The Anti-Occupy Wall Street Handbook

A middle class, middle aged, conservative Christian friend of mine last night texted me asking, “What would you say to your teen if he wanted to go down to Occupy Denver?”  This would not have alarmed much except this same teen had been acting extremely rebelliously toward his father and had just told his dad he and his friends were “liberals” and were very much interested in Islam. 

For those with this teenagers, neighbors, spouses, co-workers or classmates who have had their brains hi-jacked in favor of this movement, this post can be used to educate yourself and them on fundamental truths of economic law and history to clearly dispel their romantic notions the OWS movement has ANYTHING to do with actually helping themselves or the poor.  Bookmark this for future as we’ve learned that although OWS is dying out, it is a precursor for what is really planned next year right before the elections.

WHAT IS OWS REALLY?

Two of the best sources for Occupy Wall Street info is:

BigGovernment, and,
OWSExposed

John Nolte at BG summarizes it well:

Occupy is all about greed, self-actualization, and narcissism. The fastest and easiest way to feel superior is to assume the role of a victim … because a victim is always superior to his or her oppressors.  Occupy is also an army the left and Alinksy-style community organizers like Barack Obama have been breeding for decades. The formula is simple: feed enough self-esteem to those who don’t deserve it and you create an entire generation of entitled crybabies desperate to direct the frustration of their unfulfilled lives at whomever.

The idea was to launch Occupy in the hopes it would change the 2012 election conversation and media narrative from Obama’s failed record to ground upon which he might be able to win reelection: income inequality and those evil one-percenters on Wall Street who destroyed the economy.

When Glenn Beck predicted an economic collapse in 2006 and 2007, he was just some recovering alcoholic with air time.  When he spotlighted the Marxist revolutionaries in the Obama administration he was called certifiable.  When he predicted communists marching in the streets last year he was a loon and even after OWS began, he was ridiculed for suggesting violence would break out.  Someone, someday will actually pay attention to the homework he does to come up with these predictions and take him seriously.  What does he predict next?

People being drug out of buildings and shot in the streets. 

IS IT A GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT OR ORCHESTRATED ASTROTURF?

Big Government again has exposed emails of the organizers showing how non-spontaneous it is and worse, how they are intentionally orchestrating escalation to violence.

Communists directly admit their involvement and designs to co-opt the movement to obscure truth to their benefit.  And they have direct ties to the Obama campaign.

Proof Occupy Wall Street is an organized movement with ulterior motives.  The evidence for US involvement in international insurrection including OWS starts at the 12 minute point:

The fact is that radicals like Alinksy (who dedicated his book Rules for Radicals to Lucifer), Cloward & Piven and others REQUIRE violent anarchy and class warfare or they can’t take control under the pretense of defending the working poor.

The prime perpetrator who was at the Israel flotilla conflict last year, at the Egyptian uprising and every major outbreak openly tells National Public Radio that America is ripe for communist revolution.  

By your fruits you shall know them.  It is the biggest collection of losers we've seen since Vietnam with 417 crimes being committed from rape to murder.  31% of attendees are willing to commit violence.

Obama derided the Tea Party, then tried to say OWS was just like it.  Communists, KKK, and radical extremists like law abiding citizens?  Here is a 2 minute video comparison of the two and Glenn Beck’s extensive comparison (and why Obama is trying to tie them together is in the Video History links below).

The Unions were positioned from the beginning to step in and take over as reported here.  Ironically, the rebellious adventurers who think they are “showing the man” by demonstrating, are in fact pawns and “useful idiots” of forces THAT WANT TO FURTHER ENSLAVE THEM.

QUESTIONS TO ASK ABOUT OWS

Who started Occupy Wall Street?  Where was the first one? Who is paying for the flyers and NY marketing firm promoting it? Why do Communists, Nazi’s, Pedophiles and Terrorists Support it? Why does a man who made $7 Billion last year and who has profited from destabilizing currencies around the globe, fund OWS groups? (More from Beck here.)

The Video History of OWS GBTV: How OWS Started GBTV: Unions Fingerprints An OWS Billionaire? Tea Party Vs OWS Why does OWS hate Jews? Global OWS Control

What we know about OWS in summary:

• It was a Madison Avenue orchestrated movement.
• It has been funded by radicals including those intent on enslaving Americans through government control.
• Organizers have planned to lie about their purpose to eventually introduce violence.
• There is strong evidence that the Obama campaign is using this to suspend freedoms directly before the election by bunching all “anti-government” protestors together following violence by OWS.

Let’s get to the heart of their argument.

IS CAPITALISM REALLY BAD OR TERRIBLE TO THE POOR?

The most understandable defense for CAPITALISM versus SOCIALISM was given by the great (and funny) Milton Friedman on the ultra-liberal Phil Donahue show in 1979.  It is in 5 parts (10 minutes each) but CRITICAL to watch WITH Cooper.  It begins here.  A very, very short clip just on Capitalism versus Socialism is here:

Milton Friedman Phil Donahue on Capitalism vs. Socialism

A much less serious but every bit as profound video shows how Occupy Wall Street – who complains that the “1%” are taking advantage of the 99% – actually has it going on within their own movement.  Jon Stewart of the Daily Show exposes it here (it’s hilarious):

The Daily Show
Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

The Milton Friedman video series makes a great point when Phil Donahue asks about the inequity that a very few have a lot of wealth and the masses do not.  Friedman makes an EXCELLENT point that in societies and cultures that have tried to “spread the wealth” they replace economic tyrants with political ones who take away even their basic rights.  Capitalism with all it’s flaws provides MORE money, MORE freedom and MORE opportunity than ANY OTHER SOLUTION.

Walter Williams makes the point that the “rich” do benefit disproportionately to the efforts they put in – but the benefits to the “99%” is often overlooked.  Imagine having no personal computers without a Bill Gates or inexpensive cars without Henry Ford.  Thomas Edison profited enormously, but the incandescent lightbulb allowed productivity and safety at a level never dreamed of by the 99%.

The original Pilgrim colony at Jamestown is evidence of this fact. They set out to share all of their production with each other and the pilgrims barely survived the first winter after they landed.  Even after the Indians showed them how to grow corn and adapt to the land, they were constantly battling shortages, lack and social contention.  It wasn’t until William Bradford realized that a socialist model was completely contrary to the teachings of the bible on personal responsibility, that they changed to a capitalist, free market system.  From then on – they prospered.  Bradford wrote:

The experience that we had in this common course and condition tried sundry years...that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing -- as if they were wiser than God,'

Truth: Free markets lower costs and increase values for everyone, while government regulation and forced sharing of wealth increases costs and depresses opportunity and prosperity.

THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM

Islam?  What does Islam have to do with Occupy Wall Street?  It is interesting that every “Arab Spring” uprising has resulted in MORE radical Islamic forces taking power instead of democracy.  As the first video shows, insurrection is being planned to rip out the totalitarian leaders (or democratic ones) who stand in the way. 

It is also interesting that immediately following Occupy Wall Street, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other radical Islamists endorsed it!  When you understand that the entire purpose of OWS is to destabilize Western democracies – it makes sense.  This is the same goal of Islam.  Where Muslims have power, force them to submit.  Where they do not have power, lie to them to destabilize them and gain power.

Anyone who doesn’t understand the already serious encroachment of Islam into American society is blind or ignorant.  The word “Islam” and terrorist was deleted from EVERY working manual at the Department of Homeland Security.  And the mainstream media is already complicit to perpetuate this myth for fear of not being “tolerant.”  This particular video takes an ABC 20/20 Muslim puff piece - and gives direct evidence for what Islam is really about  -

Funny (and scary) Truth About Islam in America

A much shorter (8 minute) debunking of 3 common myths about Islam here.

---

For Reference: My 2 part teaching on the amazing science, archaeology and factual support for the Old and New Testament begins here:

Comparison to "Occupy" Protesters Unfair to Tea Party

The so-called Occupiers at Zuccotti Park in New York City were forced to leave last week, and cleanup of the park has been taking place since.

For the two months that Wall Street was "occupied" comparisons were made to the conservative Tea Party movement, which heavily influenced the 2010 elections.

There comparisons are unfair to the Tea Party for a myriad of reasons.

First, no one has ever been arrested at a Tea Party rally because they are performed peacefully.  According to the New York Daily News, approximately 1,500 arrests have been made at the Occupy Wall Street protest alone as of November 17th.

Secondly, the Tea Party folks treat the space they use with respect.  Again, according to the New York Daily News there have been 31 complaints of public urination at Zuccotti Park, and more unconfirmed reports of public defecation. 

Finally, the Tea Party represents true American ideals: personal liberty and private property, small government with non-enumerated powers granted to the states and the people. 

Most importantly, the Tea Party believes in the system that made America what it is today; a beacon of freedom for the rest of the world.

The street rats at the Occupy protests believe in a Utopian society where everything you need is given to you by the government, and worse, everything you think you're entitled to.

The Occupiers believe is communism, not capitalism.  They believe in equality of results, not equality of opportunity.  They believe in class warfare and the notion that wealth is evil.

In short, they believe in the same radical philosophy as Barack Obama, which is why the President said he can, "identify" with them, and why Nancy Pelosi offered blessings for them.

The Tea Party has never represented an anti-Semitic stance like the occupiers have.

It gets worse too.

Today, reports of weapons caches at were made public through the NYPD and Brookfield Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park.

Gardeners who were hired to clean up the park found knives and some makeshift weapons inside flower beds.

This is not the first report of its kind either.  Knives and mace were found after the protesters marched on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1st. 

The reality is that the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tea Party movement are polar opposites.

They believe in opposing ideals and means of communicating their message.  The occupiers believe in violence and disorderly conduct while the Tea Party believes in peaceable assembly and voicing their opinion on Election Day.

The Union Fix - Part 2

In part one of “The Union Fix” I introduced the immediate step towards dismantling the strangle hold unions have on U.S. manufacturing.  In part two, I discuss the longer-term solution to finally break the cycle of anti-competitiveness and bring manufacturing back to our nation.

In Washington State, the IAM waged a strike on the Boeing Company in 2008 resulting in months of delays and lost production.  After reaching a contract agreement, Boeing sought assurances from the IAM that it would not strike again.  When the IAW failed to meet this demand Boeing made the decision to build a second 787 assembly line in North Carolina, a right-to-work state.  Although now embroiled in a highly publicized lawsuit against Boeing over the decision, the IAM provides a perfect example of how unions price themselves out of the manufacturing labor market and drive companies to alternative markets. 

The Boeing case also illustrates part of my proposed solution.  Twenty-two of our nation’s States are right-to-work states.  However, the liberal foothold in the remaining 28 States is unlikely to relent sufficiently to permit the adoption of right-to-work laws.  Therefore, we need a compelling compromise. 

Large corporations are forbade from controlling too much of a given market per existing anti-trust laws.  The word monopoly in the halls of the Federal Trade Commission is a springboard to action and eventual divestiture of assets from the offending firm.  However, these same principles have not been applied to unions.  Unions that represent all employees to a particular firm or industry have a monopoly on that labor market.  Therefore, we should extend anti-trust laws to unions via legal precedent or legislation.  In so doing, no single union would be able to have a monopoly on labor.

The outcome of this step would be a dismantling of the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and Change to Win Federation.  In addition, no one union could represent all the employees in a particular trade at a single company.  Therefore, more than one union would be required; in cases where no additional union is ratified, at least a portion of the employees would not be unionized.  In all cases, the unions would be forced to compete with one another for members.  Competition would tend to put downward pressure on dues and inherently limit the amount of money available for political manipulation.

This solution is effectively a compromise in that it still allows a closed shop for unions, it preserves worker’s rights to unionize, and it gives workers greater choice in representation.  Finally, from the perspective of the firms, there would be competition in the labor market giving the companies greater flexibility over the compensation packages.  In turn, this helps prevent ludicrous pension benefits, exorbitant wages for menial labor, and ultimately makes the U.S. manufacturing industry more competitive against a world of low priced alternatives. 

Read more like this at Aaron Opine

The Union Fix - Part 1

Photo by Bill Burke

Any non-imbecile can tell you that unions have exacerbated the decline in manufacturing in the United States.  Their demands made upon the threat of work stoppages have enabled them to amass pension funds that have crippled the likes of Ford, GM, and Chrysler.  Many States and municipalities are likewise stumbling under the weight of massive public employee union pension programs.  Like the foreign substance invading a festering wound, we must winnow the power of unions in our country to restore our predominance in manufacturing. There are two key steps towards stripping unions of their power and influence in order to reinstate our manufacturing base and thereby strengthen our economy (Note that addressing the unions must be done in concert with far reaching tax and regulatory reform – resolving our union problem with not be sufficient alone).  The first is immediate action to be taken by sensible persons holding unions positions; the second is longer-term and can only be accomplished at the State and Federal levels.

The first step is for all concerned union represented employees to become objectors.  When I graduated from college I went to work for a company that was infected with an agency shop union.  Initially, I chose to be a Beck Objector (see Communication Workers of America v. Beck for legal history), but still paid an “agency fee” which was nearly as much as the full union dues.  About a year later I learned that a significant portion of my agency fee was being used as campaign contributions towards democratic candidates.  Under Section 701(j) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1967, employees with bona fide religions objections cannot be coerced into supporting unions.  I wrote a letter to the union showing how every candidate supported by my fees was an abortion advocate.  I concluded by confirming that I view abortion as an unethical and abhorrent per my religious convictions.  The union agreed (as required by law) to allow me to contribute to a non-religious charity of my choice instead of paying union dues.

Although not all union represented employees are similarly inclined to depose of unions, it is quite likely that many would be put off by their union’s prolific use of union dues to support the campaigns of politicians and legislation that offends their religious sensibilities.  Therefore I encourage all union employees to investigate how their dues are spent – following the paper trail all the way to the AFL-CIO if necessary.  With the veil of faux-legitimacy lifted, I’m willing to wager many more union employees would become religious objectors.  Doing so would strip unions of the more than $400 Million they spend annually on political influence that has effectually stripped our nation of its competitiveness and propelled us closer to socio-Marxism.

For more information about becoming a Religious Objector I encourage you, or your union worker friends, to visit www.choosecharity.org and www.nrtw.org.

This step is critical and immediate.  However, it is not sufficient to curtail the influence, and therefore damage, of unions over our government.  Next week I will share step two – a longer term solutions with greater reach and impact.

READ MORE LIKE THIS AT AARON OPINE

Aaron Opine's Headline Rewind

Headlines from the week of October 10, 2011

The United States of America is now a Dictatorship

Photo by Steve Jurveston

Facing mounting Congressional gridlock, President Obama realized his dream by declaring the United States a dictatorship – of which he is the dictator.  Although toying with the idea since the time of his youthful interactions with Marxist mentors and bringing it into fruition via his cornucopia of regulatory czars, his sagging poll numbers and uncooperative legislature finally pushed him over the edge, “My instruction to…all the advisers sitting around the table is…identify all those areas in which we can act administratively, without additional congressional authorization, and just get it done.”

So much for being a uniter and working with Congress.  Of course, it is difficult to speak with members of congress when you are constantly traveling across the country for your reelection campaign.

Herman Cain Becomes GOP Frontrunner in Latest Poll

Photo by John Trainor

Captain Underdog, Herman Cain, rises from obscurity to top of the GOP presidential candidates according to the latest poll by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.  It remains to be seen if he can hold his lead, but his success has drawn the ire of the establishment black community.  Apparently, Cornel West and Harry Belafonte have never seen a black man who wasn’t a victim.  Moreover, Cain’s success and conservatism has prompted some in the black community to label him an “oreo.”  This doubly racist label is intended to deride Cain for being “black on the outside, but white on the inside;” that’s in contrast to Barak Obama who is just white on his mother’s side.

African Antelope Tackles Mountain Biker

In an online video-gone-viral, an antelope is seen tackling a mountain biker during a bike race.  Although the details are sketchy, it is suspected that the antelope was hired by PETA to provide footage for their latest over-the-top ad campaign following in the footsteps of their now infamous “Save the Whales” and “Payback is Hell – Go Vegan” campaigns.  PETA is well known for reaching beyond social norms in efforts to promote eating habits that are motivated by their lack of ability to distinguish between animals and humans.

Several U.S. Cities Discover Voids in their Downtown Areas

Across the country several cities have discovered voids in their downtowns.  Thankfully, they are only intellectual voids caused by the vacuous intellect of the self-named “Occupy” protestors.  After a month of occupying Wall Street in New York, the protestors are yet to offer a cohesive message; although hatred of large corporations and a masochistic love of totalitarian government and welfare society appear to be common themes.  Lacking anything concrete from the protestors, the following list may be a helpful summary:

Photo by David Shankbone

 1) Big corporations are bad – but their social media, smart phones, telecommunications networks, bullhorns, sleeping bags, tents, markers, cardboard, clothes, shoes, cameras, and food are okay to use for protesting against them.

 2)Millionaires shouldn’t have so much money – unless they are a celebrity supporting the protests in which case they’re cool.

 3)People who earn their money lawfully and don’t want to give more of it to the government are greedy – people who do nothing but want other people’s money are not greedy.

4)  Big banks that got bailed out are evil – big unions that got bailed out are good because they support the protests.

5)  Big corporations that lobby government officials to gain power are evil – democratic politicians who take that money to gain power and give government money to the same corporations are good because they support the protest

6) Democracy is apparently a process whereby no one is more important than anyone else (except the guy directing everyone else with a bullhorn), everyone repeats everything the one important guy says, and all decisions must be decided by unanimous vote.

The protestors, very many of whom are college students, are also doing an excellent job illustrating the decline in U.S. universities by virtue of their clear inability to formulate a logical or coherent message.  Their protests should be directed at their universities for charging insurmountable tuition while simultaneously draining their brains of reason; of course, their ultra-liberal professors already told them it was Wall Street’s fault.

In addition to other celebrity appearances, famed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore visited the protests.  It is not known if he will produce a new documentary about the protests but, if he does, it is sure to be a “Twilight Zone” meets “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” expose.


Like this post?  Visit Aaron Opine to read more like it.

Occupy Wall Street – What’s the Effect on Campaigning?

Occupy Wall Street has taken up residence here in New York for 24 days now, and we’ve had a chance to hear what a few of the GOP presidential candidates have to say on the matter. But is this protest going to have any effect on the 2012 elections, or how candidates will campaign going forward?

Well naturally there’s no clear-cut yes or no on this one. The answer is: it depends.

This movement, which has drawn comparisons to the Tea Party movement – as in the exact opposite, but budding in the same fashion – could definitely take root into American politics if, like the Tea Party, it organizes itself, creates a leadership structure, and defines a message.

After three weeks, it has done none of these things, and looks as though it’s shaping up to be listed on a “Most Entertaining Memes of 2011″ list. Simply a flash in the pan.

So what will be the determining factor here? Oddly enough, I think it’ll be the weather. I’m not pulling this out of thin air, here, people! I’ve heard several native New Yorkers say “wait ’til the first winter nor’easter blows through, those protesters will be outta here in a flash.” Now I’ve only lived through one New York winter so far, but let me tell ya, they ain’t pretty. We’ve had an indian summer here, an unseasonable 85 degrees in the Big Apple, even today in mid-October, so protesters are mainly out in t-shirts and sandals, but it’ll be winter coat time, soon enough.

A movement of any kind – whether it’s behind a concept, like both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, or behind a candidate that represents a certain set of principles – requires a great deal of time, planning, coordination and most importantly, clear and decisive messaging.

It took about a couple of months for the Tea Party movement to begin the transition from a gaggle into an organization – and it takes a great deal of passion to put something together even that quickly. But as you may recall, the first ‘official’ Tea Party rally was in mid-February, headed straight into the lovely spring season. I’d be willing to put money down that it’s a lot easier to start a protest in the cold weather, when the fire in your belly will keep you warm, than to stay out in the cold when time and discomfort has worn your nerves thin. Maybe I ought to go down to Wall Street and take a few bets with those 1 percenters! Oh wait, I can’t even get there with all the protesters blocking the streets.

Another strike (besides the weather) for Occupy Wall Street growing legs is that the voters’ attention right now is on the Republican debates, and Democrats are pretty quiet on the national campaign trail. Republican candidates have no desire to bring up the Wall Street mess, because it’s still a mess. There’s no problem that’s been outlined that they can propose to solve. So unless President Obama himself chooses to make hay with some of his biggest financial backers (yes, he had a ton of campaign cash from Wall Street), the protesters will have an even harder time getting the ear of the ‘decision-makers.’

Anyway, time will tell if ‘Wall Street’ will become a campaign issue in 2012. Obviously, it could tie into the economy-talk quite nicely. A few democrats have already ‘endorsed’ it, perhaps as a play for media attention in their home districts – a tactic Idon’t recommend, by the way, because it can (sound)bite you in the ass when the wind blows the other direction.

Only time will tell on this one. In the meantime, it’s fun to watch!

***This post is re-posted with permission from www.GOPCampaigner.com***

Fairy Tales Can Come True, Well Maybe Not All of Them

Today is Columbus Day, the day we celebrate the discovery of North America by the Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus. It was on this very day in 1492 that Columbus sailed down the Hudson River and discovered North America. It was during this voyage down the Hudson that Columbus encountered the Nicnak andPaddywak Indian tribes, who greeted him with open arms and bundles of beaded necklaces, welcoming him to the New World. Columbus, however, did not share the peaceful enthusiasm of the good natured peaceful Natives, and upon seeing them in gathering on the shores of Lake Gitchegumee in the brightly colored dress, Columbus ordered his men to open fire upon the unsuspecting Natives. The poor Natives never stood a chance. As the .50 caliber machine guns unleashed their deadly missiles, row after row of Native men fell under the deadly fusillade. Soon, all the men of both villages, as well as every surrounding village within a 25 mile radius had been mercilessly slain. As the women and children openly wept for their men, Columbus and his men landed on the shore in their longboats and began a campaign of raping and pillaging that has continued unabated to this day!

Well, now that was fun! Writing fiction I mean. I figured that since today was Columbus Day, and Native American terrorist activist organizations such as AIM (the American Indian Movement) have been protesting Columbus Day all weekend long across the land by spouting their fictional rhetoric concerning Columbus, I thought I would join in the fun. Or maybe I should have simply posted a brief and basic history lesson instead. Dear AIM: Columbus didn’t discover America. In fact, he never once set foot anywhere on North America. In fact, in 1492 he made it to what is now Cuba, Haiti, and some of the Bahamas. That’s it. Sorry to burst your bubble. 

But hey, don’t let facts stop you. Remember, truth is a subjective thing to the liberal mind, so I think you’re okay with your fairy tales, and you know what they say, if you can’t find something to protest, just make something up. Sort of like the Occupy Wall Street folks and others of their ilk around the country these days. See? You’re not the only ones! So cheer up Bucky, liberals, socialists, and communists (sorry for being redundant) across the land are standing alongside you in spirit, in word, and in a haze of marijuana smoke. 

I will leave you now, AIM, with these stirring words of your fellow communist agitator activist, Van Jones, who so epitomizes your plight and your struggle: 

“We’re here to give everything from the people from whom you stole everything.”