The Occupations: Anarchy Waiting for Crisis
The gathering began at 5:10 p.m. with a young man who began the “mic check” sans actual microphone in the now standard way by having the audience repeat his words. He announced a lawsuit against Emory, the target of ire, along with “corporate interests” and the Chamber of Commerce. Somehow bullhorns materialized and three stern-looking men wearing bright orange construction worker vests used them to give testimony about how they became homeless. Lined up behind them were some even sterner looking men with shirts reading “Security.” In over an hour of wandering around the park I had not seen one police officer or real security guard.
Noise-makers were passed around after instructions were given. A few well-beaten plastic buckets were put to use as drums, and a trumpet and guitar joined in to the tune of the chant, “Emory, we’re here to say, Peachtree-Pine is gonna stay.”
I stayed behind a few paces of the crowd that numbered about three hundred. They loudly made their way up Peachtree Street through downtown Atlanta.
Again, not a cop in sight.
The marchers spilled into the street, blocking both of the two right lanes, forcing northbound traffic to stop. One of the marchers waved wild traffic directions from the rear.
Observers on the sidewalk and in cars held up cell phone cameras to record the merriment.
We had gone several blocks when I saw three police officers congregated on the sidewalk in the vicinity. I overheard one say there was a protest “or something” going on. She seemed surprised.
But as happens, an ambulance and then a few seconds later, a fire truck, needed to get through the traffic. With the narrow street congested with marchers the emergency vehicles had to stop and blare their horns. I could see frustration in the firemen’s faces in the stopped truck.
Suddenly, a motorcycle policeman sprang on the scene, zipping boldly between cars, blue lights flashing.
And just as quickly, three young men in orange “Cop Watch” t-shirts, who were walking on the opposite sidewalk, had video cameras zeroed in on this policeman heroically getting emergency vehicles past marchers and traffic.
The Cop Watchers continued to vigilantly hold up their cameras as we made our way to the homeless shelter, where a number of the homeless men held up signs saying, “Emory hates black men.”
The chants continued but it was to the choir of the homeless, so to speak, so the crowd soon crossed the street to the hospital. Still shouting and drumming, they rushed and blocked the hospital entrance.
A security guard’s orders to leave, as bewildered hospital visitors pulled up, did not seem to have much effect, nor did a single policeman’s orders. When about a dozen police officers showed up and notified the marchers that they were were on private property, the crowd slowly made its way across the street, drumming out a chant about private property being public property.
The police officers stood across the street from the crowd, and so did the Cop Watchers, holding video cameras in policemen’s faces.
It seemed that the chanting would be going on for some time, and one police officer had already mistaken me for a protestor, so I made my way back to Woodruff Park.
” They were quite visible as the National Anthem and America the Beautiful were sung, and as prayers for our country were sent up to heaven.”
Apparently, they were not answered.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. They were answered in November of 2012, and will continue to be answered in 2012. Wait and see.
Never underestimate the Chicago mob’s ability to steal an election.
Or the voting support of the Deceased-American community.
“wouldn’t be so sure of that. They were answered in November of 2012…”
You mean November of 2010 don’t you? November of 2012 hasn’t rolled around yet.
I was shocked – Shocked! – to read that a mob blocked the hospital entrance and that a (private?) security guard ordered them to leave. I thought the hospital didn’t have to worry about that because of the police that the rest of us paid for.
This is a confusing world we live in.
The security guard would be an employee of the hospital. Its rare for even small hospitals not to have them anymore. The reason of course, is that there are patients who are like the “occupiers” and who can become mean as a snake when they don’t get their way. Not to mention their family members.
We deal with a great many “aggrieved” not to mention the drunks and drug addicts, who are often one in the same as the aggrieved. Nurses are assaulted more frequently than are police officers, and unlike the police we can’t hit back. Some folks you understand are simply confused and scared, but a great many know exactly what they are doing.
As a nurse of 20 years reading that these protesters slowed up emergency vehicles and blocked a hospital entrance made me furious in a heart beat. Talk about selfishness! I can’t even communicate my disgust adequately.
Thanks for the real reporting. Thank God someone is doing it.
Some of these Leftists are childish; some are infantile. But looking at the bigger picture, the Left is a gathering of everybody who has not been (or cannot be) socialized. Criminals (note the Left’s support for the most eggregious killers), perverts (NAMBLA, ACT UP, etc.), the mentally ill (turn ‘em loose), the addicts, the atheists, the alien, and the general misfits are all major constituencies of the Left. Almost any group of people who cannot/will not adapt their behavior to societal norms will be found in the Democratic Party, or further-Left groups. Look at some video of Tea Party and OWS demos and it’ll jump right out at you, although I don’t hear many ‘journalists’ mention the glaringly obvious.
They are exposing themselves to us without the need for the msm. There must be some advice coming from the White House that these “occupiers” are not to be bothered in any way and treated with kid gloves.
It’s the all-new totally hip gotta-be-there everyone-gets-laid Post-Renaissance DisPleasure Fair! Witness ye Parade of Fooles! Verbal Jousting with the Evil Tea Party! Visit ye Socialist People’s Court where not only Capitalists get stoned, so do ye spectators! Lock-step Dancing! Group mindless chanting! Folke songs from another century! Arts and cardboard sign craftes for ye wee kiddies! And perhaps King Barack and Queen Michelle may visit in the afternoon for a Solidarity Social! Be thee not square, go thee and visite there!
this is good! A for creativity.
Excellent post, Sirrah!!
-We don’t exactly like Obama either…
Democrat-supported rabble, right up to the moment there’s a major incident. Then through the magic of media it will become the fault of rich, heartless Republicans and crony capitalism from which, of course, salt-of-the-earth Dems are completely innocent. Count on it. This little melodrama has been in reruns ever since the Kent State fiction hit the pulp pages.
Thanks to the author for your valuable efforts.
You’re welcome!
“It’s all fun & games until someone puts an eye out!”
George Carlin
“The chants continued but it was to the choir of the homeless, so to speak, so the crowd soon crossed the street to the hospital. Still shouting and drumming, they rushed and blocked the hospital entrance.”
Actually, I found this to be the most horrifying part of the demonstration.
Do these idiots know why “Quiet” signs are posted around hospitals? Are they aware that there are really sick people in hospitals, and that “shouting and drumming” outside their rooms doesn’t exactly help them?
Arrogant barbarian jerks.
Random those IDIOTS dont understand anything but their own selfish wants. they dont want a job. they want a position with top pay and benefits. with plenty of time off, they are for the most part LOW LIFE SCUMBAGS,
“The chants continued but it was to the choir of the homeless, so to speak, so the crowd soon crossed the street to the hospital”
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but the homeless were protesting specifically the impending closure of that shelter, yes? I guess the homeless people’s messages didn’t marry up with what the Occupiers wanted. Otherwise, the “choir of the homeless” would’ve been embraced. Sounds like discrimination to me.
Check one for hypocrisy in action…
We have gone down the rabbit hole. It is like we are looking out the mirror from the other side. It is very sad that the cops do not even have the power to enforce the law anymore. They are pushing the envelope further and further. It starts with nonviolent resistence but before we know it they could be burning and looting and killing people and getting away with it and even coddled by the media as the destructive rioters in the UK were. It may not seem like a big deal to not follow park rules or to stop traffic, but they are just using this tactic to desensitize the media. Unfortunately the cops are stuck between a rock and a hard place because these protestors will try to antagonize them into conflict to further villify the police. Someone needs to put their foot down because stopping a firetruck and an ambulance and blocking a hospital is a life threatening situation and immoral and disgusting too. It would be nice if the highest powers in the nation would condemn such criminal behavior. A peaceful protest is a right, an occupation of private property is not a right.
unfortunately ella8 the highest people in the land condone their actions. they think it is going to help them stay in office for another four years. most if not all of the highes people in the land should be doing 40 years and a day at hard labor for the trillions of tax payer dollars they have STOLEN,
May I suggest for those who have never seen it as well as for those who may have forgotten what it was about: rent the movie Dr. Zhivago (1965 I think). It is my opinion that is where the USA is going.
I worry that it is more like Germany in the 1930s.
You cannot dispense unearned rewards in a mindless pursuit of “self-esteem” for the “poor little ones” ahead of the cultivation of effort, and expect things to come out right: True self-esteem can only come out of accomplishment, and accomplishment only comes out of effort, including effort to overcome our own natural weaknesses. So, if you dispense unearned rewards, you plainly fail to educate, and one day, you find people in the street breaking all the and rules getting away with it, because the mayor wants to make sure that the police is not provocative! Such are the wages of “political correctness”, which is only cowardice in the disguise of sophistication.
This street madness is better explained as the ultimate outcome of a failure to educate than the immediate outcome of grievances of various degrees of authenticity. The media narrative will brandish some proximate causes that are entirely bogus to rationalize this outburst of collective folly. The debate we are not quite having is about what is the identity of America: A country of brave free individuals or a country of whining suckers? This spectacle is like monkeys playing out the issue as best they can, which is to say, below a minimum standard of civility.
It does not need to fool us all.
It is very disturbing to see so many adults unwilling to enforce the law. They seem to embrace the 1960s notion that these youths possess serious insights regarding the troubles of the day. Their lack of maturity and outrageous misbehavior are supposedly signs of Rousseauian innocence. We of the older generation are guilty of many social sins—and therefore have no right to say no these virtuous protesters.
Water cannons would be appropriate … actually, SOAP and water cannons would make more sense, come to think of it.
water canons filled with urine work better then plain water. takes the fight out of them.
I was at Emory while this was going on; I was parking in the hospital’s parking deck (with permission) to attend a play across the street.
The protesters were loud, obnoxious a$$holes. The carried some mass-produced signs. There was a contingent whose goal was to storm the hospital, not block its entrance.
The protesters reminded me of “a gang of junkies trying to build a rocket ship to go to the moon to check out a rumor that the craters were filled with smack” (Hunter S. Thompson).
If they are the 99%–sell your bonds.
Out of curiosity, what mass produced signs specifically did you see?
I saw something similar at Occupy San Diego when they did their day one march on the 7th (thankfully without blocking hospitals, but they made a mess of downtown traffic). I saw at least a dozen or more clean, crisp “Occupy Everything” signs sprinkled around the crowd, especially near the front.
I’ve been trying to find out if this is a national trend or not. The occupy everything folks (according to their own website) are self proclaimed (and proud!) anti capitalists. And I have friends who scoff and claim I buy the ‘establishment’ story when I point my concerns with these guys out..
TheDougem this is international beginning with the Bolsevick Revolution back in the 1800s. This has all the earmarks of external motivation.
The tea party, in contrast,individually and voluntarily, kept their premises clean, needing no third party leader.
I’m quite sure these protesters support our environmental concerns as voiced by Agenda 21,the EPA and others in government. Yet they cannot keep their own environment well dressed. Therefore the environment cannot be of concern to them. Neither are these other complaints.
The Bolshevik Revolution – which was actually a coup orchestrated by Lenin, not a real revolution – took place in 1917, not in the 1800s.
Yeah, 1917. Years of “civil unrest” led up to it, though. According to Ann Coulter in DEMONIC, demonstrations were violently put down in 1905, but protestors were coddled when they returned a few years later.
Josef Dzugashvili (Stalin) wrote in his memoirs about egging on demonstrators – throwing bricks at soldiers and police and running – allowing others to pay for his provocations.
DEMONIC also has an interesting take on Kent State. It put paid to violent riots across America, according to Coulter. If you might get shot, looting was too scary for the kids.
Encouraging the mob is exactly the wrong way to go.
Like I said earlier, check out the movie Dr. Zhivago. The future of the USA.
I hope this rerun does not lead to another incident of demos throwing rocks at the president’s car in the next inaugural parade, or demos throwing horse manure on people attending inaugural parties. GBUSA
The far left politicians is so desperate to have their own version of the Tea Party, that they will lean on local mayors and police officers NOT to put these miserable anarchists, communists, and hoodlums in jail. You mark my words, soon there will be broken windows, fires, and then riots, just like in England. All because we simply did not enforce the law. As far as I can tell, the Tea Party demostrations never, ever, broke the law and always cleaned up after their demostrations. But what you have now with these people are a bunch of animals wanting to turn parks and streets into tent cities and to get publicity and cash “donations” from unions and other crazed liberals. Pity they are not taking out their frustrations on the main guy who is responsible for their horrible economic problems, the president.
Time for the conspiracy theorist babble of the day. Fear not for the day. The major violence is not scheduled until next summer. This OWL nonsense is just a run up for the riots of next year. The left has been floating all of the ideas for next year, in various trial balloons this year. First we have the idea of suspending elections. Then we have JJ jr. advising the president to suspend the constitution and rule by decree, but of course that requires martial law. If you want to be Abe, you need a national emergency that requires the suspension of the constitution in order to impose martial law. That old “start a war with half of the states” thing has been done. So the O will just have to settle for riots in the streets. There have been other signs in the bones but I will just go with those for now. Please pile on now, my shrink has been getting bored.
I actually agree with your predictions. Everything is going according to plan, all one has to do is read Alinsky’s rules or peruse Cloward-Piven. The man in the WH told us what he was planning during his presidency, it was too bad that most voters chose not to listen.
Libertyship46 I beg to differ. Obama, while deeply involved, is not the cause of these problems which antedate him more than a century. We should not look at the man but the principles involved. One set says that we own nothing and it all belongs to the central government. Our Constitution says we own everything and only support our government as it is useful to that end.
The tea party has given us a good example in this self-governing business by keeping their protest area clean while these protesters have no compunction trashing their own environment.
The choice is ours and if we want to be responsible we cannot make our government responsible.
The president didn’t start this mess but he keeps giving it kicks in the rear end to make it go faster.
The national attitude has much to do with it but you only have to look at the CRA, started by Jimmy Carter and moved into high gear by Bill Clinton with Chris Dodd & Barney Frank chanting like a Greek Chorus, “Nothing to see here. You don’t have to do anything about Fannie & Freddie. They’re Okey-Dokey!”
Forcing banks to lend to people who had little or no money for down payments, couldn’t afford the mortgage nor the taxes and maintenance was bound to come to a bad end, but you know liberals, money is no object, especially if it’s other people’s money.
We are going to pay an awful price for the grade inflation that has been going on since the 1970s. These spoiled brats are dumber than the proverbial doornail—but their parents and other significant adults have repeatedly assured them of their incredible intellectual brilliance. A large number may have never received a poor grade anytime in either high school or college. They often have obtained the minimum of a bachelors degree. Employers now laugh at their credentials. Somebody obviously “lied” to these kids. The protests will continue indefinitely.
Thanks for the reportage.
The political hierarchy in big metros around the country are allowing a few citizens to violate the rights of many others. Dennis Prager said on his show that he hopes it lasts, especially on Wall Street – where all the bankers and bond traders who bankroll the Dems work.
Will they learn, though? Dems have ruled these cities for decades, run them right into the ground. Look at the Motor City. Still they reelect Dems.
Alas, we live in interesting times.
Who is paying for these demonstrations, and who is organizing them? Such “protests” produce no money or jobs but use taxpayers’ money for security and for police.
Ah! The irony. They want bigger and more intrusive government (a la the nanny state), but worry that the police will be a too intrusive part of that big govt they desire. I’d credit all of this insanity to the most recent full moon, but full moons don’t last this long.
I was also at the Atlanta Tea Party rally. I arrived late and was in the very back of the crowd. Within 15 minutes of ariving an ambulance needed to get through to the front. The tea partiers parted like the red sea, and let the ambulance up lickity split. The passed out victim was loaded up and ushered out in no time. Big difference.
MSM is covering this like a camp out for like minded junior pseudo heroes .
They aren’t showing the reality.They are dirty,rude and disruptive.
Chicago had attendees lecturing on the extermination of Israel.
American Neonazi and Communist Parties joined one group of protesters.
Kill the police and Jews are chanted at several sites and kill whitey at another.
NY has a table with free rolling papers for joints(inside edition vids).
Alot of this is posted on blogs and youtube.
It is evolving from a group of we-are-kind-of-complaining-about-some-nameless-rich-guys,to a free for all anger fest.Eventually there will be violence,if for no other reasons than boredom,random anger and crazies.
This is pointless,leaderless,inconsiderate,mobs of unconnected kids,middle aged hip people,the homeless,partiers and gimmee freeloaders .They are mad as hell about,um, stuff and they’re not going to take ,uh, something any more.They are mostly an embarrassment to civilized ,responsible Americans.
The Tea Party’s biggest offense was speeches libs didn’t agree with.
The good news is Al Sharpton is joining the fray.
Lydia,make not mistake. This mob is not without a leader. If that was so there would be no mob. This is not a spontaneous gathering as the Tea Party is. The tea party is being guided by principle rather than people. Therefore there is no single leader nor is it open to one.
How many of these protesters are college students? Shouldn’t they be in class? Well, here’s a thought: 1. For any student that has missed 1-2wks of classes to protest, drop their classes for
this semester or give them an F. 2. If they continue to protest through Jan/Feb., have the college suspend them indefinitely. 3. These kids then have to reapply to another school;no tranferring of credits. 4. There
are plenty of smart, hard-working kids who may be on a waiting list to their top school. 5. Have these Universities and Colleges send these needy students acceptance letters asap!
I’m a mother with three children, one is a freshman in college. If I found out that she was skipping school for something like this, all her privileges would be immediately revoked!
Problem is, a lot of colleges and professors support the OWS and would skip class themselves to march right with them if they could get away with it. Colleges aren’t about teaching life skills like the importance of attendance anymore. They aren’t about teaching at all in some cases.
Exactly! In fact, I strongly suspect that many professors will give students participating in these demonstrations extra credit for “field research” (or some similiar euphemism) since the students will be “demonstrating their commitment to change” and “learning (about revolution) by doing”.
Jamie, this is an excellent reason to consider other avenues to an education. If they don’t instill knowledge why waste your time and money? Higher education would have be a waste of my time and I am competent to argue with any professor. Yes, some know a lot that I don’t know but I would learn. Many don’t understand what I know and cannot be taught.
mme, time to have a talk with your daughter and let her know where you stand. my son is fully aware that i will immediately revoke all funding and support if i find him involved in crazy cr@p like this.
If I was still in college and any of my professors cancelled class to go protest I would be furious. Not everyone attending college is a spoiled brat with a silver spoon in their mouth. I never skipped my classes in college, not even when my grandmother was dying of cancer except for her funeral. I still made time to drive an hour to help my father take care of her in her sickest days and I still studied hard and earned my grades. It disgusts me to hear of professors skipping class to march. It is not like those of us on a tight budget ever wanted to take —— studies classes. Perhaps it is time to drop the requirement for fluffy courses and fire all of the professors who abandon their students to protest.
You seem to hold the universities and colleges to a standard unfamiliar to them, therefore you are not going to get their cooperation. In fact they are in cahoots with the demonstrations and probably proud of the professors/instructors that participate.
It’s Orwell meets Lord of the Flies…
aptly stated; hopefully the weather will chase them away before we see any heads on stakes.
Well said!
Except I have no faith the adults will show up.
Obambi the Usurper stirred up and emboldened this anarchistic rabble with his Class Warfare rhetoric. But these benefit/entitlement junkies are so stupid they cant see that its HIS Policies which are causing them all the pain and unemployment and HIS reckless spending which has caused the economic crisis. I just saw an interviewer talking to some of these cretins on Occupy Wall Street the morons have no clue what they are there for nor what they want nor who provided the money THEY live on.
“How many of these protesters are college students?”
Wrong Question. It should be instead: how could any of these intellectual mediocrities get inside a college classroom? Most probably cannot read at an 8th grade level. They are dumber than a doornail. This is the Wasted Generation. These individuals are also too old to likely ever get their act together.
As George Will and others have noted, the protests in 1968 were much more passionate, widespread, and could even be said, justified.
And they gave way to a resounding thunmping of the Democratic candidate by Richard Nixon (twice!), and Republican victories in the next five out of six presidential elections. (And Carter just barely won, and arguably would not have were it not for Watergate specifically.)
One real weakness of the activist left is that they are so good a creating their own “community” of like-minded, that they are consistently blind to the fact that they actually represent a far smaller percentage of the population than they think. And this nonsenese behavior of theirs is self-reinforcing by the people at their elbow…. they never have any clue just how many people they are pissing off and horrifying…. until election day.
We all have to be damn sure to get off our butts and vote, and please God, let the Grand Old (stupid) Party be saving tape after tape of this idiocy to put in people’s faces next October. THESE are the images to carry with you into the voting booth.
In Cleveland Ohio, the Mayor issued an “event” permit for them to set up tents and housing on public square, indefinitely. Question, if we don’t compare them to the Tea Party but just to any other group, shouldn’t they be held to the same standards, which would mean their housing should meet code and public health standards, and if they occupy our public areas, are we not denied access to them? In Cleveland, the City of Cleveland is footing the bill for their clean up and special access but these are not citizens of Cleveland. All of these, except the legitimate homeless and mentally ill, are white middle class people from the suburbs. Why is that irony not obvious to a Mayor who will spend money on people who are not his constituents?
I was pondering this at a Tremont cafe, walking distance from the area, which had a Help Wanted sign in the window. Can we now call this the Obama economy and call these ObamaVilles? This is what he has built, and he wants more of the same for all of us.
Can we now call this the Obama economy and call these ObamaVilles?
I like the name Obama-MoochVille. It will eventually occur to the vast majority that these occupiers are protesting against a situation they helped to create by voting for Obama.
Granny, I like your question. It underlines both the personal disregard of the environment by protester and public official alike in this permitting process
Obamaville, I love it. Keep using the term.
“…Every society rests on a barbarian base. The people who don’t understand civilization, and wouldn’t like it if they did. The hitchhikers. The people who create nothing, and who don’t appreciate what others have created for them, and who think civilization is something that just exists and that all they need to do is enjoy what they can understand of it—luxuries, a high living standard, and easy work for high pay. Responsibilities? Phooey! What do they have a government for?”
H. Beam Piper, “Space Viking” (1962), p. 130
. . . “These are homemade barbarians. Workers and peasants who revolted to seize and divide the wealth and then found they’d smashed the means of production and killed off all the technical brains. Survivors on planets hit during the Interstellar Wars . . . who lost the machinery of civilization. Followers of political leaders on local-dictatorship planets. Companies of mercenaries thrown out of employment and living by pillage. Religious fanatics following self-anointed prophets.”
“Space Viking”, p. 12
Both times, words of wisdom spoken by Captain Otto Harkaman. (The entire novel can be found online at Project Gutenberg, as it is now in the public domain.)
Where Piper was in error was in assuming that such movements only arise when, in Harkaman’s words, “A ruling class forgets their responsibilities”. Piper believed that there might be something fundamentally unworkable about democracy, because it was too easily suborned by its own internal “barbarians”. It must be remembered that Piper had seen this first-hand in the events leading to World War Two, notably in Nazi Germany, where Hitler had used the means of democratic government to make himself dictator. (The events on Marduk in Piper’s novel are closely patterned on Germany in 1923-33, including the Weimar government’s disastrous policies which gave the Nazis their chance at power.)
However, in the present case we see a “ruling class” who, having cultivated the mentalities of the “internal barbarians”, are now smiling behind their hands as those barbarians assault the gates of those (businesses, etc.) who foolishly believed that the “ruling class” was on their side. They’re not. They are on their own side at all times; their only interest is the pursuit of power to make their dreams of “remaking the world” come true.
The fact that “progressives” are siding with Nazis, Communists, anarchists, anti-Semites of all stripes, neo-Luddites, and other assorted leftovers from all the most dangerous and unstable “movements” of the 20th Century, in support of the “occupiers”, is a strong indication that they feel that their control of the media, academia, and society in general is strong enough that it is now safe for them to openly declare their intentions for the rest of us.
Those intentions being to crush us, and force us to be their servants in their Brave New World. Those of us who survive the transition, that is.
Maybe it’s time we went to the polls and simply told all of the usual suspects, “You’re Fired”. Otherwise, we face the alternatives that Lucas Trask, Simon Bentrik, Otto Harkaman, & Co. did on Marduk.
I, personally, prefer not to think about those other alternatives. You can read about them in “Space Viking”, if you’re interested.
clear ether
eon
eon, science fiction has been a good tool to highlight the truth and I agree with you in your analysis. Our liberty is found in our principles and our principles require discipline. These critters are loath to be chastised.
Thanks.
If you’re interested, a good capsule analysis of the novel’s political themes and social commentary can be found here;
http://members.iglou.com/jtmajor/Viking.htm
It’s shorter, but very nearly as good a read as the novel itself.
cheers
eon
The “Occupy” Movement Turns Nazi
I couldn’t read “Space Viking” without going here: http://video.adultswim.com/metalocalypse/filming-blood-ocean.html
One of the mail components of the insane political correctness that has overwhelmed gov’t policies in this country is if a solution is not politically correct, it is simply never pursued.
This group of people, across America and Europe, don’t understand that immigration, legal and illegal is the cause of their sorrow but since they have solidarity with and compassion for illegal aliens, they will instead go after those not responsible for their troubles.
You can’t have 30 million legals and illegals come into the U.S. in the last 20 years and not expect economic dislocation, unemployment, over crowding and much more. It is the one thing that will never be looked at as a solution and so continue to expect too much of everything on the one hand, and not enough on the other. In short, it is a disaster that is just beginning since the flood from the Third World is nowhere near slowing.
I doubt the immigrants are getting degrees in “social planning” or “diversity studies”. If they’re in college at all, I would guess they are spending our money on technical degrees and the like, with a few holdouts for the soft education programs.
These “protesters” are just bitching. Primarily because they are seeing the world as it is, and it’s not what their professors and parents told them it was and their now having to face reality. This is probably why there is a largely communist content to their “message”, such as it is.
Kids think that communism is great. Everything’s fair. Competition is virtually eliminated, everyone wins, blah, blah, blah. Starting about 30 years ago, this was my big complaint about kids sports. No more having to make the cut. That’s a phrase that has been eliminated from our language, it would seem because the kid who can’t throw, catch or hit still gets to play so as not to hurt their self-esteem.
We know the reality, though. Better to learn where your skill set is as a kid so you can adjust yourself, with your parents’ help and find that which you DO excel at and exploit it. Finding out you suck when you’re 22 or older is a real bell-ringer for some people. And this is your OWS crowd. They are not good at anything; Praise they have received all their young lives is useless for finding a good job, especially when the job market isn’t looking for “wellness planners” right now (or ever).
As has been said, the blame lays in the universities, coupled (again) with a liberal government attitude that the college will get more funding if they steer away from the hard disciplines and offer classes where even the least capable can get an “A”. It’s the sub-prime mortgage thing all over again.
Kids being told they’ll get high-paying jobs in the “really meaningful” sector, instead of having to work their ass off at a job they hate at the local walmart. To say nothing of the fact that they don’t understand rank, progression in the field, experience and tenure. Tenure in the sense that they aren’t entitled to the money that the guy who’s been there for 12 years gets. The fact that you start at the bottom is lost on them, partly because they’ve never had to their entire young lives.
So they’re spoiled. And as we all know, fixing the spoiled child takes some very hard roads. But they are adults and are now responsible for the choices they’ve made. I’m sure they WERE handed, in many cases, a bogus bill of goods. But damn, I heard it for years in the military, “My recruiter lied to me”. So…like everything else, Caveat Emptor, (Buyer beware). Jumping in head first in anything is foolish. The college wants the money. They have been given the green light by the DOE to offer crap courses. It’s a big Sham-Wow without the loud commercials.
This is why I say the thing that the national socialists lack more than anything is a certain degree of cynicism. But I’ll bet after a few years pass, they will have more of it.
“One of the mail components of the insane political correctness that has overwhelmed gov’t policies in this country is if a solution is not politically correct, it is simply never pursued.”
Huh? What are “mail components”? This would appear to be a typo but I can’t think of what you meant to say here.
‘Main’ components. What would ‘mail’ components mean?
As for immigrants, the point isn’t what they do, but their sheer numbers. There is a population explosion in this world, the Third World, and Western leaders are so far behind the curve in realizing what it really means, instead deciding to concentrate on national economic growth and compassionate policies, that by the time they wake up, it will be too late.
The U.S. Constitution was not written for Latin America although these deluded protesters will tell you otherwise nor is it a suicide pact although, in fact, it is with Obama and his minions at the helm.
This was a far better country with 200 million and now we have 300 million; towards what purpose? In this sense, these protesters are eating the dirt of their own world views but an ebbing tide lowers all boats.
As a legal immigrant and naturalized citizen myself I disagree with some of your argument. My (late) husband and I came to the Silicon Valley in CA in 1958. We were both fully educated, he in electrical engineering, me in business administration. Today the valley could not survive without the intelligent, highly educated people from India for example, precisely because most American students in universities choose to graduate with degrees in the non or soft sciences, which is simply a lazy way to get a degree. The majority of the graduate and PhD students I met during 28 years of employment at a top research university were foreign, some from Europe, the Middle East, Israel, India and all of Asia proper. They came with their BS degrees from their countries of origin. It is interesting to stand outside of Google, Apple, any of the Pharma or BioTech companies and observe the make up of their employees. We should be pleased to have them work here, they buy houses, start families and frankly their children tend to raise the level of learning in our public schools. The illegal immigrants are an entirely different matter which I seriously doubt will ever be solved. There are way too many groups, non-profits etc. that make a large amount of money allegedly working with illegals. It is kind of like Jackson, Sharpton and others who live high by promoting and perpetuating victimhood of black Americans.
I was in a state school for BS/MS in an engineering field, and in the BS our classes were something around 15-20% 2-generation immigrant (i.e., parents were naturalized, they were born here) or resident alien, primarily from SE Asia or India. In grad school that number went up to about 40-50%. Being a state school, a lot of the BS degrees went into the work force, so that factors for some of it. However, it was a trend to be noticed.
The soft subjects, such as languages and English and social sciences were predominantly middle class American, with little plan of what to do with the degree “well, I’ll probably teach French, or find a translating job” or something was the platitude. No one actually looked at what the job market was for a knowledge degree (small), how much competition there was per job (tons) and most had neither real plans for grad school (usually required to get the good knowledge-degree jobs) nor a back-up plan. So- now they have a really nice degree that (sort-of) qualifies them for a highly competitive, really small job market. In other words, being a barista (although the best baristas I know work their butts off and like the art and science of coffee, and make lots in tips because of it- darn that competitive edge…darn them…it’s not fair they make more in tips).
And yet somehow, their poor planning is to be blamed on businesses. Shouldn’t have skipped out on macro econ…those professors might be mostly democrats, but they are honest about supply and demand curves.
I really appreciate your reporting. The Ft. Worth Occupy photos showed about two dozen people in attendance, one of whom was angry because the bank repossessed her house and one who said she was against lobbying. Those small numbers caused me to question just how much of this ‘occupy’ reporting is the msm dreaming of a big movement and expanding the entire thing out of proportion to reality. Hopefully, cold weather will convince these lost souls to go home. Had they not been championed by the leftist politicians and the media, they would have already dis-banded.
The reason the left embraces this garbage is that it’s the closest thing in modern times that harkens back to their hippie days. You know when they actually thought they “made a difference”. Back then, being a rebellious little sh*t made them feel alive. And seeing movies like “Easy Rider” validated their weak, pathetic posture on “the man, man”.
The saddest thing is that the hippies think they were unique. Every single generation, as it goes through life, runs into the young adult stage where tough lessons must be learned. Some of them are very dangerous, of course, but learned they are. But what WAS unique was their taking to the streets in the 60′s and just basically having little hissy-fits. They were the children of the Greatest Generation and their parents felt their kids had a lot of things very, very wrong. As it turns out, Archie Bunker was right and Michael Stivik (AKA: “meathead”) was every bit the useless, touchy-feely, pathetic loser Archie made him out to be.
Now we hear about Pelosi (comes complete with flying monkeys) and how she embraces and endorses these actions by the OWC crowds. The real reason is, it validates her own hippie uptake and the heyday of Haight-Ashbury. Like, wow, man. Counter-culture to her is great as long as she can still go back to her mansion and avoid being seen with it. So it’s all a show. It always was a show, and always will be.
It’s “pathetic on parade”.
I don’t know if any of you saw the photos from last weekend (check the website SFGate for the S.F. Chronicle) but the OWS crowd (or in this case OSF) were small in number but there were thousands in the streets for “Fleet Week”. Talk about a paradox that was: here were the Blue Angels doing their routines in the sky, tons of booths and “recruitment” for all branches of the military. It was a peaceful party as it has been over the years. The best (or worst, really) was the photo of the “greeter” for the movement: a totally naked man in high heels with a sign of welcome. Again, these people do not know what they are protesting and many of them are spoiled brats. It is and was a terrible mistake to let them continue to break the law (overnight camping, defecating and urinating in public, smoking dope and trespass for a few that I can readily think of). They will continue to push the limit and demand more and more. When someone in authority finally puts his/her foot down and says no more, then we will have the riots. Spoiled children who don’t get their way throw tantrums.
I needed a paragraph break in that previous reply. The new paragraph should start with stuff about the greeter which went back to the OSF protests. Sorry.
Obama endorses and supports this lawless behavior. Barry would like nothing better than to be out there himself, obstructing fire engines, ambulances, and hospital entrances, and defecating on police cars. It’s the same kind of essentially snot-nosed behavior he’s often indulged in himself, cupping his balls during the Star-Spangled Banner, putting his feet up on all the White House furniture, giving people the finger oh-so-innocently. He’s a little creep.
Knew a kid like that in high school. He transferred schools after he got so horribly pummeled one day. His smart-ass manner got him in hock with people who were just fed up with it. No one ever found out who beat him up and he never did say.
But Obama is what you get when nature is ignored and the petulant smart-ass DOESN’T get pummeled early enough in life.
or the petulant little twerp does get pummeled, but sees it as all racisim, and becomes an ever bigger piece of work.
as reported by a parent at the high school he attended, – bambinio was pulled out of a basketball game and whining about how racist the coach was. As this teammates father said “no, you’re a lousy basketball player”. but all thegreatwon cared about was his perceived racisim.
And so, as can be easily assumed, the die was cast a long time ago. He sucked at sports, but to cover for lack of ability, rather than trying harder, he found it easier to blame someone else. Hm…I wonder if he knows he would revisit that later in life. Just sayin’.
All you have to do is go to some place like Atlanta’s Little 5 Points and there is a core group of ex hippies, radicals, and wannbe hippies just waiting to attach themselves to a cause like a virus wanting to attach itself to an organism. I assume every decent size city has an area like this.
Down in DC last year when thousands assembled peacefully to demonstrate against the health care law we were surrounded by dozens of DC police holding huge weapons. A few of us had fun with some of them who actually seemed to be enjoying the comments. Some in our group asked to have pictures taken with them, weapons and all, so they could brag about the “threat” of the protest. We all laughed about it and moved on. There seems to be an effort to allow these protestors to get away with just about anything. In fact it was reported in the New York Post that CONGRESSMAN JERRY NADLER hassled the owners of Zucotti Park to keep it open rather than close it for cleanup. The cops might be getting their orders from their lefty pols who are in essence condoning and encouraging the mayhem. They are the ones who should be the first ones to be arrested.
Yes, the Lumpen Proletariat speak. “We demand!” as they play with the latest app on their iphone. “We’re POOR!” they scream, as they finish their half-caf half-decaf Mocha Latte with foam. “We can’t find meaningful WORK!” they moan, holding firm to their dream of a six-figure, no-work job with bennies and a corner office. The tattooed illegal Lesbian hugs the 26 year old slacker dude who lives at home. “Oh, God, we’re so CRUSHED by having to compete!”
/mass plaintive whimpering, sobbing sounds
You know, this would be high parody, if it weren’t for the fact that it’s actually happening.
““We can’t find meaningful WORK!” they moan, holding firm to their dream of a six-figure, no-work job with bennies and a corner office.”
Yes. When I was in college, busting my backside to get my Forensic Science degree (and paying my own way to do it), I kept running into this lot. Who insisted that only “socially conscious” studies led to “meaningful work”.
Which meant that while they were getting degrees in Women’s Studies, PoliSci, (Ethnicity Of You Choice) History, etc.,.. they were calling me a “pig” for studying to be a crime lab geek.
Half of them thought criminals were “victims of society”. The other half thought they were crusaders against our “immoral system”.
Exactly none of them wanted any criminals caught.
After a while, I came up with a standard response. “Well, fine. But if you call the police in the middle of the night because somebody has broken into your house, I, or someone like me, will come. Guaranteed. The fact that you don’t like me, or those like me, much, if at all, makes no difference. You’re the public, and our job is to protect you. Even at the cost of our own lives. You see, we take an oath on that.”
A few of them actually “got it”.
Just not too many, is all.
clear ether
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we were all going to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisest authorities insisted on being received, for good or evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
Guillotine, Guillotine!!!
now the real question is: how many of the sots out there in the streets know this passage? the message?
we are failing – we preach to the choir.
The protestors should be in front of the White House where a corrupt president, a corrupt Treasury Secretary, a corrupt Justice Dept (who would not prosecute the Black Panthers in front of a polling place in Philadephia) and gave the banks and Wall St., GE, GM, Solandrya and other captial cronies billions and trillions of dollars for bailouts, but nothing for people who are underwater with homes, college students who cannot get a job and have high college loans, corporations moving overseas to hire cheap labor and not pay US taxes, etc. The protestors should also be in front of Congress, who will not allow taxes to be raised on the wealthy and have been obstructionists, and passed an extremely expensive health care law, and in front of the Supreme Court that allowed Super Pacs so money can be collected for bribes to politicians to pass legislation, without even revealing the names of who are the contributors. The Supreme Court did enough damage when they arbitrarily elected Bush as president and would not allow the whole state of Florida a revote when Gore had received the most popular votes, even in the State of Florida. Corruption reigns supreme in the US within the presidency, legislature and Supreme Court. Many great nations have fallen due to corruption as Rome, Greece. The US is next. So we need the protestors in the face of the president, the Congress and Senate and the members of the Supreme Court. Move out of Wall St. Wall St. benefitted due to the corruption of Timothy Geithner, Paulson, Bush, Obama, Congress. You must hit the core of the corruption that allowed Wall St and the banks to benefit. Move on to Washington now.
For Ilene: I want to address your Dem talking point that the Supreme Court “arbitrarily elected George Bush when Gore” won more popular votes. The truth is that Gore did NOT receive more popular votes and various press organizations have gone down there and counted them repeatedly and got the same result: Bush won the popular vote. The US Supreme Court’s decision kept the Florida Supreme Court from allowing the votes to be counted in a way that VIOLATED FLORIDA STATUTES, such counting designed to ensure that Gore won, because it violated the US Constitution.
Otherwise, I agree with you that Obama, Holder, and Geithner are corrupt, that Congress is useless, that the Dem Party passed Obamacare in the face of overwhelming national disapproval, and that the protesters should be in front of the WH.
Repels without a clue. Mommy and Daddy have been paying for them all their lives, now it’s the governments turn. These cretins wouldn’t know a crisis if it bit them on the nose. They’ve lived in a peaceful, prosperous country, had all their wants taken care of and now that they have to actually do something they don’t know what to do.
We’ve raised generations of children with “Peter Pan Syndrome” and “Disneyitis” . Everything has to be fair, everything has to be their way. Maybe, just maybe if they didn’t sit around in their own swill, keeping people from work, creating chaos and otherwise being pains in the necks of real folks doing real jobs there might not be as much contention. Maybe, just maybe if they looked outside of themselves they might find they are NOT the center of the universe. The citizens of New York city need to recall Bloomberg, what a do nothing, pile of worthlessness. By the by do these people have a permit to occupy that piece of property. If it’s private I would say probably not. If it belongs to the city I’d say they’d better not. Something to think about.
They are what we raised. Congratulations.
They are the product of our public education systems teachers (PEST). Lazy entitled communists.
When one of these gatherings turns into a riot, who will be blamed? I think I already know the answer, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the people who will be actually rioting. There will likely be wailing and gnashing of teeth about how the “system” has failed; see how the leftists covered the rioting in London for a preview. Good luck to you folks who live in large cities.
Great article! There is no comparison between the the Tea Party and the OWS other than they are polar opposites. One correctly demands accountability from government and the other(OWS)are socialists. At least the gloves are off and it’s looking like there can not be much compromise between the two!
“Hey Johnny…what are you rebelling against?”
“What have you got?!”
Rebels without a clue.
There is a moving piece on Brietbart. Someome identified himself as part of the top 1% and showed up to talk with protestors in LA. It displays what I always found when I was teaching. Disillusioned kids are disconnected from a greater reality. These were hungry for information, sort of like that story of the homeless dad who asks a rich man what he does and the makes himself a stockbroker, too. When asked who he supported for President and he replied Herman Kane the kids were delighted and started chanting 999.
Remember the riots/destruction in Seattle and Vancouver after big wins by drunken fans and students? They are the models for what is coming. The organizers of this nationwide occupy movement are waiting for the right situation and will provide beer/booze/dope to the young useful idiots and let them start something. The heavy work will be done by union members and community organizers.
This year’s window is closing; damage has to be done while it is still warm enough to camp out. Next year’s window, the key, pre-election period, will use the disruptive tactics that work best this year.
It is clear to me that Obama will encourage civil unrest so he can declare a national emergency and suspend the Constitution. The fact that Perdue and Jesse Jackson have called for the same thing means that they are already meeting about this and planning.
The lawlessness of the OWS crowd as opposed to the Tea Party and the attempts by the press to hide the real story are stories that must be constantly be told. Obama brought us the OWS crowd with his rhetoric and must be held responsible for the results of their conduct, including their obstructing emergency vehicles and the attack on a Coast Guard member in Boston. Maybe we should, in the future, refer to this mob not as OWS but as the OBAMOB so that we do not forget who brought this upon us. OBAMOB Wall Street, OBAMOB Boston, OBAMOB Atlanta. I have been unable to come up with a suitable name for the bazaar talk/response method of mind control that I have seen videos of during the OBAMOB rallies, OBAMSPEAK doesn’t do it for me, can anyone come up with a suitable name for it?
Mark Steyn calls it “that hopey-changey thing” — but that seems to leave out the ever-mounting violent tone to Obama’s partisan rhetoric. how about: hopey-changey-watch-yer-backy?
MassJim. I don’t know. A catchy name would be nice. What came to mind is the Bolshevik Express. Der revolushun is the foundation.
When the ‘Occupy’ crowd finally grasps that much of Obama’s campaign fund comes from the big boys on Wall Street, will they march on Charlotte next summer? Oh, this brings memories of Chicago, Da Mare, the Pigs, and all the rest. Y’know, all these ‘Occupy’ events remind me of Woodstock and Altamont.. When and where will the fist killing be seen? Seattle and Vancouver? Sure thing.
What I take from this: Democrat mayors & governors beware. Your withholding of basic police security for non-protestors (i.e., local citizens), and your disregard for public property (built and financed by the citizens) will surely cost you.
All these masks do not inspire confidence that these occupiers will remain peaceful.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/10/why-are-people-hiding-with-masks-at-occupywallstreet-lications.html
An anonymous mob could go on a rampage rather easily since the individuals in it are already hiding their identity.
an mob isnt as anonymous as one thinks anymore…
http://www.gigapixel.com/image/gigapan-canucks-g7.html
Give me a bucket of water, a brush, some soap, and a military recruiter, then watch these idiots disperse like cockroaches when confronted with Raid.
Rhetorical question: Could there be a connection between ignorant, pointlessly angry students and socialist/communist professors?
Teachers at all levels of indoctrination in our schools, colleges and universities have dumbed down many, perhaps even most of, our students, who are the useful idiots of the ruling class, especially on the Left.
shortly after the iraq war started, a group of anti-war protesters in seattle blocked the freeway. the ambulance was significantly delayed, and it’s passenger subsequently died. while tptb came out and said the guy would have died anyway, the support for the anti-war movement among many use-ful idoits dried up pretty darn fast.
Obama Incites Arrests Then Golfs
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Wall-Street-…
So we can expect massive riots and violence if the POTUS is not re-elected and a Republican is elected to the position.
If these folks don’t get their way they will have a tantrum like a 5 year old until they do get their way.
solution, spank them.
there are strange times indeed. after all the years of reading about strange times in other societies, i grow up and wind up in the middle of the biggest, strangest, and most predicted “strange time” ever. out of nowhere we get a man from literally nowhere, who doesn’t appear to like our society very much, and unless you are blind, intends to destroy it.
in college i was taught that wars are simply a reaction of societies to limited resources. you have something nice, and somebody else will try to take it. it really is that simple when you think about it. our forefathers fought their oppressors to gain their freedom and a country to go with it. they then set about protecting what they had won with words and actions; and, (imho) they did a dam fine job of it.
today, we have a couple generations that have been handed everything they have. they have, as yet, not really had to defend it. they are letting the entire world in to just take what is ours. they have allowed the evil that our more recent ancestors fought to destroy (communism) to just about take everything good we have, and trample it under foot.
i believe we are standing in the doorway to our future. we can stand aside and let it happen, or get ready for what is to come. they want our stuff, just ask them. i guess it really is that simple.
So, are you a Capitalist or not?
Competition for scarce resource is also a pretty good definition for racism.
After all is said, if you can dehumanize your competition, because they are physically different or because they are culturally different, you can talk yourself into doing just about anything to “them”.
That especially appeals to the weak minded, poorly grounded among us.
War, on the other hand, aggresive war in particular, is a brawl made palatable with uniforms and flags. Think Francis I and Henry VIII; the final argument of kings, brought to you by strutting post adolescent punks.
Americans are great killers when you can force us into a war. We’ve just never been much for starting one.
Indeed, well said, they want our stuff.
Mary Grabar, you have made quite a stir here with your simple observations. May it bear much fruit.
Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
What does this verse tell us. It was not the immorality of Sodom that led to her downfall but idelness of time and fulness of bread. She could afford to indulge, yet did not take care of certain that needed help.
Pr 22:15 ¶ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
What does this verse tell us? First, we cannot reason with foolishness so we have to use sign language. There is a reason to drive this foolishness out of the heart. It makes a better child and a much better adult.
We have bought into the no discipline Politically Correct mindset which is the same as a car going down the highway without a driver. Our great storms are guided by diverse influences far removed from the storm center. It is the same with these political storms.
OWS= Obnoxious Whiners Spamfest
Rebels without a clue…
Good article*** Mary, there is one thing that you may know, unlike NYC we here in Ga. do Go armed to these kind of Communists Rallies….I Don`t bother anyone but don`t tread on old Josie Wales,…He usually has a minimum of 2 pistols, on his person, and Offensive weapons in his auto….
They treat Illegal aliens the same way. They are allowed to kill, practice fraud, sell drugs and steal our tax money without nary a complaint from the “law”. Our politicians want anarchy for Some and not for others.
As I follow the “occupations”, these words come to mind: ignorance, anarchy, immaturity, socialism. I believe that much of the mobs’ behavior is sociopathic.
Wall Street Occupiers Bare Their Fangs
I was roundly chastised on October 8th by an indignant critic who took great umbrage at my early criticism of the self-proclaimed Wall Street Occupiers.
I must admit that my preliminary observations on the WSO were premature and only semi-accurate. I had suggested they were out of touch with reality whereas the truth could be that they are in close touch although their view of reality doesn’t approximate the beliefs of the 99% of Americans they claim to represent.
Kheaven1942 acerbically commented on my article, “Wall Street, the Numbnuts not the Movie” (http://tiny.cc/x2pnt) by saying, “Congratulations, this is the most delicately fabricated story I have ever read. It’s amazing to what lengths you went to make sure you capture only the very, very few in this movement who make it look uneducated and stupid. You, and everyone else following this story know very well how much more organized this is than what you are trying to portray in this sad excuse for journalism.”
In rebuttal, I would like to thank Kheaven for calling my writing “delicately fabricated” since I’m rarely delicate about anything but I have to correct him on his fabricated fabrication.
Kheaven went on to explain, “The movement is only a few weeks old. It is completely normal that it is still growing with no concise and clear direction and motivation–that would be asking too much. Give it a few more weeks, months, maybe even years, and this could be the new face of democracy.”
On that, I would have to agree and disagree. The demonstrations on Wall Street and yesterday in Times Square and across the nation may be growing without clarity of purpose but are “normal” only if normality is now defined by gross abnormality despite efforts by the mainstream media to depict them as a grassroots movement akin to the Tea Party.
For one important thing, Tea Partiers are law abiding people who respect the law, the rights of others, and common decency.
Sorry, Kheaven, but thousands of people exhibiting placards declaring hatred for and supporting the violent overthrow of my country, copulating in a public park, trampling on American flags, disrupting commerce and civil order, defying and intimidating legal authority, endorsing Nazism, Marxism, and anti-Semitism, and defecating on patrol cars among other outrages do not constitute the norm in any normal context.
Did I focus on the ”very, very few in this movement who make it look uneducated and stupid”? Hardly. The vast majority seem relatively educated but educated in public schools . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5729.)
Yesterday afternoon I found myself at Everybody’s Pizza, across from the main gate of Emory University. As I was leaving I caught sight of one poor soul on the other side of the road, marching back and forth with a sign that read “Occupy USA”. Facing him were dozens of Emory types sitting at Starbucks, Steady Hand coffee shop, Bad Dog Taquería, etc., chit-chatting and taking in the glorious day, Definitely not protesting.
The contrast could not have been more stark. No love for OWS at Emory, that’s for sure. Even the kid with a gold hammer and sickle on his red Macbook was just kicking back and watching.
Fantastic piece! The only weakness is the author’s need to anticipate that her perception might sound paranoid. Why undercut what sounds like objective and heart-felt reporting. Thank you for this report and for your wonderful writing. Amidst the many OWS blogs out there these days, I thought this was a stand out!
The MSM may portray the law abiding Tea Partiers as angry extremists, and the lawless leftist anarchist mobs as peaceful law abiding demonstrators, but the local citizens see the difference with their own eyes, and thanks to right wing blogs and Fox, regular citizens know the difference as well.
They could get away with this crap in the 60′s, because the MSM had no competition, but now they do.
Let me relate a parable told by an old friend of mine.
In early 1942, in the weeks after Pearl Harbor, there was a lot of anxiety in the west coast states that the Japanese would invade. Mostly because, except for the two carriers, the Pacific Fleet was at the bottom of the Middle Loch.
But the Japanese did not invade the US west coast. Why not? Because the Japanese knew that the largest armed body in the world lived in the United States. Not the military forces of the US, beause at that time they were paltry and 2 years away from being anywhere close to full strength. That body was the 60 million owners of firearms, ownership guaranteed by the unique US Constitution and it’s 2nd Ammendment. This singular fact was not lost on Japan, and, allegedly afer the war, they admitted as much.
Even if it wasn’t true of the Japanese(and frankly I have never heard that before in this context), it is still something to think about.
We gun owners of the United States are still far and away the largest armed body in the world. Only now there are more like 120 million of us, keeping nearly 400 million firearms. And those are mostly not progressive, left leaning liberal types.
Any enemy, foreign or domestic, should enter that figure into their calculations, should they embark on a program to violently overthrow the Constitution and this Republic.
I caution those of a counter revolutionary bent (for that is what these OWS types are) to refrain from talking too much smack, and I certainly advise them to refrain from anything that even smells like organized violence. That is a fuse you do not want to light.
There endeth the lesson.
Really B Dubya? You are going to start shooting people who “talk too much smack”? Yeah, go to war against your fellow citizens who disagree with you. You have clearly not spent two minutes trying to understand what these protests are about. If you had, you might find you agree with a good part of what they are saying. Sorry sir, you are as anti-American as they come. Big talk, small fry.
I don’t propose to shoot anyone.
Excessive shooting off of the old yapper temnds to ignite feelings of anger and aggression in the yapping person, which tend to dim the individual’s analytical faculties. Maybe to the point where that individual throws an ill advised punch, or throws a stone, or by golly pulls a knife, whithout realizing that there may be consequence.
Recall the dreadful affair at Kent State in 1970. That followed the path of escalation I note above, right up to the point where nearly 50 rounds of rifle fire ended the confrontation. After that, the anti-war movement on campus pretty much disappeared, at least overtly aggresive public displays anyway (why get killed in a demonstration when your real goal is to dodge the draft, for instance).
OWS has the opportunity to not repeat Kent State. But history tends to repeat, mostly because the guys that bad history happens to weren’t paying attention the first time.
The Things Liberals Get Away With!
No political party or philosophy has a monopoly on stupidity but with the stranglehold liberal Democrats have on the mainstream media most of the American public never gets to hear about ignorant, stupid, racist, and otherwise bigoted utterances and actions of Leftists and if and when they do become public knowledge, they are usually soon buried by the MSM and never resurrected again.
We heard fast and furiously when Ronald Reagan said trees caused more pollution than cars, when Dan Quayle misspelled “potatoes,” when George W. Bush committed his countless gaffes, when Sarah Palin swore she could see Russia from her porch, even when Jerry Falwell speculated that Tinky Winky must be gay because he was purple and triangulated.
We rarely if ever heard of Democrat Rep. John Conyers’ admission that he hadn’t a clue what the Obamacare bill contained before he voted for it, of Democrats Joe Biden’s or Nancy Pelosi’s numerous exercises in inserting feet into mouths, of liberal commentator Anderson Cooper slandering the Tea Party with a homosexual reference to “teabagging,” or of Democrat entertainer Sheryl Crow’s environmentalist advocacy of the one sheet of toilet paper rule.
One of President Barack Hussein Obama’s earliest gaffes, his claim to have visited 57 of America’s 58 states during the 2008 campaign, went unreported and unnoticed for almost two years before it was given grudging attention by the MSM after everyone else was aware of it thanks largely to Fox News and the conservative branch of the blogosphere.
Instances of vicious idiocy, the vile things America-hating, “freedom-loving,” diversity-plugging Leftists say, do, and get away with lately could fill volumes.
A select few:
. At Achieve Early College High School in McAllen, Texas, situated 10 miles from the Mexican border, students were required to stand and recite the Mexican national anthem and Mexican pledge of allegiance in a Spanish class.
To her enviably patriotic credit, 15 year old Brenda Brindson refused and said later, “I just thought it was out of hand, I didn’t think it was right. Reciting pledges to Mexico and being loyal to it has nothing to do with learning Spanish.”
Young Ms. Brindson deserves the Medal of Freedom. Repercussions for her Mexican native teacher? None.
. President Barack Hussein Obama, aptly characterized as “The Gaffe Machine” by Michelle Malkin, often ventures beyond mere mental and verbal lapses into the realm of downright venomous–and dumb–attacks.
Our perpetually-campaigning president on the non-campaign road again re-launched an ancient Dem canard when he said that the Republican jobs plan boiled down to “Dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance” as opposed to his plan to put people back to work.
Aside from our scholar-leader’s grammatical faux pas in saying “less” when “fewer” is the correct usage, that tired crowd-pleasing line presupposes Republicans revel in the idea of breathing foul air and drinking fetid water, want their kids and grandkids to do the same, and get off by depriving Americans of proper medical attention and unemployment lines.
Will the media rebuke Obama for his mud-slinging? That’s as likely as the MSM condemning Nancy Pelosi for saying “women can die on the floor” if House Republicans passed the Protect Life Act. (They did; no dead women on any floors, yet.)
. The full story of arch-Leftist actress Susan Sarandon may never be told although she recently displayed her extreme liberalism and bigoted anti-Catholic spleen in Long Island’s elitist Sag Harbor. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5741.)
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