One of my Saturday activities is catching up on email. I received this three days ago, but didn’t take time to watch it until now.
This shows Walid Hakim having a conversation with a couple of “1-percenters” down in front of the State House. Apparently they were counter-demonstrating with the message that the Dad of one of them works on Wall Street, and has to get to work in an armored car. Or something. I don’t have the counter-demonstrators’ version of events. Here’s the OC version.
It’s the first time I’ve seen Walid in his Dress Blues. Normally, he’s less formal.
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Here’s my guess of what this is: I am guessing that these guys are in a pledge class at one of the USC frat’s and were told to go down to Main and Gervais and hold these “I am the 1%” or whatever signs as a pledge task. They were probably told not to engage in debate with the Occupy Cola people.
I could be wrong. But I think if the guys in the video felt so strongly about their side of the issue that they would go down to the site and hold up signs, then they would not be the type to shun from debate with the other side. So I think these guys are just pledges told to do this.
You know, that seems like a really reasonable explanation. Fits the available facts, anyway…
I really can’t get past the gum chomping. It makes me cringe. Interesting moment to capture, though.