Over at Above the Law, columnists Elie Mystal and Staci Zaretsky have been downright hostile toward folks involved in the protests known as Occupy Wall Street, which seems to be slowly and steadily developing into a real movement. CNN reports today that more unions are joining the protests and that efforts are underway for other “Occupy” cities and for a Global Day of Action. But at Above the Law, generally the most trafficked legal blog in the country, Mistal and Zaretsky have dismissed the protests as “ludicrous,” “barely newsworthy,” made up of “hippies and kids,” “fools,” and “crazies.” Fair enough. But that’s also what Fox News likes to call poor folks who are out to make some pretty salient points about the extraordinary gap between the “one percent” and the “other 99 percent.“
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