What is the Rose Parade’s connection to claimed Wall Street abuses? Nothing. But that isn’t stopping the LA Times, ABC local tv, Yahoo, and other media from dutifully promoting the decomposing Occupy movement’s plan to disrupt the century-old event.
As of December 22, Occupy The Rose Parade had a pathetically insignificant 191 followers on Facebook and 283 followers on Twitter, and its grandiose fundraising plans had raised a laughable $600 just days from their planned protest immediately following the January 2, 2012 Rose Parade. Given the irrelevant scope of this “movement,” prominent media nonetheless hype their plans and the Pasadena Police Department is specifically working with them to allow their participation in the informal parade that traditionally trails the formal parade floats.
How can this happen, and who is behind this anemic, yet overly propagandized, protest? Peter Thottam is the founder of Occupy The Rose Parade.
He is also an ivy-leaguer from Yale, a Goldman Sachs alum, and former corporate lawyer from an international mega law firm, with a Boalt Hall law degree and a UCLA MBA. A true one percenter if there ever was one, right?
Founder of at least two anti-war organizations, in 2008 Thottam was arrested in Ventura for confronting Nancy Pelosi over the Iraq war. Thottam knows how to get television attention, too: he wore a Dick Cheney mask to draw attention to his efforts to impeach Bush during the 2008 Rose Bowl Parade on local television.
Like a one-trick pony, disgraced lawyer, admitted thief and shoplifter Peter Thottam is once again trotting out his Rose Bowl protest theme – presumably to resuscitate the Occupy chaos, but perhaps more likely for self-aggrandizement. And unlike his previous efforts, this time he’s cleaned himself up and donned a more respectable costume, that of an official Rose Parade organizer, to meet with media.
A trust fund child of wealth and privilege, Peter Thottam graduated from Beverly Hills High School 1989 as a self described socialist and Marxist, urging other students to read Karl Marx’s manifesto. Foreshadowing his use of costumes as group identifier even in high school, young Peter often wore a Mao cap to school.
Disgraced as a lawyer, accused by siblings of cannibalizing his family’s fortune to play the same stock market he now condemns, Thottam failed to make a career at Goldmann Sachs, a Wall Street corporation he now plans to mock during the parade protest with a “Goldie Sachs Wheel of Fortune”. This hypocrite even used federal bankruptcy laws to walk away from financial responsibility for his real estate empire losses.
Ironically, the Make-Believe Media helpfully unveil Thottam’s kitschy plans to disrupt the Rose Parade as newsworthy but keep Thottam’s public record and career history out of the news. Hardly a pitiable, destitute college grad struggling with two jobs to make the interest payments on his exorbitant students loans, Occupy The Rose Parade’s founder is an elite leftist media darling.
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Petulant children, starving for attention and drooling over an opportunity to poop in someone's Cheerios.
The Tournament of Roses – Rose Parade is THE premire event of it's kind in the United States of America and of course a sponsor of THE Rose Bowl – the country's oldest college football bowl game.
{our Sun Bowl here in El Paso is #2!}
That these scumbags would even THINK of trying to sully this GREAT, NON-PARTISAN, community {and really} national event that is about service and charity and community cooperation with their douche`baggery is OUTRAGEOUS.
In the event that enough of these scumbags show up {hopefully NOT} I PRAY the fine Pasadena P.D. and others LIMIT these clowns to ONLY their Constitutionally allowed right to PEACEABLY assemble, and nothing more.
He's failed at everything in life so I'm sure his little protest will turn out to be just more of the same.
bump, if u can find time to check it out, its worth watching
He's gonna win a lot of converts with this move…
…NOT!
I'll be watching, hoping, yes, even praying, to see the losers walk behind the horses..for obvious reasons.
We Americans love our Rose Parade..If they are peaceful…that's fine, but I dont see that happening, they just can't help themselves.
Leave the Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade alone you Leftist scum bag!
Seems like all you need to get media attention today is a loose wig and a little red book. What an a-hole!
"the decomposing Occupy movement", a very well turned phrase.
That movement belongs in a toilet bowl not at the Rose Bowl.
Say what you want about him, that man has an enviable head of hair.
Well, the important thing his siblings should understand isn't about money, it's about this Marxist's needs to discover himself. He wants to chase floats at the Rose Bowl Parade. It's important.
The media you named – Yahoo, La Times, ABC are left of center. The face of ABC is George Stephanopolis and Yahoo partners with Huntington Post in their "news" reports.
So, I'm not surprised that they are making up any excuse to "report on" the OWS movement. The left-wing echo chamber will go to any length to breath life into the dying OWS movement – leading to the 2012 election.
The crowds should spit on them, douse them with water in the cold.
I say bring in the specialists to clear up all remaining and future "occupy" sites.
The Chinese Military …. who cleaned up Tianamen Square
If there are no news to report, create and encourage a situation that will give you something to report. If it helps the narrative, all the better.
The guy is a radical loser seeking his 15 minutes of fame.
A toilet is probably the only thing #Occupy could stop.
When I saw this on the local news, I was so ticked off. Again, the Left manages to ruin every experience a person can have by making it political. It's the freakin' ROSE PARADE. Kids get excited about it – to see the horses, to see the floats, etc. But no, they have to be there to "make a statement".
Take your statement you thug and shove it up your third point of contact.
Pete Thottam was also fired from Goldman Sachs for illegal trading – his cv not only lies about being there for two years but was an auditor in the investment bank who was terminated for illegal trading and NASDAQ got involved
Anyone listening to this guy or thinking about giving him money needs to run a credit check on this free loader.
Someone should ask Mr. Thottam why he hides from creditors who are chasing after him left and right.
Or ask why he hides out as his sugar mommy's house with Kirstin Muller at 2242 Louella Ave in Venice, CA 90291.
Check out his cv and anyone with a brain can see that this bozo has not held a stable job for more than a year.
From what I have read this looney has been fired from nearly every job he ever held.
No wonder he is preying on the simple-minded people to give him their money, I just hope someone protects the people of America from him.
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