The Victim Factory: Occupy Wall Street and The Left’s Culture of Crime
While the big story in conservative circles is the stunning amount of criminality coming out at the Occupy Wall Street protests, I’m shocked there hasn’t been more. The Occupy protesters are — by and large — downwardly mobile, sheltered, white drug users who have joined a variety of fringe movements and refuse to cooperate with police in any criminal matters. In the highly politicized blogosphere where most of these stories are being broken we often call people like these “radicals” or “revolutionaries,” but in the real world they are known by another name.
Victims.
I often describe the mainstream Left in this country as a cult — and it is. But a better description for the Left is a victim factory. We have allowed the Left to indoctrinate generation after generation of our youth into a worldview designed to create a dependent, addicted, rudderless population adrift in a sea of moral relativism. That the Left does this to create lifelong clients of the authoritarian state they dream of is a moot point because the real danger in this country isn’t that leftists can succeed in overthrowing America, but that the byproduct of their plan is the social chaos that comes from the criminality their learned weakness encourages. Leftism extols the supposed virtue of moral, emotional, and physical weakness; it applauds those who remain dependent on the largess of others all the while vilifying the very ideas of self-reliance, honor, and morality. It teaches that crime is caused not by moral failings but by income inequality. At Occupy Wall Street we see the truth about crime.
Crime is driven by the criminals’ belief they can get away with it.
Next: Like lions targeting the weakest, sickest wildebeest in the pack…
Put yourself in the shoes of a criminal for a second. Fifty+ years of Marxism has produced frail, helpless adult children with drug habits and no ability or desire to ensure their own health and safety. Many are rich but take that wealth for granted. All have no sexual or moral boundaries they are willing to publicly share. And now they’re camping out in makeshift tent cities where they won’t allow police.
The Occupy protests are the “utopia” that the Left has always desired, populated by people with so little survival instinct that many of them showed up to a protest in the Fall without cold weather gear – even though they planned on staying indefinitely.
I read about one of the numerous rapes in a Joel Pollak piece at Big Government:
There are many incidents of sexual touching and groping that goes unreported to us, mainly because the alleged victim is either too stoned or high to properly ID them or they “dont want to get the guy in trouble.” One girl, with hickeys all over her neck was brought to us and claimed she was raped….She said she had gotten high and had sex with one guy then sex with the other guy, but when guy #3 tried, she rebuffed him. She later got stoned somewhere else and returned to her place where guy #3 came back and had sex with her (she thinks) but she remembers blacking out and him leaving and her pants off.
Surprise! Predators prey on drug abusers. In the real world this is common knowledge, but among young leftists it’s some sort of shock to find that criminals prey on people who are vulnerable. The worst part of this story is the victim seemingly doesn’t even realize that guy #1 and #2 were probably in on the whole thing. The idea that men who want to get you high simply want to take advantage of you in some way is totally foreign to her, thus she ends up a victim. And she will continue to be victimized.
Next: Occupy Wall Sreet’s sex traffickers and pedophiles…
But is that her fault? She didn’t raise herself. Who taught her that hopping from crotch to crotch at a glorified hippie festival was safe? Who taught her that anonymous sex was empowering? Who taught her drug use was a “victimless crime”? Who taught her living in a makeshift, police-free commune, where professional leftists are busing in homeless people, in one of the most dangerous cities in America was a good idea? This young woman is a product of leftist parenting, leftist education, and leftist culture. Her formative years were spent being molded into the perfect victim for a degenerate in Zuccotti Park.
It is no wonder that criminals flock to these protests, which are little more than chum in the water for the sharks that swim the streets of every major city. We have a huge pool of victims — and worse, collaborators — who allow and even encourage criminality while giving no help to the victims. Video has been circulating for weeks now of rape and sexual assault victims coming forward claiming the organizers either turn a blind eye to abuse or discourage reporting crime to police. Once the word on the street was that these protests were target rich environments, criminals of all stripes flocked there.
Richard Armstrong was caught in the Occupy Dallas camp having molested a 14-year-old girl. The girl told police she led Armstrong to believe she was 19. This dubious story seems unlikely since Armstrong was already a registered sex offender after he forcibly raped a teen in 2009 — who happened to be 14. In true hug-a-thug justice style, Armstrong was sentenced to probation and “treatment” for that crime. He was soon thrown out of treatment when he failed a polygraph test and it was found that he had “contact” with another underage girl while he was being “rehabilitated.”
I guess meeting a 14-year-old runaway at a Marxist-run tent city was just a coincidence.
And I assume it’s a coincidence that a 23-year-old human trafficker named Justina Jensen just happened to meet a 16-year-old runaway at a New Hampshire Occupy protest. Jensen took the girl under her wing — and back to her apartment which was a whorehouse that advertised “adult parties” on the web. The child’s relatives found the girl being advertised as “Jewel” on the site and set up a sting that helped cops nab Jensen. It was found Jensen had pimped out children before in New York City.
Could it be that child molesters and pimps know that these protests will be filled with runaways who are often troubled children with a history of abuse, drug addiction or both? Could it also be that rapists, thieves, child molesters, and drug dealers will flock there because they know that the people surrounding their victims have no desire or ability to stand up against criminality and will actively work to thwart the police?
Finally: Preparing the lambs for slaughter…
It’s obvious to everyone who lives in the real world that the answer is yes. But leftists in this country don’t live in the real world. The protesters live in an imagined world of class warfare, political activism, and solidarity where everyone wants the peace and love except those evil (and of course, Jewish) 1% who are the obstacle to heaven on earth. Now they’re running head first into reality, where drug addicts are dangerous and criminals prey on the people they think are the weakest. And our “precious snowflakes” sitting in these protests are the weakest you can get.
Like many Americans, the violent actions of the Occupy movement and their Marxist aims worry me, but right now they don’t worry me as much as the ongoing victimizations of these poorly trained foot soldiers of the Left. There will be escalating crime at these protests and when they finally fail and the park is cleared, the legacy of Zuccotti Park will be dozens of missing and murdered idealists who went straight from the assembly lines of the victim factory into the waiting jaws of the predators it feeds.
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Of course, in addition to the profound corruption of mind, from these medieval sh*t-infested slums shall blossom a rebirth of diseases long considered out of circulation. Watch for a spike in cases of TB and other nastiness in all of the “occupy” cities…with each passing day the muddy road to a new dark ages full of ignorance and black death gets wider and wider. Who needs bio-warfare when you have “occupy” germ bombs across the entire country?
Maybe that’s their intention. Kind of like a hunger strike. “We’re going to sit here festering in squalor and disease until we get what we want.” It’s possible they’ll re-think their strategy once the dysentery sets in.
Perhaps this is left’s way of bringing into reality their long cherished “small pox blanket” myth. I suppose the only hope for the rest of us is that some one gets the kool-aide going.
I agree with ‘DUH” that gatherings such as these may be ridden with diseases……TB may be one of them but they could include HIV and even childhood illnesses for which they may not be immunized. Taxpayeers already are ffooting bills for clean-up but the bills may later include emergency rooms and expensive courses of meds.
This is EXACTLY what I’ve been worrying about, too! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, these “camps” are a pathogen’s playground. Poor hygiene and filth are bad enough, but add in cold weather, which weakens the immune system, and you have a great recipe for all kinds of outbreaks. I don’t feel much sympathy for these people, though. While some are victims that have been brainwashed, most of them are just rebellious punks who refuse to grow up and take responsibility for their own lives. If they didn’t have leftism, they’d find some other ideology to tell them what they want to hear. Some are defiant adult children trying to thumb their noses and Mom and Dad, some are angst filled bums who are to egotistical to accept that they might actually be at fault for their own circumstances. In short, the intellectually lazy will always reap the rewards of their “efforts” and criminal and pathogens will always be there to take advantage of them when they do.
If a mayor refuses to use police power to clear out a hazardous public nuisance, that mayor needs to be removed from office for dereliction of duty.
If your mayor sympathizes with the Occupy movement and has no problem with allowing Occupiers to deposit, well, their “movements” in public places, it’s your job to get that mayor outta there. This is just crazy. Don’t tolerate it! Go to your town council and complain. If your jurisdiction has recall elections, then try that route too!
Fellow Tea Partiers: The time is now to recruit candidates to run against mayors and city or town council members who aren’t doing their jobs in this regard.
Also TEA Partiers, it’s time demand your money back from any of the “occupy” cities that made YOU pay for a permit or put up the cost of an expensive bond for a rally, march or meeting that last a couple hours…it was unequal treatment under the law. All these cities knew “occupy” was coming & it seems they never even thought about enforcing the “law” on them.
I uh-h-h, . . . “sympathy”? M-m-m-m-m, . . . no, . . . no, not really, . . . caution? M-m-m-m, yes, . . . and I think, rather that, it’s as is sometimes said of such: “It’s your parents fault for leaving you where they left you (“Left” you, get it?) but, it’s YOUR FAULT IF you stay there.”.
The doctrines which here apply are: absolute soul competency (in matters of religion [recognition of sin and evil, salvation and so forth] the soul is competent; predestination (without being fatalistic: “Those whom He foreknew He did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son.”); divine dispensation in mercy (“His tender mercies are over ALL OF His works.); and, the fatherhood of G0D (I will be a father to the fatherless.”).
It’s the old story in the parable of the talents: one man was given one talent, another five, another ten. If you start out your day, and find a dime—for love of country—have sense enough to not curse your thin dime because it’s not a silver dollar.
Remember that poem about the coward who threw away his broken sword “. . . . this worthless thing, and snuk away and left the field; but the king’s son who had none, found the same sword, and with renewed energy fought, and made a victory that day”, something like that?
And I think, rather, as they say, when That day shall dawn and when the books are opened, and the secrets of the heart, made plain, for those of great evil and for those of little evil and small as easily, each minute rejection of the light of true manhood and decency will announce for commendation of the higher characteristic which those in condemnation had denied—and most probably, bunches of Leftist, Occupier, and Collectivist “victims” with no more “Da debil made me do it.” excuses then to be heard, . . .
Suppose, everybody dies (That shouldn’t be too difficult.), and we find that, G0D really was always there in the shadow, keeping watch above His own. Can we in good reason, at this time say that, penultimate goodness gave those of the Occupiers but stinting opportunity for achievement? That, the gods of the market who bring us all these wonderful things (not now to list all of fresh albacore, abundance of books, computers, and keyboards, . . .) were not at fault for one’s twisted personality and ugly character? What if, the responsibility for one’s employment of time, was not a duty, chargeable to some “banker” somewhere?
What if, these now mere Occupiers, these of the great misled, turn into zombies, invading your neighborhood, and demanding a job, . . . and food?
What if, they block the streets, and not just a few restaurants have to close, and the grocery trucks can’t get into the city?
What if The View goes blank, and the economic system has to reboot?
On 11/4: “Watch for a spike in cases of TB and other nastiness in all of the “occupy” cities.”
11/10: http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/tuberculosis-breaks-out-at-occupy-atlantas-base/
That didn’t take long…
“Crime is driven by the criminals’ belief they can get away with it.”
To be fair, Bernie Madoff, many politicians and several bankers were of the same mindset. It’s not just the left that feels privileged in this area.
I’ve never seen anything on his politics, but I bet Bernie was a man of the left.
Yes, during his arrest and prosecution, it was shown he was a major contributor to the Democrat Party.
Madoff’s Democrat political connections are the likely reason why he wasn’t stopped much sooner.
Just sayin’.
I suspect you are right.
I saw a documentary on Bernie’s Big Scam which aired here in Oz last year.
One thread pursued was “Why didn’t anyone query the ‘too-good-to-be-true’ returns”. One of the interviewees, an investment banker, recounted a story about how she was at a society dinner one evening in New York when one of the people at the table asked if her firm dealt in Madoff’s investments.
She politely replied that her firm “did not see the value in Madoff’s business model” and they didn’t carry Bernie’s investment products in her firm’s portfolios.
She then said that the questioner ripped into her quoting Bernie’s generous support of the “arts community and worthy causes” in New York and the Investment firm in question was a disgrace for not supporting Bernie.
I think you can join the dots and assume that ‘worthy causes’ would have included filling the pockets of Democrats.
The moral of the story was that this Investment banker resolved NEVER to mention anything even slightly adverse about Bernie ever again.
Perhaps a few will emerge changed, probably sadder, but possibly wiser, after having been mugged by reality.
Weird. This write-up contains EXACTLY the same information as a documentary I watched recently about the 60s Haight-Ashbury scene. It’s got everything: a bunch of utopians, a bunch of clueless and sometimes troubled young people, and a bunch of thugs, rapists, pimps, and drug dealers to victimize them. The only thing missing seems to be heroin – but I’m sure you could find some at OWS if you looked hard enough. It’s extremely sad.
Bugs, these “occupiers” were trained by those same hippies! Before the hippies, there were Beatniks. Shows how old I am. Their coming out into the open may be a good thing in the long run if enough people see what they are doing.
In fact, a smack dealer was busted at Occupy Boston.
Humorous cartoon on “Occupy Wall Street Explained” at http://drawfortruth.com/2011/11/03/occupy-wall-street-explained/
We all have free will and presumably the women who participate in OWS have enough intelligence to succeed in university studies. Any woman who chooses to stay in a tent in an urban environment that obviously contains predators has to be aware of the dangers. A willing “victim” is not really a victim and I find it hard to feel sorry for such women. In our present-day culture, women cannot be characterized as naive any more. Willful ignorance should be condemned, not condoned.
Hey Glo, the girl the ugly mug had sex with was 14. I would question her ability to make right decisions.
Limbaugh says feminism was created to give ugly women a place at the table. I guess the Occupy movement created an arena for ugly weasels and socially inept wankers a chance to get out of mom’s basement and try to get lucky and score. What a pathetic creep.
“Limbaugh says feminism was created to give ugly women a place at the table”
So there are some things on which he’s clueless. Hm.
Dear Heart, no matter how Dems/Libs/Progs love to characterize us as brainless Limbaugh followers, clinging to his every word, most of us do have a brain cell or two that tells us to ignore when Rush gets on a rant. He thinks he’s funny on that subject and we’re actually smart enough to recognize it for what it is. He isn’t ever going to be PC so just don’t listen to him if it bothers you.
Have Bloomberg and the other mayors set up their police?
As we’ve been focusing on the children of privilege at these protests, we see the criminal element have moved in. But also the homeless by design and simply convenience. Now, the little darlings will soon go home to their daddy’s McMansion. The criminals might fade away as well. Leaving the homeless who will probably need police encouragement to give up what to them, is the good life. Throw in a few leftist rabblerousers.
So do all these encampments end in videos of police action if not aggressive measures? Is that the end game, the oppressive police working for the man going against the peaceful protesters? Only not protesters, just the homeless.
I hope the police have procedures to collar the troublemakers while letting the homeless slip away with new tents and sleeping bags when the time comes to clear the areas.
That would be brilliant! Spread the wealth, right?
But the Tea Party is destroying the American way of life.
Yep.
You’re right, Rose. Last time I waved my Gadsden Flag 2,000 people were made political prisoners and when a preacher spoke at the last Tea Party the rest of the first amendment disappeared from the Bill of Rights. It was amazing and true, true, true, or at least the Lefty bloggers are saying it’s true. Or something like that.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
-Ghandi
That’s cute. However, Ghandi’s situation was a bit different. That was 350 million pissed-off Indians vs. a few thousand colonial officials. OWS is a few thousand pissed-off protesters vs. 300 million Americans who don’t give a crap.
Ghandi’s approach would never have survived contact with any other culture. If, for example, he had tried that on the Japanese, the last we would have seen of Ghandi would have been his headless and bayoneted corpse floating down the Ganges.
Harry Turtledove wrote an excellent alternative-history short story on just this premise. In that tale, the Germans won WW2 and occupied India as part of their victory, and Gandhi found himself organizing against Nazis.
They arrested him and shot him. End of story.
I agree wholeheartedly with your statement. However, our know-everything Left would never believe it because they don’t want to believe it.
Just Remember that the left uses crime as a form of social control.
The occutards should be clubbed like baby seals.
Oh, and a word of advise for ‘corporate America:’ be very careful when hiring anyone under the age of 40.
Good one, a nice reciprocal to the ’60′s nonconformist warning “Never trust anyone over 30″
You need to be careful about characterizing the under-30 crowd. I work with many, many people in that category. Most of them took the smart route – got business and/or IT degrees and make five or six figures. Unfortunately for us, they just sort of go about their business every day, working and having families and moving up the ladder. They don’t look or act like freaks. They’re not spoiled. They don’t expect to be rewarded just for showing up. They were raised right. They are good people. I say “unfortunately” because at the moment they have no visibility in the culture. They ARE the culture, but the freaks and misfits are stealing the spotlight. It’s sad, because the 20-something dickheads at OWS do not represent the vast majority of young people in the economy. But the newsies think they do. I wish all the 20-somethings working in Wall Street and as government contractors in DC would hit the streets en masse so people would know what’s really going on.
It’s the same with the boomer brats. Ayers and co. grabbed all the limelight, yet the vast majority continued to work hard and live by the rules.
The irony of this comment is that the editor responsible for bringing you the article (me) that you’ve just enjoyed is under 30.
You damn kids stay off my lawn!
When I was a kid, I was MOWING lawns, for 25 cents per lawn, with a hand-operated (non-power) reel mower.
Yeah, I’m that old…
I remember the hand mower. Builds character.
Dave, if I want to be swindled I’ll stick with the O.F., Bernie Madoff.
This commenter didn’t say “never hire anyone under 30″ – just to be careful.
I work in retail. With very few exceptions, the older workers get a heck of a lot more work done, and are far better at providing customer service, than the (supposedly more energetic) younger workers in their teens and twenties. The youngsters spend too much time talking to each other and clowning around instead of working. When asked to do something, they all too often move at a glacial pace. Younger workers are also very likely to quit as soon as they get bored, because they are living at home with their parents, or because they are young enough to find work somewhere else without too much difficulty.
Employers these days don’t want to hire older workers, especially workers over 55, because the insurance will cost more. But considering the fact that the employer is likely to get a lot more work, and a lot better work, from the older person, I’d say it’s worth the risk.
So if you’re a hiring manager, consider that person who is over 55.
I’d say consider the person who is between 45-55. They are what I call the “invisible generation”–too young to have been hippies, too old to be gen-Xers or gen-Yers, with little interest in grabbing the culture limelight. At 49, I’m one of them. Most of us identify more with Ronald Reagan than Abbie Hoffman or Kurt Cobain. We’ve kept our noses to the grindstone, we’ve never considered ourselves victims, and we are appalled at the brats on either side of us.
Rob, Welcome to one of my favorite websites that I read for great insight. As an attorney for a state Family and Children Services Agency, I know you are spot on with this “victim factory” theory. Every day I am in Court with mothers who have no idea who the father of the child/children are, who are hooked on either meth or crack and receive a monthly SSI check for an unknown mental disability. These poor children are either profoundly neglected by living in filth, or have severe burns or broken bones and no one knows who caused them, and it can’t be the mother’s boyfriend, cause, despite his felony convictions, he is a great guy. These women cannot take care of themselves, much less their children. And, unfortunately, in this economy, under the direction our President, the ultimate Leader of the Victim Factory, my business is booming.
I also blame the MAYORS for allowing these “Obamavilles” to be constructed in the first place. Sure, people have the right to protest…but if the Tea Party has to pay for parade permits, rental of porta-potties, and so forth, so should the Occubaggers. I blame the mayors for letting the Occubaggers bring camping equipment into the parks, when this is forbidden to everyone else. And since when is depositing urine and fecal matter everywhere considered protected speech under the First Amendment?
Problem is, the mayors all too often SYMPATHIZE with these wastrels. It’s time to vote them out.
Oh, and by the way, it IS possible to camp without living like a pig. It just takes a reasonable amount of effort, as well as respect for other people and for the law. We live in a motorhome and have done so for some years. But we PAY for a lot in an RV park, where the property is kept in good order with sewer and water connections, electricity, and so forth included in the rent. We don’t “squat” or trespass on somebody else’s property without their permission.
Wow, those first few paragraphs to set the table of the dangers of political correctness were stunningly accurate.
The PC Left worships failure and considers success as somehow immoral, unless it is their own success of course. Obama and his myrmidons or Cornell West or Michael Moore can have millions but they have the ‘right’ attitude so it’s okay.
As well as being a victim factory, PC is also a stereotype factory. In favor of a classic or at least traditional education, America for years has substituted Marxist Critical Pedagogy, where the social position trumps facts and reality. If baseball had PC umpires, baseball would be reduced to chaos; surprise – America’s tools for logic and self criticism are so reduced that our leadership at all levels is simply nuts.
Plain common sense now seems like intellectualism and everything has to be spelled out.
Robin of Berkeley wrote a post about the left’s “dirty little secret” a few months ago at American Thinker that addresses some of the issues Mr. Taylor has brought up in his post. I highly recommend that everyone read this post. Robin, as a former leftist, has a great deal of insight into the minds of her former fellow travelers.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/the_lefts_dirty_little_secret.html
Obama’s appointment of Kevin Jennings all by itself is a national disgrace.
Hahaaha– what a bunch of propaganda! Noble lies are false pretense. Reactionary fear mongering and sensationalism is hilarious, like Fox Nation lies and disinformation– keep digging and shoveling the horse crap, fool.
Sadly, you’ll pay through your nose for your self dealing and plantation mentality, that much is certain. It’s just a matter of time.
Stringing a series of words together might have gotten you a pass in the creative writing course you took at community college, but in the real world it just makes you look like you got high before writing.
But that last part sounds like a threat. On the Internet from some drug addled lefty. Can you be any more common. Dare to differ from the rest of your herd and try offering some other reason to your co-squatters getting victimized.
Sheep get eaten by wolves and no amount of bleating stops the predators.
Ooh scare me punk, you lefty losers have nothing, can do nothing but try to tear down things built by your betters.Go back to the dorm room, dirtbag. This is an adult discussion forum.
I didn’t realize that self dealing and a plantation mentality were wrong.
Thanks for clearing that up. You learn something new every day.
Obvious troll is obvious.
-10 internets, now go die in a fire.
That post of yours reads like a cut and paste ransom note. Doubtless a mirror of your thought processes and your grasp of reality. Thanks for the chuckle.
Are you sure that isn’t Faux News? I thought that’s what it was… is…or used to be. I thought all sharp and extremely well-educated Progs called it Faux News. What? Not anymore? Why? I kind of liked it because it was so…. so……….. tepid.
Rob Taylor, excellent analysis. At the end of your piece, your conclusion (murders and missing)at first shocked me, and I got that sinking feeling as the truth sank in.
The depth of the mostly invisible tragedies that will be endured is hard to fathom. Very sad.
According to the cliche, a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, these are breeding grounds for future conservatives. Irony.
And the problem with letting them live in the world of their own making is…., what again?
I say withdraw the police from the OWS camps. They want to handle matters internally, let them. They are the new people, the ones they have been waiting for, free from the stain of Capitalism. Let them share with each other.
It’s win-win. They want to live by their ideals believing social justice will result; I want them to live by their ideals believing social depravity will result. We both want the same thing.
While this article leverages sweeping generalities with no logical underpinnings, making vast statements regarding human nature such as the idea ,that criminality is inherent in people as long as they think they can get away with it, without any justification, I’m not really concerned, given the subject matter of other articles on this webpage. I also know this will be censored despite the fact that many of the comments have not been removed despite their use of ad-hominem attacks which are supposedly prohibited from the comment section. Similarly ,its erie to note how every one of the comments that are allowed are in agreement with the article. This begs the questions, whether no dissenters read this page or whether they have been deleted. I will be posting this comment with the article on my facebook page in case the administrator tries to delete it which will prove censorship by the site in the case it does. Have a nice day.
It is my understanding they don’t censor unless the post is way off topic, full of profanity, or just insults people. Most people who read PJ Media and watch PJTV are conservatives, like myself, so generally we’re in some form of agreement with one another. That’s why you see mostly conservative sentiments on the board. Nothing eerie about it.
There is plenty of justification that criminality is inherent in human nature. We are flawed beings. One doesn’t have to teach a child to lie. They do that all on their own. One teaches a child to tell the truth.
Define criminality then.
crim·i·nal·i·ty
[krim-uh-nal-i-tee]
noun, plural -ties for 2.
1.
the state of being criminal.
2.
a criminal act or practice.
Making a conscious choice to do wrong. Duh.
A wee bit paranoid, aren’t you? PJM is one of the least trigger-happy sites because the vast majority of commenters have basic manners.
BTW, you should really click on the links within the article because therein lies the evidence you seek.
The main reason that it’s rare to see a dissenter comment in here is because most of them quickly realise that the people they’re disagreeing with are being bombarded with articles on a daily basis that routinely broadbrushes their political opposition (and hence the dissenter) as “a dependant, addicted, rudderless population adrift in a sea of moral relativism”.
When that’s your opponent’s starting viewpoint of you, then any attempt at constructive discussion, quite frankly, is doomed.
My biggest fear is that Occupy Wall Street will send you New York City back to the dark days when crime was rampant on the subways and anyone defending themselves or even complaining was labeled a racist. It is very easy to see now that its being done openly how the lower elements in society and the politicians can create a kind of symbiotic relationship at the expense of everyone else. Once again wearing a suit and going to work can make you a target for harassment. Once again, the lowlifes and drug dealers can start laughing at the people they harass while knowing that there is little the political class desires to see done about.
Finally does anyone believe Bloomberg would have allowed this while he was maneuvering for a third term. #OccupyBloomberg.com see how long he allows that to happen.
The idea that the fleabaggers and their shantytowns would be magnets for the dregs of society is news only to the fleabaggers themselves. Here in Boston, our “great communicator” mumbles Menino, has rolled out the red carpet for these whiny, self-absorbed, spoiled brats. I get a good chuckle every morning when I read in the local paper how these “activists” have been robbed, assaulted, or otherwise victimized by the indiginous population of their campsite. These locals, otherwise known as bums, have not wasted an opportunity to take advantage of the situation. Well, it’s getting cold, the fleabaggers won’t last much longer. HA HA!
for the young, blame the parents and a society that gives in to the rebellious and kowtows and cater to them, rather than being the adults and demanding what is right.
For the older ones, blame them for opting out and wishing to blame others for their problems.
So how does a Herman Cain, a black man succeed, and remains unapologetic about this country? Amazing isn’t it.
And then their is a favorit of mine Buck O’Neil of Negro league fame. This is a man that was truly discriminated against, and yet when asked about it he told me that he was too busy doing his best, to succeed to be worried about those that were looking to put road blocks in his way.
Amazing how that man succeeded in far worse times, yet today it is like people have regressed and think that they are just being unloaded from the boats in chains. Sad, truly sad. Pathetic, that we have leaders that promote that, rather than Cain and Cosby, and other sterling examples of what can be done.
If Oprah subscribed to the race mongers, does anyone think she would have had the success she did??? And the list goes on, of people, with more melanin, striving to be successful and being so.
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Good post also good to see your work here. Remember the left is only able to elevate their fake victims by relentlessly denying the existence of the real ones. Campus feminist activists perfected this act with their blanket accusations against all men — pointing fingers toward the frats, then toddling back to the purplewomynspace when real legislation needed to be passed to take real offenders off the streets. I saw that over and over as a lobbyist.
A harder sell here will be convincing the Dr. Helen/Right on Crime types that their own selected set of “victims” are as much a chimera as any leftist deadbeat daddy whose kids pay with their lives or end up in foster care while he fumes about the injustice of child support.
Accounting for the Tea Party, the OWS, and Tim Tebow
In the first part of a series titled, “What Sets the Tea Party Apart,” Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks asks, “What is the difference between OWS and the Tea Party?” a rhetorical question tantamount to asking the reader to distinguish a cesspool from a cathedral.
Kibbe might as well have inquired as to the difference between the Occupy Wall Streeters and Denver Broncos’ much maligned quarterback, Tim Tebow, who hasn’t publicly identified himself as a Tea Party member but who clearly shares their philosophy– and their condemnation.
The chief problem with the Tea Party and Tebow in the eyes of their detractors is that they represent everything their detractors are not. As for the OWS mobs, they should study up on the conservative movement and the conservative quarterback after, as Newt Gingrich suggested, they get a job and take a bath.
Many on the Left like to draw parallels between the anti-taxation Tea Partiers and the anti-everything Occupiers in a futile attempt to give a degree of credibility and civility to the latter. The two groups are as dissimilar as cleanliness and dirt.
Kibbe cites the 18th century English philosopher-economist Adam Smith in presenting his argument that the Tea Party is “set apart,” distinctive from other social movements by virtue of its commitment to what Kibbe describes with a single word, “accountability . . . the moral basis that binds a community, allows for cooperation, and enables human prosperity.”
I would add that the stark absence of a sense of accountability, compounded by an even more gross disinterest in civilized behavior, render the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations irrelevant except, of course, to the lives they have negatively impacted.
Adam Smith expressed that sentiment far more elegantly: “The most sacred laws of justice, therefore, those whose violation seems to call loudest for vengeance and punishment, are the laws which guard the life and person of our neighbour; the next are those which guard his property and possessions.”
Though few are calling for “vengeance and punishment” for OWSers other than the enforcement of existing laws, the accountability factor is key to understanding the phenomenon of relatively small masses of people trampling on the rights of the vast majority.
Matt Kibbe sees the issue as the realization of a concept Tea Partiers genetically inherited from America’s Founders and Occupy Wall Street somehow missed: “Don’t hurt other people and don’t take their stuff.”
The Tea Party respects everyone and hurts no one.
The OWSers respect no one, hurt everyone including themselves and seize whatever “stuff” they can get their socialist, grubby hands on, from public park spaces to the rights of others to property and livelihoods while injuring those parks, those rights, properties, livelihoods, and themselves by their utter contempt for fundamental principles of personal and societal responsibility.
Tim Tebow’s principal responsibility on the football field is to win games for the Denver Broncos and, if he accidentally hurts anyone in the course of executing that duty, he would be contrite and apologetic since, well, that’s Tim Tebow.
He has admitted that he is also accountable to God, religion, and ethical dictates and that antiquated attitude toward morality rankles many in the sports world.
His critics have attacked Tebow’s athletic talents but what evidently bothers them most are other accountabilities. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=6358.)