The Organized Left’s Spring Surprise: Revealed on TV and in The Nation magazine
This morning, I made the mistake of watching Up with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, since I usually watch Morning Joe on the channel during the weekdays. I highly recommend it, if a daily reading of The Nation website isn’t enough to keep you up to date on what the organized Left is planning. Indeed, watching the program is like a video version of that publication, since Hayes and most of his guests either work for the magazine or write for it.
Its format is similar to that of Joe Scarborough’s program, with one great exception. Scarborough has balanced panels and is himself an unabashed fiscal conservative, who most identifies with the politics and vision of Paul Ryan. But his regulars include certified liberals, and the discussion is most often civil and intelligent.
Hayes’ program fits MSNBC’s chosen left-wing profile. Today’s guests were Joan Walsh of Salon, Ann Friedman of some publication named GOOD magazine, and Van Jones, the now well-known former Obama team energy czar and once self-proclaimed revolutionary Marxist-Leninist. The sole token conservative was Josh Barro from Forbes.com. Including the host, the lineup was 4-1.
Most instructive, however, was the discussion about what the organized Left has in store for us this coming Spring. Called “the 99 percent go to spring training,” the segment revealed a massive plan led by Van Jones to train over 100,000 young people to engage in acts of massive civil disobedience throughout the country. It was a television version of The Nation’s April 2nd issue, devoted to different scenarios for reviving the OWS movement. The introductory article by Richard Kim, the magazine’s executive editor, outlined the possibilities. Kim writes:
Occupy’s working groups are as busy as they were in the fall. Occupy Our Homes has resisted foreclosures and evictions in dozens of cities across the country. Occupy the SEC filed a public comment on the Volcker Rule urging regulators to strengthen this aspect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. Other groups have been hard at work on issues ranging from student debt to alternative banking to worker-owned cooperatives. Meanwhile, protests—against police brutality; against corporations like Bank of America, Pfizer and Walmart; against budget cuts; and against institutions like the Whitney Museum—have continued at an almost frenetic pace. Organizers have also been using the winter to incubate grander plans, among them a May 1 Day of Action that may turn into a call for a nationwide general strike and proposals to occupy corporate shareholder meetings, the NATO summit in Chicago, and the Democratic and Republican conventions at the end of the summer.
The solitary conservative on the panel, Josh Barro, raised the obvious point. When Martin Luther King, Jr. engaged in mobilization for peaceful civil disobedience, he was doing so against states in our own union that deprived African-Americans of basic civil rights, enforced segregation, and embarrassed the United States throughout the world. By juxtaposing the peaceful protest of non-violent citizens with the police state tactics of Southern police in highly segregated states, he brought pressure on Congress to act on behalf of all the people, not just Southern whites who benefited from segregation. He exposed the hypocrisy which revealed that the principles embedded in the Constitution were not enjoyed by African-Americans a century after the end of the Civil War.
What such principles are being violated by the Whitney Museum, the Pfizer company, Wal-Mart, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the political conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties? Yes, we know the answer: they are all either basic institutions of our democratic system — or corporations, which, by the Left’s definition, are inherently evil and oppressive institutions. As two of The Nation writers candidly explain the real goal: “the heart of the movement desires a different society.” That goal, although they do not name it as they used to in the old days, is revolutionary socialism, or the creation of Communism as the real agenda of the movement.
About this hurting Obama’s chances for re-election, I think you’re absolutely right, so: Shhhhhhhhhh…….keep it quiet, brother…..
I agree with Joe Ynot. We conservatives need to do everything we can to encourage Van Jones and his group.
The silent majority will see the reemergence of the ‘Destroy’ Capitalism’ and ‘Kill the rich’ signs. The silent Majority will see the group’s association with the Nazi, Socialist, and Communist parties. The silent majority will see them waving flags displaying the swastika and hammer-and-sickle. They will also see Barack Obama embrace the group and speak of them in glowing terms.
And the silent majority will recoil in horror. and reach for the Republican lever in the voting booth.
I wonder if POTUS will not run a populist campaign that causes the hard Left, described by Ron Radosh in this article, to end up supporting him on the theory that Obama is not really a centrist, but one of them. I wrote about populism and perceptions of each other by Right and Left here: http://clarespark.com/2009/12/16/perceptions-of-the-enemy-the-left-looks-at-the-right-and-vice-versa/. The hard Left and “right-wing social democrats” as the Left calls them, share a great deal that may lengthen the life of the New Popular Front against “fascist” Republicans.
What makes you think Obama’s not one of the hard left?
At TheRubicon,
There are tactics that are nothing more than scorched earth and I would say that encouraging those Occupy twits in any way for any reason, particularly in the direction of civil disorder, would have to rank #1 on the list of such tactics. Even were your plan to succeed the overall damage to our nation would render any victory gained in such a way a pyrrhic one. Not worth it. Not worth it by half. Better to bury them in the mockery they deserve so that their very name is a byword and a hissing and their closest friends and kin turn away from them in scorn if they persist. Better still would be if they themselves were brought to regard their participation in this movement as something they would rather forget and as a stain upon their karma by showing the ones with good hearts and low perception just where the path they are taking would lead. Obama has disgraced himself enough that we do not need to encourage 2-legged rats of their sort and even if we did I would regard his return to power as the lesser of the 2 evils. We’ve survived worse presidents than him already in the form of Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. >_>
The OWS crowd will get totally out of control this summer and be a major factor in stimulating a huge voter turnout in November to put Republicans in charge of all three branches of Government. Just like in 1968, leftists always go way overboard and accomplish the opposite of what they want to happen.
Generally, I think you are right…however, Romney has said that he has Progressive views. Those views are basically go-slow Communist, so I am not sure anything will be that much better under him. I guess we can hope…
Are you kidding? Romney is a communist? I have heard it all now.
Romney 2002: “…my views are progressive.” http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57342286-503544/romney-in-2002-called-his-views-progressive/ Or if you don’t trust CBS (:-), just search the quote above. Best as I can tell, Romney has never repented his Progressive views.
Here is what Progressivism is: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40386 or just search ‘Progressivism Communism’ and browse a few articles of your own.
This stuff is not difficult to find and, yes, it is easy to dispute. Progressives are very good at disputing facts…they specialize in it. Read Saul Alinsky. http://www.conservapedia.com/Saul_Alinsky
So, if you’ve heard it all, then you already know this stuff.
I would like to be able to respond to RIchard.
Exactly right, the ’68 Democratic Convention in Chicago elected Richard Nixon. I guess Tom Hayden showed us.
If that selfish lunatic, Van Jones, is working for any candidate this summer, it will be Mitt Romney.
He and “Occupy” will do more for Romney than any Republican outfit I can think of.
“He [MLK] exposed the hypocrisy which revealed that the principles embedded in the CONSTITUTION were NOT enjoyed by African-Americans a century after the end of the Civil War.
“What such [Constitutional] principles are being violated by the Whitney Museum, the Pfizer company, Wal-Mart, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the political conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties?
“Yes, we know the answer: they are all either basic institutions of our democratic system
“— or corporations, which, by the Left’s definition, are inherently evil and oppressive institutions.
“As two of The Nation writers candidly explain the real goal: “the heart of the movement desires a different society.”
“That goal, although they do not name it as they used to in the old days, is revolutionary socialism, or the creation of Communism as the real agenda of the movement.”
It’s good that Josh Barro pointed out and said in a very clear way — that to compare these rioters with the Civil Rights movement is a sham and a disgrace.
They don’t desire closer compliance with the Constitution, principles or ideals of this most brilliant, ingenious creation that is our nation. They want to destroy it — and replace it with their obscene, debased, deformed and what would ultimately be rapacious, self-destructive and devastating ideas.
– Morning Joe panelists have become more hypocritical. Switched to CNBC for the business report.
Sadly, it’s nothing that can be laughed off. It is and will be far more than “annoying.”
And it’s no surprise.
It’s been clear that this is the direction the left has been going in for some time now.
And there’s almost nothing that can be done to stop it — especiallly with the executive giving it his blessings and more. This is one part of the … fundamental … transformation.
Rioting in the streets has been what the upper eschelons of the left have been praying for and encouraging.
They’re hoping for bloodshed which will take it to its next level.
It’s violent, hateful, mindless and ugly.
And it’s going to continue to escalate and keep escalating — but where will it end?
It will come to no good — for anyone — and likely will be disasterous in many ways.
The best that can be hoped for is for it to cause a strong enough backlash to bring voters out to defeat this Administration …
… and that the next one will be smart enough to focus on diminishing, disempowering, and defeating the Left, its leaders, and its ideology.
If the polls look bad for Obama come the middle of October, this will be his excuse to suspend elections and institute martial law until things “cool down”.
Sadly, I couldn’t agree with you more, Rick. Van Jones and his sheeple will start trouble all over the country, combined with the passions of an election approaching the wire, will give President Unprecedented the excuse he’ll use; don’t be surprised if a Mideast War is added to a list of reasons for him putting the crown on his head a la Napoleon.
“backlash to bring voters out to defeat this Administration”. Lessee, some of the dead rioters will still cast votes for Obama. I’m sure, but many of them will not. OTOH, I wonder who George Zimmerman will vote for in November?
This must be based on the assumption that Zimmerman will be someplace other than in jail or in hiding somewhere; not a very likely outcome for him.
“an unabashed fiscal conservative, who most identifies with the politics and vision of Paul Ryan.”
If he is a fiscal conservative, why does he support the Ryan Plan which unabashedly institutionalizes deficits and debt credit downgrades for the next 30 to 40 years? Or has “fiscal conservative” been completely morphed into “deficits don’t matter” Bushian Republicanism?
Getting upset with Van Jones is exactly what he wants you to do. He is a con man on the Left. That is, he exists to con liberals and leftists into believing Obama, whomever, is working for them, not the financial interests financing the politicians. He is probably doing this activity here to skim money off gullible old lefties dream of a “popular front” uprising or strike. In fact, that sounds exactly like what he is doing. Believe me, he likely will be a paid adviser. Kaching!
Read the recent New York Times Sunday Magazine interview of Jones. He knows how to manipulate liberals so well, almost as good as the master–Valerie Jarett. Karl Rove is a self-promoting hack compared with Jarett’s skills. From what Jones says, any time Obama’s failures to his own peeps will come up, the mantra will be “Fox News and Tea Partiers! Fox News and Tea Partiers!” That will keep the knee-jerk liberals on the farm.
Van Jones does not do anything without clearing it with Valerie Jarrett. Valerie Jarrett is Barack Obama’s top “advisor”.
Therefore Van Jones is doing the Whitehouse’s bidding.
Radical socialists like Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett and Van Jones are attempting to “fundamentally transform” (socialist revolution) the country by force.
Yep you heard me right. The President of the United States is fomenting a violent overthrow of the country…before he and his co-conspirators are shown the door in November.
Yep! Romney will save us!
Yea; (snort):
I can see Romney shaking his “peace signs” at the people from his pulpit just like Nixon.
An alternative possibility is that insurrection and civil unrest on the left will give Obama an opportunity to squelch it, allowing him to appear to be a pragmatic upholder of the law and winning him votes from independents. Be careful what you wish for.
This thumb sucking, bed wetting “movement”, will need some intensive “special ed.” classes to cause any real tyrannical change.
There’s a lot of us old farts that didn’t get as old as we are by being dumb, gullible, and passive.
So, if the revolution is to be “top down” and “bottom up”, then what should we call the “enemy” in the middle? I know, how about the “Bourgeoisie”?
I used to try to tell people that we were seeing a revival of revolutionary communism. They looked at me like I was crazy, so I started keeping my mouth shut. But it is all there except for the actual vocabulary.
The revolutionaries never went away, they just learned to not use the old terminology, so as to not tip off the public as to who they were. Every single old tenet of Marxism/Leninism is coming back into vogue on the Left. And people are falling for it.
AzA, you are right on. I have been afraid since the 1960′s that commie types would some day be elected and Obama was. The democrat party has been taken over by the hard Left who are indistinguishable from the hard left of Western Europe, call them socialist or communist.
AzA and Richard, I too think that you’re both absolutely right.
AzA, the response you mentioned is familiar to me as well, although lately perhaps not so much. Yet all that’s happening is really nothing new, it’s the same play, except for the actors and minor variations in the scenery.
Thus we have history on our side, but we must know it, show how it parallels with the present, and what the outcomes are likely to be, in clear, concise, digestible bites. And this education must be done at the grass roots level, without the leverage of the entertainment media. A tall order, perhaps, but with God all things are possible.
I see a deep irony in all of this. As one of its tenets, orthodox Marxism denies that human beings have a soul. Yet, everything it does, is ultimately aimed at taking possession of it. The mendacity of it – the desire to possess that which it officially denies exists.
BTW – are you familiar with the academic treatment of this subject by Father Charles J. McFadden, O.S.A., Ph.D?
No, I’m not familiar with it, but I look it up.
I’m a longtime high school teacher, in both public and private schools. Very liberal environments. All the basic doctrines of Marxism are very much in vogue among my colleagues.
It is literally all there: Historicism, the Labor Theory of Value, contempt for middle-class (bourgeois) values, churches and religions as the opiates of the masses, and families as anachronistic obstacles to utopia. I could even throw in that their view of energy production and use sounds a whole lot like Lysenko’s theories of agriculture (in other words, pseudoscientific pipe-dreams and superstitions). And of course, the overarching worldview of class warfare and exploitation being the driving forces of human history.
What is funny to me (and creepy), is that they have no educated knowledge of the root sources of all of their opinions. One thing I’ve learned about liberals is that to them, history started 10 minutes ago. After all, if the thinkers of the past were nothing more than apologists for “the oppressors”, why read anything they wrote?
They literally think these things are new and perceptive insights, when in reality it is all the same old Marxism, stripped of its tradional vocabulary, so as not to give away the game to the suckers…
AzA:
I think you’ll like the book by Father Charles J. McFadden – the title is “The Philosophy of Communism”. Originally published in 1939, updated in 1963.
The first section outlines the Marxist philosophy of nature, mind, history, the state, religion, morality, revolution, and society. This part is not polemical, just a straight, fair, and detailed exposition. So fair, in fact, that a neophyte may be tempted to take the bait.
The fun comes in the second part, where he calmly, scientifically, and rationally, without recourse to religious dogma, takes apart the whole rotten structure. I would make this book required reading in every college and university, starting with the faculty, engineering department included.
If I may, I would also highly recommend the book titled “We”, by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Written in 1920-21, it inspired George Orwell. Here’s one man who knew what Stalinism will be, even when Lenin was still alive.
Meh. Bring it. If Van Jones wants to agitate, he’s going to get a hell of a lot more than he bargained for. These fools are sowing the wind, and they are going to reap the whirlwind.
Ziessen Pesach and G-d Bless America.
Morning Joe is a conservative??? hahahahahhaaahaha!!!
jann: That was my take, too; who cares if he’s a “fiscal conservative,” and what is that anyway, according to Scarborough? “Fiscal” conservatives are moral pygmies. They think all our fiscal troubles will disappear if only we enact market solutions to fix our crumbling financial infrastructure; they fail to connect the dots between moral reprobation and fiscal squalor. If anything, these people are super liberals. More about that later, but this is Easter Saturday, and I have better things to do.
There’s already a sizable amount of pent-up anger at the OWS crowd. If they come out of the woodwork again for Part Two they will indeed alienate a lot of people who would otherwise not be so inclined to connect them to Obama.
The left is so enthralled by its perfervid visions it is ignorant or dismissive of the set of circumstances that got Obama elected. In the same way they are similarly ignorant or dismissive of the reasons why he probably won’t get a second term.
Increasingly, the Democrat Party also activates thugs.
“Mob” is the collective noun for “thug”.
“May 1 Day of Action that may turn into a call for a nationwide general strike”
what a harebrained idea.. these people don’t work anyway.. these people are really kooky…
Great column!
Hopefully your boy Romney finds it in him to understand the gravity of the situation and not only acknowledge it, but be prepared to deal with it should he win in November.
Because it will come down like a ton of bricks.
Joe Scarborough “is himself an unabashed fiscal conservative, who most identifies with the politics and vision of Paul Ryan.”
Really? WTF are you listening to?
Hear! Hear!!
The Occupy movement, the Green NAZIs ,the Deem’o'crat Party and even many RINO’s just show that the Ultra Left Wing Socialism which has been entrenched in Academia for 40 years or so, churning out class after class of politicised brainwashed graduates every year, has been a success. They in turn infect, with their destructive left wing ideals, all the institutions which employ them. Academia needs to be purged, to protect the future, before you start the cleanup of everything else these PC, MC Left Wing moonbats have been ALLOWED to infect.
Just like Muslims, Left Wing moonbats, play the ‘long game’ and Western civilzations very existence needs that to be understood and countered.
Um, we are well into Spring and no sign of these clowns. More reporters than “activists” at OWS 6 mo anniversary. Jones ain’t Trotsky.
These people couldn’t organize a walk around the block.
Pity. Would make great anti Dem visuals.
Maybe they think that by creating disruption – a raging torrent – they will deter voters from “switching horses in mid-stream”. And maybe they would be right – in some countries I’m sure this would work. Not in America, though. For of course they don’t actually understand America, and that’s why they fail.
” What is happening across the country has nothing to do with Wall Street and everything to do with the 2012 Presidential election.
Obama has seeded with Justice Department with bureaucrats committed to selective enforcement of voting rights.
He has appointed as the new head lawyer for the federal Election Commission another Covington and Burling partner
( Eric Holder is also a former C&B partner ) who ran the firms pro-bono committee which undertook legal representation of more Gitmo detainees than any other US law firm.
What is going on today is a practice run. Laying the groundwork, chain of command, communications, etc. for massive voter intimidation in 2012. That is why there are so many ” strange bedfellows ” at the demonstrations. Useful idiots all. ”
Posted on October 18, 2011 on PJM
The problem with Communism is that it requires everyone to put the common good ahead of their own interests. So far no one has been able to achieve this without pointing a rifle barrel at someone. And that isn’t likely to change.
Obama’s programmed race war has already begun.
Soros pays Van Jones to spark off the Bolsheviks too.
Considering all the information I could gather since the OWS began their
act, I believe Obama (or his puppet masters) have a plan for the coming
November election. Either they believe they can win or they will declare a
national emergency, as O has already set it up for immediate initiation. The best way to counter such a move is to counter their billy clubs with guns at
the polls, or resist massive incarcerations with a duet of guns and bibles.
If this sounds a bit militant, perhaps it should. Better than the polite
submmission that’s gone on for far too long.
God Bless the U S A !!!!
Let’s look at a reasonable analysis of what the Obamunists might be planning. Leftist leaders are often self-deceived and rarely adequately prepare to execute their plans but they aren’t stupid. I think the various “Occupy” events have shown them that there are limits even to what Blue city governments will put up with, at least from majority white miscreants. They haven’t even tried misbehaving in Red states, but in my analysis don’t need to and we’d best hope they don’t; somebody will kill some of them and they’ll have had their much desired “Kent State Moment.” I think they’re still experimenting with what they can get away with using black miscreants and the whole Trayvon mess gave them some good practice. With the black crime rate as it is, they’re certain to have other opportunities to experiment with black lawlessness and test the limits of local tolerance. This might be profitable for them even in Red/Purple places because trying to maintain order can be so easily characterized as racist and violence is so easy to astroturf.
They don’t need martial law in any general sense and there are 29 Republican governors who should have some idea what posse comitatus means and who command their own law enforcement and National Guard. Don’t think Comrade Obama is brave enough to declare a state of insurrection beyond local capacity and federalize a state’s guard, but if it were an important enough state electorally he might. In any event, they really don’t need to disrupt the voting in the reliably Red states and for electoral college purposes it doesn’t matter in most of them whether you win in a squeaker or a landslide or what the turnout is. They really don’t need to disrupt the election in any of the reliably Blue states except the ones that have proportional EC distribution, where turnout becomes really important so as to amass as many EC votes as possible. Proportional EC Votes is one of those stupid lefty ideas where they didn’t think it out far enough and typically didn’t think about how it might effect the other guy.
So, where they really need to influence turnout is in the white suburbs of key Purple states, where all they have to do is convince the mushy middle of saftey moms and their castrati husbands to either stay away from the polls out of fear of violence or to vote for Comrade Obama so as not to anger his supporters. All it takes is riots and rumors of riots and some intimidating black and union thug “poll watchers” there to “make sure every vote counts,” and you have the safety moms forgetting about any qualms they may have about Obama and either staying home altogether or voting for him out of fear of violence should he lose. A long hot summer of violence and singing songs and carrying signs may well cause a dramatic uptick in absentee balloting, fertile ground for massive fraud.
There are some deriviatives of this analysis including the one we’re seeing play out here after the Left lost and lost badly in our local election last Tuesday. They’re howling that the election was rigged – almost impossible under our system – and they want a do-over under USDOJ supervision. There was a lot of Gill Foundation money in a gay rights proposition, so if Gill is in the game, it has National implications for how they plan to handle close or disputed elections. One thing was also made certain by this election; the Left ain’t going gently. Their puppy lost the mayor’s race 60-40 and their gay rights initiative lost by an equal margin and they’re still howling for a do-over and complaining that it was rigged. They’re almost universally like the perhaps apocryphal West Side Nooo Yawkah who couldn’t imagine how Nixon won because everyone she knew voted for McGovern.
Last summer was the practice time for race riots, “flash mobs”, “wildings”, whatever you want to call them. The calls to lynch Zimmerman will just give them another excuse this summer.
Not that they needed one — “youths” have been attacking tourists in Minneapolis so often already this year, that the city is considering a curfew.
WHY IS MIT ROMNEY SO STRONG IN THE DEMOCRATIC CONTROLLED STATES….????
Is he?
Romatrast,
Pretty much. He did get elected governor to a state that was about as blue as they come. And he does still have a few supporters both there and in Michigan. He might not have been my first or second choice but his ability to tack to the center is undeniable.
Van Jones may talk about civil disobedience, but he and Comrade Barack are Marxist Leninists to the core. Power is everything. Obama can’t win on his record and a discredited media can’t drag him over the finish line. Among the ridiculous OWSies is a dedicated core of Marxist Leninists, the shot callers in gang slang. Meanwhile, the usual suspects in the race industry are busy inciting racial conflict. The Trayvon case is losing steam but the racial tension is building. By August I expect Van Jones will be coordinating dozens of race riots his apparatchiks will be calling “uprisings.” Dear Leader will very reluciantly have to cancel elections and arrest the “polarizing” opposition. This, however, is the USA. The Glorious Vanguards of the Marxist Revolution may find their best laid plans gone aglee.
Not going to happen! I spent the last two decades of my career dealing with unions that use the same Trotsky/Alinsky playbook that Comrade Obama and his junta use; you cannot provoke them to a pitched battle. The one thing they won’t do is expose their weakness and any kind of pitched battle would do that. The communist SOB doesn’t even have the power to cancel elections except by declaring the whole Country in a state of insurrection and federalizing the Guard or using active duty troops to “suppress the rebellion.” The last time a President used words like that, four very unpleasant years ensued and that President’s opposition only controlled 11 or 13, depending on how you count them, states. Republican governors control 29 states and even if some of them are a little mushy, I think most of them will rise up to protect their states sovereignty. If a governor refuses to relinquish his/her states Guard to federal control, you’ve got yourself on Hell of a confrontation and I don’t believe even Comrade Obama has the balls to tell active military to fire on state police or National Guard. But for those just aching for a civil war, that’s the scenario that gets you one.
Now, like all lefties, Comrade Obama is capable of immense self-deception, so he might think he could pull off essentially demoting a sovereign state to a military district as was the case with the Southern states in 1865. If he does that, we just have to hope that the governor of that state has 28 friends with a pair. There are other scenarios and this is the stuff the SDSers used to get stoned and dream about in the ’60s, but if we’ve come to the place where they really think they can go Helter-Skelter, the streets will run with blood.
You make some good points. What worries me is, that on top of the Comrades being Alinsky con artists, they are so invested in delusions they will take it all the way. All they have left in their bag is race and we know how easy it is to create a flash mob of black youth. A little organization could turn that into burning cities. What would Lenin do?
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one there, does it make any noise? Or, in this case, if an OWS group stages a civil disobedience protest and only The Nation in there to record its acts, does it have any effect on the election?
OWS no doubt has a large contingent of really angry leftists who believe Barack Obama has sold them out and would be willing to stage the same sort of violence this summer that the G-7 protesters did when they gave up on Bill Clinton in 1999. But this isn’t last fall, and if the big media outlets believe these protests are going to hurt Obama’s re-election chances, do you really believe they’re going to cover them?
They might have to if things got out of control, but you’re already seeing in places like New York far less tolerance for OWS v2.0 among liberal city officials than they showed 5-6 months ago. If they try to stage protests and are quickly rounded up, at best it might be a one-day local story, not the harbinger of a major trend in populist social justice, as the media was trying to tell us during OWS v1.0.
(The one exception — which fits with the ‘Spring Training’ analogy — would be Tampa, when the RNC convention goes off this summer. Any OWS action there is likely to receive huge media coverage and will be equated to showing the true ‘will of the people’, as opposed to the greedy businessmen and bigoted Christers inside the building. But if the OWS crowd tries the same thing with the DNC convention, and wants to make Charlotte ’12 look like Chicago ’68? You’re more likely to see a feature on Joe Biden’s Top 10 Carolina Barbeque Joints during the convention than you are to see coverage of anarchy in the streets, if polling shows that’s going to hurt Obama’s chances.)
To understand where we are right now, you have to know that there are at least 70 members of Congress who are also members of The Socialist Party of America. They did not callously throw away their invisibility when obumma stole the 08 election by manipulation of caucuses around the country. You have to know that these people are not going to simply try their little experiment out on America, and then go back to being Americans if they lose the 2012 elections. They are outed now. They are assisting in the construction of a new government by presidential declaration, carried out through the new structures under obumma’s czars. They cannot chance losing the election and face charges of sedition. One of two things will happen. The Constitution has to be suspended, complete with martial law and UN enforcement, or the election is nothing they fear.
This second scenario could only be for one of two reasons. They have rigged the November elections and already know the outcome, obumma again, or there is a Republican Manchurian Candidate, of sorts, being strong-armed on America. Just look for the Republican candidate with the most bucks. Follow the money. Who is the frontrunner that we are constantly told will be the Republican nominee?
This whole mess was not obumma’s idea. He is just a very willing participant playing out his role. The success of the cause itself is of utmost importance. It will succeed. One way or another.
I noted above that the 2012 elections could be rigged, ensuring that obumma wins and the coup d’ etat succeeds. Looks like that was right. The election is already over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dmJtaOO2etc
One thing I would point out – Plans and implementation are 2 different things. ^_^
The OWS crowd are Obama’s “Red Guards”.