The “99%” Bought Out by the “1%”

Wednesday 29 February 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

The Wall Street Journal on large corporate and individual donations to the Occupy movement:

A group of business leaders—including Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and former Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg—are planning to pour substantial funds into the Occupy Wall Street movement in hopes of sustaining the protests and fostering political change.

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Mr. Cohen and other members of the group met with protesters in a Manhattan church Sunday night to pitch the idea to dedicated activists. Not all were impressed, on the theory it would only add bureaucracy.

“Essentially this is a group of very wealthy people who have picked a handler to deal with Occupy Wall Street,” said Ravi Ahmed, 34 years old, a protester who works as an academic administrator. “They’ve re-created what’s wrong with nonprofits and philanthropy structures.”

This is the Occupy movement being bought out by the very people they’re allegedly protesting. Good job, guys! Way to fold on your principles the very minute you finally understand that they’re fraudulent.

2012-02-29  »  madlibertarianguy