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#OWS Protester Discovers Free Speech Doesn’t Cover Firebombing Macy’s

Posted on | November 17, 2011 | 18 Comments

Man identified by police as Nkrumah Tinsley, 29

Not the sharpest tool in the shed:

A protester was arrested in Zuccotti Park Wednesday after he threatened to fire bomb the city — and his rant went viral on YouTube, police said.
Nkrumah Tinsley, 29, was busted after cops saw a video of him claiming he would torch the city during Thursday’s mass protest posted online, police said.
“On the 17th (of Nov.), we’re going to burn New York City to the f—ing ground,” an angry Tinsley told a crowd of demonstrators in the video posted on Tuesday.
“In a few days, you’re going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do to Macy’s.”
When officers from the NYPD’s intelligence division saw the video, they immediately began working on trying to identify the raging man, police said.

And now, the exclamation point on the sentence:

Tinsley’s parents described their son as mentally ill and [said he] recently started leaving the family’s University Heights, Bronx, home to support protesters downtown.
“I was really happy — he was going meeting people and talking to others, instead of sitting in his room talking to himself,” said his father, James Jacob, 66.

I’m sure the Occupy Wall Street leaders will seize on this datum to say, “Well, see, he really wasn’t one of us. He just showed up.” Except for the fact that, while Nkrumah was ranting, he was collecting high-fives from those around him:

What does it say about your movement when your protests attract 29-year-old schizophrenics who would otherwise be at their parents’ homes, sitting in their rooms, talking to themselves? Or perhaps sitting in Congress, talking to the media.

UPDATE: John at Verum Serum compiles a list of reported crimes involving the “Occupy” movement. Has it occurred to anyone — it has certainly occurred to me — that a movement which attacks capitalism and condemns profit as theft must necessarily, by its essential nature, be lawless?

To argue (or to chant) that private property is illegitimate, and that the rich should be viewed as predatory criminals, is a message guaranteed to attract the very worst sort of people with the worst sort of motives.

Category: #Occupy, Crime

Comments

18 Responses to “#OWS Protester Discovers Free Speech Doesn’t Cover Firebombing Macy’s”

  1. jwallin
    November 17th, 2011 @ 9:36 am

    “sitting in his room talking to himself ”

    He fit right IN.

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  3. Dave C
    November 17th, 2011 @ 10:21 am

    Tinsley’s parents described their son as mentally ill 

    He was hanging out with #OWS.

    That’s a give right there.

  4. Joe
    November 17th, 2011 @ 10:22 am

    My guess is he did not listen to Rush Limbaugh during the day. 

  5. DaveO
    November 17th, 2011 @ 10:22 am

    “…a message guaranteed to attract the very worst sort of people with the worst sort of motives.”

    The loud-crazies make themselves known (if, indeed Tinsley is insane). It’s the silent-crazies, and the psychopaths that swarm these OWS like sharks to a dying whale that is the threat. They are, after all, Obama’s people.

    I initially thought Tinsely was talking about firebombing Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. More people, more human camoflauge, more carnage.

  6. jwoolf
    November 17th, 2011 @ 10:27 am

    What does it say about the parents that they knew their son was mentally ill–enough to sit around talking to himself all day and living at home at 29–and not do anything about it? I suppose they could have had him on medication, but the Jared Loughner scenario is just too real a threat. Sometimes people need to be institutionalized.

  7. ThePaganTemple
    November 17th, 2011 @ 10:27 am

    I hear this shit constantly on Fox, people like Beckle and Combs, and others, declaring the #OWS has good points and a right to be heard but they’ve been “hi-jacked” by this and that group. Bullshit, most of the ones they claim “hi-jacked” the movement were the ones who started it to begin with. O’Reilly is one of the worst for this, because he’s the one most Fox viewers tend to think of as the pragmatic, independent center-right moderate, but even now he promotes this meme. And the ones, the very few, who are supposedly conservative, maybe with the exception of Hannity, never call them on it. Would it kill them to point out that even if there was a smidgen of truth to it, it still speaks volumes that the #OWS attracts this kind of slime. The Tea-Party sure as hell never drew this type of people.

  8. richard mcenroe
    November 17th, 2011 @ 10:39 am

    If you’ re marching in the same direction, and chanting the same slogans, and making the same demands… you ain’t been hijacked.  You’ve been outed.

  9. Anonymous
    November 17th, 2011 @ 10:43 am

    “Or perhaps sitting in Congress, talking to the media.” Extremely funny line…..thank you, Mr. McCain!

  10. Mortimer Snerd
    November 17th, 2011 @ 11:03 am

    “To argue (or to chant) that private property is illegitimate, and that the rich should be viewed as predatory criminals, is a message guaranteed to attract the very worst sort of people with the worst sort of motives.”

    Yep.  Democrats.

  11. Anonymous
    November 17th, 2011 @ 11:51 am

    Does anyone imagine for a moment that this poor guy was the only mentally ill person in the #OccupyFailure movement?

    Most people shift right once they make it to adulthood.  The rest have something wrong with them.

  12. Anonymous
    November 17th, 2011 @ 12:12 pm

    This Tinsley guy is clinically insane, which means that his “ideas” respond to medication. Unfortunately, the madness espoused by the hard-core OWS fringe is not so easily treatable.

  13. Anonymous
    November 17th, 2011 @ 12:15 pm

    To be fair, the Baby Boomers have seemed to defy this old rule. On average, they’ve probably shifted (once again) leftward since roughly the mid-90s. Several boomers in my extended family went from being Reagan Democrats in the 80s to MoveOn.org’ers. 

  14. Anonymous
    November 17th, 2011 @ 12:49 pm

    Yeah, I guess.  At some point, even the rednecks start thinking that a piece of the handouts should maybe come their way.  That’s how tyrants rise among the people.

  15. Bob Belvedere
    November 17th, 2011 @ 1:21 pm

    Thanks to the Left it is very difficult to institutionalize an adult and, when you are able to, the costs are only covered by insurance for so long and since they’re aren’t as many institutions as before, the cost of being in one has gone up significantly in real dollars.

    This all just adds to the craziness the Chaotics have been instigating.

  16. Bob Belvedere
    November 17th, 2011 @ 1:24 pm

    That’s the only Generation that I can recall that has done the reverse.  It speaks to how bad the BB’s really are.

  17. Red
    November 17th, 2011 @ 5:30 pm

    This just in from the desk of “give me a f#cking break already”

    “Hardy and resilient, they had already outlasted anything the Tea Party could put on. A Tea Partyer’s idea of roughing it is packing only one picnic cooler.”

    James Wolcott’s heart is making his sleeve all bloody n’ stuff.

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