet when no one wants to hire you because of those convictions?
sillybilly where do you live i have about half dozen homeless people asking for handouts at wal-mart i will send them to your house... you don't seem to mind if they take over someone elses house... come on your address or stfu
Are you going to give them the money for bus or plane fare from Cali to Ohio? You're credit card number or stfu.
Words cannot express just how painfully stupid these OWS folks are. How will these squatters pay for the foreclosed home? They can't just get something for nothing. Complete and utter stupidity. Angering stupidity. Even more angering that these a$$holes get to vote in the next election (unless they're convicted felons already, which we can only hope) and impart their stupid influence on my country. Get a f**cking job and contribute to society and stop wasting taxpayer money to combat you're stupidity OWS. Make a cogent argument or shut the f**ck up OWS!!!!! Enough already!!!! Go HOME!!!! You lose!!!!!
What is wrong with these dip$hits? Everybody hates you Occupier's, your not proving any point that is gonna get you anything so just quit wasting your time. I hustled, busted a$$ to make my money and these pricks want handouts? Get outta here!!!
It wasn't illegal you moron.
Trespassing on private property comes to mind... breaking and entering comes to mind... for starters...
this is terrific news. go protesters! watched 60 mins on sun nite. they had a countrywide exec on there telling all. unbelievable what they have dont the last 3yrs. and no one is in jail!!!! they slapped the chief with a 22million dollar fine.....he made over 200 million in bonuses...tears
thank you Larry!! I thought I was the only one paying attention.. By the way all you bleeding hearts I've been working since I was 17, looking for my own big deream, could someone steal me a bigger house, maybe on a lake ??
While I agree that there are a lot of people homeless because they just don't have the ambition to get out and do what ever job is available, there are just as many who have truly hit on hard times and have no where to turn. I also agree with an earlier comment that homeless animals are treated better than homeless people. They are taken to a shelter, fed, bathed, and given a complete medical check up, then supplied with what ever is needed medically. Now what kind of a job are these four legged critters going to get to pay all that back? Race has nothing to do with any of this unless of course you are prejudice. People from all walks of life and all race and color have ended up homeless. It would be a much better world if people would just quit their senseless knit picking and help each other.