{"id":23265,"date":"2011-10-03T05:41:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T10:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23265"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:50:09","slug":"our-dumb-counterculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23265","title":{"rendered":"Our Dumb Counterculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First things first: \u00a0Pardon the fact that I&#8217;m linking to <em>Infowars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But this was just too good to miss: \u00a0the &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221; protesters are truly, truly stupid people:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bFVR9Nv43J4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The zeal for totalitarian government amongst some of the \u201cprotesters\u201d is shocking. One sign being carried around read, \u201cA government is an entity which holds the monopolistic right to initiate force,\u201d which seems a little ironic when protesters complain about being physically assaulted by police in the same breath.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite moment &#8211; where by &#8220;favorite&#8221; I mean &#8220;scares the crap out of me&#8221; &#8211; is the nebbishy little product of, no doubt, an exquisitely expensive post-secondary education at 1:45: \u00a0 &#8220;There are certain things called civil liberties which are limitations on democracy&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First things first: \u00a0Pardon the fact that I&#8217;m linking to Infowars. But this was just too good to miss: \u00a0the &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221; protesters are truly, truly stupid people: The zeal for totalitarian government amongst some of the \u201cprotesters\u201d is shocking. One sign being carried around read, \u201cA government is an entity which holds the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,68,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23267,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23265\/revisions\/23267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}