I pretty much have written them off as nothing more than another reason to invest in metals such as Lead, Copper, and Brass. At least this movement has the benefit of gathering all those NUBs* together into one common location to make them more easily identifiable.
Surfing through my news blotters today I stumbled across an article in the Huffpost that made me start laughing uncontrollably.
It is often said that Democracy is nothing more than two wolves and a sheep getting together to decide what’s for dinner. It appears that the Occupy movement is finally getting a solid lesson in what Democracy is, mob rule, where to win a debate you just need to sway the ignorant.
Earlier last week it came out that the leadership and operation of the movement was doing many of the very things they were protesting against Wallstreet for. Including having a tax man taking from part of the group. The group that was taxed was ignored by the remaining part of the Occupy group and is not given the support they require.
Not to mention that a bunch of the protesters learned what it was like to have people come and claim their personal property as belonging to the public [commune].
The article then goes on to point out how they have people freeloading within their borders and there’s nothing they can do about it other than just deal with it. That all sounds really freaking familiar you know that? The only support they get from me is that I support their right to speak and peaceably assemble. That said, I have serious problems with the property damage and costs these individuals are inflicting on those who do not support them or their cause. It is not the job of the public to pay for their protest. It is for those latter reasons I do not consider it a peaceably assembly and while it is certainly possible that the police have used excessive force I’m disappointed it’s taken them this long to start throwing the bums out.
So when I saw this at the end of the first article:
I immediately started wondering what could be done as a response this time around. Last year for the 10/10/10 green BS we went and made Mother Gaia our bitch. Some of you might not be in the area, feel free to come up with your own methods of flipping the bird to the Occupy whatever movement. Looks like I need to email some people to see what we can come up with.
*For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s Non Usable Body. It’s also used in video games for players that just can’t seem to learn, but I’m channeling Disgruntled Sailor here.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
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