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20 October 2011

Occupy Kalispell: political diversity & a bogus set of demands


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There were only 60 Occupy Kalispell demonstrators on the sidewalk west of Depot Park at noon today, performing a honk-’n-wave for the traffic on Highway 93. But before the one percent take solace in that number, they should consider the diversity of the crowd, and the number of reporters present.

Some of the usual liberal suspects were present, but so was Dane Clark, seen here applying heat to the Federal Reserve. In times past he’s packed a different kind of heat along this sidewalk, and while he’s a very friendly guy, no one who knows him thinks of him as politically walking arm-in-arm with Nancy Pelosi. Clark’s presence at the rally is more evidence that the growing national anger at the scoundrels on Wall Street cuts across party lines.

Bogus demands

One of several handouts at the rally turned out to be a bogus set of demands to “reform” Congress that allegedly was sanctioned by billionaire Warren Buffett. It was a hoax that the organizers of the rally should have caught.

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