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Sacramento man occupies Wall Street among other things
by Sergio Villarreal, published on November 14, 2011 at 11:31 AM
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In doing research to better understand the Occupy Wall Street movement, I have come to realize a few things. One is that though I feel the movement may not be as organized and direct as other movements, their cause is respectable. Two, it is still early for our brothers and sisters taking to the streets, so only time will tell whether or not the movement did anything more than cause some chaos. And three, there is at least one guy who stands firmly behind the OWS movement with his mind, body, and penis.
That's right. Billy D. (if I had to guess that is not his legal name nor his Christian name) claims to have had at least 5 sexual encounters that were facilitated by OWS demonstrations. He says at least 5 because he might have been in congress with two of the women more than once.
"I believe in what we are out here fighting for. What's happening is wrong and it should be stopped and progress does not come overnight" says Billy. "It just so happens that being out there, shoulder to shoulder, yelling and chanting and raging against the machine can get a little exciting and things happen."
I met Billy D. through Facebook. He saw a thread that I was lucky enough to be part of the other day and sent me a message saying he liked how I handled myself. He had no photo, no previous posts were visible, but he did have the most interesting story about his endeavours and escapades within the OWS movement. I thought it was only fair to share what he had shared with me.
Billy D. works for a private law firm. He has two teenage children and is divorced. Because of the nature of his job, he has the time to lend his voice to the OWS movement. I would imagine that fabricating his information to maintain his integrity was his reasoning for contacting me through a ghost Facebook account. However, he was more than forthcoming about his experience with the OWS movement.
"I can say with total regard that I am not the only one doing this. There are men and women out there that love this stuff" says Billy. "If you have been to a demonstration then you know what I am talking about. Take the excitement of one of these rallies and then add to it the police presence. Take that and throw in a reckless sexual indiscretion and you have the 60's and 70's all over again, sorta."
This took me by surprise, but then I thought about the spirit of the 60's and 70's and it made sense. I remember seeing movies and shows about this time period and I can see how this would play out. You take a man like Billy who seems to be coming up on midlife and give him a chance to relive some of the glory days of free love and yeah, it sounds like the perfect flashback in time for him.
"You have to see where I am coming from. It is not that I am like a wedding crasher. I do not troll the Internet looking for the cause of the week and then go there to run through the local talent," says Billy. "I believe we have what it takes as a movement to get the ball rolling on a revolution. It is just that in the process of doing so, I meet some amazing women. If I can occupy Sacramento (and Portland and Oakland) while at the same time keeping a nice lady occupied then so be it. Besides, when you are my age and the mood strikes you , the best thing is to go with it. Revolting builds up quite the appetite and I have never been one to turn down a free meal."
Some people would argue that this is the behavior of a scoundrel and that Billy is somewhat of a sexual predator who feeds on the aroused emotions of women in protest. It is hard for me to say since the chat I had with him was not face to face. For all I know Billy could be a complete liar. Some 14 year old hormonally charged boy that is conjuring up these fantasies in his sex crazed little mind to get some attention. Then I thought wait, this guy has given no names, he has given no dirty details, and he comes across very private in regards to protecting the identities of the women involved.
"A gentleman does not disclose the intimate details of a sexual encounter. Locations, times, names...none of these things are relevant. My only goal here is to show that we are not a small machine of like-minded individuals with no lives. Some of us have been here before and we know what a movement like this has the potential of becoming. We have lives and we are people just like the rest of you. I just knew that if I spoke with anyone else they for one would not take me seriously and two they would probably judge me. I have seen what you write about Sergio, and I knew that if anyone could tell my story without making me seem like a complete dirt bag, it is you."
After my conversation with Billy D. I knew that my telling his story to at least one other person is all he wanted. So what if he gets laid at a OWS protest, or several. It is no different than what many of the guys and girls I know do on a weekly basis when they attend nightclubs. And while I do not agree with promiscuous behavior for my own lifestyle, I can see where Billy D. is coming from.
If I was reminded of one thing from my conversation with Billy D. it was this. I like to think I am not too quick to judge people on an individual basis, which I did not in the case of Billy D. We do not share similar politics and our ideas about the OWS movement are respectably different. I was not quick to judge him. A movement is just a group of people, so they should be given the same chance to clarify and explain themselves that an individual is given.
I have my reservations about the OWS movement but I can admit that I do see some things starting to take shape. I will continue to follow OWS and see how this develops. For now my position is still not set in stone or concrete but I do have new insight as to who one of the OWS supporters is and what goes down when the tents zip up and the sun goes down. Protect yourself at all times people, be it dodging bullets or doing the nasty. Thanks Billy D.
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Cres seems like I heard this tune before with your groups supposed "anti Iraq war" rallies at Broadway and 15th. You remember those weekly political rallies disguised as a "life or death" peace movement? You know, the ones that suddenly stopped the day the Obama won the presidential election?
This fight isn't for racial equality, it's for economic equality when it comes to representation in our government. Money has taken over our politics, and the government is run by and for the corporations and rich, not by and for the people. Do you think people went to rallies in the 60's, and hooked up? Probably so. But, unless a journalist was a racist, they usually wouldn't write an article saying that the rallies were places where black people were going to have sex. This is sadly journalism that's on the level of Fox news or The NY Post.
As for hate groups, if you went to the Occupy events you'd hear people drive by yelling "get a job", "go home", and lots of drive by cussing. You can see lots of these hate groups online posting on the Occupy Facebook pages. They post via their hate group pages or user profiles. At Occupy Maine's Portland camp someone threw a chemical bomb into the camp while people were sleeping. The only reason people weren't killed by that bombing is that the bomb luckily rolled under a sturdy table. If that's not hate, I'm not sure what you'd like to call it.
Saying blacks were worse off than people now is irrelevant. People could have said to them during civil rights, "Well, you had it much worse when you were slaves". They were still fighting for freedoms, just because they weren't chained by 1965, doesn't mean their cause was less worthy, less just, or that they had less valid issues over their lack of freedoms.
Working on the level of the NY Post and Fox News is not a compliment. You might want to look into the history of journalism. My father worked in journalism for over 50 years. In the past, writers often required verification or triple sourcing before something would be published. Publishing something like this would be considered the lowest form of trashy tabloid journalism. I could just as easily make up a profile and tell you I'm sleeping my way around Tea Party rallies, or Sarah Palin book signings, and it wouldn't make it any more confirmed or valid than this article. The reason I saw this article was because someone posted it on Facebook, shocked at how irresponsible and low it was to publish something like this, which you got from an anonymous profile.
While the OWS is subject to these attacks during demonstrations, once these demonstrations are over they go back in to blending with society. Black is a reality that you cannot really keep from other people. Unless you go around telling people you were out there with OWS, they probably won't know. Blacks were targeted for being black whether they were protesting or not.
And while losing your home and losing your job and not being paid what you are worth is a terrible thing and I totally get that (I have been both unemployed and "between places to live: before" and it was the worst time of my life) they are things that can be changed. People losing houses to the bank is one thing, but people being ran out of neighborhoods by their neighbors is another.
Battling corporate greed for a few months is a feat in itself and is commendable...but battling racism is something that some of us have had to do for our entire lives. Like I said, not to belittle what the OWS is going through, but until Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac start hanging people from trees, throwing bricks through windows and you have OWS tattooed on your forehead, you will not hear me say that OWS and civil rights are one in the same. These are clearly two different things. Corporate greed is a wild animal that people believe can be tamed or put down...racism is a demon and no matter what it will be here forever and it will always take its toll on everybody, no matter what your tax bracket may be.
Thanks Curmudgeon.
Income redistribution — taking money from one person and giving it to another to make them more “equal” -- is of itself immoral and simply satisfies some people’s warped sense of envy.
What we should be concerned about is legal and political equality. It’s the equality that insists that rules are the same for everyone, regardless of how much they do or don’t make.
In 'Democracy in America,' Alexis d’Tocqueville commented on the relationship between liberty and equality in early America. He wrote about how “labor is held in honor” and how our political institutions reflected this liberty. In this sense, earlier Americans reflected true ideals of equality, not the kind that encourages marauding hordes to destroy public property, vandalize storefronts, and bankrupts cities -- all the while shouting they abhor injustice as they commit injustices.