so it could be a low budget alternative to a Jamaican vacation
-- On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:56 PM, REEE SPECT WALK <reeespectwalk@gmail.com> wrote:
If you have an aversion to bathing, hate to work, want someone else to
give you money, like drugs, and don't mind being raped occasionally
then the Occupy protests are the place for you.
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On Nov 9, 1:28 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Editor's Note: Occasionally, I send you a free sample of TIA Daily just to
> remind you of what you're missing. Below is my latest analysis of the
> Occupy Wall Street movement. To receive this kind of analysis all the time,
>
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> *TIA Daily* • * November 7, 2011 *
>
> *FEATURE ARTICLE*
>
> *Resist the Occupation*
>> *by Robert Tracinski*
> Occupy Wall Street Has Become a Roving Gang of Political Thugs
>
>> reviewer<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2011/11/true_life_i_m_o...>.
> 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
>> lice<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>at
> Adding to the Occupation's "Flea Party" reputation is the news of an
> infestation
> of head and body
> Occupy Portland. The parasites have parasites.> search<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>of
>
> Then there is the Daily Caller's
> arrest records from the New York Occupation, which found that many are> homes<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>you
> comfortably middle class and live in the kind of
> would associate with the wicked 1%. Note to the mainstream media: this> lamenting<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>the
> sort of investigation is called "reporting," and you might want to try
> doing some of it.
>
> Even one jaded leftist is
> "commodification of Occupy Wall Street," which "is now being exploited> fast<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>in
> by corporate interests."
>
> As a result of further exposure, the Occupation is dropping
> 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> reports<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>that
> 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
> Occupy Boston is "deteriorating" as it gets overrun by crack dealers.> died<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>there
> 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
> 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> What is more significant is the increase in *political violence* coming
> 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.
>
> from the Occupation.> shutdown<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>of
>
> 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
> one of the nation's busiest container ports, which quickly devolved> a riot<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>.
> into
>
> 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.> rundown<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>of
>
> James Taranto has a good
> the general collapse of the Occupation into rioting and violence. And> reports<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>indicate
> despite claims from the sympathetic press that this is just a "fringe" of
> the movement, some
> that Occupation organizers participated in the smashing of store> out<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>to
> windows and in running street battles with police, while one of Occupy
> Oakland's leaders turns
> be a "political rapper" who once defined his "basic statement" as> Occupy Seattle surrounded<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>a
> "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.
>
> hotel where JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was speaking, with the> disrupt<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>a
> 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
> speech by Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, forcing him to> siege<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>to
> cancel. Occupy DC then followed up last week by laying
> the Washington hotel where Americans for Prosperity, a right-leaning> stairs<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>.
> group with a lot of grassroots Tea Party links, was holding a conference.
> The valiant Occupiers bravely pushed a little old lady down the
> The victim was a grassroots Tea Party supporter from Detroit, and I think a> reaction<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>:
> lot of us would agree with her
> she initially regarded the Occupiers as earnest, misguided youth but now> symbol<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>celebrating
> 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
> a man who tried to blow up the English parliament. Which pretty> describes<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>how
> 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
> the "general assembly" was overthrown one night by a claque of> balkanized<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>,
> 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
> with the college kids on one side and the criminals, bums, and anarchists> leftists are cooperating<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>with
> on the other.
>
> But all of these groups stick together, for the same reason that Arab
> Islamists in the Middle East: they are united by their only real> invade<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>the
> 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
> Israeli consulate and chant in support of the Palestinian terrorist> didn't warn us. They are an *occupation*, a violent and hostile force
> 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
> attempting to impose its rule on an unwilling population.> Quan<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bropbvdab&et=1108568094365&s=8037&e=001...>,
>
> 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
> who gave city employees the day off to join the riots. Other mayors are> murderers: it was the *New York Times* that first tried to pin the blame on
> 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
> Tea Partiers for the actions of the deranged (and utterly apolitical) man> same *New York Times* that refuses to report on anything bad that happens
> whose shooting spree injured Representative Gabrielle Giffords. This is the
> in Zuccotti Park and which excuses the violent anarchists as an> The *Washington Post* has gone farther, suggesting new
> insignificant "fringe" of Occupy Wall Street.
>
> 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> *back to top* <#133895f15ffd4ab5_TOC>
> 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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