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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (9769)	2/19/2012 2:05:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 85487

Occupy turns empty home into squatter's hovel John on February 19, 2012 at 10:09 am Via tipster Nickarama on Twitter, the story of an occupation gone wrong: “Occupy Our Homes” was that idea. The group would take over an empty house, foreclosed on by a bank, fix it up and provide shelter to a homeless family… The atmosphere was giddy that overcast December day. A swell of people hung banners (“Foreclose on Banks, Not People”) and chanted on Vermont Street, waiting to welcome new neighbors to 702, the two-story rowhouse Occupy had taken over. The excitement reached a crescendo when Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn) knocked on the door, decorated with a pine wreath for Christmas, and out came the homeless man who was moving in with his family, Alfredo Carrasquillo. Only problem with the plan is that someone else still owned the house. When he finally got back in what he found was what America has found everywhere Occupy goes: wreckage. Last week,Wise Ahadzi opened the door to the house he still owns, 702 Vermont Street in East New York. Inside is a war zone. The walls are torn down, the plumbing is ripped out and the carpeting has been plucked from the floor. It’s like walking through a ribcage. Garbage, open food containers and Ahadzi’s possessions are tossed haphazardly around the house. “This is where my kitchen was,” Ahadzi says. There is no sink, no refrigerator and no counter space. Instead there are dirty dishes piled high waiting for a dip in three large buckets of putrid water that serve as the dish-washing system. And here’s the key line of the piece, one with a broader application than this incident: Their efforts have actually made the neighborhood worse — because what used to be an empty house is now a hovel of squatters and probably should be condemned. Just like what we saw here in LA and what we saw in NYC and DC and everywhere else. Occupation turns out to be a perfect metaphor for socialism. It promises the world but really only manages to wreck and diminish everything it touches. Then, once it has destroyed an area and taken everything worth taking, it moves on to its next area and starts the process all over again. If you wonder who is to blame for this plague of locusts (not just this instance of them) his name is Kalle Lasn. Lasn runs the magazine that started this experiment. Yes, he is an embarrassment and, as most of us can see, his experiment is a failure. verumserum.com They were stupid to think a bunch of shiftless gimme gimme leftards could fix up a house. Of course, they wrecked, vandalized and destroyed it. Liberalism creates disaster areas, the occupy movement is the same but on steroids.