Occupy Fails Again...

    
 A GOOD MARXIST NEVER LEARNS.  After WWI, Marx's theory of a world-wide communist take-over turned out to be kind of a flub.  Actually, it didn't happen at all.  Russia's revolution in 1917 was the most successful attempt at world-wide communism, but even that didn't really end well.
     After failing so many times, the Marxists are still trying to take over the world.  This time, it's in the form of Occupy Wall Street.  A recent panel discussion featuring top-brass commies and union bosses, asked the questions all Marxists ask when their revolutions fail: "What the heck happened, man?"
          Marxist theorists answered that question shortly after WWI.  People were happy with capitalism.  Their solution, then, was no to target the working-people, but different social groups.  Cultural Marxism.  The cancer of any great society. 
     Occupiers must have short memories, though, because they've come full circle to the dawn of Marxism.  They've abandoned the cultural Marxism that actually did work to destroy the fabric of a strong society.  They want to take down capitalism the old-fashioned way: by targeting the working class.  It didn't work before and most likely won't work now.
     However, the one thing Marxists are successful at is violence.  Revolutions have never been peaceful, and the coming Occupy movements aren't projected to be either.  David Graeber, one of the panelists said:

"It's a revolution, it didn't start here.  It started in Tunisia.  It travelled across the Mediterranean to Europe, to Spain, to Greece.  Now it's come here.  It's a world revolution we're experiencing."

     A man had to set himself on fire to start the revolutions that quickly spread throughout the world. 

     Luckily, capitalism is the preferred system for the common, sane person.  A violent attempt at revolution, and ending capitalism, will only more deeply root people's feelings for capitalism and, well, sanity. 

Are They Still Pigs? Photo Montage of Burning Cops and Angry Occupiers

     THE POLICE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE part of the 99% percent, according to occupiers at the dawn of the movement.  If you looked beyond CNN, MSNBC, or other mainstream news outlets, it was clear to see that anti-police feelings among protesters was high.  A quick Youtube search, or talking to any of the protesters would expose their views that the police aren't part of the 99%, something protesters claim when they're on the news.  Signs reading 'all my heroes kill cops', and people calling the police 'pigs', suggest the movement's dark underbelly of anti-policism.  Maybe 'police-aphobia'?
     Tensions escalated here in America when the NYPD arrested some 700 protesters for clogging up the Brooklyn Bridge.  In subsequent events, anti-police feelings grew, eventually coming to a head during the Occupy Oakland riots in November 2011, when an Oakland police tear gas canister struck combat veteran Scott Olsen in the head sending him to ICU.  This, or course, sparked total outrage among the already somewhat police-aphobic occupiers. 
     Occupiers have taken that rage, combined it with previous 'anti-pig' sentiment, and the result is F*** the Police day.  While it really didn't get off the ground, F*** the Police day should be an alarm for what might come during the Spring and Summer, considering Van Jones and Adbusters have promised even bigger and better plans than previous Occupy events. 
     If this is the course Occupy is already taking, it's hard to imagine a shift in support of the police.  In Greece, police are routinely attacked with rocks and Molotov cocktails.  The pictures of Greek policemen rolling on the ground while their head is on fire should at the very least raise the question, 'are cops really pigs?'

I don't own or didn't take any of these pictures:

Rule #1: Never Talk About Fight Club

     RULE #2: NEVER TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB.  Modern generations of left-wing activists seem to be living in a sort of dream.  Their consumption of movies, the internet, and all things digital has taken their anti consumerist attitudes to a new extreme.  An article from Adbusters, the cream of the crop of anti consumerism, and ironically a magazine available for purchase, suggests that liberals might be taking their views farther outside the realm of reality. 
     The newest theory of liberal activists is that activism will become digitally organized in the form of games played in real life.  The theory of living your life as a game first started with the work of Guy Debord, who believed that by doing so, you could insight revolution.  McKenzie Wark took the theory further, and suggested that we already do live in a game called Capitalism.  Wark wrote his theory in his manifesto titled: Gamer Theory.  Adbusters liked that theory, and so we come to KillCap.
     KillCap is an activist video game meant to be played in real life.  Game play in KillCap is to level up by 'jamming' capitalist symbols.  "Walking away from Starbucks, defacing the golden arches, subverting American Aparrel's patriarchal advertising...a jammed billboard, an anti corporate prank, [and] hitting a capitalist in the face with a pie" are all ways to earn blackpogs, the game's currency and means to level up.  Wait a minute...completing actions in order to earn currency and level up?  Sounds a little bit like capitalism.  The objective of the game must be to 'culturejam' your way into the 1%.  The idea of KillCap, and other games along the same lines, is that by everyone witnessing culture jamming activities, people will think they look fun and want to do them too.  Eventually a Marxist revolution will occur.  In theory.  And so we come to Fight Club.
     The cult classic is perhaps a glimpse into what our country would look like if games like KillCap became popular.  Fight Club starts with one Tyler Durden, a Recall Coordinator who at the beginning of the movie does not know he is Tyler Durden.  Tyler Durden meets imaginary Tyler Durden in a bar and fights with him (but in reality beats himself up).  Eventually Tyler Durden and his imaginary friend, Tyler Durden, start a fight club which grows into a national network of fight clubs.  Fight club's major project, 'Project Mayhem', of which the first rule is that you do not ask questions, resulted in Tyler Durden and members of fight club blowing up a city.  What does this have to do with KillCap?  A lot of things, actually. 

First is the fact that Tyler Durden was crazy, like anyone who thinks they should live life like a video game, and who believes in taking down capitalism.

Fight club was started by a man who didn't want to participate in the 'capitalist machine' anymore, also like those who want to live their life as though they are in a video game--and those living at OWS.        

Tyler Durden burned down his apartment, the epitome of consumerism, and moved into a ramshackle house with dirty water.  A lot like an OWS encampment. 

After starting fight club, Tyler Durden and Tyler Durden (the imaginary one), went on 'missions' which served to spite the machine that made Tyler Durden burn his apartment down.  Like throwing molotov cocktails through Macy's?  Yep, OWS.

When fight club eventually grew, 'Project Mayhem' was born.  The idea of 'Project Mayhem' was to take the smaller missions which were organized by Tyler Durden and himself, and make them into carefully orchestrated attacks, carried out nationally by members of various fight clubs, to ultimately tear down capitalism.  Also like Occupy. 

The attacks of 'Project Mayhem' targeted everything that represented, well, anything (the movie was rather vague).  Some of the targets were BMW's and storefronts, again like Occupy Wall Street. 

'Project Mayhem' ultimately ended with a bang, so to speak, when Tyler Durden blew up the city's credit card company buildings, the ultimate symbol of consumerism, realized he was Tyler Durden, and then shot himself in the face to kill imaginary Tyler Durden.  This is also like KillCap's ultimate goal which is to take down the Capitalist machine.
    
     So really KillCap isn't that original.  Fight Club explored the idea and Occupy Wall Streeters are already playing it.  I thought Adbusters was supposed to be the cutting edge of culturejamming?  Maybe Occupy Wall Street is a sort of test run, like the testing process that a video game would go through before making it to store shelves?  Just to get the bugs out.  After all the data is collected from OWS, the makers of KillCap can then finalize its gameplay.  Like Communism itself, however, KillCap is flawed from the start.  It has already broken the number one and most important rule of fight club: never talk about fight club.  Maybe next time, commies.
            

The Non-Brutal Brutality of Our Nation's Police

     "IT FELT LIKE THERE WAS ANARCHY EVERYWHERE.." and stuff.  "The police came and brutalized them and tore their tents down and all that stuff".  This is what one student told a local news station after witnessing the supposed police brutality that took place on the University of California at Davis' campus two days ago. 
     The tactics of the radical left in the Occupy movement...wait...they're all on the radical left...let me re-phrase.  The tactics of the Occupy movement are pretty clever one has to admit.  Most likely based on tactics used by their beloved European rioter friends, and possibly from those in the "Arab Spring" (catchy names for spontaneous events right?), the tactics used by the Occupiers play a pretty dirty trick on the mind and eyes of the 99%. 
     Videos of "police brutality" run rampant on sites like Youtube, and are an attempt by Occupiers to drum up support.  The videos usually pit Occupiers against police.  Oppressed against the oppressors.  In virtually all cases (I have yet to see otherwise), the videos start at the moment of police action, which I see as a pretty convenient coincidence.  And in a most recent account of "brutality", seated protesters were reportedly pepper-sprayed for being peaceful.  It is all failry convincing, too, until you begin to use your head.  It's something liberals don't think we conservatives do much of.
     In my opinion, these videos are nothing short of propaganda, something the radical left is also a fan of.  This propaganda is not your traditional fist-and-hammer Commie advertising, though.  It now takes the form of modern digital and social media that promote the cause in a more relevant way.  After all, print media is just not hip enough for a group such as Adbusters, who takes credit for the Occupy movement.  Knowing that fact, I found it not surprising they would take full advantage of such propaganda by posting this article on their blog: Suppressing Nonviolent Dissent.
     This post presents an anthology of the terrible police brutality taking place at the Occupy events. Except there isn't really any police brutality.  In each instance, no reason for arrest was presented, just as each video of "brutality" starts right as the arrest is taking place.  This is a problem because without context, any arrest could be pegged as brutality.  Police aren't in the business of playing nice when it comes to criminals.  That seems to be a little fact Occupiers miss.  Although I've never been arrested, or am not an officer, I can bet they don't receive training on how to make arrests as comfortable of an experience as possible.  Being arrested should be an unpleasant experience so that, I don't know, you don't want to be arrested again.
     Keeping all this in mind, I find little in the way of legitimacy to the claims of the Occupiers, or groups like Adbusters that refer to officers of the NYPD or other forces as brutalizing "pigs" (a favorite term for police among the Occupy crowd).  While I haven't been to an Occupy event, the Occupiers themselves seem to be itching to provide as much evidence as they can of the so-called brutality.  Even with the countless instances floating around the web, I have yet to see one bit of evidence of true police brutality at an Occupy event.    
     In all instances I could find, the so-called peaceful well-meaning Occupiers who were being arrested were either not peace-full or not well-meaning.  They usually were resisting arrest, ignoring the police, or in many cases instigating police to arrest them while ignoring their orders.  On the Adbusters website, they went so far as to say police were pepper-spraying grandmothers in the face.  Seriously?
     On the campus of UC Davis, the cops had a near loss in the battle against the lies of brutality.  However, while I will say in terms of PR pepper-spraying seated UC Davis students wasn't exactly the best choice, it was in no way brutality.  News sources reported the students were repeatedly warned to get off the SIDEWALK so people could USE IT (I'm assuming...because that's what sidewalks are for).  Adbusters says that possibly two officers participated in the pepper-spraying.  Whew.  Brutal.  Another comment says "great reporting on the indefensible pepper-spraying of UC Davis protesters".  Is pepper-spraying supposed to be defensible?  If so maybe the police should find a different tactic.  One gripping title on the Adbusters website says this "Female protester on the front line of Occupy Portland is sprayed with pepper spray directly in the face by riot police".  Yep.  That's where it's usually most effective.  In yet another video that would surely expose the rampant brutality of the police, a "whitness" describes this scene at Occupy Wall Street:

"uuuhh...a couple people got arrested...were sort of getting man-handled.  Um...one girl was being picked up by...um...like they had her hands behind her back and they were like holding her by her arms and legs..."

This sort of brutality has got to stop.  Ok...it isn't brutal, it sounds like people just getting arrested.

    
     And, in the most brutally non-brutal video I have seen, an Iraq War veteran was "beaten" by cops at Occupy Oakland.  It is here that context is imperative.  I would venture to say on this night, the police were on full alert, and wary of a protester like Kayvan Sabeghi who attempted to show his dominance to a squad of riot officers.  In the video, police clearly attempt to warn Sabeghi to get out of their way.  He refuses.  When they continue approaching him, one officer breaks formation.  The officer then procedes to chase (and curse at) the protester and billy club him as the protester is trying to run away.
     Out of context, this series of events could almost surely be pegged as brutality.  On this night, however, it was only a natural human response by one officer trained to be aware in situations like this.  The events on the 3rd-4th of November at the Occupy Oakland rallies were the worst rioting to date of the Occupy protests.  A general strike was declared in Oakland and what ensued were full blown, cars burning in the street, buildings on fire Greece style riots (refer to Francis Piven).  Occupiers started a bonfire in one street of Oakland, broke windows and graffittied buildings.  On this night, the protests weren't hippies sitting in parks, but people who truly wanted chaos, and would go through police to get it.  As a result, someone standing off with police in an act of defiance is a pretty good way to get police to act which is exactly what this officer did.
     In conclusion, I would advise anyone to be sceptical when a sympathizer of the Occupy protests claims police brutality.  Our nation's police forces, especially the NYPD who are at the epicenter of the movement, have shown that they can keep their discipline in the face of annoying, instigating protesters who desperately want to be in the picture that will go in the history books of social movements.  As these protests continue, and our nation's police forces are pushed to their absolute limits in terms of patience, the exceptional discipline a majority of the officers have shown may become a more rare occurrence. 
     When this happens, police will need as much support as possible in order to preserve order in our nation.  The propaganda of the Occupy movement is infectious because it is simple, as any propaganda is.  It's a simple and almost cliche tactic to peg police as brutal.  It's harder to understand that the Occupy movement is trying to turn people away from the police because the police stand with the system they wish to destroy.  Any authority figure will be targeted in Occupy, and the police are the authority on the front lines.  Any self-respecting person of the 99% should think before they demonize the police, however.  What is their alternative to police if they have such disdain for them?  Would an Occupy security assembly that pushes rape under the rug be better than police?  Could the Occupiers deal with murder or violent crimes better than police?  If everybody turns their back on police, there really will be like...anarchy everywhere, and brutalizers that won't be police, but people who will take advantage of chaos.  Is the 99% really about that?

Ciminal Incidents at Occupy Wall Street

     GLENN BECK has been the most comprehensive figure to cover the Occupy Wall Street happenings.  Most on the left would say he's mis-informed, lying or what have you.  I say he's 100% right.  The liberal media, even Fox News which is becoming increasingly more mainstream, has put a damper on what's really happening at Occupy events around the country.  Since I first heard the list on Glenn Beck's show of criminal incidents at Occupy, the amount of crime has grown significantly...so much so that I can't name them all. 
     Today, in fact, an occupier was caught for shooting at the White House RESIDENCE LEVEL window that took place on Friday.  Here are two things I think people should remember when they hear about Occupy Wall Street:
One- Spokesmen for the Occupiers will try to dismiss crime by saying the perpetrators aren't part of the movement which is untrue, and even if none of the people committing crimes are part of Occupy (which they are), the Occupiers have been rather slack in attempting to deal with crime.
Two- Unrest is the aim of this movement because without it, they will not be able to achieve their goals.

Incidents At OWS-
Occupy Cleveland- 19 yr old student raped in tent (not reported)
Seattle/Oakland- Indecent Exposure
Madison- Permit Revoked for indecent exposure
Dallas- Rape of 14 yr. old runaway
Lawrence- Sexual Assault by two men
Occupy New Hampshire- Pimp out 16 yr. old girl (arranged for client)
Occupy Wall Street- groping, def man raped (not reported)
Baltimore- Rape, robbery

Other Cases-
Numerous sexual assaults (some estimates of up to 75 cases of rape or sexual assault)
Drug Overdoses
Slashing of a police officer with a razor
Police cruiser smashed during Occupy Oakland riots
New cases of rape and one sexual assault at five Occupy encampments