I haven’t followed much of the whole Occupy Wall Street thing for a few reasons. First, unless it’s well-financed by lots of money, it’ll go away soon. Next, it’s up in New York, and that kind of stuff won’t happen around here.
Only, now, there’s an Occupy Atlanta group. Which is a little closer to home.
Now, lots of people confuse Atlanta with Georgia. Atlanta is in Georgia, but Atlanta isn’t Georgia. (Don’t make me spend a bunch of time explaining the difference; it’ll end up with you acknowledging I’m right and a lot of time wasted. Or, you could just accept what I say save yourself a lot of time and aggravation. Agreed? Good.)
The geography involved with protests being in Atlanta makes the whole protest thing suddenly relevant to people who live or work in Georgia.
Nobody really knows what they’re protesting. Maybe the Braves’ end-of-season collapse, I don’t know. Best I can tell, they saw some protests on the television and said, “Hey, we can do that!” And so they are doing that.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has decided that they’re protesting “corporate greed and the war in Afghanistan,” although it couldn’t find anyone to actually say that. They did find a fellow from Copwatch, an anti-police group, who’s not sure why they’re there, either.
Just like a pile of manure attracts flies, the Occupy Atlanta protests have attracted flies like John Lewis.
The whole left likes to make out like he’s some civil rights hero or something. He’s not. He was a media whore then, and he’s a media whore now. And, in case you forgot, he’s the little liar who made false claims that TEA Party protesters hurled racial epithets at him. They didn’t.
So there are the players: a protest group that doesn’t know what they’re protesting about and a long-time left-wing protester who got himself elected to Congress a while back.
Lewis showed up at the Occupy Atlanta the other day, wanting to show his supporte for their protests about … whatever the hell it is they’re protesting. And, he wanted to address the group. They told him “no.”
Who do you root for in this one? John Lewis, who’s way past his 15 minutes? Or Occupy Atlanta, which has camped out in Woodruff Park (where Atlanta’s homeless-away-from-home reside).
I’m sort of amused by all this. Media Whore vs Media Whore. I just wish they were a little further way.
Atlanta’s teh ghey. Objectiveless protesters are showing up in Orlando too. I think they hate Mickey Mouse.
As a former resident of McDonough County, IL, I can say with certainty that Atlanta is not Georgia in the same way Chicago is not Illinois.
Here in Iowa, we don’t put up with that kind of thing – if they don’t have the correct permit, this happens:
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Occupy-Iowa-Protesters-Arrested-at-Iowa-Statehouse-131441613.html
I bet a lot of those trust fund kids are hanging out planking, owling and Batmanning. They’re dumb as bricks.
I understand about Georgia/Atlanta — New York really isn’t about New York City. The area that is politically and culturally New York City actually extends around into Jersey and Connecticut, Long Island, Westchester, maybe a little Rockland County, but it peters out quickly a little farther north. There’s a big weenie population in and around Albany. But the rest is tough, hardworking people who have lost their industries, largely due to the morons in New York City and Albany. The morons that the Occupiers want to elect more of, by the way.
Atlanta was cursed with Ghey Pride, End The War, and Ourlazybuttsareoccupied hippies this weekend. Living WELL outside of the city (very few real actual familys live inside Atlanta city limits) it would have been a good time for the National Guard to have been called in. Maybe their jets could have strafed the crowd with soap-and-water bombs along with job applications.
Get out of Atlanta and Georgia becomes a nice place to live.
Where is the General Sherman for our generation?
Sorry, DamnCat, but today’s General Sherman would have been fired. Forcing those idiots to use shampoo with delouser would have been too much for today’s media.
When it’s the lesser of two Evils chose neither.
Like a Bunch of Kilkenny cats, let them eat each other there is no loss to the rest of the world.
There once were two cats of Kilkenny,
Each thought there was one cat too many,
So they fought and they fit,
And they scratched and they bit,
Till, excepting their nails
And the tips of their tails,
Instead of two cats, there weren’t any.
I dunno about Sherman, but MacArthur and Patton — accompanied by cavalry and tanks — did a hellish job of sweeping tens of thousands of protesters.
Said Hoover, “What!? Helicopters haven’t been invented yet? Well, I guess we’ll have to send tanks instead.”
By the way, Patton had a sword in his hand during the action.
Did everyone see the bizarro video of the crowd rejecting Lewis instead of sticking to their “agenda” for a meeting?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI
“Everyone repeat every word that the leader says. Dissent will be collectively chanted down.” That’s not fascism is it?
When is the revoution going to start? I can’t defend myself and shoot back until they start shooting, darnit.
I had the misfortune of working in Atlanta for seventeen months, or, more accurately, working there for eleven months and spending six months at an out-placement center for six months after I was laid off. It’s a truly awful place, with the most arrogant people I’ve encountered outside San Francisco (and for even less reason), the worst traffic I’ve ever seen (and I’ve driven in Boston), no cultural life to speak of (not even a radio station playing classical music), and bad food. On the other hand, it is home to the only university of any quality in the state of Georgia, and one of the few in the entire south.
Atlanta is in Georgia, but Atlanta isn’t Georgia. (Don’t make me spend a bunch of time explaining the difference; it’ll end up with you acknowledging I’m right and a lot of time wasted. Or, you could just accept what I say save yourself a lot of time and aggravation. Agreed? Good.)
You are sure Basil?
@ VelvetElvis “The stench and appearance of the protesters constitutes an armor which is essentially 100% impregnable to gainful employment.”
Score!
As mxymaster said, the whole nyc not being nys is 100% true. Those of us stuck in upstate/western ny are waiting for the day we can cut NYC loose and turn this state into a state that cares about freedom.
What do I root for, you ask? I root for a meteor…
@rayfan87: Amen to that, bruddah.
When liberals are fighting liberals you don’t cheer for one side or the other, you just make some popcorn, pull up a seat, and enjoy the show.
Burma, that article on the Bonus Army is very interested. I’m not surprised to learn it all would have been avoided if people had listened to Coolidge.
Once again an excellent post Basil! I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of the whole 99% vs 1% thing…I’m by no means in the 1% but I want to be and will work hard to get as close as I can. I also know that there are others like me. I think it should be something like 46% (1 plus the other 45 who want to be in the one) vs. 45%.
ok math was off…49.5 is half of 99…(GA public education at work) so its 50.5 vs 49.5…lol..
I root for the federal civil rights lawsuits which could be filed against ANY municipal government showing favoritism towards these “Occupy (blank)” groups and discriminating against others. If a mayor, councilman, or any other elected official should march in solidarity with the “Occupiers” or permit them to disregard city, county, state or federal laws while insisting that another group adhere to said laws…therein lies the opportunity for tortious action in court.
By these actions license is immediately given to, say, The Bin Laden Memorial Marching Band and Gypsy Caravan or The Adolf Hitler Balloon and Zeppelin Society to parade down a city’s main street,take over public space, and perform Shakespeare In The Park or an Aryan version of Burning Man without fear of police incursion.
Further, said municipality would be on the hook for legal fees for any attorney a defendant would want to hire.
Welcome to the funhouse, folks.
The incident with grandstander Lewis kind of reminds me of another great moment in Libtard history when The Who literally threw Abby Hoffman off the stage during Woodstock. Unlike the duface skinny guy Pete Townsend cut right to the chase. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8BYgzIEHIYe