It’s a den of thieves!

Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.

“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.

“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”


Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.

“The worst thing is there’s people sleeping in the kitchen when they come, and they don’t even know about it! There are some really smart and sneaky thieves here,” Terrie said.

“I had umbrellas stolen, a fold-up bed I brought because my back is bad -- they took that, too!”

Security volunteer Harry Wyman, 22, of Brooklyn was furious about the thievery -- and vowed to get tough with the predatory perps.

“I’m not getting paid, but I’m not gonna stand for it. Why people got to come here and do stupid stuff? All it does is make people not wanna come here anymore,” Wyman fumed.

At one point yesterday, Wyman and other volunteers briefly scuffled with a man who was standing near a park entrance with a pail calling out: “Donations! Donations!” -- and pocketing the cash people tossed in the bucket.

Meanwhile, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was at Zuccotti late last night as he and about 50 protesters formed a human chain in front of a medical tent after police officers came over to ask about the tent, cops and protesters said.

“Jesse dropped in like a ninja,” said Stephanie Perricone, 21. “He came out of nowhere and helped us all out.”

The officers were asking about the size of the tent when the crowd of demonstrators -- including Jackson -- stood en masse in front of it.

The cops said didn’t ask for it to be taken down and the issue was quickly resolved.

Is this protest even accomplishing anything?

From my understanding, its broke people gathering infront of areas of wealth. And proesting there to try to get the money spread out more equally?

Is this correct?

Yeah pretty much. In a nutshell it's people protesting against corruption in big corporations and/in the government.

The idea of it is without a doubt one of the most patriotic things ever done. The IDEA of it. Most of the protesters don't know what they're doing and their ideals conflict. To make this work a lot more needs to be done than generic civil disobedience.

In all honesty, something needs to be done about the way only the richest 1% of americans actually choose what laws to pass. (This news article/topic proves what happens when the big corporations start influencing lawmaking) The sad thing is, this whole Occupy Wall Street seems to be without direction and without a definite goal. Without something to aim towards, how will anything change? Until there is a set of demands that can be implemented, i don't think anything will get done...

how hard is it for several states to reject this corrupt government and to leave. make their own nation.

Very.

to the king - the link you added described an attempt at protecting big companies, and not the big companies actually having an influence on laws being passed.
and if it turns out that the big companies ARE actually affecting the laws, how hard is it for several states to reject this corrupt government and to leave. make their own nation.

If the big companies didn't have such a stranglehold on the US government, the law would have never have been attempted to be passed. It's the rich 1% moaning because they're losing money they don't need. Stop whining and be charitable. Give it to someone else who needs it, like Bill Gates did.

If the big companies didn't have such a stranglehold on the US government, the law would have never have been attempted to be passed. It's the rich 1% moaning because they're losing money they don't need. Stop whining and be charitable. Give it to someone else who needs it, like Bill Gates did.

These worthless liberal hipsters aren't contributing anything, but want money for doing nothing.

business majors aren't really any better.