Bret Baier reports OWS rants about benefits of Hurricane Sandy, “Anonymous” twitter accounts then threaten him
Yesterday FNC’s Bret Baier on Grapevine reported on the comments by @OccupyWallStreet ‘s official twitter account in response to Hurricane Sandy. See his report here. This earned him some unfavorable attention from twitter accounts associated with Anonymous (one of the founding parts of Occupy). They “doxed” Baier (got his personal information including his home address and phone) and said “anything goes” against him.
On Tuesday, the day after the hurricane started, the OWS account started with a rant against capitalism:
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things 4 the greatest good of all. #election2012
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Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) October 30, 2012Then followed up immediately thereafter with the specific “benefits” of Sandy:
That community you're experiencing, in the face of crisis? It's always there. Think about what it is that usually obscures it. #sandy #nyc
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Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) October 30, 2012What obscures “community”? Why, Capitalism, of course.
They then advised people to go outside on Tuesday (while many wires and trees were still down and dangerous, most without power, many still under water ).
Go outside. Meet your neighbors. Talk. Share a meal. When capitalism retreats, our communities flourish. #sandy #nyc
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Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) October 30, 2012No subways. No electricity. No chains. #capitalism #sandy #nyc
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Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) October 30, 2012As capitalism halts, we experience "an exceptional period of mutual support and common care." ow.ly/eSX4t #sandy #nyc @StrikeDebt
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Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) October 30, 2012In the above tweet, they link to an article on another Occupy site that refers to Sandy as the “People’s Hurricane” and a “Climate Strike” (arguing Sandy is due to Climate change that evil Wall St loosed on itself).
In response, the OWS account was widely castigated by the Twitterverse. Jaceyla Jones was perhaps one of the best, reminding them that people had died.
@OccupyWallSt, There's another, better worded truism for your rambling masquerading as 'wisdom': Misery loves company. People are DEAD, FGS!
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Jacelya Jones (@JacelyaJones) October 30, 2012After being roundly criticized, suddenly the OWS account seemed taken over by notices of how one could volunteer to help out Sandy victims, and posting on Occupy “volunteer efforts”. Still, they revealed it was all about the politics, noting:
Insurance is the capitalist answer to what should be an effort of mutual aid from the community. #sandy
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Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) October 30, 2012They then started praising themselves for their “rapid response” to Sandy, and attacked the Tea Party and government response.
#OWS rapid response to #Sandy shows importance of building networks for mutual support. When government falls short, people stand tall.
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Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) October 31, 2012MT @tylerevansokay: So, #ows is helping w/cleanup & aiding #Sandy victims, where are the groups the media legitimized? Tea party? Nowhere?
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Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) October 30, 2012When the FNC report by Baier then dared report some of the above tweets, this Anonymous account first called him a liar, saying that Occupy was helping victims.
FOX News: "@OccupyWallSt is happy about the damage" foxnews.com/on-air/special… #OWS is aiding victims. How do you sleep at night? @BretBaier #Liar
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Anonymous (@DBCOOPA) November 01, 2012Thereafter the following tweets recorded the effort to “dox” Baier and discussed what should be done to him. Click to enlarge:
This was then followed up with a post with his “dox” including phone numbers, home address, age and birthday. Citizen Journalist will not be linking to that dox page.
Here is a copy of the page with relevant info excised.
Anonymous@DBCOOPA has since scrubbed the first tweet about “ruining Baier’s life”.
HT @RichardRSmithJr for screenshot
Fox needs to keep Bret focused on Benghazi. He is doing a fabulous job. That is what this is really about; they are trying to distract him from that. Tom Trento (United West) has shown the Occupy links to the Middle East. Muslim extremists and Marxist share a hatred of the banking system and so these Muslim extremists find a natural ideological home with the hard left. As Tipp O’Neill maintained back door ties to the Sandonistas, so does Obama. Will keep Bret Baier and others in the Benghazi investigation in prayer.
November 1, 2012 at 11:45 am
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