The Occupy Movement doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. To fill up their time, the more extreme activists have once more returned to their abhorrent protest tactics of last fall.
There certainly was no lack of reasons to disparage the movement. The encampments were hives of scum and villainy. Murder and mayhem abounded, yet in certain political circles, it was considered a wonderful expression of youthful exuberance.
In more recent cases, certain Occupy groups haven’t even attempted to hide their hateful motives. Occupy Denver organized an event last week where a large group of occupiers got together to have a “F@&k the Police” march. This level of hate is rather de rigueur for Occupy Oakland, but is now spreading to other camps. Messages went out to participants to wear masks and bandanas to oppose a “violent and dystopian police state.”
In the name of opposing violence, protestors painted graffiti on cars, threw lit fireworks, chanted obscenities and lobbed balloons filled with paint and urine. Some of the Occupy Denver organizers distanced themselves from the march, but agreed with the sentiments behind it.
Liberal politicians and leaders have thrown their weight behind the group. The Mayor of Oakland, Jean Quan, condoned the occupation of the city’s Frank Ogawa plaza and the White House has offered ongoing rhetorical support. As the protests waned during the onset of winter, some have started to return to prominence.
But this time they are no longer talking about equality and social justice; no, instead they’re breaking things and burning flags. Well, that and throwing condoms at Catholic school girls.
Even in the heart of Oakland, a city which has provided the Occupiers with more support than any other, the spoiled brats of the Occupy Movement weren’t able to keep the goodwill going. A large group tried to storm an unused convention center. This was thwarted, so the mob attempted to storm City Hall.
The wild attackers spent the evening attacking the police with glass bottles, metal pipes, rocks, burning flares and other projectiles. When they entered City Hall, they went straight to wanton destruction, smashing displays, cutting electrical wiring, and spraying the walls with graffiti. To top things off, the frenzied mob chanted “burn it, burn it” as someone lit fire to an American flag.
Oakland officials estimate the Occupy Movement has caused a total of $5 million in damage to city property. It has come to the point where even Oakland is no longer willing to put up with the destructive antics of these people; 400 people were arrested there. The Occupy movement as a whole, has declared support for their beleaguered, and objectively criminal, brethren, condoning their actions.
What once started as a seemingly organic outpouring of frustration against the bailout of banks and financial institutions, has rapidly degenerated into a conglomeration of the worst of the far left. They are now losing whatever semblance of respectability they might have once enjoyed.
While it was cute to make fun of the gathering’s idiosyncrasies, like the up and down twinkles and mic checks, there has always been an ugly undercurrent in the encampments. It is possible to discount many of the more egregious acts as the work of individuals, though the mainstream press would never give the same benefit of the doubt to the Tea Party. The deaths and rapes, the thievery and the child abuse are the work of individuals, but the mob action is, without a shadow of a doubt, the work of the entire group.
There should no longer be any doubt in the minds of observers. The movement is not about social justice and improving America- it is about destroying and looting, taking from those who have built and giving to those who refuse to.
