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| The original Kent State moment |
Conservatives misunderstand liberals’ oft-repeated wish that the Occupy Wall Street movement “needs a Kent State moment.” Why would these left-leaning pundits and activists hope for fatalities amongst the protesters?
But that’s not what they’re hoping for. When a normal person hears the words “Kent State,” the immediate association is that fateful day in 1970 when four student protesters were killed by National Guardsmen. But when a leftist hears the words “Kent State,” the immediate association is that fateful day when the media published an iconic photograph of an anti-war martyr that was the final tipping point that convinced the majority of Americans to oppose the war.
So when modern liberal pundits wish for an OWS “Kent State moment,” they’re not wishing for fatalities, but rather for the appearance of that one photograph which will reverberate around the world and forever establish the Occupiers as oppressed victims. It is the photograph, not the shootings, that is the “Kent State moment.”
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| The original Dorothea Lange moment |
So far, they haven’t got it — not for want of trying. For the last several days The San Francisco Chronicle has helpfully featured a slide show of nominees on its Web site to hopefully stir up interest in one or another iconic martyr image, but so far, no Occupy photos have quite caught on, Kent State-style.
However, a new photo has emerged which isn’t OWS’ Kent State moment, but rather its Dorothea Lange moment. Dorothea Lange, as you may remember, was the 1930s photographer whose stark portraits of suffering Americans summarized and epitomized the Depression. One of her photos, shown here, became so famous that it’s now the first picture that comes to mind when people think “The Great Depression.”
This new photo of two young Occupiers taken by photojournalist El Marco in New York’s Zuccotti Park shortly before it was dismantled I think could become the iconic image of Occupy Wall Street – not a newsworthy photo of violence and martyrdom, but rather a thoughtful intimate portrait of two prototypical OWS lovebirds. It doesn’t just capture a moment — it captures an era:
[Click on image to see it full-size, suitable for framing.]
I like to call the picture “Zuccotti Love.”
Photo credit: El Marco. It is published here for the first time, but it will also soon appear in a report on his Web site.
I thought all the crusties were on the West coast. Guess I was wrong.
Phish is still (again?) based in Vermont. A significant crunchie population can be found in upstate New York & Vermont extending into parts of Western Mass.. There have also been numerous sightings near college campuses throughout the US, it is suspected that ignorant college students feed the crunchies and the crunchies have begun to associate humans with food.
Sorry to disabuse you of your stereotypes, Max, but the vast majority of Phish fans do not look like this.
So, Rip, you know the vast majority of the phish fans. Says a lot about their populatity
If there is a “Kent State moment” for the OWS thingies, I know the National Guard has much better weapons control today.
“If there is a “Kent State moment” for the OWS thingies, I know the National Guard has much better weapons control today.”
shoot the cameras first you mean
I don’t advocate needless violence, but the bit word there is needless. These OWS idiots are leeches on society, and need to be dealt with one way or another.
Water cannon first, teargas second, anything to get rid of them if neither works (though I think water alone will get rid of at least most of them).
Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.
Etc.
And what are those marks on the boy’s neck?
Upon close inspection — I have a higher-res version of the photo — they are a permanently tattooed five-o’clock shadow.
Seriously.
The dots are henna tattoos in Sanskrit that say “Long Live the Mughal Empire” and “We want more heroin cuz our eyes are still partly open.”
I’m sure that you’re right about those marks, Zombie. The mark on his face, though, and especially those on the woman’s face, look like the results of methamphetamine usage to me.
My thoughts exactly.
Cretins.
He’s high. She’s high and hung-over. Is she even 18? And who let a girl that young get that many facial piercings and tattoos on her face?
There’s a reason they are not getting hired. Honestly, if either one showed up for an interview with me, I’d give them 20 minutes and see them out.
The caps conveniently hide all the brain-piercings.
You cannot pierce what doesn’t exist.
20 minutes, are you kidding?????????
0 minutes, is all they would get
No kidding. It isn’t so much the piercings, but their dirty, untidy, bleary-eyed appearance in general.
Normal people keep themselves looking presentable as a way of showing respect for other people that they meet during the day. It puts other people at ease.
Is it still legal to tell somebody, “I won’t hire you because you did not bother to put on clean clothes, wash your face, and comb your hair for the interview”?
She looks like she’s 18 going on 60. Don’t know what they’re taking, but it’s not treating them well. Highs don’t last forever and they look like they’re desperately in need of another dose.
Twenty minutes!?!? At least nineteen of those would be completely wasted.
– to decamp to Fifth and Mission Streets: “Send it out to the San Francisco Chronicle — they need it.”
Want a Kent State moment? Do what they did in their day… have someone, somewhere fire first. Nothing like getting them to think that they are under fire to get the authorities to “over-react”.
Yes – as in the original, someone in the back of the crowd. No use exposing the actual instigators to any personal damage…
Hey, zombie, what is up with comments? It’s been more than an hour – closing on two – since I left a comment on the post and a reply to Buzz.
What’s up with that?
Furthermore, why did that comment post, but not the earlier ones?
What is going on, here?
Dunno. On this thread? Usually Tatler comments appear immediately. Perhaps you said a boo-boo word and it got caught in the spam filter? I see what I can find.
I don’t usually use “boo-boo words” (and having to use a childish circumlocution is a humiliating thing to have to do!), and I had no links or other red flags.
OK, I rooted around in the spam folder and eventually found them and un-spammed them. I have no idea why they were classified as spam — seem innocuous enough to me.
One of those Mysteries of WordPress, I guess.
They should appear now.
Mine’s gone too which is common enough. With Preston comments almost never appear. It’s hit and miss on the rest of the site, mostly miss. I think you have a javascript issue.
It has been reported to TTGIC (The Tech Guys In Charge).
Thanks, zombie – I’m afraid a reply I gave you may have confused the spam filter. I’m now afraid to use a word it might not recognize!
For me, the Occumom being dragged out by police with her filthy dreadlocks flying like a crazed spider was THE OWS photo.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/runaway_mom_dreadlocked_up_Yo8j4AR7rchEXij04FQ2DO
Excellent photo, PJT – never seen that one.
They certainly look like they were made for each other. On a higher plane, and w/r/t the “Kent State” moment — the leftists and OWSers who want a photo that will electrify the country into realizing the importance and serious nature of their purpose……….this ain’t it. In fact, this photo shows the vapidity and idiocy of the OWSers.
It’s hard to show the importance and serious nature of their purpose – there isn’t one.
Have you noticed too how hard it is to type while holding your nose?
I imagine these two travel “by thumb” and not by air, the metal detector would go wild with all of those piercings.
Do you think they ever get “linked” when “coupling”?
I note the Betty Boop cap on the female… now public domain, unlike any Walt Disney products, which are now retroactively copyright protected despite the original intent of copyright law, superseded by the crony capitalism of the “Sonny Bono Act” to specifically benefit the Disney corporation.
Oh, can it.
Betty Boop is in the public domain because the Fleischer Studios went bankrupt a long time ago. Why you think it is terrible that Disney should be able to retain copyrights in its work for a timespan as long as the European copyright term might be interesting to someone who studies abnormal psychology, but it is pretty frickin’ tiresome to anyone who has a grasp on legal issues.
Isn’t that Madonna and whatever boy-toy of the hour?
A good example of why there’ll never be a ‘Jobs Fair’ held at any OWS encampment.
And these kids who manage to get arrested? That’ll look great on their employment background checks. Why would any ‘evil’ corporation hire anyone arrested for bashing corporations and threatening revolution?
At least the ’60′s dirty hippies had a good reason to march. These ‘occupy’ dirty socialists only want things they haven’t earned and don’t deserve.
“At least the ’60′s dirty hippies had a good reason to march”
Most ’60s hippies were not marching for any good reason other than to score some good drugs and bang a few hippie chicks with no thought for the consequences. This is yet another myth of that era that needs to be shown for the fraud that it is.
I lived through that era, though I sure as heck was NOT one of the hippies who were marching. But I met enough of them to know that you are correct.
They could just Photoshop a fake photo and say the cops did it and hid the body and use an illegal alien’s ID to “prove” it. You can get those IDs in Cal at any YWCA/refugee center.
Mom and dad must be so proud.
Are we really not talking about the pepper spraying incident at UC Davis? Seems like that’s going to be a pretty iconic, lasting image.
Naah.
When I saw that picture, I was disappointed. My only thought was: “Not enough pepper spray.” I was hoping they had emptied out the place with enormous clouds of the stuff.
You must mean this photo, of course…
http://twitpic.com/7gmirt
Talk about the shallow end of the gene pool.
Yeah, of course I’d want these charming specimens to work for my company.
Oh, by the way, if you have them come to your place of business to interview, who pays the absolutely necessary–from the look of them–fumigation bill?
They’re mad at the world because they can’t get hired at IBM.
I disagree with the authors assertion that it was the photograph that made the Kent State ‘moment.’ I never saw the photograph in question, but I do recall hearing of the shooting. True enough, the photograph is iconic of the moment, but without the moment, the photograph would be just another snapshot.
I think that the statement was made with the intent of inviting or inciting an atrocity. you’re giving its author way to much credit for ‘reasonableness.’ Any photo would do as the symbol.
El Marco takes great pictures, and this one is a classic.
My favorite picture of an occupier from my own photos is this:
http://www.ringospictures.com/photos/20111015/062.jpg
Lord, I can smell the pot from here!
That’s Braile on his neck. I see RW but the last letters are unclear.
Not many words begin with “RW.” The only one I can even think of is Rwanda.
Maybe his whole neck is ringed with the phrase “A Phish named Rwanda.”
Heck, I’ve seen worse. My favorite was an American girl with Chinese characters on her back that said “Stupid white devil thinks this means Peace and Love.”
Occupy images usually disgust me, but this one is truly pathetic. I agree, it perfectly encapsulates the Occupy phenomenon. The media and other enablers would like us to believe that Occupy is the product of heightened political consciousness, but it is actually more of an inducement to frenzied delusion, a kind of political meth trip that offers a quick rush of power in exchange for intellectual servitude and the prospect of corruption and hopelessness.
El Marco takes some great pictures, this one is a classic.
From my own pictures, this one is my favorite…
http://www.ringospictures.com/photos/20111015/062.jpg
Hmmm, comments don’t seem to be appearing…Hope I didn’t just post the same one twice.
The issue of mysteriously non-appearing comments has been reported up the chain of command. Sorry ’bout that — we’ll see if it can be fixed.
Yep, that shot just about sums it up.
Boy you nailed it with that photo. The children and grandchildren who are the poop end of the Woodstock generation.
It was a fun party for your parents, but the party is over and now you are the mess.
Sad.
Sorry, NO GO.
There is nothing compelling about that photo of the two kids on drugs, not like the Kent State photo or the Dorothea Lange portrait photo or how about that famous photo of the sailor in blues giving the gigantic kiss to that nurse in whites in Times Square on VJ Day.
The photo you feature is merely disgusting, and those kind of photos are a dime/dozen, like a photo of Jerry Sandusky at the microphones for a press conference.
So, I must veto this photo you nominate, Zombie. Now go and sin no more.
And now the comment about the comment being gone is gone.
You can just sense the heroin and scabies!
Zoo-cootie love.
Her poor father.
I think the MSM are trying to elevate the pepperspray incident in Portland into the requested Kent State moment. The Washington Post – which always presents OWS in a positive light – features this “iconic” image on its homepage:
http://img.wpdigital.net/rf/image_296w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/11/21/National-Economy/Images/APTOPIX%20Occupy%20Portland.JPEG-05f85a.jpg
It accompanies a long article examining the use of pepperspray on the “peaceful” and “passive” OWS protesters.
Here again, all I could think of was “Not enough pepperspray.”
At least they’re heterosexual. A guy hanging on to his girlfriend – what could be more tender? I wonder how they kiss – brings a whole new meaning to the term “lip-lock.” Looks like they fell into a tackle box.
If 99% of America were like this…
Of course, thank God, its not, obviously. What is the true percentage that accounts for these OWS stalwarts? Are they the 1%, or should we move the percentage point to the left? To the Left, of course.
I can’t wait for their “Rachel Corrie Moment”.
she looks like carmen soprano