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The 'Occupy' Crowd Now Wants Americans To Boycott Black Friday

The hits just keep on coming! Add this to the list of asinine demands from the spoiled brats called OWS. I'm still trying to figure out how this will help our economy and create jobs. These people are proving that they have absolutely no clue.

From Fox News:

Occupy Wall Street-inspired protesters are eyeing a new target -- Target. And dozens of other companies. 

A campaign under the name "Occupy Black Friday" is trying to enlist supporters to boycott just about every major retailer, and quite a few mid-sized ones, the day after Thanksgiving. The protesters are casting a wide net, urging people to demonstrate against the top 100 publicly traded retail stores -- a list that includes everything from Wal-Mart to Target to Dick's Sporting Goods to Dollar Tree. 

"The idea is simple, hit the corporations that corrupt and control American politics where it hurts, their profits," the group's Facebook page reads, describing Black Friday as the "one day where the mega-corporations blatantly dictate our actions." 

But retailers, who are monitoring the mini-movement, warn that a blanket boycott could end up hurting local communities. 

"Retailers, regardless of their size, are an important part of the community, and they employ friends and neighbors of that community across the country," said Joseph LaRocca, a senior adviser to the National Retail Federation specializing in loss prevention. 

Read more about OWS call for a boycott on Black Friday

Occupy Mayhem Around The United States

Just take a moment to think about how the main stream media would have reacted had these crimes taken place during the Tea Party rallies. Last year, they had us believe that the Tea Party was a dangerous, right wing movement that was fueled by hate and racism. We were bombarded with images of concerned Americans showing up at Town Hall meetings and have the gull to question their elected officials about spending and taxes. For this they were deemed violent and dangerous, but yet we're now supposed to believe that the Occupy Wall Street movement is a genuinely peaceful movement with just a handful of anarchists causing some trouble. Yeah right! Take a look at the following compilation put together by some bloggers who have taken the time to document the many crimes committed by the Occupy protesters.

From Verum Serum:

Updated as of November 16, 2011 at 7:04 pm

Rather than just an unordered list, I was thinking it might be helpful to categorize the mayhem by type.

Arson

• Occupy Fort Collins – Member arrested, $10 million in damage
• Occupy Portland -  Member arrested for throwing Molotov Cocktail
• Occupy Seattle – Suspicious fire at Bank of America 2.7 miles from camp
• Occupy Portland – Three men arrested with homemade grenades

Assault/Threats

• Occupy SF – 12 assaults in 24 hours
• Occupy LA – 4 assaults including two with knives
• Occupy Philly – Man punches woman in the face
• Occupy LA – Two assaults including setting someone on fire
• Occupy Berkeley – Police respond to three assault calls per night
• Occupy Wall Street – Three men threaten the life of a sexual assault victim
• Occupy Lawrence – Punch thrown
• Occupy Orlando – Knife fight sends man to hospital
• Occupy Portland – Multiple assaults within a 24 hr. period
• Occupy Toledo – Man assaults police officer after arrest
• Occupy San Diego – Woman assaults cameraman
• Occupy Victoria – Man dumps urine on city worker
• Occupy Vancouver – Two police officers bitten during near riot
• Occupy Oakland – Death threats
• Occupy Austin – Man in Joker make-up arrested for brandishing knife
• Occupy Oakland – Man sets his dog on reporter
• Occupy Oakland – Man pulls a knife in camp
• Occupy Wall Street – Photographer assaulted

Drugs/Dealing

• Occupy Boston – Two drug busts in a week
• Occupy Boston – Another drug arrest
• Occupy Boston – Heroin dealers busted were living with 6 year old boy directly behind welcome tent
• Occupy Portland – First hand account “Drugs. Selling…Heroin. Meth.”
• Occupy Portland – Video of open drug use in the camp
• Occupy Portland – “I get high“

Fraud

• National Lawyer’s Guild member Ari Douglas pretends to be run over by a police scooter

Illness/Death

• Occupy Santa Cruz – Ringworm outbreak
• Occupy Atlanta – TB outbreak
• Occupy Wall Street – Zuccotti lung outbreak
• Occupy New Orleans – Man discovered in tent had been dead 2 days
• Occupy Portland – Body lice outbreak

Murder

• Occupy Oakland – Fatal shooting

Public disturbance

• Occupy Dallas – Protesters block bank entrance, 23 arrested
• Occupy Vancouver – Mob with bullhorn enters bank
• Occupy Wall Street – Protesters block bank entrance, four arrested
• Occupier takes a bathroom break in the street
• Occupy Vancouver – Occupiers disrupt debate, threaten riot when asked to leave
• Occupy Long Beach – Group disrupts city council meeting
• Occupy Boston – Three arrested for occupying Burger King
• Occupy Oakland – Yelling and nonsense at Burger King
• Occupy DC – Group storms AFP event, traps attendees inside

Rape/Sexual Assault

• Occupy Philly – Man arrested for alleged rape
• Occupy Wall Street – Two sexual assaults unreported to police
• Occupy Wall Street – Man arrested for sexual assault, suspect in rape
• Occupy Dallas – Sex offender allegedly rapes 14 year old
• Occupy Ottawa – Sexual assaults go unreported to police
• Occupy Lawrence – Sexual assault reported
• Occupy Toronto – Foot sniffer arrested
• Occupy Seattle – Man exposes himself to young girls
• Occupy Portland – Sexual assault
• Occupy Wall Street – Drunk gropes women in Zuccotti Park
• Occupy Cleveland – Rape reported after an overnight stay
• Occupy Glasgow – Possible gang rape
• Occupy Baltimore – Multiple reports of harassment
• Occupy Chicago – Man arrested for child porn
• Occupy LA – Man charged with exposing himself to a child

Sedition

• Occupy DC – Let’s have a coup by taking over the military
• Ted Rall wants occupiers to choose the path of violence
• Occupy DC – Mike Malloy incites crowd to cheer for President Bush’s execution

Suicide/Overdose

• Occupy Burlington – Man kills himself with handgun
• Occupy Salt Lake City – Man found dead with syringe in his tent
• Occupy Vancouver – Young woman dies of cocaine and heroine overdose
• Occupy OKC – Young man with history of drug abuse found dead

Theft

• Occupy Portland – Theft is ongoing
• Occupy Boston – Store owner suffers 4 break-ins since camp began

Vandalism

• Occupy Eureka – Protesters use local bank as a toilet
• Occupy Portland – Two banks vandalized, promises of more to come
• Occupy Oakland – Bank windows broken, Whole Foods vandalized, broken windows
• Occupy Boston – Banks vandalized with anarchist, OWS graffiti
• Occupy Portland – Spike in vandalism near camp
• Occupy SF: ATMs being smeared with feces
• Occupy Santa Fe: Banks vandalized with OWS-themed graffiti
• Occupy San Diego – Vendors cart vandalized with bodily fluids
• Occupy graffiti found on PA governor’s mansion

I’m leaving some out, but these are the ones we’ve covered on the blog so far.

Classic Newt Gingrich Slams Occupy Wall Street

No one, absolutely no one, is more capable of commanding a stage and articulating the sentiments of Americans who are fed up with Occupy Wall Street than Newt Gingrich. At the Iowa Family Forum debate this past Saturday, Newt took an opportunity to slap around the spoiled children who call themselves Occupy Wall Street.

The movement "starts with the premise that we all owe them everything," and the movement's sense of entitlement is a "symptom how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country, and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying, 'Go get a job right after you take a bath.'" the former speaker of the House concluded.

 

Tea Party vs OWS As Seen By The Media

I found these cartoons and thought they accurately captured the differences between the Tea Partiers and the Occupy Wall Street crowd as reported by the main stream media. There's nothing wrong with introducing a little humor into the debate. LOL

From The Political Jungle:

 

From The New York Times:

 

The Hypocrisy of Occupy Wall Street

Hey OWS protesters, your hypocrisy has reached epic levels.  You don't represent 99% of Americans, you  represent the radical, left wing 9%, who never passes up an opportunity to protest against capitalism and corporate america. You dream of a communist or socialist revolution and yet you can't present one example of a country that has succeeded in creating this utopia. You want to blame Wall Street and corporate america for our problems? You want to do away with mega, multinational corporations? You say banks are stealing and robbing America? Get real.

You're probably using an Apple iPhone to communicate. If it wasn't for Wall Street, Apple would have never gone public and raised the money necessary to grow into the amazing company that it has become. You're probably wearing cool looking clothes made by a "mega" clothing manufacturer who also went public with the help of Wall Street banks. The electricity and gas supplied to your house is provided by your local utility whose stock trades on the NYSE and who pays a dividend to the 1% who you want to punish. Your car was made by a multinational corporation. The gasoline supplied by a Big Energy company. Your grocery store is probably a "mega" company as well. The sleeping bags and tents that you're living in were manufactured by companies who relied on funding, loans and equity investment provided by Big Banks. Your ability to use social media like Facebook and Twitter exists because the venture capital and banking community took on the risk and provided capital to fund great ideas. Those videos that you filmed of your protest are now viewed around the world because of sites like YouTube. Guess what? YouTube was funded by venture capital firms who you want to penalize by making them pay huge taxes and yet expect them to continue to back and develop these great new technologies. The music that you listen to was produced and recorded by record labels, owned by mega global media companies. Do you know who supplies capital to these Big Banks and Venture Capital firms? Yup, you guessed it, wealthy individuals. The 1% who you want to blame for our financial mess. Do you know what life would be like if banks, multinational corporations and wealthy investors didn't exist? Have you ever been to a poor, undeveloped third world nation? Is that the society you envision? Our country has paid a heavy price including the shedding of blood to give you the right to protest and the means to live a relatively comfortable life with all of the modern conveniences that you demand.

I rarely agree with Alec Baldwin's political views, but during his visit to the Occupy Wall Street encampment he made a point to defend capitalism. From Yahoo News:

Alec Baldwin visited the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City this week, where he found himself defending the very institutions the demonstrators are protesting: Banks, capitalism and the rich."You have to have capital markets in this country," Baldwin said. "You can't not have strong capital markets in this country or this country is going to go down the tubes. ... Capitalism is worthwhile and capitalism demands the flow of money. ... You want the banks to do what the banks do."

There's nothing wrong with companies making a profit to provide that convenience along the way. That my friends is the beauty of capitalism. It's not perfect and not everyone will succeed, but it has lifted more people out of poverty compared to any other economic system known to man. Your solution has been tried before. Just take a look at North Korea, Cuba and the former Soviet Union. How did that work out for them?

Word of the Day: Ineptocracy

I love this! I think I will make this my word of the year. It clearly describes the state of our nation and in some ways ties into the #OccupyWallStreet movement. From Points and Figures:

The word is: Ineptocracy

1. Ineptocracy – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers*

Use in a sentence:

The occupy protesters are part of the ineptocracy movement.

thanks for the link Instapundit