I believe the real story regarding occupy Wall Street is being completely missed. It is already plainly understood that most of the protesters, at least those chosen at random for interviews don't really have a clue why they are there. It has also been reported, though only to the extent that they must at least mention it that many of the protesters are being paid to be there.
The real story isn't what the protesters want. They don't know. They're protesting because they were paid to. The media keeps trying to come up with a reason for them to be there since the protesters donn't have one. Without some real coherent reason to be there it is a non-story for the most part.
The real questions that they ought to be asking are: Who is really organizing these protests? What are their goals? What do the real organizers what to accomplish? Why are they trying so hard to stay in the background. How long have they been planning this? They are certainly well organized and have plenty of money and as such they probably also have some clearly stated goals.
The media ought to be doing this kind of reporting, but instead they try to make up a story and a motive for the people who are involved who have no story or motive of their own.
on the few occasions that any serious research has been done it has come out that Marxist, communist and socialist groups are behind this and they are all very anti American in their goals. Once again the media refuses to question the patriotism of these people and instead support that they are upset about the economy and the like. Well this has happened before, but we have never people proposing that the government and the American way of life should be destroyed and replaced with something completely new and foreign to its constitution.
It is most certain they want to see the American government overthrown and are not merely exercising their constitutional rights. They are exercising sedition. The constitution does not allow for the overthrow of the government, as a matter of fact it strictly prohibits it.
We have come to believe a lot of false things about freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not necessarily apply to the overthrow of the government though the constitution most certainly allows for that if the government becomes oppressive. However, it must be added that this provision is allowed for when the government begins to ignore the constitution it is sworn to uphold. It is not simply to replace the constitution or to choose some completely different and foreign form of government.
It was reported today on various news websites that there are finally anti occupation groups preparing to demonstrate against the occupy groups in Denver. We can only hope this phenomena spreads as there has already been far too much communist and anti-capitalist stuff coming out of the OWS groups as it is. No one wants to call those groups what they are, but it is clear they are anti-capitalist and there for are directly opposed to the many freedoms that are essential to the United States and our way of life.
OWS seems to think the answer more and ever more regulation. Regulation always means the loss of some freedom or liberty you had before. The more regulations you have the harder it becomes to do anything. It is because we are not realistic about this truth that we have already lost so many of the freedoms and rights we once had. People think they still have property rights, but just try and cut down a tree on your property without the approval of some government official and see what happens. Try to grow something on your property that has not been approved and see what happens. Try to add some extension or make some improvement to your home without the ok from a government official and see what happens. This list is unending of what you must or may do with your property to the point where you can hardly do anything you want unless you get the government to give you the ok. This is only dealing with property rights. The list of other government regulation on what you can eat, where you can eat it, when you can eat, whether you can smoke or drink what you want and where you want it. All of these things are supposedly in the name of the public good but are they really for our good?
We have representatives who now see their primary job as one of coming up with as many pages of new regulations per year as they can. All of this did not happen at one time. They first found things that sounded rather legitimate and helpful for the public protection and with each infringement took another step toward restriction on our liberties. If there is not push back about this very soon only one of two things can happen. Either we will see some kind of violent revolt against this or we will simply give in and see our liberties perish. I for one am not excited about either of those possibilities.
The OWS people as has been said are trying to get as many government regulations as they can manage because at their root they are communists and socialists and are not at all for liberty. They view liberty as nothing but bad making it all to easy for people to do as they please assuming that will always be the worst thing and that the "government" always knows what is best for us. They seem to forget that the goverment is made up of people just as fallible and greedy as the people they are expected to regulate.
It is for this reason that I must admit I am a little excited to hear that at least some counter demonstrations are expected in Denver and I hope they will spread to other places. I am not hoping for open confrontation so much as I am that the counter demonstrations will be very clear in their message and thus be a stark contrast with the message of the OWS groups. It is also my hope that they might actually shame the OWS people to go back home. So far the OWS groups have more or less encountered the same kind of opposition that the Kent State protests did and the anti-Viet Nam protests did; which is to say they didn't encounter any opposition at all and thus lent an air of legitimacy to their cause. If people had criticized protestors at Kent State as unpatriotic and cowardly things may have been different.
It must be realized though as well that these counter demonstrations may have an unexpectedly bad result which is that they will galvanize the OWS people to actually come up with a stance that causes them to actually have a cause and gain a message where they had none before. If this happens we could find things getting very tense very quickly. Even though things may become very intense from this it is still something that needs to happen. The American people need to rise up in such numbers against OWS that they thoroughly understand their cause is not, and will not be the cause of the American people. It is clear that a stand must be made and if one is not made we may end up with something far worse than the riots at Kent State. Even back then they didn’t have every manner of crime happening. They didn’t have people simply occupying areas for months on end with no permits and no reason to be there. The people at least had a clear message that was more than simple chaos for chaos’ sake.
I only hope we will see more of this since it is certainly well past time at this point. I think it may have lasted as long as it did with no counter demonstrations only because people thought they would burn out on what they were doing and then it turned out that they were not. They have continued and seem to be both funded as well as supported by our progressive representatives such that they feel empowered to continue as long as they like. This ought to cause all of us a great deal of concern because it means that those in government mirror their views and are always will or even complicit in seeing the government gain this kind of control. This is a bad sign and we should pay a lot of attention and start getting organized the way Denver is doing.
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