They’re heeeeeeere!
PING!
I walked past their little camp on Thursday. Midday after some light rain, so things were moving slow. Mostly old hippies shuffling around. A woman returned from a nearby Starbucks (no joke) with a couple of fresh breweds for her comrades. All in all, very tame.
This is obamacare for his commie base. We knew they were coming. They’re not protesting Obama’s destruction of the capitalist economy. They are protesting capitalism, period. This is the communist in chief’s base. He told us he would create an army of communists from his days as a communist organizer.
I gotta give this commie credit. He has flamboozled millions of pathetic weak minds from the commie institution of public education. The communist’s social engineering has worked even beyond their wildest dreams. Just like Kruschev said, America will fall from within. His words, now more than ever, ring true. They are trying to kill us off.
Next...
“They have been given special rights over the rights of ordinary, law-abiding citizens to enjoy their national parks and monuments.”
It is only right and just, comrades, that those of us who are superior in intellect and genetic inheritance should have special rights over the bible-thumping, gun-loving,
knuckle-dragging morons who make up the general population of the masses.
Long live the revolution!
/SARC/
Plenty of people give this a try. They open hippie businesses run on HR and pay principles that they find congenial. Fine with me. I respect all who make the attempt, and some of them succeed. Others venture into larger collective or communal housing and work arrangements, and some of these go on for years. Here and there, one can find alternative communities that have met the test of time. I'm not sure that the Salt Lake City Mormons any longer qualify -- too mainstreamed by now -- but from their pioneering era well into the 20th century, they provided a classic example. One could point to the Amish and Hutterites today, and there are many smaller alternative communities, most well out of the public eye. As long as they pay their own bills and don't disrupt the neighborhood, more power to them.
The basic problem with the politicized socialists in OWS (and the political left generally) is that they don't themselves intend to ever perform any actual work. That's why they perceive a political path to be essential: they want to seize control of the existing wealth and productive capacity of the society, install themselves as part of the managerial class, and impose their vision on everyone else. They need to be tossed out of their tents and told to go open a socialist bookstore or bakery, and build their new world on the basis of their own labor, not theft and compulsion. They of course won't do this, because they are lazy and because they are driven more by resentment than by idealism.
Alternative community types who actually go out and build something have my respect. They also quickly learn something about the weaknesses and limits of their vision, and quickly settle for more humble aspirations -- i.e. living a quiter life in a more fulfilling way, which probably won't appeal to most other people, and that's fine. At the end of the day, you have the leftish small businessperson who may talk radical but is probably a pretty good neighbor.
I grew up in Southern Indiana and learned early about the Rappite and Owenite communities in New Harmony. They are wonderful examples. Both communities failed (the Rappites because, as a celebate community, they died out, after returning to New York). But one can learn valuable lessons from the failures, not the least of which is that people of a radical disposition are perfectly free to give it a try, if they will step back from their political addiction, roll up their sleeves, and actually do some productive work.
In October 2008, Morice signed a letter “to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack...We, the undersigned, stand on the side of education as an enterprise devoted to human inquiry, enlightenment, and liberation. We oppose the demonization of Professor William Ayers.”
Another name from the past involved in organizing the October 2011 movement is Ellen Davidson, whose “30-plus years of activism” includes working with Covert Action Information Bulletin. This is the old anti-CIA publication associated with CIA defector Philip Agee, who became a paid agent of Cuba and died in Havana.
The website of the October 2011 group is quite helpful in determining who is really behind the protests. Financial contributions go to something called the “Alliance for Global Justice,” located at 1247 E Street SE in Washington, D.C. This has been a headquarters for all kinds of leftist groups in the nation’s capital for years. These have included Code Pink, the Nicaragua Network, the Venezuela Solidarity Network, and ANSWER—the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism group. The website of October 2011 specifically asks that supplies be sent to Code Pink at the above address.
Code Pink is, of course, the hard-left organization that includes luminaries such as Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, a fundraiser for Obama. When they are not protesting U.S. foreign policy, they are working to undermine Israel.
The Venezuela Solidarity Network, organized to provide support for Marxist Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, has a “steering committee” that includes the U.S. Peace Council, the old Communist Party USA front.