Yup, but this time instead of occupying the docks and trying to prevent people who actually work for living from doing their jobs at the ports, these nimrods thought it would be a swell idea to take over the city’s convention center…without renting it, of course. After all, everyone’s stuff is their stuff, that’s the way they see it.
The mayor of Oakland, Jean Quan, attempted to let the “movement” off the hoko by blaming the violence on a “splinter group”, instead of calling them what they are: a bunch of spoiled brats who want everyone else (but especially the “rich”) to pay for their overpriced, underperforming college educations (maybe you should have gone into engineering instead of psychology or media arts), want jobs given to them they haven’t earned, and of course, government intervention in anything they see as unfair. And when they don’t get what they want, like children, they throw a tantrum and pick a fight…with a police state their precious government saviors have created.
The Occupy bunch started off, like the Tea Party, railing against the cronyism of big bank bailouts and political corruption. Like the Tea Party, which originally just wanted the government to stop out of control spending and adhere to constitutional limits, Occupiers have been coopted and corrupted — the Tea Party lost it’s small government libertarian quality to the Freedomworks types that are pushing a social conservatism, and the Occupiers are now full-blooded (and bloodied) socialist/communist agitators. And neither the the groups appear to realize they’ve been had — that’s why the Occupiers can talk a big game about the poor and the working class, yet expect free stuff from vendors they were driving out of business at Zuccotti Park, or block people from getting a days work done so they can get paid; the Tea Party people who were drawn by Browcoat sensibility about government encroachment on their lives, and corrupt spending are now shilling for a big-government, authoritarian hack in the form of Newt Gingrich — the poster child for Republican cronyism and corruption (so much so that Duke Cunningham, the felon and disgraced congressman, has endorsed him.)
It’s time these folks — Tea Party and Occupiers alike — realize that they have become a sideshow to distract from the political class machinations for the elections this year. We being offered no choice — it’s the same pandering cowards on both side of the aisle who want big-government progressivism not to help you, but secure their positions and power so they can continue to siphon your money off in taxes to their friends and families.
Random displays of pique aren’t going to change anything. Only a concerted, clear-headed pushback at what the actual problem is, by both political sides, will: the corrupt buggers in power need to go. Elected them out where you can, expose them where you can’t and push them out.
