Occupy San Diego demanded free coffee from the woman who owns a coffee cart in the plaza. When they were denied, they stole her tip jar, intimidated her paying customers, urinated on her cart, smeared something on her car, and eventually (after death threats) she fled the plaza, leaving the wreck of her cart behind.
The Occupy movement has become a propaganda triumph for the Left.
At Day 43 and counting. Occupy has metastasised into hundreds of squalid camps across the country and become a daily feature of American political and media life extolled by fawning reporters, sycophantic celebrities, and their President.
But what is institutionalizing Occupy as an effective arm of the Left’s permanent campaign to “utterly transform America” is the money and muscle from organized Labor.
Will the Tea Party movement, dedicated to constitutional government, free markets, the rule of law, and an opportunity society, respond?
To this point it’s been too easy to dismiss Occupy. The head lice, the drugs, the public defecation, the mindless cacophony of voices, the support from BOTH the Communist Party USA and the American Nazi Party—it’s all too easy to parody.
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