Day of FAIL: Nationwide anti-capitalist revolution flops
The NYPD protected the Wall Street Bull statue from almost certain vandalism.
The New York event, as you might expect, was populated by more than its fair share of “colorful” characters, like this Bradley Manning flasher…
…and this milquetoast suburbanite faux-jihadist with his feeble “power to the people” fist. Sad, really.
His doppelganger in San Francisco posed nobly for the cameras. Tell me folks, seriously: Is there any authenticity left in American poltics anymore? Or are even the most “radical” activists nothing but a bunch of reality-show poseurs?
The S.F. protesters gathered in front of 555 California Street, a towering Financial District skyscraper formerly known as the Bank of America building (before BoA merged with other corporations and moved its HQ to North Carolina). The structure remains as the icon of West Coast capitalism. A huge American flag flapped in the wind above the protest, as if to mock.
The SF event seemed to be more overtly anti-capitalist than the others. Everybody was already celebrating its demise.
Must go! Now! Do what I say!
At the exact same moment down in LA, the corporate mascots were trouncing the pitiful protesters.
The crowds swarmed the capitalist booths, and utterly ignored the anti-capitalist naysayers.
Well, not everybody ignored them — after a while, the cops came over and basically shooed the protesters out of the fiesta, and made them stand across the street.
Back in New York: “Your Day$ of Plenty are numbered (#ed).” Is that a warning of some kind, or just an informed economic forecast?
“…my friend.” Nice touch.
Are these hippie New Yorkers praying to Mecca? No. They’re just taking a break from smashing capitalism to engage in a bit of public yoga. Although that doesn’t make them devout Hindus, either; just cringe-inducing exhibitionists.
Looks like “End Corporate Personhood” finally did emerge as the “winner” in the contest to determine what would be the “one single demand” of the New York protest. Despite this, perhaps 1% of the protesters at any of the events held up “End Corporate Personhood” signs, this guy being just about the only one. Unified message? Pshaw! That’s for amateurs!
OK, maybe these three events were underwhelming. But what about other cities? Maybe…Seattle, for example! They’re pretty radical there, right? Well, let’s see: Day of (Impotent) Rage Seattle; video of all 25 Seattle protesters.
Oh well. It was worth a try.
At every single Day of Rage protest that I’m aware of, Lyndon LaRouche devotees showed up, trolling for converts. Previously, when a few of them made unwanted appearances at 2009 Tea Party protests, displaying their by-now trademark Obama/Hitler signs, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the left went into conniptions accusing the Tea Party of comparing the President to Hitler. Since then, of course, the LaRoucheites have showed up at plenty of left-wing protests as well, where they’re actually a better fit, anyway — disproving the smear that they were part of the Tea Party.
The LaRoucheites hovered around the periphery of the S.F. protest, and no one complained or stop them.
Down in L.A., there were so few authentic protesters, that the LaRoucheites comprised a significant proportion of the attendees.
When the L.A. cops shooed the lefties away, the LaRoucheites also got the boot.
Once across the street, the L.A. protesters further beclowned themselves by unfurling a huge banner that egregiously misquotes one of the most famous lines in Hollywood history, spoken by Peter Finch in Network: but in this case, the classic “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” becomes the stilted “I’m as mad as hell and will not take this anymore!”
How can so few people make so many errors?
This L.A. protester had my absolute favorite sign of the day: “Democracy Not Plutocracy — you fuckers.”
Great way to win hearts and minds!
You may have noticed in the background of the previous picture someone wearing a V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask. Here he is again (with yet another incomprehensible sign), putting a mask over his mask — in case anyone recognizes that he’s really Guy Fawkes!
The San Francisco protest was practically lousy with Guy Fawkeseses.
The mask’s hipster quotient has received a major boost in recent weeks in San Francisco, as the hacker group Anonymous (who wear the masks to insure anonymity during their rare public appearances) has this month been engaging in weekly anti-police protests against BART (the local commuter rail system), upping their street cred. Now, anybody who wants to self-identify as an Anonymous member can just go into a Halloween costume store and for $3.99 become an anti-hero hacker! (Computer knowledge not required.)
But I’ve always wondered this: How hypocritical is it to wear a plastic toy, designed and licensed by the Warner Brothers corporation, and manufactured in a polluting slave-labor Chinese factory, to advertise a mainstream Hollywood film, starring overpaid actors, the profits from which will go to corporate shareholders, and yet you think that by doing this you’re somehow anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian?
The 90 or so S.F. protesters stood aroud for an hour listening to a litany of boring speakers, most of whom didn’t know how to use the megaphone properly, and didn’t have anything worth hearing anyway.
To spice things up, a group of young anarchists started burning dollar bills, as a way of showing their displeasure with authority.
Take that, you evil piece of paper and everything you represent!
Luckily, there are plenty more of these in the trust fund account daddy set up for me. Now BURN BABY BURN!.
Urban Infidel captured a truly remarkable video of a New Yorker who’s at least 3/4s white (but who identifies as black) ranting about racism:
“Are you a white man? If you’re a white man, then shut the fuck up about race, because you don’t know shit other than how to rape and kill.”
This is actually just Part 3 of a long argument; you can see Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
Quite chilling, actually. If you think you can “win the argument” against protesters like these, then I recommend you watch these videos for a reality check. No one is allowed to win anything against them, because the rules already define you as the loser.
Intense anger + severe mental illness + political indoctrination = a whole heap of trouble for this country.
Other New York protesters were decidedly less abrasive and more amusing — like this noodnik who wore spoons around his neck and announced that “Our economy is modeled on a cancer.”
“Excuse me, anybody seen 1969 around here? I think I took a wrong turn at Woodstock.”
Meanwhile, the two mutually exclusive ideologies did silent battle in the background. Marxists held up signs promoting socialism…
…while anarchists wore shirts decrying socialism and capitalism alike as simply two different forms of extortion.
Did no one at any of these events notice the self-defeating contradiction?
The San Franciscans’ anti-capitalist rants were gaining no traction whatsoever. Holding a protest in the Financial District on a Saturday is like holidng a tailgate party at the Astrodome on Tuesday morning: nobody’s there.
Chic fashionistas just strutted on by and didn’t even turn to look. Harsh!
Frustrated, the organizers announced a change of plan: They would march to a nearby Wells Fargo branch, invade and occupy! So, off we went.
But, you see, they didn’t count on me throwing a monkey wrench in the works. I skittered ahead, and got to the Wells Fargo about two minutes before the protesters did. I stepped inside and told the security guard that a group of political activists were about to take over the bank.
Then I slipped out the other door and came around front. By the time the protesters finally arrived for their “sneak attack” …
…it was already thwarted. No one was allowed inside. Awwwwww!
So the leaders once again made a strategic blunder by announcing that the next target was going to be the Westfield mall, an upscale shopping center a few blocks away on Market street.
Once more I ran ahead, went inside the mall and warned the guards of the upcoming invasion. The guards immediately sprang into action, and started coordinating the defense on their walkie-talkies, and holding the doors closed.
By the time the protesters arrived, it was yet again too late; the guards had used handcuffs to lock the outer doors closed, but had to leave one inner pair of doors open as an emergency fire exit.
The trapped shoppers looked agog at the bewildering political signs pressed against the glass doors.
A couple of protesters managed to slip in through the momentarily unguarded fire exit door, and childishly rode up and down the escalator ranting about the evils of capitalism.
One stood his ground for a full minute and unleashed a blistering tirade at the mystified shoppers, before being unceremoniously escorted back out the door.
After that, the guards sealed the entrance completely, and instructed shoppers to find another exit. (They were lucky that the Fire Marshall didn’t witness this; locking an entire exit of a full shopping mall is a major safety violation.)
Angry shoppers were shunted out a side exit; many were fuming.
Note to protest organizers: Next time, don’t announce out loud where you’re going to go. You never know how many saboteurs like me there are in the crowd!
After that, the protesters were basically out of ideas. With nothing else to do, they crossed the street to the cable car turnaround and started harrassing the tourists. The guy with the megaphone was given the cold shoulder; the folks in line for the cable cars literally turned their backs on him.
“Stop ignoring me! Repeat: Stop ignoring me! I am haranguing you, and you must respond, even if to disapprove. Without your attention, I have no existence!”
Then we walked in circles around Union Square, to get those picture postcard scenes with cable cars in the background.
The Pelosi-votin’ upper-class shoppers in from Pacific Heights were suitably affronted by all the liberal-bashing. Dearie me!
Many of the chants were anti-police; but the S.F. cops just took it in stride, as they are trained to do. In fact, the cops very politely escorted the children on their little temper tantrum around the square.
Of course, behavior like that only further angers the Ragers: Stop contradicting our anti-authoritarian narrative! It makes us looks foolish!
The protesters then passed a trio of breakdancers performing for spare change; in the ultimate humiliation, the breakdancers managed to outdraw the revolution by at least a 2-to-1 margin. Ouch!
Back down in L.A., one of the protesters asked a question I think we’ve all been wondering: “What is really on your agenda?” Quite so. The answer to that would clear up much of the confusion about the “Day of Rage.” Sadly, I get the suspicion that not even the organizers know the answer.
Another guy held up what at first might seem like an utterly indecipherable slogan: “1 person 1 dollar 1 vote.” What could it mean?
But the same (or at least similar) slogan cropped up here in S.F. and in N.Y. as well.
A scan around the Day of Rage web sites sheds only a meager shaft of light on the mystery. It seems to be a popular slogan among lefties this month, but there doesn’t seem to be a consensus on what it even means. Some blogs characterize it as a cry for “voting with your wallet” — to only buy sustainable, “green” or fair trade products from non-corporate producers. But other bloggers cite the phrase as a warning about the push to tie voting power to income. Hmmmm…a head-scratcher. (If you have any clarification about this, please educate us in the comments section!) (Update: Ringo says the slogan is a call to limit campaign contributions to $1 per person, including the candidates themselves. Despite being unconstitutional — good idea!)
Other lefty fads popular this month in San Francisco, for all you trend-watchers: Adolescent middle-class anarchists who have never labored a day in their lives sporting “IWW” badges as if they even qualified as “workers” at all, much less “industrial workers.”
What would a real Wobbly from the early 20th century think of these softies?
In case you think these protesters are totally out of the mainstream: President Obama himself just announced a new plan exactly in line with this S.F. protester’s demand. Nice having friends in high places!
Truthers? Yeah, we had Truthers, sorry to say. They never really go away; like herpes, they return periodically even after you think they’ve cleared up. Always remember: There is no cure for Truth.
This is what is known as an “alternate fact-space.”
Ah, the ever-sinister “they.” What have “they” been up to? “They take our money. They take our homes. They take our rights.” All kidding aside for a moment, which amorphous “they” has acheived all this? The Federal government? The banks? The court system? The boogeyman?
To add insult to injury: “They” also don’t give a fuck about you! Just when I thought I had “they” all figured out, now I’m back at square one.
And then suddenly — the answer! “They”‘s true identity revealed at last!
Back in New York, satirical “preacher” Reverend Billy addressed the crowd though an old-fashioned white bullhorn. Urban Infidel captured this classic image of him about to speak to the crowd at its maximum extent.
Others were a little less subtle in their Christian-bashing.
And our final word goes to Los Angeles, where this delightful couple, who in another era would have been the perfect picture of innocent young love, cavalierly spews profanity, not because they’re trying to be outrageous, but simply because it’s the only vocabulary they know.
The revolution continues:
Some die-hard revolutionaries camped out overnight in Lower Manhattan, keeping good on their promise to not leave until “Corporate Personhood” has been abolished.
And here’s an update from “Brian” in the comments section:
A follow-up report from NYC’s financial district: While they claim to be settling in for a long “occupation,” the biggest effect they’re having here is helping out some of the local pizza parlors and forcing chessplayers to move up to Washington Square Park. They’ve taken over most of Zucotti Park, a small square at Liberty and Broadway, and that’s about it. They haven’t even inconvenienced anyone who works here, and people who actually work on Wall Street won’t even notice them. It’s possible that the LA protest was even lamer, but probably not by much.
Links and info
• Urban Infidel’s full report about the New York event, with plenty of additional photos.
• Ringo’s Pictures, which will soon feature a standalone report about the Los Angeles protest, including all the L.A. pictures you see here plus more.
• More photos of the N.Y. Day of Rage from Ironic Surrealism.
• The Blaze also has a photo essay about the N.Y. Occupy Wall Street event.
• Leftist blogs are claiming there is a news blackout of the Day of Rage events; if so, I presume they’ll be grateful for all the coverage I gave them!
• The New York Times finally covered the Manhattan protest, but was not particularly impressed: “Throughout the afternoon hundreds of demonstrators gathered in parks and plazas in Lower Manhattan. They held teach-ins, engaged in discussion and debate and waved signs with messages like ‘Democracy Not Corporatization’ or ‘Revoke Corporate Personhood.’”
And for the record:
US Day of Rage official Web site.
Occupy Wall Street official Web site.
AdBusters’ Occupy Wall Street page.
Explanation of where the phrase “Day of Rage” came from — Bill Ayers’ 1969 riots.
The Blaze investigates who’s behind this new Day of Rage.
The organizers’ original post about trying to figure out what their “one demand” is.
Dude, I just came here to meet girls.
Get that sign out of my face.
“Fuk Da Gov” guy looks a lot like the “Decentralize Everything” guy just with straightened hair (or possibly a wig). Coincidence? Nice ‘reporting’.
That conceivably could be true…except for the fact that “Fuk Da Gov” was in New York and “Decentralize Everything” was 3,000 miles away in San Francisco.
Nice try, though.
More likely explanation: 19-year-old shiftless ungrateful trustafarian losers look pretty much the same wherever you go.
Basement Cat made me think that the person holding the sign was requesting sexual contact with Governor Cuomo.
ur crazy. did he straighten his hair between shots?
d-bag
Yes, to meet girls; everyone knows that lefty and anarchist chicks are easy!
Do you mean like the Piece Corps chicks on board for sexual integration in the 60s? But, but, but their sole intention was to experience different species of hallucinogenic smoke??
The kid with the “Fuk Da Gov” poster is obviously a product of public education and rightfully resentful of same. However, the woman with the “Dump Obama” poster appears to have real talent.
Most radical protest events are conceived and organized by law enforcement to keep tabs on who shows and how loudly they “protest”. It helps prevent violence in the long run.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what this was.
That implies a level of competence on the part of law enforcement of which I have seen very little evidence.
…as if they gave a damn
Diana, law enforcement, generally, is more competent on this topic than you are giving them credit for. In other areas, not so much. But anarchists and communists threaten the status quo. So, most metropolitan law enforcement (especially since the Seattle WTO riots) have units who monitor and infiltrate anarchist organizations. Especially the ones with a possibility of being violent.
And I am aware (because I happen to work in the security industry) that one metro police force deliberately chose to not make a big deal of this in the hopes that they could lure the really violent anarchist types out on the street.
Generally the metro police forces are fairly competent at developing the intel to identify, track and arrest violent criminals. Whether society deals with those criminals after that is a different matter.
Eric. Holding a door open at Walgreens whilst wearing s security shirt, doesn’t necessarily place you in the upper-tier of the security industry. As a law enforcement officer of 28 years I can truly tell all of you that we couldn’t give a rats ass what you protest ad long as it’s civil. Are there investigations for possible uncivil participants? Yes. Why? To protect the innocent who just want to go with their lives. As long as your first amendment is up held and civility reigns over anarchy peaceful assembly is legal. I’ll show up as told, and leave when its over returning to my wife and son. Stop quaking in your boots with a conspiracy mind and register at your local college for community and human services classes. You may just learn something legitimate outside your conspiracy concerns.
I apologize for not being a L337 hardcore 30 year police operative like some here (I only spent ten years of my Naval career in the military police). But I have received some training in civil disturbance, mob and riot psychology with some practical experience with San Francisco antinuclear protestors.
After watching Europe, Seattle, London and France burn at the hands of violent hooligans and anarchist thugs, I think that any metro police department without a strong intelligence operation re young, unwashed and potentially violent agitators is derelict in their duties.
But hey, that’s just me.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if you were a complete idiot. What kind of fool believes that US law enforcement has the time or interest to gather together idiots and malcontents to sing songs and carry signs? At least we can be grateful that you represent a lot of the opposition to sanity in our Country.
Why would they invent a protest out of thin air?
There obviously was no interest in raging at capitalism. Most people in this country have a bit of nostalgia for capitalism.
Don’t you get it, man?! They want anarchy AND bureaucracy!
It’s so simple!
If they want anarchy and bureaucracy, why protest? Obamacare is still on the books.
Well, then, they must be racists – straight up!
Who here is for ANARCHRACY?! Speak up silently now! The days of organized disorganization are upon us! Together we must divide! And Conquer! Alone we are together! So come with me and be separate! Do it NOW, tomorrow!
That reminds me of John Kerry’s presidential election.
Thank you Dennis Hopper.
Of course, they want bureaucracy…how else would they get their Social Security Disability checks?
Yawn! I guess loading the shotgun was a wasted effort. LA, Chicago, NY and DC. not so much Atlanta, Dallas or Tampa, wonder why?
Nice job, zombie, urban infidel (keep taking your street pics, they’re fantastic) and Ringo!
Honestly, do these folks even believe in their causes themselves? I stopped thinking so a long time ago.
They stopped thinking a long time ago.
Noted.
BTW, if you’re the writer of Rogue, I’ve been enjoying it.
Dianna, they don’t have the foggiest (well, maybe just the foggiest) idea what their causes even are…
Free Bradley Manning, with each purchase of a Bradley Manning of equal or greater value.
Winner.
“Free Bradley Manning”? But who else can the Colts get??!!
Best. Comment. Ever.
Pitiful (but thankfully so).
Your question sums it up: “… are even the most ‘radical’ activists nothing but a bunch of reality-show poseurs?”
Bradley Manning must feel a bit…deflated, I would think. Just sayin’.
And a communist protest without the workers party unions is a bit like a Rosie O’Donnell strip club. The brass pole and all the twirls can be exactly the same but nobody is going to show up to watch.
Bradley who?
Seriously.
cheers
eon
I have wondered if “Manning” is a nom de amour.
Otherwise, it’s a collosal oxymoron.
She’s put a thought in my head: a public hanging for Bradley Manning.
Yeah, let’s blame Bradley. It’s all his fault.
You’re a dipshit.
Surely after this pitiful demonstration, his hopes are sagging…
“Surely after this pitiful demonstration, his hopes are sagging…”
You forgot the rimshot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI
Long stretchy exposed breasts…what kind of a left-wing rally would it be without them?
Well, these were only half-exposed.
I looked long enough to note that she’s got a Rose Cross (http://watch.pair.com/rose-cross.gif) tattooed over her heart. That particular tat in that location signifies a “Fifth Degree” member in Aleister Crowley’s *Ordo Templi Orientis* — their equivalent of a “made man.” From my limited experience with that crew, it’s rife with both political bizarros and sexual exhibitionists, so I’m not exactly surprised to see it on display here.
I recall that Crowley was into satanism.
The tattoo in question was rather blurred and not expertly done, and the “protester” compounded the failage by writing all over herself with a Sharpie.
All I can think about is: one of my children once stripped naked and wrote all over himself with a Sharpie. He was three.
If you’re three years old, that’s funny and kind of cute in a way.
If you’re older than that, not so much!
LOL!
Wasn’t that Rosie raising a flap with the “free Bradley Manning” message? If not I betcha she was a teacher’s union member.
Seattle’s protest was about a dozen who who window shopped and stopped for cross walk lights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOwg3jAOH9g
Zombie is the most dangerous political analyst in the country. She confronts the political left head-on at its cutting edge, and then proceeds to disembowel them, effortlessly.
One person negates the power of millions. Amazing.
…Or in this case…Dozens.
;^)
No way Zombie is a she. If Zombie is a she, then she is the next step in human evolution. Perhaps too much evo psych for me lately?
The only thing they both agree on is smoking weed. So they should probably just go back to mommy’s basement, get stoned and let grownups build a civilization.
I guess they were using “Million Man Math” when they estimated the potential crowd sizes.
I remember when the anarchists tried to start a crowd chant at the 23008 Democrat convention.
Only, being anarchists, they couldn’t agree on what to hant.
>>>>14. Charlie Martin
I remember when the anarchists tried to start a crowd chant at the 23008 Democrat convention.
Only, being anarchists, they couldn’t agree on what to hant.<<<<
The 23008 Democratic convention? You just step out of a time machine?
Are those Demon rats still insane?
In fairness I can never decide what to "hant," either sometimes…
(to the Bradley Manning fan)
G*dd**n, woman, there was a reason that bras were invented!
If they wobble too and fro, tie them in a bow, throw them o’er your shoulder, like a Continental soldier … then you should be wearing one, and not showing them off to innocent passers-by – not for any cause at all, save that of the need for breast-reduction surgery among chronic political protest groupies!
*shudder*
Some old ladies shouldn’t have burned their bras.
Actually she was 18,thats what smoking dope and lack of personal hygiene will do for you.
Definitely a bit of a deflated proteats for Bradley Who.
Usually when you go to a large event, somebody shouts “Down in front”, so they can get a better view of the proceedings.
I just never realized that would turn into the fashion statement look for communist protest marches.
Of course, nobody had to shout that in this sparse crowd…and from the looks of things, people were able to see much more than was necessary or even desired.
The Niners suck — just like San Francisco!
I’m willing to bet that the anarchist would be swallowed up in the big-government movement (if they ever unified), as long as the gov didn’t harsh their gig. Oh, well.
BTW, zombie – in your photo credits, you wrote “Nw York.” You might want to fix that.
Long ago fixed — refresh the window!
Well of course the Day of Rage failed. If they weren’t all such pathetic failures in life the “radicals” wouldn’t be so angry at the world. Notice how they’re never willing to move to that socialist paradise that they dream about. Instead they continue to live in this country that they hate so much. Pitiful. Strip away the fake radical chic and you’re left with a bunch of emo losers.
“Notice how they’re never willing to move to that socialist paradise that they dream about.”
That’s because all of the socialist paradises (of the Marxist kind) have dumped socialism and embraced capitalism, except for North Korea and Cuba and everyone knows that those are places where only an imbecile would try to live.
But the morons that participate in these rallies continue to think that if they try Marxism just one more time, they’ll finally get it right. Of course this ignores the fact that people who’d spent their LIVES trying to decipher Marx weren’t able to establish a state that accomplished the paradise he predicted in any of the many, many times it was tried. All they accomplished was mass murder.
Zombie? Someone forgot to close a tag – all the comments are in italics; the picture of the kid with the “Democracy is not plutocracy, you fuckers” got double-posted, and you have two typos – “prviously” when discussing the Guy Fawkes masks, and “slave-lobor” rather than “labor” in what is currently the last paragraph.
I know you like your posts to be pretty clean, so I’m letting you know.
Also fixed. Clear cache?
Refreshed – photo credit fixed, double-post fixed, “previous” now has its designated “e”, and we’re not longer commenting in italics.
However, it’s still “slave-lobor”, which sounds dreadful, but lacks a definition.
Sorry to bug you – you know me, I proofread involuntarily.
My guess is that slave lobor would be doing something dirty with the Bradley Manning gal.
The typo-catches are appreciated, nonetheless — expect more of them, as in this report I’m basically just typing live into the post in continuous updates, and only proofreading after the fact.
I’ll keep up as long as I can, then, but I’m crashing early.
As always, I love your work.
Oops! “Self-identoify” escaped my eye until the most recent refresh. It’s in the section about Anonymous.
Do these stupid punks even know who Guy Fawkes was or what he stood for?
I’m also astounded (and yet not astounded) by the way the left simply CANNOT make a point without profanity.
No. They had no idea the mask existed until that stupid movie came out. Or that the mask comes from a British custom celebrating Fawkes’ failure to ignite a revolution. It’s just, like, cool.
Then again, as Code Geass points out, villains and failed revolutionaries of one generation can be made into heroes in subsequent generations. V illustrates this, too. The entire premise is that V sets himself up as the new Guy Fawks and actually does spark a revolution.
Posers is correct.
I have been in a few real protests, where you could get beat up by big fat cops, and over in Iran it is even worse — they don’t just get beat up, they get raped and killed.
Burning dollar bills, indeed.
But the part I really liked was the L.A. part of the report, Zombie. Only 20 show up. Hilarious. If those 20 had any heart, they would’ve adjourned to the nearest McD’s, gotten out of their protest costumes, then head back to the fiesta to snag a few free burritos or a plate of shrimp maybe.
They would have had more credibility if they had been burning stacks of hundreds that daddy gave them.
It is an absolute crime that Zombie doesn’t get a Pulitzer for her work. Every time they announce a new batch, it only takes seconds before I turn away in disgust at what passes for prizeworthy — when Zombie’s work is infinitely superior.
Agreed!
But then, a Pulitzer Prize would mean giving up the vital undercover anonymity.
Catholic bureaucratic anarchy, it seems.
Gee, that crowd looks awfully white…
Um. Typo introduced while correcting “self-identify”: now you have “an as”. It was “as an” before the other typo got fixed.
You are a cruel taskmaster! Every time I try to take a step forward (writing and posting more pictures and videos), you drag me two steps back!
Needless to say, you are right as always. The caravan has stopped to fix the typo!
It’s out of love, zombie! But I’ll stop, if you like, or just make a list and send it to you tomorrow morning via email, it that’s easier on you.
No, it’s fine. The only thing worth pouting over is that evidence of the typos, though fixed in the text, are preserved forever here in the comments!
Most writers would be ecstatic to have an eagle eye like yours looking after them.
You don’t have to save my typo catching comments, zombie; I’m flattered that you take my suggestions, and I’m always happy to help, since I cannot take a picture to save my life.
i’m probably not telling anyone including the blog operator the latest news, but Communists and Anarchists have taken up arms together, most notably in the Spanish Civil War. of course, it didn’t turn out well for them, with the two factions battling each other in the streets WHILE UNDER SIEGE FROM FRANCO’S TROOPS, but they did ally militarily as well as politically as part of the Popular Front.
Yes, I know that — I was referring to the late 1800s and early 1900s, when anarchists and socialists really really hated each other. The Spanish Civil War was kind of an aberration; never since then have they even come close to cooperating so well.
Recall that by the end of the Spanish Civil War, the Communists arrested and executed the Anarchists.
A happy ending, as it were.
That was a Caucasian complaining about racist whites, no?
Actually,I think it was a high yella,or for you sophisticated folks,a mulatto.
Octaroon, actually. Or, more possibly, just southern european recent immigrant stock – like society economist Paul Krugman. BTW, where WAS he here?
I have several Sicilian- and Greek-American friends who are at least two shades darker (and more “African-looking”) than this foul-mouthed clown, and who’d be happy to beat his skinny college-boy ass bloody on general anti-idiot principles.
I loved the people burning dollar bills, but I wished that they had been burning twenties instead of ones. I bet that they too stupid to realize that burning dollar bills is essentially the same as giving them to the government–both are ways of reducing government debt.
Did anyone else notice the anarchist guy in SF (Hey Libs can we Riot now sign) has a Mt Dew in his backpack? Am I the only one who finds that kind of ironic?
These people are just pathetic.
The “anybody seen 1969″ guy with the purple peace sign is none other than Aron Kay.
“The Pieman”! Way back in my left-anarchist college daze, I spoke to him on the phone one evening when he was visiting L.A. He told me that he was planning to pie (then- and current-) Governor Jerry Brown over some now long-forgotten grievance. Sure enough, the next day the papers were carrying pics of the Governor with a cream pie splattered on his face, and Kay being led away in handcuffs.
Kay was an obnoxious jerk thirty years ago. Today he’s all that, and a pathetic, fat old clown to boot. (And talk about conflicting ideologies — he’s a left-anarchist and a ZIONIST. In his mind, I guess you can somehow resolve John Lennon’s “Imagine” fantasy-world, with a form of ethno-religious nationalism that’s almost universally hated on the hard-Left.)
Whoo-hoo! Good for you! The Black Blok inside Nordstrom’s just doesn’t bear thinking about.
BTW, what’s a “bunder”?
*blush*
The funniest part was the video of the black dude screaming about race while the man/girl/hoop-eared thing babbled on and Joey Ramone stood there totally confused.
@megscole64 – I saw that too.
I also noticed that a lot of these folks were wearing a number of things I’m surprised good little revolutionaries wear:
1: US Army surplus gear
2: LOTS and LOTS of stuff made from evil petro-chemical bases like plastics, vibram, etc.
3: Pretty much EVERYTHING was a product of an EVIL corporation – I didn’t see ONE thing in ANY of those photos that those folks made from their own, self-harvested/collected resources and manufactured by the decent labor of their own hands.
Not one.
If we had real anarchy, those folks would be among the first killed and their stuff taken from them to be put to actual use.
Reminds me of a group my brother ran into in Michigan: The Ann Arbor Anarchy Association. None of them saw the irony…
Orion
@Orion, probably not a single one of these ‘anarchists’ [I am a philosophical anarchist, practical strong libertarian, or as a professor/friend once said, "you appear to be a heavily armed and quite dangerous Amishman"] would survive a couple of weeks in the wilderness. They’d die way before necessary due to a lack of stuff made and sold by other people at easy reach. Stone losers.
There are only 200 of these freaks on the planet. How do they know when to show up for the pictures? I realize it’s a full time gig, but there are so many pictures and so few freaks.
Have you no sympathy? This is hard, people. It’s like the little Dutch boy having to deal with the 23rd leak.
Zombie, I take issue with the description of anarchists and communists as natural enemies in an uneasy alliance. Obviously, they logically are just that, but so far as I can tell the real reason they consider themselves on the same side is that frankly most of them lack the insight or intelligence to understand their relative positions.
Remember, we’re talking about two groups of people who think you can have prosperity with minimal enforcement of property rights. These were never wells of deep thought even when the Soviets were a going concern; now, it’s almost entirely populated by ever-aging adolescents and die-hard idiots. Anarchists – that is, marching, rallying, anarchists – consider themselves to be liberals, but more so:
http://www.lyricstime.com/against-me-baby-i-m-an-anarchist-lyrics.html
There are, of course, a few accomplished liberals – here and there – with the mental capacity to see the contradictions, but I believe they give anarchists a pass for the same reason they give Islamic terrorists a pass: they love their ideas less than they hate capitalism, unequal success, societal tradition, and Christianity.
Stop being so insightful!
Choose a side and start hatin’!
You know what, you’re right. I’ve been scarred by my occasional attendance at parties with self-taught guitarists. I need to keep these issues to myself and stop taking them out on people.
The reason the nationwide protests are slow to get off the ground is the huge cushion of unemployment insurance, social security, food stamps, special low income medical programs–when they all run out, WATCH OUT!
Could you please write an insightful article about the curious combination of capitalists and Chinese communists? What ever happened to conservative/Republican moral outrage about Godless communism when the Soviet Unions was its leading example?
Is it because (1) China wouldn’t be Christian anyway, and so, (2) their slave labor is not quite as bad as the Gulags and such? Capitalism counts Chinese as nothing but an “economic” factor–not really human anyway?
Most conservatives, libertarians, and traditionalists don’t like China. China envy is more seen with the technocratic center-left types who want experts like themselves to control the world. People opposed to the Chinese dictatorship (the communism has been replaced with capitalism) generally want to make us less dependent on their regime by reducing the money we owe them, developing our own heavy industries, and generally making our economy more competitive.
If you are a taxpayer expecting your tax dollars to be wisely spent, with good value received, then EVERY DAY is a “Day of Rage.” The purpose of our Constitution is (supposed to be) a MODICUM of government. The majority of the American people have little if any use for the extremities espoused yesterday. And yet, such widespread rejection of their “values” somehow encourages them to try again. isn’t that the definition of insanity?
Zombie, I have been HUGE admirer of yours since we were co-reptilians at THE PLACE THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED.
But I have never been more proud of you, or filled with such overpowering admiration, as I was when you announced you RAN AHEAD TO THE BANK AND SHOPPING CENTERS and let them know these dweebs were coming.
+9000!
You ROCK.
B
Is my blushing visible from cyberspace?
Wow. Bill Whittle!
You deserve the kudos, Zombie…
I’ll blush right along with you [vicariously evennnn]!
You deserve the kudos, zombie, as (naturally) does Bill Whittle.
I’m embarrassed to say that I did the opposite. When I saw the sorry turn out in L.A. and the confused looks on the faces of the few protesters standing around scratching their heads among the thousands of Fiesta revelers, I suggested they march down to the financial district and make some noise outside of a bank. But most of them were really young, and they just squinted their eyes and said, “I don’t know, what if more people show up?…Maybe we should wait until someone in charge gets here”…No one “in charge” ever did arrive.
Hey, you were just trying to help out! A kindly gesture.
I’ve actually participated in organizing protest rallies before (shhhhhh!), so don’t feel guilty.
I was actually surprised that Zombie intervened and warned anyone of anything. I’ve always just thought of Zombie as a passive, documentarian observer-type. Huh, go figure.
Actually, I think Zombie crossed an important line here, from reporting the news to creating the news. Much as I sympathize with his motives, I don’t think this is a good policy, for two reasons –
1) Ethically speaking, it’s just wrong. We condemn MSM reporters when they generate news instead of reporting it, don’t we? Our own admired blogosphere reports are not exempt from these requirements. The unique value of Zombie’s posts is that they show us what the MSM takes pains to disguise – the extreme and absurd views on display in many of these protests. But to actively make them look foolish is not the same as simply reporting their inherent foolishness. We must not succumb to the temptation to produce ‘fake but accurate’ news.
2) Practically speaking, it risks exposing Zombie. If he continues to sabotage leftist protests, he will quickly be identified. For us, it means the loss of a valuable source of information. For him, it could be much less pleasant.
Zombie, I have long admired your work, and I also chuckled with glee at your antics this time. Nonetheless, I advise you to resist this temptation in the future.
I once alerted the police at an anti-war protest in Hollywood that I had come to photograph. A shop owner who was angry about the protesters outside of his store scaring customers away, came out with a sign that said “Thanks a lot Jerks, for ruining our business”. He was soon surrounded by a mob of thugs and anarchist-types who started swatting him with their signs. When one of them actually shoved the guy I ran and told the police, the shop owner ran quickly behind me. They escorted him back into his store and a few police stood outside his shop the rest of the afternoon.
Here’s a few pictures:
http://www.ringospictures.com/photos/20090321/129.jpg
http://www.ringospictures.com/photos/20090321/131.jpg
http://www.ringospictures.com/photos/20090321/133.jpg
Good for you!
I noticed that a lot of the protesters had masks tied over their faces, as though they were expecting to do some impromptu looting and mayhem if a sufficient number of their partners in crime turned out to give them some cover.
No this is a Zombie-Zombie, an undead-undead and has a living brain and is able to pass for undead so as to give warnings to others with living brains. The Zombie-Zombie looks like other Zombies to Zombies… just like the Vampire-Vampire gives warning to those with living blood…
See how that works?
And great kudos to Zombie and the colleagues of same: the protests I saw during the 1980′s in Buffalo remind me so much like these protests… save they had two or three more people… ahhh… the day when SUNYAB went from a ‘hotbed of protest on the East Coast’ to a ‘hotbed of apathy on the East Coast’! And the apathy has spread, too! The apathetic protests have been successful and spread the apathy! It was a great time pointing out problems in protesting to the protesters while being amongst them an assumed to be with them. So easy to spread apathy, you know?
I may steal Trustafarians, however… will cite if I do… it is an instant classic!
I second the motion! Great to see other former lizards here. Keep up the good work Zombie!
The other day upon the net
There was a blog with stats all wet.
The stats were still hosed up today.
I think it’s going to fade away!
‘Everybody was already celebrating its demise.’
No, everybody was riffing a John Lennon song. To the same effect.
War is over, if you want it. Yeah, right. Enjoy the peace of the dead – the only ones who will know no war. There, I’ve added my own riff.
I’d take them a little more seriously if they were burning $100 bills instead of $1 bills. I guess they really don’t hate capitalism all THAT much.
All that publicity, for just a two-dollar investment! Now, that’s some clever promotional expenditures!
One of them was fingering a $20, but he just couldn’t get up the nerve to burn it.
Predictable, funny, and sad, all at once.
What do you wanna bet that they panhandled those two dollars from some evil capitalist on the way to the protest?
‘Remember, remember, the 4th of November, the dumb-power season of snot.
I see no reason the last dumb-power season should ever be forgot’
Where are all the blacks and other minorities? It would seem they are racist since there are so few, and it is mostly white people. Also they are against Obama, so they also have to be racist. It is the same argument made about the Tea Parties.
They are not only ‘raaaaaaaaacists’…but ‘super duper raaaaaaaaacists’ because they didn’t even bother to notice that they were holding their day of ‘FAIL’ on ‘Fiestas Patrias’ as Zombie noted.
How dare they?
RAAAAAAACISTSSSSSSSSSSS.
lulz
@megscole64, this bunch [like most of the 'protesters' of the past couple of decades at least] would have to take a couple of big steps up to reach pathetic. They can only *wish* to reach the point of being pathetic.
How do anarchists and socialists get their food, clothing and lodging; and what do they use for money?
my only thought on seeing the “free bradley manning” pic:
“THE GOGGLES! THEY DO NOTHING!!!!”
*still laughing*
To her ‘sign-board’ “Up And At Them!”
Hmm…I’m thinking that’s even less likely to work than for Radioactive Man…
Orion
Ha-ha. – ugly chicks and smelly sissies – sad then, sadder now…
Thanks for doing us all a service, Z. It’s good to see the truth behind the rhetoric. Let us know if you spot any real, gun-toting communist revolutionaries. As long as it’s just cranks like these, we’ve got nothing to worry about.
We love you zombie!
OK, folks, family duties now intervene; no more updates for a while. The hogs need sloppin’, the little ‘uns need a hose-down, and the travelin’ salesmen need chasin’ off with a shotgun.
Be back when the moon is high.
I love it when idiots holding signs spell things wrong or use improper grammar (when the obvious intent is to use proper grammar).
The dude in the Guy Fawkes mask above holding the sign that says: “EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM” has the word “Identification” spelled wrong.
I guess anarchists hate schools, or something…
They’re anarchists. Spelling is all about rules.
SFPD loves the overtime.
Now I know why the left always wants to force insurance companies to cover mental health issues. They obviously suffer disproportionatley from mental health demons.
“In American politics there are two strong currents of anti-capitalist thought: Marxism/communism/socialism versus . The problem is that these two ideologies are fundamentally at odds; one advocates hyper-centralization of political and economic power, while the other advocates hyper-decentralization.”
False. Anarchism/far-left-libertarianism and Statism are not at opposite ends ideologically. Anarchism is a precursor for state control, and most of the “leaders” of that movement know this.
“Are you a white man? If you’re a white man, then shut the fuck up about race, because you don’t know shit”
Hmmm. How about if I’m a white man with a black daughter and black best friend? Do I know shit about race then? Or do you only know shit about race if you also know how to make a fool out of yourself in public?
Didn’t the North Vietnamese Army try this same, ‘If we come out of the jungles and revolt, the mindless masses will join us in revolution!’ tactic in Saigon, Hue City, its Citadel and other locations during Tet in 1968?
And we all know how well that went.
So much for another chapter of the Commie Playbook and its EPIC FAIL.
Close, but not quite. Hanoi convinced the factions in the South that were part of the Popular Liberation Front to try this. It was a military failure, but it had a political effect on the US, while creating a power vacuum in the South that the North moved into. That was when the NVA came South in strength.
“Didn’t the North Vietnamese Army try this same, ‘If we come out of the jungles and revolt, the mindless masses will join us in revolution!’ tactic in Saigon, Hue City, its Citadel and other locations during Tet in 1968? And we all know how well that went.”
Actually, most people DON’T know how well that went because most people weren’t there and listened to Walter Cronkite infer that America was defeated during the Tet Offensive. Only the people that were there – or people like me who read history books – actually know that America fought back the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong and had recaptured everything that had been lost within three weeks.
Hi, Sparky:
The story goes that Tet was such a massive defeat for the NVA that General Giap was ready to fall on his sword before Ho Chi Minh. It took Uncle Walt’s throwing in the towel without a moment’s thought to save Giap’s bacon.
We had a guy who had been VC then NVA come to speak at our Military History class – he said after Tet there basically wasn’t a living VC or NVA below the DMZ. He said it was a massive disaster in troops, cadre, and material. Then Cronkite came on the air and saved them all – As he put it “We lost all the battles but one. We won the war because we won the important battle.”
Who was winning hearts and minds again? Thanks, Walter. And hasn’t it been fun watching them try to do the exact same thing every single chance they could in Iraq and Afghanistan both. I can’t remember who came up with it but the phrase is apt: “They’re not anti-war, they’re just on the other side.”
Orion
Obama as Hitler posters, a guy burning the edges of some $1 bills, crowd counts that numbered in the ‘teens, bystanders who didn’t even want to know what these clowns were doing, and the usual assortment of fruits and nuts…
This is a protest that is in dire need of a community organizer.
Zombie,
Your commentary made me laugh riotously.
Thank God at least SOMEBODY rioted. Such a disappointment for a so-called “Day of Rage.”
And a plutocracy is rule by Walt Disney’s frozen head? No wonder they look so Goofy.
KOCH BROTHERS??? I do *not* understand this whole “Koch Brothers Are Evil” thing. Other than trying to find *anyone* who remotely can take the heat off of Soros. Hmm… Maybe Soros wants to put them out of business, so he’s sicced his pet weasels on them? Isn’t there a law against that?
“Koch” sounds Jewish to these idiots, hence the Zionist tentacle illustration and the dump truck load of insinuation.
Thank you for documenting the moment of the event. I still run into people who insist that there were a million men at Jackson’s million man march and that some of the peace protests of the sixties had hundreds of thousands. The drugs ingested may be a factor in the wild estimates. Nothing needs more historic documentation than a flop.
I am laughing so hard that I think I may have hurt myself physically. I mean I think I strained something. This is one of the best laughs of my life and I’m 64 years old. Yea, that era. The Viet Nam era and Navy Veteran from that era.
These frigging idiots would not even be there, the few who did show up, if it weren’t for their parents supporting their sorry as**s or for the guvmint giving them grant money to go to schools. They are a pitiful bunch. A cancer of the face of humanity. When, and if, they ever get a job, which is doubtful, they will change their little non-relevant, idiotic ideas about life and politics.
Thanks Zombie for the great reports however I’m raging that the Daze of Rage were such a SCoMF!!
Good thing you gave us the low down on this could-have-been out of control display of apathetic annoyance.
I’ve learned that capitalism on pluto leads to corporate personhood with an unknown agenda.
At least we know these gallant folks do fair business deals with 1 person,1 dollar,1 vote.Facists and so called Christians charge $2 a vote, it must be from the economic cancer treatment cost under the rich welfare system and Nazi Obama .
And apparently decentralizing everything leads to a Mexican band,1 semi-white hate-monger,a socialist and a lost hippie,oh the anarchy.
I would like to suggest that next year the petulant $ burners join the pendulant boob bomb lady and march to the mall for a good bra.They can get some spelling help while picking up their capitalistic,racist $8 Starbucks mocha latte.
TY for the laughs.
“I’ve learned that capitalism on pluto leads to corporate personhood with an unknown agenda.”
That was classic. I’m still laughing about it!
I think the “anarchist movement” has been co-opted by the Democrats and used to house their radical elements and try to provide distance between them and the mainstream Democratic Party. Look at the attack in New Orleans on Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend. I investigated the anarchist “organization” that had organized the “protest” (assault) and they were pro-nationalized healthcare, pro-gun control, and a whole host of other Democratic political mainstays. True anarchists (apparently like the guy above) are few and far between.
Hey Zombie: “Back in New York: ‘Your Day$ of Plenty are numbered (#ed).’ Is that a warning of some kind, or just an informed economic forecast?”
I may be wrong, but this is actually a line in a film called The Edukators. In the film, three twenty-somethings revolt against capitalism by breaking into upper-class homes and rearranging the furniture while the owners are away. They leave a note each time that says “your days of plenty are numbered.” It’s a German film and it is good, though I don’t agree with the message.
I actually saw the Edukators and didn’t even remember that!
The last photo and caption should seal your win for a blogging award (sorry, have no idea exactly what one might be.) Precious, and rotten to the core.
Guess the photo pick-ins at Walmart were pretty thin while all this was going on.
So many punchable faces. So little time.
That “preacher” with the big blonde hair and cleric’s collar is really George Soros!
Two groups intertwined: (1) Walmartians in drag
(2) AttackWatch administrators.
Zombie, you have operatives? Wow, cool. Where do I sign up? I’ve always wanted to be part of a zombie army. On the down side, nothing much revolutionary goes on in Indianapolis, my home town, so capturing unbridled tumult, ideological conflict, and rampant anarcho weirdness is a challenging proposition. We do have a few socialists and anarchists in the area–we call them ‘college professors’–but like most everyone else around here, they’re a generally polite, quiet bunch.
Zombie,
Here’s a capitalist idea for you…
Compile all of your awesome pictures & captions into a coffee table book. From GWB days to present.
I want one! I’ll pay $75 for it right now.
May I suggest the protest Mercedes sign as the front cover.
As Kinky Friedman once famously sang…..
“You better occupy the kitchen, you better liberate the sink…….
…..Soooooooooooo……..
Git yer biscuits in the oven and yer buns in the bed…..
……that’s what I to my baby said…..”
I haven’t seen this much confusion about a subject since the “tastes great/less filling” debate.
Another great photo essay. The line that summed it up for me is “Stop ignoring me! Repeat: Stop ignoring me! I am haranguing you, and you must respond, even if to disapprove. Without your attention, I have no existence!” LOL!
Great stuff, Zombie. Another leftist / anarchist EPIC FAIL.
The ‘Free Bradley Manning’ woman probably wrote her message on her chest because it’s the only way a guy would look briefly at her chest.
More like “Daze of Rage”! LOL!
There were more people at a Garland Texas (suburb of Dallas) Tea Party sponsered U.S. Senatorial Debate than showed up for Daze of Rage. I think it is clear who is winning the current national conversation. While commie-libs are suffering from their self induced torment, the sane and civil elements of American society are calmly going about their business selecting new governemental leadership. Maybe we should set up a fund for recovering Dazed Leftists. Then again, maybe not.
I love the “uncut” banner at the beginning. It supports my thesis that the one great unifying philosophy undergirding all of Leftism is sexual license.
I really think that these nitwits would gladly accept any other form of tyranny as long as you didn’t interfere with their right to screw anything that moves.
What’s the point of a revolution
Without general copulation?
MARAT/SADE (Peter Weiss)
Couldn’t any of these folks afford a piece of poster board at least? They all had to use cut up cardboard boxes?
Maybe our protest is small, maybe our ideas are mixed. But at least we can recognize the injustices being done to everyone by our society. An intelligent girl like you must know of the many faults of our government, but the question is why don’t you acknowledge it? Maybe all the protesters are just “ungrateful” for all the things our government has given to us? No, this couldn’t be it, because the government can’t really provide us with freedoms, they can only give them back. Before there was government, there was total freedom. So basically the government has restricted our freedoms and left us with a small fraction of them. So how can we be grateful for that? Could it be you just can’t get it in you to address these injustices because its easier to write hate about the small guys? Could it be your just intolerant of anyone that doesn’t share your views? “Excuse me, anybody seen 1969 around here? I think I took a wrong turn at Woodstock.” What is wrong with you, why do you insult people because of their looks and views! So what, she looks funny, maybe she was at Woodstock, good for her! Who are you to judge this women? I bet you yourself are a train wreck compared to her! Maybe you think your better then her? Because you believe your views are more correct? No, your a feminist. You don’t just hate the idea of a man being better then you, you hate the idea of disagreement even if its within your own gender. You must bash the small guy, because you don’t think hes right. You give writers, feminists, and women a bad name.I am FlowCode. I speak for the revolutionists. I speak for the revolutionists, for the revolutionists appear to have no tongues. And I am asking you mam’ at the top of my lungs what is this thing you have made out of our followers. This video montage is not only insulting but displays just how non logical your argument is, you call these protesters unorganized and a “fail” when quite literally they have succeeded (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576579291495261236.html#articleTabs%3Darticle)
I don’t think you understand, our purpose is not to harm anyone or anything (unlike many other protests) except the flow of wall street. All we want is to bring ourselves into wall streets attention. We let you know we recognize the many injustices of our government, we know you know this too. But the difference is you try to deny its existence, you refuse to acknowledge the injustices and wave it off with things like “Well every government has flaws” and then bash us for trying to fix them. Maybe you think this sinking ship can still sail, but not me, I’m jumping off.
The Tea Party is also trying to fix government. But their message, you see, is coherent, and do-able, and will actually lead to more freedoms and a better nation.
Neither of the extreme solutions offered by the two protest factions is viable. You (presumably an anarchist) say “Before there was government, there was total freedom.” Yeah, that may be true, but that “total freedom” came at the cost of domination by the strong and the brutal over the weak. And a life expectancy of about 30 years. Government exists only to guarantee a few basic rights of everyone, including the underdog. Then again, maybe you’re a socialist, in which case the solutions you’re pursuing are anti-freedom and pro-totalitarian.
You may be a revolutionist but you are confused and self-defeating. You are probably too young to realize that. If you really want to participate in a true revolution that has a chance to change the country for the better, then join a group that wants to limit (but not eliminate) the power of government, scale back the bureaucracy, diminish the amount the government takes from your pocket, but still leave the kind of basic government envisioned by the ORIGINAL revolutionaries, the Founding Fathers, which would guarantee and increase freedom, rather than take it away. The name of that group is the Tea Party, and the day you recognize that you are a Tea Partier is the day you wake up. Advocating a caveman-esque chaotic anti-society with no rights or rules at all (anarchy) or a totalitarian police state (socialism) is not a “revolutionary” stance — it’s just juvenile stupidity.
Come, take my hand. Don’t fear the Freeper.
Zombie, I don’t agree with the views of the Tea Party, nor am I an anarchist. I love the idea of democracy, but its unrepairabley flawed. The Tea Parties views are good ‘n all but they stand for combination (not separation) of church and state “Christine O’Donnell thinks the separation of church and state is a bunch of hocus pocus” (http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-10-19/news/27078643_1_church-and-state-separation-political-forum) I feel that separation of church and state is necessary to the success of such a diverse country as America (I also dislike Sarah Palin). But I don’t think you understand what you actually said. Through my eyes your sentence “came at the cost of domination by the strong and the brutal over the weak” means “came at the cost of government dominating the unknowing/overly trusting masses”. Government is the same brutal force dominating the weak. Here are three prime examples:
1)We are restricted from doing certain things that hurt no one (such as curfews)
2)We are restricted from owning things (such as lock pick tools without a license)
3)We are forced to show absolute respect to officers of the law (disrespecting an officer, yeah that’s a crime)
Face it, we have no say in government. Our votes for president don’t even count! We are voted for by the electoral college whom we do not elect. This is no longer a democracy, its an oligarchy. And if there’s any movement I could disagree with more, its the Tea Party…
The Tea Party is not about Christian theocracy — that’s just a slander thrown at the Tea Party by their opponents. The Tea Party is about lowering taxes, shrinking government, eliminating bureaucracy, increasing personal responsibility and personal freedom, and so forth. Which is something you ought to agree with.
But your mind is made up (about what, I’m not sure; you have offered no coherent alternate solution to how society should be structured, other than to complain about the status quo). So I’ll let you go your merry way.
The laws you cite are all local laws: curfews are few and far between and are only imposed by municipal governments (usually to curtail gang activity). Licenses for lock picks are also a local matter. Disrespecting cops — local. If you don’t like these things, then get involved in LOCAL politics. Why overthrow civilization simply because your city council imposed a teen curfew on Friday nights?
Please do jump off.
Get out. Leave. Go find wherever you think you will be happy and stop pissing all over everyone else and claiming it’s your ‘right’ or that you act for ‘justice’. You have NO clue what either words means, nor the moral nor ethical deliberations required to determine those meanings.
So, bon voyage! I look forward to you and the rest of your uneducated and deliberately ignorant crew getting the heck out of the way.
Orion
1) You are a child. When you’re a grup, there is no curfew.
2) You are a child. When you demonstrate that you’re an adult, you can have lock-picking tools.
3) We adults pay for the policemen so that large children like you don’t throw temper tantrums late at night (see #1) and break into our stuff and take it (see #2).
I have children ranging in age from 4 to 20; the children in these pictures act like the two youngest. I know, I know: I’m in protests, too. I sneak flyers onto cars until I’m chased off. Can’t use my screen name any more, or else the bigbadguys will sue me. It’s our civic duty to protest injustice. But this? is a temper tantrum.
you will have “true freedom” in anarchy only until someone with a gun shoves it in your face and takes whatever he wants from you, and in the absence of any civil force, such as police, supplied by organised society, you will live or die at the whim of whoever is stronger and/or better armed than you.
When you’re a 20-year dude, full of testosterone and energy and derring-do, that actually sounds like a good system — because you assume (falsely, but that’s besides the point) that you will always be the stronger one in any dispute.
Then you run across a guy with a gun and you start to realize that this anarchy maybe isn’t such a good idea after all. So you get a gun. Then you run into a gang of guys who all have guns, and they take your gun. So then you round up your own gang of guys and all get guns. Then the other guys have to get together a larger gang to defend themselves from your gang, and so on and so forth…until we end up right back where we started, with entire nations, ethnicities or continents pooling resources to field armies to defend themselves from everyone else’s army. And that, my friend, is civilization.
We spend 30,000 years reaching a stable equilibrium point, and the anarchists want to wipe it all away and reshuffle the deck, out of ignorance and stupidity. Billions would die based on this childish misunderstanding.
The Anarchy you describe exists in Mexico today. The Narcos battle with the Federal Government for control. The forces of Law and Order control only Mexico City.
If you have a business the bad guys will send a kid in with a note demanding $5000/ month — or they will kill your wife.
Anarchists equal Art Student equal unwashed oddballs.
ZOMB, you rock bubba! The pic of the outraged “nancy Pelosi voting lib–even if not true is priceless.
You say the shoppers exiting the mall were fuming, I wonder at whom?
Excellent job btw in thwarting their plans on occupying the bank and mall. Goodonya!
Pretty much the bozo with the bullhorn harassing the tourists should’ve been maced.
Great job, keep it coming.
Zombie, your response to FlowCode was thoughtful and articulate but she won’t listen, at least not now, not yet. I grew up in a staunchly Democratic household–FDR, Truman, and Kennedy were hung on the wall of our living room like a kind of secular Trinity. My people came from Appalachia, for the most part, with memories of the company town and the company store, where the move north to the factories of Indiana was a journey to the promised land. As an adult, I was a man of the Left for many years, but was always vaguely disquieted by the disparity between what I grew up believing and what I was seeing when those beliefs were put into practice. It was years before I came around to the truth and finally grew up. There was no Charlton Heston movie moment of sudden revelation.
It is very hard for people to admit to themselves everything they think they know is wrong. FlowCode up there sees injustice and wants to make it right. Good for her, but you can’t right wrongs with a head filled with the bad ideas of others.
Well thanks for being kindly worded in your response about how I’m two young and have bad views. I normally wouldn’t need to respond to this post except to correct you, I’m a guy….
These are the new “socialists”
They look/sound like the dependent class all over Europe
Look at the union contract for GM signed this past week. $3 dollar raise per hour, $5000 bonuses and guaranteed growth of membership. And they owe taxpayers more than 3x what their stock trades at…
The class warfare message coming from President Oblama hits home with these fringe groups. Did you notice GE CEO sitting next to Michelle; they pay zero taxes. They go after big oil which pays the highest rate in the land. And today we get the Buffett tax…who pays .07/100% in taxes
It is quite amazing what can be created when the genes of two mix together. I’m sure their grandparents from the 60′s are very proud though.
Thank you for your picture reporting.
Many thanks for the postings and all your work, Zombie. BTW, I’ve seen posters addressing you as a woman (as in ‘her’ ‘she’), I didn’t know that, thought all along you were a guy. Anyway, wonderful topics, pics, and commentary. Thanks for everything.
Zombie isn’t a he or a she, Zombie is a THEY. That’s right, Zombie is what the KGB thought Michael Westen was – a team of people all operating under the same name.
That’s the only way to explain the level of awesome that Zombie is able to churn out. Zombie is so awesome that BILL WHITTLE visits the page!
A follow-up report from NYC’s financial district: While they claim to be settling in for a long “occupation,” the biggest effect they’re having here is helping out some of the local pizza parlors and forcing chessplayers to move up to Washington Square Park. They’ve taken over most of Zucotti Park, a small square at Liberty and Broadway, and that’s about it. They haven’t even inconvenienced anyone who works here, and people who actually work on Wall Street won’t even notice them. It’s possible that the LA protest was even lamer, but probably not by much.
I’ve added your comment to the end of the post!
I would like to point out that certain Anonymous attacks require no computer savvy whatsoever. It doesn’t take any computer savvy to fax a black piece of paper to a company many times. It doesn’t take any computer savvy to prank call toll-free numbers.
Hi, Great round up of the big day of rage.
You were asking about the “One Person, One Dollar, One Vote” signs. From what I heard from the L.A. “rager” in my picture, it’s a movement to get the “corrupting” influence of money out of our democracy. What they want is for candidates to only be allowed to receive a donation of no more than one dollar from any individual citizen. No money from political parties or evil corporations or big checks from rich people (or presumably, Unions) would be allowed – just one dollar per voter…That’s the meaning behind those signs.
Ah, OK, that clears things up! Thanks!
But have they thought this through? Because if you don’t ALSO ban self-funded campaigns, then the political process will be dominated by the ultra-rich candidates like Ross Perot, John Kerry, Meg Whitman, etc.
But having rules forbidding people to spend money on themselves or their own causes — why, that sounds like more repressive government!
Ya just can’t win.
I’m just speculating here, but I’d guess that people like Meg Whitman and John Kerry would be limited to only donating $1 to their own campaigns as well.
The protests look like a handful of dopey kids (including some older children who will never grow up) playing at being revolutionaries.
Probably ’cause that’s what they are.
Nothing to get excited about…or even pay attention to.
Why does all this bring Toole’s “Confederacy of Dunces” to mind?
Come on, that’s giving that book a bad name.
You mean *the title*, I guess. But CoD was a very good book. This ‘day of rage’ stuff is silly posturing about stuff they don’t even understand. They picked up some words here and there, but I sincerely doubt any of them understand Marx (or even read him), or ‘anarchism’ either. At least they don’t seem to demonstrate any grip on how the world operates. They want to ‘end capitalism’, but ‘tax the rich’ too?… how’s that work out again? I’ve never been sure what it is about the free exchange of goods and services that seems to bother them so much. I don’t recall Procter & Gamble ever sending dissidents to the Gulag. The incoherence of their posturing is entirely because their ‘issues’ aren’t based in any understanding of the external world at all – they’re an exercise in narcissistic self-aggrandisement. They want to re-affirm that they’re “not part of the ‘system’, man!”… at least for a day, before they head back to college & their job at the local coffeeshop… The most accurate poster slogan above was, “We’re so fucked”. But not in the way they intended.
That’s not profanity, that’s obscenity.
Please learn the difference.
While both words are applicable, I believe profanity is the better description. Obscenity may relate to words or actions. Profanity relates to words. The image juxtaposed a lovely, young wholesome looking couple displaying profane words. If the signs they held simply read, “$5 Sandwich” you wouldn’t describe them as being obscene. But because of the profane content of the sign it now becomes obscene. It is the profanity they are cavalierly spewing that is the salient point. Now if they were displaying their middle fingers, that would be an obscene gesture. I think Zombie does know the difference. You have not shown that you do.
The most amusing thing at the L.A. protest (something which the pictures can’t capture), was the conversations between the handful of people who showed up. First they tried to explain the small turnout and lack of news media on hand: “The corporate media is like owned by corporations so they’ve like blacked us out”. Then I listened in on a conversation between three guys none of which looked old enough to buy a beer. They were discussing what happened to Obama. One suggested that “they” got to him, “Maybe they told him that he would be killed if he didn’t do what the corporations want”. Another thought maybe it was the Koch Brothers. The third, a bit older, shook his head at their naiveté, “Obama was a corporate plant from the beginning. Both parties work for the same masters. It’s all a show to make us think we’re free. The only answer is to bring down the whole system. We need a real revolution – it’s the only way.”….I’m not quoting them exactly right, but that’s the gist of it. Actually, this is the kind of crazy talk you hear walking around all Leftist protests. It’s really quite amazing. I’m sure zombie has overheard the same kinds of conversations.
Those kinds of conversations are basically all I ever hear. If the average American could really eavesdrop on the kinds of things Ringo and I overhear, the Left’s support would immediately drop to under 3%.
Yesterday I looked at a “Global Revolution” website where they were streaming the big event live. I cracked up as the Anti-Capitalist Revolution was delayed 30 seconds while I was required to watch a Jack Daniels ad! It just may be possible that these folks missed something in their basic understanding of things.
I am waiting for Madame de Farge err I mean Pelosi’s speech to protest the depiction of Obama with a Hitler moustache-
Thanks to flowcode for attempting to articulate his views (which match those of teaparty), and then trying to deny it- it amazes me that these type of protestors heads do not explode from trying to hold contradictory views simultanesously- while the others are so convinced of the most ridiculous cospiracies.
and these sorts label the GOP as party of NO — lol- thanks for the laughs Z.
Flowcode so you think “total freedom” existed before USA revolution? Please return to school and study history of what preceded that era (hint:serfdom to Enlightenment)
While it appears that the protests were a failure and many of the protesters do look ridiculous the author of this blog entry comes off sounding like a World Class Douchebag imho..
He claims that the LaRouchians are leftists, equates Marxism and socialism with “hyper-centralization of political and economic power” (sure that’s what Marx advocated…), makes random judgements of various white youths who he assumes are “middle class” (the white youths I knew in Portland who were in IWW were all low-wage workers… but I’m sure some idiot “zombies” assumed they were middle class too..
And to top it all off he dutifully runs the bank and mall to tip them off that the protestors are heading their way as if they were a threat to anybody…
Like I said many of the protestors do look kind of dumb but imho “zombie” (who seems as keen to hide his identity as many of the protestors he belittles for such) comes off as a pathetic little tool in his own blog…
Hopefully the good folks at Wells Fargo gave him a free frisbee for his trouble…
Wells Fargo awarded me with an “Evil Corporate Shill” Gestapo helmet which I now wear proudly; and the shopping mall gave me free gift certificates to Chuck E. Cheese! I’m easily bought!
So sorry about equating Marxism and socialism. I realize that they’re, like, totally different.
Lyndon LaRouche seven times sought the presidential nomination…of the Democratic Party. He also favors Universal Health Care; and wants Congress to re-institute the Glass-Steagel Act, which was one of the original demands of the Day of Rage. Ramey Clark, the left-wing activist, is his lawyer. His followers see him as “the new FDR.” Want me to go on?
If you want a totally free society, then you must live with the freedom that implies for everyone else too. I am free to write photo essays of my choosing. I am free to warn security guards. I am free to attend protests and mock them. If you truly and really wanted freedom in the USA, you would be congratulating me for exercising my rights.
And you are free to nominate me to the WCD Society (World Class Douchebag), if you so choose. See how great this whole freedom thing is?
“the shopping mall gave me free gift certificates to Chuck E. Cheese! I’m easily bought!”
Apparently..
“So sorry about equating Marxism and socialism. I realize that they’re, like, totally different.”
You might want to go back and re-read the passage… If you do so you will probably notice that I took no no issue with the equation of Marxism with socialism (though as I’m sure you are well aware many socialists – especially social democrats – do not consider themselves to be Marxists) but with the assumption that socialism = “hyper-centralization of political and economic power”. You are engaging in straw-man arguments.
“Lyndon LaRouche seven times sought the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party…. Ramey Clark, the left-wing activist, is his lawyer. His followers see him as “the new FDR.” Want me to go on?”
You can go on if you choose but your superficial knowledge of the subject matter of which you speak does not impress any more than the arguments of those who claim that Hitler’s Nazi party was a movement of the left because it had “socialist” in it’s name. People like LaRouche cannot be taken at face value. LaRouche did start out on the far-left but he moved to the far-right in the early 1970s without stopping anywhere in between… LaRouche wrote in his autobiography about the violent altercations of the 70s between his NCLC and several left groups (LaRouche supporters crashed meetings of the Communist, Party, USA in several cities attacking attendees with chains and baseball bats for example). Around that time LaRouche established ties with the Ku Klux Klan, Liberty Lobby and George Wallace’s American Independent Party and attended conferences of the far-right admonishing members of white supremacist groups for wearing their swastikas on their sleeves so to speak (LaRouche recently made a joke suggesting that Obama’s biological father could well be any of a number of chimpanzees and there are very strong anti-Semitic undertones in his movement as well).. Throughout the 70s his group sent reports to the FBI and local police on members of left-wing organizations.. In 1984 he purchased television commercials claiming that Walter Mondale was a Soviet agent of influence… Want me to go on? If you would like to know more about Lyndon LaRouche I would recommend Dennis King’s biography: Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism.
His decision to invade the Dem Party BTW was a tactical one… originally he planned to seek the Republican nomination but decided it’s right-wing was already overrun with the religious right and various other zealots.. He also realized he could do more damage to the Democratic Party and liberals – whom he loathes – from within their own party.. as one political observer noted in America “you are a member of whatever you say you are”.
I do not take issue with the fact that Ramsey Clark is a (far) left activist – unlike you I don’t pretend like any political person I don’t like must therefore be on the completely opposite end of the spectrum – but saying that LaRouche must be left-wing because Clark is would be pretty stupid even if it weren’t for the fact that Clark has also represented Nazi war criminals and others of the far-right….
“If you want a totally free society, then you must live with the freedom that implies for everyone else too… If you truly and really wanted freedom in the USA, you would be congratulating me for exercising my rights.”
This seems like a strange reply to what I wrote… Where did I say that you should not be free to do any of the things you mentioned? Just because I value your/our freedom doesn’t mean I have to “congratulate” you when I don’t see anything you’ve done as being worthy of such (did you “congratulate” the protesters with whom you disagree?).
Not in person, but I’m very glad they do what they do. The more people like that speak out in public, the more fodder we have to make fun of them with!
Everyone knows that Lyndon LaRouche is a lunatic, and that his followers are cult members. I’m just pointing out that Nancy Pelosi (and countless others on the Left side of the spectrum) tried to imply that his followers were Tea Partiers, when the exact opposite argument could just as easily be made. They’re not on any spectrum — they’re just a cult. When LaRouchies show up at lefty events with their Obama-Hitler posters — which they do ALL THE TIME — nobody in the media ever points it out; nor do the lefties shoo away the LaRouchies.
As to whether or not socialism leads us toward centralization of political and economic power — I thought that was the whole point. But I guess you must be right: Socialism is all about decentralization, and allowing everyone to keep all their money through zero tax rates, and decreasing the power of the government. Silly me for thinking otherwise.
“Around that time LaRouche established ties with the Ku Klux Klan”
like the rest of the democratic party
It seems there are still a handful of “ragers” clinging to the dream of smashing Capitalism…They’re camped out in Zucotti Park (aka Liberty park) a few blocks north of Wall Street…
http://www.indypendent.org/2011/09/19/wall-street-liberty-plaza/
What’s this? Snide, dismissive partisan snobbery? On MY Internet?
It’s more likely than you think…
Sorry to trespass on your Internet. Maybe if you posted signs saying “TeAbAggers KEEp OuT!” then we’d know not to mess around on your turf.
As a member of the Tea Party movement, I am extremely offended by your dismissive tone and use of the term “teabagger”.
I demand an immediate apology.
Oh, I wasn’t talking about members of the Tea Party movement; I was referring to actual teabaggers.
If you are indeed a teabagger, I’m sorry for associating you with Tea Partiers.
But then why would you infer the “teabaggers keep out” sign should be written for your benefit?
Wouldnt that suggest you were referring to yourself as a teabagger?
At what point do we all get cooties?
I was just curious, is all. I’m sure you’re not intentially dissing yourself.
It was just a typo or something.
Actually, I want to apologize myself. It was unfair of me to call your article snide and snobbish, and I’m sorry.
I was just thrown off by some of the common writing errors you made, regarding your tone and content.
Try focusing on reporting facts and information more objectively, and avoid using language in the article that colors your reporting with your own opinions and views.
Let your readers draw their own conclusions based on the facts you present, and you’ll be on the road to a much better article!
Let’s see:
Doing the Moby act and claiming to be a conservative;
Thinking naughty words will freak out the squares;
Attacking the writing style when you can’t attack the content;
Demanding even-handedness from your opponents.
I’d guess that you were up to about page 35 in the Troll Training Workbook. Just wait until you get to Chapter 6, “Cutting and Pasting.” That’s when it starts getting hard!
I also note you’re having some selective difficulty in typing the proper case.
This could be due to something gumming up your keyboard, such as spilled juice or perhaps sugar.
You had best use a Q-tip to clean between your keys to avoid this problem in the future.
Ooops, DARPA just called and said they want their Internet back. Well, it must have been fun while it lasted!
At least it seems that most of these people actually wrote their own signs.
It’s strange how prescient about all this the French political economist Frederic Bastiat was: The use of the law to “plunder” that which cannot be gotten by criminal force, which renders the law inherently unjust. This is where we are: The laws concerning welfare, healthcare, and of course endless lawsuits based on nothing more substantial than alleged -isms being utilized for plundering: By unions, welfare serfs and politicians. I actually picked him up after enduring another lesson in my cultural anthropology class about yet another Marxist anthropologist/economist/political scientist/etc, and he seemed on the money with how the law could be expertly twisted and abused with a bigger, more powerful government.
Socialist think the government and the society are the same thing, and invariably think that if someone does not want government to provide then they don’t want it provided at all. These so-called anarchists want government to reflect whatever their whim is at the moment and serve their needs. In effect, we’ve been infested with a serious case of legal piracy. I would compare them to the “Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything” but that would be an insult to Veggietales.
In short, we’re seeing the ultimate end of Bastiat’s predictions- just citizens using the instruments available to change their society back to a just version (i.e., the Tea Party) in response to decades of legal plunder undertaken by special interests, racial mongers, and liberal politicians and promoted via control of education and the media.
Interesting how my anthropology classes never brought Bastiat up as a counter to the unbroken line of Marxist thinkers (Including Marx himself, who was NOT an anthropologist). After reading his work though and comparing it to these events, it becomes obvious why: He’d have torn the likes of Marx a new one in seconds.
It’s a very exciting time in many ways, but not the least of which is intellectual. Like the Renaissance, we’re suddenly rediscovering what we already knew and bringing it out into the light. Perhaps it won’t be as great a scientific revolution, but it’s going to be one hell of a cultural and political one.
tl;dr Very funny post Zombie, and I look forward to more of your updates. And I’m a liberal arts major who’s hoping he can find a job in the coming shakeup.
Why are liberals so damned ugly?
This is why they are what they are. You can really spot a liberal. You really can it amazing that most have the beard. Or the glasses. Usually are nature flower people with jobs that are tattoo artist or some kind of work that is trivial like a bike courier. You can fix this if we raised the minimum voting age to 35.
I wish there was a way to determine if a fetus would grow up as a liberal.
I might change my pro-life views on this exception.
No worries, they’re all killing their young for us.
Government is the only thing that stands between these bastards and the people that want to eliminate them to protect the gene pool.
On Olvera, twenty people isn’t even a respectable line at a corn dog stand. How completely pathetic.
One more point, re the “Anonymous” movement:
Here’s a quote that, to me, captures the mind and soul of this bunch of silicon sociopaths, whose destructive antics go FAR beyond merely showing up at demonstrations wearing Guy Fawkes masks:
“People these days seem to think we are some sort of Internet vigilante group, That couldn’t be further from the truth. We are the little voice in the back of your head that wants to fuck your hot sixteen year old daughter. We are the father who beats his six year old child simply because he spilled his beer. We are every chef that’s ever spit in some random person’s food for the hell of it. We are the pyromaniac who burns down the homeless shelter for shits and giggles. We are the person who rapes the same girl twice. We are that feeling you get when you beat your pets; and enjoy it. We see some guy hang himself live, we laugh. A wrestler kills his family, we laugh. Some maladjusted Asian shoots up his university, we laugh. Fifty-thousand die in North Korea, we laugh. AIDS ravages a continent, we laugh. An Austrian man locks his daughter in his basement for 24 years and fathers 8 children with her, we laugh. A religion invented by a psychotic writer swindles countless gullible fucktards out of their cash, we laugh, and then go kick his religion’s ass just for the hell of it. We aren’t some vigilante group righting wrongs. We aren’t your friends, your buddies or your saviors. Your feelings mean nothing to us. We are human nature unencumbered by pointless ethics, foolish moralities or arbitrary laws and restrictions. We are every dark impulse you have; unrestrained and fully realized. We are what deep down, you wish you were. We exist as a means for instant gratification, purely at our own whim. We have no culture, we have no laws, written or otherwise. We are an autonomous collective, each an insignificant part of a whole. You cannot assimilate us, we do not change. You cannot defeat us, we do not exist. You cannot infiltrate us, we know our own. We do not sleep, we do not eat and we do not feel remorse. We will tear you apart from outside and in, we have all the time in the world. You operate under the delusion that we will someday be outdated, that we might even see the light. You are irrevocably wrong. You are not special, you are not unique and you aren’t crusaders for justice. You’re a blend of college age faggots who think that they can do some sort of good, and who are desperate to belong, to have attention. You have accomplished nothing, and you will fall. Enjoy your AIDS, faggots.”
In other words, they’re monsters. It’s nice when they can at least admit it. Though they should recognize the fact that humans are very, very good at slaying monsters. Given enough time.
You have to be some kind of jackass to post something like this in quotes (WHO is being quoted? The poster does not say and in all likelihood does not know) as though it is a legitimate quote from someone representing the group you hope to malign… Like most people I don’t know much about Anonymous myself but this doesn’t jive with anything I have read about them up to this point and the only reference I could find relating Anonymous members to the kind of predatory sexual practices implied by the opening sentence had to do with members of Anonymous getting a sexual predator arrested (from wikipedia):
“Chris Forcand arrest
On December 7, 2007, the Canada-based Toronto Sun newspaper published a report on the arrest of the alleged Internet predator Chris Forcand.[23] Forcand, 53, was charged with two counts of luring a child under the age of 14, attempt to invite sexual touching, attempted exposure, possessing a dangerous weapon, and carrying a concealed weapon.[24] The report stated that Forcand was already being tracked by “cyber-vigilantes who seek to out anyone who presents with a sexual interest in children” before police investigations commenced.[23]
A Global Television Network report identified the group responsible for Forcand’s arrest as a “self-described Internet vigilante group called Anonymous” who contacted the police after some members were “propositioned” by Forcand with “disgusting photos of himself.” The report also stated that this is the first time a suspected Internet predator was arrested by the police as a result of Internet vigilantism….”
I guess any random idiot can just make up or rehash some bs quote somebody else made up to malign any individual or group… if it looks like bullshit and smells like bullshit it probably IS bullshit.
Anybody with more than two braincells should be able to infer that the quote above was likely written by an Anonymous detractor not anyone seeking to promote the group… FAIL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29
Anonymous considers themselves Chaotic Good. They are definitely chaotic, though it’s hard to classify them as good.
> Come on, that’s giving that book a bad name.
> You mean *the title*, I guess. But CoD was a very good book. This ‘day of
> rage’ stuff is silly posturing about stuff they don’t even understand. They
> picked up some words here and there, but I sincerely doubt any of them
> understand Marx (or even read him), or ‘anarchism’ either.
No, I meant the characters in the book–didn’t they also make some laughably lame attempt to start a revolution or something? That’s what this Day reminded me of. Sorry, it’s been years since I’ve read the book. But yes, I remember it being a very good book.
The book’s “hero,” Ignatius Reilly, first tried to organize a “Crusade for Moorish Dignity” among the Black workers at his employer’s plant. When that failed, he attempted to recruit gay men and lesbians into a global-pacifist movement (pretty visionary for a book written in 1962!)
Personally, I consider A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES one of the funniest novels ever written, and Reilly a FAR more intelligent and sympathetic character than any of the ignorant clowns depicted in these photos.
Let me get this straight. They‘re protesting the evil corporations via the internet which is powered by Cisco Systems and Google on a site that’s advertising WalMart, streaming using a generator that is powered by fume producing gasoline, probably bought from Exxon/Mobile, updating on twitter and facebook using assorted Apple products, telling people to think for themselves while they repeat phrases in a cult-like manner ….ummmmmmmmmmm….fight the power, dudes! Oh, the humanity….wait, scratch that….oh, the hypocrisy!
Check out *this* annotated pic of rally attendees, which rivals Zombie’s work for how it exposes the utter silliness of these people in one photo and a few words of commentary:
http://finemrespice.com/node/97
Why is it always Kill the Corporation with these people? If the corporations are law-abiding and following the tax laws, shouldn’t the revolutionaries fight to change the law, not rid the world of corporations? I don’t think they’ve thought this thru.
it’s in the same vein as all the pretentious “political/progressive” bands who strive to “fight the power”
they essentially dont know what in the world they are fighting or why except some vague notions of their idols marching in the streets– so– “derp derp hit the streets and wear my revolution outfit derp”
Don’t sell these “activists” short! Perhaps the LA organizers cleverly planned their demonstration and an anticipated meager turnout with the Mexican Fiesta in order to claim the crowd as their own in photo ops. Drat! Foiled by those dastardly Capitalist’s corporate banners in the background.LOL.
Man, you righties sure do get your stall-tapping feet into a tizzy over the dumbest things. If this was such a “fail” then why do you try so, so hard to prove that? It is all you’ve talked about since it started. Funny, considering there were far more people there than any Tea Party nonsense that the MSM salivates to cover. Then again, people in Guy Fawkes masks doing yoga come off way more sane and drab than that Tea Party crowd so I could see why they weren’t interested in covering it.
Oh righties, I thank your fictional god you are a dying breed. Just do us all a favor and do it sooner.
Sincerely,
Logic
Wow. Sad. I don’t know what else to say, you f@3ker$.
It’s really scary the way young people think these days. They are influenced by the words of revolutionaries that killed their dissenters. They seem forever oblivious to the fact that they are being played. They argue ad nauseum over the dangers of capitalism, and when we ask for an example, they go blank. If they say greedy corporations, where is the greed? Aren’t corporations owned by millions of people, known as stockholders? The people that they should be protesting are corrupt politicians influenced by corrupt people. These protestors are forever stuck in a synthetic world of what an ideal corporation is suppose to be, probably taught by a “professor” in college, but fail to realize the real world, (I think Obama is doing this now.) No one seems to follow Neutons law of one action causes an opposite but equal reaction, also taught in schools but I digress, the point is if you want a job, don’t f**k with the job makers.
Young people are, “influenced by revolutionaries that killed their dissenters”? I would be very surprised if anyone had read Marx’s critique of capitalism or understood the labor theory of value. Maybe they bought a Che t-shirt.
You don’t have to be a communist to understand that corporations can be bad actors and that there are devastating consequences when they do. Enron is a good example of deregulation gone haywire.
Your admonition that we not mess with job makers seems about on par with the understanding of the protestors. What you’re not really seeing is that banks have become big and greedy and found that the way to riches involves less of lending to companies who produce goods and services to make a profit and more about using leverage to take ever larger speculative risks.
The “elites”, the Ivy League liberals everyone complains about. That’s Wall Street. They call up Geithner to make sure his friends at Goldman get paid 100 cents on the dollar from AIG, and bankroll Mitt Romney to repeal Frank Dodd when he becomes POTUS.
You sure which side you’re on?
The question of who’s side I am on is irrelevant, I want people to have jobs.
The banks, wall street elites and even Goldman Sachs are not an example of CAPITALISM. A capitalist is a person who tries to create a profit by spending his own capital. The banks, wall street elites and even Goldman Sachs are creating a profit by spending other peoples capital. The governments role in creating jobs is get out of the way. Corrupt politicians created this economic mess, because they made a big mistake, the bailout (TARP) to the banks was suppose to make loans to small businesses, so they could create jobs. The banks bought other banks, paid off loans to other banks, and gave out huge bonuses. Obama on the other hand has created regulation upon regulation that has crippled job growth. The ANTI-CAPITALISM crowd and TEA PARTY are pretty much on the same page, albeit the love affair with murderous dictators. I close with, even a GREEDY CAPITALIST creates jobs, a CORRUPT POLITICIAN doesn’t.
Banks aren’t Capitalist? That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard. Of course they are. Banks have a very special role in bringing together the resources needed for production. They lend to entrepreneurs who buy raw materials, machinery and labor to produce goods and services. Entrepreneurs, corporations and consumers like you and me need banks and investors.
Anyway, your point about GREEDY CAPITALISTS at least producing jobs is wrong. Once again I refer to Enron as an example of unchecked greed, Bernie Maddoff, Countrywide Financial these capitalist ventures create financial sinkholes that destroy wealth and leave people penniless.
What is interesting to me is that rather than looking at the power large banks and corporations wield as repositories of wealth you somehow rush to the aid of the affluent. These are no mere men of business, not mortal men, these are JOB CREATORS who must not be questioned.
If Obama supporters are supposed to be Cargo cultists waiting for government benevolence I’m not sure what to call the Tea Party faithful who are blessed by the trickle down of a job or two from your betters.
Where do banks get their money, does a banker put up his own “capital”?
You keep referring to ENRON, Countrywide, what person or person’s put up their own money? The affluent refers to a lot of people, most of them aquired their wealth through hard, honest work. Are these people suppose to just give up their wealth so shmo’s can sit on their ass? I am angry at this how this civil war (HAS/HASNOT’S) is going. I work hard every day and I try to live within my means. I also believe in the “American Dream”, it really isn’t that difficult a concept. Your writings imply that; you think you deserve some of the wealth, that others have worked hard for. I don’t care what your political leanings are but, you sound like a communist.
“If Obama supporters are supposed to be Cargo cultists waiting for government benevolence I’m not sure what to call the Tea Party faithful who are blessed by the trickle down of a job or two from your betters.” I have no idea what you mean here, please elaborate.
Zombie…
SALUTE,
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I know there’s a Ph. D. thesis in studying the use of the “F” word by leftists/liberals. You can sort of understand an anarchists use of it.
Do a search for the “F” word on lefty sites, versus its use on so-called “right-wing” sites…
When you don’t have valid facts to substantiate debate- go for the “F” word! (or the race card!)…
It’s noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunction, preposition, and an interjection. That pretty much covers it.
If this is the best Obama’s Communist Party can do, capitalism’s got another few hundred years, easy.
The guy with the sign “Your days of plenty are numbered” bought his sleeping pad at Wal-Mart.
It’s just like the one below, except the color is different.
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So, there’s still some people at the Wall Street site, apparently. And they are claiming that there is a media blackout and if only the media would cover it, then it would be a big deal. You can catch up on this at the twitter hashtag #OccupyWallStreet. Curious, anyone who is in Manhattan (Urban Infidel? Anyone?) have any idea what the reality is?
This is just sad. The Washington D.C. tea party rally, which was attended by around a million people from all over the country, was initiated by one Wall Street Trader saying we should have a new tea party to let the government know how we feel. Go figure.
Damn, reading the NICs on this thread makes me feel like I’ve flashed back to THE BLOG THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED before Darth CJ donned the black helmet and flashed the light saber at all who strayed from The Cult of Truth. I wondered where he stashed the bodies.
I didn’t expect much, but I hoped for more than this.
It had some concept, but that’s like a curseword for a hollywood movie and I guess it was here too.
Anyway it had bad timing with the Palestinians and Achmadinijad coming to town. Reality is such a downer to high concept.
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