{"id":9081,"date":"2011-10-30T17:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T01:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=9081"},"modified":"2011-11-21T22:02:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T06:02:40","slug":"what-class-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=9081","title":{"rendered":"WHAT Class War?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Halloween, friends!<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0NYTimes Op-Ed, Joe Nocera<\/a> reported on an office Halloween party in a Buffalo suburb, thrown by the Steven Baum firm<\/a>, New York’s largest “foreclosure mill\u201d, abetting banks in foreclosing on and evicting homeowners. The fun-loving firm represents virtually all<\/em> the giant mortgage crooks: Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. A former firm employee sent Mr. Nocera snapshots of the company party, that exemplifies the “appalling lack of compassion toward the homeowners \u2014 invariably poor and down on their luck \u2014 that the Baum firm had brought foreclosure proceedings against”. Here are a few (WARNING: MAY CAUSE INTENSE FEELINGS OF RAGE):<\/p>\n

\"\"Here we have two of Baum’s lower management hags dressed like – hardyharharhar – \u00a0homeless<\/em> people. The mean looking one with the bad perm holds a bottle of liquor in a bag. You know, what bums do. The other has a hiLARious sign around her neck mocking the “typical excuse\u201d of the homeowner trying to evade a proceeding that will render him\/her homeless. You know what else will be hilarious? Watching their pinheads bounce down Broadway after they fall off of the guillotine platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Bleached blonde hagfish pushing a shopping cart instead of a pencil.<\/p>\n

\"\"A corner of the Baum office decorated to look like a row of foreclosed homes. Corporate carpet notwithstanding.<\/p>\n

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WHY DO THE POORS HATE SUCCESS SO MUCH?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Yikes! Deathwish notice via beige file cabinets\u00a0(ritual mock murder of a lawyer who has sued the firm for its criminal practices).<\/p>\n

Real Foreclosure Photos! <\/strong>(these sad little girls would have made great costumes for the secretaries):<\/p>\n

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Ah, Poverty! The accent for the emotional and aesthetic bankruptcy of the suburbs!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other party pictures show mock homeless camps, foreclosure signs,\u00a0attorneys dressed as bums and squatters in what is\u00a0referred to as – hardyharharhar – \u201cBaum Estates\u201d \u2014 a row of faux-foreclosed homes.\u00a0Fun-gone-too-far, party levity\/macabre humor associated with high stakes tension, or decrepitude of the soul indicator? Well, the idiots pictured look like low wage earners. Administrative assistants, secretaries, file clerks and paralegals (god forbid there are litigators amongst this sorry lot). SPray tans, bad perms and horrible dye jobs. They are lowly office workers in a crap suburb of a horrible city, and\u00a0are all probably much closer to economic catastrophe than they know. American nobodies, people as likely to fall prey to an aggressive foreclosure mill as the actual victims. The fear of their own homelessness forces them to report to work to this hellhole every morning. However, I’m wondering who forced them to go to this party,\u00a0to parade about as caricatures of their own victims, as their future selves.<\/p>\n

Predictably, the Steven Baum firm is under investigation by the NY Attorney General and the country’s \u201cTop U.S. Foreclosure Practice” – \u00a0i.e. Top-Down Criminal Organization – was recently made\u00a0to fork over $2 million<\/a> in fines to avoid further prosecution over its criminal foreclosure methods and resolve a Justice Dept probe into whether the crooked firm had \u201cfiled misleading pleadings, affidavits, and mortgage assignments in the state and federal courts in New York”.<\/p>\n

Just like the Wall Street balcony champagne toasters,<\/a> these losers have to be staggeringly moronic. Arrogance is seldom associated with social intelligence or the capacity to act like a decent human being. But blaming\u00a0people for their suffering by mocking their condition is really the nadir of ignorant narcissism. it’s really no different than blaming the crime victim, or attacking peaceful demonstrators, or wounding an American serviceman who survived war, only to be critically injured at home, by his own should-be protectors, while exercising the democracy he fought to make secure for all of us.<\/p>\n

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The very punchable mug of Steven J Baum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I\u00a0guess the dehumanization rituals are the only way Steven Baum’s employees sleep at night, considering what their day jobs are. Like\u00a0slaughtering people in war,\u00a0I suppose putting people out on the street, by hook or crook, is easier to digest by first dehumanizing them through ridicule. But christ, it’s hard to wrap my head around. The people in these photos are so depressing<\/em>. On one hand, I wish we had a Robespierre, a vain little fop, sent to the law firm of Steven J Baum, consigning the despicable, degenerate, bottom-feeding scum – from cubicle to copy room – \u00a0to a tumbrel for an appointment with the National Razor. On the other hand, I\u00a0take pity on this motley collection of sad, \u00a07th tier, ambulance chasing losers. They are victims of the same system which helped frontload the framework of banal oppression\u00a0that defines this ruined country…..only in America <\/em>could proletariat wage slaves be given the same opportunity as rich people to grow up shallow and cruel.<\/p>\n

Contact the Steven J Baum firm HERE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Halloween, friends! In a\u00a0NYTimes Op-Ed, Joe Nocera reported on an office Halloween party in a Buffalo suburb, thrown by the Steven Baum firm, New York’s largest “foreclosure mill\u201d, abetting banks in foreclosing on and evicting homeowners. The fun-loving firm represents virtually all the giant mortgage crooks: Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[941,946,943,944,945,942],"class_list":["post-9081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-soapbox","category-uncategorized","tag-rovespierre","tag-steven-baum-halloween-photos","tag-steven-baum-law-firm","tag-steven-baum-monster","tag-steven-baum-piece-of-shit","tag-steven-j-baum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9484,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions\/9484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}