Current TV's Keith Olbermann got into the Halloween spirit Monday by donning a Guy Fawkes to report on a foreclosure mill that encouraged employees to dress up as homeless people.
A former employee of foreclosure firm Steven J. Baum provided The New York Times with photos of employees at a company Halloween party dressed up as foreclosure victims.
Olbermann announced Monday that for its insensitivity, the firm had won his nightly Worst Person in the World award.
"Steven J. Baum of Buffalo, NY is the state's largest foreclosure mill," Olbermann noted. "It represents banks and mortgage servicers in their efforts to foreclose on homeowners and throw them out. It has been accused of trickery to try to evict people with steady incomes who were up to date on their mortgages. So naturally for Halloween, Steven J. Baum encouraged its employees — all of whom, I assume live in terror of becoming the next victims of their scumbag bosses — to dress up for homeless people, carrying bottles of booze, wearing signs that mock the excuse of those that have been unfairly evicted."
"So this is what they dress up as for Halloween? We're going to play that game, are we?" Olbermann asked as the camera revealed him a Guy Fawkes mask.
Fawkes is a historical figure that has been adopted as a symbol of the hacker activist group "Anonymous." The mask has recently been a favorite of protesters across the world.
And just like Anonymous might do, Olbermann disclosed the physical addresses of Steven J. Baum offices in Amherst and Long Island.
"It's a long game, Steven J. Baum, and there are many costumes to be worn," Olbermann declared. "Being a foreclosure mill law firm is bad enough, adding visual abuse of your victims on Halloween, poor choice."
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/what-the-costumes-reveal.html?_r=2
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@sellsjeeps he didn't want to establish a catholic theocracy he wanted to restore a catholic king to the throne. at a time when english catholics were persecuted for their faith. the theocracy was created under cromwell as a protestant theocracy in the 1650s.
ryan473 1 month ago
LOL
matttrevproductions 3 months ago
So now these people have all lost their jobs-hope they don't lose their homes.
suhu8 3 months ago
I find it quite funny that those who wear that mask in protest for civil disobedience often don't know the man himself wanted to establish a roman catholic theocracy in Great Britain.
sellsjeeps 3 months ago
Fawkes BEGAT V BEGAT Epic Fail Guy BEGAT Mr Anon Occupier
Its a symbol now, fuck all the history its just a symbol and in Georgie's own words "I leave symbols to the symbol-minded"
AngryBugger2012 3 months ago
@KillTheStranger
What do you and king James have in common?
You both love to suck cock !
Obasiliasfilosofos 4 months ago
@Obasiliasfilosofos Never heard of the Union of the Crowns or the Reformation? I'd shut the fuck up till I knew what I was talking about you clueless cunt
KillTheStranger 4 months ago
@Obasiliasfilosofos What? do you think I can't read or something? what exactly is your point Nimrod? Guy Fawkes was a Catholic Fascist nothing more nothing less there is no legend. Fuck him and all theistic morons and fuck England. By the way James I was Scottish you clueless cock jockey.
KillTheStranger 4 months ago
@KillTheStranger the gun powder plot was born from the bitter religious war between Catholics & protestants in England, The fifth of nov was marked as a national holiday to commemorate the execution of the conspirators ring leader "Guy Fawkes, after centuries of infamy he morphed into a legend that some disfranchised elements in England over the centuries tried to rehabilitate & reinvent into heroic outlaw , particularly whenever parliament made itself unpopular with the underclass.
Obasiliasfilosofos 4 months ago