Most Americans are going about their mundane chores this Friday afternoon, blissfully unaware that it is the last day of The World As We Know It.
At least that’s the claim of the organizers of tomorrow’s “Day of Rage,” a series of protest across the country meant to ignite an anti-capitalist revolution.
You may be laughing, but the the Ragers are deadly serious about this. “Is America Ripe for a Tahrir Moment?” is the event’s slogan, referring to the occupation of Cairo’s Tahrir Square by millions of Egyptians, leading to the overthrow of Mubarak and marking the climactic moment of the “Arab Spring.”
The plan is to protest in state capitals and major cities across the nation, but the focus of the revolution will be in New York, where a hoped-for 20,000 anti-capitalists will “occupy” Wall Street, by which they mean set up a grungy temporary encampment on the sidewalk somewhere near the Stock Exchange in order to garner media attention for their message.
And…what message is that, you may ask? Good question. Very, very good question. The tragicomic truth is that they haven’t really decided yet. The protesters will “refuse” to leave until “their one demand is met,” but they have not yet reached consensus on what that demand will be. They’ve even made a poster to advertise their messagelessness, asking “What Is Our One Demand?” To resolve this puzzler, they’ve set up a Facebook poll in which you can vote on the do-or-die demand; currently, “Revoke Corporate Personhood” is in the lead, beating out “Abolish Capitalism,” “Raise Taxes,” “Legalize Marijuana,” and my favorite, “Four-hour work day.” (For most of the protesters, that’s four hours more than they’re currently working. Why would they want that?) Me, I was hoping for something more dramatic, like “20,000 tofu burgers and a helicopter to Cuba.”
Starting tomorrow evening, I hope to get and then post here at PJM some on-the-scene photos from various Day of Rage protests across the country. If you can’t participate in the Revolution personally, the least I can do is help you experience it vicariously. Otherwise, you’re likely to miss it completely, and go about your mundane life as usual, unaware that anything even happened. Revolutions are like that sometimes.
To hell with the “Days of Rage.”
Bring on the “Days of Anger Management.”
I think tomorrow will be more like “Day of Temper Tantrum.”
The NYPD should spray Ritalin over the crowd; maybe that will calm them down.
Nah. Ritalin is a stimulant. Need something more like Xanex or Zoloft, but unfortunately, I don’t think either would help. They’ve been stroked and placated too long and the time has come to grow up and face harsher measures.
I think Quaaludes will do the trick.
.45 ACP will do the job.
These people want to enslave us. They want to kill most of the world’s population. They’re evil, and I don’t feel the least embarrassment in saying they should be treated just as they would treat me.
So they want to eliminate capitalism and then raise taxes on the capitalists?
The message should be “we don’t know what we want, but we know we want it.”
We should take their poll and vote for “a shrubbery,” currently at 108 votes.
Now at 115 after I put my vote in.
Zombie, you just kill me. Some day I hope to see a collection of your writings, hopefully including some of your postings such as “The NYPD should spray Ritalin over the crowd; maybe that will calm them down.”, all in one volume.
Mark me down as another fan of Zombie’s writing. I’ll be looking forward to the photo essay of this event.
Are these guys planning on a long-term sit-in? ‘Cause I can’t really imagine Mayor Bloomberg tolerating a disruption of business on Wall St.
– Zombie, Buzz, Preston and others have turbocharged PJM (Love the Rogers, but they’re the older generation) just when we needed them most.
So they are going to “occupy” Wall Street on a day when very little business is conducted? Great plan!
Then again, I assume most of those would would be “raging” aren’t really productive members so they probably didn’t realize it was a weekend.
Hey, hey,
Ho, ho,
This tired slogan’s all we know
Hey, hey,
Ho, ho……………repeat ad nauseam
This saying repeated
Will never be defeated
(fill in whatever chant suitable to the mindless mob)
Brilliant!
Tomorrow is also Constitution Day:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/celebrating-constitution-day#node-21279
Not that the “Ragers” would know that or care.
SO, what’s the San Francisco ragefest going to look like? Will they be all nekkid, with saline-inflated scrotums painted green? Will Zombie provide pics of that one? Actually, PLEASE don’t.
four hr work day? That is harsh. In Obamaland, you don’t work, you have free Obamacare, you can draw unemployment benefits for as long as you like; if you were rich and donated substantially to the One, he would take care of you, e.g. a $50,000 donation would return you half a bil of taxpayers’ money to stimulate a bigger donation next time.
Ho hum… More protesting of useless things. You know, there are all sorts of things that are quite worthy of protest these people could be doing: Like sex apartheid in the Middle East or genocide in Africa or, just as a shot in the dark, reckless government spending? All reasonable things to be upset at and to protest. And instead they use their right to protest just because they want more free stuff.
To associate this garbage in any way with the Civil Rights movement as the Left keeps trying to do is beyond insulting-It’s positively vulgar.
I have a good slogan for them: “We’re too lazy to protest anything relevant!” A bit unwieldy, sure, but accurate.
Wall Street on Saturday? That’ll be speaking Truth to Where Power was the Day Before.
When Brit lefties tried this on the London Exchange a couple of years ago — on a busy Exchange workday — the traders beat them up, literally. Some protesters had to leave in ambulances.
Today’s lefties don’t even have the cojones of the 60′s demonstrators, who were already punks. This is pathetic. Even Bill Ayers would have showed up on a Friday.
Man, I’m all fired up about getting out and protesting, but I’m going to my kid’s football game tonight, and I have a dentist appointment on Saturday. But, man, I’m really down with that protesting.
Once we have all the protesters rounded up…..then what?
Introduce them to the inner babysitter?
Oh, wait. That’s Susan Sto Helit.
I’m waiting for the best parts:
1. The day when Obama sends Mamalukes on camels surging through the crowd, and
2. The day when Obama is locked in an iron cage in a courtroom being fed intravenously during his trial for treason…
So, were they not allowed to do this on a weekday because of security issues? I can’t imagine that they chose a Saturday because the people who are showing up actually work during the week. And they’re gonna miss Oklahoma vs. Florida State for this; oh that’s right, they probably don’t watch TV anyway because of the evil corporate media and sponsors. Come to think of it, isn’t it sort of hypocritical to be organizing on a site whose owner is a jillionarie. And I bet they have no qualms about bailing out the auto sector or giving loans to “expanding” (if by expanding you mean contracting-how Orwellian) companies.
Please dig a tad further, from Day of Rage website:
Why?
Wall Street is a huge contributor to the political machine, which in turns enables Wall Street’s corporate plunder of our nation. Both the Democratic and Republican parties set the bankster agenda because of the MONEY. When we at US Day of Rage speak of ‘taking the MONEY out of politics’, we have no choice but to focus on the sources of the MONEY.
Bought by hard and soft dollars, disloyal, incompetent, and wasteful interests have usurped our nation’s civil and military power, spawning a host of threats to liberty and national security.
As Americans we may bang our head on other matters, but on this we surely agree. In a democracy: progressives; unions; conservatives; tea party; and unaffiliated Americans can govern and work things out. In a kleptocracy, controlled by the banksters, we cannot. We must stop their influence, their motives, and their tricks, from continuing to destroy our democratic republic, and together we can do it.
US Day of Rage (usdayofrage.org) demands that money be removed from the buying of politicians who feed the Wall Street beast. We demand that the resources of our nation no longer be used to coddle and benefit banksters and their minions. We demand that the US Government diligently reign in the parasitic destruction wreaked by Wall Street. We demand that our nation no longer be held hostage to ‘too big to fail’ banks. We demand that solutions be found that stop the Federal Reserve from stealing our future.
The American Revolution is alive and well. It’s a group of non-violent citizen nobodies who believe in the radical notion that Americans have a right to freedom of speech and the right to peaceable assembly, in deed the right to engage in politics through free and fair elections unsullied by disloyal, incompetent, and wasteful special interests that are destroying our democratic republic and preying on the resources and spirits of citizens.
It cuts! It pastes!
Can it do it’s own thinking?
Here’s a phrase you may want to learn: Quo Bono? [Who benefits?]
Who has more to gain from closing down Wall Street? We the People? Or some group out to bury the Constitution six feet under, once and for all.
This has nothing to do with the American Revolution, and everything to do with the October Revolution. Which, BTW, didn’t even last one not-so-long lifetime.
The enemy is to be met. I say, place speakers all across Wall Street (high up where they can’t be sabotaged) and blare out patriotic music and religious sermons the entire time. Like garlic to vampires.
Hey President Obama …
“Get ready for our one demand!”
…once we figure out what it is.
http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/hey-president-obama-our-one-demand.html
“On Saturday thousands of us will occupy Wall Street. We will wave our signs, unfurl our banners, beat our drums, chant our slogans … and then we’ll get down to business and hold several people’s assemblies to decide what our “one demand” will be.”
These clowns are beyond parody.
– any day in downtown San Francisco.