NYT: What the costumes reveal

[Iwillnevergiveup]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/what-the-costumes-reveal.html?ref=opinion


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"On Friday, the law firm of Steven J. Baum threw a Halloween party. The firm, which is located near Buffalo, is what is commonly referred to as a 'foreclosure mill' firm, meaning it represents banks and mortgage servicers as they attempt to foreclose on homeowners and evict them from their homes."

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What the costumes reveal is heartless cruelty.

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[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. A glimmer of hope?

More:

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"These pictures are hardly the first piece of evidence that the Baum firm treats homeowners shabbily — or that it uses dubious legal practices to do so. It is under investigation by the New York attorney general, Eric Schneiderman. It recently agreed to pay $2 million to resolve an investigation by the Department of Justice into whether the firm had “filed misleading pleadings, affidavits, and mortgage assignments in the state and federal courts in New York.” (In the press release announcing the settlement, Baum acknowledged only that “it occasionally made inadvertent errors.”)

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[Katashi_itto]

4. I hope so.

[valerief]

3. This is what the majority of the 1% think of the 99% anyway. nt

[Iwillnevergiveup]

5. More bad PR from last year

http://longislandbankruptcyblog.com/steven-baum-pc-served-foreclosure-papers/

Mind-boggling - 48 foreclosures a day?????

[Hotler]

6. The "I have mine fuck everyone else" crowd.

Goes to show that no amount of money can buy you class. Party on you fuckers cause your day is coming. The whole bottom is going to fall out of the economy and you are going to be out in the streets with the rest of us. Eat shit and die you bitches.

[TBA]

7. For once I am at a loss for words

[a simple pattern]

8. dox time

[bengalherder]

9. K&R

Truly a 'let them eat cake' moment.

Edit to add, Marie Antoinette didn't make herself any more popular by doing all that 'dressing up as a peasant' on her queenly farm.

[DeSwiss]

10. K&R

- Aside from the heartlessness, the pity of it is that there will most likely be no one around to snap pictures of them when they succumb to the corruption. And it is coming.........

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[girl gone mad]

12. k & r

[Danse]

13. Unreal

I don't even think Ellis would have included a scene like this in American Psycho; it would have seemed too preposterous.

These folks make Marie Antoinette look like a humanitarian.

Are they psychopaths, or have they adopted the traits of psychopaths to "survive" in their chosen profession? In war, soldiers are often (always?) taught to view the enemy has somehow inferior or subhuman. Class war is no different. These lawyers are dehumanizing their victims in order to sleep at night; or, if psychopaths, they simply take pleasure in the degradation of others.

I'm sure most of you have seen the film "The Corporation". It posits the view that society's dominant institution -- the corporate "person" -- has all of the traits of a psychopath. The same analogy can be drawn to any authoritarian institution.

This will not end well unless we establish direct democratic control, not only of government, but of the corporate form.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

14. Two things I've wondered

First, it would so benefit the homeowner, the neighborhood, the community, the state, the country and the friggin' mortgage holder to do everything possible to keep people in their homes. Vacant properties benefit no one.

Second, have any of these Baum types witnessed the fallout on families - how many of them have to scramble for any kind of housing? Be it doubling up with family or friends, motels, apartments (if a credit check can be passed after a foreclosure), or homeless shelters? Geesh.

Doesn't seem like there's an end in sight.

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