Activists Hosting 'Bus Tours' Of AIG Executives' Homes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/20/activists-hosting-bus-tou_n_177560.html



On Saturday, the Working Families party is organizing a "Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous" bus tour of Connecticut homes belonging to executives from the American International Group's disastrous Financial Products division.

Working Families spokesman Bryan Collinsworth says the people on the bus will not be "stereotypical radical activists" -- just regular folks facing hard times looking to give AIG a piece of their minds.

At each executive's house, the bus will stop and attempt to deliver a letter detailing working people's problems.

AIG, beneficiary of billions in taxpayer dollars after Financial Products precipitated the company's near-failure, has stoked outrage for delivering $165 million in bonuses to the division's employees. The tour comes after a week in which fury at AIG swelled to epic proportions, with politicians calling for industry executives to commit Samurai-style suicide and protests outside local AIG offices across the country. AIG's government-appointed CEO, Edward Liddy, told Congress on Wednesday that death threats had been rolling in; some employees have even stationed guards outside their homes.

Collinsworth says Connecticut police have been notified of the event, and everyone who rides the bus has signed a non-violence pledge. The tour will conclude with a rally outside the Financial Products division headquarters in Wilton.

Working Families shared some of the soon-to-be-delivered letters with the Huffington Post. Here's one, from a woman identified as Faith:

My mother is an 83-year-old single woman suffering from Post Polio Syndrome. She has been waiting for more than one year for payment of the money AIG approved for damage due to a broken pipe that destroyed the first floor of her single family, two-story house in January, 2008. During the past year, AIG has done everything in their power NOT to pay the money due, including subjecting her to a 5+ hour deposition for which she had to hire an attorney. I would like to ask one of the AIG executives who received a $1M+ bonus: would you consider giving my mother a loan while your adjusters and underwriters at AIG continue to delay the payment AIG has already approved? Because right now, she's living on balance transfers and hand-outs from her children -- taxpayers who paid for your bonus. After spending a lifetime at work so that she could afford to pay her homeowner's insurance premium each month, on time, every year for the last 49 years, do you think you could do her this one little favor?

They called her and claimed they hadn't received her premium so she called her mortgage company and they sent her the paperwork proving they had made the payment. She sent it to AIG and 3 months later she was still going back and forth with AIG and they were threatening to cancel her policy for non payment. So finally one day she said to them on the phone "Well now I understand why you are being investigated for fraud". And one hour later, they cancelled her policy.

:rofl:

I'm an Ironworker. I live in a $1700/mo. studio apartment in a building that I built.

Dumbass.

Anyone who disagrees with you is a dumbass, and you're free to treat them how you please.

I do believe you just made my point. Many thanks.

THAT'S why you're a dumbass.

You CHOOSE to pay $1700 per month for a studio when you could pay far less for far more. Sound familiar? The AIG execs are guilty of exactly the same excesses, yet you want to go to their neighborhoods at 3 am and start honking horns. (Do you own a car?)

Far away, maybe. I live and work in New York City.

You're not getting any smarter, I see.

You are not suffering, Mr. Ironworker. Far from it.

How does that preclude my complaining about AIG, again?

is going to have a lot of legal expenses to pay.

DON'T FORGET THE GUILLOTINES!!!

and I'm deadly serious...

Possibly trespassing, which any cop responding would simply ask them to leave rather than exacerbate the situation, any actual citations would probably be thrown out of court.

Why would anyone do this?

Most of them are unlikely to be visable from the road.

whatever, my point still stands. I know these towns.

I saw several news reports and videos on blogs about that "tour"...and IMHO, that's all that mattered. It got attention and makes for "good teevee" when the "security guard" goes to try to intimidate them away. Michael Moore made a fortune this way. Hell...every day people are driving all over Beverly Hills...paying several bucks for a map...just to see the driveway and garbage cans of their favorite stars.

Like you.

And not really deserved, IMO. They're not Nazis.

I respect life and the law and the justice system and I don't really want to see someone killed...Also, if one of these guys gets taken out its going to give the rest an excuse to do worse things.

Thanks. :hi:

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is a statistic. Corporations have been screwing the little guy for years, basically since corporations were considered people legally. But it seems a particular set of circumstances was needed to get people to wake up. One of them is having a specific corporation to focus on. Maybe, on some small scale, the concept that 'some animals are more equal than others' is being questioned. It is okay for one person to have a private island while a million scrape by? Our society has so far answered in the affirmative.

Maybe we can have another march on Washington, then? :eyes:

Surely they realize how transparent they are.

After all, Grandma Millie has been subjected to the "we know where you live!" threat for decades. Isn't turnabout fair play?

:eyes:

Meanwhile, in the middle of MO, we had 400 at a march to commemorate the start of the war on Iraq. But CNN wasn't there.

there are probably only about a couple dozen people who are suffering in about a 100 mile radius of this area. This is hedge fund billionaire country with estates on huge amounts of land.

thats all i want to know