A picture's worth a thousand words: These sum up the why of OWS nicely.

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In an e-mail, she said that she wanted me to see them because they showed an appalling lack of compassion toward the homeowners — invariably poor and down on their luck — that the Baum firm had brought foreclosure proceedings against.

So one of the largest of the "foreclosure mills" had a Halloween party where people dressed up as foreclosed and poor homeowners.

What kind of state of depravity do you have to be at to be openly and blatantly scornful of people who have lost their homes and livelihoods?

You know, it's one thing to lack empathy for the people they helped banks foreclosed on; it's entirely another to be openly derisive and mocking.

This is a perfect example of what these OWS people are protesting: greed and corruption so absolute, a sense of self-entitlement so grandiose, that these people actually think its okay to treat the down-and-out homeowners and former home-owners as though they are swine.


Edit: Apparently, I'm the only one who doesn't have to log in to see this, so I changed the link to another article.

reply to post by AnIntellectualRedneck


Link needs you to log in...........

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No it doesn't. I don't have an NY Times log-in and I can see it just fine.

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Whaaaa?

No pics ITT?

Your link wants me to register to login...

bad form.

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The link also tells me to log in...

cant see them...im not logging in.

Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
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No it doesn't. I don't have an NY Times log-in and I can see it just fine.

Probably just uses your FB acct.

Here's a different link - same story with photos.

Foreclosure Mill Employees Dress up as Victims of Foreclosure

Same story:

NY Times

In pretty poor taste if you ask me..

reply to post by Lysergic


Accepting cookies does not equal registering. There are many websites you can't get to without accepting cookies. In any case, I changed the link.

Ok, I deleted what I previously posted. Link is working now and someone posted pics.

It's disgusting that some people are entertained by dressing up in Halloween costumes to mock the victims of their firms.

That's sort of like mocking any other victim like making fun of people who lost their live savings in a ponzi scam or lost big on internet stocks in 2001 or making fun of murder victims. Disgusting.

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Pics, and article link www.nytimes.com...














Disgusting, these people did their entire office up like a shanty town. Good thing we live in a day and age where people can be publicly humiliated on social networks for their despicable acts. Wink Wink.

Also the pic with "Crazy Susie" is a reference to a well known home owner rights activist, and is simply over the top.

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Thanks for embedding those pictures! I couldn't figure out how to for the life of me.

Wow... How disconnected are these people? That is so sad! It's like they've lost their humanity. I really don't know how they can sleep at night...

Without their money their smugness wouldn't last.

no sounds like you have your browesrs set to not accept cookies so it is rejecting you. i have mine set to accept from trusted sites and to ask on others. i went to the link and everything is fine... 2 pics ...very bad taste.

thanx OP for the heads up, good digging!

reply to post by AnIntellectualRedneck


Someone should have crashed their cute little party. People nowadays are getting to be less respectable than animals. I'm not sure if we're evolving, or devolving.

That's pretty repulsive.
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Originally posted by Lysergic

Without their money their smugness wouldn't last.

did you notice the size of that diamond? wow!

Now all we need ot do is PROVE that these are employees that work there, and that is indeed what their office looks like.

Situations like these make me hope karma is real...