You knew it was coming. The Kamp Alinsky Kids are taking a sight-seeing tour today. After a month of trashing Zuccotti Park at a public cost of $2 million per day, the riff-raff is marching uptown to occupy…wealthy people’s private homes.
According to the NY Daily News: “A ‘Millionaires March’ will visit the homes – or, more realistically, the gleaming marble lobbies – of five of the city’s wealthiest residents, including News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and conservative billionaire David Koch.”
Some millionaires and billionaires and their homes get protected, of course. Billionaire NYC Mayor Bloomberg, who refuses to crack down on protesters who have no permit to conduct the march, has a pass. Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman’s compound is off-limits. So is NY-based billionaire hedge fund mogul, Obama donor, and Dodd-Frank waiver beneficiary George Soros.
Photo credit: Business InsiderScandal-plagued LightSquared billionaire investor and Obama donor Philip Falcone owns a $49 million Upper East Side palace that won’t be on the protest route.
GE billionaire fat cat Jeffrey Immelt won’t be targeted, either.
Outside NYC, Billionaire Obama donor and Solyndra peddler George Kaiser isn’t even on their radar.
Also on the immunity list: Al Gore’s multiple mansions, including his $9 million Montecito oceanfront villa:
Oh, and you won’t see any Occupy Wall Street zombies banging their bongo drums in front of the sweetheart homes of privileged Democrats who’ve cashed in on cozy Wall Street/BigGov-BigBiz deals like the ones below.
Remember?
Flashback September 2010…
At who’s discretion are laws enforced? Maybe I should say, not enforced. Why aren’t the blatant lawless crowd arrested?
Ms. Malkin’s article–the basis for this piece–conflates what the OWS is about (which is her stock and trade). It’s not about millionaires and billionaires in general. It’s about the detrimental effect that what Wall Street money mongers have had on this country’s majority class in recent years. Rightly or wrongly, the individual members of the upper class mentioned in her article are not seen to be part of the problem. They are seen as individuals who would be willing to pay increased taxes in order to get this country out of the situation it finds itself—unlike those who are targeted by the protestors.
@Liberal1 (objectivity):
Wrongly.
@Nan G:
Can you ‘splain further Nan?
I keep hearing spokesmen on the left bring up the French Revolution (aka The Reign of Terror). Clearly these people are ignorant of what really happened and of Robespierre and the Jacobin’s rule. The French Revolution was sold to public and fellow revolutionaries as a struggle to recognize individual rights. This OWS protest is without a doubt being instead instigated by desperate far-left socialist-progressive groups who know that their radical president’s administration will likely be out of power following the next presidential election. We can fully expect that, as with other recent and past progressive-socialist machinations of class warfare protests around the world, which have ended with riots, violence and wanton criminality including raping and looting.
Using the tactics of Obama’s SEIU friends to get some of the unruly mob to collect around the homes of some of the wealthy, will surely come back to bite them. Democrats who are now even now eagerly moving to support this “political movement” will later regret their decision, when their political opponents remind the voters of their sanctioning of these protestors, and therefore they will be partially culpable for the violence we know will soon erupt. You can only control a mob if they follow you, and so far these protestors are so unruly, that there will be no way to manage them.
I cannot find it again but there was a photo of Obama meeting with Silicon Valley CEOS including Jobs and Zuckerberg, and it was labeled and it said that Occupy won’t be marching on their homes. I can find the original pic but not the labeled one… ????