ARRESTS For Protesters, NOT BANKERS!

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"...Nobody got handcuffed when Wall Street nearly wrecked the U.S. economy, but all
Occupy Wall Street had to do was try blocking traffic to be hauled off to jail, says Michael Daly..."




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What the protesters call the banksters of Wall Street nearly wrecked the American economy and nobody got arrested. But try blocking traffic and you will be hauled off to jail. Sal DiBenedetto of Long Island learned that on Saturday, when he became one of 700 protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. He spent nine hours in jail and he was issued three summonses.


“One for blocking traffic, one for failure to disperse,” the 30-year-old member of the laborer’s union said. “I don’t remember the third.”

“Disorderly conduct?” he was asked.

“It could be something like that,” he said.



Goldman Sachs got not so much as a summons when it sold investors $250 million in bundled mortgages it had to know were likely to go bad. Nor did Fannie Mae, when it faked its earnings so that its top people could pocket more than $200 million in bonuses. Nor did Standard & Poor’s or Moody’s, after they gave their highest ratings to risky mortgages out of fear they might lose the business of the banks that were peddling the toxic stuff.



“I knew it was wrong at the time,” an S&P managing director named Richard Gugliada has been quoted saying. “It was either that or skip the business.”



The list of greed-driven outrages went on and on, but nary a soul got cuffed. The banks apparently were also too big to jail. Instead of being locked up, they were bailed out. The banksters got even richer as the supposed recovery proved to be an illusion for those of modest means. Unfairness added a cruel twist to suddenly finding your aspirations beyond your reach, as DiBenedetto did when he entered the job market with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in mental health.


“You would think with $60,000 in student loans that I’d be able to get out of college and make a good living and have a decent life,” he said.

He ended up doing construction work and picking up a few honest bucks here and there.

“The economy is shot,” he observed.


He relies on the Internet for his news, and he learned online that a group named Adbusters up in Vancouver, Canada, was calling for an Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan’s Financial District. He was among the first protesters to arrive three weeks ago at Zuccotti Park.



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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-protesters-not-bankers-arrested-in-new-york.html


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