Topic: Liberal Fascism
Speaking of the Occupy movement, here's a prize example of what passes for rigorous analysis among Liz Warren's intellectual progeny: their weird and creepy obsession with Wells Fargo.
Now of course Wells Fargo is a bank and hence, in the eyes of the Occupy mob, the focus of evil in the modern world. But this particular bank is particularly hated. It’s engaged, you see, in a vast criminal conspiracy involving illegal immigrants—excuse me, undocumented quasi-citizens:
[W]hat really appears to vex the Left is the pervasive and effective fiction that Wells Fargo is involved in a vast conspiracy to lock up illegal immigrants and to expand dramatically the prison population for its own pecuniary gain…. They see the fact that Wells Fargo–backed mutual funds are used to build detention centers that hold illegal immigrants as, at best, complicity in the “prison-industrial complex,” and, at worst, as profiteering from crime.
Some protesters have even gone so far as to allege that Wells Fargo cynically allows illegal immigrants to open bank accounts and then uses their money to ensure their internment in facilities such as Washington State’s Tacoma Detention Center. Indeed, so public has been the angst that on May Day of this year, Wells Fargo released a statement clarifying the situation. “We are a bank,” it read. “We accept deposits and make loans. It’s unfortunate that groups that are passionate about certain causes are making us out to be something we’re not in order to further a political or social agenda. The fact remains Wells Fargo plays no role in advocating a policy on immigration or the operation of private prisons.”
Huh? All this bears about as much relation to reality as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—which no doubt has its fans in the Occupy movement. Nor does it even demonstrate internal logic. Why should Wells Fargo—or any bank—care whether illegal immigrants get locked up? Oh, right, because it’s an evil bank!
A tip of the hat to National Review’s Charles C.W. Cook for his excellent work reporting on this and other obsessions of the self-proclaimed Ninety-Nine Percent. What a bunch of idiots!
