• February 14, 2012

They spent the last of their HELOCs on torch supplies.Oh hey it’s that mob rule and class warfare we’ve been told so much about! A SEETHING MOB of, uh, peaceful protesters who were not arrested by police visited the homes of two “financial predators” over the weekend. Financial predators are like sexual predators, only without the sex perversions. Instead, they like to lure youngsters into the backs of windowless white vans and force them to sign zero-percent down no-interest ARMs with a $400,000 balloon payment after five years.

The protesters represented the Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America, a nonprofit homeowner advocacy group; the protested, Greenwich Financial Services’ William Frey and Morgan Stanley’s John Mack, of Greenwich, CT and Rye, NY respectively. Wonkette citizen mob operative “Kathleen” reports:

The protesters mistakenly threw old furniture and protested on the lawn of a large mansion that they thought belonged to the Merill Lynch CEO. Turns out it was the house for just the servants of the CEO; the real house was much much bigger.

Is this true? Who knows! Maybe Kathleen was mistakenly referring to the home/servants’ quarters of Greenwich Financial Services CEO William Frey, who was not at home while protesters put furniture on his lawn? He told the Stamford News that “I could care less. It’s really much ado about not much at all…They have a first amendment right to jump up and down and scream.”

It is a true testament to the crippling unfairness of the American caste system that a bonehead who says “I could care less” is a fat cat CEO with a mansion large enough to host a squadron of angry protesters, while people who use proper grammar are all jobless.

Mortgage Madness: Protest targets ‘predator’ [Stamford Times]
Housing group to protest at executives’ homes [AP]

{ 57 comments }

Pale Rider February 10, 2009 at 10:30 am

Agrarian Revolts – It was only a matter of time.

Naked Bunny with a Whip February 10, 2009 at 10:31 am

only without the sex perversions.

Riiiight.

Serolf Divad February 10, 2009 at 10:33 am

America will never by free until the last investment banker is strangled with the entrails of the last TV evangelist.

rambone February 10, 2009 at 10:34 am

Goddammit! Now they’re gonna have to interview Joe the Plumber again.

PeteJayhawk v2.0 February 10, 2009 at 10:34 am

In the words of the esteemed Tracy Jordan, CEO of Merrill Lynch, “you shouln’t end a sentence with a preposition at.”

PeteJayhawk v2.0 February 10, 2009 at 10:35 am

Fuck, Lehman Brothers, not Merrill Lynch. My 30 Rock knowledge is lacking.

Norbert February 10, 2009 at 10:36 am

maybe he would care more if next time they did the jumping up and down on his trachea.

Norbert February 10, 2009 at 10:36 am

[re=239992]Serolf Divad[/re]: this is so beautiful, I may cry

Nigerian Business Executive February 10, 2009 at 10:37 am

“[P]eople who use proper grammar are all jobless.”

Last time I checked, English required a subject in every sentence, unlike the second sentence in the mob operative’s report. But really? Could care less.

Monsieur Grumpe February 10, 2009 at 10:37 am

“It’s really much ado about not much at all…”

Who talks like that?

TJBeck February 10, 2009 at 10:38 am

Ooo, free lawn furniture.

Monsieur Grumpe February 10, 2009 at 10:38 am

Uh Sara? Zero down and a 5 year $400,000 balloon payment sounds sweet. Can you fix me up?

ManchuCandidate February 10, 2009 at 10:39 am

At this point in time the words, “Up against the wall, motherfucker”, seem so useful.

WadISay February 10, 2009 at 10:41 am

They have a first amendment right to jump up and down and scream…

…but only when the electrodes are attached to their gonads.

The Intern February 10, 2009 at 10:41 am

[re=239993]rambone[/re]: He’s occupied at the moment. He is trying to stop the protesters from taking his furniture.

jagorev February 10, 2009 at 10:44 am

only without the sex perversions.

Does anyone remember the name of that hedge fund manager who hired underage babysitters and masturbated in front of them? I seem to recall that there were trannies involved as well.

WadISay February 10, 2009 at 10:45 am

[re=239999]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Rumsfeld.

user-of-owls February 10, 2009 at 10:48 am

[re=239990]Pale Rider[/re]: Everyday forms of peasant resistance.

Cape Clod February 10, 2009 at 10:48 am

I’m not sure I understand the symbolism of tossing a barcalounger on someone’s lawn.

Servo February 10, 2009 at 10:49 am

Frey said, “I am not for or against modification. I am not a popular guy in today’s political climate because I am sticking up for the contractual rights of investors.”

That being unrealistic double-digit quarterly gains? Fuck you and your goddamned investors! If you aren’t patient enough to let your portfolio grow at steady pace, that’s YOUR problem. Now that you’ve passed the buck to the taxpayers, it’s time to fix that problem. You and your investors’ collective asses are ours, bee-atches!

rambone February 10, 2009 at 10:49 am

[re=240008]jagorev[/re]: Does anyone remember the name of that hedge fund manager who hired underage babysitters and masturbated in front of them? I seem to recall that there were trannies involved as well.

Umm, could you tell us some more about it. Just a few more sentences should do the trick.

rev_matt_y February 10, 2009 at 10:50 am

CEODouchnozzle may actually be stating with accuracy that he could, indeed, care less. By the nature of the media coverage he is forced to care enough to make a statement. In his ideal world, he wouldn’t even have to care enough to do that.

shortsshortsshorts February 10, 2009 at 10:51 am

The irony of having a banner ad about my credit score underneath this post is too much to bear *commits murder/suicide*.

Neon Trotsky February 10, 2009 at 10:51 am

Plebes in Greenwich, CT? Now that’s something I haven’t seen before…

ManchuCandidate February 10, 2009 at 10:53 am

[re=240012]Cape Clod[/re]:
I don’t get why Deetroit Red Wings fans throw octopi on the ice when they win playoff games either, but I think it goes under “It just is.”

But next time, I’m guessing it will follow the progressive evolution of throwing things:
1) Dog Feces
2) Own Feces
3) Rock
4) Flaming bag of own feces
5) Molotov Cocktail
6) Dude’s own Lexus thru front window

krlars February 10, 2009 at 10:53 am

You know in Alaska they just shoot the predator lenders from helicopters.

Serolf Divad February 10, 2009 at 10:53 am

[re=239997]Norbert[/re]:

Thanks, but I can’t claim all the credit, alas.

shanemacgowan February 10, 2009 at 10:56 am

“while people who use proper grammar are all jobless.”

Shit.

ManchuCandidate February 10, 2009 at 10:57 am
shortsshortsshorts February 10, 2009 at 10:58 am

[re=239993]rambone[/re]: “Joe, what are your thoughts on the current economic crisis? Should we be blaming individuals or is this more a systematic issue?”

Joe: “ASSSSSSSSSSS FUCKINGGGGGGGGG.”

“That wasn’t an answer.”

Joe: “TAXES SUCK.”

“That’s really not an answer either.”

Joe: “Okay. Let’s cyber.”

jagorev February 10, 2009 at 10:59 am

[re=240014]rambone[/re]: It was this guy – Jeffrey Epstein:

http://tinyurl.com/c3cwbe

Also, here’s a hedge fund manager who tried to set up his ex to be abducted and raped:

http://tinyurl.com/yswwo3

DoctorCulturae February 10, 2009 at 10:59 am

[re=240021]Serolf Divad[/re]: Sweet. No, no they can’t take literary allusion from me.

Resistance is feudal.

Sussemilch February 10, 2009 at 11:02 am

When people stop watching American Idol long enough to spend gas to go to your house en masse just to yell at you for being an irresponsible jerk, chances are it’s not ‘much ado about nothing’.

hobospacejungle February 10, 2009 at 11:04 am

It would be a horrible tragedy if this devolved into the hunting down and public hanging of financial executives all over the northeast US. And by horrible tragedy I mean divine justice.

Serolf Divad February 10, 2009 at 11:12 am

[re=240030]Sussemilch[/re]:

Actually, it wasn’t a very good “American Idol” that night so…

Sussemilch February 10, 2009 at 11:19 am

[re=240040]Serolf Divad[/re]: That’s like saying ‘the health of the casualties was found to be poor.’

rambone February 10, 2009 at 11:21 am

[re=240026]ManchuCandidate[/re]: [re=240028]jagorev[/re]:

I see, something akin to: http://www.cracked.com/blog/9-restaurants-designed-to-ruin-your-appetite/
(#1 on the list)

Well, like the man said when discussing the bestiality restaurant: “when people have got money and done everything else, they turn towards bestiality.” I mean, what’s the point of being super rich unless you’re going to also do something terribly fucked up?

Servo February 10, 2009 at 11:23 am

[re=240019]ManchuCandidate[/re]:
Shoes! You forgot SHOES!

ManchuCandidate February 10, 2009 at 11:41 am

[re=240057]rambone[/re]:
Hmmmm, just in time for lunch!

[re=240058]Servo[/re]:
Smacks forehead. How soon we forget!

Deepthroat February 10, 2009 at 11:41 am

Jagorev: Thank you for that.

“…the state police reported finding in Mr. Epstein’s garbage a ‘sex toy.’ But it later turned out this ‘sex toy’ was really a broken salad fork,”

the cold war makes me hot February 10, 2009 at 11:45 am

I heard about this on the NPR yesterday. Some douchey 20 something was saying he shouldn’t be blamed for the banks letting him get a $400,000 loan when he was 2 months out of college when his income was $40,000 as a structural engineer. He’s half right – both parties are to balme. Thanks, Asshat,
for ruining it for the folks who really did get scammed by shady brokers.

donner_froh February 10, 2009 at 11:45 am

[re=240026]ManchuCandidate[/re]: One of his lawyers was Ken Starr. How fitting.

Cape Clod February 10, 2009 at 11:46 am

[re=240030]Sussemilch[/re]: Frankly, I would have prefered it if the mob had gotten all Titus Andronicus on his ass.

Cape Clod February 10, 2009 at 11:50 am

[re=240019]ManchuCandidate[/re]: [re=240058]Servo[/re]: I say it will start to get interesting when they start tossing the decapitated heads of his underlings.

Hooray For Anything February 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm

“The peasants are revolting”

“You’re right- they stink on ice.”

AxmxZ February 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm

“It is a true testament to the crippling unfairness of the American caste system that a bonehead who says “I could care less” is a fat cat CEO with a mansion large enough to host a squadron of angry protesters, while people who use proper grammar are all jobless.”

Bring on the Pedants’ Revolt!

JMP February 10, 2009 at 12:14 pm

This was all much too calm and rational, people; learn to behave like a real angry mob. There should be some defenestrations at the very least. Come on, the Republicans have been complaining about class warfare, so it’s time to show them some real class warfare; you know, the kind that ends with the bodies of the upper class in multiple pieces.

Third_Law February 10, 2009 at 12:21 pm

Does “Let them eat cake” ring a bell?

Goes2Eleven February 10, 2009 at 12:59 pm

Next Zombie-Con @ Frey’s house!

Zorg February 10, 2009 at 1:27 pm

[re=239992]Serolf Divad[/re]: I was born in the sewer called capitalism, but I’m living for the revolution now.

whore4hope February 10, 2009 at 2:17 pm

He deserves furniture on his lawn for saying “I could care less” when he likely meant “I couldn’t care less.”

nrkeyqueer February 10, 2009 at 3:12 pm

That Frey guy just cant catch a break. First he lies to Oprah, now this.

nrkeyqueer February 10, 2009 at 3:13 pm

second though: Actually, this makes sense. Most of the banking sector’s balance books were about as fictional as “A Million (thousand? fuck Im too lazy to look it up) Little Pieces”.

axman February 10, 2009 at 3:22 pm

“We will have our cake and eat it too”

groove February 10, 2009 at 3:29 pm

Yeah, I saw this last night on CNN and was pumping my fist up in the air yelling “You go girlfriends!” because when I learned that these predatory lenders held families hostage and forced people to sign up for these ridiculous mortgages, I was utterly outraged at — wait, what…?

Oh…

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

Bearbloke February 10, 2009 at 3:59 pm

My fellow Socialist Muslin Comrades – the Victory is Won, as proclaimed by the weekly Tribune of the People, Newsweek Magazine! All Hail to First Comrade Barry O’Bama!!!!11!!!

Numbat Dundee February 10, 2009 at 4:11 pm

Do not ask for WHOM the bell tolls, ungrammatical capitalist pig!

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