Occupy Wall Street: An Exercise in Silliness and Hypocrisy
Public Puppets Dancing for Their Secret Masters
According to a report by the New York Post, " Occupy Wall Street's Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank, and donations continue to pour in." Ironically, the more money the committee leaders get the more unwilling they are to "share the wealth with other protesters."
From the Daily Mail we learn that "protesters have begun to squabble over money" with the powerless underlings "demanding" that the half-million "be shared more equally."
According to Anne Saker of the Oregonian, Occupy Portland's finance committee has "hijacked the demonstration's Internet domain name and filed for incorporation against the wishes of the group's decision-making body" and $20,000 has disappeared from their PayPal account.
As for their hubris, the Fayetteville Observer reported that Al Peuster of MoveOn.org, who organized an event in North Carolina, invited people to, "come and stand up for the poor and the middle class."
Perhaps Mr. Peuster can explain why the kitchen staff in New York are so "angry about working 18-hour days to provide food" to legitimately homeless people and ex-cons that they will stop serving "the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese and roasted beet and sheep's-milk-cheese salad" to get rid of them.
For three days the cooks will only serve plain brown rice and "provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders."
According to NBC, the organic gourmet meals prepared by the occupy chefs are made in a donated soup kitchen from donated ingredients.
Of course there is the occupy silliness: the bizarre zombie echo chanting, an opposition to corporations who create the cell phones and iPads they steal from each other and the Washington Examiner's report of the 16 guidelines, which include such inane things as; "Don't assume gender. When possible, go with gender-neutral pronouns."
To demonstrate their selfishness, while the rest of us struggle to pay our rent and mortgages - not to mention bearing the expense the protesters inflict on the cities they "occupy" - Chicago demonstrators marched on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office demanding that the city issue permits to allow protesters to "occupy a permanent city location" and essentially live free of charge for as long as they please in Grant Park "without arrests."
But then there are the blatant lies.
While it has already been established that this American protest was "made in Canada," the Occupy Wall Street website now bears the repudiation "We are not affiliated with Adbusters, anonymous or any other organization." However a brief track of the URLs for Adbusters and Occupy Wall Street through Network Solution reveals the websites are owned by the same "anonymous" person, Kale Lasn, a liberal activist from Vancouver, Canada.
In the meantime we learn of the organized effort by the scandal-ridden liberal activist group ACORN to collect money under false pretenses and then intentionally misappropriate those funds.
"According to NYCC staff," Jana Winter exposed in a FOX News exclusive, ACORN employees - some paid as much as $100 per day - have collected around $5,000 for a "United Federation of Teachers fundraising drive, but diverted the money directly "to the protests."
"It's sort of misguided to say we lack direction," said Jeffrey Musselman, one of the lead organizers for Occupy Norfolk according to CBS.
Unfortunately "misguided" people like Musselman appear to be the last to realize that the objectives of the Occupy puppetmasters is to use their altruistic intentions to achieve their own insidious goals.
Sources:
Ginger Adams Otis, "They want slice of the occu-pie", New York Post
"Is this the end of the Wall Street camp? Protesters squabble over $500,000 as cold weather threatens to send them home", The Daily Mail
Anne Saker, "Occupy Portland fears it has lost up to $20,000 in donations", The Oregonian
Salim Algar and Bob Fredericks, "Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders", New York Post
Andrew Siff, "Chef Prepares Protesters Organic Meals From Donated Ingredients in Donated Soup Kitchen", NBC
"Occupy Atlanta Silences Civil Rights Hero John Lewis!" You Tube
Samantha Gillman, "D.C. Occupiers Convene, Plot to Stay the Winter", Washington
Lisa Balde and Stefan Holt, "Occupy Chicago Takes on City Hall", NBC
"About Us", Occupy Wall Street
"Who is Adbusters", Network Solutions
"Who is Occupy Wall Street", Network Solutions
Jana Winter, "EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in 'Occupy' Movement", FOX News
"'Occupy Norfolk' Struggles to Find 'Definitive End List' for Movement", CBS
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8 Comments
Post a Comment"Your statements are poor and one sided. propaganda failed. yet again."
Curious how you didn't even bother trying to refute any of my facts or sources though, isn't it?
Denial of the truth isn't a valid argument, Cody.
Your statements are poor and one sided. propaganda failed. yet again.
Excellent article, Patricia.
What bothers me most about the Occupy movement is their lack of concrete goals. Occupying a park or other public place is not much of a goal.
One Occupy member, who got kicked out of a park, said, "They made us leave our home." LOL Excuse me, but the park is not your home. The park is a public place with rules that people who enjoy the park need to follow. If the Occupy movement has goals, obviously one gigantic one is disobeying rules. No movement will gain respect with that agenda.
You mentioned Occupy Chicago. I live in Chicago, and there's no way Rahm Emanuel will let Occupy Chicago do whatever they want. It's getting cold, and I doubt these people will survive outside in Chicago's brutal winter anyway. However, next year we'll have to deal with them because of the NATO and G-8 summit meetings. We'll see what they have up their sleeve for that.
Nolan... did you "An American does not have to "infiltrate" NYC in order to protest."
No... but they did anyway.
"In fact, it is a right."
To protest, yes... To set up camp and trash public parks for weeks on end expecting residents to tolerate paying millions to discipline and clean up after them... not so much.
"The protesters are the very people that saved capitalism from the robber-barons before,
and will do it again."
Then they must be very old.
"And check the rest of the nation... the numbers support the people in the tents, not those in the penthouses."
Just like the poll numbers where the majority do not "support the people in the tents,", this comment thread is a reflection of "the nation" and you are outnumbered (at this point here) three to one... and, unlike "the people in the tents,"... "those in the penthouses" can support themselves.
The Occupy Wall Streeters, when on their BEST behavior, it's just pathetic.
An American does not have to "infiltrate" NYC in order to protest. In fact, it is a right. The protesters are the very people that saved capitalism from the robber-barons before, and will do it again. And check the rest of the nation...the numbers support the people in the tents, not those in the penthouses.
The Atlanta Tea Party said it best when they defined the occupy debacle as:
"Ineptocracy: A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers."
thorough report -thanks for furthering my enlightening on this topic.