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The Frontier Lab conducted an in-depth look at the motivations of Occupiers. The investigation looked at the values behind their protest, and what they found was almost universal selfishness:

While their rhetoric might decry crony capitalism and bank bailouts, their values reveal self-centered and fear-based motivation.

…their values focus on their own individual fears and desires, rather than on those of others.

…Many in the media and political worlds have made inaccurate conclusions about the Occupy movement because their assessments, so far, have been based on the movement’s superficial attributes – its signs and its slogans – rather than its participants’ values.

By concentrating solely on the surface level pronouncements of the Occupy movement, one can easily be fooled, as the core Occupiers’ motivation hinges less on the political ends than on emotional, self-directed fulfillment.

This would certainly explain what happens in this video from Accuracy in Media, as donations for the real homeless are solicited from an Occupy camp (Hat-tip: Big Government):

“We take.” Indeed.

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