Posted on 11/06/2011 6:38:18 AM PST by Rummyfan
Way back in 1968, after the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mayor Daley declared that his forces were there to “preserve disorder.” I believe that was one of Hizzoner’s famous malapropisms. Forty-three years later Jean Quan, mayor of Oakland, and the Oakland city council have made “preserving disorder” the official municipal policy. On Wednesday, the “Occupy Oakland” occupiers rampaged through the city, shutting down the nation’s fifth-busiest port, forcing stores to close, terrorizing those residents foolish enough to commit the reactionary crime of “shopping,” destroying ATMs, spraying the Christ the Light Cathedral with the insightful observation “F**k,” etc. And how did the Oakland city council react? The following day they considered a resolution to express their support for “Occupy Oakland” and to call on the city administration to “collaborate with protesters.”
That’s “collaborate” in the Nazi-occupied-France sense: The city’s feckless political class are collaborating with anarchists against the taxpayers who maintain them in their sinecures. They’re not the only ones. When the rumor spread that the Whole Foods store, of all unlikely corporate villains, had threatened to fire employees who participated in the protest, the regional president, David Lannon, took to Facebook: “We totally support our Team Members participating in the General Strike today — rumors are false!” But, despite his “total support,” they trashed his store anyway, breaking windows and spraypainting walls. As the Oakland Tribune reported:
A man who witnessed the Whole Foods attack, but asked not to be identified, said he was in the store buying an organic orange when the crowd arrived.
There’s an epitaph for the republic if ever I heard one.
The experience was surreal, the man said. “They were wearing masks. There was this whole mess of people, and no police here. That was weird.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Someone should tell that old Commie Seeger to go to Home Depot: he could get a hammer for two bucks.
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I love Mark Steyn. Mark! I love you! Call me! ;^)
An organic orange? What the H is an organic orange? What is an organic anything? A plant takes the nutrients it needs from the soil. It matters little if the nutrients come from a fertilizer bag or a cow pack. The plant uses what it needs. The only real difference is that you are more apt to get ecoli from cow packs. Remember the deaths from the organic spinach? Commercial fertilizer is cleaner and healthier than cow packs or horse manure.
This high-priced, organic-produce foolishness is perpetuated for the uneducated masses who believe in manmade climate change.
Who is John Galt?
Steyn absolutely nails it!
Brutal and brilliant.
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If the pen truly IS ‘mightier than the sword’, Steyn is in rarefied company;
“The government class enthusiastically backing the breakdown of civil order is making common cause with the leisured varsity class, the thuggish union class, and the criminal class in order to stick it to what’s left of the beleaguered productive class.
It’s a grand alliance of all those societal interests that wish to enjoy in perpetuity a lifestyle they are not willing to earn. Only the criminal class is reasonably upfront about this. The rest — the lifetime legislators, the unions defending lavish and unsustainable benefits, the “scholars” whiling away a somnolent half decade at Complacency U — are obliged to dress it up a little with some hooey about “social justice” and whatnot.”
I’m going to work on memorizing this.
You are so right! I grow blueberries for public consumption. People ask me if they are organically grown. They are advised that no chemicals are sprayed on them but also tell them that chemicals are chemicals whether inorganic or organic. Some of the most destructive and poisonous chemicals are natural or organic. Some organic chemicals will become toxic to the soil while some chemicals produced in a lab will dissipate. Arsenic, copper sulfate, manures, vinegar, baking soda, and so forth all are so called organic pesticides or fungicides or herbicides and will alter the chemical balance in the soil, make people sick or damage the environment. Organically grown food is as big a fraud as global warming and is just a ploy to charge higher prices. I know - I am a farmer.
Well, thank you! Some of the most important people I don’t know are farmers. While I don’t know you, I sure do love your work!
“Well, thank you! Some of the most important people I don’t know are farmers. While I don’t know you, I sure do love your work!”
Yeah...what she said!
Thanks for the Steyn thread! BUMP!
For a fun related-to-this-one activist thread where busy fevered FReeper brains are coming up with the next “Sore Loserman” campaign...go here!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2802950/posts
Pinging to FReeper FRiends for TWO fun threads!
Thanks for the ping!
From Steyn:
"I’m a proud member of the 1 percent, and I’d have been tempted to smash ’em myself. A few weeks back, finding myself suddenly without luggage, I shopped at a Men’s Wearhouse, faute de mieux, in Burlington, Vt. Never again. I’m not interested in patronizing craven corporations so decadent and self-indulgent that as a matter of corporate policy they support the destruction of civilized society. Did George Zimmer, founder of Men’s Wearhouse and backer of Howard Dean, marijuana decriminalization, and many other fashionable causes, ever glance at the photos of the OWS occupiers and ponder how many of “the 99%” were ever likely to be in need of his two-for-one deal on suits and neckties? And did he think even these dummies were dumb enough to fall for such a feebly corporatist attempt at appeasing the mob?"
Jeepers. I’m won’t be found there either.
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