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Who are the people supporting the Wall Street protesters?
(The Washington Times) —
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011%E2%80%A6 Obama’s shock troops are marching in the streets. Occupy Wall Street — a movement composed of communists, anarchists, socialists and anti-globalization student radicals — is spreading. Protests have swelled in cities including New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia. The protesters are gaining influence and numbers. A ragtag group of hippie students has turned into a potent political force.
Occupy Wall Street seeks to demonize big banks, large corporations and capitalism. Its goal is to overturn America’s economic structure. The protesters are calling for wealth redistribution, fees on bank profits and massive tax increases on the rich. Many are demanding a socialist revolution — the confiscation of private property and nationalization of the economy. They are the heirs of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin. Their aim is to impose the hammer and sickle upon America.
Leftist radicals, such as Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky, have endorsed the anti-capitalist movement. Both men have glorified authoritarian communist regimes — Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and the old Soviet Union. Their hatred for America has found expression in the rabble on the streets of New York and Washington. Actress Roseanne Barr even has called for the return of the “guillotine.” She wants bankers to be sent to “re-education camps,” and if they still refuse to hand over their profits, they should be beheaded, she says. This is the language of revolutionary terror and Marxist violence.
Mr. Obama has said he “sympathizes” with the protesters — especially their anger at Wall Street and “fat-cat” bankers. For years, he has demonized billionaires and millionaires, jet owners and corporate America. His divisive, irresponsible rhetoric has laid the groundwork for Occupy Wall Street.
The White House connection is even deeper. The protest’s main players all have ties to the Obama administration. Its primary organizer is former Obama “green-jobs czar” Van Jones. Mr. Jones is a self-avowed communist and follower of Saul Alinsky, the radical community organizer who also was Mr. Obama’s intellectual mentor. Mr. Jones said October is the month of the long-awaited “progressive offensive” — the watershed moment when students, labor unions, socialists and civil rights activists coalesce into an anti-Tea Party to blunt Middle America’s growing opposition to Mr. Obama.
Occupy Wall Street also is being supported by MoveOn.org. The group was one of the first to back Mr. Obama’s presidential candidacy when he was still an obscure senator from Illinois. The protests are being funded by socialist billionaire George Soros — a key Obama ally. And the protesters are being joined by big labor, the administration’s most powerful constituency.
Hence, Occupy Wall Street is not a spontaneous uprising of disenchanted citizens frustrated with corporate plutocracy and capitalist excess. Rather, it is a planned, manufactured attempt to prop up Mr. Obama’s failed presidency. It is a page taken straight from the Alinsky playbook: Demonize bankers and businessmen in order to divert attention from the real source of our economic woes, Mr. Obama’s policies.
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- D.E.M.Lv 610 years agoFavorite Answer
I say if you don't agree with a banks policies or fat bonuses pull your money from them. If a companies policies offend you don't buy their product that is how you change a business or institution. They live by the "Dollar". Stock prices go down when people don't buy a commodity, so if you don't like it don't buy. See they are right, but going about it wrong as usual. They do have the power to change Wall Street, but protests just take the peoples eyes off of Washington and place them on somewhere else.
That is why they are for this protesting, it gets Americas focus off of them. The ones who passed the treaties that moved jobs overseas, The ones that stole the money from The Social Security Fund ( Yes Stole, to take money and never intend to put it back is stealing). The ones that keep placing their pork barrel projects on the backs of working America. The ones that are failing to help Middle America, but can pass bills to assist State Governments in the name of job Stimulation. If you want to see stimulation give the money back to the middle class worker. He will buy clothes for his family, replace his old beater with a new car. Repair his home, by hiring a contractor. there you have it jobs!
- sanityLv 710 years ago
You and your propaganda.
The protesters are ordinary Americans you see around everyday. The protesters are students (and these are kids of Americans) who are in debt with student loans and see no job and no future of enabling them to pay their debts. The protesters are Americans who are dissatisfied with Wall Street for creating bubble of 2008 - speculative bubble that inflated assets by as much as 50% to 70% - and when the bubble burst, it took away the lifesavings of millions of Americans. The protesters are Americans who believe that corporate greed is the cause of some of the problems of widening gap of rich/poor divide and of manipulating policies through their lobbyists.
- Alex GLv 610 years ago
The US economy is Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Las Vegas.
Why is Wall St contributing?
- GregLv 610 years ago
Actually if the wall street bosses had done a better job in anticipating this crisis everyone might not be in such a big mess right now
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- NDMALv 710 years ago
History has show us demonstrations like this only hurt the incumbent president. In fact Johnson decided not to run for re-election largely because of the anti-war demonstrations and civil unrest.
- Anonymous10 years ago
The Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Springs -- none of this would be happening without Soros' puppet, Obama the Messiah.
Even if this man loses next election, the world will be thrown into complete chaos in the future.
- charlieLv 510 years ago
No,that's what the GOP wants,to make Obama look bad,they rather burn down the house than use a mouse trap,if you know what I mean.
- Smoking JoeLv 710 years ago
What a load of recycled John Birch Society crap - I mean the Fox News show - nobody wants to destroy the economy, they just want reasonable protections and regulations in place, to keep the ultra-rich from scre***ng us and causing Recession after Recession....
Source(s): ...like they have for 30 years under Republican deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy. - Anonymous10 years ago
I'm 100% sure that these demonstrations are planned and funded by the DNC for pure electoral reasons