Occupy Wall Street Forms Super PAC Without Any Sense Of Irony

Ology ^ | February 16, 2012 | Noah Rothman

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Atlantic Wire is reporting that the entity known as Occupy Wall Street is forming a Super PAC to accept unlimited donations and run political advocacy ads. The image above is the actual Federal Election Commission filing for Occupy Wall Street Political Action Committee (sans mask).

"We're utterly serious," OWS Treasurer John Paul Thornton told Atlantic. Kudos to Atlantic reporter John Hudson for presumably asking the question, "are you guys serious?"

The filing originates from Decatur, Alabama, where, according to the OWS offshoot’s Facebook page, this organization intends to raise money for progressive political candidates including Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and self-described Socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Atlantic also quotes an election law attorney who says that the OWS PAC filing is riddled with inaccuracies and inconsistencies that will prolong the process of PAC formation, but nevertheless they are well on their way to influencing electoral outcomes.

There appears to be no sense of irony among the OWS PAC’s administrators that an organization which has espoused getting money out of, well, everywhere and especially politics has created an organization whose sole mission is to bring more money into politics.

Of course, the circular logic goes that they need more money in politics to elect politicians who will enact laws that force corporate and private money out of politics... And you thought they hadn’t though this through! Shame on you, indeed.

Somewhere, there is an enterprising young comedic screenwriter who is penning this all down for a truly groundbreaking mockumentary. I, for one, cannot wait.

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Decatur, Alabama? That's hardly the first place I think of when the word "occupy" comes up. If there's an attorney or other professional reading this, please tell us about how the Tea Party can do this. Fight fire with fire.