by Smitty
Harrison Schultz must bethink himself quite the hipster:
I’ve got some lads in uniform in Afghanistan right now that could calibrate this little jackwagon, post-haste.
via The Corner
Category: #Occupy
While The #Occupier-In-Chief Flitted Off To Central Asia, #Occupy Shambled On
by Smitty
While BHO separated himself as far as physically possible from the tanked economy, the #Occupy hippies celebrated Victims of Communism Day with their usual brand of dangerous idiocy:
In Cleveland, a few of them tried going a little farther than throwing paint at police stations. The FBI announced today that they arrested five “anarchists” last night after breaking up a conspiracy to blow up a Cuyahoga bridge and four other targets today
American Glob has a fine roundup of the video and blog posts.
If President Barack Obama deserves any credit for the takeout of bin Laden, then he certainly deserves to eat the dog that is #Occupy. This movement represents the culmination of the societal decay that BHO was supposed to fix. Somehow. And yet, as always, he achieves the opposite of his stated objectives.
Can we still blame Bush, or did that dog get eaten before it could hunt again?
via Memeorandum
Update: linked by Da Tech Guy. Thanks, Pete!
When Trolls Attack: Marcusean Mob Gets @ChrisLoesch Bounced from Twitter
“Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.”
— Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance,” 1965
Sunday night, I was a guest on “BlogMock Radio,” the weekly online podcast hosted by Blogmocracy and Diary of Daedalus, and a caller asked, “Did you hear what happened to Chris Loesch?”
Chris Loesch is a musician who joined forces with Steven Crowder to perform as Powdered Zombies for the viral rap hit “Mr. America.”
Chris is also, not coincidentally, the husband of blogger/talk-radio host/CNN contributor Dana Loesch. Chris was arguing with some left-wingers on Twitter who had attacked his wife when the enlightened tolerant progressives decided — to borrow a phrase from Spencer Ackerman — to smash him through a plate-glass window. Chris explained to Twitchy what happened:
I was suspended 20 minutes after I was done debating a few liberals. Twitter’s suspension message to me stated that I had used “Abusive Language” I never cursed, threatened or belittled anyone. . . .
I stumbled upon a few tweets between the liberals I was debating, discussing getting groups together to block conservative twitter accounts in mass. I am certain that @OccupiedMuslim got her entire OWS rally in NYC to report me for spam. I wish I would have taken a screen shot because those tweets were deleted as soon as I started making noise about it. . . .
This is clearly a tactic being used by the left and Twitter is either ignorant or allowing it to occur.
Got it? Any conservative active on Twitter is familiar with how left-wing trolls — many of them associated with the Occupy movement — like to get up “in your face,” hurling abusive language and dishonest smears. The best response usually is to ignore them.
Most people don’t have time to waste on such vermin, but ignoring the troll attacks will sometimes give them the idea that they are “winning” (Charlie Sheen-style), so that the trolls start congratulating each other on their success, and claiming that the objects of their attacks are too stupid or too cowardly to engage them in arguments. You’ll never guess who wrote this:
Right wingers harass, abuse, insult & attack people constantly on Twitter, then act outraged and whine when their accounts are suspended.
OK, maybe you did guess, huh? This is what happens when the target responds to the trolls: The enlightened tolerant progressives deliberately mischaracterize the response as an “attack,” or “whining,” as if the targets of their vicious dishonest online aggression had no right to answer them back. And now, as the case of Chris Loesch dramatizes, the Left has begun organizing stalker mobs to falsely report conservatives for “spam”/”abuse,” in order to silence the Right on Twitter. Why?
Silencing opposition is the Left’s only hope for success.
If conservatives are permitted a fair chance to critique the Left’s agenda, to expose the Left’s tactics and demonstrate the failure of the Left’s policies, the Left loses. Not content to dominate academia, public schools, the entertainment industry, book publishing and the mainstream news media — all of which cultural institutions are characterized by an overwhelming liberal hegemony — the Left is now determined to silence conservative opposition in the few bastions of freedom that remain: Talk radio, cable TV and the Internet.
Nearly half a century has passed since Marxist theoretician Herbert Marcuse proposed a “liberating tolerance” — in fact, progressive intolerance — that would silence the Left’s opposition. Many old-fashioned liberals at that time recognized the totalitarian nature of Marcuse’s formula. Leszek Kolakowski observed that the ultimate object of Marcuse’s ideology was “Marxism as a Totalitarian Utopia. . . . the freedom he advocates is non-freedom.”
Here we are now in 2012, and we see mobs of left-wingers still pursuing the Marcusean totalitarian formula: Smash the opponent “through a plate glass window,” as Spencer Ackerman infamously said, and do not scruple about the means to the end. If one imagines that the Right is Evil by definition, then defeat the Right “by any means necessary,” to employ a favorite slogan of the Left.
Ten days ago, Daniel Vergara committed libel against me — and Twitter has still done nothing about Vergara’s defamation.
Yesterday, a left-wing online mob attacked Chris Loesch, and Twitter suspended Loesch’s account. When conservatives rallied under Ben Howe’s #FreeChrisLoesch banner, Loesch was briefly reinstated, but continued agitation from the left-wing Twitter trolls resulted in a second suspension. If this could happen to such a prominent person, whose wife is a paid contributor to CNN, what do you suppose happens to smaller, less influential figures online?
As Twitchy documents, these attacks have happened to many conservatives, and Twitter has done nothing to stop it.
Anneke Green reports the story at The Washington Times. Now a Memeorandum thread, with commentary from Hot Air and Nice Deb.
Conservatives must defend free speech now, before the Left uses Marcusean “liberating tolerance” to silence all opposition.
UPDATE: Darleen Click on the Twitter troll tactics:
They even believe they “own” certain hashtags and target conservatives who engage, mockingly or seriously, in “their” space.
Sister Toldjah was able to uncover one of the “hit lists” and, scroll down and you’ll find me and Serr8d on the list.
She’s exactly right: The Left wanted to “own” the #OWS and #Occupy Twitter hashtags, and when conservatives began using those tags to promote stories documenting the criminal violence of the Occupy movement, the Left became enraged. Well, they were enraged already, I guess, but they went into an especially demented sort of frenzy at being unable to control the “narrative” of the Occupy movement.
UPDATE II: Da Tech Guy sees Soviet tactics by the Left, while Dan Collins discusses the possibility that the White House is orchestrating such attacks. One need not believe that to understand that Our President has done nothing to discourage the Left’s venomous hatefulness and has, indeed, in many ways fomented it.
People Wonder Why I Call Obama ‘#OccupyResoluteDesk’
by Smitty
Via the Tatler, we have the head #Occupier in Rolling Stone:
OBAMA: You know, I think that Occupy Wall Street was just one vivid expression of a broader anxiety that has been around in the United States for at least a decade or more. People have a sense the game is rigged, so just a few people can do well, and everybody else is left to scramble to get by.
Is there any doubt that the #Occupy movement is, to leadership, what BHO’s other big accomplishment, ObamaCare, is to legislation? Praising a dead-end breakdown of civilization itself, cynically. The faux sympathy display must be the sweetest nectar to him.
I explored the Obama-Occupy-Resolute-Desk-Hayes connection here.
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As I was telling designated Lefty troll Anamika in the comments the other day, #OccupyResoluteDesk is going to be blog traffic gold after Occupy Unmasked gets released, connecting Commie Obama and #Occupy very clearly for everyone. That the Resolute Desk which Obama #Occupies was delivered originally to Rutherford B. Hayes is just ointment on the fly.
Aside: what’s this “Senator Chuck (You) Schumer” thing? People need to counsel The Lonely Conservative about subliminal profanity. Also, Doug Ross.
#Occupy Sympathizer Who Tweeted About Killing Cops: Meet Rusty Braxton
As previously noted, when police shut down Saturday’s Occupy protest in New York, a Twitter user with the handle “smackema1” sent a message: “We wont make a difference if we dont kill a cop or 2.” After it was announced that a criminal investigation of the threat had been undertaken, the New York Daily News located the 23-year-old punk:
“I’m not a cop hater,” Rusty Braxton told the Daily News as the police continued to investigate Saturday’s ugly online remark.
“I don’t want any cops killed. They’re doing their job. They’re civil servants.”
Braxton, of Oviedo, Fla., sent the tweet from his hometown during Saturday’s six-month anniversary protest at Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park.
“We wont make a difference if we dont kill a cop or 2,” the restaurant manager wrote.
His Facebook page contains photographs of guns and he said in his Twitter feed that he has permits for a Mossberg shotgun and a Smith & Wesson pistol. . . .
He says he’s never been to New York or attended an Occupy protest.
But he admitted the actions of police sometimes makes him angry.
“When I see the police throw people down and push people, I get upset,” he said.
Oviedo is about 20 miles from downtown Orlando. Why this young Florida restaurant manager would be watching a livestream of the Occupy protests and urging violence against cops, I don’t know.
Braxton’s only previous criminal record was a juvenile dope bust. David Martosko of the Daily Caller had a Twitter exchange with Braxton and reports that Braxton’s account has since been deleted.
In his Twitter feed, Braxton’s spelling, grammar and punctuation were abysmal. So he’s a semi-literate dopehead who hates cops — which is to say, a typical product of the public-education system.
Humor-Deficient Charles Johnson Sides With #Occupy Movement vs. NYPD UPDATE: NYPD Investigates Occupier’s Twitter Death Threat Against Police
Raised during the Cold War — when my uncles and cousins and neighbors were fighting the Viet Cong and the NVA, when American troops stood on guard against that doomsday moment when the Red Army decided to make a try for the Fulda Gap, when any blink of an eye might bring down a worldwide thermonuclear Armaggedon upon us — I developed a profound loathing of communism.
It was a highlight of my journalism career when the news came across the wire that former CPUSA chairman Gus Hall had died, and it was my honor to write his obituary, thus bringing good news to the world because, as every patriotic red-blooded American knows, the only good Commie is a dead Commie.
Has such a perspective become archaic or obsolete, merely because the Soviet Union collapsed into the ash-heap of history 20 years ago? Or, as I think, is it important to remember the deadly evil that Marx and Lenin unleashed upon mankind, and to stand eternally vigilant against any prospect of its recrudescence?
You may disagree with my belief that the Red Menace is still a specter that haunts us, and if you disagree, you probably don’t share my opinion that the Occupy movement represents a new iteration that menace. I understand this and so, when I denounce the Occupiers as “Commies,” it is both a serious indictment of their leftist worldview and a self-conscious jest, satirically invoking the old Cold War mentality toward beatniks and hippies and other such pinko Bolshevik sympathizers.
“They’re the kind of commie scum who give commie scum a bad name and my trademark ‘hypothetical atrocity’ rhetoric was intended to signify nothing other than my bottomless well of contempt for such people. Therefore if I were the commander of the NYPD riot squad, my orders would be to open fire and shoot to kill. We’d make Kent State look like a Sunday school picnic. The brutality would be something more on the scale of Guernica, complete with Predator drone airstrikes.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Oct. 8, 2011
If you don’t understand this, OK. But your lack of understanding is not my fault, and if I have to explain that I was friends with such refugees from Communism as the late Balint Vazonyi, if I have to remind you that Communist governments killed 100 million of their own citizens during the 20th century, if you don’t realize that Julius Rosenberg and Alger Hiss were both guilty as hell — well, why do you blame me for your own ignorance? And speaking of ignorance . . .
Little Green Footballs has evidently attracted another fool:
This “Silvio Breckman” is a useless nobody with 41 followers on Twitter, who could be even more easily ignored than his idiotic hero.
Whether Breckman is evil or merely ignorant, I don’t know. Continue reading Humor-Deficient Charles Johnson Sides With #Occupy Movement vs. NYPD UPDATE: NYPD Investigates Occupier’s Twitter Death Threat Against Police →
#Occupy St. Patrick’s Day: The Wearing of the Green and the Clearing of the Scum UPDATE: Did ‘Police Brutality Victim’ Cecily McMillan Attack Policeman?
St. Patrick’s Day, like New Year’s Eve, is one of those occasions when I carefully avoid alcohol because I refuse to drink with amateurs. But for many Americans, St. Patrick’s Day is a festive occasion celebrated with drunken revelry. Now imagine you’re a New York cop, looking forward to a Saturday night of green beer with your buddies, and you find out instead you’ve been assigned weekend overtime duty because a bunch of Commie freaks have decided to have a protest:
Scores of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested on Saturday night as police officers swept Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan and closed it.
Dozens of demonstrators sat down and locked arms as officers moved in about 11:30 p.m. The protesters chanted “we are not afraid” as the police began pulling people from the crowd, one by one, and leading them out of the park in handcuffs. . . .
(“We are not afraid”? By God, if they’re not, they should be. C’mon, NYPD, strike some fear in their hearts!)
The operation occurred after hundreds of people had gathered in the financial district to observe the founding of Occupy Wall Street six months ago. . . .
By 11:30 p.m., as police officers massed on Broadway, a commander announced that the park was closed. Those inside shouted back that the park was obliged through an agreement with the city to remain open. The commander then announced that anyone who remained inside would be arrested and charged with trespassing. . . .
(Whose streets? NYPD’s streets! You’ve been warned, Commies!)
By 12:20 a.m., a line of officers pushed against some of the remaining protesters, forcing them south on Broadway, at times swinging batons and shoving people to the ground.
Kobi Skolnick, 30, said that officers pushed him in several directions and that as he tried to walk away, he was struck from behind in the neck. “One of the police ran and hit me with a baton,” he said.
That’s the way to do it, NYPD! Give ’em a sweet taste of the nightstick!
But doesn’t NYPD have tasers? Jack ’em up with some high voltage!
Billy clubs, tasers, pepper spray, whatever it takes to keep Marxist scum off the streets of New York, do it. These whiny deadbeats are a menace to public safety — scabies! tuberculosis! rape! — and if they refuse to disperse peacefully, they have thereby declared war on the law-abiding citizens of New York, whom the NYPD are sworn to protect and serve.
There are reports that a handful of Occupy protesters were hospitalized with injuries. Unfortunately, it was only a handful, and none of those injuries were wounds from 9mm pistols or 12-gauge riot guns.
UPDATE: The Occupiers have claimed that one of their members, Cecily McMillan was the victim of police brutality. Sooper Mexican has details — including video — that appear to contradict that narrative:
Take a look at the video yourself. She clearly throws a nasty elbow at the cop next to her.
Read the whole Sooper Mexican post, as he has unearthed some interesting background on this left-wing protest pest, including her pride in being the grand-daughter of a founding member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the organization responsible for the infamous Chicago “Days of Rage” riot.
UPDATE II: Where does the Occupy movement end and the liberal media begin? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. The NY Observer‘s Steve Huff:
Occupy Wall Street Activist Cecily McMillan
Allegedly Beaten By N.Y.P.D.
Cecily McMillan, an Occupy Wall Street activist once profiled in Rolling Stone, suffered a seizure Saturday night during protest action near Zuccotti Park. Many on-scene reported Ms. McMillan had trouble breathing after she was tackled and handcuffed by law enforcement.
Is it your job, Mr. Huff, to publicize the tendentious propaganda claims of the Occupy movement? At this point it appears Ms. McMillan attacked a policeman prior to her arrest and that, whatever her medical condition may be, her arrest was an entirely lawful response by NYPD officers.
So, Mr. Huff: Why is the NY Observer paying you to promote these potentially phony victimhood claims on Ms. McMillan’s behalf? Are the Observer‘s editors, publisher and advertisers down with what would appear to be your pro-Occupy anti-cop agenda?
Hey, I’m just askin’ questions . . . And the NY Observer‘s toll-free phone number is (800) 542-0420. Be polite.
Does Keith Olbermann Think It’s OK to Have ‘Consensual’ Sex with 14-Year-Olds?
At least if you’re part of “Occupy Wall Street”:
This was just another gentle Occupier with a heart of gold enjoying some hot, consensual man-on-teen action. He totally tapped that 14-year-old ass. High fives all around!
That’s actually Jenn Taylor’s summary of Olbermann’s evident attitude: In attempting to “debunk” reports of rapes at Occupy encampments, KO insisted that a 14-year-old engaged in consensual sex with a 23-year-old convicted sex offender, Richard Armstrong.
Lee Stranahan thoroughly fisks Olby’s “debunking.”
You may be thinking to yourself: “Hmmm, why would a sex offender be involved in a protest movement about ‘economic injustice’? What’s the deal? What’s the shared interest there?”
Answer: The sense of aggrieved victimhood common to sociopathic personalities, as I explained in November:
Celebrations of sociopathic tendencies — and demonizing wealth is sociopathic — tend to attract maladjusted deviants.
Have you ever seen the movie Repo Man? There’s a scene where a punk tries to rob a convenience store, is fatally shot, and his dying words are, “I blame society.”
In those three words, the punk enscapsulates the entire worldview of the sociopath: His problems are always somebody else’s fault.
A contemptuous lawlessness, a lack of empathy, an outrageous sense of selfish entitlement, the tendency to demonize authority figures and to see the “System” as inherently unjust — these are traits of the sociopath, and it is impossible to look soberly at the Occupy movement without recognizing it as a sort of sociopathic street carnival.
The movement naturally attracts criminals, because of its own essentially criminal ideology.
The 23-year-old sex offender Richard Armstrong, rather than having learned any lesson from his prior conviction, evidently came to the Occupy Dallas encampment looking for an opportunity to re-offend, and found it. On behalf of the two-time sex offender, Keith Olbermann therefore says: “I blame society!”