#Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
Denise Moss ·
Oct 10, 2011 at 8:12am
It's obvious by now that most of the protestors are there for sex, food, shelter or the scene. Especially obvious in these pictures from this DailyMail story. Be warned, there's one that's truly revolting.
Since one of the founders accused , in a most churlish way, a lot of the party crashers to be "trust fund babies" he has set up, as the story described, "make shift internal police" to crack down on bad behavior.
So once again a movement in the cause of socialism becomes authoritarianism, complete with clandestine spying and really poor sanitary systems. Are we so PC now we have confused "protesting" with "squatting"?
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Mar '11
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
Wait, there's only one that's truly revolting?
Jun '10
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
San Francisco's "Summer of Love" started as a party and ended as a drug and crime pit a couple years later. The only thing that's different now is that everything's accelerated. Who did the Summer of Love attract to the scene, looking for his kind of party? Charlie Manson. That's who chaos attracts.
Jan '11
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
I started to read the Daily Mail article - the first paragraph stopped me cold:
"It started as a gathering of furious youngsters, protesting about the supposed lack of opportunities for the average American. But then the freeloaders came along."
Freeloaders came along. Where's the difference in that distinction?
Edited on Oct 10, 2011 at 8:33amMay '10
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
Perhaps Denise, it would be prudent to explicitly point out that the linked pictures include a man defecating on a police car.
When the weather turns colder, the sleet starts to fall, and the roads are salted; then the body painting will be gone, and with it protesters who have never had to really suffer for anything in their lives.
Surely public obstruction (and the associated pubic demonstration) is still an offense in New York City? I suggest the street sweepers clean the streets with water jets every night/ twice a night, to ensure the street is completely clean and sodden in time for the evening's debauch. A little whiff of passion killing bleach can dampen the most ardent drug taker, body painter, love-in 60's retro protest, no matter the ardour.
Here is a link to another protest courtesy of William Hogarth, just after the South Sea Bubble
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/hogarth1.jpg
Edited on Oct 10, 2011 at 8:54amJun '10
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
I can imagine what Lenin would say if he were alive today: "The street if full of useless idiots! Send in the useful idiots and make sure they carry truncheons."
Jun '10
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
"The Summer of Yuck"
Edited on Oct 10, 2011 at 9:14amDec '10
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
I think and an "adopt an @occupywallstreet protester" movement is completely appropriate.
For any parent who is brave enough to take over the 20+ years of poor parenting displayed by the obvious lack of personal hygiene demonstrated by most of these young folks I'm ashamed to describe as my peers, untold gratitude would be due.
May '10
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
OK. But you have to admit that the Ben Bernanke jack-o-lantern is pretty clever.
Mar '11
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
I'm still trying to find it.
What's more interesting is that the best coverage is in a British newspaper.
Update: Ah, yes, found it - yep, that's pretty revolting, although I have seen that in the streets of Europe - not that unusual.
Edited on Oct 10, 2011 at 11:12amMay '10
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
Yeah, that Bernanke Pumpkin *was* pretty revolting!
Edited on Oct 10, 2011 at 12:01pmRe: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
Talleyrand: Perhaps Denise, it would be prudent to explicitly point out that the linked pictures include a man defecating on a police car.
When the weather turns colder, the sleet starts to fall, and the roads are salted; then the body painting will be gone, and with it protesters who have never had to really suffer for anything in their lives.
I didn't want to even say it.
And I thought the exact same thing. When it gets a little colder, these kids will be back on their mom's couches. Judith Levy earlier pointed out that protesting for your freedom of religion in Egypt may cost you your life. These kids (some of them NOT kids) won't even risk a slight chill. If was still 20, I'd be embarrassed for my kin.
Nov '10
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
Well, apart from that disgusting one--which is hilarious, in its own catastropically misdirected way--and the accumulating rubbish--which for some reason is not drawing the ire of the sustainability brigade--some of these pictures are rather sweet.
Really, can any movement depicting Bernanke as a pumpkin-head be all bad?
But why do such displays of communal free-spiritedness have to be accompanied by logical incoherence, free-floating indignation, and civic indifference?
Can't one cavort nude and be fiscally responsible?
Apr '11
Re: #Occupy Wall Street Adds "Secret Police" - And the Cycle is Complete
Aodhan: But why do such displays of communal free-spiritedness have to be accompanied by logical incoherence, free-floating indignation, and civic indifference?
Can't one cavort nude and be fiscally responsible? · Oct 10 at 2:55pm
And why must there be such an immutable, unbreakable connection between left-wing political protest and aversion to personal hygiene?
Can't one rage against The System and shower regularly?