We'll worry about any bad behavior... later

IsraellyCool's Aussie Dave locates The Anti-Israel Occupy Protestor of The Day in Denver. (Thank you, Jack!)

 

To better understand the Occupy movement, there is no better resource than DTN.

 

.... In 2004 Kalle Lasn wrote a controversial Adbusters  article entitled “Why Won’t Anyone Say They Are Jewish?” — criticizing America's most influential neoconservatives for their “view that the U.S. is a benevolent hyper power that must protect itself by reshaping the rest of the world into its morally superior image,” and noting that “half of them are Jewish.”

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I remember it well. -Yael*

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Describing himself as someone who has “been a student of revolution all my life,” Kalle Lasn says that in the summer of 2011 he and his fellow Adbusters staffers—especially senior editor Micah White­—were "inspired" by the popular revolution that had recently occurred in Tunisia. Moreover, they “thought that America,” whose economy was in crisis, “was [also] ripe for this type of [mass] rage.”

According to Lasn, Americans' anger stemmed chiefly from Wall Street financial speculators' violation of the “sense of fairness Americans have always believed in.”

Lasn was also confident that young Americans' “despondency” over such concerns as “climate change,” “corruption in Washington,” and the “decline” of their country, greatly increased the likelihood that the U.S. might experience “a Tahrir moment” of sorts. (The reference was to Cairo's Tahrir Square, a focal point of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.)

Emboldened further by “that sort of anarchy cred” which the civil disobedience/“hacktivism” group Anonymous had been demonstrating in recent times, Lasn and his Adbusters associates held brainstorming sessions on how they themselves might effect “some kind of a soft regime change” to diminish the political influence of “finances,” “lobbyists,” and “corporations.”

In an effort to “catalyze” a protest movement against those forces, Lasn and Adbusters “put feelers out on our [Internet] forums” suggesting a mass demonstration in the hub of New York City's financial district. Thus was born the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, whose first public rally was held on September 17, 2011.

After some OWS demonstrators subsequently became involved in conflicts with police officers, Lasn said that “police brutality actually helps the movement” by drawing media attention.

While Lasn concedes that every popular movement faces the “danger” that its idealistic leaders may eventually “turn into monsters,” he nonetheless believes “it’s very important for us to win, and [to] worry about how badly we behave later — right now we need to pull the current monster down.”

 

 

See also "The Guru of 'Occupy Wall Street,'" Lisa Fithian.

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

I know I'm starting to repeat myself, but I'll say it again: These OWSers are scary -- very scary -- people ... and this guy Lasn is as scary as they come. That line -- "It's very important for us to win, and we'll worry about how badly we behave later" -- could have been spoken by any one of history's monsters, including Robespierre, Lenin, Pol Pot. all of them. The problem is that they never "worry" later; they just behave monstrously and let it go at that. These people are indistinguishable from psychopaths -- people who never experience qualms of conscience. I'll say it one more time: No good -- none whatsoever -- will come out of the Occupy movement.

[scp]

Destabilization. Meanwhile, http://www.stopnetregulation.org/