Will Occupiers Escalate to Theft?

Will the cities infested by the "Occupy [City Name Here]" movement let these squatters take over foreclosed houses and "figure out strategies" for getting utilities connected?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/game-plan-fox-piven-expands-on-strategy-to-illegally-occupy-foreclosed-homes-default-on-student-debt/

In a healthy society, the strategy for getting utilities connected is to take a piece of mail addressed to you, and an amount of cash usually below $100, to the utility office and request that they set up an account for you. Although this allows illegal squatters to set up accounts easily, that's not really the utility companies' business, and it does encourage the illegal squatters to pay their own utility bills without sabotaging other people's business.

Unfortunately, in a society where people take it upon themselves to "protect" others, the risks to third parties escalate. For example, while my husband and I were living in Maryland and working in Washington, D.C., some people--illegal squatters, illegal aliens, fugitives from justice, or just bad credit risks?--found it necessary to steal his identity in order to get the electricity connected where they were living. They paid their bills on time for more than a year, while living in downtown Washington. My husband found out that they'd been using his name and credit card account only after they'd left town, without bothering to notify Pepco, so that two or three months of unpaid bills had been charged.

City dwellers beware! If you use a credit card for anything--especially if you seldom use it, always pay off your credit card debt before interest piles up, and have a good credit rating--you are at risk for identity theft by "Occupiers" as these pests increasingly notice that squatting in public space isn't getting them anywhere. And once they've stolen your identity in order to get air conditioning and hot showers in a house from which some greedhead bank has evicted some law-abiding Social Security pensioner, what's to stop them from using your identity to take a vacation? After all, everybody leaves Washington in July...

This web site advises everyone to start working now on strategies to protect ourselves against real crime. If you have been using credit cards to pay utility bills, stop, and notify your utility company that use of credit cards or the Internet to pay bills in your name should be promptly investigated as evidence of identity theft. Do routine business on a cash-only basis. You can't make the whole world free from crime, but you can protect yourself from having the crime committed in your name.