Drudge is leading at the moment with a variety of articles detailing crimes and illness that are befalling the OWS movement -- a death in Salt Lake City, lung sickness in Zucotti Park...
These are unfortunate events. Some in the media have tried to tie even more to the movement, with claims in the NY Post that OWS is responsible for defacing the the 9-11 memorial. An article in Salon argues that the charge is baseless. (link) SFGate has a story that there was murder in Oakland, but many in the movement there claim it had nothing to do with any of their people. (link) Still, there have been some reports of rapes and lots of suggestion of drug usage, and the footage I posted earlier in the week that shows behavior that would be called bullying in schools. All very unfortunate.
I hope it doesn't continue.
It was widely reported several weeks ago that Occupy had instituted a no snitching policy in its camps so that the public wouldn't get the wrong idea. The Washington Times had one version of this story (link), and an officer in NYPD was reported as saying that there is little information getting out about such activities because the people in OWS are trying to handle things themselves.
Uhm. Here's a question: What is the difference in that -- the no-snitching rule -- and what JoePa and Penn State (or the Catholic Church) have done?
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