◼ Protesters aren’t interested in solutions, just demonizing enemies of the people - Washington Times ◼ via weaselzippers (image source)
President Obama’s shock troops are marching in the streets. Occupy Wall Street... Mr. Obama has said he “sympathizes” with the protesters - especially their anger at Wall Street and “fat-cat” bankers. For years, he has demonized billionaires and millionaires, jet owners and corporate America. His divisive, irresponsible rhetoric has laid the groundwork for Occupy Wall Street.
The White House connection is even deeper. The protest’s main players all have ties to the Obama administration. Its primary organizer is former Obama “green-jobs czar” Van Jones.
Occupy Wall Street also is being supported by MoveOn.org. The group was one of the first to back Mr. Obama’s presidential candidacy when he was still an obscure senator from Illinois. The protests are being funded by socialist billionaire George Soros - a key Obama ally. And the protesters are being joined by big labor, the administration’s most powerful constituency.
Hence, Occupy Wall Street is not a spontaneous uprising of disenchanted citizens frustrated with corporate plutocracy and capitalist excess. Rather, it is a planned, manufactured attempt to prop up Mr. Obama’s failed presidency. It is a page taken straight from the Alinsky playbook: Demonize bankers and businessmen in order to divert attention from the real source of our economic woes, Mr. Obama’s policies.
◼ Protein Wisdom: Sometimes a spontaneous uprising of disaffected Americans disgusted at the greedy corporate fat cats and ready for a systemic change away from the cold, market-based cruelty of capitalism is not really a spontaneous uprising of disaffected Americans disgusted at the greedy corporate fat cats and ready for a systemic change away from the cold, market-based cruelty of capitalism.
And that’s because sometimes it’s just a bunch of paid shills...
◼ Daily Caller: Organizer admits to paying ‘Occupy DC’ protesters ...Interviewed in Spanish, the protesters told conflicting stories about how their group was organized. Some said it was organized at their church, and that they were there as volunteers. Others, however, referred to the man from the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition — the only Caucasian in the group — as their “boss.”
TheDC asked that organizer whether he was paying the group to attend the protest, and he conceded that some protesters “aren’t” volunteers.
“Some of them are volunteers. Some of them aren’t,” he explained. “I can’t identify them. I’m not going to get into an identification game.”
◼ Michelle Malkin: From Obamacare to Occupy Wall Street: A brief history of the Left and rent-a-non-English-speaking-protester
