Occupy Wall Street - Not a Big Deal

As a Champion of the First Amendment, U Elite Members know full well that I will never support silencing any voices raised up in the public square. On free speech rights, I'm squarely with former US Supreme Court Justice Black - an Absolutetist. That said, however, I do not believe every demand to be heard demands an answer from those opposed to the shouted message. Clearly, some trees falling in the forrest are not worthy of vibrating an inner ear drum, or eliciting lips moving in a sharp retort to such sounds of silence.

As the Bible tells us - "Jesus loves us all", ... every boy and girl, even. "And the Poor will always be with us, too". As will the disaffected, the disgruntled and those just plain clueless.

For several decades now, these anarchists have turned out by the thousands to seek to disrupt meeting of the G-18, World Bank or some such international, high finance concave, while shouting about the evils of capitalism. Recently, I recall that an inadequate police presence allowed these hoodlums to take control of the central business district of Seattle, Washington, and thereby burn cars, smash business front windows and generally trash all of downtown.

So what. After the meeting ended, their message of rebellion was forgotten before the many dignitaries airplanes returned them to their homes. This new tactic of hanging out for weeks, saying nothing of import, other than - the rich are evil, so give me their money - will have even less lasting influence on the American citizenry once the first frost hits lower Manhattan, and these non-local yokems will then be gone with the wind and cold. Correct - FreezePruf plant frost protectant can not be sprayed on protesters. Well, on reflection, it can, but to no good insulating effect of which I currently know.

Accordingly, the only lasting impact of these Occupy protests will be the further loss of credibility of the non-sensical Pols who clamor to the microphone to endorse them as some new grassroots uprising of hard working middle class Americans outraged by the unprosecuted crimes of the high rollers on Wall Street. Sorry Nancy, but most of these disaffected "voters" were bused in from your SF District where they have been sucking on the public teet ever since you first gained elective office and started giving away real working folks earnings.