Posted on 09/06/2011 3:23:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A "flash point" in law-enforcement terms is "a point at which someone or something bursts suddenly into action or being." One such point sits just ahead on the horizon in America, with various leftists and anarchists preparing to mobilize all their reserves for a burst into action beginning on and around Sept. 17.
The goal appears to be to bring the Arab Spring and European-style mob action stateside. While various websites related to the events call for "peaceful" protests against government and business, the website names contain words such as "rage" and "revolution."
What is their purpose? Frankly, it doesn't seem to matter. Different causes are all interlinked with one another through their related websites. Take your pick, as plenty are provided: Do you fly off the handle at the idea of political parties being allowed to receive donations of more than a single dollar per citizen? If so, then this protest movement has you covered. Are you angry about "globalization"? Antiwar? Are you against the climate changing? Do you feel entitled to more entitlements? Has jet-setting to riots around the globe this year blown out your bank account and now you're broke? Are you out of work and don't feel like doing something productive right now to change your predicament, preferring instead to vomit your frustrations on the world in general? Are you generally annoyed with Wall Street like most of us, yet want the banks to be run by the "state" that you purport to hate? Are you looking for a vacation from logical reasoning? Are you looking for a cheap two-month camping trip with awesome security?
Excellent, come on down, Comrade 2.0, and bring your iPad -- because everything is set to kick off with a two-month "occupation" of Wall Street from which you can tweet furiously at The Man.
One of the event's websites attempts to define the mission: "On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades, and occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand in a plurality of voices and we will not leave until that demand has been met. Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants."
What is their almighty "one demand," you ask? They haven't decided yet, but they are conducting a poll and will keep us apprised.
Attempting to set up a camp of 20,000 people in and around the most exclusive area in Manhattan, guarded by the NYPD and armored vehicles day and night, strikes me as precisely what people do when they're seeking to address something peacefully and nonviolently.
More related events are scheduled in conjunction with the Wall Street stakeout and will likely feed off of each other, as we have seen in similar worldwide events. One is set for Los Angeles on Sept. 16 and 17, and another at the Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 6.
Will it all amount to anything? It might, depending on several factors. Working against the protesters is the fact that America, unlike the U.K., for example, is a geographically massive country. Unless someone is funding the protesters' travel, logistics should prove difficult for them if they're as downtrodden as they claim to be. And as bad as things are in America, it's not Egypt or Tunisia. They do realize that their guy, Obama -- of community-organizing fame -- is in charge now, right?
Perhaps the most important factor is whether the law-enforcement authorities' attorneys will permit the preventive and reactive measures necessary to contain the event before it has the opportunity to spiral out of control.
Bored jackasses. With diarrhea of the mouth.
They have many problems with uniting their movement and launching something scarey. First, the white (plus one Van Jones for diversity) watermelons and their enviornmentalist causes, don’t move the ones who would actually threaten and riot. Blacks and Hispanic leftists are not moved by white Unions nor anti-war mobs. They have been grilled to hate and blame whites.
The real Arab springer wannabes are raical tribes separate from the causes of white socialists. They are racists. They want what they want in color (blame, rob and kill whitey). The black and brown socialist cause does not include white leftists for obvious reasons of race hate.
So white socialists (a slim minority of whites) are left to beg and plead and whine and pay for their protestors if they really want any.
I am glad they marked their goal of 20k protestors so we can laugh at them when it fizzles. They don’t have enough money to pay and bus in that many “people of color” to their show.
Finally, think about the color conflict for white socialists here. They want to overthrow power and power is black right now. LOL!
If they are successful in getting something started, we need to yell loud and clear that it is time for Obama to resign! The peoples have spoken. They are tired of his Marxist poverty! They want JOBS!
They're being instigated by 60s-era communists. And it's a global movement. Anyone who thinks the communist threat is over is a jackass as well.
It’s almost party time bookmark...
They’ve been fanning the coals as hard as they can, they need another exploitable crisis.
Exactly. And, these monsters believe that “now” is their time to act. They are not going to sit down quietly at this point.
It puzzles me that these radical types will be protesting at a time when we have a good liberal in the White House. One of their own is “the man”.
And that makes you think that they don’t care that one of their own is in power, because they don’t have enduring respect for our system in the first place. If these radical types got their ultimate dream, we would have a revolution and overthrow the system.
And it amazes me too, that people have so much freedom in this country but don’t appreciate it. Especially in recent years, we have become so open and accepting and tolerant of the most bizarre unconventional lifestyles. These people have their freedom to do what they want. Yet they are still not satisfied.
They don’t realize that if they got their dream of revolution, that the replacement system would be less tolerant of them than our current imperfect system.
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