Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:45:48 PM
I'm supposed to be writing a book, but since I haven't really worked out the format yet, I'll warm up with a few shots at an easy target -- the Stink Up Wall Street movement. (I won't make the "movement" joke --
Burt Prelutsky beat me to it.)
Just a few thoughts:
Watching a few minutes of the demonstrations (of idiocy), I can't help but have more sympathy for the way that the Czar handled the
"Bloody Sunday" demonstrations of 1905. I found myself wishing for a regiment or two of Czarist cavalry myself to clear the streets or Zuccatti Park. (I'm not sure of the spelling of the park name, although for the moment "Zoo-catti" seems appropriate.) At least these rioters haven't yet been as violent as another mostly Democrat mob was in 1863, when riots against the Civil War draft swiftly turned into a savage
race riot that had to be put down by Union troops who had just fought at Gettysburg. All students of the history of racial violence in America please note that it was a principally Democrat mob. (It's worth repeating, as it was a foreshadowing of the the Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks
and Republicans after the Civil War ended.)
The mob packing Wall Street says that the street stinks. What else would you expect when you take a city street and pack it full of unwashed layabouts subsisting outdoors on a diet of rice and beans?
Actually, I don't see the big deal so far as New York City is concerned. By now they're used to stinkards who don't want to work and who still think they ought to be given money living on the streets and in the parks, committing petty crimes and generally making decent working people miserable...