busted for busting out at bank of america

[xchrom]

http://www.nationofchange.org/busted-busting-out-bank-america-1331569295




“Strip­ping Pro­tes­tors In Pink Bras Crashed Bank Of Amer­ica CEO Brian Moyni­han's Speech,” de­clared Busi­ness In­sider on March 8, show­ing Moyni­han’s stern photo with a pink bra play­fully dan­gling in the air be­side him.

It’s true, things did get a bit wild at Citi's Fi­nan­cial Ser­vices con­fer­ence at New York’s Wal­dorf As­to­ria when Brian Moyni­han got on stage and began flip­ping through his te­dious pow­er­point.

While the hotel se­cu­rity was busy watch­ing anti-bank pro­test­ers ral­ly­ing out­side, CODE­PINK co­founder Jodie Evans, dressed in a hot pink bustier, burst into the con­fer­ence room. “Bust up Bank of Amer­ica be­fore it busts up Amer­ica”, she shouted, be­fore being hauled out by se­cu­rity guards. “As I was say­ing,” con­tin­ued a dead­pan Moyni­han to the laugh­ter of the crowd, re­turn­ing to the dreary slides that tried to put a rosy spin on this di­nosaur of a com­pany whose share price has plum­meted while it con­tin­ues to fore­close on fam­i­lies’ homes and faces tens of bil­lions of dol­lars in dam­ages from law­suits over mort­gage in­vest­ments.

Lit­tle did Moyni­han know that the ex­cite­ment at what is nor­mally a bankers’ snooze­fest had just begun. CODE­PINK codi­rec­tor Rae Abileah and I were al­ready seated in the front of the room. Wear­ing dark busi­ness suits, we did our best to blend into the crowd of stodgy white men in black busi­ness suits.

[TheWraith]

1. Just when I'd hoped Code Pink had finished embarrassing the left. nt

[Magoo48]

2. Is your group planning something more effective, or are you simply a critic?

[saras]

3. So call the wahmbulance, and have them send drones for Anonymous while you're at it

The only thing I see embarrassing about it is that we live in a country that calls for tens of thousands of such actions, and that's not so much embarrassing as humiliating.

Yeah, code pink shouldn't have been there. Enough police officers, and soldiers, should have been there to round up all the bankers and give them few chances to die while attempting to escape before their trials and sentences

But we don't get to live in a good country at this point.

[U4ikLefty]

6. Why would a centrist care?

Note, I did not mention pom-poms

[UnrepentantLiberal]

7. Just when I thought Obama had stopped emulating Ronald Reagan...

[ellisonz]

4. Previous thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12521079

[JoeyT]

5. I wondered why threads on this were getting negative attention.

Then I remembered Code Pink said something mean about Obama once.