Poster Boy For Occupy Wall Street a Trust Fund Baby

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A Breitbart.tv investigation has uncovered that the man whose epic meltdown video at the "Occupy Wall Street" protests went viral is really Edward T. Hall III. Mr. Hall is a Columbia graduate student who has a trust fund set up by his grandfather. He recently made headlines for trying to board a flight at JFK airport by hopping the ticket counter and diving onto the baggage carousel.

He was charged with trespassing and is free on "conditional release."




Edwards Columbia profile http://columbia.academia.edu/EdwardHall

Edward T. Hall III, better known as “Ted” to his friends, has become one of loudest voices on Occupy Wall Street. The lanky redhead with the neon-splotched hat looks vaguely like a Scream-era Matthew Lillard, making him easy to identify in YouTube videos of protests, where he can frequently be found preaching to the crowd in almost every single instance of arrests during the occupation of Zuccotti Park.

Before becoming a member of OWS, Mr. Hall made a minor splash in the tabloids, when he jumped a JFK luggage carousal in an attempt to get around airport security without I.D. and talk to a girl.

So why is The New York Times making him the poster boy for the protest?

Last Friday, The New York Times posted a video in its City Room blog, called “Opposite Sides of the Protest Come Together, Briefly.” The video shows Mr. Hall discussing the movement with Jimmy Vivona, a stockbroker on Wall Street. The point of this get-together seems to be that Mr. Hall comes from money and a trust-fund (he’s the grandson of anthropologist Edward T. Hall), whereas Mr. Vivona pulled himself up by his bootstraps to make a lot of money on Wall Street, yet it’s Mr. Hall who is protesting as part of the “99%.”

Isn’t it ironic, doncha think?

Not for anyone who has done their homework on Mr. Hall, who has a history of general rabble-rousing. The first red flag in The New York Times article may be that Ted identifies himself as a “leader” of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a leaderless collective. He jumps in front whenever a camera is on, and can be found in numerous videos and articles about Occupy Wall Street. (He even does it in Spanish!) But that doesn’t make him a leader, and it doesn’t necessarily help the cause.

A source on Occupy Wall Street’s General Assembly had previously told The New York Observer that Ted was often on the front lines, trying to incite police officers by screaming at them and leading chants against them. An early ABC video of the protests seems to confirm this analysis.


(Note: We don’t know why Mr. Hall is identified as Collin Quinlivan in this video.)

It seems odd that Mr. Hall has not gotten himself arrested at the protests yet, seeing as that would appear to be his main goal. He was quoted in Capital New York saying the Brooklyn Bridge protests were “the best P.R.” the occupation could have gotten. He also is very well-versed in the psychology of protests:

“Counterinsurgency theory is based on securing peace in pocketed areas,” he said. “Basically, you occupy the space and you protect the citizens from the insurgents. That’s kind of what what we’re doing. We’re occupying a space and protecting the people from authority, from the police. And the more they fight us? The more they’re seen as the enemy.”

The jury is still out on Mr. Hall’s ability to get others riled up enough to get arrested, but we wonder if a trust-funder with a history of being on the wrong side of police lines should not be speaking for the OWS movement as one of its leaders in The New York Times.

9/11 Truthers Launch Occupy WTC7 Campaign

http://occupybuilding7.org/

November 19 and 20, 2011

In front of the rebuilt World Trade Center Building 7

ON FACBEOOK: http://www.facebook.com/OccupyBuilding7

September 11, 2001: the day the 1% hijacked our country from the 99%

and launched a permanent war that will not end in our lifetimes unless we stop it.

Ten years later the War on Terrorism has diverted trillions of dollars from more important uses and sunken our country into debt.

Building 7, which most people don’t know about, came crashing to the ground at 5:20pm on September 11th. Today, millions of citizens and 1,600 courageous architects and engineers are demanding an investigation into the obvious demolition of this skyscraper.

The government's absurd story that "normal office fires" felled this 47-story skyscraper is only the tip of the iceberg of the lies we’ve been fed about 9/11.

Today we are taking our country back. We will not rest until the perpetrators who demolished World Trade Center Building 7 and the Twin Towers, killing 3,000 innocent people, are brought to justice, and the war dollars are brought home.

R.I.P William Cooper 1943-2001

On this Day a great man who was a true thorn to the New World Order. To hell with Mark Dice Mr. Cooper was exposing government corruption. He also Exposed Alex Jones for the lying fruadster he is. So today we should remember William

The New Tea Party-Occupation Paradigm

Are the "Occupy" movements created by CIA, to speed up the NWO?? (Part 1)

Uploaded by undercoveralien on Oct 19, 2011

Certainly I'll take some heat for messing with this controversial subject, but the fact is that there's a LOT of evidence pointing out for this conclusion: TPTB are pulling the strings behind the "Occupy" movements, through US government/CIA fronts, which are using the crowd as pawns in the "problem + reaction = solution" type of events. For the record, I'm not talking about mere agents infiltrated amid the protesters. I'm talking about the same huge apparatus used in "soft coup" operations, carried out to take down political regimes.
I've stumbled with several material suggesting that the "Occupy" movements might be a series of COINTELPRO ops created to speed up the NWO.

http://theintelhub.com/2011/02/19/cia-coup-college/
http://djosiris.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-affiliated-with.html
http://truedemocracyparty.net/2011/10/occupy-cia-tries-to-desensitize-americans-to-occupation-of-foreign-lands-thx-vigilant-citizen/
http://www.ex-yupress.com/vjesnik/vjesnik39.html
http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/transition_initiatives/country/serb/rpt1002.html
http://www.longitude361.com/?p=508
http://occupyseattle.org/resource/general-assembly-guidelines-hand-signals
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.countercurrents.org/barker260311.pdf&pli=1
http://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/overthrow-inc-peter-ackerman%E2%80%99s-quest-to-do-what-the-cia-used-to-so-and-make-it-seem-progressive/
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/barker08.html
http://www.truthistreason.net/global-revolution-plotters-backed-financed-by-us-state-dept-george-soros-canvas
http://www.canvasopedia.org/external-links.php
http://www.cia-on-campus.org/social/behavior.html
http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs_full.asp
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDAQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives.1wise.es%2FAT-Kubark_Pt_2--Price.pdf&ei=csOcTrThOLSEsgK6zISBCg&usg=AFQjCNFwZpfzknI8Phnx7MOae0ToV0YzEw

Occupation Movement = Obama 2008 Redux

Occupy Wall Street Applies for Occupy Wall Street™

Remember when the post reported that a non OWS protester was being all capitalist and shit trying to trademark the name "Occupy Wall Street" so that he can sell t-shirts, bags, and other swag. Well I guess the OWS organizers realized that they can be capitalist too. So they are taking some of that capital they rose to register the name Occupy Wall Street.

Source: Gawker

There have been a number of bad faith attempts to trademark Occupy Wall Street for business purposes. Now the protest organizers themselves are trying to trademark Occupy Wall Street themselves.

According to the filing, the trademark would cover everything from "periodicals and newsletters," to "t-shirts, sweatshirts, headwear, and jackets." Maybe a line of beer cozies as well?

Is NYPD Sending Drunk Homeless People to Occupy Wall Street?

Source: Gawker

The NYPD has allegedly come up with an ingenious way to sabotage the Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan: Just send drunks and homeless people down there!

The increased presence of homeless drug addicts and drunks has been causing tension in Zuccotti Park. Apparently the amount of "freeloaders" caused the Occupy Wall Street kitchen to scale back operations for a few days in protest. The Daily News today reportsthat the place has basically become divided between "real" occupy wall street protesters on the east, and the homeless riffraff on the West: There is now a "wrong side of the tracks" at Zuccotti Park.

According to Daily News op-ed contributor Harry Siegel, this shift has been helped along by friendly NYPD officers:

The NYPD seems to have crossed a line in recent days, as the park has taken on a darker tone with unsteady and unstable types suddenly seeming to emerge from the woodwork. Two different drunks I spoke with last week told me they'd been encouraged to "take it to Zuccotti" by officers who'd found them drinking in other parks, and members of the community affairs working group related several similar stories they'd heard while talking with intoxicated or aggressive new arrivals.

An NYPD spokesperson told Salon that the report is false. Regardless, the homeless population has put Occupy Wall Street in the awkward position of calling on the cops for help dealing with troublemakers in their rule-breaking encampment: Fuck the police! Unless we need the police!

It really is a brilliant, if supremely scummy, move by NYPD if true. Much has been made of the protest's embodied nature: They say the micro-community in Zuccotti Park is supposed to represent some ideal version of society where everyone has a say, and the pizza is free. How can they turn away the least-savory of the 99% without basically becoming The Man they've spent the last few weeks protesting? The homelessness issue could be Occupy Wall Street's Animal Farm moment.

[Image via david_shankbone/Flickr]

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