Hopeless, Jobless, Lawless and Clueless

By William L. Garvin

A murder has occurred at the site of Occupy Oakland but it has nothing to do with the protestors. Coffee and hot dog carts were vandalized at Occupy San Diego and splattered with graffiti, blood, and urine but it has nothing to do with the protestors. Rapes and sexual assaults plague Occupy Wall Street but it has nothing to do with the protestors. Police officers are pelted with rocks, bottles, padlocks, hammers, Molotov cocktails, M80’s, M100’s, and paint then “gassed” with urine but it has nothing to do with the protestors. Fires are set throughout the Occupy sites, windows are smashed, property is stolen, buildings are vandalized, news vans are overturned, reporters are attacked but it has nothing to do with the protestors. Thousands of people have been arrested but it has nothing to do with the protestors. That’s what the protestors expect you to believe.

Apparently the Occupy Whatever “movement” is coated with corporate Teflon and remains pure at heart and noble in motive. Ignore the signs that say “The death of democracy” and “Until the last capitalist is hung with the entrails of the last bureaucrat.” Ignore the injuries inflicted upon the police officers (many of whom are veterans) but devote story after story to an injured protestor who is a veteran. Repeatedly explain away the violence, destruction, and arrests as “a fringe group,” or “a small group of vandals,” or “a handful of people.” Don’t even bother to question why a gathering of five to seven thousand people are totally unable to contain a “handful” of anarchists. “We’re too afraid to get too physical,” said Rachel Dorney, “especially if they have a brick in their hand.” “They’re totally going to taint the image but you have to take the good with the bad,” added Alex Matkin. That is pure rhetorical rubbish disguising a lack of courage and a tacit approval of all that is going on. It is a gathering of sheeple many of who are mindlessly exploring their emotional (chemically induced?) sense of being important or significant.

There is no rational reason for refusing to report the crimes at Occupy Wall Street to the authorities or thinking they can police themselves if they are afraid of a single brick. There is no rational reason for refusing to provide the videos of the murder they made on cell phones of the Oakland murder to the police. There is no rational reason for shouting down the police chief when he asked for their assistance in identifying the suspects in the beating and subsequent murder. There is no rational reason for providing aid and comfort to the masked, black clad, ninja wannabe anarchists if the movement is truly peaceful…but they do. They are not part of any solution but they have become the problem.

These protestors have never been representative of “99 percent”, i.e., all those who understand that success comes from a lifetime of effort, hard work, and sound decisions. In short, most Americans don’t expect a free lunch and certainly wouldn’t destroy a hot dog cart when they stopped giving out freebies! They know how to sacrifice short term gratification for long term goals. They didn’t buy homes they couldn’t afford and they don’t whine about having to pay their bills. They don’t expect government to provide them with “womb to tomb” security or a life of ease. They will obey the laws and if they don’t like them, they will cast a vote to change them. They understand substance is better than style and that they will be judged not on their words but on their actions.

Through the prism of “global equality”, they understand that if you make $34,000 per year, YOU ARE IN THE TOP ONE PERCENT ON THIS PLANET! Therefore, those 300 teachers who abandoned their classrooms should give back their excess salaries to the 99% who deserve it in the name of social justice. You can start with those hopeless, jobless, lawless, and clueless protestors you were supporting. Occupy Oakland can also take that $20,000 they deposited in the Wells Fargo Bank and give it to the small businesses they have destroyed! You can also pay back all the cash strapped cities who have had to expend millions of dollars in overtime to limit your violent and narcissistic temper tantrums. When can they expect the check?