Posted on 09/06/2011 5:27:16 AM PDT by SJackson
A coalition of leftist groups is promising to occupy part of downtown Washington, D.C. “with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo” next month.
This exercise in Marxist mobocracy is just one of many scheduled nationwide in coming months. It will take place nearly three weeks after the Left’s “Days of Rage” occupation of Wall Street scheduled for Sept. 17.
The Washington protest is modeled after the demonstrations that brought down the Egyptian government earlier this year. It is being organized by an umbrella group called the October 2011 Coalition, which is run by David Swanson, a former spokesman for ACORN and the International Labor Communications Association.
Swanson said the event was timed to overlap with “October 2011 when the next year’s budget kicks in, in the United States which includes cuts for just about everything useful but again a larger budget for the military.” Of course through the magic of the federal government’s baseline budgeting, there probably won’t be any actual reduction in federal spending, but the Left needs to pillory a villain in order to rally its troops.
The October 2011 Coalition is asking activists to pledge to show up at and remain in Washington’s Freedom Plaza “if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan.” It is urging protesters to “resist the corporate machine” by occupying the plaza “to demand that America’s resources be invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation.”
In a promotional video for the group, wild-eyed playwright Karen Malpede seemed to suggest President Obama was Paul von Hindenburg and that Nazis were poised to take over America.
I will be in Washington on October 6 because it seems more and more a Weimar sort of moment where we have a nice, well-intentioned, weak, and mealy-mouthed president and lunatics on the right wing who would rather destroy the country than do anything productive. And we’re in how many wars, six now, and counting. We have the biggest military budget in the world combined. All other countries in the world do not spend as much as we spend on our military and it’s driving the country into bankruptcy and moral bankruptcy which is more important, I think, or as important. So it’s a time for citizens who value democracy and care about the country in which they live to step forward and say no.
Malpede, incidentally, seemed to be one of the more sane individuals appearing in videos promoting the October 6 event.
Swanson said Monday that his supporters will occupy Freedom Plaza, “the name of which is very similar of course to Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, and from there we are going to expand to shut down offices, buildings, streets, hallways, to nonviolently, strictly nonviolently resist what our government is doing.”
Swanson didn’t bother to address the glaring contradiction in his statement. The protesters at Tahrir Square to whom he alludes were anything but nonviolent. It is far from clear how the gargantuan government of the most powerful nation on Earth could be shut down without the use of violence.
The suggestion that nonviolent civil disobedience will be practiced that day seems to be merely an opening bid offered by the organizers, a public relations bait-and-switch calculated to appease the authorities and maximize attendance. In the world of radical activism the line between nonviolent protest and violent protest is often so thin that it might as well not exist. Unless all the demonstrators have the discipline of a Mohandas Gandhi, violence is virtually inevitable.
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With few exceptions, the groups pledging to take part on October 6 aren’t exactly known for Weather Underground-caliber violence, but they’re also not known for reasonableness and restraint.
Velvet Revolution, a Tides Foundation-funded group co-founded by convicted terrorist bomber Brett Kimberlin and radical journalist Brad Friedman, is participating. So are the Communist-dominated anti-war coalition United for Peace and Justice, and other radical left-wing groups such as ANSWER (Action Now to Stop War and End Racism), Code Pink, and World Can’t Wait, an offshoot of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
In normal times a protest involving a group like World Can’t Wait, which used cheap political theatrics in a futile effort to drive President Bush out of the White House, might not matter. But in an age of massive unemployment, public unease, overheated rhetoric, and escalating political violence from the Left, the group could become a genuine threat. This is especially true if the group’s crazed adherents believe their long-awaited revolution is finally within their grasp.
As planning for October 6 continues, the Left is escalating its already-vituperative rhetoric.
A few days ago a member of the neo-communist Congressional Progressive Caucus said Tea Party supporters in Congress want the Jim Crow era to return and to see black Americans lynched. At a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) said some in Congress would “love to see us as second-class citizens” and “some of them in Congress right now of this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree.”
This was not an isolated incident for Carson, who is also a member of the CBC. The Al Sharpton wannabe, who is one of only two Muslims in Congress, also told reporters last year that he heard the N-word hurled at Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) outside the Capitol by anti-Obamacare protesters. But it never happened. Conservative Internet news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 to anyone who could provide recorded evidence that the racial slur was uttered at the event. No one has come forward.
Joanne Dowdell, a Democratic congressional candidate in New Hampshire, said she is seeking office because the 2012 election is about “class warfare.” Dowdell is not on the fringes of her party. She is a former DNC committeewoman and was a delegate at the 2008 party convention that nominated Obama for the presidency.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has called for runs on the banks and threatened “to tax them out of business” if they don’t forgive under-water homeowners’ mortgage principal. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) said “racism” is largely responsible for high black unemployment rates.
A demonstrator from the Red & Anarchist Action Network was captured on video at a protest earlier this week outside the Wisconsin state capitol. He was helping to hold up a banner that read “Class Warfare. No Justice. No Peace.”
He shouted to the cameraman, “It’s coming! Get ready! All you f—- tea-party-baggers. It’s coming. Get ready.”
There is a good chance he meant it.
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Did you see Hoffa? The only thing he didn't do is a "Hail Hitler" at the end of his speech.
Entice the unions. Let them show their true color - commie red - so everyone can see it. We won't have to educate anyone. They'll figure it out themselves.
The National German Socialist Party members were not men of peace, sense, or ideas. They were thugs.
Pretty big "if" there, pard.
The technique is to accuse those who oppose you of doing exactly what you are doing (voter intimidation, voter fraud, trampling on rights and liberties). They then reinterpret the Constitution to create rights that don't exist etc.. The socialist propaganda machine is in full throttle, and aimed squarely at the 2012 election cycle.
It reminds me of Zhivago’s brother in Dr. Zhivago, who hung in the background, twisting things to bring about a Communist government.
There is a cute video out called “There's a Communist in the White House.” If only that information could be widely known.
They have sat in the background waiting for their marching orders. It seems that time has come. It reminds me of Zhivago’s brother in "Dr. Zhivago", who hung in the background, twisting things to bring about a Communist government.
There is a cute video out called “There's a Communist in the White House.” If only that information could be widely known.
This is where the Republicans are weak. They don't talk enough about freedom, liberty, or free will. They don't talk about how big, expensive, and oppressive the government has become. All they have to do is start pushing that message. Who can disagree with it other than the 30% radical socialist/communist left who DOES want a dictatorship, and what could their rebuttal be?
The Republicans allow the left to set the agenda. This is why they're considered useless or spineless. It's time the right started setting the agenda, and forcing the left to follow. Get out there! Speak up! Go 24/7! Get rid of Oboma care. Get rid of Obomabulbs. Bring back Welfare to Work so the wealth can share itself. Bring people up rather than tear them down. Set then lose rather than tie them up in chains.
Not every union member wants to get involved in the modern union. They're forced to pay. Their free will has been stolen from them.
Most of the union members today are too stupid to look at their own pay stubs. They have no idea how much they pay to support the left wing freeloaders, and that cost is going to double soon. They're engaging in a self defeating behavior, but they're too wrapped up in ignorance and deceit to figure it out.
Never happen - blaming Obama that is. Somehow the MSM will spin it into something good like “Democracy In Action” - unless of course a group of Beck fans (a million or more) would show up to demand the ouster of Obama, then ........
They can "say" all they want. The pictures tell the story. We have average American people gathering together in pro-American groups wanting nothing but freedom.
Now, the left wants to crush skulls, break legs, and steal everything their neighbors have for themselves.
Put these pictures side by side. Eventually, it's going to sink in. You can't call a vulture a dove without someone noticing.
I really hoped that we could stop payroll deductions, so that people would really see how much the government is taking, and then each person would have to issue a check to the government in January, or April of each year.
Of course payroll deductions started during WWII, so the government would have immediate access to funds. Recently the law establishing payroll deductions was renewed. Maybe we need to slow down the access by repealing the payroll deduction law.
This country, because of government schools, has a lot of incompetent people. Maybe we should start with a law that says every tax preparation organization must make it perfectly clear to the customer how much they PAID in taxes rather than simply how much they get returned.
This is a good start, and who can argue with people knowing what their tax burden really is? What argument can be used against giving taxpayers this knowledge?
If they want to find some tea party folks, I can suggest some better places than Washington D.C. Of course, lefties probably wouldn't want to go into places like that after dark, chanting hostile slogans and looking for a fight.
These are DEMOCRAT activists. Remind people of that. These freaks aren't ours.
Possibly 105% of America realizes this.
They've already waved the bloody shirt. What remains to be seen is the reaction. I suspect they'll do nothing more than riling up the bigots who already support them, hopefully no violence will result. But if it does, it's predictable.
Go? They aren't there yet?
Be patient, the SA came into being in 20-21, the HH salute wasn't adopted till the mid to late 20s. It's early.
With few exceptions, the groups pledging to take part on October 6 aren’t exactly known for Weather Underground-caliber violence, but they’re also not known for reasonableness and restraint.
BTTT
I hope it rains like hell on that day. The marxist wannabes might get a bath.
I’ve been watching the wall street version of this on live feed. So far I’ve learned by listening to their chatter, that the computer operators are paid to work this “grass roots” protest, that there is a moderator who watches the live stream and tells them to stop certain things like cussing and smoking on air and tells them to do certain things like contact people or put the word out on something.
They have a UPS office set up to receive donations of money and supplies. People from various countries have come in. A guy spoke one day who said, “While I was living in Egypt during the revolution...” so these are people who were involved with the “grass roots” “arab spring.”
So far, not many general Americans are paying attention to them because of the media black-out. This is no doubt intentional, as they are in an organizational/training phase. They are very closely following the Arab spring pattern. The middle east was a good testing ground. They know where the kinks are, and they are getting things stream-lined.
There are already what I think of as “bases” in operation in Chicago, LA, and I think Portland (not sure about that.) There may be others. I know they were calling for Little Rock, but it’s a harder area to work, for some reason. They have been moving quickly to get others going. Funds and supplies are coming in and they keep a running list of what their needs are going over live stream.
Mean while, Iran is moving its Navy into the Pacific, and the recent black out in the Arizona/California area left crucial boarder crossing areas in the dark for several hours....plenty of time for troops to move quietly across the Mexican boarder without being detected.
Just a few observations from a basically uninformed gal.
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