Those young individuals inhabiting the OCCUPY DC, New York, Atlanta and other locations are reflected in this young man, the prototypical representative of the philosophy behind not only the movement but youth itself: give me something for “free.”
I write the word free in quotation marks because any clear-thinking person realizes there is no such thing as “free.” The government does not create that money — except to inflationarily print it. It’s created by all the people that work and pay taxes who enable the government to possess and dispense that money back as they see fit — not necessarily as the taxpayers themselves see fit.
The money those people want for themselves — for “free” — is that money which was earned and then confiscated from their government by payroll and a myriad of other obvious and hidden taxes through multiple levels of governments and agencies.
I too wouldn’t mind having “my share” of “free.” Except that I am cognizant of one fatal flaw: if every other taxpayer were like me, demanding his or her share of the same “free” so demanded by the youth of today (something they were taught by American education and their parents — but that’s a post for another time), there would be no sustaining that paradigm; my “share” of “free” would diminish and stall.
And yet, the Demorats have done this to the Occupy movement:
Please allow me to ask a final question, if I may:
Do you think that any of the involved government agencies, local, city, county or state, would have allowed any physical occupation of any given area for any slightly-extended period of time whilst simultaneously producing tons of trash, feces, urine, loud continuous noise like drumming, banging, amplified music, amplified chanting and speeches, naked and crazy persons, insulting signs, assaults, rapes and other crimes if the movement had been even remotely associated with anything resembling a vestige of the TEA Party?
I think I know the answer. And how long anything negative, involving the TEA Party, would have been pounded down the throats of American viewers 24/7 by the DEM/MSM.
BZ
P.S.
From The Daily Caller, here is how lovingly the Occupy movement treats not only a black man with his two-year-old in the car, simply attempting to go home, but how Occupy treats a black law enforcement officer in DC:
Their behavior is repulsive, and disrespectful of their fellow man.
I cannot comprehend what motivates these miscreants to behave like, wel…, flesh-eating, mindless zombies. They are without compassion.
An elderly woman was pushed down the stairs and was bleeding from her nose.
Apparently, those “kids” were never taught right from wrong and obviously they were never disciplined for bad behavior. They were probably rewarded.
I have ZERO TOLERANCE compassion for these cretin assholes.
OCCUPY MY ASS!!!!
I have to watch myself at this old age,, because old cop ways automatically tell me to use my “baton to move these cretins along their way”.
Had lots of experience breaking up groups that wanted to intimidate the public in Yosemite NP.
Yep, head’m out, move’m out like cattle.
Never had a problem that my issued cattle prod wouldn’t handle.
Ever had one touch you??
If so, you haven’t forgotten it!!!!
But I was a Federal Deputy US Marshal, Natl Park RANGER, with our Federal Magistrate on location to process quickly any who were arrested.
{By the 1799 law, I still am, even in retirement.}
Same with gangs that wanted to raise hell in the overnight camping spots.
You see, we had our own 10 cell jail with all of the amenities.
Best you leave NOW!, and go fuck with the local authorities in Fresno, Modesto, or Sacramento.
I can tell you we had very, very few repeat offenders!
I wish BZ all the luck in the world, and would stand beside him anytime where we meet on his upcoming road to retirement.
Hang in there BZ.
Time for law enforcement to start using tear gas, water cannons, and whatever else they have. If that doesn’t work, then maybe it’s time for the National Guard. You have to feel bad for the suits coming out of their office buildings and then having to fend their way through that mob. I’d be carrying a frigging taser!