Topic: Liberal Fascism
So yesterday morning I was watching the news and along came this story about a Florida woman who abandoned her family and traveled to New York for the Occupy Wall Street protest. Stacey Hessler has been camping out in Zuccotti Park for two weeks now, during which time she’s managed to speak by phone with her husband and four children just three times. Not to worry, though! Friends in Florida are taking care of the kids. And Ms. Hessler is staying warm at night with the help of one Rami Shamir, a 30-year-old radical who works as a waiter at a French bistro when he’s not busy scheming the overthrow of the system.
So far, so boringly typical of the OWS mob. But then Hessler added this cherry to the hot fudge sundae of her goofed-up life: She compared her abandonment of her family to service in the armed forces. “Military people leave their families all the time, so why should I feel bad?” Hessler said. “I’m fighting for a better world.”
My daughter, a serving soldier on leave after a year in Afghanistan, happened to be sitting with me when Hessler tried this one on with the TV audience. We agreed that except for the IEDs, the suicide bombers, the snipers, the rabid dogs, the flies, the dust and the lack of cold beer, service in Afghanistan is very much like camping out under a tarpaulin in Zuccotti Park…
