Why I Despise Occupy Wall Street Hippies
I graduated from Hillsdale College in 1983 long before it became the popular conservative powerhouse marketed on talk radio by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin.
We were the first wave of Reaganites to land at that small liberal arts college, located in southeastern Michigan, during the regime of our very own “Sun King” — President George Roche III.
Teachers and fellow students strengthened my knowledge of free market economics with the wisdom of Hayek, Bastiat, and von Mises.
Probably the best part of the Hillsdale experience centered on any history class lead by Dr. John Willson, especially the early American days. Willson taught that the American Revolution was more an evolution of experience than some radical French Revolution. Here is a quote from his speech before The Philadelphia Society (well worth the read too):
John Adams once said about the American and French revolutions, “Ours was resistance to innovation; theirs was innovation itself.” A flippant comment, certainly; it nevertheless captures an important truth: insofar as it was successful, the American Founding was rooted in ancient truths, it was not attempting to “touch-off” a transfiguration of the world.
While Hillsdale deepened my resolve for an America more in line with the vision of the Founding Fathers, my basic instinct for the conservative path began well before Ronald Reagan’s ascendancy to the White House.
My right-wing seeds were planted in the 1960s with the hippies and their sit-ins, sit-downs, riots, and firebombing of cities.
As a young kid they scared the hell out of me. They looked like Charles Manson and Squeaky Fromme.
Hippies fried their minds on LSD. Burned the American flag and spat on soldiers. They embraced America’s enemies: the Viet Cong, Castro, Mao, Che Guevara, and the Soviets.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized the Left. Bill Ayers, Angela Davis, Tom Hayden, and the Weather Underground led them.
The freaks hated California Governor Reagan, mocked John Wayne, and cheered for the traitor “Hanoi Jane” Fonda.
For all the sins of Mayor Richard J. Daley and his corrupt big city machine, he redeemed himself when he unleashed Chicago’s Finest on the Chicago Seven and thousands of counterculture rioters.
That’s right. I said it.
I rooted for those cops swinging their clubs and spraying tear gas at the Radical Left during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
As Mayor Daley would say, ”Law and order will be maintained.”
Now in 2011 we have another Marxist group called the Occupiers with yet another “Blame America First” campaign.
Will this grow into a law and order headache for mayors across the country?
Looks like it so far.
Arrests and confrontation in New York, Denver, Seattle, Cleveland, Boston, Portland, and Phoenix. Even the USA Nazi and Communist parties support Occupy. Around the world we witness Occupy violence and explosions in Rome and the liberals can always count on Red China to bless Occupy.
Did I mention support from the Nazis?
Even liberals at MSNBC itch for more destructive ends. Can you say Kent State?
It’s funny how a peace and love movement spawns so much violence and civil discord.
It’s interesting how the Tea Party rallies never gave the police any trouble.
The Tea Party’s roots can be traced to honorable men like George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton. Conservatives swear to defend the Constitution of the United States.
The Left embraces the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror as well as the violent worldwide communist uprisings. Revolutions in Russia and China that had their seeds watered from bloody heads severed by a falling French guillotine blade.
Parade these hippies up and down the avenues with their Hate America attitudes and I turn a deaf ear, as do most reasonable Americans.
I listen to the squares. I cheer the proud waving of the American flag and not wearing it around your mouth and nose as a Hamas terrorist mask.
(Hat Tip: Daily Mail)
I root for the guys with shirt pocket protectors and not with guys who wear earrings and lower their pants to crap on police cars. I’ll listen to conservative commentators S.E. Cupp and Dana Loesch over hippie, zombie chicks who litter their faces.
Appearances matter especially when these radicals claim they speak for 99% of us. What arrogance to think they represent 99% of Americans. How dare they!
I am one of the 53%, which suddenly chops the 99% to 46% at best.
These techno hippies are so unkempt that others have to supply them with toothpaste and other toiletries. They are so out of control that they depend on shipments of condoms.
(Perhaps the Trojans were a gift from shrewd conservatives who saw an opportunity to prevent more Woodstock generations).
Most groups rally or protest for a couple of hours, make their point, gain some publicity, and then go grocery shopping.
Instead this communist party disrupts the everyday activities of normal men and women who operate small businesses and want their families to enjoy community amenities such as Zuccotti Park.
Hippies are not the middle class. Not even close.
(Hat Tip: Moonbattery)
These lefties only want to outlaw profit and eat the rich.
Listen. Take the 1% by the ears and seize their assets. Give them a perp walk to a kangaroo court presided by Michael Moore, find them guilty, shove them into gas chambers and pipe in carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, and then grind their bodies into hamburger.
Then what? The government runs for five months on the confiscated income, the private sector turns to dust, and the 20% real unemployment number skyrockets to that of a third world country in Africa where a cup of water is a full meal.
Wow. Really solves our economic problems. Plus smart people know that the lefty definition of the 1% is based on myth and lies.
Money is everything to liberals. They hate those whom they perceive are better off. They demand more pricey government programs. They spread the wealth through legislative force as opposed to the creativity of the private sector and the marketplace.
They are some of the most materialistic people you will ever meet.
James Carville’s famous phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid!” doesn’t cross the finish line. Culture always trumps the economy. What we see now is a fight for the future of America. The good side wants to preserve our American heritage and excellence while the Left — in the words of President Barack Obama:
John Adams shudders from the grave.



A perfect tutorial for the many of Americans who still don’t understand what OccupyWallStreet is all about. Thank you.
No, it’s not about money, it’s about CRIMINALITY…. the blatantly unequal application of the law for the use of state insiders against outsiders.
Trying to make this an income issue is an interesting propaganda tactic being pushed by higher levels of the media, etc… but doesn’t reflect the views of anyone who thinks about it for 2 seconds, as you so forcefully pointed out.
When Bankers sell investments they know are going to implode to their “clients” and then make big bets that the implosion will happen, nothing happens outside of a small fine that might be 1% of the profit they made, if it ever does happen to get investigated.
Corporations got a special law passed which makes it impossible to find out what they are using in industrial quantities when they hydro-fracture the bedrock under the water tables of our nation, yet when an Amish farmer tries to sell “raw milk”, which used to be commonplace, the get a swat raid.
It’s about 1% being above the law, not the top 1% pay grade.
You sound like a card carrying member of the Tea Party. Occupiers are all about the envy of income.
Really? It’s not about the pay grade? The most oft-sited reason for #ows that I’ve seen is income inequality and people “paying their fair share” or the “rich getting richer” by taking advantage of poor little Joe Citizen who apparently shoulders no blame for taking a mortgage out on a house he couldn’t afford (and yes, I fully understand that’s not true in 100% of the cases but it certainly is true in many that I’ve personally come across).
And if it’s about “state insiders against outsiders” why are we occupying Wall St? Shouldn’t we be occupying Pennsylvania Avenue instead? Can you honestly tell me the tens-of-thousands of hardworking employees that work in those firms whom you’re lumping together with the few actual criminals are more to blame than an elected official that allows himself to be corrupted just so he or she can get reelected?
http://www.gocapitalism.com/post/2011/10/30/Misdirected-Outrage-.aspx
I don’t understand why the so-called 99% are so fed up with bankers ripping people off. That’s like being mad at a crooked used car salesman for selling you a lemon instead of being upset with yourself for falling for a sales pitch. What you do is learn about cars a little bit before you go for the test drive and look with your own eyes. I know a gal who constantly bemoans her debt and lack of spending money…she who bought her dog ON CREDIT and financed a brand new Honda Accord this year. Is this the 99%?
And I’m a liberal (more-so socially than economically) but I don’t understand this mess of a 99% movement. If you wanna do some urban camping and group yoga on dirty streets, more power to ya…I don’t know what that will accomplish besides annoying the neighborhood and spreading the police force thin. I’ll be at home researching stocks and building my home business. Now THAT’S empowering.
Haha, thank you Loretta. The same analogy I’ve used quite often with the used car. How long has “caveat emptor” been a mantra for parents to teach their children. Now it’s up to us to pay because they didn’t get the memo?
Great article . . . and I think that people lose sight of the fact that the (now) old saw, “It’s the economy stupid” really was an axiom of message discipline for Bill Clinton to avoid at all costs any consideration of the moral and cultural catastrophic-ness of him and his candidacy. Thanks for sharing your insights.
And don’t forget the incredible mobility between the classes. I posted this above but will do so again here: http://www.gocapitalism.com/post/2011/10/30/Misdirected-Outrage-.aspx. People seem to lump these “top 1%, bottom 20%”-ers into some sort of static group that never changes, with the rich getting richer and the poor staying poor forever. Mobility between classes is one of the most amazing aspects of a free market system that seems to be lost on the OWS crowd.