Jackass Bankers Drop Insane Leaflets On Chicago Protesters

What are the nation's nervous mid-level financial managers up to this week? Oh, just freaking the hell out, and making weirdly vague flyers on the office copier to dump on the throngs of protesters outside every day.

Wonkette operatives from the Occupy Chicago protests sent along this delightful photograph proving that the Banking Class is finally terrified of the harmless, jobless students and workers milling aboutday after day foreverbeneath those glass towers soon to be repossessed by either China or Justice.

But what does this dumb sloganmean? "WE ARE THE 1% PAYING FOR THIS." It was printed on many sheets of paper, apparently by the Chicago Board of Trade. Paying forwhat? The office copier? Theprotests themselves? So is the Chicago Board of Trade somehow therealGeorge Soros behind the Communist Insurrection?

And were any actual 1-percenters involved in this dumb fear stunt? We are thinking, "Ha ha, of course not, because this has all the marks of Asshole $100K Salaryman on it." You needto havean average annual income of $2,196,124 -- and at least $200,000 a year -- to be in the Top 1% of U.S. earners, according to the latest federal statistics from the Social Security Administration. The people making $2 million plus are not running off copies in the office insulting the protesters -- because the people making over $2 million a year are keepingas low a profile as possible right now, excepting those running for president.Theyget Secret Service protection.

Also: Has the number of bodyguards and plainclothes police and private security in obvious public view on New York's Upper East Side dramatically increased since, say, the last time your editor was in town about a year-and-a-half ago? Because it wasoutrageousyesterday. We are reminded of Russian Mobsters with their dozen musclehead black-suited thugs outside every "luxury goods" store or "hooker nightclub" in Eastern Europe, in the 1990s. [ Occupy Chicago ]