{"id":3464,"date":"2011-08-20T22:18:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T02:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2011-08-20T22:20:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T02:20:40","slug":"i-realize-that-i-am-old-fashioned-but-what-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3464","title":{"rendered":"I Realize That I Am Old-fashioned, But What Is This ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the resources web page<\/a> for the “US Day of Rage” which intends to occupy Wall Street on September 17. According to the Business Insider<\/a> website, the Day of Rage is supposed to be a day of non-violent civil disobedience orchestrated by such people as Stephen Lerner (Service Employees International Union – SEIU) and Association for Community Reform Now (ACORN) founder\u00a0Wade Rathke. The resources web page gives some instructions on how to nonviolently commit civil disobedience, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that there will be violence and destruction of property.<\/p>\n

The article at Business Insider reports:<\/p>\n

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Now, the US Day of Rage protests, staged by a collective of activist groups allegedly in\u00a0conjunction\u00a0with Lerner and Rathke, are planning the actual \u201coccupation\u201d of Wall Street September 17, complete with a tent city set smack-dab in the middle of Manhattan\u2019s financial district. Similar protests are purportedly set to take place across the nation \u2014 and even world\u2013 at the same time. Some Day of Rage organizers are even calling on activists to squat in Manhattan\u2019s financial district for months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What is the world are these people trying to accomplish? Wall Street did not cause our financial difficulties–the government did! When the government began pressuring banks to make more risky loans, the real estate bubble began. Wall Street traded the paper because they had to in order to remain in business.<\/div>\n
The article further reports:<\/div>\n
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The aim, according to Lerner, is to\u00a0\u201cdestabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we bring down the stock market? How do we bring down their bonuses? How do we interfere with their ability to, to be rich?\u201d Lerner asked rhetorically in March.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It really does no good to interfere with the ability of the rich to be rich. Generally speaking, rich people hire people–if they are not hiring people to run a business they own, they are hiring people to clean their houses and mow their lawns. Rich people provide jobs. If you interfere with the ability of rich people to earn money, you interfere with the middle class’s opportunity to earn money. You are cutting your own throat.<\/p>\n

I fear that September 17 will bring the kind of riots we saw happening recently in England. This is not a healthy thing. It can’t be stopped because protest is legal in a free society. I just hope that the amount of damage to people and property is kept to a minimum.<\/p>\n