Who Wants to Play “Simon Says” at Occupy the Hamptons? Pas Moi!
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011I know the disdain Wall Street has for the small investor. I know how financial advisers and brokers ridicule their clients and scoff at them behind their backs. So when I heard there would be a sympathetic Occupy the Hamptons rally on Saturday at Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, I fueled up on the free coffee and pastries given out compliments of the Democratic Party at Springs General Store (thank you!), and then ransacked the house for my peace-sign pendant and headband. (Where did I see them last?)
I felt the need to stand up and protest, personally, against Wall Street executives, highly respected by their peers, who bring in enormous amounts of filthy lucre and could care less about the negative repercussions on you or me. And, honestly, there had been so much bad publicity and ridicule of the protesters who were on Wall Street, including some belligerent comments I overheard from guests at a get together for Republican Cornelius Kelly in Montauk the night before, that I just wanted to see for myself.
Although it had been decades, really, since I had joined any sort of protest rally, thanks to George Demos, the Conservative Republican Candidate for US Congress in New York’s First District, and his press release admonishing protesters not to defecate on police cars, litter, sell drugs, or smash windows, I knew how to comport myself. (As a precaution, of course, I used the bathroom at home.)
