The Banker's Wife
Bill McGurn ·
Oct 21, 2011 at 8:25am
The personal sacrifices some people are willing to make:
A married mother of four from Florida ditched her family to become part of the raggedy mob in Zuccotti Park -- keeping the park clean by day and keeping herself warm at night with the help of a young waiter from Brooklyn.
“I’m not planning on going home,” an unapologetic Stacey Hessler, 38, told The Post yesterday....
Hessler -- who ironically is married to a banker -- arrived 12 days ago and planned to stay for a week, but changed her plans after cozying up to some like-minded radicals, including Rami Shamir, 30, a waiter at a French bistro in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
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Dec '10
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Cindy Sheehan? Get off the stage. We now have the sleazy version of "Peace Mom".
Dec '10
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The whole movement summed up in a single human being. Wow.
Dec '10
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This behavior is relatively common. We have plenty of examples of Western women ditching their humdrum lives to attach themselves to Mideastern Muslim husbands - sometimes even to the point of engaging in the exciting life of jihad.
Jul '10
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Our society is wallowing in moral decadence. People with real problems don't have time to go shack up with other deadbeats in the park.
Sep '10
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In the late 1980s, when I worked for the American Schools of Oriental Research, people would say about such a woman: she went native. It happens a lot apparently, as you say. My sense, though (and probaby that of many other Ricoteers) is that she's going through an early midlife crisis that has everything to do with what she sees as a boring marriage and nothing to do with struggling to make a better world.
Jun '10
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This is what happens when an abstract notion of "love for humanity" trumps the actual love you should have for real people (such as your children).
She's a modern-day Mrs. Jellyby.
Jul '10
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The kids are better off.
Jul '10
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The unemployed Long Island native compared her decision to abandon her family to Americans serving in the armed forces.
“Military people leave their families all the time, so why should I feel bad?” a defiant Hessler said. “I’m fighting for a better world.”
Yep, you're quite the hero lady. The world will be markedly improved by your brave decision to abandon your family to play vagrant.
Congrats on the free love btw. It's free from responsibility, decency, honor...
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For some Americans, it is always 1969.
May '10
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This sad story likely has nothing at all to do with OWS -- that is just the backdrop.
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Mrs. McGurn reports that Rush is now talking about it.
Dec '10
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The weed today is much better.
Jul '10
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Of course, she likely blames Bush.
Tell the kids she died and move away with no forwarding address. Some opportunities are not to be missed.
Sep '11
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Sweetheart, go home.
Yup--I get it. You're fed up with your middle class existence in suburbia, and you're fed up with your middle class husband and your middle class children. And the prospect of some Bad Boy nookie seems oh, so adventurous!
Grow up. Go home.
Somebody like me is coaching your kids, or leading their Girl Scout troop, or directing their marching band. Someone like me is going to have to deal with the emotional mess you're leaving behind, and try to think of a strategy to deal with yet another kid who is struggling to come to terms with the fact that at least one of her parents doesn't love her enough to honor the commitments she once made.
While you're noodling with your bistro waiter (Rami? Really?) every single boy or girl in your children's schools will be text, tweeting, or posting the story of their mom running off to New York; making a cuckold of their father, and a fool of them.
But, hey, I suppose you'll find yourself.
In the gutter.
Aug '10
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She's fighting for her children's future, while her husband is actually taking care of them. How wonderful.
I have always been baffled by people who find the steady and cozy life of suburban America to be a nightmare from which they must escape. When I watch films/read books like "Bridges of Madison County" or "The Horse Whisperer" I always come away thinking about how shallow the portrayal of the woman is. The woman isn't content with comfort, she wants "excitement."
My hope is that this woman will realize that her children need her love and hugs far more than that random person at the empathy table.
Sep '10
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"God save her please, she's nailed her knees to some drug store parking lot.
Hey Mr Brown turn the volume down I believe the evening's shot
Don't you know that, when you see her, she grew up in your back yard.
Come back to us Barbera Lewis Hare Krishna Beuregard."
John Prine probably wrote that song about her mother but I can't get the lyrics out of my head now.
Feb '11
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I have nothing good to say about this stupid and vile woman.
But I saw a story yesterday that I find much worse.
Bank of America moved trillions of dollars of financial derivatives from its Merrill Lynch subsidiary to a another that has a trillion dollars of FDIC insured deposits.
In other words if we have another 2008-style crisis the government will be forced to bail out Bank of America- again- or let a trillion dollars of retail deposits vanish.
Isn't Bank of America clever?
Yes, yes it is. So forgive me if a find the idiotic antics of a handful of fools and moochers of less significance than the machinations of the Wall Street banks.
I doubt the morons suffering from sixties envy will accomplish much except earning the contempt of anyone with any sort of competence.
On the other hand the Wall Street financiers may well succeed in collapsing the entire financial system, possibly followed by the entire system of government.
That's more significant than this loathsome bimbo.
Jan '11
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The present context makes her new "life" tolerable - even enjoyable. But, what's in her future when the context changes, and the waiter finds somewhere else to go?
Aug '10
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Ah yes, those terrible derivatives.
You know... those things that allow for a great deal of business activity to occur at all.
While we are at it, let's attack all of those speculators and people who give out mortgages and auto loans.
I tell you what. You go live in Mexico, a country without a robust credit industry, and I'll stay here and try to get less regulation of our markets.
Aug '10
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Pictures please. Like OBL, I can't fully comprehend without a visual aid.
Edited on Oct 21, 2011 at 11:29am