The "Occupy" Movement

[Journeyman]

:rofl:    :blah:  :nevermind:  :ignore:

You've always had a way with words  ;D 

 

[Nemo888]

Chris Hedges said it better than I could.

"The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define ourselves as a good and noble people. Most importantly, on behalf of the power elite the liberal class serves as bulwarks against radical movements by offering a safety valve for popular frustrations and discontentment by discrediting those who talk of profound structural change. Once this class loses its social and political role then the delicate fabric of a democracy breaks down and the liberal class, along with the values it espouses, becomes an object of ridicule and hatred. The door that has been opened to proto-fascists has been opened by a bankrupt liberalism"

 

[Edward Campbell]

The fact (and I suggest it is a fact) that the "occupiers" are wrong does not mean the "forces of order" are always right. See here. Shades of Jean Chrétien's G20.

 

[GAP]

The occupy movement is no longer....they had an opportunity to put forth a message, they did nothing but whine, and the world (at least that tiny little part that were not struggling to survive) dismissed them and moved on.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Chris Hedges said it better than I could.

"The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define ourselves as a good and noble people. Most importantly, on behalf of the power elite the liberal class serves as bulwarks against radical movements by offering a safety valve for popular frustrations and discontentment by discrediting those who talk of profound structural change. Once this class loses its social and political role then the delicate fabric of a democracy breaks down and the liberal class, along with the values it espouses, becomes an object of ridicule and hatred. The door that has been opened to proto-fascists has been opened by a bankrupt liberalism"

That's the biggest load of bilge water I've read in some time.

The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation? Really? By who's authority?

That statement alone shows the inbred, self serving and sanctimonious bearing of these self proclaimed socialists. It also nullifies the rest of the position as stated.

You need to find someone else that can say things for you better than you can say for yourself. Your spokesperson just said you're an idiot.

 

[Journeyman]

You need to find someone else that can say things for you better than you can say for yourself. Your spokesperson just said you're an idiot.

                :rofl:

 

[Jarnhamar]

I really enjoyed Ezra Levant's thank you for posting that. Never heard him before but he sounds pretty funny/
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Too funny watching all those empty tents and the few paid camp security guys. It's funny how quickly they started talking about the law and the police and everyone's rights.  Reminds me of what a cop was talking about once how big bad ass bikers were the first to run crying and screaming to the police anytime something happens.

That camp seems like a less glorious version of that division in ww2 that made fake positions with plastic tents and wood tanks.
I wouldn't mind creeping around and nabbing some of that camping gear though, some of those tents look pretty sweet. I noticed a snugpak bunker in one video.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Reminds me of what a cop was talking about once how big bad ass bikers were the first to run crying and screaming to the police anytime something happens.

Yup, and the first ones to rat thier buddies out in jail............

 

[Celticgirl]

 

[jollyjacktar]

Nice.  :cheers:

 

[a_majoor]

George Orwell must be smiling...

http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2011/11/18/panicked-ap-attempts-to-memory-hole-democrats-occupy-endorsements/

Panicked AP Attempts to Memory-Hole Democrats’ #Occupy Endorsements
Posted by John Nolte Nov 18th 2011 at 3:55 pm in Occupy Wall Street, elections 2012 | Comments (54)

Occupy Wall Street’s imploding, Obama and the Democrats own the chaos, and now the AP is panicking.

But first a little context…

Something happened this month that the mainstream media and the Left (but I repeat myself) never expected. Two months ago, the White House, Democrats, and the MSM were all sure that the #OccupyWallStreet movement would save them in 2012. With thousands of astro-turfed morons in the streets raging against Wall Street, Obama’s allies hoped to use said morons to create a silver lining in the economic cloud he himself created.

The plan was a simple one. The path to Obama’s second term requires that enough voters forget that our current economic woes are the fault of a failed President who enjoyed two years of having every single item on his wish-list passed by Congress. And so the idea was to create Occupy in order to give the MSM the cover they desired to spend every single day up until the election talking about greed and income inequality in order to blame both for the stagnant economy.

The hope was that by repeating this message incessantly, enough voters could be convinced that Wall Street, and by extension, evil Republicans, were to blame for our chronic unemployment, record deficits, and stillborn economic growth. President Obama who?

Fortunately for America, this plan has not only failed miserably it has backfired completely. Thanks to the rise of New Media and our unwillingness to let the MSM’s lies, bias, and cover ups stand for even one more day, Occupy is in its death throes and might take the President and Democratic party down with it. First and foremost, we uncovered the lie that Occupy was grassroots and then we exposed every Occupy rape, poop, death, overdoese, old woman thrown down the stairs, attack on a police officer, and public act of masturbation. In the process, public opinion turned against the Occupiers and as a result these Leftists have started doing what the Left always does when they lose, have a tantrum.

But like I said, the Left and their media allies didn’t expect New Media to own this story and to use the truth to drive the narrative out of their control. And we know they didn’t expect to lose this one because almost every prominent Democrat in America very publicly jumped aboard the Occupy movement with the expectation that their allies in the MSM could control the outcome.

Well, now Democrats like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are way out on a limb and have been caught in bed encouraging, endorsing, and attempting to legitimize a wildly unpopular movement most voters now  find repulsive.

So what’s a shameless left-wing media to do?

What they always do. Rewrite history.

And it looks as thought the Associated Press has decided to start the memory-holing with the following:

    Democrats See Minefield in Occupy Protests

    NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican Party and the tea party seemed to be a natural political pairing. But what may have seemed like another politically beneficial alliance — Democrats and Occupy Wall Street — hasn’t happened.

Insert record scratch here.

Sorry AP, but the only reason Democrats see a minefield is because they’re standing in it. 

Democrats such as…

    …House Democrats. And look, the story about House Democrats endorsing Occupy is an AP story!

    …Top Democrats.

    …Nancy Pelosi.

    …A President named Obama, who said of Occupy, “We are on their side.”

    …The SEIU.

Need I go on?

When the AP matter-of-factly (the most effective way to propagandize) states that this natural alliance “hasn’t happened” … they are lying. The alliance between Occupy and prominent Democrats occurred weeks ago and as one honest Democrat, Doug Schoen, put it just today:

    Thursday’s coordinated Occupy Wall Street “National Day of Action” is bad news for the Democratic party, and bad news for President Obama.

But is it really bad news for Democrats when they have the corrupt MSM already out there shilling for them and pretending  this solidarity never happened?

Well, maybe it is. If the slow motion implosion of Occupy has taught us anything it’s that the MSM doesn’t have the power it once had to control the narrative. New Media won this one and maybe New Media can can also win the battle of reminding voters of just who it was who ran out to endorse, encourage, and attempt to legitimize vandals, poopers, rapists, and public masturbators.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Judge has ruled the "Occupiers" in Toronto must go. Glad to hear some common sense out of our judiciary.

 

[jasonf6]

Judge has ruled the "Occupiers" in Toronto must go. Glad to hear some common sense out of our judiciary.

Next to go, Ottawa?  Please let it be so.

 

[Sythen]

Daily Show pwns the Occupy movement.

When you've lost the liberal hipsters at Comedy Central...The game is pretty much over.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82022216/

 

[Nemo888]

Daily Show pwns the Occupy movement.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82022216/

Awesome.

 

[estoguy]

Judge has ruled the "Occupiers" in Toronto must go. Glad to hear some common sense out of our judiciary.

About time.  The judge made some very good points in his judgement.  He had to balance their rights with the rights of the public at large.  He got it right.

Rex Murphy wrote a good column over the weekend too... http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/11/19/capitalisms-spoiled-children/

 

[vonGarvin]

A good friend of mine was in Ottawa over the weekend with some friends.  After dining (and drinking) at D'Arcy Magee's (or however it's called), they headed down to the Occupy site, "for the lulz".  In conversation with one occupier, they got her to say the following on her own (and using Socratic Dialectic, I suppose):

(She):  "Everyone should, like, grow their own food and stuff, etc"
(They):  "Fair enough.  What if someone's plot is struck by lightning?"
(She):  "Then we help them and give them some of ours."
(They):  "What if someone won't work because they realise that they can get stuff without putting any effort into it?"
(She):  "Then we don't give them any"

...

(True story)

 

[Hawk]

They sure hate Rex, don't they? I don't think I've ever read such hatred anywhere. I don't always agree with Rex, sometime I think he's wrong-headed, too (not in this case!), but I'd never put a diatribe like some of those out for public consumption!!

Hawk

 

[ModlrMike]

They sure hate Rex, don't they? I don't think I've ever read such hatred anywhere. I don't always agree with Rex, sometime I think he's wrong-headed, too (not in this case!), but I'd never put a diatribe like some of those out for public consumption!!

Hawk

Such is the way of the fringe zealot, left or right; makes no difference.

 

[Hawk]

Too true!

I'm sure I'm not the only one who yells at their computer, TV, and radio at times when we disagree, but most thinking people clean it up before going public! I've even yelled some things here, and had to edit it before I responded, or didn't respond at all - I enjoy my time here, and don't want to be banned!

Hawk