Criticizing Occupy activists
is considered hateful, judging from responses to criticisms we local conservatives make in our local weekly newspaper, the Independent Coast Observer.
Now it looks like the left-leaning Press Democrat should also be tagged
“hateful” because of their November 28 editorial, “More muddled messages from Occupy folks”,
which noted that the attempt to disrupt “Black Friday” shopping damaged Santa
Rosa Occupy’s credibility and focus.
Occupy Wall
Street’s national shopping boycott failed spectacularly, as Black Friday sales
were up a record 7%, showing OWS has no clout as a national movement.
The ultra-left
San Francisco Chronicle was “hateful” two weeks ago when in an editorial “Oakland
says ‘enough’”, the Chronicle opined: “Oakland leaders finally acted decisively
to remove a sprawling and unruly camp from the city's central downtown plaza.
It was the right move, one that San Francisco should consider in responding to
a similar tent city that's taken over an Embarcadero park.”
In another “hateful”
editorial, the Chronicle concluded: “The Occupy movement is no longer associated
with protests over income inequality or Wall Street misconduct. Now it's about
squalor and public safety, thanks largely to its nonexistent leadership and
disorganization.”
What does OWS want? Income
redistribution no doubt; having government take the rightful property of one
group and give it to another, also known as theft. “When you take from Peter
and give to Paul, you can count on Paul’s support.”
The rest of the OWS message
is the usual Liberal hodgepodge of special interest issues, made particularly
incoherent by its lack of leadership and direction. As OWS camps become
full-time homeless camps and OWS activists flee their squalor – and Winter rain
and freezing – the backlash by the media, municipalities, and weary voters will
cause the Left to wish Occupy Wall Street never happened.
And as a coherent movement,
it hasn’t.
