Showing posts with label #OWS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #OWS. Show all posts

Monday, November 21, 2011

Fun Propaganda Tweet Of The Weekend

Noticed this little gem this AM:

Truseattleite
If you were any type of educated man you would know there is a difference between communism and socialism. try research.
18 Nov via TweetDeck
Hitler and Stalin
The  Twitter-length answer is that: Communism (International Socialism) is a subset of Socialism.  What is hilarious every trip of the train is how the Socialists (National, International, Scientific, Democratic) all pipe up that anybody who notices this needs more education.

No, little Ninja, we do not need any more education.  We usually arrive at this realization by examining the facts in spite of the propaganda from the Western Education Industry.

They might be different in rhetoric, but in practice they are the same.
Obama has some catching up to do if he is going to be a hero of the Left.
PS. , if Socialism is somehow divorced from Communism and you #Occupy urchins truly believe that you are something different from Communists, you might want to direct your education advice at the folks making your posters:
By-the-by, that "power fist" goes back to the 1860s or earlier.  The Democrats opposing Lincoln used it in their posters.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The 1st Amendment As A Vehicle For Socialism?

New York Judge Lucy Billings: ACLU activist
Those #Occupy clowns and their ACLU allies have "discovered" that the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution applies to private property.  Who knew?

Well, this nonsense goes beyond that. Mayor Bloomberg is quoted saying:
“The First Amendment protects speech,” Bloomberg said in a press conference at City Hall . “It doesn’t protect the use of tents and sleeping bags to take over a public space. Protesters have had two months to occupy the park with tents and sleeping bags. Now they will have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments.”
No, little man, the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting certain forms of free speech, especially political speech.  It does not give anybody the right to take over private property at all, even to make speeches that the government cannot prohibit in a public square.  Easement law and some other crazy bits of British Common Law that still float around like landmines in American real property law might apply, but the 1st Amendment don't.

Bloomberg made another statement, probably by accident, that gets to the core of the problem:
The mayor, at his news conference, read a statement he had issued around 6 a.m. explaining the reasoning behind the sweep. “The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day,” the mayor said in the statement. “Ever since the occupation began, that law has not been complied with” because the protesters had taken over the park, “making it unavailable to anyone else.”
Zuccotti Park
What law could possibly be in effect to force a private property owner to make their property available for any delinquent or Nazi who wants to hang out there?  Sounds like some sort of Socialism from on high, which it is.  It is called "Privately Owned Public Space" which is a short name for an element of National Socialism where private property owners are forced to provide services that the government would/should provide if the government would just buy property for public use.
The 1961 Zoning Resolution inaugurated the incentive zoning program in New York City. The program encouraged private developers to provide spaces for the public within or outside their buildings by allowing them greater density in certain high-density districts. Since its inception, the program has produced more than 3.5 million square feet of public space in exchange for additional building area or other considerations such as relief from certain height and setback restrictions.
Of course, a heavy helping of rent-seeking is at play for owners of enough property to make some "public space" in return for privileged zoning rules just for them.

Here is a thought: if government wants public parks, let them buy the land on the free market (or use donated land) and build them, taking public responsibility for them, and let the private property owners do what they will with their own property?  Of course, that is too simple.

Monday, October 31, 2011

NPR Accidentally Explains The #Occupy Kids

#Occupy Cat Fight
Have you noticed that those fun loving, crazy little #Occupy Wherever kids are angry about something, but not very focused about exactly what they are angry about?

Have you noticed how they react when people like National Review's Charles C. W. Cooke confronts them with some facts and their anger shrivels up, even for just a few moments?

NPR affiliate WBEZ took a visit to a middle school, found the same characteristics in a young boy and discovered that even a public school teacher can straighten out children better than any Liberal Arts program at an expensive university can.

Listen to ACT SIX. GRANDE WITH SUGAR  and understand how the #Occupy crowd is less emotionally developed than a middle school kid.


The boy is a victim of circumstance.  He takes care of his grandmother in a home without electricity or water, other than the water that pours through the roof when it rains.  In the real world of home, the child takes on and conquers adult problems that other children his age never think about.  Then he arrives at school in dirty clothes and frequently unwashed, with general complaining that the school was "unfair", nothing specific.

In the case of #OWS, the fault is mostly with the parents.  In the ages old truism that anybody can be whatever they like in America, the Baby Boomer parents left out a key ingredient: some careers don't pay much.  The OWS children were told to get a degree, but nobody told them that all degrees were not created equal.  However, they are not middle school children with problems at home, they are adults who made their own problems, possibly by following bad advice.

Today there are dozens of annoying hipsters and hippies wallowing in their own excrement, on private property in Manhattan, who have no concept that literature degrees are not very lucrative.  They think the American system is unfair because they have to pay back loans and work at being successful. They are shocked that the people they need to pay the loans back to are wealthy and cannot make the mental connection, so they assign "unfairness" to the predictable outcome.

Certainly there are children who grow up to be financially successful artists and poets, but none of these protestors are complaining about an "old boy network" in West Chelsea, they are whining that bankers made money when the bankers lent students money and the federal government guaranteed those loans.

They are not even whining that the education industry ripped them off, by rapidly expanding "staff" positions, overpaying faculty, and creating ostentatious monuments to academia.  No, their Socialist indoctrination about "fairness" overrides any facts that are flying in their face.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

#OWS Socialists: NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Another story I heard about on the Limbaugh show:

Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders

Interesting turn of phrase in this article.  The "professional homeless" is a phrase used by the #Occupy clowns for homeless people that they just do not like.

Apparently, if someone seeking a meal is not a young White snot with an expensive degree in the Arts, they are not welcome and the socialist kitchen staff is going on strike to get rid of these unsavory individuals.
For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.

They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.
Get that?  If you really are homeless, or if you look like you have the wrong kind of criminal record, then NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Officers made at least 10 arrests when rowdy demonstrators refused to get out of the street and stop blocking traffic. A dozen cops on scooters tried to force them back to the sidewalk.
Just a wild guess here, that those arrested get an exemption from the "no criminals served here" rule.

National Socialism, AKA, Communism Kills

Victim of Soviet Russian Socialism attempts to enlighten Che Guevara Socialists at #OccupyWallStreet about what really happens under a Socialist regime. via Glenn Beck