give you money, like drugs, and don't mind being raped occasionally
then the Occupy protests are the place for you.
On Nov 9, 1:28 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> *TIA Daily* • * November 7, 2011 *
>
> *FEATURE ARTICLE*
>
> *Resist the Occupation*
>
> Occupy Wall Street Has Become a Roving Gang of Political Thugs
>
> *by Robert Tracinski*
>
> Well, that was quick. In less than two months, the Occupy Wall Street
> movement has gone through the full life cycle of a leftist movement and is
> beginning to lose its image as a group of idealistic and well-meaning (if
> naïve and misguided) college kids and is starting to be recognized as a
> dangerous lurch toward thuggish mob rule.
>
> It was inevitable. As they came under more scrutiny, the Occupiers weren't
> coming off well. An MTV documentary following young Occupiers made them
> look shallow, unfocused, and self-indulgent. And that's from a sympathetic
> reviewer<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2011/11/true_life_i_m_o...>.
>
> Adding to the Occupation's "Flea Party" reputation is the news of an
> infestation
> of head and body
> lice<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>at
> Occupy Portland. The parasites have parasites.
>
> Then there is the Daily Caller's
> search<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>of
> arrest records from the New York Occupation, which found that many are
> comfortably middle class and live in the kind of
> homes<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>you
> would associate with the wicked 1%. Note to the mainstream media: this
> sort of investigation is called "reporting," and you might want to try
> doing some of it.
>
> Even one jaded leftist is
> lamenting<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>the
> "commodification of Occupy Wall Street," which "is now being exploited
> by corporate interests."
>
> As a result of further exposure, the Occupation is dropping
> fast<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>in
> the polls. In an utterly predictable irony, it is least popular among
> the poor and lower middle class. As the *Washington Examiner*
> notes<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>,
> "the highest net negative rating of Occupy Wall Street comes among middle
> income Americans earning between $30,000 and $50,000," and "with the media
> trying to portray this as a populist movement, it's worth noting that
> two-thirds of those earning under $30,000 either haven't heard of the
> movement or have an unfavorable view of it."
>
> So much for all of that "We are the 99%" guff.
>
> It is only going to get worse from here on out, because the Occupation has
> passed its initial phase, with its well-scrubbed façade of naïve youthful
> idealism. By its own inexorable logic, it is turning into something much
> uglier.
>
> A local CBS affiliate
> reports<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>that
> Occupy Boston is "deteriorating" as it gets overrun by crack dealers.
> One Occupier tells the reporter, "Things have changed drastically. It seems
> to be deteriorating. A lot of drug use, alcohol use, people getting into
> fights. It's deteriorating pretty quick." Hey, there's that "reporting"
> thing again. Maybe it will catch on.
>
> In Vancouver, the mayor is threatening to clear out the city's Occupation
> camp after a woman
> died<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>there
> from an apparent drug overdose.
>
> The *New York Post*, the center for hard-nosed, gimlet-eyed reporting from
> the Occupied territories, tells
> us<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>that
> "Zuccotti Park has become so overrun by sexual predators attacking
> women in the night that organizers felt compelled to set up a female-only
> sleeping tent," which they call the "safety tent."
>
> This is what happens when you purposely set up zones of lawlessness in the
> middle of big cities: you create a safe space that attracts drug addicts
> and dealers, violent and crazy homeless people, and criminals.
>
> What is more significant is the increase in *political violence* coming
> from the Occupation.
>
> Oakland, California, has long been a hotbed of political radicalism, so it
> is no surprise that its Occupation was the first to branch out to a forcible
> shutdown<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>of
> one of the nation's busiest container ports, which quickly devolved
> into
> a riot<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>.
>
> And that is what they are trying to bring to *your* neighborhood: the
> latest idea from Occupy Oakland is to occupy foreclosed
> homes<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>.
> Meet the new neighbors.
>
> James Taranto has a good
> rundown<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>of
> the general collapse of the Occupation into rioting and violence. And
> despite claims from the sympathetic press that this is just a "fringe" of
> the movement, some
> reports<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>indicate
> that Occupation organizers participated in the smashing of store
> windows and in running street battles with police, while one of Occupy
> Oakland's leaders turns
> out<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>to
> be a "political rapper" who once defined his "basic statement" as
> "death
> to the pigs," and who pumped up the Occupiers by performing "5 Million Ways
> to Kill a CEO."
>
> It's not just violence directed generally toward the police and big
> corporations. The Occupiers are now singling out and targeting individuals,
> particularly those whom they see as political opponents.
>
> Occupy Seattle surrounded<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>a
> hotel where JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was speaking, with the
> goal
> of detaining Dimon in a "citizen's arrest." But as with "civil
> disobedience," the Occupiers are horribly misusing this term. An unruly mob
> attempting to seize an individual who is guilty in their eyes, but who has
> not been found guilty in a court of law, is not a "citizen's arrest." It is
> a lynching.
>
> Incidentally, what is Dimon's guilt? That he took a government bailout?
> Those whose memory stretches back three years might remember that Dimon and
> other big bankers were strong-armed by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury
> into taking those bailouts. That's an evil pincer movement for you: the
> government elites force you to take a bailout, then the leftist mobs in the
> street want to "arrest" you for it.
>
> Occupy Philadelphia sent demonstrators to
> disrupt<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>a
> speech by Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, forcing him to
> cancel. Occupy DC then followed up last week by laying
> siege<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>to
> the Washington hotel where Americans for Prosperity, a right-leaning
> group with a lot of grassroots Tea Party links, was holding a conference.
> The valiant Occupiers bravely pushed a little old lady down the
> stairs<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>.
> The victim was a grassroots Tea Party supporter from Detroit, and I think a
> lot of us would agree with her
> reaction<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>:
> she initially regarded the Occupiers as earnest, misguided youth but now
> regards them as dangerous.
>
> This is what the Occupy Wall Street movement has become: a roving gang of
> political thugs who assault and intimidate anyone who disagrees with their
> politics.
>
> This is not a distortion of the movement but its logical development. From
> the very beginning, the whole point of the Occupation has been to create
> lawless spaces controlled by mob rule (they call this the "general
> assembly"), populated by black-clad figures wearing Guy Fawkes masks,
> an anarchist
> symbol<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>celebrating
> a man who tried to blow up the English parliament. Which pretty
> much sums up the degree of their commitment to representative government.
>
> The real significance of the movement's deterioration is that the violent
> anarchists are trying to take over left. The live-blog I linked to above
> about the siege of Jamie Dimon indicates the increasing prominence of
> anarchists in the movement: "Many of the protesters are covering their
> faces. Flags are flying, many of them the red and black of the
> anarcho-syndicalists." A recent blog report on Occupy Los Angeles
> describes<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>how
> the "general assembly" was overthrown one night by a claque of
> criminals and anarchists who opposed the adoption of a "code of conduct"
> that would have discouraged drinking and drug use. Something similar has
> been happening in the Occupation camp in Zuccotti Park, which has become
> balkanized<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>,
> with the college kids on one side and the criminals, bums, and anarchists
> on the other.
>
> But all of these groups stick together, for the same reason that Arab
> leftists are cooperating<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>with
> Islamists in the Middle East: they are united by their only real
> cause. In the Middle East, it's hatred of the West. For the Occupiers, the
> cause that unites them is hatred of capitalism and the desire to tear it
> down.
>
> Oh, and speaking of the unholy alliance between leftists and Islamists in
> the Middle East, the folks at Occupy Boston found time to
> invade<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>the
> Israeli consulate and chant in support of the Palestinian terrorist
> intifada.
>
> Take it all together and the best description for the Occupy Wall Street
> movement is the one that they chose for themselves, so you can't say they
> didn't warn us. They are an *occupation*, a violent and hostile force
> attempting to impose its rule on an unwilling population.
>
> The proper response is obvious. Resist the Occupation.
>
> Not much resistance is necessary. This self-styled "occupation" is small
> and weak, precisely because they represent something closer to the 0.01%
> rather than the 99%. We need to demand that the timid mayors of the
> Occupied cities clear out the mobs and reassert the rule of law in their
> city centers.
>
> Every occupation has its collaborators, and the current leftist-anarchist
> Occupation has benefited from the craven collaboration of local officials,
> like Oakland Mayor Jean
> Quan<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>,
> who gave city employees the day off to join the riots. Other mayors are
> clearly terrified of being vilified in the press for doing their job by
> guaranteeing law and order within city limits. And that brings us to the
> press, which is where we find the most active collaborators.
>
> For the last two and a half years, the mainstream media has smeared the Tea
> Party movement as a gang of violent racists and murders. Yes, literally
> murderers: it was the *New York Times* that first tried to pin the blame on
> Tea Partiers for the actions of the deranged (and utterly apolitical) man
> whose shooting spree injured Representative Gabrielle Giffords. This is the
> same *New York Times* that refuses to report on anything bad that happens
> in Zuccotti Park and which excuses the violent anarchists as an
> insignificant "fringe" of Occupy Wall Street.
>
> The *Washington Post* has gone farther, suggesting new
> targets<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>for
> the Occupation. In short, the left-of-center mainstream media have
> become propagandists for the Occupation.
>
> In a way, though, they are merely reprising their role as unpaid press
> agents for the hippies and the "student rebellion" of the 1960s, which
> Occupy Wall Street is re-enacting in miniature. Since the financial crisis
> hit in 2008, I have argued that we are living through "20th Century Lite."
> We are doomed to relive all of the disastrous bad ideas of the 20th
> century, but on a smaller scale and with a faster timeline. The auto
> bailout and the Obama "stimulus" were the 1930s, the era of overweening
> confidence in big government and central planning, which were supposed to
> ensure prosperity and solve all of our problems. Now we've progressed to
> the 1960s, when a movement of supposedly "idealistic" college kids rises up
> to tear down the whole capitalist system, only to collapse into an ugly
> period of rampant crime, drug addiction, and decay and disorder in the
> inner cities.
>
> So when do we get to a re-enactment of the 1980s: the revival of free
> markets and the renewal of American prosperity and power?
>
> Well, first we have to get to the stage when the "silent majority" of
> decent, self-supporting Americans became disgusted by the destructive
> lawlessness of the hippies and rise up to resist the Occupation.
>
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