Occupy Wall Street Trashes a Brooklyn House →
I'd like to say that I'm surprised by this, but I'm not. Sorry Occupy. You just confirmed every stereotype that I already had about you. Way to blow an opportunity.
Occupy was being criticized — even from the left — for being vague in its goals. The signs railed against bailouts and the greed of the 1%, but protesters coalesced around no legislation, no candidate, no reforms. Everyone agreed that inequality is bad, but what to do about it?
“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.
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 dishwashing system.
That's not even the worst part. No, the worst part is the way that Occupy took over Ahadzi's house (the guy who was kicked out of his house in 2009, after he fell behind on mortgage payments) and gave it to another guy that they liked better and knew personally. That, right there, is pretty much everything that's wrong with a populist mob, in just one story.
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