Once Upon A Time In Zuccoti Park

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All you want to know about Occupy Wall Street


"Hey Man, where's Occupy Wall Street being held?"

All week I have been getting requests from protesters looking for Wall Street. Like the anecdotal New Yorker who when asked how to get to Carnegie Hall replies "Practice", I've been tempted to reply with "Get a Series 7 License". But the reputation of New Yorkers for rude helpfulness isn't unearned and so I point them the right way.

The ones who are asking are very obviously not New Yorkers. Rarely even are they from this coast. Not only do they usually manage to walk the wrong way, but their dazed expressions and social awkwardness scream Portland or Pot in equal measure. A couple smiling blissfully with the look I have only ever seen before in videos and photos from the Age of Aquarius asks me how to get to Wall Street. Their cuttoffs are completely wrong for the weather and if they keep going straight they will end up in the East River.

Another couple barely speaks English, the male of the group is gangly, unshaven and French. The protests are attracting the usual international crowd. And this is Bloomberg's mistake. The longer the occupation of a public park usually used for lunch hour by construction workers, now occupied by wannabe hippies and professional activists drags on and picks up media coverage, the more it will attract the dregs of the protest movement.

Between Europe and America, there are a good deal of bored students, community organizers and shiftless postmodern hippies selling hemp clothing at roadside stands. Usually they stick to the West Coast because the weather is warmer, the politics are hotter and the property values are cheaper. But in a perverse reverse migration, parts of Oregon and Washington are flying East to New York to sit on stone benches and be part of something "bigger".

The organizers of Occupy Wall Street understood that all they really had to do was hang on for a week or two until they picked up enough stupid young people to create a critical mass that would garner them the media coverage to turn it into an international event. A few arrests, some cries of police brutality, a fake Radiohead concert and Portland and Paris' dregs show up with their high rolled backpacks and artisan bongs.

Giuliani and the police brass understood the momentum of these things in a way that Bloomberg does not. Giuliani would not have tolerated Zuccoti Park being turned into an extension of Berkeley, but he understood that the city had to be livable for its residents. Bloomberg still thinks of New York as an international city, and having tried to lure the Olympics, he can't very well say no to an international group of losers.

This isn't really about Wall Street or corporations, it's about protest as identity. I have seen the future and it's a man in a red shirt and a megaphone shouting at a crowd which repeats everything he says. This is the face of the left, the Human Microphone is the society they want to impose on us. It may be startlingly crude at this level, but give it a trillion dollar budget and it becomes more sophisticated.

Radicalization is about protest with no other purpose but protest. Its goal is to block streets, get arrested, write about the experience and then come back tomorrow and train the newest arrivals to do the same thing all over again. The demands don't really matter. With a friendly administration in DC, this is more about visibility and setting a national agenda by hijacking the consensus.

Activism is about disrupting democracy through force of will. Shout the loudest and your agenda moves up to the top. Given a choice between a vocal agenda and a muted opposition, the public will often go along with the vocal agenda. And even if it doesn't, the politicians will.

The protests are a misnomer as they are not a protest against, but a show of support for a troubled administration playing its last class warfare card. Plan A was for the media to insist that the recovery was here. But Plan A is roadkill because no one actually bought into the Summer of Recovery. That just leaves Plan B which is to run against the economic crisis on a class warfare platform.

Conceptually it makes no sense for the established party to run as the opposition, but the Obama cult has broken all sorts of rules before and its program has never made any sense. Stir up enough chaos in the street, roll out the red carpet and write up the speech promising to save the nation and it might work. Dictators have done it often enough before.

It's not a good sign when both parties have their own affiliated protest movements. At least it isn't a good sign in the United States of America which had managed to avoid descending into instability. But it's an even worse sign when the ruling party recruits youth to stage violent protests so its leader can promise to save the country from the chaos.

The Age of Aquarius is the old template for it, but all that is gone This is the Age of Accounting and the battle is over how to divide the contents of a shrinking pot. This is a struggle fought in the realms of the mathematical and the emotional in a social engineering game of monopoly.

The economy imploded with the housing bubble and the less idiotic signs carried by the protesters complain about student debt. The housing bubble poured billions into the coffers of the left and the educational bubble underwrote the university programming centers of the left. The final bill due for both comes to taxpayers, but the minority borrowers of subsidized mortgages and students deep in debt are stuck with a personal bill.

Fannie Mae and Sallie Mae were instruments of leftist social engineering, turned into engines of profit and then into weapons of national economic disaster. Many of the borrowers have been bamboozled, not just once when they signed up for loans without understanding how many ways they could be screwed over, but a second time around when they were convinced to blame their problems on some mythical 1 percent of the country. Members of whom are directing and funding their protests.

The emotional denies the mathematical, but numbers can only be treated as imaginary for so long when you are borrowing against them. The bubbles in the national economy rise up into the global economy. And behind them all is the stench of decaying cultures, of work ethics turned inside out and men and women in the business and the political world who no longer understand the cost of their choices.

The protests of the Age of Accounting are sadder than the old flower children who occasionally show up to relive a lost age. The America of their time had the resources and wealth to waste its time. Now the social issues are purely dollars and cents. The 99 percent and the 1 percent are only the first of many statistics. But all the statistics are either personal or variable. Everyone is trying to use spurious math to define a state of happiness and unhappiness.

The backpacks and iPhones, the expensively casual clothes and retro glasses, are all pricey poses. Some protesters are living out a back to nature pose from the 90's in between cups of Starbucks, while others are dressing like it's the 1920's or the 1950's again. No one is in the present, because there is no present. The culture of the 21st century is purely of the "now", its fashion statements are retro, its music is plastic and its politics is content free. There are no big issues anymore, just echoes and imitations of the old ones.

Like the European elites, our own elites have become decadent, pretending that they are students of human happiness, when all they are is bad thieves and worse economists. Their children are bad students and even worse protesters.

The shallow lemming radicalization on display in the Occupy protests sums up everything wrong with the politics of the now. There are no ideas here, only the needy egos of a media age who bring their attendant insecurities to protest rallies, while refusing to ask who is behind the rallies and whose purposes they are truly serving.

It is enough to put on their retro clothing, and stage their retro protests, and then go back to deal with their student debt without asking who is really responsible for all that. Who told them that the path to success lay in universal education, who tricked them into taking dubious loans and who really profits from all that money used to buy their inflated sheepskin.

Sheep don't ask questions like that. They Baa when they're supposed to, play their part in the Human Microphone, update their Twitter accounts, yell the things that other people are yelling and then they go home to do their taxes. They are the 99 percent who don't think but go along with the consensus. Whether they go along with the consensus by reading editorials and nodding along or by getting arrested waving a cardboard sign, doesn't really matter. They are the consensus that bankrupted and enslaved the country. And they don't matter. It is the 1 percent who step out of the consensus who do.

.....Dan Greenfield

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............and here's one in the crowd who is making some sense.

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I must confess that I've been getting a kick out of Democrats trying to align themselves with the Occupy Wall Street mob.  If ever a political stratagem was destined to blow up in their face, this is it.  For folks who like to brag about their knowledge of history, it's amazing that they've already forgotten what the Yuppies demonstrating in the streets of Chicago did to enhance Hubert Humphrey's chances of defeating Richard Nixon in 1968.  And at least those clowns could claim that they were demonstrating against the Vietnam War.  Ask these baboons what they're demonstrating against and, depending on whom you speak to, you might be told Goldman Sachs, banks in general, George Bush, the Tea Party, oil companies, the U.S. military, Fox News or maybe even E.K. 

I found it rather interesting that Diane Sawyer voiced support for the Occupy Wall Street crowd when they attack the 1% of Americans who are the biggest money-earners.  In order to be included in that group, it seems that you have to make at least $1.1 million-a-year.  Ms. Sawyer, as well as every other high-profile member of the L (Lame) SM, along with just about every Demo-rat in the Senate, George Soros, Warren Buffet, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, James Carville, Elmer Fudd, Bill and Hillary Clinton, David Letterman, Bill Maher and Michael Moore, all make beaucoup times that amount.

But, of course, most members of the street mob don't care about the political affiliation of those they despise.  In that way, they resemble the liberal simple-minded loons in Hollywood, where it's not enough that they succeed, it's also essential that everybody else fail.  So, no matter what Nancy Pelosi and Diane Sawyer may claim to the contrary, I believe that the Occupiers are less concerned with becoming rich themselves than with punishing those who are already wealthy.


As movements go, this one doesn't even compare with the one I had this morning.

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I thought they chose that name because 99% of them failed to break freezing on an IQ test. Hmmm...these maggot-infested useful idiots and clueless developmentally-arrested trust fund brats have no problem with being used by the Obuma-  Depressioncrats, the communists AND the nazis... and of course the regime itself... which, when it isn't stoking riots to divide and conquer the American people, devotes a tremendous portion of its energy to its goal of marching the Israelis into the sea.  It's very telling that Obuma-Depressioncrat politicians aren't running away screaming from this pitiful media-created "movement".



Nazis and Communists Throw Their Support Behind Occupy Wall Street Movements (Updated)Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, October 15, 2011

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/figures-nazi-party-throws-support-behind-occupy-wall-street-movement/

American Nazi Party likes what it sees.

Today the American Nazi Party released a statement in support of Occupy Wall Street movement.
http://whitehonor.com/white-power/the-occupy-wall-street-movement/
The foremost authority on National Socialism in America has this to say about "Occupy" [ANP leader Rocky Suhayda -ed.] :
What is really MISSING – is the "MOVEMENT" from these popular protests – its time to pull WN heads out of their collective ass's, and JOIN IN the attack on Judeo-Capitalism. What do you suggest? That WN Working Class White people DEFEND the Judeo-Capitalists? IF the "movement" wasn't so PATHETIC it would be OUT THERE – LEADING these protests! The fact that its these "lefties" as you call them, who are picking up the ball and running with it – only shows how much more in tune THEY are with the fed up masses of White Workers, than the fossilized, reactionary "right-wing". WHO holds the WEALTH and POWER in this country – the JUDEO-CAPITALISTS. WHO is therefore the #1 ENEMY who makes all this filth happen – the JUDEO-CAPITALISTS. WHO therefore do WN need to FIGHT? My heart is right there with these people, perhaps someday the "movement" will SHOW the same COURAGE and DEDICATION that these people OUT THERE FIGHTING are SHOWING!
Sincerely, ROCKY SUHAYDA Hail Victory! 88!

Then there's this...

The Communist Party USA also supports the Obama-endorsed Occupy Wall Street Protests.
From the Communist PartyUSA website:

http://www.cpusa.org/

This is an exciting time! Thousands of mainly young people have been occupying Wall Street for three weeks already, and the "Occupy Movement" has spread to more than 200 other cities. On Oct. 6 the actions spread to our nation's capital.

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) will hold a national teleconference to discuss it:

Arturo Cambron
The Communist Party and the Occupy L.A. Movement
Tuesday, October 11, 8 pm Eastern
Teleconference number: 605-475-4850 (please note this is the corrected number. ignore previous.)
Access code: 1053538#

Southern California Party leader Arturo Cambron will share how the CPUSA and Young Communist League (YCL) are working in "Occupy Los Angeles."

This movement, also known as the "99% movement," is being hailed across the country. Movements and organizations are reaching out in solidarity. The AFL-CIO is opening union halls and offering other material assistance. Ordinary people are donating food, money and materials.

In many areas, the "Occupy Movement" is linking up with the National American Wants to Work Week of Actions, Oct. 10-16.

No doubt the "Arab Spring" demonstrations and those that exploded in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere have inspired it. But underlying it all is the economic crisis, the massive unemployment and growing realization that nothing is getting better, and in fact we may be slipping into a "double dip" crisis. The crushing student debt and the feeling of being locked out of society with no future compound this.

The movement is the newest wrinkle in the all-people's upsurge against the banks and corporations and reflects a new level of class-consciousness.
UPDATE: Thousands of Occupy Chicago protesters cheered the communist leaders last night in Chicago:[/b]