Posted on 10/10/2011 6:48:44 PM PDT by drewh
Having watched this clip all the way through several times, I still can't stop chuckling. Here's a quick primer to prepare you for what you're about to see:
The video begins as civil rights pioneer Rep. John Lewis rrives at #OccupyAtlanta, hoping to express solidarity and articulate support with some brief remarks.
Unfortunately for him, the Congressman is totally unacquainted with the gathering's "rules," which make the US Senate look like a model of efficiency.
The group's "leader" (the hippie with the bullhorn) speaks in three-second intervals so the rest of the assembled group can chant his partial sentences back at him. They're speaking with "one voice," you see. In order to build a consensus, they "debate" whether Lewis should be permitted to speak, or if the program should continue as planned.
This quasi-vote is taken through a juvenile system of silent finger-wiggling (yes, really). The consensus shifts several times before the group settles on a conclusion: Lewis is not any more valuable than any other human being, his request to speak is therefore denied. This decision prompts an angry outburst from Lewis supporters, who immediately earn angry jazz hands of scorn for chanting out of turn.
The look on Lewis' face throughout these, um, "deliberations" is absolutely priceless. When his speaking opportunity is ultimately nixed, he just wanders off in a confused daze. Isn't the Left awesome, Congressman? The cringe-worthy preciousness and feel-goodery of the entire episode evokes a dystopic kindergarten setting, in which every child and teacher has equal say in everything. If it weren't so laugh-out-loud pathetic, I think this video represents a snapshot of my own personal hell.
UPDATE: The Washington Times' Kerry Picket emails to inform me that "Jazz Hands democracy" was also on display in New York this weekend.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Well, that raises my estimation of Lewis slightly. Had that been me, I would have been tiptoeing away as they explained how applause was counter-revolutionary. Can you imagine giving an address where the audience chanted it back at you? I wonder how obama and TOTUS would make out?There’s a wonderful plot for a horror movie here or maybe just use the clip as an alternative to the ‘Hitler Finds Out’ meme. Ugh! Just creepy. ‘Children of the Corn’ creepy.
Occupy Atlanta: Demands and Strategy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMnz2uH3Q4g&feature=watch_response
He has a bullhorn because he is in Atlanta and not NYC...
Here is the NYC version with some choice useful idiots...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsK2WeO7VbQ
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Hey Pelosi:
OWS idiots treated Lewis far worse than the Tea Party did.
Pathetic.
Does anyone there have a mind of his own, or is everyone a robot to be led around by some hippy with a megaphone?
My God. I didn’t think it could get any creepier, but seeing Francis Fox Piven there, and listening to her do this chanting brainwashing thing with the crowd was scary.
I listened to a good part of it. The other poster was right. We are laughing at them, but as Ann Coulter outlined in her book “Demonic”, that is the face of tyranny.
Reminds me of the elementary school kids in the Barack Hussein Obama ...mmm mmm mmm video.
This was funny.......this was funny
as hell............as hell
keep it up........keep it up
you blithering idiots......you blithering idiots
I'm sure many of these "people" are the ones making vile comments about Sarah Palin and other conservatives in the comments section of many online articles. I was just stunned by how unbelievably stupid these people are. They shoulf be poster children and I do mean children for this so-called movement.
The Reason article makes a good point - these people don’t realize how completely their “group decisions” are manipulated by the Marxist facilitators. It would be worthwhile to hand out info on the Delphi Technique at such events, just on the off chance that some of them can read.
“It’s very creepy, and very slow, and very cultish...”
This is how you control forth graders at camp. The nature of the dispute (does letting him speak suggest that one person is better than another?) is a crazy as some of the debates I heard in Berkeley in the 70’s.
K?
When they look back on this Jim Jones/David Koresh act, they are going to feel pretty silly for acting like 3 year olds and playing red light/green light.
Don't waste your time trying to convince Bela Pelosi. She's STILL claiming that Tea Partiers spit on members of Congress, even though that claim was debunked within 24 hours of her making it the first time!
The operation shifting to Atlanta must be because of winter coming.
It gets too darn cold in NYC to sleep on the streets & protest for $350/week.
Right. False allegations against the TP— Imagine the uproar had the Tea Party prevented Lewis from speaking.
Here, Lewis thought he was among his people and they voted/VOTED him/HIM down/DOWN with jazz hands.
For the first time in over ten years of FReeping I am speechless.
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