The Sinister Hand of the Fascist. . .Obama Administration?
Topic: Liberal Fascism
The funny thing about leftie protesters in countries like America is that they wish they lived in a fascist state. Because if they did, their protest would be a heroic act of resistance, not an adolescent temper tantrum. So now that various cities around the country have moved to close down and clean up the Occupy Wall Street campouts, their action are being represented as part of a sinister plot hatched by the federal government to repress dissent. Seriously:
The ugly hand of the federal government is becoming increasingly suspected behind what appears to be a nationwide attempt to repress and evict the Occupation Movement.
Across the country in recent days, ultimatums have been issues to groups occupying Portland, OR, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, Dallas, TX, Atlanta, GA, and most recently New York, NY, where the Occupation Movement began on September 17. The two most recent eviction efforts, in Oakland and New York, have been the worst.
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One indication of that coordination may have been a conference call among 18 city mayors which was confirmed by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan in a radio interview on San Francisco station KALW. Dan Siegel, an Oakland attorney who worked as an advisor to Quan, but who resigned in disgust after Oakland police and law enforcement personnel from a number of surrounding jurisdictions brutally drove occupiers there out of their park using tear gas, supposedly non-lethal ammunition (bean bags and rubber bullets) and flash-bang grenades in a night-time raid in the early hours of November 14, says that phone conference call took place, significantly, while Quan was in Washington, DC.
This from an op-ed piece on the left-wing Nation of Change website.
Now the idea that the progressive mayor of Oakland is colluding with the Obama Justice Department to put down a left-wing protest is beyond ridiculous. And, indeed, despite much heavy breathing, the writer, one Dave Lindorff, doesn’t actually present a speck of evidence that the Justice Department, FBI, Homeland Security, etc. is coordinating the cities’ actions. Eventually, he has to admit this:
Mara Veheyden-Hilliard, co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild’s National Mass Defense Committee, based in Washington, [said]: "These crackdowns on the occupation movement certainly appear to be part of a national strategy to crush them," she says. "We haven’t yet found overt evidence of federal involvement, but the fact that in rapid succession local authorities have taken action raises the specter of coordination." (Emphasis added.)
Ah, but Mr. Lindorff, Ms. Mara Veheyden-Hilliard and the rest of them want it to be true. They pretend to the world—probably to themselves as well—that a bunch of discontented college grads who don’t want to repay their student loans are morally equivalent to the Polish Solidarity movement or the martyrs of Tiananmen Square. Theirs is a willful species of paranoia that not only helps to keep the troops motivated but feeds the self-esteem of people who’d cave in a nanosecond if faced with the forces of a real tyranny—Hitler’s, say, or Mao’s.
Posted by tmg110
at 9:19 AM EST
