The Five Most Infantile Beliefs on Display at the ‘Occupy’ Tantrums
What we have here are the biggest, baddest public temper tantrums we’ve seen since 1960s spoiled-brat college kids reverted to the terrible twos and marched, rioted, burned, and bombed their way across America.
So far at least, the violence at “Occupy” tantrums hasn’t reached ’60s-level, though there have been thefts, assaults, rapes, and lots – and lots and lots – of incendiary hate speech.
Old ’60s radicals, now in charge of “mainstream” news, are all “wee-weed up” — to use President Eloquent’s expression — by the OWS tantrums. This new generation’s display of wasted minds gives the aging-hippie brigade a moment to relive their own misspent youth. These “news” people haven’t had this much thrill going up their legs since Barack Obama hip-hopped his way to the presidency on the wings of ‘60s radical hope-dope.
But what do responsible Americans see in the “Occupy” tantrums?
Tea Partiers, of course, see the gross liberal/conservative double standard at work big time. Where Tea Partiers got legal permits and paid tens of thousands of dollars for such things as police presence, traffic coordination, and sanitary necessities like porta-potties, these leftist tantrum-throwers form health-hazard Obamavilles on public property – fee free. The Obamaville squatters disrupt the sleep and threaten the health of close-by residents with their all-hours, out-of-control misdeeds, all the while getting positive press from the aging-hippie chorus in the media.
Some OWS kids are surely there just for the free food, the no-strings sex, the communal bong hits, or the summer-camp, kumbayah déjà vu.
Most of the lot are, we can be pretty certain, pure hope-dopers from the Obama Youth brigade – the in-your-face and up-yours gang – now come to flaunt their disillusionment with their adolescent president.
These young Obama voters — who in 2008 exchanged their liberal parents’ adolescent rallying cry of “Our hope is in dope!” for the even more stupid “That dope is our hope!” — are now angry “bitter clingers” who refuse to let go of their infantile delusions. The One “they were waiting for” has failed to deliver their fairy tale utopia, so they throw a public tantrum in every city stupid enough to put up with them.
Hordes of good minds so thoroughly wasted in a vainglorious celebration of immaturity and weak character is not a pretty sight. And it bodes horrible ills for the future of this country.
But unless we recognize the fundamental childish beliefs now being trotted out by leftist news people as “high philosophy” and “significant political issues,” then we are bound to repeat our parenting tomfoolery all the way to the destruction of this grand republic.
So in the interest of saving America, let’s first recognize the five most infantile beliefs of the OWS kids. These youngsters will go down in history as the biggest bunch of booby-brats ever produced by an advanced civilization.
First: Back to the schoolyard…
#5: Cooties can kill me and disagreeable words will crush my spirit.
Now, dear readers, this is sad. Truly sad. Prior to this OWS moment, the last time I saw so much childish behavior and stupid thinking on display was on an elementary school playground.
Here’s the perfect OWS Anthem: I don’t want to work!
At the ongoing OWS tantrums, we daily see video and read news reports of physical grown-ups taking bullhorns in hand to shout inanities like: “The rich have cooties! And their cooties can kill you!” “Those evil bankers made the grass on their side of the fence greener than ours!” “Life isn’t fair so let’s destroy everything to make it fair!”
This big, booby-brat pack offer nothing of substance and cannot explain why they are there in any more adult terms than hurling childish taunts at the cootie-carriers.
We see scenes of the “general assemblies” where physically grownup humans revert to things like “twinkling” hand symbols to avoid words that might crush their spirits or those of the delicate kids next to them.
See more videos and images in Zombie’s post from yesterday here.
These fools still believe that childhood’s mob-chants have real meaning. They’re so stuck on stupid that their interviews are downright incoherent.
The OWS brat-pack apparently altogether missed the character-development lesson designed to toughen them to words and opinions different from their own. If any adult ever told them to toughen their spirits against the barbs of others with the aphorism, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” these ninnies cried en masse in their mommies’ skirts. And their foolish parents let them be, soothed their pitiful tears with self-esteem coddling poppycock and never did the hard work of disabusing them of the “world revolves around me” egocentrism of young childhood.
Now, these adult children are left with “twinkling” their fingers in lieu of mature discussion — which might hurt their ‘ittle feelings. Pitiful.
But that is not nearly the worst of it. These childish idiots are a danger to themselves and to all others in their wake.
Next: The debauched cesspool of Zuccotti Park…
#4: Sharing germs, having sex with strangers and imbibing mind-altering drugs won’t hurt me one bit.
At the OWS tantrums we see continual, disgusting displays of basic hygiene ignorance as though these over-educated buffoons missed science class from the first through the eighth grades.
Evidently unaware that they are taking their very lives in their hands by urinating and defecating in close proximity to their food preparation, these OWS waifs threaten themselves daily with an outbreak of disease, all the while thinking they are magically immune to the tenets of basic science. Germs? What germs? I can’t see any germs.
Every kid, by the age of 12, should know down to his last brain cell that sharing microscopic germs, having sex with strangers and imbibing mind-altering drugs all carry extreme health risk. But these OWS kids have been brainwashed to actually believe that keeping one’s body and dwelling clean are all about “bourgeois appearances” and not having sex with strangers is all about “religion” and imbibing mind-altering drugs that kill your brain cells and cause you to do dangerous stupid stuff is really “cool” and “intelligent.”
How has this country been reduced to producing such utter nitwits, most of them carrying actual college degrees in their filthy hands? It’s a puzzle that will haunt historians for generations to come.
But the threat to public health is still not the worst of it.
Next: What the world needs now…
#3: Free love makes the world go ‘round. Tra, la, la and Kumbayah.
I knew this culture was headed for big trouble in 1965, the day I heard Jackie DeShannon sing her lilting pied-piper melody and throngs of Boomers swallowed it whole-hog. What the World Needs Now Is Love:
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
No, not just for some, oh, but just for everyone.
The song itself was lovely. The singer was pure and sweet as she could be. And the world, barely through the furious rebuilding in WWII’s aftermath, was hungering for a lay-down-all-the-weapons approach to civilization.
But what came about was an entire generation’s imbibing a false concept of love itself. We Boomers tossed out more than a thousand years of real-world knowledge in our quest for a nicer, softer, more lovely existence and allowed ourselves to grasp the idea that the hard-earned mutual respect between people and nations could be replaced with nothing more substantial than a Hallmark-card sentiment.
It’s that same childish, “love makes the world go ‘round” sentiment which pervades the OWS tantrums. The modern set got it straight from their Boomer-hippie parents.
Peace and prosperity, formerly gained through force of arms and stalwart vigilance, would magically come about, we Boomers believed, by laying it all down and becoming the doormats of the world. Then, we could all gather ‘round the worldwide campfire and sing Kumbayah, while never having to worry about feeding ourselves and our children or such mundane things as creating real wealth through the sweat of our brows.
Today at the OWS tantrums this foolish poppycock has come full circle, demonstrating that liberal Boomers who never grew up themselves have produced a generation of offspring without the slightest adult notion of peace through mutual respect, often forced upon recalcitrant nations hell-bent on war. At OWS, we see adult children without the understanding that hard work and wise choices are the only avenues of individual prosperity.
So they whine and wallow in filth, wasting away their days, honestly believing that they are good, worthwhile human beings.
And the world does most certainly owe them a living. These OWS brats luxuriate in the infantile state of eternal entitlement
Next: The sharp sting of the WASPs…
#2: The world does too owe me a living!
Would this worthless bunch of booby-brats even understand the meaning of JFK’s famous 1961 admonishment to those who would confuse liberty with license?
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
Whenever I see displays of egocentric worthlessness parading as “adult political statement,” I find myself asking where in the world are those WASPS when we so desperately need them? Lots more of those icky, boring, responsible, hard-working, work-ethic-promoting, industrious white, Anglo Saxon Protestants would really come in handy as we face off with this big, fat, booby-brat pack.
The booby-brats huddle ‘round their donated tents, taking advantage of taxpaying citizens, costing uncounted thousands in police presence and disruption to real citizens’ business, while putting a bunch of highfalutin, educated-sounding words to a self-absorbed doctrine that just boils down to the child’s rant: The world does too owe me a living, a free iPhone and all the ice cream I want!
Adult Americans have always, since our founding, insisted that every single individual best serves the common good through self-sufficiency. Only in being self-sufficient could one ensure that he would never become a burden to his neighbors. The words lazy, shiftless, no-account were three of the most feared in the American vocabulary. The worst thing a child could be called by his own mother was “slacker.” The last thing a child ever wanted to hear from his own father were accusations of laziness.
Say whatever you will about the WASP and Jewish cultural bearings, but these folks gave Americans one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed upon a civilization: an understanding of the inherent value of honest work for one’s own benefit. The Protestant work ethic is its most common name. Whatever one chooses to call it really doesn’t matter. The underlying brilliance was always that by being self-sufficient, one also served his fellow man. And when one failed through his own fault to provide for himself, he was rightly considered an unnecessary burden to the common good.
Charity was for those who simply could not help their own misfortune and was given person-to-person and through voluntary organizations, mainly through the churches and synagogues with great care to preserve the recipients’ dignity. Unless the beneficiary’s personal dignity was preserved, charity would not have been considered charity at all but would have been rightly seen as an action intended to ensure dependence. No American virtue was seen in becoming dependent upon others and those who would encourage dependence were seen as downright evil. Making others dependent, it was widely known, was merely a way to amass power over others. A truly disgusting goal if ever there was one.
Today, evil political charlatans pose as benevolent providers of the common good. Robbing from the productive class to give to the indolent class, all in the name of the common good, is the moral equivalent a plantation owner who claimed to really love his slaves.
And the OWS kids just eat this malarkey up and run into the streets with their infantile demands spewing from their self-centered, irresponsible mouths.
Finally: Yes, we can! Yes, we can!
#1: Yes, we can have our cake and eat it too!
If these civilizational throwbacks really are the 99%, then the republic is already lost and we just haven’t yet admitted it.
They went off to college with the apparent belief that they could borrow tens of thousands of dollars to pay for it, but that they would never really have to pay it back.
Yes, we can have our college cake and eat it too. Yes, we can! Yes, we can!
They signed legal loan documents with enough disclosure requirements to protect the dumbest, most foolish ninny ever to fall off a vegetable truck, and yet now, they claim they were somehow defrauded. The great, big society of American taxpayers has somehow let them all down because their stupid-stuff degrees in things like “Women’s Studies” and “Queer Studies” and “fill-in-the-blank-ism lite” haven’t landed them corner offices with a view and a truckload of delightful perks.
Yes, we can study stupid stuff and useless-in-the-real-world junk and still make truckloads of money too! Yes, we can! Yes, we can!
They actually believed that they could while away years of their lives in bong-hits and yoga meditations and sex with every dumb prick on campus and still march off to Never Land to find a guy named Jack with some magic beans that would make them all rich and fat and happy too.
Yes, we can be lazy and self-indulgent and misspend our youth and still get that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Yes, we can! Yes, we can!
Because… because, well, because we are entitled! The world does too owe us a living!
Yes, we can vote for a man-child president who is no more mature than we are and has only a smidgen more on his resume. And we can still have world peace with no more war or terror. We can elect a know-nothing just like ourselves who has an even fancier degree in know-nothing-ness and still end hunger and famine and plagues – because we say so. We can elect a man who’s never had a real job in his life and still expect him to “create” meaningless, easy jobs for all the rest of us with all the perks he himself has enjoyed.
Oh yes, we can be nitwit voters and still get ourselves a great president! Yes, we can! Yes, we can!
Honestly, dear readers, the only thing worse than this self-indulgent display of childhoods wasted is the lineup of so-called “news people” dissecting their every word as though it actually had meaning and the power to move civilization forward.
The scariest thing of all is that these overgrown children can actually vote.
And look at the sham of a presidency we all have to show for that sad fact.
Yes, dear readers, 2008 will forever be known as the year America passed through the looking glass on its way down the yellow brick road to Never land.
And 2012 will be the year we grown-ups take the country back.
Or else, we’ll seal our own society’s death warrant, as we all join hands and continue this march with Barack, shouting “Yes, we can jump off this cliff!”
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Let ‘em rant!
AS Comrade Lenin noted, the worse, the better!
Let them stay out there, progressively dirtier,
more diseased and more violent!
Their true face and true nature can’t be
ignored forever, even by the in-the-tank MSM.
The Chicago riots of 1968 put Richard Nixon in the White House.
The Occupy movement just might go all the way and get the Democratic party
formally outlawed.
It wasn’t only 1960s-radical hope-dope that got Obozo elected. It also involved some truly vile dirty tricks.
Does anyone remember how Barack Hussein Obama got elected to the US Senate from Illinois back in 2004 – just before we left Chicago once and for all? I cited Ann Coulter’s gumshoe work and our own research and recollections from when we lived, and voted, in Chicago. Those were the days … NOT!
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
BTW, Jeff Foxworthy translates “Bless your heart” as “You’re stupid!”
It is true that Leninist fringe groups have infiltrated OWS, but to imagine that the Protestant establishment or Jewish liberals are not cheering them on is wrong. In the mid-60s E. Digby Baltzell sounded the retreat from the work ethic as I detailed here: http://clarespark.com/2011/10/15/baltzell-on-the-good-jews/. It was now tres cool to be an aristocratic social democrat, uncool to be anything like a racist Republican. Weird no?
Epidemics in #Occupy will NOT stay in #Occupy
Just sayin’.
The Occupy Movement is CFR engineered and will gradually expand until it becomes large enough to appear to justify the invocation of martial law by the Obamathugs.The Council on Foreign Relations, the intelligemce arm of the International Bankers, will attempt to install the New World Order in the very near future. That installation will result in the genocide of 85% of humanity, and the enslavement of all but a few thousand of the CFR Elite.Click on the CFR membership lists, and those of their subsidiaries and you will then know who your real enemies are. Begin with Wall Street, Big Oil, Government. Read Servando Gonzalez and see the Truth- if you dare!
Bless their hearts…
I, too, grew up in the South. A rough translation to “bless thier hearts” is “pity the freaking retard”.
So you’ll understand when I say the OWS brats are “tacky.”
Tacky is a nice way to say that they are vulgar, nose-picking, whining brats. Undoubtedly they curse thier mothers as she picks thier clothes off the floor and …..fill in the blanks.
my mama used to say….”you can say anything you want about anything or anybody as long as you add, bless his/her/their heart”
I am all for mounting a counter-movement under the general heading “Occupy Harvard Yard!” This would not only include Harvard but the entire Ivy League as well as Wellesley, Michigan, Stanford and whatever part of UCal-Berkeley that isn’t already being occupied by it’s occupants.
We conservatives would stealthily creep in one night in our recreational vehicles, campers, SUV’s and mini-vans and establish ourselves securely within the very heart of the inbred academic establishment that supports the OWS movement. We would set up, tents barbecue pits and tailgating paraphanalia. We would not leave until our demands for drastically decreased government spending and lower taxes are met. Instead of drum circles we would broadcast Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee and the speeches of Ronald Reagan over a state-of the-art loudspeaker system.
If the campus police (or the Cambridge, Ann Arbor, or Palo Alto cops) would try to evict us we wouold link arms and exercise our rights to botht he 1st and 2nd Amendments. After awhile some of us would start decorating the areas in front of our campers with small gardens, flowerbeds and garden gnomes.
Wonder what the sclerotic ninnies in the MSM would make of that?
It is a satisfying idea, but fortunately we cannot. We have jobs. Even those of us who dont have regular jobs spend our time productively or being of use to others. We dont have time, and little desire, to make spectacles of ourselves.
LASuth is quite right, as I have been saying forever. The Left is always always always with an inherent advantage over the Right simply because they have legions of people who are willing to DO this crap. The right does not and never will, not only because, as is quite correct, “we have jobs and families to worry about”, but because we are totally tempermentally unsuited for the kind of hippie thuggery that we are now seeing on a daily basis. That is why the Tea Party was SO significant: think about what it took to actually get THAT many conservatives to rally like that… peacefully, cleanly, singing ‘God Bless America’ it should always be noted.
Maybe the advantage that we have is that we are better at organizing, while they are better at thuggery. That and something that should possibly be made clear, if only subtely – that the right is armed, and if push comes to shove with these people, who are pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing…..
Well, let’s leave it at that for now.
Yeah I know! It’s just idle fantasizing. That’s the problem with being a responsible adult isn’t it? You can never fight narcissistic jerks like the OWS movement with their own weapons. Still I prefer to be part of those “little platoons of civilization” that Burke spoke of rather than a self-satisfied blowhard like those in Zucotti Park.
I have to say, I like the garden gnome idea. That would give every goateed, Che-loving academic at Harvard the screaming meemies for life! Even better, set up some gazing balls and garden pinwheels. Victory!
The video of JFK should remind us that, even with all the moral failings of the Kennedys, they actually did work, even though they were rich enough not to have to work.
JFK even wrote his own speeches, if I am not mistaken, including the one about his Catholicism, and made clear that the constitution prohibits any religious test for federal office. He knew the matter of his religion would come up, and dealt with it using a masterful command of English.
— “JFK even wrote his own speeches, if I am not mistaken …”
Sorry, but you are. Those words belonged to an ol’ Lincoln, Nebraska boy named Ted Sorensen. I’m afraid you’ve fallen into the Camelot myth of the old Left. Today’s Left is happy enough to wrap itself in the JFK mystique, but they believe not a word of it. Ask not? Are you kidding me?
(Great piece, Kyle-Anne, loved it)
If JFK were to run for office today, he would be labeled a radical, right-wing war monger by the left
And a serial adulterer by any serious observer. And a liar, coward and murderer by the bay of pigs invaders. And a disobedient puppet by his CFR masters.
I’m just surprised that I haven’t seen Bill Ayers show up at any of these protests. After all, this is what he lives for. This is what Ayers protested for all these years and this is why he despises America, isn’t it? And if he doesn’t show up to these stupid events, it just proves that he is a hypocritical, spineless, worm who likes the comfortable capitalist life now so much that he really wouldn’t want to dirty himself by actually protesting for anything.
Bill Ayers is a liar, a fraud, and an infantile, delusional, moron. In short, he would fit right in with these protesters.
Bill Ayers never actually put himself on the front line, ever. He was good at persuading other idiots to do that for him.
It’s also what cowards are good at doing.
Bill Ayers addressed the Chicago Occupy protesters.
http://tinyurl.com/3zy5479
I’m re-posting this hilarious link I saw here the other day about Ron Paul handing out LSD to the protesters at Occupy Wall Street. Goes perfect with this entertaining column. http://www.thedailyrash.com/ron-paul-hands-out-lsd-to-occupy-wall-street-protesters
These kids are only phase one. Next will come the ranks of union thugs, Black Panther ex-cons and ACORN dopers. Then will come the violence, smashed windows, burning cars/busses and injured LEOs. Alas, many of these naive kids will get badly hurt and/or be charged with serious crimes.
I’m sure that was always the plan. Whoever sponsored this show is sadistic.
…and then will come martial law and a canceling of the elections for safety sake. Rules for radicals.
Coeurmaeghan in Twentynine Palms, CA
Speaking of germs.
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/tuberculosis-breaks-out-at-occupy-atlantas-base/
Surprised it wasn’t cholera 1st.
useful idiots
Expect these people to go third party and adopt your lead photo as the official mascot.
d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
“Would this worthless bunch of booby-brats even understand the meaning of JFK’s famous 1961 admonishment to those who would confuse liberty with license?”
“I find myself asking where in the world are those WASPS when we so desperately need them? Lots more of those icky, boring, responsible, hard-working, work-ethic-promoting, industrious white, Anglo Saxon Protestants would really come in handy as we face off with this big, fat, booby-brat pack.”
JFK was Catholic.
Yes, and many of those non-Caucasian Asians have a work ethic that’s at least as good as ours.
It’s remarkable how well Asians have done once they embraced free enterprise.
And Asians are often found graduating near the top of their class in our universities.
Immigrants, as a rule, tend to be hard-working and driven – Poles, Russians, Kenyans, Jamaicans (and those from other parts of the West Indies), Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexicans, and others. Koreans, Indians, Pakistanis, and Arabs opened and operated convenience stores in impoverished and dangerous neighborhoods. Mark Steyn has documented how Poles, Russians, and other eastern Europeans are doing the jobs in England that the English, themselves, won’t do. The Irish immigrants, both in the US and Britain, took the menial jobs that the native-born population wouldn’t take, eventually moving up. My point is, all these people recognized the US (and to some degree, Britain) as a land of opportunity where one could become successful through their own hard work. By being self-reliant, they became valuable citizens.
My wife is chinese. She gets all “A”s by studying 8-10 hours daily. She says, “A is for Asian”! She has an average IQ and a genius work ethic.
Is there a lesson here?
This is quite possibly the best articulated summation of the left’s overall philosophy that I’ve ever read. The whole “what makes a leftist tick” boiled down to 2472 words. Genius. I’m forwarding to every relative.
JFK was Catholic.
If he were alive today JFK would be a Republican. One with a personal life that needed to be kept under wraps, but a Republican nonetheless. Unlike Obama, JFK was not a moron.
JFK was Catholic.
If he were alive today JFK would be a Republican. One with a personal life that needed to be kept under wraps, but a Republican nonetheless. Unlike Obama, JFK was not a moron.
In re: JFK: Given the Bay of Pigs betrayal and the endless parade of whores through the White House and the removal of our missiles from Turkey, et sim, may one opine that, party denomination notwithstanding, JFK was an adulterous liar, Judas and evil enabler? If you know his dad’s history, an argument can be made for genetic criminality.
See MG Nitrini above if you want an example of what happens when flake parents let their kids smoke dope at home.Some Awfully Grubby Anal Apertures; SAGA, is tolerated, although it is plainly illegal and destructive. Evil not destroyed is evil promoted. What the State does not condemn it thereby condones. We can survive if we continue to tolerate Occupyism. Tianmenitis, anyone?
…and I would like to announce that last month my preteen joined Civil Air Patrol, and that my two college age kids just informed me that they may not be home for Christmas (their deployments, the second one for each, have been extended)
I am not unique in this experience — many parents across the nation would have similar news to relate concerning their jr. high to college age kids. Not all hope is lost.
Pass on my thanks and prayers to your children, ma’am.
My nephew just came home from his medical training in Texas. The Navy’s teaching him to patch holes.
He’s now on his way to Camp Lejeune to play with the Marines. They’re going to teach how to make holes.
Tell him “thank you” for me.
(1) How many of the people in the OWS demonstrations have parents who are divorced?
(2) The Occupy movement is organized. See the website Frontpagemag for the organizers.
(3) The Occupy movement is anti-democratic. They claim to represent 99% of the American population with no evidence at all and eschew the evidence of elections.
(4) Many of the people in the Occupy movement have money – they have cell phones, Iphones, etc. One girl complained that her Mac Computer, worth over $5000, had been stolen.
Let thinking, productive Americans watch this fermentation in raging unproductivity. And candidates: help thinkers appreciate which incentives job creators respond to, as well as the incentives that result in the financial disasters now sinking european welfare states. No degree in economics is required.
And Jane, on the eve of Veterans Day, thanks to your offspring for their service.
Well, as Obama said: “Argue and get in their faces.” He has nurtured an environment of thuggist behavior and now he is santioning these fools who are part of OWS. And were are the police in all of this? When a NYC police officer tells a citizen journalist who has just been assaulted in Zuccoti Park that he cannot pursue and arrest the man who assaulted him because it would start a riot (yes, this is what the officer actually said), we’re in big trouble. Mob rule. How very far we have fallen as a nation.
WATER CANNONS serve a dual purpose. hygiene and crowd dispersal.
“What we have here are the biggest, baddest public temper tantrums we’ve seen since 1960s spoiled-brat college kids reverted to the terrible twos and marched, rioted, burned, and bombed their way across America.”
That may be the single greatest lie ever written on PJ Media. And that’s saying a LOT. When it comes to political demagoguery, this site cares as much about the ‘truth’ as DailyKos and MyDD did back in the Bush years.
For any of you oldsters out there, go ahead and think back to the anti-war protests of the 60′s. Do you remember seeing the word “riot” in the headlines? “Burned”? “Bombed”? Sure, from a few radical groups like SDS and Weather Underground, but those incidents were few and far between and had nothing to do with the anti-war protests.
“So far at least, the violence at ‘Occupy’ tantrums hasn’t reached ’60s-level, though there have been thefts, assaults, rapes, and lots – and lots and lots – of incendiary hate speech.”
In other words, even more rapes were taking place back then. Of course, back then they were marching down streets holding anti-war signs, not camping out in city parks, so it’s a little hard to tell just where all of these rapes were taking place. Does this asshat mean they were taking place on the street in broad daylight surrounded by thousands of demonstrators? And I guess “STOP THE WAR!” is “incendiary hate speech” to this bozo. By her definition, so is this comment because I dare to call her what she is, a bald-faced liar.
Speaking of the anti-Vietnam war protests, here’s a delicate question that right-wing demagogues like this will never ask you:
Remember all of the “thousand deaths” milestones the MSM trotted out during the Iraq War? “Two thousand dead!” “Three thousand dead!” “Four thousand dead!” Remember all that? But these milestones were relatively infrequent because, as wars go, we weren’t losing very many soldiers.
Now ask yourself how you would have felt at the time if thousands, plural, of soldiers had been dying EVERY MONTH. That’s what was happening at the height of the Vietnam War. Thousands. Every. MONTH. If you would have been happy with casualty figures like that during the Iraq War, then you deserve bloggers like this and whatever misinformation they spew out.
And before you say, “Oh, you can’t condemn a whole site just because of one writer”, don’t forget that PJ Media, along with Right Wing News and Hot Air, was one of the main driving forces behind embracing the gay group GOProud to sponsor CPAC last year and telling the Christian groups who had sponsored it previously to go to hell. Embracing gay power groups with loving arms means so much to this site that headline star Roger Simon threatened to BOYCOTT this year’s CPAC because his precious gay group wasn’t a sponsor.
Next week, class, we’ll discuss PJ’s extensive use of scapegoats and whipping boys to make sure the readers have a strong identification of “us versus them”. First, it was blame all your troubles on the hippies. Then it was the Boomers. Now it’s the OWSers. On and on and on. Just make sure there’s always a fresh ‘bad guy’ out there for you to hate.
This site and others are living, breathing examples of Saul Alinsky’s works put into practice. Alienate. Distract. Divide and conquer. Set up totems for the rabble to hate. Lie all you want because the sheeple don’t know any difference.
And one last example of how pitifully stupid this writer is:
“Old ’60s radicals, now in charge of “mainstream” news, are all “wee-weed up” — to use President Eloquent’s expression — by the OWS tantrums. This new generation’s display of wasted minds gives the aging-hippie brigade a moment to relive their own misspent youth.”
Oh, really? So, despite the fact that, compared to the youth population at the time, the hippies were an extremely small slice of society, they’re all now in positions of power? Well, if they were all jobless bums and college drop-outs, just how did they attain the education necessary to rise to such lofty positions? And, given that the average hippies of the late 60′s would have been in their 20′s if not 30′s, that means they’d be in their 60′s now, if not 70′s, and do you see a lot of doddering old codgers rambling around the corridors of CNN and MSNBC? Every newscaster and big wig I see looks to be in their 40′s or 50′s, as you’d expect.
In other words, half of them were BABIES during the 60′s.
If you ever wondered what the difference was between “journalist” and “blogger”, I would cite this article as Exhibit A. Journalists have standards. Bloggers get to say whatever they please, and the truth be damned.
Well, truth be told, Doc, what I remember was a crapload of high-minded moralizing about the Vietnam War, all chock-full of hyperbole about the “poor, oppressed brown people” of S/E Asia who we were putting the hammer down on. That’s what I recollect of the 60′s anti-war protesters.
And then fast-forward to when the draft was canceled, and almost overnight the war protest groups lost well over 90% of their membership. Meaning it was never about what “bad” America was doing to those poor, poor people, it was all about keeping their precious asses off of the front lines, and nothing more. That generation faced nothing different than any prior generation, except unlike them, most of these were too privileged to even contemplate serving their nation in a time of war.
I must admit, it’s growing very tired, hearing these little grandiose myths about the 60′s protest generation. Myths. A hundred and one little fabrications about how noble they were, how vigorous, how active, how they fought against the “man.”
All a myth. I watched them in action while growing up, and little of what I hear nowadays about them bears any resemblance to the reality I remember.
/rant concluded
Awwww, Did that mean ol’ Kyle Anne hurt your ‘ittle feewings?
Bless your heart.
Off-topic observation: I may not agree with your POV here, but I am glad I clicked on your website. It’s absolutely delightful & well worthy of the bookmark. I encourage everyone to take a peek…….
Rather than rebut anything Doc Mercury says, I suggest folks have a look at the ‘doctor’s’ site (click on his name at the head of the post) and save any energy you might have used being angry. Doc has been into the pixie dust for some time.
Soon you’ll zoom all around the room
All it takes is faith and trust!
But the the thing that’s a positive must
Is a little bit of the pixie dust!
You can fly! You can fly!
You can fly! You can fly!
The rest of us grew up Doc.
Yes you are correct in saying ‘Journalists have standards’ but unfortunately those of the lefts standards exhibited by Lame Stream EneMedia are EXTREMELY LOW STANDARDS
Kyle~Anne nailed my OWS niece and her aging misguided hippie parents to a T.
As a matter of fact I named the cute OWS girl with the horns after my niece, right off the bat. Bless her misguided leftist heart. Keep giving ‘em hell Kyle~Anne! We love you:) Praying for you and our country.
You’re wrong about just about everything. Everything.
I lived through that era. I saw what happened with my own eyes.
Those antiwar “protesters” rioted on college campuses, shutting down entire campuses like Columbia University and denying students their right to an education they paid for.
They instigated violence at the Chicago Democratic Convention. Following the playbook of Mao and Che Guevara, they constantly tried to provoke the police into cracking down on them to alienate their fellow young citizens. Guerrilla warfare in America’s streets.
They mobbed campaign rallies for Presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, heckling him, shouting him down, denying him his right to speak and the audience’s right to listen.
As for your other point on ages:
“Pinch” Sulzberger, the editor of the New York Times, was an antiwar protester back then, marching against the Vietnam War. He even got arrested. Twice. That’s how he got radicalized and his editorials prove that he stayed that way.
I agree with you that today’s young reporters weren’t around back then. But the editors of our major newspapers, the “senior” commentators at the major TV networks, were–and they were either protesters themselves back then or openly sympathetic to them.
How old is old anyway? Steve Jobs was one of those radicals back then. Had he not contracted pancreatic cancer, he would still be alive today and working hard at Apple.
You don’t think we keep track of you lefties? You don’t think we know who you are, where you are and what you do? Think again. Here’s a database you can browse:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individual.asp
One more point. You said: “Now ask yourself how you would have felt at the time if thousands, plural, of soldiers had been dying EVERY MONTH. That’s what was happening at the height of the Vietnam War. ”
Ask YOURSELF how you would have felt in World War II, when at the height of the “island hopping” campaign in the Pacific, 5,000 U.S. soldiers were dying every *week*.
In case you don’t know the total, we lost 291,000 American men in World War II–five times as many as died in Vietnam. Most of them had been drafted.
Your casualty figures are a red herring. The real problem was that President LBJ could never explain our strategy there (“credibility gap”), especially not our exit strategy. And that made the sacrifice of our young men difficult to accept.
We had a clear goal in the Pacific that all Americans understood: Either Japan would surrender unconditionally or we would destroy their country. That meant that our young men were giving their lives for something we all understood.
Correct you are. However, I would like to point out that in some regards we do have the Vietnam problem today.
Our war goals (and the ROE) are incredibly murky. It is hard to justify sacrificing even a little if we appear to be “playing” at war — either we go in to win, or we don’t go at all — and the amount of treasure we’ve expended is a lot (while the blood hasn’t been that high a cost, try saying that to one of the casualties parents, to their face).
And I don’t want to hear about how our troops are defending our way of life — that’s a bit hard to justify after seeing the promos for this season’s tv lineup…or after watching these presidential debates. My kids are putting their lives on the line for people who revel in smut and greed? (and yeah, that goes for a lot of conservatives as well as liberals)
Actually, we lost somewhere between 416,000 to 492,000 military dead during WWII (depending on which military historian you trust). Reinforcing your point even more so.
WHY IS OBAMA LETTING HIS GRAY HAIR SHOW?
Why is Barack Obama letting his gray hair show after dying it black over the years? The answer is simple: It’s in reaction to the constant pounding by conservatives about his ideological immaturity and adolescent presidency. By ditching the Grecian Formula and letting his gray hair show the Michael Jackson of American Politics wants to seem, older, maturer, wiser, like he’s finally grown a pair.
But putting gray hair on a boy does not a real man make. Till the end of his presidency in 2013 nothing much will change. Gray hair and all Obama will remain the teenager-in-chief, lacking the judgment, instincts, character, and maturity for the job.
“Till the end of his presidency in 2013″ I hope his presidency does end in 2013, but being a cynic I am afraid that might not happen!
At the rate Obama is aging by 2013 he might be too old for the job.
They say with age comes wisdom but sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
One year is too short a time for Obama to grow wise. Much power and little wisdom is doomed to fail. And that’s why Obama is doomed to be a ONE TERM PRESIDENT!
What is really sickening is not college age nitwits out there but the educated middle aged adult enablers of these booms who give them finacial and moral support.
BS. “Adult enablers” within 100 yards of me would have to deal with my Dad, or my Mom, or my teachers, neighbors, etc.
Me, Mario George Nitrini 111 being the Plaintiff,
filed a BIG-TIME lawsuit the other day, Case # BC473185, suing The City of Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Police Department, and MORE………pertaining to My personal involvement in The O.J. Simpson Case and Saga, the movement I am involved in—–Occupy Los Angeles— and MORE………
In one of my statements, I state that Los Angeles Police Department:
“Chief Charlie Beck knows knows plaintiff has knowledge of Chief Becks criminal corruption dealing with the real killers(s) of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, being members of his police force. See exhibits C and “D” attached hereto and incorporated herein. Additionally, plaintiff request judicial notice of The OJ Simpson Case and Saga.”
Ex-LAPD Police Department Detective Mark Fuhrman is THE KILLER of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. In my opinion he had help murdering these two people.
NOW, I ( Mario Nitrini ) filed several of my Legal Documents pertaining to my personal Involvement in The O.J. Simpson Case and Saga and entered them in this Lawsuit as Exhibits B and C with other exhibits from A to F2. Please NO ONE try and illegally cover-up or “FORGET” to enter ALL of my lawsuit in the record.
In whatever legal form, these people will be called to give a deposition:
Cheryl Shuman – Denise Brown – Mark Fuhrman – Bill Pavelic – Gloria Allred – Diane Dimond – Harvey Levin – Dr. Felix Yip – LAPD Captain Jeri Weinstein – Paul Barresi –Marcia Clark – LAPD Detective Bob Parsons – Stephanie Medina – Eric Garcetti – Dana Garcetti – LAPD Commander Michael Morairty – William Bratton ex-Police Chief of the LAPD – Councilman Bernard Parks – LAPD Segeant Kim – Jeffrey Eglash former inspector General of the los Angeles Police Commision
–Ronald Y. Ito ( aka Ron Ito) Retired–LAPD RHD Detective who was involved
in The OJ Simpson Case and Saga and that I gave information to
which NOW I Know would have led to OJ Simpson’s innocence.
I want to see Detective Ito LIE his way out of this one. HE CAN’T……
Kim Goldman Hahn –Tom Lange -LAPD SGT. Guiterrez—LAPD Officer J.H. Hart
Gil Garcetti.
GIL GARCETTI is a Criminal and Illegal, Corrupt, No-Good Person. He and his staff of criminal
hoodlums made several agreements with me both IN-WRITING and VERBALLY.
They broke several of them, did not honor others, and have tried to sabotage me and take me out any way they could. Legally Gil Garcetti and his staff (Present and Past) will honor the agreement’s that were made with me…….
Lisa Bloom –
Richard C. Wemmer Retired –LAPD Captain Commanding Officer West
Los Angeles Community Police Station. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck
Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley
United States Attorney Andre Birotte and Former Inspector General
for The Los Angeles Police Commission
ALL 3 of you knew I had my Civil Right’s Violated several times and
ALL 3 of you Illegally and Criminally
covered that fact up. WHY? I legally want some answers. And most likely there will be more people called to give a depostion, AND it could lead to Criminal Prosecution for some of these people and MORE…………
Let’s see ALL of YOU people LIE and ILLEGALLY Cover-up your way out of this one.
MarioGeorgeNitrini111
mariogeorgenitrini111
_______________
The OJ Simpson Case
The Anthony Pellicano Federal Indictment Case
The Biggie Smalls Federal Lawsuit Case
The Michael Jackson Cases and Saga
The Robert Blake Case
But you lost to Wellington, remember? And the Russian campaign did not turn out really well, either, did it?We know, Josephine wasn’t nearly as supportive as she might have been. And your scouts came up with some disinformation on the topography, too. So, Waterloo was no piece of cake. But, you shouldn’t have dinged around until the Prussians showed up. By the way, the Mother Ship keeps calling for you- Captain Kirk is really upset! He wants you to know that the crate of Phasers you took won’t work yet because they won’t even be invented for another two hundred years! Live long and prosper!
Aaron Burr
“They went off to college with the apparent belief that they could borrow tens of thousands of dollars to pay for it, but that they would never really have to pay it back.”
Who told them this? Oh right— that would be US.
They signed legal loan documents with enough disclosure requirements to protect the dumbest, most foolish ninny ever to fall off a vegetable truck, and yet now, they claim they were somehow defrauded.
While their teachers, parents, and community leaders stood there with their double fistful of credit cards and their billion dollar national debt and egged them on. For sixty years the national anthem might as well have been “Don’t worry, you’ll pay it back later”, and now we’re outraged that they believed us?
And who the hell decided that egging an eighteen year old child into saddling themselves with massive debt was morally acceptable in the first place? We won’t even let them drink a can of beer, but handing them fistfuls of government cash, no questions asked, is socially responsible?
They’re foolish and their behavior is reprehensible. They’re teenagers; what’s our excuse?
@RHJunior That would NOT be “us”. Foolish and reprehensible behavior has never been tolerated in my household, my local school system, or my community. I’m sorry for you and those poorly educated teenagers you write of. Maybe you have no excuse, but I don’t need one. Around here, we stay involved with our kids and make sure they don’t ruin their lives.
my oldest son is going to school on the GI bill, studying engineering. the war is over and we won, as of Nov 1st his younger brother left Iraq. the youngest brother now has a scar on his face thanks to an IED in Dec 2010. they are pay now don’t worry about it later, kind of guys.
“Tea Partiers, of course, see the gross liberal/conservative double standard at work big time.”
I see ALL OVER the blogosphere, the gross liberals diverting the blame to the Tea Party and the Police.
An accurate, if sad, assessment. The depressing aspect is their numbers all over the country. I had looked back over that 60s generation and wrapped it up in a brief lyric – “I’m Their Love Child” which we will be recording in 2012.
I’M THEIR LOVECHILD
c. Tibor Music
A girl and a boy fell in love years ago
They vowed that their love would grow and grow
They drifted together and you know,
I’M THEIR LOVE CHILD
I’M THEIR LOVE CHILD
They dreamed they’d be free to live every day
With laughter and music, in nature to play
Happy and carefree, that was their way
I’M THEIR LOVE CHILD
I’M THEIR LOVE CHILD
Oh, how they grooved in a world filled with roses,
Stereo and pot, and everything high,
I found some snapshots with faded poses
Of them holding me – I could cry
He drifted off, left her on her own
They found him O-D’d in a room by a phone
Before taking pills she left me in a home
I’M THEIR LOVE CHILD
I’M THEIR LOVE CHILD
I’M THEIR LOVE CHILD
Nice piece with one important exception.
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
This quote is a clarion call for collectivism. Historically, religious conservatives have especially undercut capitalism by their acquiescence toward such calls for self-sacrifice. I am sorry, but Jesus’ self-sacrifice is not a model for citizenry in America. Pursuing one’s own happiness and rational self-interest is.
But you are NOT sorry, And the imitation of our Lord, Jesus Christ, is required of all men, whether they believe or not. Selfishness does NOT trump love of neighbor. On Judgment Day that will become clear(too late!) to the amoral, stupid and ignorant. Your remarks ignore the fact that collectivism/communism by any other name, is governmental intervention into private enterprise and economics, while religious conservatives want government to stay out of their lives as much as possible. The church will care for the needy; such is NOT the province of government.And the church will not create dependency, “He who will not work, let him not eat”;”He who will not support his own family is worse than an unbeliever”.
Kyle-Anne
When I see this junk, like “I don’t want to work” and even more so the hippy girls shouting something about the millions killed in Tibet, I know it’s dumb and I try to think of what is smart. Well picture these brats trying to listen to the debate between Gore Vidal and Bill Buckley, or even Dinesh D’Souza and Christopher Hitchens. Can’t do it can you.
Move back in time all you older people. Greasy, dirty smelly, red diaper
babies that showed up in the 60′s through the 70′s to meet every Alinsky rule
across America. It’s 2011 and we have rinse and repeat. Americans that take a bath and observe personal hygine and work everyday are not very important in our country, but greasydirtysmellydrugaddicts are. News media loves them.
I wish that the people at these protest, who are pushing for the repeal of the “Glass/Owen act” (end the fed), would somehow clearly differentiate themselves from the communist fringe and the utterly clueless. They do us no service when they advocate abolishing the Federal Reserve, while standing beside someone wanting to diminish or diavow personal property rights! Nor is there any reason to charge an ethnicity (jews) for the debacle of government issued fiat dollars! The first fiat certificates (money) issued in this country, were issued in 1690 by the then Royal Govenor of Massachusets to pay soldiers for a faild raid to the colony of Quebec; no “Jew conspiracy” there. It is our government that has enacted and enforced -legal tender law- to back our current money (dollar). Legal tender law should be viewed as the antithesis of a “free” market economy. Oh, an just guess what the 5th plank of Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” is.
Identify for us, please, the nine major stockholders in our Federal Reserve.
They print our money, at our expense, loan it to us, collect interest on it paid by us, pay themselves gigantic sums for occupying space and consuming oxygen, and lend trillions to themselves, at little or no interest; which they then lend out a very profitable interest rates. They fake financial crises; then bribe the goniffs in Congress to award them trillions to keep them from failing. I am an ethnic Jew, and eight of the nine stockholders of the Fed are also organizations owned and controlled by ethnic Jews. These thieves have been stealing from us for 100 years, and there ain’t much left to steal. We must arrest them and their confederates in Congress, try them, and execute them. Then return to the Jacksonian National Bank System and repudiate all federal debt. Read carefully! I am NOT attacking all ethnic Jews. I am attacking all thieves.
This is what we have inherited in the world of today. Kids that do not know their place in the great scheme of things. Lacksadaisical parenting, too many freedoms, no respect for authority. I am happy that, although brought up in a regimented household – it taught me how to bring up my own children – with good manners and respect and caring for others. They were punished when necessary – but how many children today say to their parents “Mum, Dad, we appreciate what you did for us”?
Spare the rod and indeed you spoil the child…..and inflict the ‘casualty’ onto the public!!!! God, the Government has much to answer for too! They took over portfolios they know absolutley nothing about – like parents not being able to bring up their children as they see fit. That does not mean all parents are the best – but MOST ARE.
“Lots more of those icky, boring, responsible, hard-working, work-ethic-promoting, industrious white, Anglo Saxon Protestants would really come in handy as we face off with this big, fat, booby-brat pack.” Where are they? They were the target of the communists decades ago. You knew something had to be up when those who founded this country, their work habits, their culture, their attitudes and ethics were shredded. WASP humor was all the rage, don’t you remember? Yes. They were the ones to be ridiculed, but the human filth spawned by the Gramscian revolution, now they were to be emulated! That’s why you can’t go pretty much anywhere in America today, without being offended by “ghetto” culture gone mainstream. America needed to be torn down and what better way to do it than with scorn and derision aimed at those largely responsible for her success? That’s why every third worlder and/or minority is elevated. Not because the left really BELIEVES they are better. But they are used to strike down those who are not. Anyone see Larry King the night of Obama’s election where he actually said on his program that his son wanted to be black? That just about sums it up folks.
Shooting Occupiers, Mute MSM
A number of reports have linked Oscar Ramiro Ortega Hernandez, the man arrested for firing two rifle shots at the White House last Friday, with the Occupy Wall Streeters, more specifically the Occupy D.C. branch of that anarchist movement.
Pictures of the scruffy, bearded Ortega Hernandez show him looking like a virtual poster boy for both the OWSers and Anarchy International.
No one was injured in the attack. Not unusually, the First Family was away on travel mode.
It didn’t take the FBI, the ATF, the U.S. Park Police, and the Secret Service long to zero in on the Occupiers at Washington’s McPherson Square in their search for suspects. Ortega Hernandez was captured without incident on Wednesday at a Hampton Inn in Indiana, Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania State Police.
The capture may have gone without incident but the McPherson Occupiers were positively aghast at the government intrusion on their encampment. As Ralph Wittenburg, a spokesman for the leaderless group, told TalkingPointsMemo,com, authorities came through “searching for a so-called terrorist who shot at the White House, with no warrant, they went into everybody’s tents.”
Gasp! How nosy of them going into tents sans warrant, which they didn’t need on public property, trying to find a “so-called terrorist,” who had merely launched a couple of rounds at America’s Executive Mansion!
Our current chief executive just happens to be a big supporter of New York’s Occupy Wall Street mob as well as their offshoots . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5987.)
I get your central point as the fearsome fact that the people at OWS have the privilege and right to vote for people who decide the fate of this USA.
You HOPE there are enough adults who understand what they lose if they allow people like those in OWS with cheerleaders of the mainstream Media to drive political action.
Similar to “anti-war protestors” of the 1960s and 70s and sit-ins of students at Cornell, one of the most privileged, exclusive institutions of “higher education” and the presumably adult administrators winking at their youthful prank.
That youthful prank in fact the “shot across the bow” of this nation of commoners. This nation founded on the principle that each individual has dignity,is valuable, and in Law EQUAL. N.B. individual NOT groups. Congress, elected by the citizens, has the remit to comply with the foundation Law the Constitution, to assure that each individual is in fact treated equally under and in the Law.
Congress of the USA exempted college students from a military draft to which common American young men were compelled with penalties for non-compliance, records to follow them and damage their entire future lives. It does of course not need reminding the penalties for those young men – commoners – drafted and sent to Vietnam.
It should come as no surprise therefore that these Americans, especially privileged, believe themselves entitled to special treatment merely because they are who /what they are: the progeny of that generation you generously call baby boomers who were EXEMPTED by Congress,in Law, from the service to their country required IN Law of common young American males. Their sense of entitlement is given from parent to child as mother’s milk in broader terms than simple familial indulgence.
The development and effects of that congressional creation in law of a privileged class has been the election of the most deliberately divisive president in history. Pitting citizen against citizen along class, gender and racial lines.
The effects of that first shot across the bow ended at great cost in treasury and blood, in the Gettysburg Address.
The anti-war protests of the 1960s somehow brought about “great cost in treasury and blood in the Gettysburg Address”,given 100 years earlier?
Sweetie, the cause must precede the effect. Honest.
And the GA is so much smoke. The USA was never “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”. Because all men are NOT created equal.
Neither of us can think like Einstein or jump like Jordan.Our mental, physical, emotional IQs are varied extensively.
Aside, Lee’s tactics at Gettysburg lost the war for the Confederacy. He found a way to turn wine into water; so to speak; bless your little heart!