Occupy Protestors Continue to Tarnish Their Image
Not that they had a lot of good image to keep shiny in the first place, mind you… but stories published in the media continue to show the true colors of the “Occupy” movement. Starting with the “Occupy Des Moines” movement, right here in my backyard, where the occupiers have said that they will return to the Capital grounds this evening despite being told that they cannot spend the night there and having been evicted once before. According to the article, how the ISP handles the situation will play an important part in how this event turns out. In reality, there’s only one way that ISP should react, and that’s to arrest the protestors for trespassing.
In New York City, Occupy protestors sunk to new lows when they defiled church property. Ignoring the classic “don’t bite the hand that feeds you” proverb, protestors urinated on a crucifix in one church, and stole a baptismal font in another. These are churches that opened their doors to the protestors to give them a place to get out of the cold, and this is how their generosity and “humanity” is repaid. One of the church pastors gave the protestors two weeks to clear out. He’s a better man than I am, I suppose. I would have given them two hours, if that long.
Finally, up in Indianapolis, Occupy protestors – joined by union members – are threatening to disrupt Super Bowl activities if Governor Mitch Daniels signs into law new Right to Work legislation. Legislation that allows workers to choose if they want to belong to a union or not, and loosens the grip that unions have on companies and their workers.
So let’s recap a few things here. If you are an Occupy supporter, please by all means chime in and give your side of the story.
The Occupy movement is supposed to be about “democracy” and “power to the people over corporations.” Yet in Indianapolis, Occupy protestors and union members are fighting legislation that would do just that – give power to the people to make their own choices. It’s clear that none of these “learned scholars” (including an organizer who is a professor at Purdue) have studied how ineffective socialized societies have been over the course of mankind. It’s a travesty of the very laws and tenants that founded our country to see elected officials standing on the steps of a state capitol building supporting the values of the Occupy movement. Those officials should be removed from power for treason against the Republic.
Looking over the list of “needs” on the Occupy Des Moines website, I would ask the organizers one question if I could: “How do you think those items came to be manufactured if corporations are so bad?” It is sheer hypocrisy that these protestors are seeking good manufactured by corporations for their “comfort” and “basic needs” when those very corporations would not exist in the Occupy movement’s sad vision of utopia.
Finally, one thing that Jesus Christ has taught us is that we should always turn the other cheek. But to defile one of the Christian faith’s most holy symbols by one of the most base human functions (in fact, there is probably only one other way that it could have been worse), and to steal another is just about as low as these people can go. Turning the other cheek is good as far as it goes, but at some point, there is a limit, and these people found it.
Any attempts to classify the Occupy protestors as anything like the Tea Party Movement is totally off base. The only similarity is that it’s a grass-roots movement. Past that, Occupy protestors are selfish, ignorant people who either cannot or will not think for themselves and become productive members of society. My challenge is still out there – anyone who is an Occupy sympathizer is welcome and encouraged to refute me, and I will even give them space to do so right here on Right of Middle.
Got the balls to do so?
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Bloody Weekend in NYC
As the long Labor Day weekend wraps up, one of the news stories making headlines in various places is the sheer number of shootings in New York City during the past three days. As I write this post, the number stands at 46 shot in the Big Apple. Never letting a crisis go to waste, our good friend and head of the (in)famous Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mayor Bloomberg, is aghast at the amount of blood flowing in his city’s streets.
“We cannot tolerate it,” Bloomberg said on Sunday. “We cannot continue to have these guns in the hands of kids who don’t understand the value of life.”
Bloomie is putting the blame on the number of guns, but his blame is misdirected. Look at the last part of his quote:
kids who don’t understand the value of life
This is not a gun issue. This is a values issue. The guns are not the problem. Society has not failed to keep guns off the streets. Society has failed, as a whole, to instill proper values into these kids.
Lack of parental guidance at home is the first failure. Divorce, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, even two-parent working households all contribute to this failure. So too does the liberalization of the “touchy-feely” style of parenting, where reasoning, bargaining, or even pleading with a child in order to gain compliance with rules takes precedence over a good swift smack on the ass. The feel-good proponents argue that bargaining with a child to gain compliance is the right way to do so, as it does not beget violence and it helps with the child’s esteem. Hogwash. When children learned right from wrong with zero tolerance and swift (and sometimes painful) results, we didn’t have multiple killings by our young adults on a regular basis.
Lack of guidance in our schools is the next failure. We have liberalized our school curricula, placing less emphasis on core subjects and put more fluff into our classrooms. (How many of today’s high school seniors can name all 50 states? How many can name even half of our past Presidents? How many can articulate what the Articles of Confederation are about?) We’ve kowtowed to the teacher’s unions and removed any chance of getting bad teachers out of our schools, and allowed redundant positions, programs, and policies to suck money away from rewarding good teachers with better pay. Most of all, we’ve removed the ability for schools to enforce any sort of discipline on our kids when they stray from the path of doing the right thing. It used to be a mortal sin to be called to the principal’s office, followed by a call home. Now it means almost nothing, as various “feel-good” plans are put into effect to try to change the student’s behavior first. As schools have become weaker and more bureaucratic, our students have become weaker. The Department of Education, the NEA, and every other attempt to socialize and unionize our schools has been a disaster that I fear is unable to be easily overcome, if ever at all.
Lack of religion is the next failure. I don’t care if you believe in Christ, Yahweh, Allah, Buddha, or Zebko the Transatran. What I do care about is the belief in a spiritual being that judges us based on our actions here on Earth. When we had a stronger spiritual foundation, we were a stronger people with a stronger moral backbone. Losing our faith has meant losing our way of life.
Finally, and most importantly, our criminal justice system is a failure. Just as we have liberalized and socialized parenting and schools, with disastrous outcomes, so too have we done to our criminal justice system. Case in point from the International Business Times:
At a backyard party in the Bronx early Sunday, a lone gunman shot eight people including an 11-year-old boy and two girls ages 13 and 14.
According to the police, witnesses claimed the gunman was Oneil Dasilva, 17, who has an extensive record including an arrest in 2011 on a charge of attempted murder in the Bronx, reports The New York Times.
Why is this 17-year-old thug and predator still on the streets of NYC? Why is he, and countless others like him, not behind bars where he cannot harm others? The answer is fairly simple. There is no room in the jails, there is no desire to build more jails, there is not enough people to staff the jails, and there are those who believe that thugs like this monster can be “rehabilitated” while in jail.
I’ve worked in a jail, and I can tell you that the living conditions many law-abiding citizens put up with every day are far worse than what our criminals put up with while in jail. In fact, I can think of at least 6 inmates I came in contact with who preferred being in jail than living on the streets because they had three meals, a roof over their heads, and medical treatment. To prefer being in jail over being free is a major failure on society.
The series of violence urged Mayor Michael Bloomberg to call the federal government to step up for stricter gun control laws.
This is another failure on the part of the socialized Democrats like Bloomie. The answer to them is to look for big brother (aka Washington) to swoop in and fix the problem. No, Mayor Bloomberg. That is not the answer. The answer is to stop looking to Washing to fix all of your problems. Instead, act like a man, put on your big boy pants, and solve your own problems. Stop wasting money on things that do nothing for the citizens of your city. Stop stonewalling citizens who want to protect themselves by owning and carrying firearms. Build more jails if you have to, pay corrections officers a competitive wage (or privatize the entire corrections operation) and take the criminals off the streets for good. Any person who is on the street has the potential to own and use a gun illegally, as we have seen in this one example. I suspect if we examine the rest of the shootings, we’ll find more examples of people who have illegally used a firearm in the commission of their crimes.
Looking to Washington to make even stiffer anti-gun laws is not the answer. Acting like you give a damn about your city and the people who live there, as opposed to kissing the collective backsides of the Brady Bunch, unions, and socialist democrats like our Comrade-in-Chief , is the way to make headway against the overall failure of our society to our younger generation. The sad truth is that this kind of logic escapes Bloomie and every other socialist democrat like him. Their answer is to throw more money at the problem, and attack it with more regulations and requirements.
We’ve seen how poorly that has worked for the past decade or more, as we continue to circle the drain as a society. How much longer can we afford to do that before we are past the event horizon and go beyond the point of no return?
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