First things first: Pardon the fact that I’m linking to Infowars.
But this was just too good to miss: the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters are truly, truly stupid people:
The zeal for totalitarian government amongst some of the “protesters” is shocking. One sign being carried around read, “A government is an entity which holds the monopolistic right to initiate force,” which seems a little ironic when protesters complain about being physically assaulted by police in the same breath.
One woman interviewed by Kokesh also announces her intention to help Obama to capture a second term. How can a self-proclaimed Occupy Wall Street protester simultaneously support the man whose 2008 campaign was bankrolled by Wall Street, whose 2012 campaign is reliant on Wall Street to an even greater extent, and whose cabinet was filled with Wall Street operatives?
My favorite moment – where by “favorite” I mean “scares the crap out of me” – is the nebbishy little product of, no doubt, an exquisitely expensive post-secondary education at 1:45: “There are certain things called civil liberties which are limitations on democracy”.
The class warriors in the MSM are sniffing a story and blowing oxygen on a story that by rights would have died a natural death already. NBC sent a breathless reporter to cover the “occupation” and she managed to cover all of the organization’s talking points as if they were her original ideas. How nice. A safe version of Tahrir Square so sexy blonde reporters can mingle with protestors and not be assaulted like Lara Logan. Only in America. I understand the Minneapolis version will be “occupying” the Hennepin County Government center today. I wonder if Mayor Rybak, Senators Klobuchar and Franken puls the usual suspects will support the rule of law or choose to be photographed behind the barricades with the ragtag revolutionaries? Perhaps one of the feckless prog bloggers will entertain us with live tweets from Ground Zero.
Coming soon to a Government Plaza near you: Minneapolis protest begins this Friday and lasts until the first good ice-storm, or until the media gets bored.
“There are certain things called civil liberties which are limitations on democracy”
And who determines what those civil liberties are? They do. A “Peoples Committee” made up of thugs, lawyers, and liberal arts grad students.
Hmmm, I thought that with the 2008 elections the progressives already occupied DC. At least that’s what they claimed at the time.
As to the video, Stalin would have been proud of us to have so many “useful idiots” running to his philosophy.The idiot with the “civil liberties which are limitations on democracy” then went on to say how great the First Amendment was, raising the question of how the hell he managed to pass civics (yes, I know, we’ve neutered the classical Core Curriculum, much to society’s detriment).
I couldn’t stomach it past 4 minutes, with the cute but patently brain dead chikc babbling about the “1% ers”. If this is what we have to look forward to coming out of our colleges for “educated” people, I fear for this country.
Typical of the left, violence by the State is just fine if it is done for ends with which they agree. those killed by the violence were wrong, and obstacles to the State’s goals.
Sickening.
Thanks for the laugh out loud entertainment, Mitch! If I were placing bets on the parenting of these miscreants, I would go with their parents either being 1960’s flower children or union goons that did no parenting whatsoever.
From looking at the pics their parents seem to have been overwhelmingly white.
As far as I can tell the biggest complaints about the US economic system made by regular people are:
-Lack of jobs
-High energy costs
-High health care costs
-High cost of college tuition
Nick Kristof (Pulitzer Prize winner!) proposes these goals for the protesters:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/kristof-the-bankers-and-the-revolutionaries.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
None of Kristof’s bullet points will provide a single job, or reduce the costs of energy, healthcare, or college tuition. They will of course, increase the wealth and power of the regulatory state.
WWII vets occupied Germany and Japan to end carnage.
1960’s hippies occupied the dean’s office to avoid dying in Vietnam, and Southern Black protesters occupied lunch counters to end segregation.
These snots occupy Wall Street to . . . what, exactly? Demand more Hope? More Change? Even if they got it, would they recognize it or know what to do with it?
What else do you expect of those who have suckled on the government teat all their lives? They never learned to do anything for themselves so when the teat gets pulled away they cry and flop about helplessly.
Not that there haven’t been some “fat cats” getting fatter on another of the (too many) teats, but I’ll be these have spent some time scrounging in their day and have alternate ways of taking milk money away from others.
I also like the way the “Occupiers” don’t have any leadership or organization, but they do have a liaison with the local police department.
I should mention that Kristof’s 1st bullet point is intellectually dishonest:
“Europe”, in this case, means the EU bureaucracy. The actual nations of the EU are resisting, esp. Great Britain, which would pay the heaviest toll under such a tax. It’s purpose is not to ” dampen speculative trading that creates dangerous volatility”, but to give the EU an autonomous source of income (currently the EU’s funding comes from member nations or is collected by member nations).
The proposed EU financial transactions is supposed to address a specific problem within the EU. It has nothing to do with the US or “volatile financial markets” at all. It will decrease the propensity to invest across the board, not just “speculative trading”.
None of Kristof’s bullet points will provide a single job, or reduce the costs of energy, healthcare, or college tuition. They will of course, increase the wealth and power of the regulatory state.
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