Posted on 02/23/2012 8:00:44 AM PST by Lazamataz
Today’s USA Today carries a letter from a member of Occupy Wall Street in response to that paper’s editorial, headlined “‘Occupy’ movement fading out in a whimper.” The letter’s author — a “self-employed massage therapist” from Austin, Texas — suggests that the movement should turn to violence, rendering their “occupation” a little more akin to those we’ve seen historically:
USA TODAY’s editorial is right to say that Occupy might lack clear goals on how to move forward, but the movement has accomplished its main original goal: to protest these injustices, not by simply holding a rally and going home, but by keeping the rally going to underscore the seriousness of this problem. Your piece accuses the protesters of sitting around and doing nothing. So maybe they should take up their Second Amendment-sanctioned guns and storm Wall Street and our nation’s capitals. If our country doesn’t change, it could very well come to that one day.
The media responses to the tea party rallies and the Occupy movement could not be more different. When a black, law-abiding citizen who was complying with the law turned up to a healthcare town hall in Arizona, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer flew off the handle, seeing insurrection in the air: “There are questions about whether this has racial overtones…white people showing up with guns,” she said. (The man was actually black, but why let the facts get in the way of hysteria?) Her colleague, Toure, added, “there is tremendous anger in this country about government, the way government seems to be taking over the country, anger about a black person being president…we see these hate groups rising up and this is definitely part of that.” (This is definitely part of that?) The story was cycled hour after hour.
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....”self-employed massage therapist”....
Is that what they are calling the oldest profession these days?
I remember the original story about this guy. I am not surprised the MSM didn’t think it was newsworthy. They are too predictable.
Yep, and you better get ready for them. The handout crowd will only demand more for less until we follow the path of Greece—this is the parasite mentality.
just a couple of days after they ARREST priests praying on the sidewalk in front of the white house
on a side note... anyone watch the video of the arrest and notice there was a cop taking pictures of the priests... and everyone watching. tracking anyone attending.
“The hard left is far more dangerous than anyone in the Tea party could ever be.”
They are, but they need someone else to do their dirty work. I’m not the most physical person, but I haven’t seen any “Occupy” members I’d be afraid to fight. Not exactly construction workers, though some of the females seem “mannish”...
I take solace only in the fact that so many of these Leftists have gotten so fat and lazy that they won’t pull themselves up off the couch and shut off Jerry Springer long enough to get involved in a good riot.
I dunno...I know a few people here that are very dangerous, but in a good way...
If the “hard left” ever escalated their dissention, and turned violent (anywhere in this country), I have complete confidence that they’ll never be that sorry ever again...
Yep, let's let 'em keep thinkin' that.
It'll make a good epitaph for the maggots.
I have friends in Charlotte, NC where the Demo convention will be. I have warned them to leave the city, cause it ain’t gonna be purdy.
And an EMP attack will do just that.
Even more interesting a year from now - when the gov makes one last push before inflation pill hits.
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