The standard portrayal of the Wall Street protesters goes something like this: Ragtag group of unemployed young adults, venting often incoherent but overall legitimate populist outrage about economic inequality. But go down to the movement’s headquarters, as I did this past weekend, and you see something far different.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
"Occupy" Gang Gets Darker
Well, well, well.
....It’s not an overstatement to describe Zuccotti Park as New York’s Marxist epicenter. Flags with the iconic face of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara are everywhere; the only American flag I saw was hanging upside down. The “occupiers” openly refer to each other as “comrade,” and just about every piece of literature on offer (free or for sale) advocated socialism in the Marxist tradition as a cure-all for the inequalities of the American economic system.
Not surprisingly, written by a Fox News shill. And he uses a classic Alinsky tactic to boot...link a grassroots protest movement to its most extremist members in a widespread effort to delegitimize it.
ReplyDeleteZorro
Hmm. Were you upset at the media doing the same to the TEA party?
ReplyDeleteAre you willing to concede that the left and the right are painting these protest groups as extreme and illegitimate? If not, you are part of the problem.
ReplyDeleteZorro
I said "doing the same thing". My intent is quite clear.
ReplyDeleteYour intent appears that you seek to to be evasive. A simply "yes" or "no" response to my inquiry will suffice.
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Zorro, isn't it odd that you demand a yes or no answer when you did not even answer his question with a yes or no?
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Billiam did not ask me for a yes or no response. I made that specific request from him. There is a difference.
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At this stage it might be more prudent to take a "wait and see" approach to this. Certainly the Left will try to co-opt this movement, just as the business-as-usual Republicans have co-opted the Tea Party movement.
ReplyDeleteThat the financial oligarchs and the Washington creeps, working hand in glove, are the cause of this financial catastrophe there is little doubt, and some of the protestors - the ones who are never pictured by the media - are quite average Joes like you and I. Also, some solid Catholic thinkers have been spotted there trying to teach those among the protestors who will listen that the Church's answer to these woes which flowered during the Middle Ages just might be something to seriously consider.
Turn off Mr Limbaugh and Mr Belling, et al, and read some Papal Enclyclicals instead. They tend to be more enlightening than blowhards of the Left and Right.
I would love to see equal and fair coverage. that said, there are two standards that the vast majority of the media are employing regarding the the two groups. Funny, that. Though, no longer unexpected. Actually, I did ask you a yes or no question that you did not answer. Again, READ the initial question. Were you upset at the media doing that to the TEA party. Seems like a yes or no question to me. BTW, apologies for not getting to this sooner. I have 2 close family members in hospital.
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