BRUCE KESLER: POTEMKIN PROTESTS
“About 2.5-million American volunteers have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The college students at home don’t want to pay high tuition and pay loans back for basket-weaving diplomas they themselves chose. It was the same with anti-Vietnam protests. College students not wanting to serve versus 2.5-million of us who served in Vietnam. Decades later the result of the Vietnam protesters is their children, filthy and foaming in parks like bums. Vietnam veterans, however, despite leftist propaganda to the contrary, have been far more successful in their lives than the anti-Vietnam protesters. Enjoy your basket-weaving, children of the children of the 60s. Life will deal with you properly even if the majotr media doesn’t. “
InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds, author of Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths, which “hails the emergence of a new entrepreneurial class resulting from the democratizing power of technology” according to Publishers Weekly, preceded the Occupy Wall Street protests. But, OWC is a different kind of protest. OWC is a big media promoted event, one that fits its liberal-left memes, organized by radical “community organizers”, funded and added manpower from government-union thugs (just look at the size of the OWC bouncers).
As Glenn Reynolds comments about major media coverage of OWC protests, “When lefties want to make the Tea Party fit their preconceptions, they have to make things up. When righties want to exercise their preconceptions about the Occupy movement, on the other hand, they just have to take a picture.” Reynolds includes this quote from a columnist:
The mainstream media’s cameras can’t get enough of these pierced protesters, with their crudely written signs proclaiming their unfocused discontent and general anger at society’s selfishness in failing to satisfy their every want and desire.
Of course, those cameras discreetly turn away when the placards demanding socialist revolution and blaming the Jews come out. The protesters’ function is to demonstrate inchoate outrage simply by being there. When they start talking, they start alienating the normals.
These are Potemkin protesters, community organized by government worker unions to allow liberal Democrats a way to triangulate to the center next year. Only the rebel media outfits will actually stick a mic in the protesters’ dirty faces and let them talk.
Reynolds didn’t include this quote from the same columnist contrasting the protesters to our men and women in military service:
The Occupy Wall Streeters celebrate with ramped-up bongo drumming, high-fives and “up-twinkles” when they successfully defend the park from its rightful owners’ attempt to clean up their filth.
Our exhausted troops quietly remember those maimed and lost liberating millions from unspeakable tyranny in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Our troops likely don’t give any thought at all to these spoiled adolescents. But if they did, they might suggest that if these Occupy Wall Street losers really wanted to fight injustice and build a better world, they would get a haircut, head to a recruiting station and occupy a pair of combat boots.
About 2.5-million American volunteers have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The college students at home don’t want to pay high tuition and pay loans back for basket-weaving diplomas they themselves chose. It was the same with anti-Vietnam protests. College students not wanting to serve versus 2.5-million of us who served in Vietnam. Decades later the result of the Vietnam protesters is their children, filthy and foaming in parks like bums. Vietnam veterans, however, despite leftist propaganda to the contrary, have been far more successful in their lives than the anti-Vietnam protesters. Enjoy your basket-weaving, children of the children of the 60s. Life will deal with you properly even if the majotr media doesn’t.
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