The supposedly 99% attempted to occupy the supposedly 1%, the CPAC conference. But it seems the 99% were a bit hard up for warm bodies.
Tag: astroturf
Pepper spray theater
Observe that when the video begins, all the students obviously know that the designated group of pepper sprayees is going to be pepper sprayed, and everyone has taken their positions to spray, to be sprayed, or, for the great majority, to watch the spraying in the confident knowledge that only the designated evil bad guys will be spraying, and only the designated innocent victims at the designated spray point will …
Police protect astroturf to obstruct Seattle traffic
The Seattle Times tells us that: Hundreds of demonstrators marched onto Seattle’s University Bridge Thursday halting traffic during the evening rush hour in one of several rallies nationwide for “Jobs Not Cuts.†You may ask: How did they manage to get “hundreds†to show up, and how could “hundreds” halt traffic?
Cops protecting the occupation
Observe the cops keeping the occupiers safe as the occupiers illegally confront, harass, and obstruct drivers. Without those cops, the occupiers would have been road kill.
The sins of “Occupy Wall Streetâ€
This should not be necessary, but I observe right wing blogs blissfully unaware of what has been going on, so, a list:
More astroturf riots in Greece.
At one minute fifty seconds in this you tube video, a man carrying a burning molotov cocktail rushes up to police. They don’t react. He hurls it onto the ground, not at them, but right in front of himself. There is a huge spectacular whoosh as burning petrol sprays everywhere. They react only slightly. He runs away. They don’t chase him. They act as if they knew in advance that …
Government hires protestors to demand more government
Powerline found an interesting job advertisement in Craigslist: Under the job category “new york craigslist > brooklyn > jobs > government jobsâ€, people looking for a government job are invited to: “ FIGHT TO HOLD WALL STREET ACCOUNTABLE NOW! MAKE A DIFFERENCE! GET PAID!†I knew they were getting paid to protest, but until now there was some deniability – students were being turned out to protest by their professors, employees …
The astroturf arrives to “Occupy Wall Streetâ€
Until yesterday, the movement to occupy Wall Street was genuine, with a handful of lunatics and a few homeless hippies who had lost their way to the 1969 San Francisco love in. The hilariously tiny turnout, and the general level of idiocy, was an embarrassment to the left, revealing that the left is not a mass movement, but an elite movement, that the left is merely the voice of the …
NGO astroturf
NGO stands for “Non Government Organizationâ€. The butcher and the baker do not call themselves non government organizations, because they actually are non government organizations. Any organization that calls itself a non government organization turns out in practice to be largely a government organization. It follows therefore, that an NGO is a government doing something evil.
More fake violence in Greece
A little of the violence is real, indeed more and more of it is real, but the vast majority of it is still imitation violence by astroturf, which I conjecture is imitation riot theater instigated by the government against itself to dramatize its imitation austerity theater. Observe the trash fires at 0:14. Real rioters burn stuff more valuable than trash, and light bigger fires. Observe at 0:24 the group of …