Thanks.
These are from the Occupy San Francisco rally last week. They marched from their encampment to City Hall, with a formidable police escort -- squad cars, police on scooters, and on foot.
That rally was peaceful, with the now-standardized speaker-echo audience responses from throngs of Useful Idiots.
There was a female speaker there who thoroughly trashed the founders and the constitution, and called for "starting over"; I don't think she meant having a constitutional convention, either!
I figure probably 2,000-3,000, though the paper said 5,000 were present.
One of the (many) things that I find creepy about this is how Obama has revived a lot of failing, marginal groups that for decades have only been visible in the occasional flyer on a campus lamp post. The Socialist this, the Workers’ that, etc.; in other words, the ragtag groups made up of a few students and mostly a large clump of the older hangers-on and failed academics who always collect around university campuses. They had their moment of glory back in the late 60s and the 1970s. But they caused so much disruption and crime, particularly after their alliance with the “vanguard of the Revolution,” the Black Panthers and other violent black power groups, that they were abandoned even by the Dems and the left, who were mostly motivated by pro-Communist anti-war sentiments and not by domestic events. I think the failure to get McGovern elected was the thing that revealed their lack of larger support or relevance for the average Dem.
But this time these groups, with some of the same players (Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn, for example), have actually managed to get somebody into the White House and now they are reviving all these marginal groups of fruit loops and giving them a legitimacy that they could never have attained on their own. The whole objective, of course, is destabilization, which is a big part of the Alinsky/Ayers technique.
Many of the actual participants in these “spontaneous events” are anarchists. Some of them are part of that floating tribe that seems to roam the world and appear at international riots as if they had their own private jets, and others part of that local stratum of youthful and not so youthful losers who blame the world for their failures. But they are all pretty marginal people, and I wonder if Obama and the people behind him are going to use them a little longer and then dump them once they have accomplished their task of destabilization and destruction.
In the years prior to the Spanish Civil War, the Communists made abundant use of the anarchists to provoke confusion, disruption and fear in various stable parts of Spain, and when actual fighting finally broke out, the anarchists were the first ones to charge out to sack churches, burn villages and kill anyone in their way. But as soon as the Communists actually took charge, the first group that they purged...was the anarchist bloc. The anarchists were considered “politically immature,” and once they had served their purpose in destabilizing the political and social world and in sowing fear, they were no longer necessary and many of them were executed or simply killed on the battlefield by the Communists themselves.