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The Delousing of a Movement (Occupy Wall Street)
The American Spectator ^ | February 9, 2012 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Posted on 02/09/2012 12:30:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

This health hazard and social menace is what the Left regards as America's next great political cause?

As the tents were coming down at McPherson Square, the dead rats and mice being retrieved, the urine and feces and filthy bedding disposed of by District of Columbia employees dressed in hazardous-materials suits like their contemporaries at Fukushima, I thought of the left-wing press. You see, I read the left-wing press. Not the urban throwaway rags, but I read the Nation, the Progressive, the American Prospect, and more -- I read them all. They have been raving for months about the exciting prospect of a great wave of reform coming out of the Occupiers' Movement. It was here to stay, and for a while silly old me took them seriously.

Not the "Masturbate for Peace" movement, which made its rude appearance in Madison, Wisconsin, nor the "Urinate and Defecate Against World Hunger" crowd, who occasionally made headlines in Manhattan. Rather, I mean the-out-of-work Ph.D.s in Romance Languages or the mild mannered, middle-class schoolteachers, who the left-wing press kept coming across midst the delusional rabble. The left-wing journalists interviewed them. To read their reports one would think that this Occupy Movement really was sweeping America, rather than on its last legs and being shut down. Their end was coming for very good reasons, I might add. The Occupy Movement was a health hazard, occasionally a serious crime scene -- rape, robbery, and mayhem -- and in most places throughout the country it was in contravention of simple laws against vagrancy.

Illustrious names from journalism's past -- even the New York Review of Books -- were showing themselves to be utterly out of touch with the way things are in America today....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
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Yet they either ignore or belittle the MUCH larger Tea Party movement.
1 posted on 02/09/2012 12:30:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Illustrious names from journalism’s past — even the New York Review of Books — were showing themselves to be utterly out of touch with the way things are in America today...”

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.


2 posted on 02/09/2012 12:35:48 PM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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They accomplished their mission. Get the national discussion off of the deficit and credit rating downgrade and on to “fairness” and the perceived slights of the 99%.


3 posted on 02/09/2012 12:35:48 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Ah, yes, the Tea Party.

Of course the Left is dismissive of the Tea Party; it is reportedly fascist, white supremist, comprised of tax paying citizens who do not want to be unemployed nor overtaxed, and is disgustingly neat at its rallies - leaving not so much as a pile of rubbish or whiff of excrement.

4 posted on 02/09/2012 12:40:20 PM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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The mob will be back next summer. And they won't be zany or cute little hippies. They will spend the next few months debriefing this exercise, ironing out logistical and strategic wrinkles in preparation for the coming season of disruption and possible violence.
5 posted on 02/09/2012 2:02:40 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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The moronic left backing this BOWEL MOVEMENT will go down as another is a series of possibly the most IDIOIC POLITICAL DECISIONS ever conceived. Any wonder the obama led socialist democrat party is collasping faster than ERIC WITHHOLDER can DELETE his FAST and FURIOUS emails.


6 posted on 02/09/2012 2:41:33 PM PST by spawn44
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I happened to be driving through Martinsburg, WV the other day ... and learned that yes indeedy! There is an "Occupy Martinsburg"! It consisted of about a half-dozen bedraggled hippies sullenly marching in a circle holding incoherent protest signs.

No tents in sight.

7 posted on 02/09/2012 2:58:18 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Karl Marx was laughed at and mocked, too. Hitler was tossed into a cell and branded a lunatic.

In the end they were responsible for the slaughter of millions.


8 posted on 02/09/2012 7:45:16 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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Bracy said he was disappointed when he tried to ask a man from the national Occupy Wall Street movement, who identified himself as “Dallas,” what opposing the right to life had to do with economics. “You can’t have a reasoned conversation with these people,” he said, “They simply try to taunt you. They’re smug, snarky, arrogant. You won’t get a straight answer.”
Dallas told Bracy he was on a 13-city national tour to teach Saul Alinsky tactics to local organizers.

You are correct....there is a method to this madness...and it's not funny and it's going to get uglier by the day.

9 posted on 02/09/2012 7:55:59 PM PST by babyfreep
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