Artist Frank Miller on the Occupy Wall Street Protests: ANARCHY

Frank Miller Ink ^ | 11.7.2011 | Frank Miller

[Publius804]

Everybody’s been too damn polite about this nonsense:

The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.

This is no popular uprising. This is garbage. And goodness knows they’re spewing their garbage – both politically and physically – every which way they can find.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***...communal living is doomed to failure.****

Remember all the hippie communes that sprouted up near TAOS NM back in the 1960s? I believe they all collapsed.

[DYngbld]

I was in DC today. The DC OWS group is about a dozen tents strong that is it. Loud mouths “look at me types”, but not as large as the media would have you believe. If I can get the photo I took from the bell tower off of my camera I will post it.

[LomanBill]

Woodstock-era nostalgia

[infowarrior]

Correct! The Crown set up the Plymouth Colony as an agricultural commune where everyone was paid the same.

Ummm... Not quite... The English Crown had absolutely no input into the communal arrangement developed by the Plymouth Colonists. Ever heard of "The Mayflower Compact"? That was the written arrangement form the communal experiment, and was done on the voyage over to the colony site, by the colonists themselves. The Crown never even heard of the document, let alone had any input into it...

the infowarrior

[teeman8r]

let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who... this is supposed to be a happy occasion.

freedom is a natural state of being... everything else goes against those laws. capitalism is the closest form of government to protect those natural laws of keeping what one works hard for.

teeman

[Jack Hydrazine]

I have to wonder then who was that inspired them to adopt a collectivist model for their community? They just didn’t pull the idea out of thin air.

[infowarrior]

I have to wonder then who was that inspired them to adopt a collectivist model for their community? They just didn’t pull the idea out of thin air.

No, they did not pull it out of thin air. During the Reformation, there had been a number of equally unsuccessful attempts at combining religious fervor with collectivism. The Hussites come to mind here, although they weren't alone.

the infowarrior

[Jack Hydrazine]

Thanks for the mention of the Hussites. I’m going to do some research on them.