It hasnt taken long for the socialist-organized occupation of Wall Street to jump the shark. In a surreal news conference at the United Nations, anti-American radical and rogue financier George Soros (net worth: $22 billion) threw in his lot with the thousands of Communists, anarchists, eco-feminists, malingerers, and professional protesters who have been baiting and taunting police in lower Manhattan as part of a mass demonstration that began September 17.
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) also jumped on the anti-Wall Street bandwagon. In a move that ought to permanently disqualify him as a GOP presidential candidate, Paul gave aid and comfort to the radicals who want to destroy America. If they were demonstrating peacefully, and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed I would say, good! Paul said.
When told that a New York police officer pepper-sprayed protesters, Paul reflexively took the side of the radicals. I didnt read the stories about it. But that means government doesnt like to be receiving any criticism at all. And my argument is, government should be in the open the peoples privacy ought to be protected. So I dont like it.
The protests, which have spread to other large cities, are part of what ACORNs neo-communist founder Wade Rathke calls an anti-banking jihad. Not surprisingly, the remnants of the ACORN network are deeply involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. New York ACORNs new front group, New York Communities for Change (NYCC), led by veteran ACORN enforcer Jon Kest, is one of the major protest groups leading the effort to turn America into one big socialist armpit.
Kest explained why NYCC is involved by using what has become the standard Marxist boilerplate about the financial collapse. When the big banks tanked our economy they took away millions of peoples shot at achieving the American Dream, he blogged. Its about time all these people come together and hold Wall Street accountable for what theyve done to our futures and the future of this country. Of course Kest didnt bother to mention the role that ACORN played in creating the mortgage bubble by strong-arming Fannie Mae, pushing the financial affirmative action scheme known as the Community Reinvestment Act, and blackmailing banks that didnt want to lend money to people who wouldnt be able to pay it back.
SEIU board member Stephen Lerner has vowed to do his part to drive a stake through the heart of capitalism and drag the populace into economic misery. Lerner says he wants to bring down the stock market through a campaign of disruption. Last year George Goehl, executive director of Chicago-based National Peoples Action, said that the banking crisis was the next big thing, and the way to build a big economic justice movement in this country.
Soros said he sympathizes with the rabble. Actually I can understand [the protesters] sentiment, frankly, said the preeminent funder of the American activist Left in remarks to reporters.
But anyone who has followed Soross life wouldnt dare to describe him as a working class hero.
Remember that this corrupt investment banker fired his butler for complaining after his cook used Château Lafite in a stew. The butler won a wrongful dismissal lawsuit against Soros. Soros was also convicted of insider trading. A French court fined him millions of dollars.
Soross hedge fund invested almost $1 billion in shares of Petrobras, the Brazilian oil concern, coincidentally just before the Export-Import Bank of the United States announced it was lending $2 billion to the company.
Soros closed a hedge fund to outside investors rather than submit to the new Dodd-Frank financial regulations regulations he helped to enact by giving money to groups that lobbied for them. Soros shed a few crocodile tears for small business owners whose credit lines got squeezed after the 2008 financial collapse. An awful lot of them actually were put out of business, he said.
Remember also that Soros deliberately collapses national economies for fun and profit, openly expresses admiration for Communist China, and has said European-style socialism is exactly what we need now. He wants the American economy to sink into the abyss. Im having a very good crisis, Soros said in 2009.
Even though Soros is the archetype of the Wall Street insider, leftists cant bring themselves to criticize him, preferring to demonize the invented billionaire bogeymen of the Right.
Plenty of other rich liberals have been holding court near Wall Street in recent days.
Hip hop and credit card mogul Russell Simmons (net worth: $340 million), alleged comedian Roseanne Barr (net worth: $80 million), actress Susan Sarandon (net worth: $50 million), and celluloid propagandist Michael Moore (net worth: $50 million) have all dropped by to cheer on the protesters in their quest to redistribute wealth while radically transforming the nation.
Simmons stood beside Frances Fox Piven as the Bolshevik academic unwittingly created an impromptu parody of the were all individuals crowd scene in Monty Pythons Life of Brian. Wall Street is the center of the neo-liberal cancer that has spread across the world, Piven said, pausing every few seconds to allow the mob to repeat her words.
After Piven finished, Simmons stood up and did the same routine like an automaton from a creepy cult. As the mob repeated his words, Simmons condemned the class warfare being waged on the poor and the middle class and claimed:
The fact is our problem, at least our number one problem, is the corporations and the other special interest groups that are more important to our politicians than the people. The lobbyists and the money gotta get the f*** out of Washington.
The next big exercise in Marxist mobocracy is scheduled for later this week in the nations capital.
The October 2011 Coalition plans to take over Freedom Plaza near the White House, beginning today if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan. Protesters will resist the corporate machine by occupying the area to demand that Americas resources be invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. The groups stated goal is to make the plaza one block away from the White House our Tahrir Square, Cairo.
Plenty more disruptive demonstrations are scheduled.
Next week will be busy, SEIUs Lerner said during a panel discussion Monday at the Take Back the American Dream conference in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the left-wing Campaign for Americas Future.
About 10,000 demonstrators are expected to hit the streets of Chicago while protesters march on Wells Fargo in Minneapolis, he said.
Activists in New York are planning to campaign to extend that states tax on millionaires. We may go visit some of them, said Lerner, whose union goons have terrorized the families of many corporate executives in their homes.
Goehls National Peoples Action group is planning a Make Wall Street Pay event on November 3. Thats two days before Guy Fawkes Day, the annual commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot in which English dissidents plotted to vaporize Parliament.
Fancy that.