Smelly Hippies Get Ripped Off

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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!


56 comments

  2. 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!

  3. “…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!

  6. 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.

  7. 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!!!!

  8. 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!

  11. 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.

  12. She was with them before she wasn’t. Hopefully she’ll take more PR advice like this from John Francois Kerry.

  20. 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……

  24. 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.

  35. 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

  40. 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.

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