That’s Alex Tortoraorara as the cameraguy, that fucking douchebag from Muhlenberg who isn’t even an NYU student.

Who’s the guy with the mustache?

hahahahaha “you may not come in here!”

makes me giggle every time

“They probably drink corporate water.” and “I don’t think they want clothes, they want suits.” There’s not much to say about this, the footage speaks for itself.

[...] According to one commenter at NYU Local, the person behind the camera is Alex Tortoraorara who isn’t even an NYU student. [...]

“they probably drink corporate water.” “There’s an macbook charger, and an ipod, and…”
Doesn’t he realize Apple is a corporation? The stupidity involved in this is staggering. NYU handled this the smart way, and as an alum I’m happy about that, but part of me really wishes the NYPD was sent in and they were all cuffed and escorted.

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Wait, she’s complaining that she was forcefully removed from the balcony? The balcony they were told they would not be allowed access, then broke into (out to?) anyway? I think forceful removal is standard for anyone who refuses to vacate from private property that they have not been granted permission to.

Which reminds me, didn’t she state that she complain about “3-4 big men throwing [her] to the ground.”? I see the big men… but I see no throwing to the ground. Gee, I knew about the sensitivity surrounding police and guards using force on people, but grabbing a person by the shoulders is nothing, and definitely not “brutality” (which is a phrase they seemed to be throwing around more than a game of Mortal Kombat).

Out of all of the stupid things that TBNYU did, I have to say that getting so many non-NYU students to come and occupy Kimmel with them was the stupidest. Super idea guys! Creating a list of demands that pertain only to NYU (or I suppose the University of Gaza as well) and then getting students from other universities to carry out that message for you. Because if there’s anything that a student body just absolutely loves, it’s people from other universities dictating how policy should be run at a school they don’t even attend.

Seriously, did they think for more than 5 seconds about anything they did?

If I hear “consensus” one more time, I’m gonna hurl. Sheesh, is that the only word you know?

The difference between “corporate water” and Apple is that when people buy water from big companies, it “threatens the political will to adequately fund our public water systems. What’s more- many bottled water brands actually come from the same source as public tap water though these brands are sold back to the public at thousands of times the cost.” Perhaps if the government provided laptops in their public works system for 2 dollars I would boycott Apple products, too.

Quotes taken from http://www.thinkoutsidethebottle.org

Hey its me, the douchebag.

I’m just going to post my press conference piece for you couch potatoes who haven’t done a thing in the past week to organize for social change.

Thursday at 5pm Press Conference:

Students from the City University of New York, Drew University, New School University, Columbia University, and Muhlenberg College have joined this occupation in solidarity with the 21 organizations that comprise Take Back NYU!

As we read the demands with you, we find a great parallel between these and work happening in the global student power movement, especially at our universities.

At the City University of New York, students are organizing around tuition hikes and anti-war activism.

At Drew University, students are organizing around accessible, affordable education and socially responsible investing.

At Muhlenberg College, our chapter of Students for a Democratic Society is organizing a campaign for socially responsible investing and a students bill of rights.

At New School University they are demanding that their President Bob Kerrey resign by April 1st.

At Columbia University, students are organizing solidarity with Gaza after Israel’s attacks last month.

This occupation explodes the capacity for us to win on our very similar struggles. Most of all, this is a human issue. The people of Gaza, the workers at this university, and our student brothers and sisters are fighting for their freedom.

We all agree, we cannot be free unless everyone is free.

We cannot stand on the sidelines, the sidewalk and watch.

Please repeat after me, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED.

And by the way, my camera was a mechanism that probably prevented brutality like happened at New School in December where they weren’t on top of that as much…the black trench coat guy threw me an elbow and I was trying to keep a level head as people were panicking…the rest of the negotiations absolve me…I’m going to post those soon for you to poo poo.

NYPD has used violence on protesters in the past. We were lucky NYPD didn’t get in the night before or else you might have been scrubbing our blood off the walls like at Columbia in 1968.

I kept it clean, calm, and snarky. Let me know when you want to get off your ass and struggle to free people you’ve never met. I’ll be there with you.

oo and btw, using corporations’ stuff to liberate yourself isn’t a contradiction. Organizing also has to be accessible…if I told you I don’t use computers, would you listen to me and join my cause?

If I walked up to you naked organizing against sweatshops, would you listen? and so on…get some movement literature, talk to some real progressive people, not mainstream Democrats, and then start calling me out on hypocrisy.

Poo poo poo. When are YOU going to do something to liberate someone?

If the whole “they lied to us” thing is true, that’s pretty fucked up, despite how obnoxious this whole fiasco was.

Poo?

This made me lol.
Thanks, NYULocal.

I just hope as they left they properly recycled those non-corporate water bottles.

Some of us already volunteer at soup kitchens, amnesty international, and teach English to adult learners. I’d say these things are substantive, occupying a building and wailing like an eight year old when security guards show up isn’t. Tell me, what grandiose social change did you achieve by wasting everyone’s time? Where do you get the gall to appear in front of media and act as though you are an NYU student?

Guess what, acting like a self-righteous asshole never got anyone supporters and that really explains why a) most of your supporters were actually lookyloos trying to figure out what the fuck you were thinking and b) nobody honestly cares. Furthermore, you had no organization, no plan, and no real leadership. NYU wasn’t going let cops into its own buildings so frankly you didn’t prevent shit.

What you DID incur was property damage, huge expenditures of time and money wasted, an INNOCENT hard-working security guard SENT TO THE HOSPITAL, a near-riot by again random non-NYU students (mostly masked anarchists), and oh yeah, one more thing. You, as a non-NYC resident and a non-NYU student have incurred or paid into ANY of the systems you opposed. NONE. This was a zero cost situation for you, and I hope you enjoyed misrepresenting the student body and endangering people’s lives. I hope that while you are the fucking toast of Muhlenberg, that you shit on the lives of hardworking individuals. Take off the shemagh and do something substantive.

Alex, if you think you actually accomplished something, you’re crazy. TBNYU did as much to ‘liberate’ people as all of us ‘couch potatos’ did, and by the way, what right do you have to assume what we do when we’re not taking five seconds to comment on a news site? Reality check, do you know how many NYU students you’ve alienated from your causes because of this? Before the occupation, nobody really had a particularly strong opinion of TBNYU. Now, every single poll I see says that vast majorities *hate* you. So go on, keep fighting to ‘liberate’ people who are doing just fine without you, because your immature tactics really help your cause, really, they do. Did you even listen to yourselves or do any amount of planning before you threw this together? You’re sitting there talking about being accessible and credible and then *that’s* what you come up with, occupying Kimmel with a laundry list of random demands?

Please.

Like you really accomplished anything besides damaging your causes. If that’s what you need to tell yourself to sleep well at night, kudos, but the rest of us just think you’re a bunch of crazy whiners. I did and do agree with your group’s basic mission to make NYU more transparent but this? This was done so poorly I can’t support you anymore. It’s embarrassing.

Actually, it may be even thought that these ‘couch potatoes’ WEREN’T retardedly grandstanding and jerking themselves off but actually WORKING, STUDYING, or HELPING OTHER PEOPLE instead of having glorified sleepovers.

PS

If I was an NYU official I would’ve started laughing as soon as I saw what childish antics you guys considered social change. Funniest thing in the world.

Alex, you are truly pathetic. Enjoy changing the world through your dance parties at universities you don’t even attend. Hey, don’t forget to bring your macbook and ipod! The man hates Apple!

Your actions for “liberation” of NYU were about as well thought out and planned as Bush’s “liberation” of Iraq. Though to be fair, I think that what you did actually garnered lower approval ratings.

“if I told you I don’t use computers, would you listen to me and join my cause?”

You didn’t just seriously ask that did you? Not using computers? “Man, you’re totally batshit!” Occupying a building on the campus of a school that you don’t and won’t attend, refusing to leave unless a list of 13 completely unrelated and largely nonsensical demands that have no affect on you whatsoever, damaging property and injuring one of our security guards? “Fuckin’ A man! You’d have to be some sorta ‘couch potato’ not to dive in to that movement head first!”

By the way, I must really commend you for conveniently leaving off the word “Islamic” when you named “The University of Gaza”. Makes it sound so much less Hamas-y don’cha think? Why should OUR university allocate funds to rebuild a school which offers degrees in sharia law which is one of the most backwards, sexist and homophobic forms of justice in the world today? True progressives would oppose homophobia and sexism in all forms, instead of ignoring it out of personal convenience for your pet causes. You’re absolutely disgraceful.

*should have put “are met” after the whatsoever in the 3rd paragraph. What do I know? Just a couch potato it seems.

I’m sorry, Alex, but how many campaigns have you worked on? How many doors have you knocked on and how many phone calls have you made? Because I worked on the Obama campaign from before Super Tuesday all the way through the general election and I knocked on thousands of doors and made thousands more phone calls. In the summer I organized for the Working Families Party and helped get dozens of candidates on the ballot working alongside people who have been organizers for years. I think it’s safe to say that I have quite a bit more organizing experience than you, as do my volunteers from Students for Obama. So don’t you dare lecture me or my colleagues you self-righteous, condescending, wannabe. Go read some Noam Chomsky and smoke a clove cigarette.

@ Alex:

The only people you liberated were the security guards your solidarity group assaulted. Congratulations, now hard-working citizens don’t have to collect a paycheck for a while. You seem very concerned about your blood being on the walls–what about theirs? It probably runs thicker.

Alex,

When is Urban Outfitters is having their next Kafiyah sale?

I support you, man. Let’s grab a vegan cupcake soon.

Yours,
Eric Markowitz

@Alex:

I vehemently and fundamentally reject your assertions. You appear to be implying that the only way to create social change is to break the law. As Pat said, certainly the millions of people who worked on the Obama campaign qualify as creating social change.

Precisely what change did you create by barricading yourself in the Kimmel Center?

Dear Alex,

Please stop insulting Columbia by comparing your sleepover to 1968.

kthx

Alex, I’m going to at least give you props for trying to keep things civil. I may not agree with you in the slightest, but at least you stuck to your guns. Those kids in the back calling security and administrators ‘fucking scum’ just displayed some mommy/daddy anger issues and not any desire for social change at all. At least you believe in what you are doing and not just fighting those capitalist pigs, man.

That said, please do not occupy our space in the future.

@ Eric

I’d like to go ahead and get out in front of any “But what are the Obama people doing NOW?!?!” comments by directing them to NYU SOFA’s Facebook page (linked in my name).

The last minute of the video just sounds like your rant against people who actually make money. I’m sorry if you are jealous of them and their ability to effectively provide for their families, but you just sound like a hippie liberal idiot making fun of corporations and suits. Have fun being a part of the next generation of homeless people living in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. It was clearly worth the 200,000 you spent on your bullshit degree Gallatin kid.

Alex, you all look like complete idiots. Sorry.

But, there is a plus side to this negative attention, one which might actually help you LIBERATE someone. Set up a page where you promise to video yourself getting tazered (which should have happened to begin with) and solicit donations. I will totally paypal you $20 to the liberation movement of your choice for that.

REVOLUTION!

“He touched me, he touched me!” LOL

I have a place you can occupy…Its called Rikers,

And if NYU had any balls, you would be there now.

uuggg….these are the types of looser college students that make the rest of us look bad

Their parents must be so proud of them. They have done an outstanding job of raising complete losers. LOL

I think we should have a Consensus Agreement Discussion to see what the penalties are.

I can’t decide which is the stronger feeling I have for the sad little “protester” behind the camera – disdain or pity. The impotent little brat has absolutely no leadership skills whatsoever. As clearly evidenced by the fact that none of his fellow wannabe rabble-rousers is paying him the slightest bit of attention.

They need to Janet Reno their asses.
Punks.

This is just sad.

Want to liberate someone? Join the Marines. Want to make a real difference for social change? Help monitor elections in Tikrit or Kabul. Want to see real brutality? Visit Halabja and witness the melted faces of the survivors.

Barricading yourself in a cafeteria on someone else’ property is just empty narcissism.

I am so sick of these rich Anarcho-Syndicalists who go to school to get a 1st class education and waste it on abject nonsense.

Is everyone at NYU a bunch of pussies, or just those little whiney bitches doing their sit in?

This SLAYED me…

‘You guys are all corporationey, and we’re using consensus and sweet kaffiyehs to overturn the power structure through consensus and a rejection of non-consensus and brutality. The revolution will be televised via my iphone! Also, Gaza.

Don’t touch me!’

Thanks for making my night…

Alex,

In a perfect world, you would have been clubbed unconscious and thrown in jail for your little stunt, since that is obviously what you want.

Looks more like you are trolling for a lawsuit than trying to enact any kind of “social change” or other faggotry like that.

That video has made me rethink my position. I now fully support hikes in tuition for State schools…big, big tuition hikes.

You have alot of nerve barring others from using the cafeteria. Your demands are ridiculous. One day I truly hope you find out how the world really works!

Your Daddies should of beat your asses A LOT more! Are their any men in your generation?

What kind of “Scripture” was that?

And would somebody please get that Bozo a Websters so he can look up “consensus.”

This was pathetic and it makes me feel slightly better to know that many of the fools involved in this weren’t actually NYU students. I’d hate to think the quality of the education had fallen that far since I was there 10 years ago.

You want the University to be more affordable and, at the same time, you want them to send money to the Islamic University of Gaza to rebuild. How is spending money on things that won’t benefit students going to aid in making NYU cheaper? Furthermore, why do you think NYU, as a private university, is under any obligation to be cheaper? Here’s a newsflash: There are other schools you can go to and many (most!) of them are cheaper.

Now, I don’t want to blow your progressive little minds here with this thought, but, you could also choose not to go to college at all. You’ve obviously got things figured out and you know so much more than the adults at the University do. You could save a lot of money by dropping out of college and getting on with whatever ‘liberation’ crap you plan on doing in life. And, yes, what you’re doing is crap. Do you think a person starving in Africa gives a rat’s behind about whether or not some spoiled kid in the U.S. can easily afford their premium college education?

Perhaps you and your little friends could get together and come to a consensus on whether or not you should even bother going to college.

The bums will always lose!

HAHAHAHAHAHA

This is a true thing of beauty. I wonder if the participants can appreciate the level of self parody they have displayed here in such an exquisite, pure form. You can empathize with the good people from the campus security who had to deal with such nonsense, that comes through very clearly.

I also note a sense of “been here done that” too, which I guess comes with the job at NYU security. That just adds another layer to the parody, I’m sure these kids fashion themselves as something special for their actions so the implied eye rolls of the security team give a bit of extra enjoyment.

10 out of 10. Thank you for sharing.

“We need to democratically decide on a consensus area”

Overindulged mindless morons.

“Pretend you can’t hear us? ”

Pretend anyone give a shit.

The country would be better off without NYU. I’m sure NYC could use the space more productivly as a parking lot. Your video portrays it as a homeless shelter for whiney, self absorbed, ambulance chasers who havent the social skills to exsist outside of “so called’ higher education. You who participated in this pitiful theater are among the laughing stock of the country, outside of the current administration. Leave the school to those who want to actually do something productive with their lives.

Hey Alex, next time be sure to yell out “Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”

I must admit. i just don’t get these protests. The is still a free country. If you don’t like the policies or the costs of NYU – attend another university. I know that when I selected a university and later a graduate school I made sure that the colleges I selected would be a good fit for me. I did not expect the culture of those institutions to change for my particular ideologies or budget. On a side note – where are the parents of these young adults? If I pulled that crap I would not have to worry about police brutality, my Italian mother would have pushed those barricades out of the way and beat my ass in front of everyone.

I’m confused. Is NYU a special education school?

Oh my God. this is so funny! These douche bags actually think they have a leg to stand on. Waaaaay funny! and really sad that these idiots are actually in college wasting their mommy and daddys hard earned money!
Don’t fukkin touch meeeeeee! He Touched meeeeee! eeeeeeee!
“They probably drink corporate water.” Heh. heh what a stupid little whiny lib!
Thanks for posting! Watching Idiots in action is always a hoot!
Especially when they take themselves so seriously.

I think tear gas would have been better. A little leaky eye would have been Way fun!

still laughing!

I love it when people trespass against rules and law then have the audacity to put on a guise that they are standing up for rights and law. The ends and means need to compliment each other and not contradict, for then the cause is completely negated and any respect you may have outside the brethren of the particular conviction is completely nullified. In short, bad form kids. Bad form.

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I didn’t see Jimmie Kimmel. Was Adam Carolla there also?

These clowns should of taken a cue from their Pallie brothers and strapped explosive vests on and blown up everyone in their vicinity.

However these trust fund morons are pussies.

Anyone else think the scene where these heroes show off the Mac Book would make a great PC commercial?

come see the violence inherent in the system! come see the violence inherent in the system!

Alex,

If you are so brave, go do this in China and see what happens to you and your merry band of trust-fund revolutionaries. Seriously, any group that has a white guy with dreadlocks probably deserves a good ass kicking. You got off light.

Go try to enact social change somewhere where the opposition shoots at you, then report back about your bravery.

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A thousand times heh. This is more far-fetched than some lame SNL skit. Beyond parody.

The girl in the kefiyeh shrieking about brutality because she was removed from someone else’s property?

The assuming the others drink ‘corporate water’ then deriding it while cataloging a vast array of Apple Inc. gear. (three laptops and an iPod?)

The buzzword and buzz-phrases. ‘organizing for change’, ‘consensus’ and a dozen others. See how well your consensus and organizing worked, pal? You accomplished exactly dick, besides hopefulyl getting your own stupid ass expelled. I hope if you had a scolarship (nearly guaranteed, I doubt you’d stoop so low as to pay your own way) they demand you repay it.
Idiot.

Oh Alex.

I cringe for you when you have to see this video 10 years from now and realize how absolutely juvenile your protest and words are.

The only thing that seemed to be liberated was you ability to look stupid. Why don’t you protest something that matters.

Is NYU a college?

What a bunch of loosers! Lives are risked daily protect you sniveling pieces of shit and that in itself is a goddamn shame. Wake up and quit bitching about how much you “change the world” and produce something for the good of the world other than a bunch of bloviating bullshit. If you gave a shit about the third world or Gaza or anything else you seem to support, you wouldn’t have half of the high dollar toys and fashionable shit you drag around with yourselves. How about spending some time understanding the problems around you and spending less time in the classroom and campus. No wonder the economy is in the shape it is in with your kind wanting to “change” solid economic principles for feelgood handouts that have caused total collapse of the markets. Marxist asshats, all of you!

LOL, the cameraman has corporate-produced computers next to his free water, while complaining that the suits only drink corporate-produced water; cognitive dissonance in its most pure form. These people are demonstrating textbook mental illness.

It’s like a Dane Cook skit. The guy has the voice down and everything.

We need to come to a consensus!!!!

I wonder. How might the Chinese have handled that little gang of spoiled twerps?

What a bunch of tools. I can hear them now. “Daddy, they stopped our protest.”

Brian:

We all know they would have been ran over with a tank.

pphhhwaaHAHAHAA!!!

Oh man! Thanks for the laugh! …These kids are so friggin’ inept it is a joy to watch. I’m sure the parents are glad they’ve dropped tens of thousands of dollars getting their kids “college” educations! Woo-HOO!

If these kids were smart they would learn from this incident that you do NOT get to dictate the rules of engagement in life. In life you must first be realistic, and second be adaptable. …When you live in the bubble of college, when everyone thinks like you, what do you do when reality comes crashing through your pathetic barricade? You grab a camera, and pretend you have a modicum of control! Hee Hee!!

I love it! Brilliant!!!!

Too funny. Too pathetic. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin are laughing or crying somewhere in the ether. This group of over-entitled suburbanite children must have failed Alinsky 101 and didn’t have the balls to steal Abbie’s book.

One can only hope that they realize what a national laughingstock they are.

What a bunch of douches. Going to school on mommy and daddys dime. No clue about what a democratic REPUBLIC is about. And they have no clue on how to effectively stage a protest. Hope they throw all of them out of school and shred their transcripts.

They have no requirement to negotiate. You are a student, they are faculty. Get over it opie. Grow the hell up and get a real life.

You do seem to have created an almost perfect consensus among those leaving their comments here. Congratulations! It’s funny how things work out in the end, isn’t it?

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

Thanks for the great belly laugh. You wusses would never have made it in ‘68! Geez, I feel kind of……liberated.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

@Marty: I actually think we must have been linked from a few other websites because the majority of these commenters are *not* NYU students, nor were they readers of our site prior to this incident. If you’d like to see opinions on our site that differ from those of the commenters, here are two editorials written by a member of TBNYU:

http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2009/02/18/duncan-meisel-of-tbnyu-explains-the-kimmel-occupation/

http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2009/02/20/duncan-meisel-stands-by-tbnyus-methods/

Aw, bless their little cotton socks! How cute. What’s the point of having rich parents who provide the very best of everything if you can’t let your fake dreadlocks down every once in a while and play at being angry.

What’s next on the agenda, kids? Mommy and daddy paying for you to spend the summer at circus school so you can learn how to juggle and ride a unicycle?

Go ahead and yuk it up at the TBNYU’s expense. Laugh and laugh while the campus hierarchy and power structure manhandle Farah, and poo poo the visciousness and thuggish police brutality that leads to a point where Farah’s kaffiyeh gets slightly shifted from its carefully placed position at the hands of these animals hired to “protect” the students. Real cool, you’re all so tough.

Scared of a little consensus? Hiding behind your corporate water bottles?

This has to be parody, otherwise you have to be the biggest retarded pansy ever to walk the campus. You’re not a registered student, and therefore, you have no right to be on university property. They probably didn’t teach you that in the Sociology 101 class you fluked out of at the brainless college your parents wasted their money on. I’d have paid money to see your ass beat by security.
Corporate water bottles? Slightly shifted kaffiyeh? You’re nothing more that a self-absorbed asswipe whose parents mistakenly thought they bought you a camera for some film class to fulfill an elective for some bullshit pseudo degree.
Do yourself a favor, and next time pretend you have a set of balls and set yourself on fire like those monks did in the sixties. It garnered quite a bit of attention. It’s for the cause, man!

“Hey its me, the douchebag.

I’m just going to post my press conference piece for you couch potatoes who haven’t done a thing in the past week to organize for social change.”

You haven’t done dooky for social change. Do you think people Gaza know/care that you are even alive? And I can’t for the life of me understand how lefties like you get such a woody for a bunch of violent, homophobic, wife-beaters. Lawrence Summers gets fired from Harvard for having an incorrect thought, and you’re type stands around and cheers. You wouldn’t know social change if it bit you in the ass. You’d be protesting it, probably.

What a pathetic display Time to go home to Mommy and Daddy

Attica! Attica!

I found this video linked onto another site. I do not attend NYU myself so I guess the decision about what to do with this group is up to the university which has had to endure this. I will say though that the cameraman seems to be very immature, annoying and completely out-of-touch with reality if he truly thinks this is how democracy works or is even supposed to work. For someone whining about corporations, I had to laugh that at the end of the video the most important thing to him was protecting his “stuff”. Guess the corporate fat-cats aren’t the only ones into materialism, eh Alex?

Expel those who are NYU students and arrest them ALL for trespassing.

These crazy liberals are the reason why America is having so many problems. They have no idea how the world works and bring down everyone around them.

This protest makes a mockery of fighting for real causes. How dare this asshole invoke Columbia 68. Most of the schizophrenic goals were NYU related, and the consensus-loving cameraman doesn’t even attend the university. Alex, if there were something to protest, people would be strongly supportive.

But let’s be honest. This charade did more violence than good to advancing any of your demands. This protest is nothing more than bored, self indulgent students who don’t actually give a fuck about the incoherent set of goals (or they wouldn’t have handled the situation this way), but create some fiction so they can pretend to relive the some epic movement. It’s pathetic to hear you groveling to the security guards and begging them to put on earmuffs. You think that’s a protest? People got SHOT at Kent State. Don’t insult their brave legacies with this bullshit.

Great video. I haven’t seen anything this funny since I watched all the hippies get the shit kicked out of them at the Oakland Induction Center in October 1967.

I hope that this video is one of the things every prospective employer reviews before hiring you.

In almost any other country in the world you would have been stomped into the ground during the first hour.

Maybe now you understand that not all “consensus” is equal.

That was the most hilariously satirical unintentioned satire I’ve ever seen. These guys (protesters) have no idea how abjectly stupid they are. If it were intentional, it’d be comedic genius.

Is this a joke? You guys looked like pathetic whiners.

Next time you think about organizing one of these events, stop. It does absolutely nothing to help. This is sad. If this is the best we can get from an anti-establishment movement in America, this nation is doomed.

Anyway, I’ll be campaigning for Texas secession. Enjoy your mini revolts.

i don’t know about you guys, but l prefer corporate water over all other waters. How do these idiots even get into college?

WTF ?
Concensus? Silly tust-fund kid, you think “concensus” means that a group of law breaking hipsters can gather and discuss what they want the police to do about them? I’d have voted to give you 3 chances to come-out, then you’d have gotten tear gassed and escorted out in handcuffs – that’s standard for people who do not co-operate with law enforcement….and what’s with the corporate bashing? Guess your commune doesn’t get that corporations are what fuel our economy.

It’s too bad that you grew-up in an invalidating parental environment, Alex.
Go put-on your che gueverra t-shirt and drive your Prius with president hussein bumper-sticker – don’t come crying to me when your trust fund runs out….the palestinians surely aren’t going to rescuce you.

Stop picking on hippie spending habits! Our economy right now needs them to continue deluding themselves over trendy coffee Apple Corp., and whatever ‘flavor of the week’ fad they’re told to buy.

And not all of them are bumming the money for these things from working people, you know. There’s a lot of trust-fund babies at these schools too. Let’s get the economy moving together!

Wow.

Is this elaborate flame? Could these effete, ineffectual pseudo-revolutionaries really be as big of losers as they seem?

A++ if this was flame – well played!

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Today I went to Kimmel and had a delicious quesadilla. All traces of the occupation have been cleared. It’s almost like TBNYU never existed…

Good riddance.

I thought the video was very instructive.

Dear Alex the consensus man, I am breathless with laughter! You and your comrades have made fools of yourselves before the entire world. Expect ridicule and spin off video parodies even from countries you haven’t heard of. You have beclowned yourself beyond any conceivable competition. Bravo!

I weep for the future of the USA if this is anything near to our best and brightest. And as for “fighting the system” I bet that lone chinaman who stared down tanks in Tienanmen Square is, sadly, rolling over in his grave.

This is what happens when hippies try to run things.

Do these kids even have a clue as to how pathetic they looked? I would be completely embarrassed by this video and their actions. Maybe that’s because I drink “corporate water” and wear “suits”.

At 7:33 – “You must put on earmuffs”

This is Classic!

Thank you, Thank you!

No use in weeping for the future… might as well just laugh.

“Corporate water”…priceless

What a moron.

Alex, as a disabled Vet who gave much so you can act so childish makes me wonder if it was worth the PERSONAL price I paid. I think you would be better suited in Cuba perhaps.

This was obviously a hoax – I’ve seen that guy with the mustache on Reno 911. And that tall cop who tells Camera Guy that they’re here to clean the place out – obviously Aaron Pierce from 24. Did this happen Oscar night? Or was it just featured there with an intro from Hugh Jackman? Freakin’ hilarious!

But the best part was the script – Camera guy argues that Reno 911 can’t kick them out of the building that they’re squatting in because they’re practicing democracy rules and everyone has to abide by them! LOL!!! I can’t wait to see the next video clip where the cops “practice” a little democracy of they’re own and vote to strip these libtards down to their curlies and throw them over the fence outside! Now there’s power to the people!

Honestly – forcefully taking over a building so you can play with your Mac books and text each other in solidarity with the reigning terrorist gang in Gaza is like watching Bambi throwing a fist in the air for Godzilla – epic comedy! Alex Libtardo – you have a future in television! French television!

Alex attempts to write: “You guys are all corporationey”
Corporationey? Missed English class that day eh Alex.

And then Alex The Einstein gives us, “…and poo poo the visciousness and thuggish police brutality that leads to a point where Farah’s kaffiyeh gets slightly shifted from its carefully placed position at the hands of these animals hired to “protect” the students.”
..slightly shifted from its carefully placed position…eww that’s scary Alex, her scarf moved, those thugs! I mean the NAZI’S forcing Jews, Gypsy’s, intellectuals etc, at gun point, into cattle cars for that last scenic ride has got nothing on those campus cops!
I mean where do they get off getting upset when a bunch of people, many not even from NYU, decide to illegally squat on private property causing damage and loss and the injury of an innocent employee….right?
Alex you are a moron without a clue as to what and who you are supporting.

Also, Masada!
Also, Ashkelon!
Also, Sderot!

In reading the comments here, I am thoroughly impressed at the heights of douchebaggery attained by kids maybe 4 years younger than I.
What are they teaching you?
To each moron embracing the notion your pre-election activism for the new socialism (a baby-step from true Communism) was a good thing… take a good hard look at the joy France experienced in the past two years…
Your ideology is bankrupt (to the extent you ever had an ideology before you paid for your own brainwashing).
When you graduate (if you endeavor at a true education… not lib studies touchy-feely bullshit) you will wonder where the jobs are. The socialism you worked to implement is the castration of liberty.
Thanks a lot, assholes.

While it is highly improbable, I hope that someday you will gain an education. In the years to come, you will exaggerate this vapid outing so that your embarrassing participation seems quite heroic. Please try to remember, that is the mind attempting to heal itself with false justifications for idiotic actions. You and your cohorts are just the latest examples of hypocrisy-on-the -hoof that we all so too much of in the seventies. You will not change the world, you will not change the university anymore than you have changed your clothes in the last few days. That is not to say that your actions are not totally without worth. They might get you kicked out of the university and they remind those of us who have watched turds such as yourself circle the bowl a few times before vanishing that we might want to check the plumbing to see if the process can be sped up.

I would wish you well on your path to understanding, but I wouldn’t mean it and it’s highly unlikely. Instead, hope that you will continue making films of your adventures. This will serve the dual purpose of providing your psychiatrist with background materials for your treatments and they help me to clear my urinary tract infection. So, in all I just wanted to let you know that your efforts were not a complete failure.

There is absolutely no way this wasn’t parody. Sasha Cohen strikes again!

If Alex, you are a real person and this was a result of your strongly held beliefs, please, please, PLEASE move to Gaza and join the struggle like you have a pair. Your Hamas overlords would love to put you in the path of a bulldozer. Good for fund raising and all.

Hey, Alex,

Here’s a few comments on your comments. Yeah, I know, it’s all been said here, but I can help myself.

“We all agree, we cannot be free unless everyone is free.” …..So, you all FREELY agreed that you cannot be free unless everyone is free? Yep. That makes sense.

“We cannot stand on the sidelines, the sidewalk and watch.” …..Apparently you can’t stand in the NYU cafeteria either.

“Please repeat after me, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED.” ….Now, repeat after me, YOU WERE.

“And by the way, my camera was a mechanism that probably prevented brutality…” …..Yeah. That’s what happened. And me filming my kids at the circus probably prevented the high wire act from falling and killing himself, because you know, that sometimes happens, too.

“NYPD has used violence on protesters in the past. We were lucky NYPD didn’t get in the night before or else you might have been scrubbing our blood off the walls like at Columbia in 1968.” …..You flatter yourself, Alex. My guess is that your little limp wristed army of squatters would have scattered at the sign of the first billy club. And by the way, the NYPD would have a right as you were breaking the law.

You need to grow up, Alex. You would do more good to your fellow man if you simply grew up.

Thanks for the laugh.

I’d say the people that have gotten off their ass and liberated people the most are the members of the US military that liberated 35 million Iraqis and Afghanis from totalitarian, definitely non-democratic, repressive governments. You rich kids playing protest games aren’t doing squat for those people.

As an NYU alum, I’m ashamed that such ineffectual, infantile, and, above all, ignorant nonsense has tarnished the reputation of a truly great school. The truth is that the same garbage happened when I was there; now, however, a handful of assholes have made their pathetic, pointless, temper tantrums VERY VERY public. What’s worse, it sounds like many of these imbecils weren’t even NYU students. The whole world is laughing at NYU right now; I feel sorry for the vast majority of undergrads who will no doubt become more of a punchline than ever. By the way Alex, as a lawyer, I wear a suit everday; I’ve also been able to volunteer my time doing criminal defense work for the indigent. Maybe, if you pull your head out of your ass you’ll realize that it’s not about the costume you wear, how much “non-corporate water” you drink or touting the most fashionable political slogans. It’s about helping “people,” with a small, non-philosophical, very tangible ‘p.’ Like, for example, the hardworking security guards you and your flunkies berated for all the world to see.

James Schrumpf says:
“I’d say the people that have gotten off their ass and liberated people the most are the members of the US military that liberated 35 million Iraqis and Afghanis from totalitarian, definitely non-democratic, repressive governments.”

I say: Amen to that man. I couldn’t be more proud of our forces. For crappy pay and
of their own free will they put themselves in harms way at the behest of their country
so that pin heads who take freedom for granted can cry about out against their country without worrying about being jailed or disappearing. I’d like to see them go to Gaza and take over some government building demanding rights for gays and women and on and on and see how it goes for them.
Our soldiers make more of a personal sacrifice in one day serving in as they are and
not only are they winning in the field but they are winning on the streets and with alot
of the people. They were sent, they did their job and now they are working on leaving
Iraq a free and better place.
Again, amen to that.

The ridicule of Alex from Muhlenberg pleases me.

Alex you are absolutely right…..you are a douche bag

As a 3rd generation graduate of The U.S. Naval Academy, the disconnect between those who protect our nation and the american left, truly saddens me.

The Leftist Radicals from the 1960’s have controlled our schools and therefore our children, for along time.

Just look here – http://www.Indoctrinate-U.com

I call it, “The Case of the Comical Douchebags.”

I find it amusing that those who disobey the rules expect others to obey their rules. (”Don’t touch me!” – What a joke.) Not true in the real world. The camera will not always protect you.

1989 – I’ve seen in Wenceslas Square, Prague – former communist Czechoslovakia – the riot police simply beat the protestors until they dropped their cameras and video recorders – then proceeded to really kick the crap out of them with rubber rods.

People have the right to protest. But not the right to disrespect. You want to promote change without respect. A dialog doesn’t involve 1st taking over property that doesn’t belong to you – then calling for a ‘democratic consensus’ when the wolves are at the door.

People like you vandalize monuments, vandalize military recruiting offices, vandalize police cars, and belittle security guards who have to work hard making sure brats like you don’t get hurt. Additionally, you make a mockery of an institution like NYU – one of the better universities in the country. Patience with people like you is wearing thin.

Respect? For you? None. If you had any self-respect you wouldn’t have participated in this stupid stunt. You are a comedy act. A vandal. Your narcissism is why you are so weak – and you can’t see it, you don’t want to see it. That’s the beauty of it. I can only imagine your surprise when you run into the person who doesn’t care that you carry a video camera – knocks it out of your hand – then gives you an ass beating. The truly ironic thing about that moment – will be when the “machine” that you rage against so much, is the same one that you will be crying out to – for justice. Sadly, it will try provide it for you.

You grew up having everything you ever could need. Many people fight to come here from other countries, legally and illegally because of the opportunity this country offers. Some who come here illegally, have entered the armed forces and have died trying to demonstrate that they want to be here. You could get involved in a political campaign. Run for office. But that is not you. It is too – normal. That would mean that you would respect the rules of society – which you don’t. You can’t stand this country – but you want it extort it. At the expense of everyone else. You hit every branch of the selfish tree on the way down – didn’t you?

Scholarships for Palestinians? Rebuild the Islamic University of Gaza? As terrorists are fond of saying, due to the actions of the US government – no US citizen is innocent – or free from attack. Well, last I checked, those living in Gaza had elections, and they chose to elect a terrorist promoting government. Surprise surprise, when they realized that Israel would respond militarily – then they start crying to the UN. Cowards. Hypocrites.

Why should people here – those you call “couch potatoes” – who are going to work daily simply to provide for themselves, and their family – why should we pay for that? Why should NYU? The Palestinians already get subsidies from the US – and what have they done with it? Send missles into Israel. They can rebuild their own school – with their own money – or your hard earned money. After all, why would we want to “help your cause”.

Your vague threats with the keffiyeh are nothing more than pathetic. Be careful for what trouble you go looking for – it may find you.

Christ, I don’t think I’ve heard the term “Consensus”, “Democratically” or “Dialogue” used so many times in such a short space of time.

They do know that just saying these words doesn’t really mean anything will happen magically, don’t they?

Alex:

When it was thought that self-absorbed, naive, haughty assholes like you did not exist, you come along and cheerfully prove us wrong.

Where do I start?

OK.

1) You managed to use in 9 short minutes every left-wing cliche available in the English language without batting an eye. Magnifico!!!

2) You made a gigantic ass out of yourself with those futile attempts at “consensus”, when no part wanted any of it, yours included. Bravo!!!

3) At the end of your Academy Award-worthy production, you rail, bitch, moan, rant and rave against “corporate water” and “suits”, while flashing the ultimate symbols of bourgeois technology: MacBooks and iPods. Prezioso!!!

And finally, and this goes to all participants in TBNYU:

4) With a master stroke, you have discredited every student movement at school. Grandioso!!!

But one question remains.

Did you really think that the university was ever going to acquiesce to ANY of your demands at all??? Really??? I mean, scholarships to attend the “University of Gaza”, or the Islamic University of Gaza, AKA Hamas College??? where they teach homophobic, sexist Sharia??? Not very “progressive of you, buddy.

I’d stay for your reply, but I have to go drink some water. Corporate water, that is!!!

A Steve Fowlerian effort! Good show. I don’t know how you could have make a bigger fool of yourself or your cause, Alex. Congratulations!

Wait, so walking over a crowd of tables is legal?

Cops: Freeze!

Bank robbers: No. We need to democratically decide whether or not we should freeze. This is supposed to be a consensus.

Cops: Put the money down!

Bank robbers: Are those guns? Don’t expect us to cooperate if you’re going to use force.

Cops: Step out of the vault!

Bank robbers: You guys busted in here. Give us ten minutes to decide what we want to do.

Cops: Move over, ma’am.

Bank robbess: HE TOUCHED ME! HE @#$%^&! TOUCHED ME!

In another part of the vault:

Robber #1: O.K., we’ve got three duffle bags full of large bills. Those greedy corporate lackeys will be interested in that.

Robber #2: I’ve got Melanie’s diary.

Robber #1: What’s it say?

Robber #2: “I hate it when people touch me.”

Robber #1: They’ll definitely be interested in that. You know they have nothing better to do than obsess over our opinions.

Dude, you really need to take a course in something other than Civil-Disobedience-Tactics-from-the-70’s-for-Absurd-Social-Goals.

Try history for starters, to learn why your country really isn’t all that bad comparatively speaking (and I’m saying this as a non-US citizen). Then try logic so you can put together a coherent argument rather than relying on anarchy to get your point across. Finally try anything practical so you can get a job. Read some literature along the way (real literature, not propaganda produced by mediocre left-leaning professors of the past 40 years – start with the Federalist Papers).

Finally, if you’re still hell-bent on civil disobedience and getting genuinely persecuted (as opposed to just being escorted off campus) join a pro-life rally in front of an abortion clinic so you can see what it really means to get the tar kicked out of you by armed security personnel. You might even save a child’s life while you’re at it.

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These people are the “future” of America?! WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS!!!!!!!!! GO LIVE WITH PAPA FIDEL IN HIS LOVE NEST CALLED CUBA!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I predict this is going to go viral on Youtube within 24 hours. It’s just … just… ok words fail me.

If you did that at Oklahoma State you would be shot on the spot. You motherfuckers need a reality check. How you got into NYU I’ll never know.

What a bunch of childish morons.

Little brats in need of a serious ass-whuppin.

@ Paul

She’s a Palestinian sympathizer. It’s her duty to exaggerate crimes committed against herself.

I love the tour of the student bookbags PACKED with commercial, corporate hipster status symbols.

Can you say hypocrite?

You would think kids going to college would know it’s PRIVATE property and they have the right to throw whomever they choose off campus. If I were in charge, I would have tazzed all of you and drug you off in hand cuffs beating you with my asp.

I hope it ends up on your resume’s,( if you ever graduate) and you are unemployable for it. If you come to Texas, you will get your ass beat just admitting you were there.

What a bunch of pussies.

I doubt she is a palestinian sympathiser. She certainly couldn’t be one if she was going to NY Jew. I’d much rather be palestinian than a annoying whiney jew still bitching about the holocaust. We get it, jews aren’t like pizzas. Get over it already.

Alex and Company are absolute jokes. They “occupied” a student center and make demands. Even if they were from NYU, this type of juvenile prank would be laughable.

Grow up, attend classes, and actually learn something before you kids try to school anybody. Stop embarrassing yourselves with such sophomoric hippie nonsense.

He keeps using that word consensus but I don’t think he knows what it means.

This kid has not done a whole lot of thinking has he? What is NYU? Let’s see, it collects revenues, it has expenses and employees, it has a President, along with other executives. And it is in the business of making money. Hmm, kinda sounds like a corporation, doesn’t it? Why doesn’t he just demand that NYU offer classes for free? That way, they’d be a lot less “corporatey” now wouldn’t they?

And to show just how little thinking this college kid (heaven help us if this kid is one of the brightest in his class) has done, he actually thinks that having a camera will prevent them from using force. If they decided to use force, they’d knock the camera out of his hands, smash it, then use their force all they want.

For the money he spent for one year of college, he could have fed and clothed hundreds in Gaza. Oh yes, he cares, he just wants somebody else doing the work. Alex just wants to “dialogue” about it. What a selfish little hypocrite.

I don’t think NY Jews wear traditional Muslim scarves. I also don’t think Farah Kimji is a Jewish name. But I could be wrong.

Much art is produced that is good, and much that is mediocre. This, however, was a masterpiece. O, alas, poor Alex, how I pity thee. In years to come you will become what is called an “adult”, and perhaps you will have children, and a job and a family. And your son will find this video in the attic, and come to realize that he is Spawn of Douchebag, thereby joining the consensus of the diverse, unified, freedom-loving peoples of this comment section. He will hang his head…..

Your worthless ass should be sent a bill for the expense of this charade. Overtime for the campus PD, loss of sales to the cafeteria, cleanup, etc. Should be tens of thousands of dollars. Can’t pay? Tough shit. Perhaps the judge will be kind enough to give you $50 per day credit for your time in lock-up.

This video needs more cowbell. And clubbings.

If Alex seriously wants to liberate people, he needs to join the military.
He also needs to understand the definition of democracy, the democratic process or “consensus” as he calls it,: two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch. Contrast that with a Republic, when the sheep has a gun.

How about this as a deal.
We too have reached a consensus as to how to proceed.
It is called arrest for trespassing, and destruction of public property.
Oh yea and for being a public nuisance and and general pain in the butt.

Rachel “The Human Pancake” Corrie though like this douchenozzle, too.

“I’m going to stop a bulldozer with a bullhorn and scornful remarks!”

***Splat***

Good luck when your college revolutionary bullshit meets the real world.

Alex,

Thank you for inventing a great new drinking game: CONSENSUS!

We will be wasted in less than 20 minutes!

Not to worry though, we will not drink corporate beer.

Like, excuse me, everyone…can I get your concensus?

OK, this is a democratic concensus…
All in favor of kicking Alex’s ass, say “I”…

The saddest part about this whole thing is that a large portion of the NYU faculty was probably cheering these idiots on, even if not out loud. Actions need not be judged on their outcomes, only the good intentions one has when doing those actions. War on poverty not done in over 30 years? Affirmative action programs that are twice as racist as any redneck from the south? Repealing welfare reform so now you dont need to work in order to get help (thanks P-BO)?

All of these things have sucked, and will continue to suck. Unfortunately our community organizer in chief will probably pardon these d-bags if they get any sort of legal action taken against them.

somebody needed to wade into this bunch of punks with nightsticks. then i’d negotiate one right up side your head.

especially the unctuous shit head who thinks he’s trance channeling thomas jefferson.

nobody cares about your consensus OR what you think. you’re idiots!

I want to vomit! Just found out Alex is a Fraternity Brother of mine – Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Stay away from NY Gamma, Alex.

“AYE”!

Love the girl just standing there holding up the peace signs. Liberalism is truly a mental disorder!

Tear gas is a real bother to clean up, especially in a food service facilaty. The campus cops are certainly friendly with the cleaning staff and would not do that to them. (Really, a month later you can find a spot you missed on a shelf or bit of clothing and your eyes start burning all over again.)
NYPD knows to grab one at random and slam his face into the hood of a car to make the rest of the crowd dispurse (admittedly, they always grab a random black guy but it’s the thoughtlessness that counts).

Useless idiots. Truly, spoiled brats gone wild. Their vulgar comments to hardworking UNION cops is an insult to all Americans. They are parasites on this country, NYU, and the world. Let us remember, they are radical anti-semites, terrorist coddling trust fund babies. They need to go back to mommy,. daddy, and their 2 nannies on the upper west side and Berkeley and get a spanking and their mouths washed out with soap. They are the three stooges of college protests.

Wow, my family established ourselves in this country when my grandfather, an immigrants son, graduated from NYU almost 100 years ago. Every year we give money to NYU. This stops now. If NYU had gone in and busted these ignorant little brats up, I might feel differently, but the fact that the oppressed trust fund babies got to play “civil disobediant” for too long makes me angry. NYU will bear this shame for years to come.
To the guy with the camera…wow you are a moron.

LOL! That is comedy gold. Typical liberal douches would pretty much line competely up with every stereotype that has been attributed to them.

Wait, I might need a consensus from the people around me to decide if that is a fair assessment.

CONSENSUS! I only have 10 Minutes!! What is the hierarchy!?! Consensus….

This is priceless. “We want to be democratic!!” You morons, you took over a cafeteria that doesn’t belong to you.

If this is what academia is producing, it is clearly one of the biggest failures in modern times.

LOL…Thank you for the laugh this morning, Alex. It really made my day. My advice to you is to go back to your campus and drink heavily.

I mean these people were just standing around begging to be “assaulted” so they could upload the footage to YouTube.

“GUYS WE NEED TO FOCUS ON DEMOCRATICALLY LOOKING AT THE CONSENSUS, HERE. AND THE HIERARCHY AND POWER RELATIONSHIPS.”

These people are pissed off they weren’t at Berkeley in the 60s.

Poor little rich kids with nothing better to do. A GREAT job by the NYU Administration. Kick them all out!

Were they trained by ACORN’s trainer Barack Obama?

I have to admit that Alex did sound, it seemed to me, to have a touch of humor in his voice when he asked that the man ‘at least put on earmuffs’ or whatever.

I had kind of a radical streak in college.. but this makes me so glad I’m not 20 anymore and that have nothing to do with NYU. These kids have no clue. At least we were clever and actually subversive in our protests. This is just dumb. These kids wish someone would use tazers on them. The jump to brutality? So so embarrassing. No clue what brutality would constitute. These kids are total amateurs! They need to take their “corporate” MacBooks and step off.

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Not to mention (but I will) I would guess that the Mac computers were gifts from kind parents who worked and made money and paid for them. It is a possibility that the college student owners of the identified Apple computers (and an iPod, and charhger and …) worked at real jobs and paid for them themselves. Somehow I doubt it.

Who did this liberate? And if you really care to “liberate” the Palestinians in Gaza, go demonstrate against Hamas the Rocket Boys — in Gaza.

See how nice their cops are to you.

I need to watch that hilarity again. It’s a cornucopia of spoiled kids surprised that the world doesn’t work like cartoons and After-School TV specials.

The *real* fun will begin when NYU attorneys identify who owes what on the breakage fees for that cafeteria equipment. Imagine facing expulsion and still having to pay off your student loans, and then top it off with civil judgments. Ouchies!

The narrator was an absolute hoot! Also, his pissed-off sidekick, who kept cursing, was pure comedy gold. The only criticism I’d make of this beautiful film is that the ending (it just petered out) was a bit too “Sopranos– Last Episode” for my taste. I think a much better conclusion would have been to have the cops take out their night sticks and give the protesters the wood shampoo they so desparately needed. But then, I’ve always been a romantic…

As an adult, vet, father/grandfather, married, property owner, please allow me to make an observation. So long as we continue to allow this type of childish behavior to continue; the lower the public’s respect will be for every form of legitimate and public sponsored authority. It is more an indictment of the University that they allow the infringement of free traffic in their cafeteria than that which is directed at the adolescent, self-absorbed, bed-wetters who caused the problem.

From my vantage point on a hilltop in the Ozarks, it is apparent why my neighbors and I see these ridiculous antics from the Big Apple as an object of scorn. I’m still puzzled about what the goal of this fiasco was. We always solved these problems with a “trip to the woodshed!”

Wauw

Alex is this you ?

http://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-Lotorto/29502455

You are stricking with your islamic security blanket, I was kind of expecting a couple of piercings and a small round set of revolutionary glasses as well.

I see a mike in the picture, is that really North Korean Weekly ?

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The interesting part was the repeated use of the phrases, “…democratic process…” ,”…consensus process…”, “…directly democratic…”, “…brutality…”, and “…democratically decide…”.

Let me start with “brutality. I doubt if any of these pampered little darlings have ever witnessed true brutality. “HE TOUCHED ME!” That ain’t brutality honey. If a couple of cops tossed your spoiled ass off the balcony, THAT would qualify as brutality. I’ve seen brutality first-hand in Viet-Nam, Spain, and North Africa. Apparently these children believe it’s brutal when they can’t have their way. (My daughter got past that idea by age four.)

Something else these scholars appear not to have learned in their years of public school “education”; a republic operates by laws, a democracy by mob rule. I saw democracy in action as a young boy. A group of 50-60 men “voted” to carry out a hanging, and being there was only one “nay vote”, the “directly democratically consensus process” carried the day. Sadly, the nay vote was cast by a black man, who, was then hanged. The year was 1948.

@ Commenters:

We are deleting comments without full names and valid email addresses. Mike Hunt, I know that’s not your real name. K thx.

Wow…. if tuition hikes are such a huge issue how about going somewhere else? When money becomes an issue people tend to buy a similar, cheaper product. Just because I can’t afford to buy a 90″ Plasma screen TV doesn’t mean that I organize a protest on Best Buy. As a college student I feel that students that act this way are ridiculous. You (well…in this case, these guys’ parents, most likely) pay for a service so that you can better yourself, get a job you want, etc. This is the reason that most young people aren’t taken seriously. Its too bad.

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Typical liberal losers!!!!! Quit wasting your rich dad’s corporate money.

Here is his myspace page, he is in the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity among other things:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=7626747

Danny Muskardin posted the best reply I’ve ever read to any post anywhere.

I’m going to post it again, in it’s entirety so that if you’re new to the party you can read it without having to scroll through:

“I find it amusing that those who disobey the rules expect others to obey their rules. (”Don’t touch me!” – What a joke.) Not true in the real world. The camera will not always protect you.

1989 – I’ve seen in Wenceslas Square, Prague – former communist Czechoslovakia – the riot police simply beat the protestors until they dropped their cameras and video recorders – then proceeded to really kick the crap out of them with rubber rods.

People have the right to protest. But not the right to disrespect. You want to promote change without respect. A dialog doesn’t involve 1st taking over property that doesn’t belong to you – then calling for a ‘democratic consensus’ when the wolves are at the door.

People like you vandalize monuments, vandalize military recruiting offices, vandalize police cars, and belittle security guards who have to work hard making sure brats like you don’t get hurt. Additionally, you make a mockery of an institution like NYU – one of the better universities in the country. Patience with people like you is wearing thin.

Respect? For you? None. If you had any self-respect you wouldn’t have participated in this stupid stunt. You are a comedy act. A vandal. Your narcissism is why you are so weak – and you can’t see it, you don’t want to see it. That’s the beauty of it. I can only imagine your surprise when you run into the person who doesn’t care that you carry a video camera – knocks it out of your hand – then gives you an ass beating. The truly ironic thing about that moment – will be when the “machine” that you rage against so much, is the same one that you will be crying out to – for justice. Sadly, it will try provide it for you.

You grew up having everything you ever could need. Many people fight to come here from other countries, legally and illegally because of the opportunity this country offers. Some who come here illegally, have entered the armed forces and have died trying to demonstrate that they want to be here. You could get involved in a political campaign. Run for office. But that is not you. It is too – normal. That would mean that you would respect the rules of society – which you don’t. You can’t stand this country – but you want it extort it. At the expense of everyone else. You hit every branch of the selfish tree on the way down – didn’t you?

Scholarships for Palestinians? Rebuild the Islamic University of Gaza? As terrorists are fond of saying, due to the actions of the US government – no US citizen is innocent – or free from attack. Well, last I checked, those living in Gaza had elections, and they chose to elect a terrorist promoting government. Surprise surprise, when they realized that Israel would respond militarily – then they start crying to the UN. Cowards. Hypocrites.

Why should people here – those you call “couch potatoes” – who are going to work daily simply to provide for themselves, and their family – why should we pay for that? Why should NYU? The Palestinians already get subsidies from the US – and what have they done with it? Send missles into Israel. They can rebuild their own school – with their own money – or your hard earned money. After all, why would we want to “help your cause”.

Your vague threats with the keffiyeh are nothing more than pathetic. Be careful for what trouble you go looking for – it may find you.”

Damn straight.

Please go to Gaza and organize a march for gay rights. Let me know how long you last in the middle of your beloved oppressed Palestinian brothers.

If you even remotely wanted to be taken seriously you failed miserably. Not only were you trespassing on school grounds but you prevent people who had the lawful right to be there, the students and administration.

Second, you sound like an uneducated imbecile along with the other “protesters.” Spouting nonsensical ramblings that teeter on the elementary school level while using words you clearly do not know the definition of is surely the way to garner lulz.

I thank you for the pleasure of watching a group of nothings, with no directive or purpose, incoherently yelling while posting on their Facebook accounts from their Macs complaining about finances while they are attending a $55,000+ year school.

You guys are such winners!

the consensus is in – you are a tool.

the clip looked like a of mix of “the Breakfast Club” and “Saved by the Bell”.

absolutely pathetic.

Ho… MY… God… Are these the retards that my New York tax dollars are going to educate???

And what’s the deal with the twat that keeps holding up the peace-sign.

God, I hate punks that hide behind peace-signs and video cameras. What utter scum.

Bunch of stupid hippies.

Cheers to the various doucher stereotypes represented in the video:

White-Dread-Skateboard-Guy
Loud-Headscarf-Chick
Inside-Hat-and-Scarf-Wearing-Dude
Mousey-Quiet-Dark-Chick
Angry-Midget-Boy
Ugly-ShoulderBag-Girl
The Omnipresent-Keffiyeh-K*nt
Super-Awesome-F-Bomb-Boy
P*ssy-Mac-Hipster
Dylanesque-Douchebag-Kid

I for one, cannot wait until President Obama drafts your middle-class-white-bread asses and sends you to Afghanistan.

Lol, Americans.

This video could only have been better if you were all caught wearing Guy Fawkes “V-for-Vendetta” masks with your pants around your ankles while Keith Olberman was on television interviewing Jon Stewart as Stewart gently stroked Tina Fey’s face scar to the music from the Colbert Report!

Anti semitism alive and well

The Blair Idiot Project

Awwwww. I was waiting for the “Don’t taze me bro” part.

If these morons are the product of NYU, it’s no wondewr we have such idiots running this country. Where’s Jack Baur when you need him?

[...] commenter at NYU Local sums it all up, nicely: ‘You guys are all corporationey, and we’re using consensus and sweet [...]

I bet not one of those protestors has a job.

I punch people like this in the teeth.

I read the replies from Alex Lalaland…these people are tools. They dream of being the leaders of the next revolution. The constant question of whether the officials were going to use violence made me laugh…and want to punch his lights out. I loved how everyone generally ignored him.

My one question for Number One Toll Alex: who did you save during that week? What one life have you saved? What one person have you helped besides yourself? You are a self-serving spoiled brat. Your crowd are anti-semetic and anti-American. Your demands are childish and politically naive.

Go home to your parents until you grow up.

Words fail; there isn’t much to add to the comments on this clown’s douchebaggery. But don’t expect to embarass him; the video, and his posted comments, prove he’s waaay beyond embarassment. His video might well be the most epic fail in the history of the internets. Props to you, Alex!

I don’t get it. Why is the organization called “Take Back NYU” if it’s a coalition of students from Muhlenberg and CCNY and wherever else these kids came from?

I think Operation Enduring Freedom was initially billed as “Take Back Iraq.”

As a graduate student in the humanities at a similar west coast university, all I can say is that clueless tools like Alex are a dime a dozen and the blame properly belongs with the academic structure that coddles their idiocy and encourages their asinine tantrums.

As a student in the humanities, I am sometimes bitter as to how little funding we receive, but then I realize just how utterly stupid most of my peers are, and how none of them will likely contribute so much as a brass farthing to society in their entire miserable lives. And then the science and engineering department’s lavish digs make sense…

Alex Lotorto said:
“When are YOU going to do something to liberate someone?”

The question is when are YOU going to do something that liberates someone! If you somehow think your stunt has liberated even one person then you are more delusional than I thought!

Many of us do lots of PRODUCTIVE things to help out our community through volunteer work, something that is much more productive and constructive than your childish sit-in whose only accomplishment was making you like a fool, wasted school resources, and inconvenienced those actually wanting to educate themselves instead of wasting other people’s time and parents money on some foolish and contrived “wrong” you and your kool-aid drinking followers think was committed!

Speaking of education, you may want to do more research on the supposed “oppressed Palestinians” you are so concerned about for if you did you would understand the real reason why they’re in the situation they’re in and by doing so it will also point out how utterly ridiculous your demands are/were.

i don’t agree with this protest at all and think the protesters were pretty dumb, but what’s up with this mouthbreating pack of soldiers posting here about all the “freedom” the armed forces have given to iraq? what a ridiculous pile of shit,

Is this how “community organizers” get their start? I guess this is the next B. Obama.

How long till ACORN starts to fund this sort of “Community organization”?

Watching these spoiled punks who have their parents pay $34,000 for school act like terrorists is sicking.They should get down on their lazy hands and knees and that God(oh I forgot..they don’t believe in God) that they are lucky enough to attend such a great and expensive school. I hope they are ALL thrown out.

“Earmuffs” – Funniest thing I’ve ever seen. end.

Consensus process, hierarchy, power structure..

Did they learn all this crap in class? It sounds like they did. This is completely stupid. Entitled brats.

What I find as funny as the video itself is that the cameraman and main character (via voice), clueless fool Alex Lotorto, allowed the video to make it onto the internet (Alex, please, please tell me you didn’t post the video), instead of burying the video in Mommy’s attic until his 10th reunion’s comedy show warranted its debut.

On a serious note… Alex, if you do grow a pair and decide to fight for what you believe in somewhere that matters (and that’s not an NYU cafeteria), learn about where you’re about to go.

If it’s Gaza, I’d lose the scripture (unless it’s the only scripture Hamas approves of).

Idiocy at its finest.

I am sure that they can put together a Power Point presentation and meet with ACORN to get some of that 5 billion of taxpayer money for future civil disobedience sessions/training.

Children. Consensus, democracy, blah blah blah. Really moved the needle there kiddo. Freedom reigns through your anarchy.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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simply hysterical to watch these “protesters”

Alex, Alex, listen to me! The scenes of the Judean revoluionaries in “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”" are intended as _parody_, not as a text book example of how to behave!

The only thing Alex liberated was his brain.

He removed it from his head and planted it straight up his ass.

Can we form a consensus that these imbeciles are truly worthy of our pity.

apparently repeating the word consensus over and over again isnt grounds enough to grant admission into NYU

Hey folks. It makes me laugh how you have absolutely no information about me or my background, have clearly not read about the demands for an affordable education we are fighting for, and Take Back NYU! is not a failure. They have legitimized their demands after two years of struggling to be heard. Many of them work multiple jobs and had to leave the sit-in to work. I grew up in rural PA, with no health care, no dentist, my family claiming bankruptcy, my dad in rehab, and very very little privileges. My mom is a florist with diabetes that is killing her. It’s made her blind with cataracts, forced emergency heart bypass surgery, a foot amputation, and now kidney failure. We had no health care to pay for any of that. My dad is a landscaper who plows driveways in the winter. I have worked every summer and every break in beer stores, ice cream stores, cleaning shopping centers, and landscaping rich fuckers houses with my dad. I have only been out of the northeast twice with trips on my grampa’s life insurance money. Wealth is not in my family. I am working class. I am struggling with my debt that my *need-based* scholarships cannot cover. I attended the cheapest college I got into. I haven’t bought new clothes in two years. I am non-violent for now, but my rage is infinite and bottomless against the people who have driven me into a despair over my mom and my powerlessness without money to buy my politicians. I’ve written hundreds of letters and made hundreds of phone calls to congressmen about my deep-felt anger about their irresponsibility. I took a semester off in DC to do work on poverty, healthcare, and anti-war issues that directly affect me. I lobbied congressmen who could care less. Then I see them destroying the lives of millions of people across the oceans. What little tax money and tuition money I pay, goes towards cluster bombs and tanks to occupy Arabs in racist wars for profit. Generals, politicians, and CEOs are stepping on the heads of everyone else for benefit. I’m sick and tired of privileged people sitting on their couches, with the power to persuade the system to work otherwise, and doing NOTHING BUT VOTING. That’s why I am non-violent for now. But if the system kills my mom, which it will, and keeps butchering people in wars, prisons, and on the streets of my country…I can’t express how prepared I am to take care of the motherfuckers myself. No justice, no peace will take on a whole different meaning when my mom is on her death bed. If you are working class, then I am struggling for you because I identify with what you’re facing. You haven’t met the Alex Lotorto that sits listening to his generation watching MTV down the hall in the dorm as he clenches his fist because he just had to force the doctor over the phone to perform a surgery on his mom because she didn’t want it and wanted to die. After that, every story coming out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine makes me overwhelmed. The difference is, I can do something about it here. I can lean and push on the system, shut it down, and make it stop its violence.

That’s what I attempted to do at NYU, like I attempt to do every day at Muhlenberg. If you don’t think it worked, don’t just criticize me, START YOUR OWN MOVEMENT AND FIX IT. Maybe I’ll join it.

And to the Obama supporter who asked me what campaigns I’ve worked on, there hasn’t been a day since I was politicized in 2004 that I haven’t worked on an issue or candidate’s campaign. You wanna talk about the fierce urgency of now? I put my body on the line for changes I want to see in the world, asshole. If you want to see the change, be it. Getting politicians elected is not social change, demanding something from them is.

You want affordable education go to a state school. Don’t go to a private university and bitch about how expensive it is. You made the choice to go there and support their business.

Which it is, it’s a for profit business and the sooner you wrap your douchey little brain around that the easier it will be for everyone.

“there hasn’t been a day since I was politicized in 2004 that I haven’t worked on an isue or candidate’s campaign”

Just what the world needs, another idiot who wants to impose his ideology on the rest of us who are actually footing the bills.

Instead of all your political BS, why don’t you concentrate on actually taking some challenging courses instead of the slacker load you’re taking. If you were actually majoring in something that wasn’t BS, you wouldn’t grow up to be an anchor around society’s neck.

I gotta admit thats comedy gold right there. The guy behind the camera sounds as neutered and helpless as Milton. I expect him to bust out with a “Excus.. excuse me.. I I beleive you have my stapler!”

Alex! Get a hold of yourself! Let me give you some free advice. Either use the education you are getting to better yourself and the plight of your family or get a friggin job. That is what your SUBSIDIZED education should be buying you. And when you are a self-indulgent middle class couch potato, let me assure you, YOUR MOTHER WILL BE LOOKED AFTER. Because that is what you do when you are an adult. You look after your business.

And by the way, middle class responsible does not equal powerless. I believe I am controlling my destiny as I type. I have health insurance, education and a vote. I earned the first two, and others have fought for the third. The difference between us is that I see that, and I in turn would do the same for others. Say, just for example, the women in Afghanistan. Right. America is there already. No thanks to your efforts, but it’s a free country. We don’t need to agree, or have concensus. We vote. It’s an alternative to consensus – which is different than democracy, by the way.

Furthermore, if you choose to focus your hysterical self righteous energy on world politics and not devote this time to yet another part time job to help your mother, then who is the irresponsible one? Not me. I pay my taxes and subsidize the education of ingrates. Even more, I give to local hospitals and women’s shelters, because I can and because it makes a difference. Now, to be fair, I haven’t tried piling up furniture and barricading myself anywhere, but the crisis lines seem to appreciate my volunteer time just the same. Strange, but true.

Seriously, consesus is unattainable, but responsibility and maturity are priceless. Use them, and your ability to assist your family will magically be enhanced.

From: A concerned UMASS student
To: NYU

The recent actions of your student has caused me to take a second look at my life as an activist for personal liberties. While my time spent working on the Free State Project in my home state of New Hampshire is of small consequence to the rest of the country. I find myself wondering if other things I have done look quite as juvenile and poorly conceived.

In a world where everyone is trying to feed you their own brand of reality, I stop and wonder if I am just another con artist. Perhaps when I reach full adulthood I will have my answer. For now I will have to thank you, your driven collection of socialist rebels has given me clear warning as to how I might be seen in the public eye. As times progress, too few are willing to put rational thought into issues in which they have only blind emotion.

If it is of any consolation to your embarassment, one person has learned from this event. As an institution of learning, perhaps I could take this as a free lesson.

Thank you

Alex, try adulthood. You have issues. Go home and take care of your family. Get your priorities straight. You’re trying to “fix” the world through lame protests and sloganeering? Be thankful for those rich people who hire your dad. They offered him honest work. You may want to try it someday yourself.

The people who did this are the biggest bunch of useless mouth breathers I’ve ever seen. Do they really believe that they are above the law? The moron holding the camera saying that he didn’t give them permission to come in was hysterical! He’s lucky they didn’t shoot teargas in there and then come in and tazer them.

I’d be willing to bet that everyone of them came from upper-middle class homes, and have parents who wear suites to work so they can pay for these cretins to play anarchist while in college.

Wow, things were getting tense there for a while. I thought someone was going to get sent to a “time out.”

A consensus of dumbasses! Thanks for the laugh, and good luck working the drve-thru

All this bullcrap from people is a city where you cant have a cigarette or real french fry– yeah– fight for freedom and injustice…..what a joke— grow up -

You look like a bunch of baby fascists protesting because its the cool thing to do–

Power to the people, right?

Im not sure whats sadder….they fact you have no idea what that really means or the fact that if it truly came down to fighting for liberty you would cry, whine, and run away while quoting some sophomoric protest slogan you learned on an American Eagle shirt…..

Sad sad sad

“… I am non-violent for now, but my rage is infinite and bottomless against the people who have driven me into a despair… my deep-felt anger… What little tax money and tuition money I pay, goes towards cluster bombs and tanks to occupy Arabs in racist wars for profit… I’m sick and tired of privileged people sitting on their couches, with the power to persuade the system to work otherwise, and doing NOTHING BUT VOTING. That’s why I am non-violent for now. But if the system kills my mom, which it will, and keeps butchering people in wars, prisons, and on the streets of my country…I can’t express how prepared I am to take care of the motherfuckers myself. No justice, no peace will take on a whole different meaning… makes me overwhelmed.”

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Interesting comments from Mr. Lotorto = social revolutionary extroardinaire…

(1) One reading this has to wonder in what context you means “my country”? As in the US, or rather one suspects, Gaza, er um, Palestine…

(2) This country – dislike it as you seem to – has funds and resources in place to pay for procedures for people who have no insurance. It happens all the time in inner city community hospitals. Not a single US citizen is refused a necessary procedure. To state otherwise is simply untrue. Resources are arranged, community/county and city hospitals take the financial hit and end up running deeply in the red because of it.

(3) As far as having to “force the doctor over the phone to perform a surgery on his mom because she didn’t want it and wanted to die” is nonsense. No surgeon will perform a surgery simply because a family member “wants it” for the patient – particularly if the patient still has decision making ability (not to mention the weight of surgical risk and consequence). Some people are simply not a good operative candidate due to their overall health and risk for perioperative complications. If she doesn’t have decision making ability, and the surgery is indicated with chance for greater benefit vs risk, it would be an issue that would involve hospital Ethics Committee meetings, as well as court orders. A phone call would not simply be enough. Unless, you are claiming to be her medical power of attorney (or other state granted authority) – which, frankly, would be surprising – given that you have spent every single day since 2004 – doing whatever it is you say you do.

So you are more likely misrepresenting the truth. Just like you misrepresented what you called “scripture” in the video.

(4) Diabetes is a killer to be sure. The system, however is not. Your blaming the system fits your profile. This is the one area where you are truly consistent. Always someone else’s, or something else’s fault.

Whose fault was it that Israel attacked Gaza? Of course – Israel! It couldn’t have been the rocket firing bastards IN Gaza, now could it?

Whose fault was it that caused the mess last week at NYU? Oh yes – it must have been NYU’s fault!

(5) Your diatribe about this country’s wars sounds just like more SDS, anarchist, or ANSWER propaganda. Obviously not interested either in the history of the Middle East. I suppose that it would simply be easier if, as Ahmadinejad has said, Israel was simply to be wiped off the face of the planet. You call others racist? What a joke! Try being objective for a change and assess what responsibility the keffiyeh has had in Middle Eastern politics. It started well before your 2004 coming to Allah experience… But then again, I don’t think that the 911 hijackers cared to be objective either – as they were cutting the throats of airline stewardesses and pilots on those planes that day…

That, of course, was Bush’s fault!

(6) You sound like someone who needs to get help. You are a whisker away from being the person carrying out the next school shooting. Do you honestly think that the threat above is going to unnerve people in a country where law abiding citizens can get permits to carry weapons? Good luck. You have bigger fish to fry. See a psychiatrist – but only with coinciding psychotherapy.

Mr. Lotorto reminds me of the sort who, when punched in the nose, sits down hard, cries, calls for his mommy and his lawyer – in that order. Frankly, I can’t quite decide which is more amazing: Mr. Lotorto’s over-the-top ass-clownery or the tortured mental gymnastics he employed to arrive his ridiculous worldview.

I do have an observation for our foolish exhibitionist, one that he might do well to consider. Atlas WILL shrug. Sooner rather than later. And then he’s going to pick up a gun.

Honestly I can’t watch this for more than a minute at a time, its sickening. What the hell ever happened to well organized and thoughtful protests over real issues? We went from civil rights and anti-Vietnam protesters concerned with social justice and accountability to some lame arse rich kids yelling about “corporate water” and fucking Macbooks.

this clown has read a chapter in textbook on anarchy or civil disobedience or better yet taking some dopey elective with an equally dopey course description and now he’s the next big bad radical…what an embarrassment to the current generation and to the current education system….east coast style

I am for civil unrest and anarchy as the next guy… but when you hole up on property not belonging to you,dont complain when the baton forces you to leave. Thats the struggle. Drones of african americans during the civil right era stormed police lines. The were met with dogs,fire hoses,and riot shields…. they did not scream “dont touch me” or “brutality”…. they fought for it.

Alex-classic! Your effeminate vocal delivery was the cherry! Here’s an idea…in tiny letters display this message on your camera- THIS CAMERA KILLS FASCISTS!

The notion of ‘democratically deciding’ things is fine and good, and consensus is always a nice thing, but my differences with the politics of the protesters aside, I don’t think I’ve seen such a lack of discipline and leadership in the takeover of a cafeteria since witnessing an epic food fight in the third grade. Seriously, though: young people are expected to hold an idealistic view of the world, yet displays like this only highlight what is already known: young people are often possessed of unwarranted self-importance, and the protesters here certainly reinforce that perception. They behaved foolishly. Their expectations were unrealistic and their goals were foggy, laden with uber-liberal duckspeak incoherent to all but the tenured radicals who indoctrinated them. My advice? Remember how lucky you are to live in a free country–and yes, it is free–where you can behave idiotically and–if you’re lucky–be immortalized as an addle-headed moonbat stereotype in front of millions of people.

Oh I couldn’t help myself this was too funny!!!

It’s been said a million times but I’m adding another comment, hopefully this will be the final straw that breaks the proverbial camels back…

@Alex
You have the leadership qualities of a spoon! your rag-tad little group of protesters gave about as much shit about what you had to say as I did, and quite frankly the funniest part was as it started to become clear they were gonna find out you aren’t a student the panic in your voice fucken tripled if not quadrupled. You knew that as soon as you and your little groupies were found out *bam* your shit was gonna get ruined, count yourself lucky you were thrown in jail for tresspassing on private property, vadalism, assualt and squatting charges.

@ everyone else & and good old funny little Alex
If you really wanna help some people? out go sell your Mac books and iPods and all your other useless bullshit, buy a ticket to Somalia or Kurdistan join up with the peace core or red cross and actually change a real life instead of demanding some random university give all its tuition money to some other random university that you have no stake in either.

Im all for the idea peaceful protest, I personally an anarchist in nature but what you people did was pathetic and laughable… anarchy and social change isn’t about destruction and causing riots and burning flags and running around occupying buildings

social change is about getting people to actually wanna listen to what you have to say and then furthermore motivating themenough to actually do whats required to make it happen, you would of been better offf educating people, getting the word out with gathering people and press and letting people know whats going on and what they can do to help, a petition, a newsletter and flyers, peaceful protests on public land, rallys… hell even a bake sale would’ve been more productive, but know people are more inclined to wanna throw rocks at your head.

G R E A T J O B ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! *thumbs up*

Just so’s you all know Anarchy in its principle is a society that has moved beyond a requirement of laws and rules in a peaceful setting… and when people like you pull that kinda shit it makes me realise that this will never occur, because whiney bitches like you need a mummy and daddy figures you hold your hand and help you wipe.

“Alex Lotorto Feb 24, 2009 20:54 Hey folks. It makes me laugh how you have absolutely no information about me”

You’re wrong, Alex. Your video told us just about everything we need to know about you, ‘though your followup rant certainly fleshes the picture out.

What we know about you so far: You’re angry, delusional and self-centered. Even if you had the power to change the world to be exactly like you think you want it, you would still be angry, delusional and self-centered.

Grow up and fix yourself first, then maybe someone else (besides those who are also angry, delusional and self-centered) will listen to you.

You think your anger is justified, that you alone see the truth, while the other 99% of posters here are deluded, and that you are working for the greater good. That’s what it looks like from the INSIDE of delusion.

You mention your dad being in “rehab.” That’s really the problem here. He didn’t need rehab, he needed recovery, and it’s abundantly clear that you do to. When you’re finally ready to put down your anger and work on saving yourself, only then will you be ready to really save someone else.

Meanwhile, thanks for the laughs you’ve provided us by displaying your illness so flagrantly.

Ciao. Kthxbai.

I am still wondering why they were not arrested for trespassing.

You need a consensus? It just so happens that is the name of my band. We will catch the next flight over. You’re welcome.

Alex,

As someone helpfully posted above, in re medical care, surgeries, etc. You definately need to read this, or somehow quit misrepresenting the situation. No adult will be turned away from healthcare. I am truly sorry for your parents. It is indeed a sad situation. However, if times get bad enough, then you can actually drop out of school for a while, get another job, I see you have one listed on your MySpace page, and act like a man, instead of a boy. The classes you are taking, film, women’ studies, these are not exactly big job getters. Perhaps try something that could be useful. People actually have to do work like your father, and there is nothing shameful about working as a plumber, or electrician. Those are jobs that are steady in any economy. I have to tell you, I blame parents and professors for this type of behavior. If that had of been one of my kids, 19 and 20, I would have drove to the campus, grabbed the tazer and billy club off of the officer’s belt, and after tazing, I would have knocked my kids upside the head. Seriously. I also agree with those who posted here who noted that when you are say, 40, you will want to die of embarassment when you see this. I am 42, I used to act stupid when I was young, too, but this is beyond. I truly hope you see this as a wake up call.

Absolute. Comedy. Gold.

Thanks, Alex!

Oh, and you’re quite delusional. But don’t worry! You’ll never figure it out, even when you’re living in a packing crate along I-80 in Nowheresville, PA.

Fight the power man!

@ Iquardo Montenez
I understand the point you are trying to convey, (re: “I’m confused. Is NYU a special education school?”), but as a parent of a child with special ed needs, and friends with children of the same needs, our young adults are loving, caring individuals who would never be foolish enough to participate in something this hideous!

By the way, does anyone know where I can buy some corporate water? Whatever it is, it sounds DELICIOUS!

Someone’s listening to way too much Anti-Flag.

What an idealistic litter twerp you are. Really touching (cute) sob story you gave us, but if you need money why don’t you go out and earn some instead of squatting *uselessly* inside a school cafeteria? (And yes, it was useless.)

Maybe drop out of college and get your shit together, then go back, if you want your education so much.

Obviously your fun little youth groups are only promoting a sick, self-importance. Sure, you project it’s for “social change” and “the greater good”, but in reality, I’m sure you’re at least smart enough to know that your demands won’t be met, you won’t be heard, and you’re simply too insignificant for anyone to care.

How about you quietly educate yourself, mature, and act like a big-boy before whining and throwing a temper tantrum like a ‘tweeny who cant get her Miley Syrus fix.

You make civil outcry look down right pathetic. You, and you’re friends.

Utterly hilarious. At least in my generation, none of our pathetic and naive gestures got filmed, to embarrass the crap out of us in middle age.

This video is more comical than political.

If you care less about a brand name (which it’s clear you do not) and more about an education, try a state school, they’re very affordable for anyone—even with minimal loans.

Also, next time you choose to occupy a school, college, university, coffee shop, Urban Outfitters, or W Hotel, brush up on your constitutional law, otherwise you and your bleeding heart liberal cooks, er I mean friends look like fools—have an agenda and never stutter (the cameraman and his wingmen were crying like babies) when trying to walk tall.

Good luck at your private university or college and seriously, look into a state school.

This kid is funny, but also sort of scary. Alex, non-violence is an ethos. It’s not a threat of future action. Not sure if they ever got to Gandhi in your Protest 101 class, but for you to espouse non-violence and civil disobedience under such a corrupted, nay, raped auspice as your last “follow-up” has shown, is an insult to anybody who has ever employed those means to any sort of end, at any time in the past. Non-violence is never supposed to be easy – and takes a lot of work to truly buy into and carry out – but should never be used under the philosophy/threat of “I’m non-violent – until I’m not.” I’m with the others here – you have a lot of learning and growing up to do, seem to have deep-rooted narcissistic tendencies, and are probably in imminent need of psychiatric help.

I participated in a couple of demonstrations back in the sixties (Hey, I was young and stupid!) and the way they were organized was like “Oceans 11″ compared to this fiasco.

Dear Alex,

It is obvious that you are poor and stupid without a long-winded explanation.

This reminds me of my years back at U.C. Santa Cruz.

I was a poor kid from a rural area going to school with about 4000 rich white liberals who thought they were bing oppressed by AmeriKKKa.

What all the ALEXs of the world fail to realize is that American capitalism is the fairest, most generous system of governance ever disigned by humans. Is it perfect? Hell no. America isn’t supposed to be perfect, only free. Free means that we are each free to succeed or fail based on our intelligence, industriousness, and luck.

I was an unlucky birth. Teenage mom, never knew my dad, mostly grew up poor. My childhood was untable, and I attended 13 schools before graduating. I got my HS diploma a couple months before I turned 20. So I got about as raw a deal as anyone.

You know what I did with my raw deal of a childhood? The best I could.

I went to a JC, then a university, then got 2 masters degrees and a profession. I did all that by working my ass off and studying, and by not crying that the world owed me a living. Best of all, my profession enables me to have a daily positive impact on the lives of others.

The main point I want to make is that capitalist America is a country where a poor kid from a broken family can grow up to have a great life if he’s only willing to work hard. Poor kids do that every day. And a lot of us are carrying the weight of deadbeats like Alex as we do it.

Hey, Alex the Douchebag, anyone – ANYONE- who is in bed with the SDS is a piece of socialist crap and deserves to have their citizenship revoked and then deported to Cuba. Muhlenberg should expel your sorry ass first, of course. Who the hell do you think you are liberating by taking over one stinking room at NYU? You are as narcissistic as that jackass who scammed his way into the White House last month. The Palestinians are the root cause of all the problems in the middle east. If they all went back to their native countries, things would be better. Of course, they have this addled notion that they are entitled to kill Jews and take over Israel. Look at a history book, you twit. The Jews were in that region for thousands of years before there was anything called Islam…so, by right, Jews belong in Israel. There never was a country called Palestine…prove me wrong.

Future generations of students will refer to this protest as a textbook example of epic fail. If the protesters had any honor, they would fall on their sharpened pencils.

Really funny but to compare these idiots to the 60 hippies is a little far fetched. They would have taken a ass whooping and maybe then backed down unlike those wussies.

I say send every one of these felonious, red diaper wearing clueless morons to school in Gaza.

Once the Islamists figure out they are lefties, their heads are going to roll.

LMAO! I can just hear it now, “Hey, wait, Akmed, we have to have a consensus as to whether you are going to be allowed to behead us or not.”

These idiots are so unequipped for life in the real world it is hilarious.

-Dave

@Alex
“if I told you I don’t use computers, would you listen to me and join my cause?”
“If I walked up to you naked organizing against sweatshops, would you listen?”

You could always use open source software, or buy anti-sweatshop clothing. It might mean you’ll have to learn something new or have less money to spend on iPods, but if your private interests outweigh the public interests than you’re not much different from the “corporate hierarchical fascist snakes” in my eyes.

Hey Alex,

Don’t pay them any mind.
What they don’t want, they don’t deserve.
They’re tied to chairs in the back of Plato’s cave, staring at shadows.
The human need to follow suit is amazing. I didn’t realize how much ’stupid’ that type of insecurity could pass around.

We’re free in America? Wake up. Maybe more so than some countries, but not as much as we were decades ago.

Free…as in…our royally corrupt political system? Two candidates? Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich represented the masses, and they got the shaft out of the debates because they were anti war. Which is the U.S. business which has ZERO chance at a budget cut or need of a bailout because…well…the US likes to bomb and invade countries it has no reason warring with.

zzzz……..zzzzzzzzzzzz…….anybody out there?

Look at Obama, pro war. Go AFGHANISTAN! It’s not a dem or republican thing, it’s a MONEY THING. Wake up zombies! Dems vs. Repubs is a false paradigm meant to have us fight each other, calling one another “liberal” and “conservative.” I was a dem until I watched the last bunch of debates last year. Ugh. They’re all such scumbags in Washington. All of them.

You losers still drink the Kool Aid the gov’t told ya about 9/11 right? Christ, wake up.
19 arabs with box cutters didn’t do it alone, they had help, question is who. The 9/11 Commission Report was not an investigation, that much is certain, and knowing that, there was no true investigation into 9/11. Why don’t you cranky changemakers get behind that cause, a real one? Vermont Sen. Leahy is calling for a truth commission (google it), there are hundreds of organizations around the world full of prominent former elected officials, CIA agents, scholars, engineers, firefighters, 9/11 family members, etc., calling for a new 9/11 investigation. Are millions of people crazy or theorists? Time Magazine was right to call the 9/11 Truth Movement a mainstream movement now.

Melissa Rossi of Huff Po is starting a series on the need for a 9/11 Investigation.
It’s about time. And Washington will fight this, with the help of corporate media calling all who question 9/11 “theorists.” We’re all theorists because none of us know the truth.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-rossi/obama-reopen-the-911-inve_b_165849.html

TOO F’ING FUNNY!!!! Best laugh I’ve had in weeks. What losers. This is the future of America??????????

You should be expelled from what school you attend. You and your friends are total shmucks.

Buying a rice bag at WalMart effects more “social change” by helping out the third-world poor sob who has nothing except hope that his rice culture will pay off, than anything shown in this video.

I’m an NYU Alumnus and the embarassment started for me around “They took over the *food court*”. Because that’s going to grind campus activity to a halt, and look, we can pick up a corporate fro-yo if we get hungry from all of our protesting. Between this fiasco and John Sexton’s recent letter admitting that endowment money was invested in the Madoff ponzi scheme without *anyone having signed off on it with the investor*, I’m never giving them my money again.

I have no problem with student protest. I protested while I was at NYU. But the list of demands here was gigiantic, disparate and made no sense. If you had stuck to a campaign for financial transparency and not resorted to this laughable comedy skit of a takeover, you probably would have had a great deal more public support and possibly some success.

What is Muhlenburg college anyway? Some school in the amish country for crazy left-wing hippies? And why was he let into NYU to begin with?

These douche bags provide a clear illustration of the reason that the taser was invented. I’d give the narrator an extra jolt just for the hell of it.

Oh man, that’s priceless.

You sure built consensus, and that consensus is that you and your little sleepover buddies are battling it out with NAMBLA for the “Least Effective Political Movement of ….Ever”.

Whooooo.. My sides hurt from laughing at you.

Alex,
I’m a bit confused. If your family is having so many problems? why are you skipping classes and work to waste your time fighting for causes that won’t affect you or help your family out at all??? hmmm….

What a bunch of hard working revolutionaries, mocking people who have to wear suits for their job. Not like you brave students protestors, whose mommy dutifully pays for your full tuition, books, and computers so you have the time to play Che Guevara’s at someone else’s college! If you truly believe in democracy, why don’t you try to get on the board of NYU and actually change things democratically. Oh right, because to you the democratic process is just window dressing to your fascist wet dreams of armed revolutionary.

“The Whole World is LAUGHING!”

“The Whole World is LAUGHING!”

“The Whole World is LAUGHING!”

LMAO. George W. Bush liberates 50 million people and people like you call him a war criminal.

Satire is officially dead. And you were an accomplic

Alex, you’ve been shredded.

http://www.moonbatmonitor.blog-city.com/nyu_village_idiot_ringleader_identified.htm

These “children” are truly a bunch of infantile imbeciles. Your parents are paying your tuition so that you may study hard and become productive members of society, not so that you may waste away your time with such asinine stunts! It’s no wonder all the “higher intelligence” jobs are going overseas! Who would want to hire retards such as these foul mouthed little boys and girls.

GROW THE HELL UP ALREADY!

Alex,

You will get past this. Five years from now, you’ll be embarrassed. In ten years or so, you’ll be indifferent. In twenty you’ll tell humorous and engaging stories about how cluless you were. In thirty you’ll be secretly proud. And in forty, you’ll wish you had done more.

Think things through better next time. Good luck with your mom and dad.

Hello Alex dear.

Honey I hope you got our latest care package. I know how rough it can be for you with the food up there at the college with your lactose intolerance and bloated sense of self importance.

Anyhoo, I don’t mean to poo poo on your little adventure with your friends but it seems that a few of them are a little annoyed with you. I think it would be best if you took a litte break and came home for a few days. A little of my home-made chicken soup would be just what the doctor ordered (vegetarians can eat chicken, can’t they? I mean it’s not really meat and of course I would never use any corporate chickens).

And then once you feel better you can go back to the college and pick up right where you left off. I think you will find that people will have forgotten everything by then and will have even started to see your point of view; you have always been such a bright and thoughtful boy, no matter what anyone else might think.

The world is a funny place as I am sure you will soon learn and people are quick to forget, especially in this new “digital” age. Once this all blows over, you and your little friends can together save the world from what ever it is that is bothering it and everyone will be happy once and for all and you will of course be to thank for it.

Love you snook-ems and keep on fighting the man.

Concensusly yours,

Mummy

Wow!

#11 – Most Discussed – (this week) – News&Politics on Youtube.

Judging by many of the comments (it’s a consensus) on there, your little “CAMP KIMMEL SLEEPOVER” event, has turned NYU into The Laugh Factory.

Greetings, potty-mouth “Daddy-Pays-the-Bills” college leftists:

Do you really think that peppering your adolescent rantings with profanity helps get your point across?

Or perhaps you are trying to show that you are “down” with “da people” who speak that way. In other words, you are in “solidarity” with other rebellious idealist idiots who speak from the gutter and make demands on everyone.

Never fear -there IS hope. You will one day grow up, mature [hopefully becoming responsible citizens in the process]…but alas, that will be long after you graduate.
I too was once a semi-informed leftist activist myself…but God had mercy on me.

The best part of all this- hardly ANYONE even heard about this shameful little university tempest in a tea-pot in the media !

I learned about it through http://www.politicalvindication.com !

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“corporate water”

this is why the terrorists hate us

“EMPTY CHAIRS IN KIMMEL” – LOL!

Now Playing on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHcsaAhs_rY

The first, of many a Lampoon I to look forward to seeing, in the coming weeks.

Kelly – Duddy – please, please, do grow up. Typical radical bullshit you sheeple spout. Bringing up Plato’s philosophy doesn’t make you any more smarter – or a gigantic tool – than Alex here, or unrelated 9/11 conspiracy theory/whining about politicians will change anything. Which, of course, got shitted on by endless waves of debunking. Nor will your delusions about America not being “free” ever come true.

Typical “radicals”. About as “radical” as angry kindergartners.

Wow. Just fucking wow. What children you little pansy ass protesters are.
Must be nice to use mommy and daddy’s money to promote “change”.
What the fuck kind of sissy asses are you, whining about organic food. You need to get your heads out of your asses and join the real world for a change you sheep.

My God…thank the lord I’m a midwestern conservative..I would hate to be known as a liberal fucking douchebag locking myself into a public area with trashcans because I don’t like fast food.

Grow up and get a life morons.

[...] liberal protest falls into self-parody.  Good [...]

This is so damn funny it has to be fake. Is this a trailer for a movie that soundtrack will feature Joaquin Phoenix rapping? Unreal. Alex Del Taco or whoever you are, I really, really, really feel bad not for you, if a retarded kid wants to put on a pair of stilts and give it a go I’m probably laughing, but any girl who would be foolish enough to date you is really in for it, the whiny little victim-whore diva you are. Why on earth would you think you could find 13 Gazans who’d want to come to NYU after your sorry sadsack show? NYU will be lucky if they get 50% of the admission next year, and they almost have to go down in academic rankings, considering the stupidity of these jerkoff rich kids. I’m willing to bet you’ve never traveled out of the country. Thanks for the laughs.

Can we not laugh at ourselves?

Do we have to take ourselves so seriously?

Ask nyulocal to allow the “Empty Chairs in Kimmel” response video to be linked on youtube.

[...] The greatest ten minute video ever made. Be sure to read the comments where Alex responds to people making fun of them. My favorite snark: [...]

Wow… Coming in from the outside.

Alex, I was once like you. I was arrested once for protesting BK fish sandwiches because they killed Tuna. I only did it to get laid.

However, I don’t really wish to address the hilarious video you’ve provided us, nor the “controversy” at NYU. I would like to address the comments left in this forum by Alex.

First Reply: At least I’m doing something.

No, you’re not. You look like a bunch of privileged pricks with your $1,600 laptops and your too cool for school hipster BS. As someone just from the outside, this video had me siding with the NYU administrators. My thought was “God, those people should get paid extra for dealing with whiny bastards like this.”

Second Reply: Poor mom and dad.

I can’t stand a liar. So, wait, you’re so poor that you can afford road trips to NYC from where you are? So poor that you can only afford a nice video camera and a new MacBook? I mean, you haven’t bought new clothes in two years, but you can afford road trips to the Big Apple and a nifty camera.

You sir, are full of crap. YOU ARE A LIAR. You’re a douchebag attention whore who apparently would have people wrongly believing his parents are indigent just to garner some sympathy. You’re now a moron and a liar in my book.

Poor you, born white in the world’s richest country. Boo-frikkin’-hoo. I hope in the years to come this video haunts you. Every person you meet, every potential employer…. They Google your name and see this video.

Oh, and I hope your poor parents never look you up and see what their child says about them to strangers. You should be ashamed. You would need to evolve to be scum.

What do you corporate fascists have against consensus anyhow? Whether it’s with or without Freddy is a whole other can of dolphin-free tuna. The real question this video poses is “Who can facilitate this? Who is capable of facilitating at this point?” No, Alex, said facilitate, not fellate. We know you can do that. So, tell me, which one of the mall cops waterboarded you into posting this monstrosity online? You obviously did this on your own. So what in the god or goddess of your choice’s name made you think this was a good thing to post. You must have thought you’d be received as a hero, a freedom fighter, no? Did you think that Urban Outfitters would sell shirts with your iconic image on them, right next to the rack of Che merch and the kaffeyahs? Have you ever thought about film school? I think you’ve got a gift. Cause I’ve watched this thing about 20 times now. It is as addicting as corporate soda.

I feel like I’ve grown close to “the cast” of “NYU-KNOW-WE-NEED-YOUR-I.D.” However, I want to be able to feel a connection, therefore I’m naming a few of my favorite’s:

At the 4:57 mark – “NYU-UNIBOMBER”

“Peace Sign Girl”

“A.J – you F’ing RAT! – Soprano”

“Balcony Babe”

“Dreadlocked Skaterboy”

“Corporate Cameraman”

“I just came in for a Turkey Wrap, Blue-Hat-Sportcoat-Guy”

Now I’m going to watch it… again.

I can’t help it. I actually set my alarm a few minutes early so I could enjoy lousy dickumentary before I go to work. Oh, that’s right. I have a job. And they’re a corporation. I work full time and yet I can’t afford to buy a MacBook, let alone six. I bet you have some really weird porn saved on your MacBook. Alex, what’s your schedule like? Where will you be appearing next? You played the role of “giant douche bag” better than its ever been played before. This is the role you were born to play: Turdtard with camera, opinions, four weeks of Civics 101 under your belt. Bravo, asshole!

Kimmel Occupation: All The Reason You Need To Beat (Unmercifully) Leftist Idiots…

All this over Hamas. I only wonder how many professors are still teaching at this school that fanned these anti-American flames in the first place.
Gutfeld:
This is raw footage from the Kimmel Occupation at NYU, and it may be the best reflection of the…

OMG HE’S TOUCHING MEEEE!!!!!!