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Bollard publishes another inside look at Portland's Occupy Maine camp. Apparently the camp adopted an extreme libertarian philospohy that actually resembled the same laissez-faire economics that the group was claiming to be protesting against.
But the Occupy Maine camp quickly degenerated into a living example of serial, pathological irresponsibility. In doing so, it became an embodiment of the negative caricatures so favored by the far right — something not worthy of anyone’s support.
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Much to my astonishment, my statement was greeted with nods and smiles. I was told that Occupy Maine considered itself to be an absolutely open and free community, in which people were to be trusted to do the right thing.
