Occupy Reality

Occupy Wall Street. It has become a part of our news cycle for two months now. A group of self styled revolutionaries calling themselves the 99% that have chosen September and October to begin a demonstration against “the 1%”. The ones they rail against are the wealthy. They call for greed and corruption to be scoured out of our American political system. Taken on the surface, I can’t say that is a bad thing. That said, one of the most dangerous things a person can do is simply look at the surface. A deeper look at Occupy Wall Street shows a more chilling truth. It is capitalism itself that they see as the enemy, not covertly, but openly stating this in their publications. They do not hide this fact. Armed with this knowledge, let me show you the words of the founders of the “movement.”

Allow me to offer up this quote from www.occupywallstreet.org. The very website from which they organized this national sensation.

          Money, it has been said, has taken over politics. In truth, we say, money has always been part of the capitalist political system. A system based on the existence of have and have nots, where inequality is inherent to the system, will inevitably lead to a situation where the haves find a way to rule, whether by the sword or by the dollar.

I have taken the liberty of underlining a few key sections of that paragraph. This was posted on the morning that they first began their occupation of Zuccotti Park. I would like to take a moment to ask you if this type of rhetoric sounds familiar. Does it? These types of statements are the fuel that feeds the flame of class warfare, but that should surprise no one, as Marx (Karl, not Groucho) himself stated in the famous Monty Python skit "World Forum" A struggle of class versus class is the very definition of a political struggle.

These occupiers would absolutely love that reminder, because everything that they have done has been modeled after his (Karl's) ideals. Even the timing is an homage to the October Revolution of 1917, which, in today's parlance would now be referred to as "Occupy Red Square."

The Bolshevik Revolution began in September and October of 1917, but is mostly recognized as beginning in early November of that year. They began with noble sounding dreams, calling for power to the workers, which we see in the OWS call. They spoke passionately of the "Struggle of the urban prolitariat", or working class. Officially the people other than children with no wealth. These Occupiers use the same language. In truth, from what I have seen from these folks in Zuccotti Park, I see very little difference between them and the occupiers of Petrograd in the early 1900's.

Now, I understand that, simply by having a knowledge of history, and by clearly articulating my honest opinion; by calling these people on their actual intentions, I have obviously outed myself as uneducated, illiterate and possibly even ignorant. Oh, and sense I'm opposing left wing activists, I'm "clearly a racist, a sexist, a bigot and an intolerant cretin" even though they are a multicultural group and I have no idea of their demographics. Yes, of course I am, I'm a white anglo-saxon protestant male aren't I? I might just be distantly related to Hitler. Go ahead, get it out of your system now, I really don't care, because you're really about to be offended. I'm about to be brutally honest.

More quotes forthcoming:

And so we call on people to act

1. We call for protests to remain active in the cities. Those already there, to grow, to organize, to raise consciousnesses, for those cities where there are no protests, for protests to organize and disrupt the system.

What you are doing is calling for a new Bolshevik uprising. As Satayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". You are espousing the values of Marx and using the tactics of Trotsky. Let's be honest, you are the modern day Communist party. You want an economic system that has failed everywhere it has been tried. You are calling for the destruction of capitalism in the name of freedom, and in place of it, you would put in a system where the government controls everything, and you call people with opinions like mine ignorant? I call people with opinions like this stupid, delusional, and dishonest. Dishonest, because you are not stupid. You are a very intelligent, well spoken group. Therefore, you don't want freedom. You want government control, oppression, and the suppression of all dissenting opinions, which is why I took the liberty of labeling myself for you. I DON'T WANT YOU TO HAVE THE SATISFACTION!

"We call for workers to not only strike, but seize their workplaces collectively, and to organize      them democratically. We call for students and teachers to act together, to teach democracy, not merely the teachers to the students, but the students to the teachers. To seize the classrooms and free minds together".

You are calling for the hostile takeover of businesses and educational systems. This is not simply a call for action, it's an act of terrorism that you have yet to perpetrate, but regardless they are not the peaceful demonstrations in which you claim to be taking part. You are gearing up for war.

"We call for the unemployed to volunteer, to learn, to teach, to use what skills they have to support themselves as part of the revolting people as a community."

Well, that makes sense. They have plenty of time on their hands. That said, the unemployed are the only people you could get to fill a protest that lasts a period of months. OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO GO TO WORK!!! This leads me to the conclusion that on top of being a mixture of the dishonest and the stupid, Occupy Wall Street is completely populated by the lazy and shiftless leeches on this economy that make a career out of being unemployed. Now, I'm not talking about the folks that honestly need a hand while they are looking for another job. No, I don't have a problem with them. Please, continue to look for work, but that is what the unemployment system is for. For the honest people that want work, and need something to help them get by until relief comes. I've known several people like that. Been related to a few. Been one myself. No, I mean the people who have no intention of finding work until their unemployment just flat runs out, and then appeal as often as they can to keep the faucet running. Meanwhile, who is paying their salary? I am.! You are! The honest hardworking people of America that get up every morning, go to work when they don't want too, when they are hurting physically, mentally, spiritually. The people that go to work sick because they can't afford to take the time off. The people that can barely make ends meet because they make too much money for the Government to help them and their hungry family.
     Who reaps the benefits? The lazy, the shiftless, and the scheming people who work the system and know exactly how much blood they can squeeze from the turnip before they have to take another job for just long enough to build up enough unemployment income to stop showing up for work again. You want economic fairness? Get off your lazy butts, get out of Zuccotti Park and OCCUPY A WORKPLACE for a change!!! What is fair about the government paying you for gathering in a park while the Americans that you are trying to punnish go to work every day? That's right! You are KILLING the workers that you so valiantly want to protect. If you crash Wall Street what happens to the man that has worked for forty years to feed his family, and has invested a portion of his savings in mutual funds so he can have enough to retire on one day? What happens to my Mother? The widow that is living on the retirement that her husband squirreled away so that she could eat after he was gone? Tell me that? What happens to the woman that worked hard every day to help her husband make ends meet, and now needs her 401k to retire on? I'll tell you what happens to them, back to work everyone! Oh, wait, there are no businesses, they've been taken over because they were corrupt. Go stand in line for your government rations.

Let me be totally clear. Occupy Wall Street is a poison that is coursing its way through America's veins, trying to kill the country that I know an love. The country that our veterans fought and bled and died to protect. They are not trying to right the wrongs in this country. They are trying to destroy it from the inside in a move to create a Communist regime out of this Republic that we know and love. I cannot say strongly enough how angry I am that they are finding support in the news media and in Hollywood. They are a fraud and a brood of vipers, and we cannot afford for them to whine. Win. I meant win.