It was mostly homeless people taking free food and looking for more handouts. And the proud third-generation-jobless-welfare-recipients taking free food and looking for more handouts. And college students taking free food and looking for handouts.

They had no rational ideological platform. They were blaming banks for the corruption of the same government which they continually vote for. It was an embarrassingly ignorant display of selfishness and self-righteousness. While I certainly don't excuse banks as being innocent (and I go on about this at length frequently), the fact is that it was these same fools protesting the banks who elected the corrupt government officials who gave the banks tons of taxpayer dollars and encouraged (and sometimes demanded by law) poor business practices and bubbles via legislation and the fed.

Bubbles are great when you have taxpayer money to blow and borrowing is artificially cheap. If you get out in time you make a killing. If not, the taxpayer pays, not you. Why not ride bubbles? The "why not" is missing when taxpayers don't bail out banks and the Fed doesn't make borrowing artificially cheap.

Nobody at OWS has any idea what I just said. That government clearly and undeniably facilitated the crash and continues to incentivize bad/risky/costly behavior is completely lost on them. They know nothing about what they supposedly protest. They just know some banker stole millions of dollars of theirs which they somehow are owed, don't ask them how or why.

And all the while, they voted for and continue to vote for the corrupt lawmakers who made all the bad policy which resulted in what they claim to protest. All the while, they continue to empower those who would enslave them more completely in the name of escaping exploitation.

As The Yell points out, that these people were allowed to break all kinds of laws which no other organization would ever have gotten away with is just more evidence in favor of my position. Of course they're allowed to violate laws and damage property: They're seeking to empower those already in power. Leaving them be to trash city blocks is worth the damage if it's voices calling for more government power.

They're calling for more government-run universities and complete government control of funding/tuition. They're calling for government wage controls to ensure that the unproductive get more than their work is worth and owners/managers don't get extra for their skills/performance. They're calling for nationalization of banks. Of course they're hypocritically allowed to break laws by government officials in power: They're calling for more power to those government officials. The law can be ignored when the law-breakers are in support of those in power!

What I find hilarious and pathetic is that they're seeking to empower the same lawmakers/banksters who use the Fed to continually rob them of their earnings. But that's just the biggest theft in the history of mankind. They just ignore it--It's complicated and lawmakers/banksters say it's totally untrue and that they're all warm-hearted and responsible Santa Clauses who would never do such things.

It's easier to not learn and just demand free stuff, so it's what most people do. Most people can be trained with treats better than any dog. Forget the fact that everyone in power in the history of mankind has corruply sought more. That's, again, complicated and hard stuff! Learning and thinking ohnoes!

Tea Party got permits where required, cleaned up after itself, had no violence, no rapes or arsons at Tea Party rallies, didn't destroy government propberty.  There's more trouble at a concert or a championship NBA game than at their rallies.  What makes them "fanatic"? Should we break up the National Conventions too?

they're too busy having wanton sex with random strangers, they will outbreed their opposition.