OWS’s Lack of Focus - Tibor Machan

I've tried to inject some sense through the #ows twitter channel, to expose some of the illegitimacy of the "99%" meme they push. There are a number of legitimate means of using the system to address their grievances, if they truly represent 99% of the country. For example, 99% could vote out every politician and replace them with those they agree with. They could easily file a class action suit, if a bank did in deed injure them or defrauded them. And finally, if they are 99%, they could focus on a corporate target, buy up all the stock, and take over the board and leadership of the company.

The fact they haven't done any of these things shows they do not represent 99%. So, what does that mean, well, they could do the above with much less than 99%, heck, a class action suit could be had with 2% or less, but still they don't. So what does that all mean? Well, it means they represent a very tiny fraction of Americans, they can't win through a vote, they have no specific injury to take to court, so they just want to protest and 'Occupy' to enforce a 'tyranny of the minority', to have their will implemented and forced upon the majority.

While hanging out in the #ows twit stream, I heard them calling to sing a petition of 100K people to support their movement. That was a big deal to them at the time, and they were putting that call out nationally. Well, 100,000 people supporting them means they have about .0003% of the country's support. Not very close to 99% is it? And if they are that massively incorrect in their 99% claim, how many other issues are they lying or misinformed about?

The below article about the lack of focus of OWS is by Tibor Machan, Ph. D. A distinguished professor working with Auburn, Chapman, the Hoover Institute at Stanford, and the Cato Institute.

Column on OWS’s Lack of Focus � A Passion for Liberty

When someone, some organization or an institution is charged with corruption, this is a serious matter. It is comparable to accusing some people of malpractice in medicine, education, engineering or the like. And such a charge requires specific proof in order to make it credible. Otherwise is it irresponsible.

All the while OWS has been afoot, however, no specific accusations have been laid out by the participants or leaders or supporters. It is all vague and unfocused. It is much more like scapegoating those on Wall Street, given that the group doesn’t bother to be specific and fails, moreover, to go after the main culprits, for example those in Washington who urged the banks to make borrowing easy. In 1992 Bill Clinton’s administration did, in fact, implore banks to do just that, through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for example. So why are these not the targets of OWS?

Activist Fakes Being Runover by Police at Class Warfare Protest

In this early frame from the incident, you can clearly see that his feet are both free of the bike and tires. In this one, his left foot is the closest, but looks like he missed the position he was shooting for, and later in the film switches to jab his right foot either in harms way or up close to the back tire.




And in this second one you can see, from the position of having his legs free of the bike, now they are sticking under the bike. They aren't under the front wheel, and from the bend in his knees/shins you can see they aren't under the back wheel at this point neither. That only happens by the agitator putting them there himself, either to 'look' like they were run over, or perhaps an attempt to get them run over by the second tire, taking one for the team so to speak. Other images and audio show him screaming his head off even before this moment and during, despite his feet not being run over.



Furthermore, there wasn't anyone really in the street ahead of the cop initially. Cameramen were on the near side sidewalk. This agitant faked a fall, trying to roll up by or under the cop all of a sudden.

The ONE Sign Your Teens Should Remember from 2011

Post this sign on your 17-24 yr old children's Facebook pages, with a note: "This was the ethos I was raised with. Let's talk about what it means. Love you."

Why Barack Obama could be America’s last big government president – Telegraph Blogs

My comments regarding this article:

Why Barack Obama could be America’s last big government president – Telegraph Blogs

Nile,

I would very much hope you are right. The greatness that our Founders made possible is at stake of dying under the constant rolling darkness of socialism that has taken over so many countries on so may continents.

I think Obama has woken some decent but previously asleep citizens to the problems with our government, but to truly be out of the woods long term, we will have to deal with TWO CORE ENGINES that promote collectivism, and attack individualism and a free society:

The Press and Educational Institutions. Those two work together for a profound and nearly insurmountable enemy. The school systems influence our children, with a measurable and decidedly liberal viewpoint from 4 yrs through graduate school. All of their formative years, 8 hours a day. Even before school, tv programs developed by the same educators, indoctrinate our children in the values and priorities of liberal ideology, laying the groundwork for collectivism. The press then takes over from there, completing the slanting of truth and the predominance of a collectivist worldview for our entire adult lives.

Liberal politicians block school choice and any weakening of the public school concept Marx so believed in, at every turn. And the main stream press maintain their righteousness through numbers and ostracisizing opposing opinions. NBC validates CBS, validates NPR, validates ABC, etc.

Over the past ten years, new press vehicles have emerged to counter this, and homeschooling has grown dramatically. Whatever the methods, we will not shirk a trending towards socialist meltdown until the press and education systems are reformed, or at least provided adequate competition.