Posted on 05/09/2012 9:57:05 PM PDT by hamboy
This is just downright amazing and frankly I'm surprised this video slipped under the radar.
Here, a man who was born and lived for decades in the Soviet Union successfully converts an Occupier to Capitalism, to understand Israel's side of the Middle East conflict, and to pro-American ideals all within a 15 minute time frame. He even thanks the man afterwards.
Give props where they're due, at least the Occupier was willing to hear the man out without screaming in his face, unlike almost every single one of them.
The video was shot during the May Day protests in New York City on May 1, 2012, but is definitely worth posting now for people to view.
Now, this isn't the first time this man has taken on Occupiers. He did so before back in October 2011, which is equally as great as he schools the socialists he confronts at Zuccotti Park in NYC.
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five minutes into the video the smelly hippy knows he’s deadmeat...
Half way through he looks like he is ready to cry.
The kid was ignorant...and probably only there to try and get laid.
Wonderful piece of film. Logic and common sense.
Like you, I had the good fortune to meet and work with some interesting people. From 1978-1981, I worked a a small but growing electronics assembly firm. They were hiring like mad at the time..and the place had a high number of foreign born workers. It was amazing, we had several from India (very smart and very calm), quite a lot of Vietnamese, many of them ‘boat people’ (very hard workers, with their own stories to tell) and several Germans. Even the President of the company was a “white” Russian. But by far, the person that impressed me the most was a man from Romania. Lots of my co-workers thought he was weird, thick accent, etc. But I spent a lot of time talking with him..and it was fascinating.
I was only 22 at the time...and had a pretty good idea what Communism was..but that education was expanded by an order of magnitude by talking to him. He had an engineering degree..but couldn’t use it here..and had to start over. Could not have contact with his family for fear about what could happen to them...the story of his escape while a merchant marine and his coming here to America.
Some time later, we read a story about 5 more men who recently escaped from Romania and had landed in Baltimore. Within 2 days, he and his girlfriend (American born Romainian) went to meet them and they relocated to Philadelphia. I was invited to meet them at a picnic at Valley Forge Park.
I will never forget that day. As I drove up to the Memorial Arch, my co-worker standing there with these newly free men, one of them on his hands and knees, kissing the stones that line the driveway leading to the Arch. That is when it all hit home; just how lucky we are and why we had to defeat Communism and all of its incarnations. My eyes still fill up, with both empathy for those wanting to be free..and the pride I have in my country.
For some of us, we have never lost that. For others, particularly the young and gullible, they have yet to be taught it or experience it for themselves.
Sorry to be so longwinded but your experience..and the video you posted, brough back a lot of memories. Thank you!!
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We desparately need people from the former Soviet Union to form activist education groups for younger Americans. They are sooooo brainwashed by the boomer neo-left, it is not funny. The activists should go to public schools and form American freedom clubs where they can learn about and discuss the idealism of socialism versus the reality of actually living under socialism.
Yours was a wonderful post, I choked up a little, thanks.
It’s not fair to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. That was hilarious.
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