It’s been coming on for a long time. In Paris – that capital that used to be so chic with women who wore clothes and accessories only they could wear – is no more – just look at the crowds. Europeans have become, well, drab. This drabness has been communicated to millions in America. OR perhaps it’s the other way around this time. And it’s not just because many have lost their jobs or that they haven’t had baths and are sleeping in tents, they preach the same drab Marxism that emanated from Moscow for years.
It is the drab sartorial expression of the Occupy demonstrators that causes me to miss the colorful, spirited expression of the so-called “hippies” of the ’60s and ’70s. Their clothing, their songs, their demeanor expressed their up beat work for social justice in compelling if not colorful and memorable terms. They were filled with hope for a better America. They were not out to overthrow the US government. Only a handful then saw clearly that they needed to bring socialism and/or communism to the US as the goal of their movement. Even the more radical groups were enraged within a context that included riots but not overthrow.
“Hell no, we won’t go” was shouted by crowds of anti-war demonstrators. But things didn’t get truly rough until the Democratic National Convention in 1968 . Finally as many have written in the blogosphere, it all came down to earth with the shootings at Kent State. Now ordinary folk took on the cause with the hippies and eventually the war ended. So did the draft later.
Activist radical Angela Davis was in jail for God’s sake and yet the years have been kind to her. To come upon her today, you will meet a woman whose dress is understated chic.
About Angela Davis:
Professor Angela Davis is an American political activist, educator and author. Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interest; she is the founder of “Critical Resistance”, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is presently a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university’s Feminist Studies department. [Next Year Country]
Now ask yourself, is there a leader of the far left today who you can recognize at once and who is an effective leader? The only colorful leader today is on the far right, Sarah Palin.
See current video here.
When I see the crowds gathered on Wall Street to do battle with the banks, they only serve to remind me of the flocks of drab gray and white seagulls I meet in McDonald’s parking lot. They too are begging. They are calling for the 1% extremely wealthy to give them more of what they have rather than a calling for new laws and regulations that would make it easier for them to earn it themselves.
loopyloo305
November 20, 2011
When you put it that way Sam Henry, it reminds us that the coming skirmish will mostly be a battle between light and darkness, I wonder if people are beginning to notice what you have?
samhenry
November 20, 2011
I hope so. This is a determined bunch. They are so very “proletariat.” Good to see you LL.
roblorinov
November 20, 2011
They learned their lessons well as taught to them by professors. They have all the right language down. Yes, they are so very Proletariat! And so very very SOVOK! Sadly, none of them realize any reality. Sadly they only have visions of Marxist Utopia dancing in heads. No one has told them that utopia is only for the Marxist elites and not for them the Proletariat.
Work seems to be a foreign object to these people as does cleanliness and organization. The world owes them nothing! This is generation we have raised all wanting everything for nothing, no work, no struggle, no sacrifice, only free ride.
How sad it will be for them if they get their beloved Marxism as most of these “useful idiots” will be shot dead in the streets by their new Marxists overlords which will make Kent State look small. Unbelievable to me that this is going on in USA!! DISGUSTING!!
samhenry
November 20, 2011
RL – I even heard a young man refer to the owner of a restaurant as bourgeois. Yes, a reporter asked this young person in NYC if he didn’t feel he was interfering with the right of a restaurant owner to make a living by blocking the street in front of his business and the man said: Oh, he’s just another bourgeois. So it goes beyond the 1% as we always thought it did.
bydesign001
November 24, 2011
As I read the post, the very same words came to mind Rob. I could not have said it better myself. The Utopia that these useful idiots are prayed would end in their demise. Indeed, they are as drab as they are dirty and clueless.
SH, Bourgeois? Just goes to show you that these hand puppets of the Obama regime don’t have a clue.
By the way, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Peace and blessings,
D.
roblorinov
November 29, 2011
Before the 1917 revolution in Tsarist Russia anyone who owned a business was considered part of the Bourgeois. Looking at OWS protestors I have to slap myself to be sure I am not in dream. It is like the old Lenin-Stalin gang has become born again. Same story, same play, different stage. This is all.
samhenry
November 30, 2011
My dear Lorinov that is exactly the point and said as only a onetime Russian resident can say it. Wish I could be here longer at this time but I am very busy for some reason and it is hard to get something out for people to read and to know the blog is alive.
James Crawford
November 22, 2011
Just an update on the radioactive plume inEurope.
http://www.earthweek.com/2011/ew111118/ew111118b.html
You will notice that the plume becomes narrower and more intense as you move Eath to West towards Northern France. This indicates the origin and is consistent with the prevailing winds.
As you may know, the French get the vast majority of their electricity from nuclear power. They have a lot of reactors.
My guess is tat one of the French reactors had a major fuel cladding failure. They are busy repairing the reactor by changing out the fuel rod bundles that were damaged without telling the public what is going on.
The motivation for France’s silence isn’t necessarily evil. Given the lingering public anxiety after Fukushima, even a minor accident could provoke public demands to close down all of the reactors. The loss of the reactors that melted down in Japan plus others that were damaged but shut down safely have had a severe effect on Japan’s economy. Many Factories remain shut down and it was a long, hot summer with minimal air conditioning. It is going to be a long, cold winter with little heat.
samhenry
November 26, 2011
Excellent update, JC and for the link. Your pursuit of thoroughness and accuracy has stood you in good stead I can see.It certainly is appreciated here.
DarcsFalcon
November 23, 2011
You know, now that you mention it, they are pretty drab. They remind me of pictures I’d see of the USSR and how everything seemed so gray and overcast, like the sun never shined.
I’ve pretty much considered that the drabness of the current OWS thing was due to the drabness of their minds. They’re so numb to reality that they can’t help but display it in their colorless conformity.
Hope you’re well Sam, and that you have some plans for Thanksgiving. *hugs* And also that you’re nice and cozy warm.
samhenry
November 26, 2011
DF – you got my context and drift. Thanksgiving hugs and ones due for other days.
blackwatertown
November 23, 2011
You’re all very glum here today.
Sure there are useful idiots, deluded marxists and soap dodgers amongst the occupiers (hee hee , they probably wouldn’t like that term) – but there’s idealism too, energy, questioning, a desire to make things better.
As for the drabness – fair point – though maybe they’re just better prepared and padded in preparation for getting a kicking in the rain.
I haven’t been on many protests recently – if I search my memory – of the past three – two were fun, one was grim – one succeeded (the church was not attacked), one succeeded a bit (the bus service was reduced but at least not completely axed – admittedly getting people to actually use the bus might have been more effective, and the jury is still out on the third protest – that particular war has not yet happened.
Actually – that’s a better record than I expected – and far more successful than my voting record.
samhenry
November 26, 2011
Roo – good to see you and once again experience your devil’s advocacy. Yes, we are rather glum here but as you credit the Occupy people with characteristics other than and beyond glumness, so too can you describe the group here. We, however, don’t cost te government (and ultimately the American people) a red cent because we are not setting up house=keeping in a public park requiring sanitation and police protective services.
samiam60
November 24, 2011
Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving to you my friend. I thought I would add to your post here a bit of Humor that I think you will get a kick out of being that you have College aged folks in and out of your place:
http://ireporters.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/sad-letters-home-from-occupy-wall-street-and-beyond/
loopyloo305
November 24, 2011
Good morning and God bless Sam Henry, Happy Thanksgiving!
James Crawford
November 24, 2011
My daughter did an interview with an Occupy Portland organizer for her school paper. (yes, I was body guard as well as chauffeur). After the interview she did an enormous amount of research. Occuppy got it’s start by Adbusters whose founder has a well documented history of antisemitism, due no doubt to residing for a time in a German refugee camp after WW-II. The local organizer who claimed to have been laid off by Greenpeace because the economy was reducing donations is married and owns a comfortable home.
The Occupy “movement” is just another Division in Obamas army. Think modern day Black Shirts and Brown Shirts.
bydesign001
November 24, 2011
Apparently Obama’s class warfare has proven successful, particularly in the OWS camps. Before Bloomberg evicted the invaders from Zuccotti Park, segregated by status, the haves and have nots. Of course, the have nots were located in a section defined as the GHETTO.
samhenry
November 26, 2011
Great info, D. I saw another one that said “Class warfare begins” while another man from Occpy talked about the “bourgeouis.” (was referring to a restaurant owner.
I wonder if that person even begins to know the amount of work and sacrifice producing milk that fortifies our children.
samhenry
November 26, 2011
Oh, JC, thank you. Your research has been borne out by the fact that my readings about Occupy are beginning to point to this founder of Adbusters.
James Crawford
November 26, 2011
Don’t thank me, thank my daughter.
Iam quite proud of her. She even helped my boys and I gut and skin the three Elk we got the first half hour of opening morning this season. Next year is her turn to get an Elk.
She looks a lot like the Terminatrix that was kicking Arnold Schwartzeneger’s qass in Terminator 3.
Our freezer will be overflowing when the butcher is done. Our Church’s food bank will be full for Christmas.
samhenry
November 26, 2011
What wonderful work your family has done and to share the bounty. People who are against hunting forget that if the herds are not thinned, they will starve miserably. And the meat is put to good use by hunters. This is not rhinoceros tusk hunting.
roblorinov
November 24, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving to you SH and to everyone here!!
samhenry
November 26, 2011
My Dear Lorinov – my thoughts have been with you albeit I have not. I know that your life history has been one of thanksgiving for having escaped from so much and now utilizing that history to enlighten others swept up into Marxist ideology.