Watch out, 1%; the kids will be back
The tents may have moved on, but Occupy Wall Street will be back with specific demands and a new strategy, in time for the 2012 elections. It’s the voice of America’s youth fearing a future that doesn’t add up.
Warning to America’s superrich: Think Occupy Wall Street disappeared in winter’s cold? Wrong: The 99% just declared a new aggressive, covert special-ops war strategy to take back our democracy in 2012.
No more peaceful tent encampments in parks. No more Mahatma Gandhi nice-guy stuff. Not enough. Escalation time. Wall Street, the superrich and their Washington lobbyists are tone deaf, blinded by greed, trapped in their post-2008 business-as-usual bubble.
Warning; OWS tells us America’s going to be shocked by not one but hundreds of wake-up calls in 2012.
How? In a recent Washington Post column, OWS leaders say they are accelerating their battle strategy in 2012. In what amounts to a new declaration of war that promises to electrify the 2012 elections, OWS will be using new asymmetrical warfare strategies, write two of the men who have been the driving force behind the movement since early this year: Kalle Lasn, the editor-in-chief of Adbusters magazine, and senior editor Micah White.
OWS protesters march on Broadway
Listen to some of the specific guerrilla tactics they warn will be used in their 2012 “American Spring” assault: A “marked escalation of surprise, playful, precision disruptions, rush-hour flash mobs, bank occupations, ‘occupy squads’ and edgy theatrics.” And in a New Yorker magazine interview shortly after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “military-style operation,” Lasn warned: “this means escalation, pushing us one step closer to a revolution.”
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If this is true, it will be interesting to see what candidate (if any) they choose to endorse. I mean, there is no way in hell it can be Obama, right?
We’ll see. We know they won’t support a GOP candidate. Who can blame them?
I think they would support Ron Paul, but he is hardly Republican as one would identify today, rather more of a true Republican who, you know, has read and respects the constitution.
What’s a true Republican?
of course it will be obama. the only question is how crazy the fringe of this made up protest will push. classic can of worms.
They are going to push until they are pushed back against, which they want. In other words, they will push as hard as it takes to accomplish their goals. How hard will that be? We’ll see.
agreed.
Exactly right. Their entire strategy involves behaving like complete hoodlums, defacing property and making barely-veiled threats on others safety, then waiting for their targets to defend themselves.
When their targets defend themselves, they take a thousand hours of video footage of the five minutes, cut it ten million ways to make a few seconds of footage that appears especially damning, then launching a massive propaganda campaign to stir up more support.
This is coming from the creators of Adbusters?
I’ve read Adbusters a few times. Asides from being as hard core left wing as you can get, it’s a reasonably witty, well put together publication that has never accomplished anything.
I think OWS is delusional. I’ve never heard of a nonviolent revolution and if they tried to pull off a violent revolution (against the US government???) they would literally all die in short order. To our government’s credit, I don’t think there are enough Americans close enough to the brink to protest/fight as violently as we’ve seen the Arabs do.