The latest brave Occupy Wall Street truth-teller to turn his back on a capitalist system that has betrayed 99% of America? Lloyd Dobler.
Actor John Cusack has followed in the footsteps of Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins by supporting New York City protesters taking part in a rally against social inequality.
The Being John Malkovich star joined hundreds of campaigners in the ongoing Occupy Wall Street march calling for an end to corporate greed and equality for all.
Cusack noticed one young woman proclaiming to be wealthy and holding a sign which declared, “I have had health and dental insurance all my life. I want to live in a world where we all have enough. I have more than enough. Tax me! Rich kid for redistribution.”
“Okay, I gotta go strike a blow for the common man. Keep the limo running.” These guys keep saying they want to pay more taxes, but nobody ever asks who or what is stopping them. To the Occupiers’ credit, they don’t like these celebrity hangers-on any better than the rest of us do.
By the way, tomorrow the city is planning to Fumigate Wall Street:
Anti-Wall Street protesters threatened on Thursday to block any efforts by clean-up crews to enter their camp to clear away three-weeks worth of debris, raising anxiety about a potential showdown between demonstrators and police.
While New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said the protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement can continue as long as laws are obeyed, the city has become concerned over the build-up of trash and general wear and tear on Zuccotti Park, headquarters for the demonstrators.
Bloomberg visited protesters at the park on Wednesday night and informed them it would be cleaned by work crews on Friday…
Occupy Wall Street pledged to resist any effort by cleaning crews or police to enter the park, asking protesters to create a human chain around the area to “peacefully/non-violently stand our ground,” according to a post on its Facebook page.
Hey, if they want to wallow in their own filth, why not let them? Once the weather changes and they all skitter back under their individual damp rocks, Bloomberg can just send in a clean-up team to scour the site with flamethrowers. Only way to be sure.
Meanwhile, 3,000 miles and several dozen brain cells away, a helpful member of Occupy Portland explains those creepy hand gestures these children keep making:
Did you get all that? I’ve got another hand gesture that I find useful in those sorts of situations, but I don’t think he’d like it.
P.S. “We don’t know where it comes from. It just appears, and we eat it.”
P.P.S. Matt Labash: Eyewitness to History! “Back at the OWS encampment at Zuccotti Park, it’s a hygienic disaster area: greasy hair, stained shirts, crusted trousers — and that’s just the journalists.”
