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June 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Six Occupy Albany demonstrators were charged with misdemeanor trespassing in New York’s Capitol on Thursday in a demonstration aimed at raising the minimum wage.
The protesters were arrested and handcuffed by state troopers after they staged a sit-in in the office of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. State police say they were arrested after they refused to leave the office.
Outside the Republican leader’s office, the Occupy members walked peacefully with their hands cuffed behind them and a trooper helping them down several flights of stairs. Supporters shouted, “This movement is unstoppable, a living wage is possible!”
The protesters were issued appearance tickets to answer in Albany City Court on June 8. Occupy Albany protesters usually are charged with disorderly conduct violations unless they refuse an order to move.
The demonstrators left a letter for Skelos, who didn’t appear from his office.
“Listen, we get that you are an Albany insider and are in bed with big corporations and the wealthiest 1 percent,” the letter stated. “You should realize that you are completely isolating yourself on this issue and that you and your party are going to have to go to the polls in November as the party that is so out of touch that they believe millionaires need a tax cut but people making $7.25 an hour don’t need a raise.”
Occupy and other progressive groups support a bill backed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that would raise the minimum pay to $8.50 an hour from the current $7.25. Skelos has said the bill would force employers to eliminate jobs and hurt the state’s slow economic recovery. Skelos also said low income workers would end up paying more in taxes while losing benefits such as food stamps and subsidized health care.
On Wednesday, the Senate’s Republican majority passed its “NY Job Creation Plan” that would provide tax breaks to small businesses and manufacturers, subsidized energy and more that they say will revive the economy and create more and better jobs.
“The business tax cuts we are proposing would put more money back into the pockets of small businessmen and women so they can invest, grow and hire more employees,” Skelos, of Long Island, said. “This is absolutely the right time to cut taxes and create jobs.”
Senate Democrats, in the chamber’s minority, mostly supported the Republican bill, but also support the minimum wage bill pushed by the Assembly’s Democratic majority.
“The problem here is sometimes you get caught up with what is politically correct instead of doing what is morally correct,” said Senate Democratic leader John Sampson of Brooklyn.
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