D.C.’s Occupy protest, attracting only the usual suspects

They should have gone to Wall Street, Move-on and Acorn front groups are offering up to $600 a week for paid 'protesters'.

D.C.’s Occupy protest, attracting only the usual suspects - The Washington Post

By Dana Milbank, Oct 11-11

By the time they got to Woodstock, they were half a million strong. But by the time they assembled on Freedom Plaza on Tuesday morning to plan the day’s civil disobedience, they numbered only 53.

Attempting to emulate the Occupy Wall Street protests, Washington activists and some out-of-town guests set themselves the lofty goal of occupying the Hart Senate Office Building. “We are there to shut the place down!” organizer David Swanson told his small band of followers.

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