THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 263, November 6, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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HIGH TIME TO RID THE STREETS OF THE
"OCCUPY WALL STREET" MOVEMENT
By Alan Caruba
THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IS NOT A SUICIDE PACT: THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT DENY OUR NATIONAL, STATE, &
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS THE AUTHORITY TO TAKE DECISIVE & PUNITIVE ACTION AGAINST INDIVIDUALS & ORGANIZATIONS
INVOLVED IN SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES. APPEALS TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH & ASSEMBLY HAVE THEIR LIMITS WHEN IT
COMES TO EFFORTS TO UNDERMINE & DESTROY THE AMERICAN NATION & ITS DULY CONSTITUTED SYSTEM OF
GOVERNMENT. THE "OCCUPY WALL STREET" MOVEMENT TENDS TOWARD VIOLENCE & IS IN NEED OF CONTROL. THE
MAYORS OF THE CITIES THAT ARE BEING OCCUPIED NEED TO VIGOROUSLY ENFORCE THE LAW, ENSURE PUBLIC SAFETY, &
CRACK DOWN ON THE "OCCUPY WALL STREET" MOVEMENT -- WITH STATE & FEDERAL ASSISTANCE, IF DEEMED
NECESSARY.
FULL STORY:
Is there any doubt left in the minds of observers of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement that the movement tends toward
violence and is in need of control? The mayors of the cities — some seventy at last count — that are being occupied need
to crack down on it.
Not all agree, of course. Among the list of the Occupy Wall Street movement are the following organizations and
individuals that have expressed support or sympathy:
Communist Party, U.S.A.
American Nazi Party
Revolutionary Communist Party
Industrial Workers of the World
International Bolshevik Tendency
International Socialist Organization
Marxist Student Union
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Party for Socialism and Liberation
President Barack Hussein Obama
Vice President Joe Biden
Former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi
The Revolutionary Guards of Iran
Communist Party of China
Louis Farrakhan, National of Islam
Black Panthers
There are others, but they all have commonalities, not the least of which is a belief in Communism or some brand of
Socialism or Fascism; they are representative of the American Far Left and have an affinity for class and racial warfare.
There is nothing to recommend its supporters and considerable reason to take action against the movement that claims to
be leaderless, but which has already been granted a tax-exempt status, as it continues to collect a large bankroll.
As Lincoln pointed out, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact,” and this nation fought a Civil War to ensure that the
Union would remain intact. Thus, appeals to freedom of speech have their limits when it comes to efforts to undermine
and destroy the nation. The free speech argument has been the initial fall-back position of some mayors, but it is rapidly
wearing thin.
No doubt, Mayor Bloomberg of New York has been hoping that the dropping temperature as we advance toward Winter
will have the salutary affect of causing the occupiers of Zuccotti Park to leave. In a cash-strapped city, the millions in
overtime and other costs do not justify his forbearance, but the Mayor is a Liberal, so his inaction is understandable.
Mayors of other cities under siege have responded timidly for the most part.
As a student of history, I recall the hippie movement of the 1960s, the famed Haight-Ashbury refuge in San Francisco,
and other places where a disaffected and unhappy youth gathered to “tune out” and listen to speeches about the
Vietnam War and other grievances. In general, they did not engage in violence, because their focus was on drugs and
“free love.”
The Occupy Wall Street movement is a different animal. The object of its anger is Wall Street, banks, capitalism, and the
current economic distress. One group, OurTime.org, “a non-profit organization standing up for Americans under 30,”
noted that the October jobs report “reveals that young Americans hold a 15.4% unemployment rate, which marks the
eighth straight month that the 18-24 demographic…” has been characterized by high unemployment.
Their anger would be better directed against a federal government that is responsible for the 2008 collapse of the
housing market and major banking, investment and insurance companies, many of which were bailed out by Congress
using the funds of taxpayers, the real 99%.
The youth have cause to be unhappy, but they would be better informed if they understood how poorly they have been
served by a debased national educational system and indebtedness brought about by universities that thrive off the
student-loan system underwritten by the federal government. Their ignorance of this and so much more is both
understandable and deplorable.
You don't solve unemployment by embracing tyranny.
Further back in history, one recalls the mobs that brought down the Weimar Republic in Germany and opened the doors
to the Nazi movement. Earlier, mobs led by Bolsheviks deposed the Russian czar and imposed some seventy years of
Communist control there. It is not surprising, therefore, that so many Communist organizations and nations support the
Occupy Wall Street movement or that Wall Street is the target of the movement.
In time, we shall learn who the organizers of this socalled “spontaneous” movement truly have been, but, for now, public
safety must be asserted to rid Zuccotti Park of this gang of “useful idiots” and wherever else they show up.
There no longer is any excuse to tolerate them and plenty of Communist groups who will welcome them or, if the message
of “change” put forth by Barack Obama is more closely examined, they can join the Democratic Party and continue its
long history of destroying the nation’s economy.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Communism: Longterm Enemy of the U.S.A. & Its Allies
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information
about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and policy.
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