By identifying an Occupy Wall Street (OWS) group as part of the "Radical Right", the very left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has unwittingly demonstrated that far left-wing organizations can conceivably be misnamed in order to further an ideological agenda.
Think about the Nazis (National Socialist Party). For years, Nazis have been identified as part of the extreme right-wing despite the fact that socialism is a left-wing ideal. Enter the SPLC; this group is actually identifying OWS as being right-wing too.
The SPLC has decided to identify the movement as part of the "Radical Right" on its "Hatewatch" page. The good news might just be that a perception among the left is beginning to emerge that OWS may be more of a liability as an ally than as an enemy.
Did you know that the Occupy Movement is actually a part of the "radical right"? The movement, which received favorable comments from the commanding heights of the American left -- President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, the New York Times, and MSNBC -- has now shown itself to include very violent elements, including actual terrorists, who began a bomb plot in Cleveland, only to be apprehended before carrying out their program of terror.
Then again, it may just be about nothing more than money...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has built-up a lucrative fundraising business enabling it to pay lavish salaries to those who drum up money on the basis of fighting racism and "hate groups." The awkward fact that anti-black racial violence has diminished has not stopped it from developing other lures to keep this donations coming. The new favorite is to label supporters of traditional marriage as "hate groups."
Now, the SPLC has gone one step further in its logic. If it is violent and bad, it must be right wing.
The progressive movement in America has slipped the bounds of reality and is living in an entirely reality-free make believe world.
Gee, it's pretty hard to identify any of the OWS groups as part of the "Radical Right" when both the Communist Party USA and Barack Obama have endorsed OWS.
There have been a lot of Occupy videos over the last year and I thought we had reached our saturation point but... I was wrong. Outside the Republican Convention, this guy - who identified himself as a 'Marxist' - was asked to give an example of where Marxism worked elsewhere in the history of the world.
His answer? "Somalia" and "Afghanistan".
I present you with the most intellectually vacant Obama voter, possibly to date. If he's not #1, he's in the top 5.
To the left, protesting comes as easily as breathing; it's what they do and they're rarely shut down. I refer you to the countless OWS protests, which actually proudly displays its running arrest count; it now stands at over 7,000. Today, about 30 protesters appeared in front of the White House to protest against Eric Holder and Barack Obama over the handling of Fast and Furious.
The Secret Service shut it down after seeing a backpack with no owner. Apparently, the owner of said backpack was a woman who put it down to take a picture of the White House. We all know that OWS has left quite a few things behind without consequence, but I digress.
Matthew Boyle at Daily Caller has a video report with more details about what happened outside the White House:
Hopefully, this will inspire more protests. There is obviously some hypersensitivity within the administration when it comes to Fast and Furious.
The Muslim Brotherhood has got to love these protesters. That Islamic group truly wants a one world global caliphate and the more people focus on the Bilderbergs' alleged desire for a one world government, the better things are for the Brotherhood. Along those lines, it's no coincidence that the Brotherhood's favorite Republican presidential candidate was Ron Paul.
Here is a montage of the Daily Caller's Jason Weinstein asking the Bilderberg protesters a series of questions they should perhaps spend more time pondering.
One such question has to do with the fact that the Bilderbergs are European and if they're so powerful, how come the European Union is collapsing?
If you believe the adage that says the first person who descends to the level of profanity and insults rather than a cogent and rational argument automatically loses the argument, this is an instant classic to reinforce your belief in that adage. While standing outside the Bilderberg conference at a Marriott Hotel, an unidentified Alex Jones minion (AJm) implied that because Europeans built the hotel and sold it to the Marriott, it was no coincidence that the Bilderberg conference was held there.
When the Daily Caller's Jason Weinstein attempted to explore that line of reasoning, AJm had several miniature explosions go off inside his cranium. The relief valve was his mouth.
It's pretty safe to say that any administration that agitates the Catholic Church to this degree is showing reckless disregard for the first amendment and is intolerant.
Having organized 43 plaintiffs—including the archdioceses of New York and Washington and the University of Notre Dame—to file 12 different lawsuits against the Obama administration last Monday alleging the administration is violating the religious freedom of Catholics, the Catholic bishops of the United States are now preparing Catholics for what may be the most massive campaign of civil disobedience in this country since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and early 1960s.
“Some unjust laws impose such injustices on individuals and organizations that disobeying the laws may be justified,” the bishops state in a document developed to be inserted into church bulletins in Catholic parishes around the country in June.
“Every effort must be made to repeal them,” the bishops say in the document, which is already posted on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “When fundamental human goods, such as the right of conscience, are at stake, we may need to witness to the truth by resisting the law and incurring its penalties.”
The bulletin insert reminds Catholic parishioners that the bishops have called for “A Fortnight of Freedom”—which they have described as “a special period of prayer, study, catechesis, and public action”—to take place from June 21 to July 4.
The elites always seem to twist themselves into pretzels to avoid calling the west's war with Islam a religious war. Meanwhile, we have a religious war right here, being waged by the Barack Obama administration against the Catholic Church.
Fox News Channel's Wendell Goler could easily have gotten the same reaction from Jay Carney had he spoon fed him some sherbet straight out of a freezer set at close to absolute zero on the Kelvin scale.
There's something ironically creepy about leftists taping their own mouths shut in the name of free speech but that's what they do; they're leftists. CBN's Erik Stakelbeck was speaking at the University of Portland and the pro-Palestinian crowd had their mouths taped shut with various messages on the tape. However, when they decided to walk out like a pack of lemmings, Stakelbeck's pleas for someone to debate him fell on deaf ears (perhaps stuffed with tape).
At the end of this first clip, one woman finally answers the cameraman after several attempts to get the protesters to respond. When asked why she wouldn't debate Stakelbeck, she said, "because we don't debate racists."
You will honestly not believe this exchange. From start to finish, your mouth may just be agape at the completely dysfunctional mind of OWSr Harrison Schultz. His claim that the NYPD is responsible for the Zuccoti Park crime at the protests is just a small portion of his insane mindset. One of Schultz's other candid admissions is that he lives off of student loans and doesn't know where the money comes from. He also thinks everything should be free and that capitalism has failed.
Instant classic. May Day (May 1st) in Chicago. When protesters holding signs were asked what their signs meant, not one (of many) could answer. When given the opportunity to explain in the only language they understood (Spanish), they still couldn't explain what their English signs meant.
At one point, a bi-lingual man came by to help translate. When asked by the cameraman if the sign-holders were getting paid, the translator suddenly didn't want to talk. If payment was involved, I wonder if it included granola bars.
Weather Underground co-founder, Mark Rudd spoke to about 100 McLennan County College students in Waco, TX this week. He was invited by the college's History Club and a fraternity chapter.
One of the founders of a radical group that waged violent protests against the Vietnam War expressed regret about the organization's extreme actions, but urged Waco college students Thursday to be more purposeful in political activism.
Not far from Bill Ayers' position, is it? He still believes in the same agenda but prefers different means.
Rudd ended his relationship with the group in 1970 and now speaks out against violence-driven activism.
"I regretted the whole strategy," said Rudd, 64, now a retired community college instructor. "I think we should have been organized on college campuses, talking to people so that maybe we could prevent the next war from happening."
Rudd was invited to speak at the campus by MCC's History Club and Sigma Kappa Delta chapter.
Again, he regrets the means, not the ends. During his speech at MCC, Rudd engaged in a bit of revisionist history when he talked about the deaths of three Weather Underground members in 1970 named Dianne Oughton, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins. The three were killed in a Greenwich Village town home when the bomb they were working on exploded. The destination for that bomb was Fort Dix army base. According to Larry Grathwohl, a man who infiltrated the Weather Underground for the FBI, Rudd approved the bombing; he didn't just know about it. Back to the Waco Tribune article:
He (Rudd) spoke about a failed attempt by a faction of Weather Underground members to bomb a military dance at an Army training center at Fort Dix in New Jersey in March 1970. Three group members were killed when the bomb prematurely detonated, but Rudd said no soldiers or other civilians were hurt.
"This is pure terrorism, the moment at which I moved toward that terrorism," Rudd said of the act, adding that he was not involved in planning it. "I knew about it. I could have stopped it. But my feeling at the time was nobody's innocent."
Conspicuously absent from the article is any mention of the Pine Street bomb factory in San Francisco. It was located a short distance from where San Francisco police officer Brian McDonnell was killed when a bomb just outside the window of the police station exploded on February 16, 1970. There is strong evidence that Bernadine Dohrn planted that bomb. Interestingly, Rudd's fingerprints were found inside the apartment-turned bomb factory on Pine Street.
One chapter of my forthcoming book, Unsung Davids: Ten Men who Battled Goliath without Glory, focuses on Larry Grathwohl and his time working inside the Weather Underground for the FBI. Rudd's words and deeds since coming forward in 2003 unequivocally demonstrate that regret is not a word that should be attributed to him when it comes to the Weather Underground. Details of Rudd's involvement in the group make both his appearance and feigned regret at MCC disgustingly laughable.
Besides, even according to the Waco Tribune, Rudd considers himself a liberal Democrat today and supports the Occupy Wall Street movement. So does Ayers. Regret? For what? Expediency?
Like Ayers, Rudd is not repentent. If he were, he'd reject the ends as well as the means.
Perhaps this is the most ridiculous excerpt from the Tribune article:
History Club president Edward Love said Rudd's story sheds light on how many different types of people fought passionately for peace and equality in America.
By the way, Grathwohl testified that the Weather Underground had plans to "eliminate" 25 Million Americans who could not be "re-educated into the new way of thinking" after the group - to include Rudd - overthrew the U.S. Government.
Once again, here is a video excerpt of Grathwohl from 1982, in which he explains the goals of the Weather Underground. Remember, these goals were NOT rejected by Rudd at MCC.
We knew this was coming. The Occupy movement miscreants - who cried uncle in the face of disease, rapes, murders, assaults, arson, mountains of human waste, and the bitter winter cold - have climbed back out of their holes (made warm by someone else's hard work). Perhaps the city with the worst reputation when it comes to the OWS movement (worst of the worst) is Oakland, which is coincidentally, where Van Jones is from.
As added incentive, Occupy Oakland is using the Trayvon Martin killing as fuel for its crime spree, masked as a righteous encampment.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Occupy Oakland activists have set up a new encampment in a park north of downtown, calling it a response to the recent arrests of protesters in New York and the shooting death of an unarmed Florida teenager.
About a dozen people in six tents spent Wednesday night in Mosswood Park at Broadway and West MacArthur Boulevard. They were still there Thursday.
Police visited the group around 9 a.m. but did not ask them to leave, according to protesters.
"This is the start of the spring offensive," said Melvin Kelley, a member of the group's Tactical Action Committee. "This is our new encampment until May 1, when we retake" Frank Ogawa Plaza, which the group occupied last year.
Kelley said the activists had pitched tents to show support for Occupy Wall Street protesters who were arrested in New York's Zuccotti Park last week while commemorating the six-month anniversary of the movement.
They are also protesting the killing of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American who was shot to death by a white man in a gated community near Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 26. The man, George Zimmerman, says he was defending himself against the unarmed teen and has not been arrested.
The description of Zimmerman as a "white man" is a bit misleading. He is actually a Latino. Say, are these OWS movements made up of any Hispanics? If so, and Zimmerman is exonerated (this is a possibility, at least based on one witness account), will those Hispanics continue to side with the movement?
Beginning in the 1960's, miscreants like these learned that if they engaged police officers when news cameras were around, the perception of police brutality was easily created. Often, protesters would taunt police until those cameras arrived, which made the inevitable confrontation look more brutal. In reality, the punks often got what they deserved. However, like is almost always the case, retaliatory strikes are the only ones caught on camera (check out unnecessary roughness calls in football). It was a tactic championed by Bill Ayers' Weather Underground and it was effective.
Contrast that with this video, shot at Union Square in New York. A row of police officers is keeping OWS'rs at bay and one of the protesters has a doughnut tied to the end of a string, which is tied to the end of a stick. As the punk mockingly and repeatedly casted his doughnut toward the police, the crowd laughed and chanted in support.
In the 1960's, the student might put the doughnut away before television news cameras arrived and scream about police brutality as he was getting what he had coming to him. Today, thanks to YouTube, we can see the whole story and it reveals a disgraceful bunch made up of petulant children in adult bodies.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement was kicking off last September, Van Jones referred to it as an "American Autumn," in an attempt to liken the movement to the "Arab Spring." The movement essentially went dormant as its stench, rampant crime, bad public perception, and winter months all bore down on it. Well, it's coming back this spring and the tactics are going to be changed to reflect a more local focus.
It’s Springtime for Occupy! That means the brilliant cast of characters that brought you the noxious, multimillion dollar expense to the taxpayer are back for a second round. Two of The Blaze’s favorite leaders of civic unrest, arch-liberal sociologist Frances Fox Piven and SEIU labor organizer Stephen Lerner discussed how Occupy Wall Street will pivot to a far more local, intimate occupation this spring after being evicted from their public squatting grounds with rubber bullets and crews in post apocalyptic hazmat suits. In an in-depth interview with Democracynow.org, Piven and Learner lay out five integral steps that Occupy will be taking this spring to keep a pulse going.
Very interesting and relevant find from J. Christian Adams at Pajamas Media (h/t Elizabeth), on two levels. First, back in the late 80's / early 90's, there was a racially charged fight at Harvard centered around forcing the University to hire more minority faculty. None other than Prof. Derrick Bell was the driving force behind it. We already know that Barack Obama embraced Bell but now, thanks to Adams, we learn that Michelle Robinson (Obama) was as well.
A treasure trove of information is coming out regarding Barack Obama’s time in college. Over at the Breitbart sites, we are learning how Obama inserted himself into a fight to implement hiring on the basis of race at Harvard Law School. The Obama tapes also seem to show the other Obama – Michelle – occupying the Harvard Law School dean’s office. The occupiers were agitating for the race-based hiring of Harvard law professors.
The racialist fight at Harvard Law from 1988 to 1991 swirls around Professor Derrick Bell. As detailed over at Big Government, Professor Bell was a role model to law student Barack Obama. But he also openly advocated for a variety of racialist views wholly outside the American mainstream. Some of them are outright crazy. He deliberately used his position as a professor to teach racially charged theories of structural oppression by whites. Obama, nevertheless, now famously urged us “to open up our hearts and minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell.”
In his article, Adams explains how he came in possession of the video, which can be viewed HERE. Though he's not willing to say it's definitely Michelle who can be seen in the bottom right of the video about 10 seconds in, "occupying the Dean's office," he sounds more than overwhelmingly convinced based on the fact that the betamax video he viewed first hand is much sharper than the one found at the link.
If you watch the entire news report, you'll see another familiar face - Derrick Bell. Does this mean both Barack and Michelle opened their "hearts" and "minds" to the teachings of Bell?
If you thought the OWS crowd was gone after its nationwide protests fizzled late last year, it did not. They went dormant and have spent the majority of the winter festering inside their warm worm holes, thinking of ways to hit back harder this spring. Here is one example in Phoenix.
As is the case in all Alinsky-style movements, targets need to be specific and ever changing because, as Rule number 7 States:
A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Translation: You can only pick on the Koch brothers for so long before you have to go after someone else.
Enter another target; it's called ALEC or the American Legislative Exchange Council. It is a group made up of capitalist-minded state legislators and policy advocates.
Note what this useful idiot is calling for here. He wants all ALEC officials to be tried and sentenced to "manual labor" that is intended to fix all the damage that such officials are allegedly responsible for. In essence, what OWS in Phoenix is calling for here is the re-education of Capitalists
I apologize in advance for being redundant but in light of what OWS Phoenix, which is ironically located in the "American southwest" is advocating, I give you (again) the video of Larry Grathwohl in 1982. This video needs to be watched as many times as it takes to get the reality of what we're facing to sink in.
Grathwohl was the only man to successfully infiltrate the Weather Underground, founded by none other than Barack Obama friend and colleague, Bill Ayers. In this clip, he explains exactly what Ayers' group intended to do after taking down the United States government. Notice how many "capitalists" the Weather Underground intended to "eliminate" if they couldn't be "re-educated" in "centers located in the American southwest."
It's really a shame that things this despicable transpire without any real consequence. Here, Daily Caller reporter Michelle Fields approaches OWS protesters protesters for hire outside the CPAC conference. The guy who gives her the most time is Jose Peoples. He tells Fields that everyone was paid $60 by the local union to show up. Peoples didn't know who or what he was protesting, just that he was given three Andrew Jacksons and told to show up.
This is what happens when you take paddling out of schools. Little miscreants grow up (in a literal sense only) and become big miscreants who are proud of how many arrests they can accumulate.
Andrew Breitbart's speech at CPAC was a blockbuster. Check it out. In it, he refers to a dinner he had with none other than Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Once you get past the praise Breitbart had for Bill Ayers' cooking, he dropped a bombshell; he claimed he had video of Barack Obama at Columbia back in the early 1980's. Interestingly, Breitbart made the claim less than a week after he was in the Ayers' home.
Where did he get the videos?
Wasn't Bill Ayers at Columbia at the same time Obama was? To this point, it hasn't been proven that the two met each other there but will the videos reveal it?
OWS'r Michael Morgan started out at Zuccotti Park shortly after it started but saw rampant racism within the movement so he moved to #Occupy Newark. Here is an interview with him from Lee Stranahan via Big Government:
