Riots scheduled for September 17th.

[TheTman]

Oh I did find a couple of stories like this one from Eywitnessnews.co.za:

"Protesters have gathered on Wall Street in New York for a demonstration against what organisers call "corporate dominance".
There has been an online campaign for a number of months to garner support for the demonstration in the city’s financial district.
“Contemporary society is commodified society, as the market swiftly works on ways to monetize those few things which stubbornly remain untouched,” said organizers on the website occupywallst.org
Actress Roseanne Barr reportedly joined the action Saturday. Tweeting from her verified account, Barr said “Their greed and hoarding end today.”
It’s unclear how many people turned up but a live stream on the website showed many people gathered in the street."

Some "day of rage" huh? ROFL
They may talk about protests and stuff, but when it comes down to it looks like they'd rather stay home and play X-Box.

I think I've figured out what happened. There was no looting planned. If there had been looting then everyone would have shown up to get free TV or whatever they could grab.

Anyway, I'd rather be prepared and something not happen, rather than have something happen and not be prepared.

[Rainman48314]

Was the story just a hoax?

Nope, a few showed up in New York. Hundreds, rather than 20,000.

[johnh]

Wow, the left is really powerful. What a giant turn out. More like "day of slightly upset".

[TheTman]

ROFL, good one John!

[jlottmc]

Maybe the rest of them realized that mission is a fool's errand on so many levels, and that this country won't play nice when people show up to rape pillage and loot.

[aray]

The Day of Rage turned out to be a Day of Fail. A really funny write-up and first hand account of the event is here:

http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2011/...inglepage=true

[wyntrout]

Funny! Thanks for the link. There wasn't much in the news.

Wynn

[Rainman48314]

a few thousands Saturday dwindle to a few hundreds

Funny! Thanks for the link. There wasn't much in the news.

Wynn

Only the die hards remain.

From MSNBC online....

By John Schoen
A protest called “Occupy Wall Street” entered its fourth day Tuesday as a loosely organized group of activists converged on lower Manhattan and clashed with police.
The protest began Saturday when several thousand people gathered in front of the New York Stock Exchange holding signs saying "We must end corporate tyranny and corruption" and "Debt is slavery." By Tuesday, the crowd had dwindled to several hundred.
New York police have made a handful of arrests -- two on Saturday when protesters tried to enter a Bank of America office and six more on Monday. At least four on Monday were held for wearing masks, which is illegal for groups of two or more, police said. A video posted on YouTube Monday appears to show police arresting at least one protester.
"The elite corporate power have hijacked democracy," Alexander Penley, an international lawyer from New York, told Reuters. "The economic depression we are experiencing today has something to do with how Wall Street is run."
Demonstrators have displayed other signs including "Commodity inflation causes starvation" and "I can't afford a lobbyist."
The idea for the protest apparently originated with a Vancouver-based magazine called Adbusters, which describes itself as “a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.”
In a July 13 blog post, the magazine called on readers to emulate the "Arab Spring" uprisings that began in Tahrir Square in Cairo in January. The magazine called on readers to “flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months.” The purpose of the protest, according to the post, is to end “the influence money has over our representatives in Washington.”
“It's time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY,” the post proclaimed. “We're doomed without it.”
On Tuesday, police maintained a heavy presence in the Financial District, partitioning off areas of the sidewalk and slowing pedestrian traffic in a neighborhood that typically attracts heavy tourist traffic.
The demonstrators have vowed to stay for months.