From the Oakland Tribune (h/t: Verum Serum):
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One Oakland police officer, who asked to remain anonymous for reasons of police protocol, described the scene in tent city as akin to a scene from "Lord of the Flies." And, indeed, the on-the-fly rule-making can often veer into an oppressive, anarchic mood.
Journalists are routinely shooed away and told off by angry residents. One Oakland police supervisor said that the participants first appeared to him as "freethinking activists" but have since devolved into something more sinister. He said it was "interesting for a group that claims to be against current civilization and rules to set up a far more oppressive society than our own."
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Anyone who's paid the least bit of attention to the current state of leftist politics in America will not be surprised to learn that these free-thinking, free-love, anti-capitalists are swifly turning into run-of-the-mill fascists.
The lesson to be learned here is quite simple: no civilization can be absolutely tolerant and expect to survive beyond a generation.
Certain ideas and behaviors produce and nurture a free civilization and some ideas and behaviors inevitably cause its destruction.
These OWS protests are only possible within the political framework of a western, liberal democracy that has been built and maintained by some form of free-market capitalism.
Note:
--the abundant use of technology in the protests (corporations) and the decidedly middle-class fashion sense of the occupiers, including their pricey accessories. . .
--the charitable contributions of food and money to the protesters (someone had to own it before it could be given to them). . .
--the protesters depend of the lawful behavior of those who oppose the OWS ideology, or have just been inconvenienced by their antics. . .
--the protesters rely almost entirely on a western, liberal, democratic sense of what is right and wrong within their occupations zones. . .
--the restraint shown by business-owners, the police, politicians, and the media in criticizing their goals (whatever those are). . .
The lesson to be learned here is quite simple: no civilization can be absolutely tolerant and expect to survive beyond a generation.
Certain ideas and behaviors produce and nurture a free civilization and some ideas and behaviors inevitably cause its destruction.
These OWS protests are only possible within the political framework of a western, liberal democracy that has been built and maintained by some form of free-market capitalism.
Note:
--the abundant use of technology in the protests (corporations) and the decidedly middle-class fashion sense of the occupiers, including their pricey accessories. . .
--the charitable contributions of food and money to the protesters (someone had to own it before it could be given to them). . .
--the protesters depend of the lawful behavior of those who oppose the OWS ideology, or have just been inconvenienced by their antics. . .
--the protesters rely almost entirely on a western, liberal, democratic sense of what is right and wrong within their occupations zones. . .
--the restraint shown by business-owners, the police, politicians, and the media in criticizing their goals (whatever those are). . .
The fact that these occupation zones are becoming hotbeds of criminality and reactionary fascism should be a bleak warning to all of us who hope to thrive in free society.
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