Food For Thought

Who knows what it will mean, but here goes:

A great write-up on the potential for serious upheaval coming out of Occupy Wall Street, et al. (aka, "Down With Capitalism! Up With Communism!!"):

• The Revolutionaries' Revenge <http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/the_revolutionaries_revenge.html>; October 17, 2011; accessed October 26, 2011

A great write-up about the potential for serious upheaval coming out of the "Arab Spring" (aka, "Down With Democracy! Up With Shariah!"):

• Obama’s Arab winter; <http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/25/obamas-arab-winter/>; October 25, 2011; accessed October 26, 2011

A great video of Michael Moore desperately attempting to dodge the hypocrisy of denouncing capitalism (aka, "Down With The Rich! I'm Not The Rich!"):

• http://www.mediaite.com/tv/michael-moore-refuses-to-admit-he-is-part-of-the-1-to-piers-morgan/; <http://www.mediaite.com/tv/michael-moore-refuses-to-admit-he-is-part-of-the-1-to-piers-morgan/>; October 25, 2011; accessed October 26, 2011

And best of all, a great series of videos from 1979 in which Milton Friedman absolutely upends Phil Donahue on the topic of freedom and free enterprise (aka, PHIL.: "Down With The System!" MILT.: "Up With What, Praytell!?")

• Milton Friedman on Donahue 1979 (1/5); <http://www.youtube.com/user/brittle13#p/u/27/E1lWk4TCe4U>; uploaded May 7, 2009; accessed October 26, 2011.
• Milton Friedman on Donahue 1979 (2/5); <http://www.youtube.com/user/brittle13#p/u/26/5Lp2kGJASGY>; uploaded May 7, 2009; accessed October 26, 2011.
• Milton Friedman on Donahue 1979 (3/5); <http://www.youtube.com/user/brittle13#p/u/25/GapXLpLoZBs>; uploaded May 7, 2009; accessed October 26, 2011.
• Milton Friedman on Donahue 1979 (4/5); <http://www.youtube.com/user/brittle13#p/u/24/I0Ocv8aMBjk>; uploaded May 7, 2009; accessed October 26, 2011.  
• Milton Friedman on Donahue 1979 (5/5); <http://www.youtube.com/user/brittle13#p/u/23/brBvdjoNC6Y>; uploaded May 7, 2009; accessed October 26, 2011.

Meet the Occupiers

I try to refrain from hyperbole about the Occupy Wall Street (et al) protesters, especially because it is so frequently and fallaciously used against the Tea Party.  The Tea Party was accused of rampant racism based on the presence of a handful of over-the-top signs that were not only not representative of the entire movement, but were also completely antithetical to it.

Thus, when a handful of atrocious signs at Occupy events are used by some on the right to paint the entire movement, I cry foul.  How do those of us outside the movement know what the majority inside of that movement stand for based on those few?  I believe it is not judging rightly to do so.

But what if it were not simply a handful of signs?  What if the evidence involved large groups of protesters?  What if they were voicing their assent and/or disapproval on a collective basis?  In that case, the argument can be made, validly, and without apology or fear of hyperbole, that this is what the Occupiers believe.

The following two links show videos of group "assemblies"--one at Wall Street, and one in Houston.  I cannot easily put these things into words--you simply have to watch it for yourself.  Do not be distracted by the headlines on the links.  But DO pay special attention to two specific points.  # 1, in both videos, notice the reactions of the crowds, especially their collectivist chanting/repetition.  This is the goal and aim of all communist and collectivist organizations and movements--to subsume the self within the whole, to completely destroy the individual and replace it with the collective..  This chanting is the act of surrendering self completely to the will of the whole as given voice by the "leader" (as opposed, for example, to Christianity where where men and women are "more noble" for examining the evidence for themselves [Acts 17:11], or the American ideal encapsulated in the concept that "all men...are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" among which is the very private and individual "the pursuit of happiness").   #2 Notice the positions assented to by the "collective" especially in the second video: "Americans {concede?} democracy and capitalism is OVER," "explosions in technology and sexuality, everything seems to be possible, you can travel to the moon, you can become immortal by bio-genetics, you can have sex with animals or whatever..."

NOTE: I have read that the hand signs being made are apparently for showing approval without clapping, which would drown out the speakers.

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/eric-scheiner/hostile-houston-rep-jackson-lee-staffer-shouted-down-occupy-event

http://www.breitbart.tv/occupy-wall-street-chant-you-can-have-sex-with-animals/

Jesus said, "Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgement" (John 7:24).  If these large gathering are truly representative of the broader movement, then it can be righteously said, without exaggeration, that this movement is aimed at the overthrow of the American system of government and free enterprise and a wholesale departure from any resemblance of Christan ethics.

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ADDED 10/12/2011 --> One more for good measure.  A lone voice in a sea of crazy?  Listen to the reaction of the crowd when its over!  When the sea has no moral compass and is composed of gasoline, one lone voice is the only spark needed. 

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/11/occupy-l-a-speaker-violence-will-be-necessary-to-achieve-our-goals/