Solidarity Equals Command
By Mitch Berg
“Occupy Wall Street” (OWS) – and this weekend’s “Occupy Our People’s Plaza In Extremism” (OOPSIE) – are taking their orders from the Democrat hierarchy:
The front page of the http://occupywallst.org/ proudly announces that numerous union groups will be present in New York today to join demonstrators in marches taking place this afternoon.
“Together we will protest this great injustice. We stand in solidarity with the honest workers of….MoveOn.org,” states the website, as well as listing numerous other organizations.
What is MoveOn.org?
MoveOn.org is a lobbying organization that routinely backs Democratic candidates. The group aggressively supported Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign and is now “Perhaps the lead lobby organization for his policies….apart from Obama’s own Organizing for America,” reports Source Watch.
At about this point, some “progressive” will chime in “but but but the Tea Party was controlled by the GOP”. Nah. I mean, there was all sorts of cross talk – like, me, among many many much bigger and more important people – and plenty of Tea Partiers, Conservatives and Republicans, individually and as groups, shared beliefs and goals. There’s overlap, to be sure. But the Tea Party scared, and challenged, the mainstream GOP in a way similar to the Ron Paul challenge in 2008, only many, many times bigger. The Tea Party changed the GOP – not the other way around.
All the reeking hippies and college bobbleheads and union slackers and MoveOn.org yentas and Code Pink harpies in New York and, this weekend, in Minneapolis? They’ve got it exactly the other way around.
And it’s going to be fu-u-u-un pointing it out to them.
October 6th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Personally, I think that it would be a great time and place for the Minneapolis Fire Department to test their firehoses!
October 6th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Yet another gathering of the Great Herd of Independent Minds.
October 6th, 2011 at 1:04 pm
I read yesterday that college students were walking out of class in “solidarity” with the occupiers. Man, that’s going to hurt.
October 6th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Night Writer…yeah, why should an enviromental justice major have to pay for her own college tuition. Make The Man pay for it.
October 6th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
In Re: Fire Hose Test – Please also invite Ecolab for a joint test of new cleaning products – maybe 3M for some scrubbing pads?
As we have seen with everything from Drinking Liberally to the Coffee Parties, these people, like the Soviets, don’t do anything without a plan handed down from some (Central) Committee.
October 6th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
I am a lot less sanguine about this than the rest of you seem to be. Mpls – like Madison, Austin, and Berkeley (sp?) has a $hitload of imbecile hipster douchebags who have nothing better to do than to pile on to these events. That sort of mass attracts the MSM, who would be all over this anyway (you could hear Gary Eichden strapping on kneepads with his noon MPR interview with some fifth string Metro State PolySci prof who is organizing the Mpls event). This could get quite large, and if the Tea Party decided to counter-demonstrate, it could get quite ugly.
October 7th, 2011 at 12:53 am
But the Tea Party scared, and challenged, the mainstream GOP in a way similar to the Ron Paul challenge in 2008, only many, many times bigger
agreed.
October 7th, 2011 at 7:07 am
A serious case of magical thinking has infected the participants in Occupy Wall St. Since when has setting up a camp for overgrown children ever changed the world? Oh, you mean the Greek protests and Tahrir Square? Well, look at what has changed in those countries. In Greece, the government continues its austerity program. In Egypt, the generals got to remove an aging, senile dictator without having to resort to the kind of civil war that’s happening in Libya. The restless youth of Cairo continue to experience high unemployment and powerlessness. That was no revolution. The world’s cameras are pointing elsewhere, in particular at a motley crew of agendaless, spoiled children in New York City, and the usual suspects are showing up, giving speeches and going back to their A list lifestyles. No doubt a hard core of protestors, given token union support in the form of meals and tent space, will continue to reside in the park, but as fall merges into winter, the less hardy will quietly realize no one is listening much anymore, and they will depart.
Obama no doubt hopes the clamor will move the focus away from his ineffective presidency and for a few weeks it will, but the peak is too far removed in time for him to get any benefit.
October 7th, 2011 at 7:34 am
If MoveOn and SEIU are involved, that means George Soros money is involved.
Why? What would George Soros get out of riots against bankers? All that would do is jeopardize the value of the banks’ currency as compared to currency of other nations. That benefits no American.
Unless Soros happened to be a currency speculator.who’s shorted dollars. Then riots might make him a trillionaire.
And President Obama supports the rioters. Gotta wonder why.
October 7th, 2011 at 9:54 am
So does Nancy Pelosi, when she isn’t diverting tax-payer money into another Green boondoggle owned by her brother-in-law.
I rode the LRT past the Plaz this a.m. a little before 9. At that point, there were maybe 2-3 dozen people in a couple of clumps on the Plaza and a registration table with a few anarchists in queue.