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Category: Occupy

  • Occupy coloring book

    Got some time on your hands and wondering what to do? Rick sends us a link to an article about the coloring book of the Occupy Wall Street crowd;

    It features puzzles, poems, and games surrounding the group of protestors.

    The book has yet to hit shelves, but in the two days it’s been online, 1,000 copies have been ordered.

    Publishers with “Really Big Coloring Books” say the idea came about a month ago after watching footage of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

    I think it’d be a nice gesture for someone to send one to Mrs. TSO, because she’s going to need something to do in Cabo seein’s how she’s with Mister “I’m going to take a nap”. You can send it in care of “the hot young wife with the old fat guy”. How many can there be in Cabo?

  • Matthis on leadership; Oh, woe is me!

    The Huffinton Post must be sucking canal water for diarists these days. Our old buddy and recent contestant in our stolen valor tournament, Matthis explained to the brainless hippies in his typically verbose manner why there are no leaders of the OWS protests;

    Being a leader in a movement I saw as plagued with too much leadership and not enough initiative on the ground, I tried simply to be an example of revolt. If anything, I hoped to use my position to assert new ideas and radical tactics. I tried to promote individual autonomy while myself pushing the bounds of acceptable dialogue to create a new cognitive space from which to organize; one not in service to a flag or a political party or a specific ideology, but exclusively to the values they all claim to monopolize.

    While this approach made me stand out, ironically, as a leader, it also ‘learned’ me a powerful lesson: leaders are targets, and certain interests in this country know little ethical restraint when striking at them to strike at the movements and ideas behind them.

    To be a leader on the left in the U.S. is to invite incredibly harsh scrutiny, and oftentimes harassment. From the state, from the populace, from the opposition and sometimes even from those you thought to be your friends. To stick one’s head up in a movement now-a-days is to beg that it get beaten down. Part of this ‘whack-a-mole’ practice is broader human tradition. Part is a matter of intent.

    Yeah, when you’re a leader, you probably shouldn’t be an immoral piece of shit liar…I guess he didn’t want to admit that in his wordy treatise on a subject about which he knows nothing.

    Matthis was forced out of the IVAW because he went against the mjority of the group’s actual veterans, he lied about the extenet of his service and his reasons for resisting the war. I guess he still wo’t admit his own failings to himself, so we have to keep reminding people.

    Thanks to another nameless ninja for the link.

  • Another Marine swept up with Occupy

    Jayel Aheram, for all appearances is indeed a former Marine who was honorably discharged last year, yet here he is speaking from jail to the Palm Desert Patch;

    “I’ve been abroad to defend freedom and liberty in foreign countires. When I’m here exercising that freedom and liberty, I’m arrested, shackled and chained and threated like a common criminal,” Aheram said, wearing an orange jumpsuit.

    Ah, the old standing on the bodies of veterans to rise above the inevitable arresting officers ploy.

    It appears that the city of Palm Desert gave the “occupiers” a permit for four days which expired Friday. The occupiers continued occupying through the weekend without the permission of the people of the city. So they were arrested after the park closed at 11 pm;

    “They ambushed us. It was a raid. It was a late night raid,” Aheram said.

    The police ambushed them after warning the protesters they’d be arrested if they continued to flaunt city ordinances.

    “I’m merely exercising my first amendment right. The city put a responsible citizen in jail for exercising his first amendment right,” Aheram said.

    Yeah, responsible citizens don’t break the law.

    A little Google research turned up a comment by Jayel Aheram on Red State in which he defends Kokesh against a Republican assault on Red State;

    So I guess he can be loosely tied to IVAW. There are several other posts on the internet that connect Aheram to the anti-war ideology, although I can’t find evidence of his actual membership in IVAW, he certainly was a good candidate for them, if they still had actual veterans of Iraq in the organization.

    Thanks to Valerie for the link.

  • Michael Moore ignores questions about his $50 million

    So, plus-sized Michael Moore addresses a crowd at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Portland. He tells the crowd how simple it would be for the richest 400 people to give up a million bucks to the rest of us. One member of the crowd asks when Moore is going to give a million bucks from his fifty million dollar net worth. Of course Moore ignores him. When he persues Moore, the questioner is asked by members of the crowd who is paying him to harrass Moore;

    Of course, if they were true to their principles, the Leftists would ask Moore the same question. But, the Occupy movement is just a political exercise and they can’t be seen to eat their own.

    Thanks to one of my nameless ninjas for the link.

  • Occupy Wall Street costs jobs

    Fox News reports that one cafe owner in the vicinity of the Occupy Wall Street encampment had to lay of 21 employees because the stench, filth and penniless crowds has damaged his foot traffic business;

    Marc Epstein, owner of the Milk Street Cafe at 40 Wall Street in lower Manhattan, said he had to cut 21 of the 97 members of his staff on Thursday and Friday after seeing sales plummet by 30 percent in the six weeks since the protests began. He’s also been forced to slash the restaurant operating hours, moving up his closing time from 9 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays.

    Way to go, you hippy fucks. Your pointless protest which no one supports is finally having an impact, but not on the banks or the rich, but the 99% who you pretend to support.

    Epstein said he has pleaded with city officials, the New York police and his landlord, Donald Trump, to get the barricades removed, but he has been unable to get a return call from the city and the New York police.

    Well, at least we know what Bloomberg thinks is important.

  • Marine Corps, and the real Occupy movement

    With all the Scott Olson (Fuck the Marine Corps) and Shamar Thomas (1 man, 2 cups 30 cops) talk around here, it was a mild sense of enjoyment that I read the following at lunch today:

    On June 6, the Germans marched out of Belleau Wood. Their perfect formation, coal-scuttle helmets, and rifles at the ready gave them an air of terrible efficiency. Their eyes were on the Americans some 800 yards away. At the time, opposing forces in open areas usually engaged at 400 yards, so it would be a few moments before they were close enough to fire.

    The Marines gave a few clicks of elevation to their rifle sights, waited a moment, and began firing. Almost every shot dropped a German. Hitting a target from 700 yards was not difficult for a Marine. At 600 yards, 500 yards, or 400 yards it was downright easy.

    The Germans were astonished. This was the first indication that they were up against a new kind of opponent. The effectiveness of the rifle fire broke up the German attack.

    Now it was time for Marines to do what they had come to France to do: attack. Now it was their turn to march across the wheat field. The most chilling of military orders was given: fix bayonets! This meant hand-to-hand combat with no quarter asked. It would be a fight to the death.

    The Marines marched in line abreast across the open field, their officers waving walking canes to emphasize their orders. Maxim machine guns with interlocking fields of fire began stuttering at five hundred rounds per minute — taka-taka-taka-taka — and Marines fell as if cut down by a scythe. Hugging the ground provided no safety, as some Maxims had been sighted to fire almost at ground level. The First Marine attack in World War I was faltering. Then rose Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, rifle high in the air, and he thundered, “Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?”

    Daly charged through the wheat, into the dark hell of Belleau Wood and the deadly chatter of the Maxims. The Marines followed, shouting, screaming, intent only on their orders: “Occupy Belleau Wood.”
    The Marines suffered 1,087 casualties on June 6, 1918, more than in any other day in the preceding 143 of Marine Corps history.

    I’ve refrained from discussing SGT Thomas and LCPL Olsen for the simple reason that I truly don’t give a shit about those two.  I really don’t.  My level of caring about Olsen’s busted up grape is infinitesmal.  I bear no great love of the Marine Corps, but when I read stuff like in the preceding, any man with half a bag of nuts gets goosebumps and thinks: There be men, giants here!

    This punk ass bitch, Olsen, spits on that history.  “Fuck the Marine Corps”?  No, fuck you for ever thinking you could be a part of them.  Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly was more of a man on June 6, 1918 than you will ever pack into a lifetime Olsen.   When you were in, you bitched nonstop and violated the rules.  Now that it is convenient you want to use the hallowed names of those who tread the path 80 years before your birth to give legitamacy to your little protest. 

    Had you been in the wheat field that day amongst these demigods, I have no doubt that the Germans would have been washed away in a flood of your urine.  And I’m sure that there are many generations of Marines out there who would love the opportunity to set you straight.

     

    Preceding passage is from the book “Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine” by Robert Coram.  It was given to me by my boss as a goof because (presumably) he thought I wouldn’t read a book about Marines.  Well, joke is on him, I’d read a book about necrofiliac clowns if someone put it in front of me and I wasn’t reading something else already.

     

  • Occupy Halloween Horror

    TSO sends this video of the horror inflicted on Occupy DC protesters from the good folks at Accuracy In Media;

    I noticed VFP’s and VVAW’s Winter Soldier I participant and IVAW advisor Bill Perry in the video, but I don’t see him at the table looking for a job.

  • I just don’t know about this guy

    Several of you sent this video from Arizona to me over the past couple of days and I’ve been sitting here thinking about it. Someone asked me if I could do a FOIA on the guy. It should be easy…how many people went by the nickname “JT”? But, ya know how you can agree with everything someone says, but, there’s just sumpthin’ that turns you off? Well, here you watch it.

    I put on some weight after the Army, too, but not that far outside of the weight standards. I know his boots are groaning. Here’s the link to his organization. Although i support what they’re doing and for what they say they stand for, they just look a little too eager, and I’m sure they’re keeping their neighborhood surplus stores in business.

    Both JT and the video guy start talking about what a great organization the Oathkeepers is, and well, you know how I feel about Ron Paul’s militia.

    I don’t like the way that JT and his band of surplus store refugees are facing the police, like they intend to stop the police from doing their jobs. The US Border Guard “Rangers” just look like a bunch who want to wear their camouflage and weapons in public with their friends. Maybe they do a good job on the border, but they should leave that shit for the illegals and not the police.