Occupy Wall Street Protests

I don't care one way or the other what comic-book legend Frank Miller's opinion is, but some of you may find it interesting:

Frank Miller, the legenday comic artist behind Sin City, 300, and The Dark Knight Returns unloaded on the Wall Street protesters in a recent blog post, and plenty of his fans are firing back.
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First, the blog post. In a long statement posted on his website, titled "Anarchy," Miller says he has decided to say what others are "too damn polite" to say:
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The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.​

“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.​

http://news.yahoo.com/frank-miller-doesnt-think-much-occupy-wall-street-194424503.html

 

I never read DC (the Distinguished Competition) comic books with any regularity--especially any of the Dark Knight books, but I think I'm in love with Frank Miller. Sorry, Stan--I have a new little crush right now . . .

 

Well he is a very good artist and is apparently just as colorful with his words LOL and unfortunatly another who brands all with one sweep of his pen.

 

Does this Miller guy write for Limbaugh?

 

Finally, rapper Jay-Z does something I like:

http://news.yahoo.com/jay-z-makes-money-irony-occupy-wall-street-221100145.html

 

MARVELous!

 

Sigh. What has happened to the standards on this board? A crush? Jo. Please. Even if you have a weakness for the bad boys, Miller is pretty primitive. Uncalled for comment.

 

I remember him from Daredevil (Marvel comics) in the 80's. My brother and I knew those comics of his would be valuable so we bought what we could of them... and made a decent profit when we sold 'em years later. I prefered John Byrne's artistic-style myself... and the early X-Men stories he wrote.

 

Good grief. Whatever happened to the standards on this board? I was making a joke. J.O.K.E. I might like the bad boys in fiction, but in real life Spike would forget to potty Ein one too many times after a card game and he'd be sleeping in the Swordfish II, plasma cannon or no.

In any case, Miller said in an inelegant (if funny) way what many people have been thinking. If I have any excuse in this situation, I thought it was supposed to be a bit of a humorous piece--the comment on "movement" made me laugh aloud--and maybe if he'd been all angry-sounding saying it in real life I wouldn't have taken the piece so lightly.

 

Sorry, they all got pulled.


http://www.rapireland.com/jay-z-sto...l-street-t-shirts-following-huge-controversy/
http://www.examiner.com/entertainme...eets-tee-shirts-removed-from-rocawear-website
http://www.nationalledger.com/pop-culture-news/jay-z-scraps-occupy-protest-t--200755.shtml

 

Now, why would you bring me into your little argument? Kinda childish (or is it anger), isn't it?

 

I am guessing the links were in regard to Jay-Z creating & selling a line of OWS clothing & announcing he would not be sharing the profits with the OWSers.
Gee, a lot of people are getting rich off this anti-capitalist bunch. I wonder if it would be considered "the walk of shame" if one of the protestors had to pack up his tent & leave the zoo if he got a job, or heaven forbid, became wealthy?

 

Yeah, Jay-Z didn't want to donate any of his profits to the Flea Party. But, why should he? He's taking all the risk printing the things, distributing them, etc. if they don't sell, he takes the loss.

 

How about these:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...strators-Protesters-Illness-133669113.html?dr
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/tuberculosis-breaks-out-at-occupy-atlantas-base/

 

The police may have to start going into these places with not only riot gear, but hazardous-material protective suits. I mean, come on: Tuberculosis? Norovirus? Bottles of urine? Mold?

 

= FLEA BAGGERS

 

Do the OWS financial ties to George Soros, Marxism, Communism and anarchy bother any of you:

George Soros Funds Occupy Wall Street

Radical anti-American billionaire George Soros​ is a major backer of a left-wing group that is funneling money to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The nonprofit organization at the receiving end of Soros’ largesse, Alliance for Global Justice, is managing donations benefiting the communists, socialists, anarchists and hippies now occupying Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. As of Oct. 19, OWS had taken in a grand total of $435,000 from all sources, including donations made by individuals online and in person, according to reports.

It should surprise no one that Soros (net worth: $22 billion), the ultimate Wall Street insider and preeminent funder of the activist Left today, embraces Occupy Wall Street.

As I note in my new book Subversion Inc., this Communist sympathizer co-founded the ultra-secretive Democracy Alliance, a billionaires’ club that wants to radically transform America. He has said that European-style socialism “is exactly what we need now” and favors American decline. Soros, a currency manipulator with an insider-trading conviction, praises Red China effusively, saying the totalitarian nation has “a better-functioning government than the United States.”

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47009

ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE

The Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ) is a Washington, D.C.-based charity that promotes opposition to free-market capitalism, particularly in Latin America, under the cover of engaging in "education on human, environmental and worker rights." AGJ underwrites and publicizes the activities of revolutionary Marxist movements from Nicaragua to Mexico and trains young activists to work toward its distinctly radical conception of "economic justice."

AGJ's mission can be traced to its president, Katherine Hoyt. Ms. Hoyt, who holds a Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University, is a longtime apologist and activist with the Nicaraguan revolutionary Marxist group, the Sandinista National Liberation Front. Hoyt has traveled widely in Latin America, spending eighteen years in the region, including sixteen in Nicaragua. Following the Sandinistas' takeover of the country, Hoyt worked for the Sandinista dictatorship, becoming a translator for its national legislative body. Still a convinced believer in the Sandinistas' cause, Hoyt has authored The Many Faces of Sandinista Democracy, making the case that the discredited and repressive Sandinista government was actually a model of "participatory democracy."

In keeping with Hoyt's enduring pro-Sandinista sympathies, one the main projects funded by AGJ is the Nicaragua Network (NN), a front group created in 1979 to promote the revolution. Today, its aims are more modest. Recent NN campaigns include attacks on the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which it describes as "U.S. intervention in Nicaragua"; resistance to privatization efforts in Nicaragua; and a lobbying effort to close down the Nicaraguan branch of the National Endowment for Democracy, which NN denounces, on no evidence, as an undemocratic tool of the U.S. government. NN also puts out a propaganda newsletter called the Nicaragua Monitor. With funds provided by AGJ, the Nicaragua Network also produces propaganda films assailing free-market capitalism, which it derisively calls "neo-liberalism."

Closely related to the Nicaragua Network is AGJ's other project: the Mexico Solidarity Network (MSN), a self-described "grassroots-based NGO dedicated to fundamental social change that challenges existing power relationships." In particular, the kind of social change MSN advocates is a revolution founded on Marxist principles. Thus MSN's Alternative Economy Program is "built around principles of justice and the search for genuine alternatives to the predominant capitalist model." The main beneficiaries of MSN are the Zapatistas, Mexico's Marxist-Leninist guerrilla movement. As part of MSN, the Alliance for Global Justice funds a Zapatista "solidarity" initiative. MSN actively recruits American students into the Zapatista cause. Under its solidarity initiative, MSN offers credit to American students who attend a Zapatista-run "international language school that offers classes in Spanish and Tzotzil." (The majority of Zapatista recruits are Tzotzil speakers.)

In addition to its efforts to stoke revolution in other countries, AGJ also funds revolutionary groups within the United States. For instance, it is the main financial sponsor of World Can't Wait, a direct-action movement affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party. On October 1, 2011, AGJ was retained by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement to manage the processing of online donations for the latter.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7230

 

Your life in America is like a prison, and the Occupiers are Bubba. It's gonna happen. Maybe not today, or this year, but eventually.

 

I checked into Discover the Networks and read some of their pages. Sorry, but I don't think much of their reports. For example, on the report for the Southern Poverty Law Center which works to oppose groups like the KKK the site said:

• Monitors the activities of what it calls “hate groups” in the United States
• Exaggerates the prevalence of white racism directed against American minorities

Any group that promotes such nonsense loses all relevance to me.

 

Don't just take my word for it, or a single website's data. Look it up for yourself; delve a little deeper.