Occupy Wall Street Protesters Call For Totalitarian Government, Re-Election Of Obama
By Paul Joseph Watson
Despite their honest intentions, many of the Occupy Wall Street protesters are being suckered into a trap and calling for the very “solutions” that are part of the financial elite’s agenda to torpedo the American middle class – higher taxes and more big government.
Watch the clip below in which journalist Adam Kokesh talks to Occupy Wall Street protesters:
The ignorance displayed in these interviews knows no bounds. The protesters just don’t get it. They are calling for the government to use force to impose their ideas, all in the name of bringing down corporations who they don’t realize have completely bought off government regulators. Corporations and government enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship – getting one to regulate the other is asinine and only hurts smaller businesses who are legitimately trying to compete in a free market economy that barely exists.
The zeal for totalitarian government amongst some of the “protesters” is shocking. One sign being carried around read, “A government is an entity which holds the monopolistic right to initiate force,” which seems a little ironic when protesters complain about being physically assaulted by police in the same breath.
One woman interviewed by Kokesh also announces her intention to help Obama to capture a second term. How can a self-proclaimed Occupy Wall Street protester simultaneously support the man whose 2008 campaign was bankrolled by Wall Street, whose 2012 campaign is reliant on Wall Street to an even greater extent, and whose cabinet was filled with Wall Street operatives?
Something is very wrong with this picture.
The usual suspects, mega-rich foundations and elitists, behind the young radicals have also started to emerge – George Soros, The Ruckus Society, the Tides Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
“The belated crusade against Wall Street is even more pathetic as it is coordinated by groups who wouldn’t exist without men like Soros, who made their money from deals that make the Street look sparkling clean. It’s class warfare as a cynical jab at the populist center, the people who mutter to themselves that the Street is full of crooks and so is Congress,” writes Daniel Greenfield.
The thousands of Americans currently expressing their disgust at Wall Street and the bankers who have ruined the economy to the detriment of the poor and middle class should be commended for getting off their hind ends and doing something, unlike the millions who will continue to watch American Idol, drink beer and laugh in ignorance as the country is flushed down the toilet. It should also be added that there is a sprinkling of “End the Fed” demonstrators who truly understand the root cause of the problem.
However, the fact that the majority of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are advocating “solutions” which the very elite they claim to be protesting against also want should set alarm bells ringing.
The official Occupy Wall Street website vehemently supports Obama’s tax agenda, again in the deluded belief that Obama, the ultimate Wall Street puppet, genuinely wants to go after big corporations who use loopholes to avoid paying income tax.
In calling for higher taxes on the middle class, the protesters are mimicking the likes of billionaire Warren Buffet. The top corporations pay virtually zero income tax because of loopholes that they have crafted in league with bought off government regulators. Obama’s tax hikes will only impact genuine middle class businesses and middle class Americans earning over $200,000 – with the rate of inflation as it is this can hardly be described as the “super rich”.
As Anthony Wile writes, the protesters are being completely misdirected by their socialist/communist leaders. The real center of financial control is the Federal Reserve and the city of London, and yet ideologue Michael Moore said earlier this week that “ending capitalism” was more important than dealing with the Fed.
Wile notes that the protesters seem obsessed with those who conduct financial transactions, not those who actually run global central banks, the real string pullers.
“To get at the root of the problem, one should be protesting, say, in London’s City where central banking originated. Or protesting in front of the Federal Reserve in Washington DC. These are real seats of power. But the shadowy and excessively powerful and wealthy individuals who have created the modern economic system are quite satisfied no doubt to have Wall Street take the blame. It suits their purposes,” writes Wile.
“It is too bad that the Occupy Wall Street movement seems to be obscuring the larger issues by apparently blaming the private (transactional) sector in entirety for what has occurred in the past few years.”
http://www.infowars.com/occupy-wall-street-protesters-call-totalitarian-government-re-election-of-obama/
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What stupid, dizzy young adults! 'Wall Street' is not 'Big Corporate' (whatever that is and what they think it has done... the word 'franchise' will mess up their whole world...) 'Wall Street' is simply (and as elementary as I can make it) the marketplace where all stores are offered, bought, sold, and speculated upon--a giant 'store of stores', if you will. A Walmart full of businesses rather than Rubbermaid products, cheap clothing, and post-it notes.
It's where businesses fall into competition with others like them, products are naturally compared and culled by the marketplace, confidence in the market is expressed (or not, as in the present), futures are bought and sold, and prices are set. It is the ultimate capitalist 'store of stores'--and it will make a difference in something as small as if you can buy a dish drainer in the style and color that you want, conveniently, at a fair price, and whether or not your husband is needed to work the night shift for a bit more salary.
'Wall Street' is not a corporation--anymore than Walmart is a plastics factory--but you can find Walmart there, like you can find Rubbermaid products in Walmart... and you can't 'take it down' without affecting every single business that is traded there, destroying competition, blowing up pricing, making goods unavailable, unstable, or flat-out unable to be marketed, produced, and distributed.
I can't imagine the devastation... but, then, destroying capitalism has been the Marxist dream, in the end, hasn't it? That's their aim!
What? Do these protestors think people will manufacture coffee pots, iPods, paper to write on, tennis shoes, sandwich bread, canned tuna, nuclear submarine parts, oxygen cannulas, orange juice (how do they suppose people in Montana get it in January?), electric rails, bus on-and-off bells, glass eyes, cement sidewalks, eyeshadow makeup, toothbrushes, L.L. Bean jackets, ice cream, toilet sanitizer, wheelchairs, and egg cartons simply because they are nice people and want to do the world a good turn?
People are supposed to use their time, energy, capital, and lifespan on creating things for other people to use with no greater incentive then feeling like a dandy person at the end of the day? For their whole lives, no greater reward than that?
How good would inventing a toilet brush make you feel? How much time would you want to spend hand-carving the mold, calling 'round until you rustled up enough plastic to pour into it, and inventing a handle, with a few chaps willing to spend their life's time whittling it? How much time is that going to take? Is that going to get that toilet brush to the other side of the world? How fulfilling IS it?
Or pick making batteries, inventing drywall, pouring plastic until you get the best milk strainer, developing the lightest sewer-grate cover to really make some bloke's day easier... You're supposed to spend your lifeblood--all your time on earth--on that? And you're supposed to live in the same house, with the same things, at the same standard standard-of-living as every single other standard person around you... for the rest of your life... like that?
And it really doesn't matter if you're pouring Angry Birds into a plasma tv (I just know that's what makes it go!), or plugging in the components of some fantastic memory board, or flying jets off the USS Ronald Reagan, or doing digital paste-up for the few remaining articles of Time magazine, or scribbling out the scores for contestants on American Idol--nobody wants to do it for the same house, same goods, and same life as everyone else.
It all goes back to the toilet brush; somebody's gotta make the damn thing--it doesn't just spout up out of the weeds. Someone has to take the time and energy to invent it, marshall the materials, draw the plans, get the workers, make it attractive to a client/the public, and put it on the market. No one is going to do it for free. No one is going to do it simply to feel like a swell person. No one's life should be constituted of such a mundane, empty thing.
Yes, we know we have to work for a living; no one doubts that. We have to provide for our basic needs of food, shelter, and medical care, at the very least--and those things require effort. Other things we may immediately desire--like self-defense, education, cleanliness etc.--require further effort. That effort results in energy expended and something created--something to eat, a drink of water, a safe place to lay your head, a fishing line, water bucket, a food storage device, a wound dressing, information and goods and more goods.
If someone wants to make something, if you want them to do it the best way, the cheapest, fastest, most desirable way--if you want it to benefit as many people as possible as quickly as possible--than you pay a profit for someone to make it--and pay a salary so that the workers can amass enough money to spend it on something they want to spend it on! And you make it and market it the best way possible to allow them the time to do something else with that money, period! How simple is that?
NOBODY should have to spend 90% of their life on subsistence living!
NOBODY should have to work twice as hard for no better than anyone else has!
NOBODY should have to spend 8-12 hrs. a day, 5-6 days a week making kleenex, or door handles, or scotch-tape, or soap and have that be their whole life!
Communism IS subsistence living!
Not allowing people to profit how they will, according to their own values, effort, and desires, is Communism!
Taking what someone else has worked for against their will is thievery!
Not allowing people to spend their own profits from their own labor on what they desire is slavery!
NOBODY OWNS A PIECE OF ME!
