Pixiq

Ummm, why should we feel sorry for him?

He gets close to $1,200 per month, free, to use as he pleases.

Many disabled people hold jobs. I'm one of them. I'm legally handicapped yet still work 300+ days per year, most day being 12-15 hours, at 50+ sports venues around the world annually.

I can't say and it's not our business exactly what his disability is, but how do his disadvantages and problems become the financial responsibility of another? Of society?

If he's mentally slow, he can certainly do manual work. If he's physically challenged, he can answer phones (likely). But it's likely easier just to collect $1,200 per month, buy his cigs and live on the streets, using the $1,200 ($40 per day) on everything but housing, bills, etc.

I don't feel sorry for him at all, especially for his littering ticket.

It would be nice if other, less clueless demonstrators would take a more active role in stating that they don't agree with threats and will stand by the videographer (a word which pixiq's spell-checker still claims is not a word). They're not legally, nor strictly morally, responsible to intercede, but surely they must realize how much bad publicity the movement gets when idiots like this carry on without challenge.

From Cory Morgan's blog

"What we see here is a pattern of ad hominem attacks against people who report on Occupy Calgary with no substance and that are easily disproved. Can these people and their unfounded and libelous accusations about me be taken seriously this time? Absolutely not."

"I do look forward to seeing them dragged from their tents kicking and screaming so that their “movement” can end in as infantile a manner as it began."

Some of these occupy movements could write a book on how to lose friends and NOT influence people (or worse, influence people AGAINST them).

Carlos has documented PLENTY of hostile acts towards reporters, both independent and mainstream media, which IMHO are even WORSE than verbally attacking someone in an article. Christ I have my own blog article about the assholes in the Occupy movement and I have to keep updating it as it seems like there are more incidents between the jerks in the movement and media people every day.