Protesters arrested for crashing Brooklyn foreclosure hearing.
As many as a dozen "Occupy Wall Street" protestors and their allies were arrested Thursday afternoon as they tried to stop a foreclosure auction inside a courthouse in Brooklyn, N.Y.
As the auctioneer called the proceeding to order, the protestors, who had been sitting quietly in the courtroom, broke into song. “Mrs. Auctioneer, all the people here are asking you to hold all the sales right now,” they sang, in surprising harmony. “We’re hoping to survive, but we don’t know how.”
Their voices filled the courtroom and, for a while at least, brought the proceedings to a halt. After a few minutes, a court security officer warned them to stop or face arrest, but he could barely be heard over the singing. The singing continued for about a half an hour until they were led off in plastic handcuffs, still singing.
The disruption coincided with a larger protest outside the state Supreme Court building in downtown Brooklyn, across the East River from Wall Street.
“We all know there are hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their homes through nothing but outright theft,” housing activist Frank Morales told a crowd of more than 100 outside the courthouse.
5 comments:
Stop buying stupid over priced and over sized houses that you can't afford. Live with in your means. Stop trying to be what your not.
It's the Socialists like the protesters who are the problem.
This is why the protesters are laughed at by the majority. You don't fulfill the contract YOU signed? Too bad. That's not theft. It's upholding a contract.
What role to the bankers and investors who created a market where homes worth $200,000 were priced and and sold at $650,000, KNOWING it was a fake and deceptive scam? What role did Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play in aiding that scheme? Or the corporate CEO's who closed down American companies and sent those jobs overseas so they could reap MILLIONS in bonuses, while laying off millions of Americans? Or the CEO's who engineered the decimation of 401(k) plans and retirement funds while INCREASING their own pensions by millions? It's not always a matter of "fulfilling a contract". A whole lot (as in "millions") of Americans have been foreclosed on and unable to pay as a direct, or indirect result of the above-mentioned actions. They only call it class warfare when the underclass fights back.
The protesters are a rudderless ship going which ever way the wind blows.
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