Smelly Hippies Get Ripped Off

Posted on | October 28, 2011 | 56 Comments

They march for free. I mock them for profit.

Somebody cleaned out the PayPal account of “Occupy Portland” and it looks like an inside job:

Organizers of Occupy Portland say they fear as much as $20,000 donated to the group through a PayPal account has disappeared.
They also say the group’s finance committee has hijacked the demonstration’s Internet domain name and filed for incorporation against the wishes of the group’s decision-making body. . . .
Papers filed with the Oregon secretary of state’s office on Monday show that an entity called “Occupy Portland” was registered as a nonprofit.
But [Occupy Portland spokesperson Jordan] LeDoux said the demonstration’s General Assembly, where the protesters come to consensus on issues, had repeatedly declined to incorporate with the state.
The “registered agent” for the incorporated body is listed as Reid Jackson of Hillsboro. LeDoux said Jackson was also on Occupy Portland’s finance committee.
In a telephone interview, Jackson said she undertook the incorporation “to protect these people. … I’ve tried explaining it to them, but they won’t listen to me. There is someone who has infiltrated the group and is trying to capitalize on the money.”
Jackson would not identify the “infiltrator,” but she said that disputes over the finance committee had escalated to the point where she had received death threats.

Very encouraging news. Any project that results in naive lefties getting ripped-off by their “progressive” friends can’t be all bad.

And death threats! Nothing says “peaceful civil disobedience” quite like a bunch of hippies threatening to kill each other over a PayPal account.

Speaking of which: This is a shameless capitalist blog, which means I’m supposed to get paid for mocking these hippies. IYKWIMAITYD.

Of course, the hippie-mocking business is highly competitive:

Yeah, what right do the homeless and prisoners have to represent themselves as society’s downtrodden. Impostors! They’re not oppressed like the college graduates with too much debt from pricey private colleges!

That guy’s a real pro.

UPDATE: Linked by Bill Quick, The Rhetorican, Da Tech Guy, The Conservatory, Bit’s Blog, and Don Surber — thanks! — and welcome, Instapundit readers!

Category: #Occupy, Crime

Comments

56 Responses to “Smelly Hippies Get Ripped Off”

Joe
October 28th, 2011 @ 9:12 am

All I can say about these Portland hippies is…pass the popcorn!
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 9:27 am

I’m sure it’s just the Likudnik Paypal bankster 1%-ers who are taking advantage of these guys.

This is all, like, so unfair, you guys!
AngelaTC
October 28th, 2011 @ 9:30 am

“…Jackson said she undertook the incorporation “to protect these people. … I’ve tried explaining it to them, but they won’t listen to me. ”
Meaning that if someone gets hurt , and can find a way to blame Occupy Portland, the board members can be held personally liable? Awesome!
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 9:32 am

Obama’s civillian army finds its funding, and comunications outlets, in many ways.
JeffS
October 28th, 2011 @ 9:33 am

HAW HAW HAW!!
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 9:36 am

PS:

Remember the “One Vote, One Time” comment made about the way the bad guys get elected for life in a lot of countries around the world.

I wonder how many people in those countries thought “it could never happen here.” But it did.
McGehee
October 28th, 2011 @ 9:41 am

Obviously it was the Koch brothers and the banksters and their fellow Joooooooooo Herman Cain who used their mind control powers to make this poor #OWS sympathizer steal from her brethren and cistern.

They told her the tinfoil hat would protect her, but researchers have found that tinfoil actually focuses the mind control rays and makes you more susceptible.

IT’S ALL A GIGANTIC CONSPIRACY! YOU CAN’T TRUST ANYBODY!!!!
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 9:55 am

It’s telling that the OWS regulars see organized protesting as the equivalent of “work.” The “derilects” are homeless people and criminals who only drop in for the free grub, drugs and cigarettes. Unlike the OWS protestors, these “freeloaders” refuse to earn their keeps, as if protesting had some kind of economic value to it. As we’ve long known, these kids are divorced from reality.

And, in that respect, Ace both nails it and slightly misses the point. Ace suggests that, whereas the OWS protestors see the criminals and full-time bums as derilects, we see the OWS campers as the derilects. True, but many of them are also from good, productive families or are neo-red diaper babies whose parents are “progressive” professors, etc.

These OWS campers are playing at being bohemians.

In previous eras, bohemian leftists/pseudo-intellectuals actually had to endure real, physical privations. Now, they tweet their protest slogans using I-phones, wear and sleep under LL Bean gear, eat free-range kitchens and cous-cous, and rely on the city police they’re demonizing to keep them safe from the unfortunate people whom they claim to be representing.

When the OWS campers’ bohemian fantasy is disturbed, of course – when they’re forced to confront the reality that real-world bohemians are uncouth, impolite, and dangerous – they throw a tantrum!
Joe
October 28th, 2011 @ 10:07 am

Lizzy Warren claims…I am not with these bozos!
Joe
October 28th, 2011 @ 10:07 am

Damn, the tin foil hats do not work?
LittleMonkey
October 28th, 2011 @ 10:22 am

Hehe! This is hilarious ;).

A corporation is simply the legal mechanism that allows a group of people to pool their money and put it to a particular purpose. A corporate charter specifies how and when money can be spent. There are corporate officers who are legally bound to ensure the rules are followed.

However, since “corporations” are the objects of the OWS’s aggression they couldn’t bring themselves to be associated with one and now must deal with the consequences of not incorporating.

It’s easy to be for redistribution of wealth when it’s somebody else’s wealth that is being redistributed. It’s quite another thing when it’s your wealth being redistributed.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 10:32 am

She was with them before she wasn’t. Hopefully she’ll take more PR advice like this from John Francois Kerry.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 10:50 am

Hey! No one steals $11,000 – $28,000 by themselves, you know!
Redistribution is a bitch, ain’t it? “Somebody cleaned out the PayPal account of “Occupy Portland” and it looks like an inside job”. « The Rhetorican
October 28th, 2011 @ 11:03 am

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Joe
October 28th, 2011 @ 11:08 am

Well certainly no one spends it alone.
Garym
October 28th, 2011 @ 11:30 am

Smelly hippys? Was Anamika here and nobody old me?
richard mcenroe
October 28th, 2011 @ 11:40 am

When they break out the ice axes, make sure we get video, guys.
richard mcenroe
October 28th, 2011 @ 11:41 am

She has a secret plan to end #OWS but she won’t say what it is unless we elect her.
richard mcenroe
October 28th, 2011 @ 11:41 am

I understand she got a magic hat from Christine O’Donnell… the black pointy one.
Daily Pundit
October 28th, 2011 @ 11:53 am

Occupy the Clusterfark…

» Up in Smoke: #OccupyPortland Misplaces $20k, Files for… Incorporation? – Big Government Organizers of Occupy Portland say they fear as much as $20,000 donated to the group through a PayPal account has disappeared. They also say the group’s finan……
Christy Waters
October 28th, 2011 @ 12:10 pm

Hahahaha! Awesome! I loved mocking hippies when I was hanging out with them at Dead shows… even more fun, now!
JeffS
October 28th, 2011 @ 12:11 pm

Hey! *I* could!
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 12:15 pm

OWS Theme song:

Guttermouth Trinket Trading Tick Toting Toothless Tired Tramps (warning: language, as if you couldn’t tell by the name of the band)

One of the few conservative punk bands.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 12:19 pm

Don’t even the various communist parties have to have bank accounts and register as some form of entity? If your taking donations your organization has to be some sort of charity, advocacy group or political party to avoid having to pay taxes. The story at the link reports that the fire department has confiscated the NY OWSers generators and propane tanks. So that “spartan grub” they were going to start serving to discourage the “professional homeless” is going to be cold grub.
McGehee
October 28th, 2011 @ 1:01 pm

They work — exactly like The Man designed them to work!!!

Who makes tinfoil anyway? BIG TIN, that’s who!!!!!!!
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Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 2:16 pm

Perhaps that’s because they’re made from aluminum.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 2:18 pm

I hope you used the proper incantations before typing that.
McGehee
October 28th, 2011 @ 2:26 pm

BIG ALUMINUM IS EVEN WORSE THAN BIG TIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (takes a breath) !!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 2:32 pm

Some one should do a story about that.
Mikey NTH
October 28th, 2011 @ 3:25 pm

Now I know why ALCOA couldn’t wait for tomorrow.
Red
October 28th, 2011 @ 3:30 pm

We’re all in the same pointy hat club. mwuahahahaha!…oh.
Twinkles Down Man
October 28th, 2011 @ 4:44 pm

Wow man, that is a real twinkles down bummer. They need to convert their donations into maryjane then if it gets stlolen they can just follow the smell man. Oh look! A kitty
Garym
October 28th, 2011 @ 4:53 pm

It must have worked. She never showed up.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 5:36 pm

Well done then.
BR
October 28th, 2011 @ 6:40 pm

Stacy,
Occupy Portland folks have told The Oregonian that the missing-funds issue is now “resolved”:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/10/occupy_portland_says_problems.html
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October 28th, 2011 @ 6:50 pm

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Patrick Carey
October 28th, 2011 @ 7:11 pm

Color me “not surprized”. The economic philosophy of these groups is based on intimidation and theft, so some of their own are going freelance on ’em.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 8:01 pm

So how much pot was left?
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egoist_capitalist
October 28th, 2011 @ 8:37 pm

Well, I am now thinking I must put something into the tip jar. What are the customary ranges? Is a 5 spot good enough to not be an insult?
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 8:52 pm

She hasn’t dropped a comment here in weeks.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 8:53 pm

Every little bit helps.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 8:59 pm

What Wombat said. Every contribution is appreciated.
midwest mama
October 28th, 2011 @ 9:42 pm

Used to live in Portland. Glad I don’t anymore. They’re loony.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2011 @ 11:52 pm

The irony meter has asploded, and the OWS idiots have no idea why.
skul
October 29th, 2011 @ 12:04 am

Who, reported HOW much?
BS flag on that.
Pull a couple zeros out, and I might find it believable.
Anonymous
October 29th, 2011 @ 2:22 am

Gee, I hope it was something we said.