Posted on 10/14/2011 6:07:30 AM PDT by Libloather
Wall Street protesters need more practice
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 (Updated 3:00 am)
I was watching the news about the demonstration/rally/block party on Wall Street.
My gosh, 700 people arrested after being “tricked” by police into going onto the Brooklyn Bridge. I felt a real rush of nostalgia from my 14-year-old socialist days.
Agitprop stands for agitation and propaganda, a well-worn technique to suggest a protest group is bigger or more influential than its true size. First, you get a few people together, hoping a few more curious or like-minded people will join you. You then break a minor law and try to get arrested.
As soon as you are touched by the police, you struggle and scream about police brutality or oppression, and your pals join in to help. Another group of people, regular folks passing by, will stop to watch.
The next step is to try to get your people mixed with the innocents. Finally, the police have to push into the crowd to get you.
This gives you a very large backcloth to draw attention to your cause. Sadly, Agitprop is an art that must be learned. The group I watched looked about as angry as a trick-or-treater getting hard candy.
Edward Philpott
Greensboro
And hustle over to your next employer with an arrest record. BRILLIANT!
Some Democrats want to make it illegal to discriminate against the unemployed and some even want to make it illegal to use arrest records in making employment decisions.
Some people live in a world where they put their pants on the same way.
Not to worry, there are tax-payer funded programs to give people traditionally overlooked in the job market a "hand-up".
That was you?
Not necesarilly proudly, but indebted to the education ... yep.
just recently the EEOC* brought charges against a trucking company for firing a driver with a disability...he was an alcoholic drunk on the job!
Imagine that!
http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/8-16-11d.cfm
What they need is a catchy protest song like they had in the 1960s. I started one for them, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash can if they wish, put it to music with full rights to it.
Tin soldiers and Cain is coming,
We’ve finally had a bath.
This Fall I hear FOX News,
We move one inch we loose.
Gotta get down to it
The Rich on the menu today
Should have ate them long ago.
What if we spew here
Who will clean up the ground
And where do we pee when we go?
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