The “Occupy” movement has been taking its predictable course of late, as protestors in the “Occupy Oakland” segment, among others, clash with police and vandalize storefronts; for example, Occupiers threw a chair through the front window of a Whole Foods in Oakland, California.
Shooting deaths have been reported at encampments in California and Vermont.
In a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, a mob of “unidentified” young-ish vandals set cars afire, and painted swastikas and anti-Semitic terms on buildings.
Assaults, on police and general population alike, are widely reported, if generally ignored by the sympathetic national media.
Diseases such as tuberculosis and ringworm have sprung up in some OWS encampments, as damp, chilly, overcrowded and dreadfully unsanitary conditions prevail.
The passing around of joints and bottles probably doesn’t help, either, and neither does having trash everywhere, much less vomiting, urinating and defecating in the shrubs.
STDs are also becoming a problem; I’ll refrain from speculating on what’s being passed around, in those cases.
Drug arrests and overdoses and Public Intox arrests in connection to the “movement” are rapidly becoming a cliché. Numerous rapes have been reported; even some of men.
“Women-only” tents have been suggested, to decrease the incidents, and chances, of rape.
Yep; in the words of John Stewart, “how is this not like the TEA Party?”
How about the fact that there were never any--NOT ONE--confrontations with police, deaths, rapes, vandalism or spreading pestilences at any TEA Parties? How about just plain having respect; for ourselves, and others? Just saying, John.
Unions like the AFL-CIO and SEIU, community action groups such as ACORN, and even the American Socialist, Communist and Nazi parties, are reportedly actively supportive of the “movement”, with funds, supplies and advice, if not direct involvement.
Video footage shows a typically, unnecessarily angry Occupier making a “speech”, saying, deadly-serious, “in a few days, you gonna see what a Molotov cocktail does to Macy’s! We gonna burn this sh-t (meaning NYC) to the motherf—kin’ ground!”
Apparently, and to the credit of the NYPD, that man has been arrested; peaceful, and law-abiding protestors, all.
Go here, for the whole thing.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilq_66LnRaw)
Beware of language, obviously.
The 17th has come and gone, with a march, some uprisings, but thankfully, no Molotov cocktails.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, shockingly, is sympathetic, blaming OWS’ troubles on the “criminal element” that has worked its way into the movement’s ranks.
Odd how that sadistic “criminal element” never made any such inroads at TEA parties, isn’t it, Maxine? Yet, in her words, we can all “go to hell”.
Recent polls show most Americans feeling that OWS “does not represent the mainstream”. No kidding.
File the following under “lesson Learned”:
In San Diego, three sympathetic street vendors made the mistake of providing the useless leeches with free coffee, sodas and hotdogs.
Don’t feed the animals; especially these animals. After all, they feel they’re entitled to your stuff. Case in point:
When the vendors finally cut off the tap, the protestors became violent, vandalizing their carts, and splattering them with urine and blood, and threatening the owners with death, saying, “feed us for free, or we’ll kill you.”
What these vendors learned, was what the government should have learned decades ago; “if you teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime, but if you give lazy, shiftless people a fish, they’ll just keep coming back for more free fish, and then get pissed-off when you stop providing the fish.”
Of course, the purveyors of those particular “fish” were purposely looking to economically exploit those people, anyway, enabling them to extort their votes and manipulate their opinions. Which they have, by the way, and masterfully so, to the tune of $7 trillion in taxpayer monies, over less than 50 years.
This violent over-reaction by the OWS parasites to the vendors was, in microcosm, exactly what we hear coming out of Europe as the economies there, bankrupted by generations of cradle-to-grave, nanny-state, entitlement Socialism, fail.
The people, many of whom have never known what it is to truly work for a living, revolt under the desperate need for imposed “austerity measures”, which significantly cut into the programs on which they’ve become dependent.
Yet, still, the Democrats and their liberal, Socialist fellow-travellers, work steadily to undermine our system here, to replace it with what’s deteriorating in Europe.
Then, there was the “occupier”, who was mad because he lost his job, but had decided to go back to school to pursue his “passion”.
So, he went $40,000 further in debt, to get his Master’s degree. Sadly, he remains jobless, even in his chosen field: puppetry.
Yes, puppetry. He’s upset, because no one is hiring puppeteers.
So, there he was, “occupying” wherever, because he wanted to know who was going to pay back his loans. He “played by the rules”; he went to school, and still can’t find a job.
Maybe he could get a job within OWS, itself; after all, it’s nothing more than one, big puppet show.
One girl in NYC opined that we should just “abolish money”; she didn’t want to work “for the boss”, because “there’s enough of everything to go around; no one should have to work for the money to live.”
Apparently, people should just be able to go to the store, grab whatever they need, and walk out, without having to pay.
In her vision of the selfless, Socialist Utopia, people would work for nothing, simply because things need to be done; streets need swept, store shelves need filled.
She misses the same point as many younger (and far too many older) heads full of mush: without profit motive--without money--there would be no personal incentive to work, to produce goods, and get those streets swept, those shelves filled.
After all, if you don’t need money to obtain what you need, why bother to work at all, right? Profit motive is the driving force behind all advancement.
Now, they've added a new mantra to their routine, rinding over the old saws about "union rights" and "worker's rights". I thought this was about their disatisfaction with business, banks and bailouts, not unions and the workers. Wonder what brought on this new ideal? Perhaps the fact that unions are lending a lot of their support and funding, to OWS? "Workers rights"; these idiots block streets and bridges, impede public transportation and try to shut down docks and ports. All of this keeps people from getting to their jobs.
Speaking of profit, Rapper Jay-Z is cashing in on the anti-capitalist vibe, by marketing “Occupy All Streets” t-shirts…..at $22 a pop.
No doubt many of the jobless, penniless, brainless, anti-capitalist “99%-ers” will shell out the $22 bucks for some of these cool, hip togs.
It’s too ironic, isn’t it, not to be an opportunistic gag, on Jay-Z’s part?
Making suckers of all the idiots hanging out in the park. Good for him. I wonder if any of the money will actually go to support OWS, or if he’ll just keep it all for himself, as he rightfully should?
On FOX’s “The X-Factor” singing competition Wednesday evening, 20-something hipster contestant Chris Rene sported one of these leftie high-fashion statements.
Of course, I’m sure that the delicious irony of wearing a shirt in support of an anti-capitalist movement, on a show where you’re trying to win a $5 million recording contract, was utterly lost on him.
That’s kind of like Bill Gates wearing a “Che” t-shirt.
How does young Mr. Rene think the producers came by the $5 million prize? What made it possible?
CAPITALISM!!
How does he think Simon Cowell made his money and reputation?
CAPITALISM!!
To what does he think he owes the fact that he’s standing on that huge stage, on commercially-sponsored, network television, singing for millions of television owners/viewers?
CAPITALISM!!
How does he think CDs are produced and sold?
CAPITALISM!!
The OWSers and their supporters really are the vastly, purposely uninformed..…no, make that misinformed.
Many of them have been indoctrinated through the liberal-re-structured American public and higher educational systems, where they’ve learned that top-down Socialism is the way to go; that the concept of private property is greed; and that, as with those unfortunate street vendors, everyone is, generally, entitled to everyone else’s stuff.
Many more just don’t get it.
You know, conservatives are pragmatists; liberals are idealists.
We’re optimistic enough to hope that people would, or could, be that selfless and giving, but we don’t actually expect them to be, so we’re never really all that disappointed. That’s life. That’s reality; deal with it.
Not only do liberals expect them to be that selfless, remaining endlessly optimistic so that they constantly expect it, but at the same time, are self-deluding enough to deliberately ignore disappointing or negative results.
On a certain level, it’s really rather an admirable trait.
However, by the same token, they’re also cynical, nihilistic and deceitful enough to manipulate and distort information, in order to formulate results they like. See “Climategate”, among many, many other examples.
When reality intrudes on the narrative, reality must be ignored or altered. That’s liberalism.
There are elitist, radical-liberal elements, not unlike sleeper cell terrorists, really, who had been waiting decades for Barack Obama.
Trifecta!
Socialist-run House, Socialist-run Senate, Socialist President and administration!
The time had come, at long last, for their final push to unmake traditional America.
The thing was, you see, they hadn’t counted on conservatives to push back. As the saying goes, “liberals love democracy, until the vote goes against them. Then, democracy has to go.”
If you need proof of this, just look at new regulations imposed by the EPA, coincidentally in the wake of the Cap and Trade bill’s defeat in Congress.
Astroturf OWS is a reaction to conservatism’s successful grass-roots, patriotic TEA Party resistance. We do have some things in common; we don’t like corporatism; we don’t like government bailouts.
The difference is, like the conservatives who support it, the TEA Party is respectful, law-abiding and self-policing. It calls for smaller government and less regulation.
OWS is angry, undisciplined, chaotic; and they support more, higher taxation, and more, bigger, government.
They just don’t get it, and they miss, utterly, the irony of their position. Despite claiming a passionate hatred for banks and money, the organizers nonetheless have millions of dollars in accounts between at least two banks.
Everything they have, from the clothes on their backs, to the iPhones and iPads they use, to the tents they live in, to the signs they carry, were obtained through the graces of free market capitalism. They even need money to get their intoxicants, don’t they?
We really are in a war, you know, between right and left; small-government, traditionalist Conservatism vs. centralized, big-government (liberal) Progressive Collectivism.
I don’t doubt that, as the seasons turn toward Winter, and cold weather settles in to stay, the OWS encampments in the Northern regions will dwindle dramatically.
They’re pampered and spoiled; not cut out for such long-term discomfort, no matter how much money they’re paid.
Nonetheless, the OWS goons are the leftist infantry, and they’re on the move. In truth, I honestly fear the next act in this play.