‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protester Sexually Assaulted

Updated: Sunday, 30 Oct 2011, 9:32 AM CDT
Published : Sunday, 30 Oct 2011, 9:32 AM CDT

(NewsCore) - “Occupy Wall Street” protesters in New York’s Zuccotti Park battened down the hatches Saturday as the early October snow turned their tents into igloos, but the close quarters also made easy pickings for one sexual predator.

A man barged into a woman’s tent and sexually assaulted her at around 6:00am, said protesters, who chased him from the park.

“Pervert! Pervert! Get ... out!” said vigilante protesters, who never bothered to call the cops.

“They were shining flashlights in his face and yelling at him to leave,” said a woman who called herself Leslie, but refused to give her real name.

She said that weeks earlier another woman was raped at the protest site. “We don’t tell anyone,” she said. “We handle it internally. I said too much already.”

heterochromatic,

Today I am thoroughly embarrassed to have given my support to these petulant and ignorant children. These protests have gone completely wrong. 

This is one example of hundreds. This must stop.

  Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters.

  The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice, called her foul names and even threw a water bottle at her.

  Now, the Coast Guard is warning all staff working on Atlantic Avenue to avoid those protesters while in uniform.

IMax, you can say that he was hit by a meteorite, but it’s NOT looking more and
more like that.

As long as it’s just you repeating your theory. it’s not more and more anything.

heterochromatic,

You said it yourself. “All prevailing theories”.

Multiple contusions to the foot, ribs, elbow and head is consistent with injuries found on victims after being trampled. Not a single blow to the head.

“All published reports” are based on the same single accusation derived from a single unreliable source reportedly engaged in numerous felony assaults on police officers.

It’s looking more like Scott Olsen was trampled by the very crowed he was with. Time will tell.

IMax as you’re contending something that is contrary to all published reports that
I’ve seen, how about you explaining why he was trampled?

heterochromatic,

Is there a Scott Olsen? I believe so. I saw him on the television.

I can’t claim I know what happened to Scott that day. His injuries are looking more like he may have been trampled. That changes the narrative considerably.

I am now 100% certain this young man is being used by several in the media and OWS all over the nation. It’s also now clear that Oakland protesters provoked and assaulted police officers into reacting.

MoveOn is actively promoting the “Police State” narrative over the Oakland incident - without benefit of verifiable information.

I cringe at this. In no way do I support these actions for attention.  I don’t care the cause.

IMax, dooes anyone here actually “know” whether there is a Scott Olsen?

heterochromatic, - “prevailing theory”.

So you see why I ask the question: Does anyone here actually ‘know’ how Mr. Olsen was injured?

It seems no one does at this time.

you can read jimbob’s little “oinks” earlier in the thread.

hit with a canister is the prevailing theory and as the mayor and police chief aren’t
gainsaying it, it’ll served until the investigation is completed

heterochromatic,

Concerning Mr. Olsen being hit with a teargas canister: If you have any good information or a source for us to follow-up with that would be much appreciated.

As unfortunate as it is, it now seems clear that Occupy protesters instigated a bloody confrontation with Oakland authorities. Mr. Olsen’s injuries seem consistent with being trampled.

What is the sound of a Jim Bob?

IMax—- he WAS hit by a canister and it likely was an assault by one of the cops.

The demonstrators were subverted by some fools talking not unlike jimbob who
decided that they would assault the police and pelt them with paint and bottles
and rocks…..

Olsen can thank those mofos . we can all thank them for their rank idiocy and
when we decide to count up the pigs, the count starts with that group of
protesters.

they wanted blood and they’re not going to really be unhappy that it was
Olsen’s. they’re the ones who own his fractured skull every bit as much as the
cop who cracked it.

IMax - Thanks for that!

mrfreeze,

At it’s peak there were an estimated 70,000 people from across the U.S. outdoors in support of OWS. That was last week.

These crowds, very organically, are becoming smaller. Not larger. 70,000 is not a movement. Nor is 35,000 today. Not when juxtaposed next to the Tea Party being able to attract 500,000 in a day. And that was a group of people across the States who normally don’t hit the streets in protest. That, unfortunately, is a “Movement”.

Any call for a general strike, or bottles and battles to bait authorities, will prove the end of OWS. In this very real scenario OWS may very well cause a republican sweep of Washington and State Houses in ‘12’. In effect strengthening “Tea” voters tremendously one year from now! In effect moving everything in the opposite direction.

I understand your passion and I share much of it. But looking on OWS as a “movement”, at this time and in my opinion, is realistically premature.

Calls for a general strike, I think, will display to all how just how very weak and precarious this OWS ‘movement’ is. So few will be those who participate.

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What are Americans seeing? Americans are hearing and seeing rats, vandalism, rapes and fights attached to OWS crowds. They’re seeing refusals to move or bend for others. Others who have every right to open their bakery in the morning across the street - without a propane canister through the door - or refusals to keep protesters within bounds, as millions of protesters have before them. This all-out defiance, wide-spread destruction, by children really, will not help in raising real ‘OWS’ issues and the national dialog.

Right or wrong the Tea Party left the Washington Mall cleaner than before they arrived. They aided their cause. They didn’t trash it. Support went up. Not down. - We can learn from that.

IMax - If your concern is that there “isn’t support” or that OWS isn’t “a movement,” then what do you think is going on out there? I don’t mean to put the protesters down…..far from it…..but if there’s SUBSTANCE to the issues raised by the 99% (which there IS), then what’s everyone waiting for?  I’ll tell you what: They are waiting for someone else to stop the 1% in their tracks….......but this will not happen in the streets, this will happen in their pocket books, in disrupting their businesses, in gently refusing to “cooperate.” This is what strikes are about. This is why I’m saying, people should go on strike by simply not showing up to serve their corporate masters for a week or two. It would terrify the elites, sober-up the wanna-be elites and it would send a clear message that the world is composed of the many, not the few.

I’m afraid it’s only a matter of time before Americans lose interest in the protests because a) the Media will lose interest, b) the protesters will run out of resources and, the most important factor, c) Americans are too fat, lazy and stupid to pay attention…..You see, as long as the high-fructose-corn-syrup keeps a’coming and FOX News or American Idol is blaring on the TV and the “economists” keep telling us all how much better-off we are than the natives in New Guinea…...well, well, well…..who gives a shit about them there protesters?????

Robespierre115,

Calling for a general strike will put an end to any real support for these protests. People will see, very clearly, how so few actually support these protests enough to participate.

There will be no resounding bang or thud. Calls for a general strike will be met with near total silence.

OWS is nowhere near the level of a “movement”. These are still very small pockets of protesters on life-support in the minds of most. Let’s not kill it by imagining more than actually exists.

Leefeller,

You are right, of course. That being the reason I suspect the poor man is being used.

I believe I speak for most when I say very few will support throwing more rocks and bottles at anyone to support what may be a lie or false.

OWS is in danger of losing all standing and public support.

lane 08 - “A city wide strike on a city so in trouble economically is idiotic. It will hurt all the
small businesses that are hanging by a thread.”

A couple of weeks ago I stated on these boards that Gandhi’s general strike (a day of prayer & fasting) idea, sent a clear message to the British (and all their enablers) that they weren’t running the show. I think it’s interesting now, that some are calling for a general strike in Oakland. I think there should be a general strike nationwide and that it should last for a good solid week.

I’m afraid I have to disagree with your concern for small business owners. Here’s why: several of my friends own small businesses and to listen to them go on about how terrible the unions are, how terrible the teachers are, how awful the “government” employees are, how lazy people people are….and then watch them take their money with a smile really pisses me off. I realize “the small guy” may get hurt by a general strike but in my book, EVERYONE needs to know who does all the work around here…..there’s no better way to demonstrate that by simply not showing up…..no drums, no tents, no portapotties, no need to listen to the media go on about “what do they believe in????” Simply not showing up and letting all those “job creators” pick up a broom just might change things.

@lane08, do you know what a strike is? It isn’t a boycott. If the workers all strike then it paralyzes the city and makes the government know that without the people it is oppressing, society will not function. This is why general strikes have always been a powerful tool in every major revolution, read some history. How do you strike against Walgreens? WTF

I max, symbols are always utilized to bring together causes, just like the fruit vendor in Egypt. I do not know if it is the right thing to do, but rally cries usually work better if they have something to rally behind or around.

Hell, many wars are usually started in the same way! Maybe this is war?

Project Mayhem,

I understand what you “believe”. May I now ask you to share with everyone what it is you know?

The theory that Scott Olsen was hit by a teargas canister is being reported all over the media, however, I have seen nothing by way of this being anything but conjecture.

Minus any facts it looks to me like Mr. Olsen is being used by many people attached to the OWS protests and several within the media.

Once again: I support the dialog and a few of the issues OWS has brought to the national stage. What I cannot support is using the suffering of Mr. Olsen for OWS’s gains.

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I believe a city-wide strike against Oakland will prove only to turn most people away from OWS. I believe it will prove the quickest way to marginalize, and then dissipate, all support.

@lane08

Absolutely spot on comment. Raises awareness and helps establish a camarderie vis-a-vis small business owners and the OWS protesters. I hope that’s exactly what happens.

A city wide strike on a city so in trouble economically is idiotic. It will hurt all the
small businesses that are hanging by a thread.

Instead do a TARGETED strike against all corporate entities—Safeway, CVS,
Walgreens, Albertson’s, Bank of Amer and all banks—you get the the idea.

And at the same time, make a point of visiting the small, locally owned places—
bakeries, small clothing stores, independent book stores.

Don’t hurt the 99%. Help them. Strike only against the 1%.

I believe he was struck by some kind of projectile, possibly a tear gas canister from close range; the force with which they are discharged is quite lethal. Your suggestion that Olsen is being “used” is specious. It seems to me that the movement is drawing attention to the criminality/brutality of the local fascists by calling for a general strike, an act that is morally justifiable. Are you suggesting it would better for the movement to disregard the near-mortal wounding of one its own by the Police State, for fear of looking politically partisan? On its face, that seems to me an utterly ridiculous position to take.

Does anyone here know how the poor Iraq war vet, Scott Olsen, was so horribly injured? That information seems strangely missing in every news account and commentary I’ve seen to date.

I fear his injuries, along with his sufferings as I write this, is being used to the benefit of many in the media and OWS protest organizers.

I support the national dialog which has come out of the OWS protests. These are issues that must be made part of U.S. national focus. But if my fears are correct, that Scott Olsen is being used, I am disgusted.

This is a great sign that some of the Occupy movements are reconnecting the the spirit of militant workers’ struggles. This is how you fight back, strike and let the capitalists know that it is the workers who move the screws that make society function.