{"id":23301,"date":"2011-10-04T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23301"},"modified":"2016-10-17T21:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:28:17","slug":"our-dumb-counterculture-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23301","title":{"rendered":"Our Dumb Counterculture, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.One of the reasons that the left&#8217;s various attempts to counter the Tea Party have all failed, and will continue to fail, is that when you look at these hamsters, they just don&#8217;t <em>look <\/em>like America. \u00a0They look like superannnuated hippies and adenoidal poli-sci students and Macalester professors and the like.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/img\/2011\/10\/01\/alg_occupy-wall-street-police-plaza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And now, they&#8217;re\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.occupymn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ThePeoplesPlaza_10.2.11.pdf\">bringing the magic to the Twin Cities<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minneapolis, MN. \u2013 After this Saturday\u2019s open forum in Stevens Square Park, through a\u00a0group consensus, we now stand firm in our plans to unite at the Hennepin County<\/p>\n<p>Government Plaza. This plaza is the new focal point for the OccupyMN movement.<\/p>\n<p>Previously our plans were to stand in solidarity with those that occupy Wall Street by\u00a0rallying at the steps of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Stand Firm?&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Stand in Solidarity?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, &#8220;protesters&#8221;; Jane Fonda called; she wants her 40-year-old florid rhetoric back.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The plan has changed to\u00a0reclaim the Government Plaza as the \u201cPeople\u2019s Plaza\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to establish a new system that values people over profits. We are the 99% and\u00a0we are moving to reclaim our mortgaged future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re going to &#8220;reclaim&#8221; big government property&#8230;for big government?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Minnesota Occupation Begins:<\/p>\n<p>October 7th, 2011 at 9:00am<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Plaza <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal;\">(Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! &#8211; Ed)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>300 South 6th Street<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis, MN 55487-0999<\/p>\n<p>(Hennepin County Government Center Plaza)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was briefly tempted to go there and videotape the Cantina Band scene that must certainly ensue.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered &#8211; I have a family to spend time with, and an actual life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.One of the reasons that the left&#8217;s various attempts to counter the Tea Party have all failed, and will continue to fail, is that when you look at these hamsters, they just don&#8217;t look like America. \u00a0They look like superannnuated hippies and adenoidal poli-sci students and Macalester professors and the like. And now, they&#8217;re\u00a0bringing 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":[327,24,309,69],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-23301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-culture-war","category-indoctrinate-u","category-socialism","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301","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=23301"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49791,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions\/49791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}