You Say You Want A Revolution. Well, We'd All Like It If You Tried Evolution ... To Big Boy Pants Instead. II

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Verve Pipe - The Freshman

For the life of me I cannot remember

What made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise

For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever died for these sins

We were merely freshmen

We were merely freshmen

We were only freshmen

IV.  BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT DESTRUCTION DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN COUNT ME OUT?

Had OccupyWallStreet stuck to its original complaints about crony capitalism and corruption, it might have become a successful movement embraced by the American Middle Class.  Instead, it began to demand for more from its country while asking less of what it could for itself and the nation, at large.  It also became the mouthpiece of every radical organisation in the country.

 

"This isn't Reform ... This is Revolution!! ...We Don't Want to Fix Anything. We Want A Revolution.”

- OWS Spokesman, Harrison Schultz, to Al Sharpton, MSNBC, 10.03.11

AL SHARPTON: Joining me now from lower Manhattan near Wall Street is Harrison Schultz, one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street. Harrison, thank you for coming on the show.

HARRISON SCHULTZ: Thank you for having me, Reverend: happy birthday!

SHARPTON: Thank you. Tell us a little bit about the movement that's going on in Wall Street.

SCHULTZ: The movement down here is incredibly exciting.  It's incredibly exhilirating. And I see my opinion as a professional sociologist, I think that this is the beginning of a revolution in this country . . . We're all for change. We all want something different.  We all want something better. As far as the specifics, as far as how we go about doing that, we don't know yet. Part of the problem, part of the issue is that I think that a lot of the people that are here are in fact anarchists, are in fact revolutionaries.  And putting a revolution, putting a revolutionary change into political terms is very difficult to do. Because we're trying to get away from all the problems.  Again, we don't really want to fix them: it's revolution, not reform. 

  

Just in case you are interested in who our young Mr Harrison is, he has kindly told us much about himself in his oh-so-bourgeoise Linkedin profile and alerts readers to the fact that he once infiltrated Bank of America and worked behind enemy lines by "providing assistance for several investment bankers."  Quelle horreur!!!

Keep hope alive, Harrison!  Remember, not too long ago another young radical described his time in the private sector as having worked "behind enemy lines"--and went on to become President of the United States.

Instead, OccupyWallStreet has become a massive projection movement made up almost entirely of the most radical Leftist organisations.  Everything that they accuse the 1% of, they themselves are guilty of...greed, selfishness, disregard for others, etc.  The difference is that there are many in the 1% that actually earned what they have.  The OWStreeters don't want to work for anything.  They want their loans forgiven.   They think that the fact of their very existence entitles them to a job paying 6 figures or more as a PhD in Ornamental Horticulture.  Who's greedy?  Who's selfish?  Who's lazy and childish?

Oakland OWS Riot

 

During my recent trip home, I spent 3 days infiltrating Occupy LSX (I plan on writing about this adventure in more detail soon).  From my conversations and interactions with the protesters, I have come to believe that about 90% of the Movement is grossly ignorant, uneducated, inexperienced in the real world, utopian, and indoctrinated -- and for many -- beyond all reasonable hope.   They are not members of the poor or working classes.  They are, generally, not minorities.   They claim to be "Down with the Struggle," but this is the first time in their lives in which they are meeting a struggle.

 

A good majority of the 90% are from the Middle Class, Upper Middle Class and Upper Class.  Most are under the age of 35, attending university or holders of at least one college degree, were never on the dole as children, and are members of what I would like to call "Generation:  Everyone Gets A Trophy."

When one is used to getting everything for which they ask based solely on the premise that "They are entitled to it," then it should come as no surprise to anyone that a group of people, who lack the merest understanding of economics, history, human behaviour, and politics, would believe that -- for the solitary reason that they demand it -- all global debt should be forgiven and such is anything but an unrealistic request.  Naturally, they expect global governments, financial institutions, corporations, mum-n-pops, individuals, brothers & sisters, ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends, etc. to forgive all debt and hand everyone a Liberté, Egalité, et Fraternité Trophy along with a slate wiped clean of school loan, consumer debt, and all other obligations.

Older readers should bear in mind that, for many, this is the first real economic downturn of their lives.  Until now, they have been sleeping in the safety of their childhood bedrooms and a good economy.  Having your security blanket, teddy bear, and Buzz Lightyear sheets unexpectedly ripped from your hands, makes the world become a dangerous, scary, unfair, and oppressive place.

Oakland OWStreeters destroy Wells Fargo, which was forced to take a bailout from the Federal government

The remaining 10% are hardcore Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, environmental extremists, animal rights' extremists, etc., who really do hate the United States, Israel, the UK, the West, religion, the Middle Class, Capitalism, even Social Democracy, etc.  They really, really, really do want a revolution - the bloodier, the better.

More destruction to a bank caused by OWStreeters in Oakland 

 Former Soviet Citizen Confronts Socialists at Occupy Wall Street

  

"I am so glad that in the end I did get a chance to make however small contribution to the fight against the ideology which was supposed to be totally debunked with collapse of the Iron Curtain! It is really amazing that at this day and age we are still arguing about the merits of capitalism vs. so-called “socialism” or “communism” both of which never existed and never will for the correct term for both is “dictatorship” or “totalitarianism”.  When, say, Sweden or Norway or Canada are being used as the examples of the socialist states, the mere fact that one is allowed to make a profit (that is to buy for a $1 and sell for $2) makes them capitalist countries. The fact that one can own a house, or a piece of land, or a store, or a small or large business disqualifies them from being socialist countries. In USSR you would be imprisoned for 3 years for obtaining a pair of jeans (an extremely rare commodity back then) for 100 rubles and selling it for 150 rubles. It was called “profiteering” in their penal code.

I do hope and pray that these ridiculous discussions will have ended with the election of the republican president in 2012 who will lower taxes and make them permanent, cut  the size of the government, dramatically reduce the number of onerous regulations, open up all areas for safe drilling for oil, for gas, coal, rare earth metals exploration and allow building new atomic power plants and refineries! In a matter of just a couple of years everyone will see the economic boom that will “occupy” most people with work and prosperity!"

 - Vladimir, an ex-pat from the former Soviet Union

  

It is quite possible that I am off on my 90/10 split, but I feel safe in saying that the majority of Occupy LSX would be quite harmless...if only they were not allowed to vote.  I believe the same is true for the Occupy Movement everywhere.   It is imperative, at this point, that I state unequivocally that "Size doesn't matter," for the 10% is very dangerous and a likewise percentage has been used to wage revolution in France, Germany, Russia, and elsewhere.  It is for this reason that their public relations miscalculation and the farce of the "Circus Parade of Freaks, Anti-Semites, Bare-Breasted Ladies, Radicals, Pinkos, and Hardly An "Average, Hard-Working, Middle-Class American" In Sight" should be celebrated by Everyone-Not-On-The-Left and remembered.  The next time, Western civilisation might not be so lucky.

  

“Occupy Wall Street botched an opportunity to capture public opinion and achieve something. Americans, by every measure, distrust the politicians who run Washington and lead major institutions. So public opinion was ripe for the plucking ... Occupy Wall Street is right about one thing.  The whole world is watching. And it’s generally repulsed by what it’s seen.”

- Fraser P. Seitel, Managing Partner of Emerald Partners and author of The Practice of Public Relations

The legal scholar, Jim Huffman, argues that "the Occupy Wall Street movement . . . made a critical mistake. It envisioned a movement, but called itself a tactic."  Just as the 68ers brought about the election of Richard Nixon through their over-the-top behaviour and illegal activities because they so shocked Middle Class America, the 99ers -- whose very name is a lie -- so, too, will see a rejection and backlash by "Flyover America."  This has already happen, if one considers the available polling data.  Even after 2 1/2 years of being accused of the most hateful and vile things, along with being subjected to constant ridicule, dismissal, hatred, and propaganda, the TEA Party is still more popular that the Occupy Movement, which began two months ago and has received the most fawning and selective coverage by the media.

 

Alternative Titles:

"THIS is NOT your father's Democratic Party!" 

"The Revenge of Cloward-Piven!"

"The Ghost of JFK Past Sticks A Fork in the Eternal Flame at His Gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery and Proclaims the Republic to be "Done!"

"Voters don't care for the Tea Party either, with 42% saying they support its goals to 45% opposed.  But asked whether they have a higher opinion of the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street movement the Tea Party wins out 43-37, representing a flip from last month when Occupy Wall Street won out 40-37 on that question. Again the movement with independents is notable- from preferring Occupy Wall Street 43-34, to siding with the Tea Party 44-40."

- Democratic Polling Firm, Public Policy Polling, 16 November 2011

V.  BUT IF YOU WANT MONEY FOR PEOPLE WITH MINDS THAT HATE, ALL I CAN TELL IS, BROTHER, YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT.

On the 17th of November, the erstwhile denizens of New York's Obamaville called for a day of rage that included disruptions in the Wall Street area, on the subways and at Foley Square, site of the state and federal courthouses. WCBS-TV reported that "some grade school students were forced to walk a gauntlet of screaming 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters just to get to school."

OWS Protesters Chant 'Follow Those Kids!' As Small Children Try To Go To School On Wall Street

"In the middle of thousands of protestors yelling and chanting--some kicking and screaming- (were) little school kids trying to get to class.  Nervous parents led them through the barriers on Wall Street. The [New York City Police Department] helped funnel the children, anything to ease their fears while some protestors chanted 'follow those kids!'"

According to Occupy Portland, "Police Aren’t Our Comrades Until They 'Turn The Gun Around on Their Superiors.'"   Sadly, that ugliness is just the beginning as the protesters begin to call the police Nazis and terrorists.  Too bad that these morons know so little about Nazi history.  They are being set up by the Left elite's Sturmabteilung - and they will pay the price that the SA did when the time becomes necessary, if they are indeed successful in their mission.  It is they, however, who are the terrorists.  It is they, who are throwing vinegar and other acidic liquids into the faces and eyes of police officers.  It is they, who are the Fascists, who would deny others the rights of speech, peace, enjoyment, movement to travel to work, etc.

Unbelievable Obscenities Hurled at Police From Occupy Portland Protesters

This is how ugly it got in Portland on 11.17.11:

Tensions between officers and protesters began to rise about 4:25 p.m. when police warned protesters that anyone in the street would be arrested. A minute later police sprayed the crowd.

The crowd became enraged, throwing objects at police and screaming at police, “Who do you serve? Who do you protect? Multiple protesters could be seen pouring water in their eyes trying to clear the spray.

As John Sexton at Verum Serum correctly notes, "this is the pattern. Occupiers instigate confrontation with cops by blocking streets or bank entrances then pull out the cameras and video the response during arrests or crowd control."

Bonus clip:  Hey, let’s use our children as human shields and then we can call the police "war criminals" when they react - just like our friends, the Palestinians, do!

As we have seen on previous occasions - Human Mic Meltdown In Philly and Occupy Mental Ward for example - some of the Occupy protesters are clearly mentally ill, but there is an absolute connection between the celebration of political assassins and hatred of the police and authority and a significant percentage of the OWStreeter population:

"For the moment, Occupy's turned into as much an anti-police state protest as anything. And everyone hates cops!"

  
 

- Adrian Chen, left-leaning Gawker, 18 November 2011

Everyone hates cops - including the White House and Democrats, who want to spend more borrowed money to put more police officers on the street?  The would-be robbery or rape victim saved as a result of the police about which Vice-President Joe Biden spoke?  Even San Francisco original supporters of the OWS Movement?  Everybody?  You keep telling yourself that...pretty please with sugar, sprinkles, cherries, Reese's pieces, Sno-Caps, Oreos, and pitachios on top.

None of this should come as a surprise from the same movement that wanted to hold a moment of silence in solidarity for a potential assassination of President Obama.  I loathe Obama's policies, but would never wish for his assassination.  It is mindblowing to me that these spoiled whiners demanding for someone to give them something are so braindead, ignorant, stupefied, loaded, and/or indoctrinated that they would - for a moment - consider holding a moment of solidarity for an insane freak, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, that would kill the man for whom they voted to be the President of the United States.  

 "I walked in supportive and left unsupportive. I’m turned off by the negative shouts, repetition, and all I can think about is a cult. And I believe in every one of their damn principles."

- Mary Ann, 69, who declined to provide her last name, Occupy Seattle Townhall

Unlike the Evil Left, which wasted no time in blaming Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Libertarians, and everyone not a flaming Progressive of being responsible for the insane, horrific acts of Jared Loughner, who never had any connection to any of those the Left would convict of the Tucson Massacre without the trials that they would give to actual American-killing terrorists, I will not gleefully remind them of where the Mr Ortega-Hernandez occupied himself in the days preceding the shooting. 

Occupy San Diego Moment of Silence/Solidarity for W.H. Shooter!?

I'm pretty sure that the "Modern-day Jesus," who believes that Obama is the anti-Christ and Oprah is his BFF, probably wasn't acting in solidarity with OWS.  Has part of the population become so completely braindead that they believe that equality, social justice, blah, blah, blah, means having to be empathic and stand in solidarity with a loon, who would murder the leader of the free world or do they support what he wanted to do?  I am not sure that they even know.  

 

Yes, Miss Colleen, age 20, from Johnston State College in Vermont, but of course!  After all, the first one went so well and only cost the lives of 65 million Chinese people...at least.

 
According to Merriam-Webster's, empathy is defined as the "action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience."  Why would anyone want to understand, be aware of, be sensitive to, vicariously experience the feelings of a clearly mentally incompetent human being?  Can you be sympathetic to his condition?  Yes, but empathetic?  Does not political correctness become absurd at such a point?

According to Merriam-Webster's, solidarity is defined as unity (as of a group or class) that produces or is based on community of interests, objectives, and standards.  What shared interests, objectives, and standards do Occupy Wall Street protesters share with a would-be assassin and insane lunatic?  From their perspective, what is it that unifies them with the interests, objectives and standards of a modern-day Charles J. Guiteau?  Are some of these kids the 2010s version of the Manson Family and its cult-like followers?  Charles Manson thought that he was God and Jesus Christ, too.

According to Richard Schiffman at the Huffington Post, the good news is that "Occupy Wall Street is not going anywhere!"  "It is here to stay ... OWS is not about supplying readymade answers and political solutions, but about asking the right questions."

Those must be questions like: Hey, wouldn't it be fun to harass little children? Or: Since everyone hates cops, how about we start rewarding suicide bombers, who take out police officers...ya know, like Saddam Hussein used to pay Palestinian suicide bombers?  Or: Shouldn't we show solidarity with a guy who (allegedly) tried to assassinate the president?

"I call Occupy Wall Street a spiritual rather than a political movement." 

  

- Richard Schiffman, Huffington Post

Earth to Mr Schiffman, that's what the Left said about Jim "The most promising hope for world socialism" Jones and his People's Temple in San Francisco before they decided to decamp to Guyana and drink Koolaide.

"Rev Jim, It may take me many a day to come back down from the high that I reach today. I found something dear today. I found a sense of being that makes up for all the hours and energy placed in a fight. I found what you wanted me to find. I shall be back. For I can never leave...my name is cut into stone in support of you - and your people." 

- From a hand-written note from Harvey Milk to Reverend Jim Jones

As an aside, Richard, the phrase "drinking the Koolaide" comes from the Jim Jones' mass suicide by sheeple following a charismatic, Leftist fraud.    All that can be said about you is that it is a miracle you are still alive.

Not to be outdone in the "There's no place like Georgetown and the Upper West Side. There's no place like Georgetown and the Upper West Side" alternative universe, the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson, clicks his ruby red slippers together and weighs in with one of his par-for-the-course, down-the-rabbithole pronouncements:

"A big failure? No, quite the opposite. Lower Manhattan was swarming not just with demonstrators and police but with journalists from around the world--and with tourists who wanted to see what all the fuss was about. A small, nonviolent protest had been amplified into something much bigger and more compelling, not by the strength of its numbers but by the power of its central idea."   

Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo, Mr Robinson, Lithium Would Help You More Than You Would Know. Hey, Hey, Hey! Hey, Hey, Hey!  Euge has become a caricature of a caricature.

VI. YOU SAY YOU'LL CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION. WELL, YOU KNOW.  WE ALL WANT TO CHANGE YOUR HEAD.

"All of the individuals I spoke with proudly made comparisons with the protests of the 1960s. In the end, maybe that's what the Occupy protest is all about ... From what I observed, Occupy Wall Street was more of a "happening" than a "movement."... Zuccotti Park was filled with Baby Boomers seeking to recapture their Parsley, Sage Rosemary and Thyme memories of a by-gone era and idealistic twenty-somethings trying to stake out their own version of the 60s, so that years from now, and after they retire from a career in corporate America, they can pass the stories on to their grandchildren.  In any event, after my sojourn to Zuccotti Park, I came to the conclusion that most media accounts have it wrong and Occupy Wall Street could be summed up in one word -- unimpressive."

- Professor James V. Bellano teaches political science at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury.

In addition to marching to takeover the NYSE and Wall Street, they also planned to take back the "their constitutional rights" after being evicted from Zuccotti Park.

Q:  Do you have a constitutional right to occupy Zuccotti Park, which is private property? 

"Yes," said Kris Cook, who came here from Buffalo. "We have a constitutional right as American citizens to speak up and protest."

A:  No, you have no constitutional right to free speech and protest on private property no more than I have a right to set up a camp in the front yard of your parents for followers of Ayn Rand.  You will notice that the First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law..." not "Broofield Properties shall make no rules concerning its private property..."

Q:  Would you have an absolute First Amendment right if the park was public property?

"Yes," said Caroline Signorelli of Long Island City, "if nobody's hurting anybody and everything's kept clean and decent."

A:  Wrong, again.  In Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, 468 U.S. 288 (1984), the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the National Park Service could enforce rules against camping at Washington's Lafayette Park and on the National Mall.  As James Taranto reminds us,

CCNV, a left-wing group (surprise), had sought a permit -- something NO OCCUPY ANYWHERE GROUP HAS DONE --  "for a capital protest against "homelessness." Although of course they had every right to do so, the court held that the prohibition against camping was a reasonable restriction on the time, place and manner of speech."

Q:  Do you believe in private property rights at all and why should anyone care what you think?

"Look at when the Native Americans were here," added Kanaska Carter, from Canada. "They were sleeping wherever they wanted. Nobody should have the right to own land like this. I think that we should have the right to sleep anywhere that we want."

A:  Go back to Canada.   What you think is irrelevant.  Thanks for bringing up Native Americans, you gave me a segue into another bunch of useless yous comparing yourselves to important movements.

 Police and protesters ring Zuccotti Park Tuesday evening after it was ruled that the city could prevent Occupy Wall Streeters from bringing their tents, sleeping bags and other belongings back into the park. (Photo by Bryan Smith for New York Daily News)

Whenever the Left starts a new movement, it inevitably tries to tie the present "struggle" to the glorious struggles of the past.  So, it should come as no surprise that OccupyEverything is not only like the Civil Rights Movement, it is more important than the Civil Rights Movement.  Also, from a group that is riddled with anti-Semitism, it should not shock anyone either that they would try to claim concentration camps, the Holocaust, and a suspension of habeas corpus for their own Woodstock without the mud, but with better communications equipment and computers.

OWS 'Far More Important' Than Civil Rights Movement, Says Protester

When CNN's Poppy Harlow asked an Occupy Wall Street protester if the movement was fighting for something as important as civil rights, he declared that his movement's cause was "far more important" and "much grander."

A transcript of the segment, which aired on November 15 at 5:03 p.m. EST, is as follows:

[5:03]

POPPY HARLOW: I want to get to your point – quickly here, Wolf. Amos, you – you likened this to the civil rights movement, to Rosa Parks. Do you think that this is at that scale? Do you believe that you are fighting for something as important as civil rights in this country?

AMOS FISHER, Occupy Wall Street protester:

"Oh far more important, because it has nothing to do with – it has nothing to do with any designation, class, gender, anything. It has everything to do with humanity, and how – because like, we're in, I heard it described as our form of capitalism is a corporate capitalism, which is actually sort of like – someone referred to it as an inverted totalitarianism where the power structure is actually nameless, insofar as the corporations hold sway over the government. So that, I feel like, in the same way that a corporation has no loyalty to a nation state, this movement has no loyalty to any particular class of person. So I think it's much grander than simply civil rights movement."

HARLOW: Really?

FISHER:

"And I think that these days, a lot of these wars between – battles, prejudices that exist, human rights and such, are often serve as no more than a distraction from the real issue, which is keeping people with – keeping people at the bottom by dividing them."

In the “I’d Like To Buy A Clue, Pat” Department, the protesters broke into song on the streets amidst the broken glass and other wreckage they wrought in order to disrupt any counterprotest.  Care to guess what they were singing?  From NY Daily News’ liveblog: 

A group of about 30 protesters has now sat down in the middle of the intersection of Nassau and Pine.

They are what one protester called ‘soap boxing,’ which is basically ‘mic checking’ anti-Wall Street messages and they have just broke out into song, singing ‘We Shall Overcome.’

LaShawn Barber explained on Twitter for the clueless why such a comparison is so offencive:

For the record, black people sang “We Shall Overcome” as they marched for equality before the law.

Hipsters are singing it because…why? They can vote. They can live and work where they want. They can enter stores though the front door.

Hipsters are angry because…why? They can’t find a job with a degree in Romance languages, therefore they want capitalism abolished?

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