While I was shooting this video of the Occupy Falmouth protesters a man walked past me and commented that I was wasting my time talking to, in his words, these “homeless bums.” Soon after that another man approached me and called me a hippie.
I don’t understand this hostility directed at a group of citizens participating in our democracy. The Occupy Falmouth protesters are not bums, hippies or radicals. They are Americans and they are regular people – just like you.
Monte