Posted on 10/02/2011 5:22:20 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Disclaimers:
1. This is a shameless vanity.
2. I haven't extensively researched all this occupy Wall Street crapola.
3. I'm mostly responding to what I see on Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook etc.
Having said all of that - with all of this Occupy Wall Street stuff I see what seems to be a well orchestrated plan by the left to foment what they hope will ultimately be revolution in the streets. They want their own London riots, their "Arab Spring", their "Days of Rage" call it what you will or use whatever analogy you choose.
I fear that this is the endgame of the Cloward-Piven strategy and as such, it's for all the marbles.
On the social media sites there are all manner of people going on and on about the evil bankers and like Roseanne Barr talking about how they should be executed.
This is all right out of the Obama/Van Jones/Bill Ayres/Valerie Jarrett/William Wright playbook.
Yet I see some but not very much discussion on FR.
Am I missing something? Is what is going on not that big a deal? Is FR reacting appropriately? Am I overreacting?
Thoughts?
And no, I'm not pimping a blog or anything of the sort - just putting the topic out there.
Of course, sooner or later, some wolves will use the front of a "demonstration" to cause a massacre.
And, in parallel, most normal Americans simply ignore (because they do not want to see) the constant communist propaganda in the schools, in the black church, and now in the leftist alternative media.
We are heading for war, maybe sooner rather than later.
Be prepared.
A couple days ago, a live reporter for FoxNews interviewed several of the idiots in the Wall Street “occupation” crowd. It was really funny. One of the questions was “What do you want to replace capitalism?” The kid was dumbfounded and had no idea what to say.
I’d like to see them publish names and residence of the arrested ‘protesters’. I’ll wager most of them are from outside NYC with a good portion from outside the United States. Why they’re allowed to live in a public park while they waste the taxpayers mony on police overtime is another mystery.
A reporter for Fox assigned to interview the protestors
said there was really a stench among them- urine, sweat and etc.
Don't forget the role of government:
" Italian social critic Gaetano Salvemini wrote in 1936 that under corporatism, "it is the state, i.e., the taxpayer, who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the state pays for the blunders of private enterprise." As long as business was good, Salvemini wrote, "profit remained to private initiative." But when the depression came, "the government added the loss to the taxpayer's burden. Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social." The Italian corporative state, The Economist editorialized on July 27, 1935, "only amounts to the establishment of a new and costly bureaucracy from which those industrialists who can spend the necessary amount, can obtain almost anything they want, and put into practice the worst kind of monopolistic practices at the expense of the little fellow who is squeezed out in the process." Corporatism, in other words, was a massive system of corporate welfare. "Three-quarters of the Italian economic system," Mussolini boasted in 1934, "had been subsidized by government."
http://www.banned-books.com/truth-seeker/1994archive/121_3/ts213l.html
Possibly. History could repeat itself. Having lived through the Sixties, I recall how Kent State and how the attacks on the protestors in Manhattan by fed up construction workers put a real damper on similar protests. I also recall what the protest movement did for the political party of and for adults.
Yeah, we got RATs protesting RATs.
Just how drove-up about it should we be?
They have the right to peaceful assembly. Why do we FReepers need to "fight" for this? ("Fight" who?) Insofar as they are assembling peacefully and petitioning whoever for a redress of grievances I certainly have no problem and I haven't seen anyone here who would deny the commie dirtballs their rights.
What they do not have a right to do is to physically impede others from enjoying their rights to go to work, walk down the sidewalk, or drive across the Brooklyn Bridge. There are (just and Constitutional) laws against these things and lawbreakers should be arrested and prosecuted.
If in the process of sorting all of this out a couple of hippies scrape their knees or whatever I'm not going to get all indignant about it. That's what happens when large groups of people deliberately create confusion and confrontation.
these idiots have no clue that they’re protesting against zero and his dealings with wall street.
They probably have no idea that wall street gives more money tot he left either LOL.
frigging dopes and most of them look in need of a bath too.
Another factor is that the United States, geographically, is huge compared to countries like Egypt, etc. The people who care about this don't care enough to drive more than a day.
Even a blind squirrel...
Unfortunately for their hopes, most people have better things to do than stand around in a park holding a sign. We won't have mass protests until we have mass starvation. We won't have mass starvation as long as there are food stamps.
I’m not sure if you’re talking about the Jesse Watters interview, but when he asked the lady “what do you want to replace capitalism with?” one guy kept trying to block her from the camera, and I heard the guy on the other side softly say “don’t say it” but Jesse said she eventually said “communism.” They are terribly coached on what to say/not to say.
I remember my mother saying that the Kent State protestor who was shot, wasn’t wearing any underwear. Implication was the protestors were trash.
So there are a lot of ways to view this #OccupyWallSt stuff
1. Smelly hippies wasting everybody’s time who will eventually go home when it gets cold enough.
2. Smelly hippies who have a valid point - just going about it the wrong way.
3. Step 4 or 5 of a Cloward-Piven strategy that is being manipulated behind the scenes by Soros et. al.
4. A twitter hashtag now but a cause celebre down the road if someone gets shot a la Kent State.
5. A real world non-event or close to it but a virtual world firestorm that is sweeping social media and hence popular opinion.
I personally side with 3 and 5 but obviously others on this thread have advocated for all five of them.
Time will tell.
Should we dismiss this as fly-by-night wanna-be hippies looking for their “day of fame” or should we see this as the orchestrated “America Fall” that Van Jones said was coming? Perhaps we might decide to see this as a terrorist organization attempting to over-throw our government?
http://www.occupytogether.org/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Arkansas/216470221751122
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyMemphis?ref=ts
http://www.facebook.com/pages/OccupySacramento/195816593822841
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyOrlando
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyTogether
http://www.facebook.com/groups/174501289299915/
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyDallas
http://www.facebook.com/occupydenver
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyPortland
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyPhiladelphia
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Charlotte/152227828203470
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyNashville
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Milwaukee/145292382232714
When can we start using them for sighting in our battle rifles?
Nice!
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