Surprise! Iran Using Occupy Wall Street Slogans

A lot has been written about the nexus of Islamist ideology and the far left in America and Europe. With pressure mounting on the Islamic Republic of Iran, it's not surprising that the theocracy would use the slogans of the American left to protest American intervention in the Middle East.

But exactly?

Take a look at this picture from Reuters from November. Read the placard. Look familiar?

Just in case you can't read the protest sign it says:

Wall Street %99. Down with USA.

That doesn't sound familiar, does it?

What about this one from the UPI showing a protest in Iran:

And of course, the supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a big fan, as well:

Khamenei noted that the U.S. government will not be able to eliminate this movement’s roots and that the realities of the capitalist system should be a lesson for those following the Western capitalist system. He even went on to say, “The roots of this movement will grow in such a way that will knock the U.S. and Western capitalist system to the ground. … The people of the United States are protesting the rule of the 1 percent minority over the 99 percent majority who have spent the money and taxes paid by the people of the United States on waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and supporting the Zionist regime.”

And as Jim Hoft reported in October, the Iranian militia the Basij even started an Occupy website to counter the "Zionist media."

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What Jay-Z Really Thinks of the 99%

Over the weekend Jay-Z and Beyonce became the proud parents of a healthy baby girl, Blue Ivy.  Wonderful, good for them.  It is nice to see a high-powered couple happily married and bringing children into the world.  


Jay-Z is a big supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  He wants to pay more taxes.  Why exactly he just doesn't fill out a 1040 EZ and pay the full 35% is beyond me, but he wants to see more tax dollars go to the "underprivileged".  Of course the meaning of underprivileged is a relative term.  


Jay-Z is also a man who decided to sell T-Shirts for the Occupy Wall Street movement on his Roca-Wear website, but didn't feel the need to share the profits with the movement.  After being publicly shamed, the shirts came down off his clothing line's website.  As far as anyone knows, no profits off what were sold was ever given to the movement.  


But, getting back to his daughter.  She made her way into the world at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.  One of the busiest hospitals in the most populated city in America.  The Carter's (Jay-Z's given name) pulled out all the stops to protect the privacy of their new bundle of joy.  While I completely agree that no woman would ever want pictures of her in the middle of child birth to show up on some rag paper for worldwide consumption.  Who can blame them.  They wanted to protect their baby.  I would want to do the same.  


So they decided to make sure no one could bother them.  They hired security and bought out the entire floor of the hospital to ensure the big moment was a private family affair.  The problem is that the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was also on that floor.


Newborn and preemies that are fighting for their lives were on that floor.  Parents who are dealing with the stress of having a child in that precarious position had to deal with their security.  

Neil Coulon, 38, of Brooklyn said the stress of his wife delivering two premature girls was tripled by Beyoncé’s bodyguards treating Lenox Hill Hospital like an exclusive nightclub.
Coulon griped that he’s been repeatedly barred from the sixth-floor neonatal intensive care unit, once for 20 minutes, by the superstar couple’s private security.
He said bodyguards wearing headsets even cleared the sixth floor waiting room, booting his relatives out.

He goes on

:“I know they spent $1.3 million and I'm just a contractor from Bed-Stuy, but the treatment we received was not okay,” Coulon said. “My wife is just terribly upset. She had a C-section. She gave birth to twins. She is sore. Nobody needs this.”

No brand new mom of preemies who are dealing with their babies in distress should be forced to deal with this.  It is reported that they paid $1.3 million dollars for the floor.  For that kind of money she could have gone to a more private hospital setting and given birth there instead of inconveniencing stressed out parents.  

Hey occupiers, this is what he really thinks of the 99%.  Oh, and by the way, blue is a color, not a name.  

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Do You Talk to Your 8-year-old About Your Sex Life?

I didn't think so.  I don't have one, but I can guarantee you if I did I wouldn't be talking about it with them.  Michele Bachmann is currently promoting her new book Core of Conviction - My Story.  During a book signing a young boy leaned over to her and said:

"My mommy's gay, but she doesn't need fixing."

I realize that gay is something that young children through around when they have nothing better to say when they are trying to hurt someone else's feelings.  But, the reality is an 8 year old doesn't really understand what that means.  Children are curious and ask questions.  But a child that age will usually be fine with a simple explanation, some families have two mommy's or two daddy's whatever the case may be, and they don't require any further information. 


This is how this is being characterized in the media:

The candidate, who is an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, met her match with the soft-spoken, pint-sized activist

 Pint-sized activist?  You really expect me to believe that an 8 year old went up and said to his mom, hey mom, I heard that Michele Bachmann is in town for a book signing.  Could you please drive me over there so I can tell her that there is nothing wrong with you, even though you are gay?  


This is a woman who decided to use her own child to score cheap political points against a woman who believes that gay marriage is wrong.  The same gay marriage that has been voted down every time it has been put on a ballot, including in very progressive leaning California.  


Oh, and they just happened to have someone video tape it for them too.  





I could care less that this women is gay.  What I do care about is the fact that she is willing to exploit her own child for her own self interests.  Shocker, she is part of the occupy movement.  Remind me to add her name to the Mother of the Year award.




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OWS Protester to SC Governor: I Will Murder You

Angry over the arrest of 19 Occupy Columbia (South Carolina) protesters last week, 26-year-old Nathan Shafer took to Facebook to voice his anger. He went to South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's page and saw that she had written a post on the First Amendment.

Awash in rage, he posted, "I hope someone murders you before I do. How's that for freedom of speech?"

Shafer

The next day, law enforcement officials contacted Shafer to discuss his inflammatory statements. Shafer defended what he said, but apologized to the governor's family and deleted the comment.

Unsurprisingly, the death threat against the governor was not made "all better" by Shafer's apology and he was subsequently arrested. However, Shafer stands by his death threat. "I just think the whole situation is completely ridiculous and blown out of proportion," he stated.

Update- Thanks to Breitbart for the link.

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Irony: OWS Now the Equivalent of a Corporation

There is nothing more ironic than someone or something becoming the very thing that they hate.  For Occupy Wall Street, they loathe corporations because they are "rich."  Corporations also provide them with cheap laptops, smartphones, and wifi, but OWS cannot be bothered with nuance.

But let's look at an actual definition of a corporation:

Corporation, noun; definition: any group of persons united or regarded as united in one body.

Why, that sounds exactly like Occupy Wall Street!  They preach unity and they certainly are a group of people.

Just one of those laptops could feed thousands of starving children in Africa

But certainly those in OWS would argue that corporations have both money and political power.  But wait... Egads!  Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House, has come out in full favor of the protesters, while President Barack Obama has tentatively come out supporting them and has completely supported them in their hatred of the rich.

Certainly OWS doesn't have a tremendous amount of money, right?  They couldn't possibly be fundraising in order to have their will done, just like corporations... right?  Right?  Nope.  In fact, Occupy Wall Street has collected $600,000 in tax-deductible donations.  Like the corporations they complain about, they have a large amount of money for the sole purpose of doing what they want.  And they don't have to pay any taxes on it.

And, on top of it all, they are keeping over $450,000 in a bank instead of a credit union.  In case you don't know, OWS has come out heavily against banks and those who run them.

I hope those who have supported Occupy Wall Street will realize that they have been duped and swindled. However, that is unlikely to happen.  Like the sheep they are, they will go back into the corporation that they have unwittingly joined: Occupy Wall Street.

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OWS Compilation: 'Feed Fat People to Bears' and Other Crazy Demands

Occupy Wall Street is just a bunch of crazies coming together to demand something that only a Stalinistic dictator can deliver.  They have no perspective and no knowledge of history, as well as no purpose and no clear set of demands other than "change" our society and "hope" for the future.

Their narrative and wants are so garbled, I've put together some of the stranger demands of the protesters.  Enjoy their insanity.

Feed the fat to polar bears:

Tax "food hogs:"

Fat people should be taxed far higher than lean, fit people. Greedy people should be taxed at higher rates but so should food hogs.

Ban meat, my lovelies:

Bring down the corporate bigots before it’s too late. Bring them down quick! Assemble my lovelies with haste play the trumpets of freedom for we are not going to live in the past... We will not submit to your "meat" eating practices!!!!! ...We are the revolution embrace us before it’s too late for you. Life is a precious gift that everyone all man all animal shall be able to enjoy so long as this system is stopped now. .....Freedom Is Being.......Peace Love Happiness

Homeschooling:

Ban the private ownership of land.

Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.

Attack!:

We must unify, make our demands known, and attack. When they realize that occupation is indefinite until change occurs, change will be heard.

Investigate 9/11 (OWS march video):


Arrest the NYPD:

And many, many more.

You can find example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example of absolutely insane actions by Occupy Wall Street by following the links.

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OWS: Aliens, Illuminati Run the World

As days go by, I have a sort-of checklist going on in my head related to OWS.  It goes something like this: think up something absolutely ridiculous and see if Occupy Wall Street members believe in it.  The thing is, they are so absolutely crazy, that they will believe pretty much anything that they think of.  So, for example, earlier this week it was revealed that OWS believes that the terrorist attacks of September 11 was an "inside job."  And at an earlier time, the protesters were calling for the end of "the Jew" running the world.

Today I decided to see if OWS believes that some invisible, malevolent, non-existent force runs the world.  I figured that Occupy Wall Street would have to have some ramblings on aliens and the "Illuminati," a conspiracy theory that insists (among other things) that seven all-powerful Jews run the world.

As you might expect, OWS members believed wholeheartedly in such things.  Just some examples.

Why, why, why!!

"Rothschilds Satanic Illuminati" (from the OWS website):

ROTHSCHILD'S ILLUMINATI WILL FAIL!. 33rd Degree Freemasons Worship Satan :(

Bloodlines, Illuminati, and Zero Freedoms:

You are a robot in the hands of 300 people.

Our freedoms or rather slavery goes right back to Egyptian times and todays might and power is a reality far more cruel than any Hollywood movie could produce. Wars and famine are controlled and innitiated by a very few people in power on our planet.

Grey Aliens!

You might think that "SubversiveSyrup" may be kidding, but I submit to you his profile description (which he created), unaltered:

Earth OMEGALab Orbital Unit
EarthDreams & PlanetWhispers / from yesterday's decay & death / flows sweet-scented glowing ♥ LiveStrong & Perspire #WildThings! ╭⌒╮⌒╮★ ║▌│█│║▌║©©
http://Bombshelter.org

And apparently, there is an alien on the OWS website:

Do you need any more proof that Occupy Wall Street is just a bunch of crazies?  Also, my question is, why bother protesting when aliens make all the decisions?  Isn't it all pointless?  But what am I thinking, these people are out-of-their-skull nuts.

And please, please do not insult my or anyone's intelligence, OWS, by saying that this is just a few crazy people.  We have covered example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example of absolutely insane actions by Occupy Wall Street.


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OWS: Those Who Don't Support Us are "Retards"

It never amazes me what the Occupy Wall Street crowd claims on a daily basis.  We've covered claims that the clearing of Zuccotti Park was a "genocide," that protesters were being sent to concentration camps, and that the terrorist attacks of September 11 was an "inside job."  And today, OWS members are declaring those against their movement "retarded."

Here are just a few examples from Twitter and the Occupy Wall Street Website.

"Mentally retarded:"

Those poor laptops (which the corporaaaaations made):

Spelling is not their strong suit:

Poor Bloomberg, his ego will never recover:

Spelling is not their strong suit, part two:

And, wait for it, an attack on Ludwig von Mises (yes, that Ludwig von Mises).  From the Occupy Wall Street website:

And please, please do not insult my or anyone's intelligence, OWS, by saying that this is just a few crazy people.  We have covered example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example of absolutely insane actions by Occupy Wall Street.

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Our Military has a Message for OWS

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Occupy London Now Defecating in St. Paul's Cathedral

From the Daily Mail:

The 'Occupy' camp at the Cathedral is part of a series of protests in cities across the globe which aim to highlight the inequalities caused by mismanagement of the economy.

Demonstrators have been camped outside St Paul’s since October 15 after an attempt to occupy the nearby London Stock Exchange failed.

Since then the camp has become littered with human waste and graffiti, while alcohol and drug use are rife, according to the 88-page report.

Parts of the dossier come from registrar of St Paul’s, Nicholas Cottam, who wrote to a Corporation official outlining the disruptions faced by the cathedral.

Mr Cottam wrote: ‘Desecration: - graffiti have been scratched and painted on to the great west doors of the cathedral, the chapter house door and most notably a sacrilegious message painted on the restored pillars of the west portico.

‘Human defecation has occurred in the west portico entrance and inside the cathedral on several occasions.’

To OWS, this is a bathroom

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OWS: Protesters are Being Sent to "Concentration Camps"

Concentration camps were abhorrent places where people are sent to work and die.  The Nazis used them in World War II, genocidally killing six million Jews and millions of others that they considered "lesser" races.  Those in the camps were barely fed, worked upwards of sixteen hours a day doing back-breaking slave labor, and were shot on the whims of their Nazi captors.  Disease was rampant, people were caked in mud, and the only "showers" were where the S.S. sent people to be gassed.

And, according to Occupy Wall Street, being arrested by the police is the equivalent of being sent to a Concentration Camp.  It is useless to say this, because it is already readily apparent, but those at OWS have no perspective of the past, no understanding of history, and no knowledge of the world around them.

Here are just a few disgusting examples of their horrifying stupidity.

"Concentration camps:"

The government has opened concentration camps (this was scrubbed by the Occupy Wall Street website, but unfortunately for them Google has a cache system):

[Any President] knows that he'll be able to keep office even if he keeps our concentration camps open and habeas corpus shut down.

And some dumbass agrees:

Hillary:

On the OWS website, "the concentration camps have already been built:"

Give them a reason and an excuse. The concentration camps have already been built in the USA. Give them a reason and an excuse.

And a good dose of paranoia and calling the police Nazis from these posts:

And please, please do not insult my or anyone's intelligence, OWS, by saying that this is just a few crazy people.  We have covered example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example, after example of absolutely insane actions by Occupy Wall Street.

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OWS Officially Declares 9/11 an "Inside Job" (With Video)

If you needed any more evidence that Occupy Wall Street was a bunch of scumbags, here it is.  Yesterday, OWS held a "September 11th Truth March," dedicated to forcing the government to investigate the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

I will not dignify these conspiracy theorists with a long response.  Thousands of witnesses, thousands of experts, and hundreds of scientific articles all speak for themselves.  The fact of the matter is that this impossibly stupid march once again shows OWS to be a group of delusional weirdos.

You can watch the video below and both see and listen a fair-sized group of OWS nuts screaming, "9/11 was an inside job!"


This was an OWS-sanctioned march which (guess what) makes this imbecilic stance an official platform of the "Occupiers."  More than just this, however, are the hundreds of comments on Twitter of the insane conspiracy.  Here are just a few:

"Bizarre:"

Israel:

Explain something that has been explained hundreds of times:

"Stil ten years:"

These people are officially crazy.  Before I considered them idiots, people with no perspective who see the world as some sort of V for Vendetta-esque movie.  Now I see that they are insane.

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OWS Places Entire NYPD Under "Citizen's Arrest"

Occupy Wall Street has declared that they are placing the entirety of New York City's police department under citizen's arrest, demanding that police agree to be imprisoned and stop arresting protesters.  The citizen's arrest has come from dozens of OWS supporters, who have declared that the police are part of the "1%" and that following laws is illegal.

I have a strong feeling, however, that the NYPD will not allow themselves to be cuffed by a bunch of protesters.  Despite this, however, OWS is not backing down from their citizen's arrest.

Here are several examples from Twitter.

Arrest them all:

Arrest the NYPD:

Not knowing when to use apostrophes:

Citizen's arrest:

And from OWS's website:

Technically then, across the country couldn't us as citizens arrest individual officers who are so blatantly disrupting the peace and brutalizing the people?

And (using Wikipedia as a reference):

So, I'm wondering if it might be possible to perform a citizen's arrest if these kind of events happen in the future.

Some quick research on Wiki says that any citizen (in most states) can arrest someone for committing a felony.

Is a felony occurring during these break ups? How do we enforce or leverage a citizen's arrest?

Unfortunately for OWS, but as expected, the facts do not back them up. In particular, in Hudson v. Commonwealth, it was decided that the definition of a citizen's arrest is as follows:

[A]n arrest of a private person by another private person on grounds that a public offense was committed in the arrester's presence.

In other words, an average person can arrest another average person, but they cannot arrest a police officer.

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Video- OWS Protester Punches Police Horse in Face

I don't know why, but something tells me that it's not a smart thing to punch a police horse in the face in front of several officers. Just a thought.

The punch comes at :33 in the video. Watch the man with the blue coat and the red beanie. All of a sudden you'll see his arm come sideways and the horse's head jerk backwards:


At the beginning of the video you can see other protesters either yelling at the officers or yelling at the horses. Protesters then rush at the officers, but pretend that they're not doing anything wrong by putting their hands in the air like imbeciles. At :26 you can see one such moron take a Pau Gasol-esque flop.

That's right, genius.  Rush into a crowd of officers and then raise your hands

Two seconds later a man in a full gas mask rushes into the crowd in order to help the flopper up.  Several seconds after that, the horse is punched in the face.  After that, protesters start to yell at the police, and the man with the gas mask flops as well, pretending to be hit with a club by police which missed him by about a foot.

But, you know, they're so peaceful.

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OWS: If a Cop Tries to Arrest You, Kill Him

Every single day that passes, Occupy Wall Street becomes more violent and more desperate. After over 4,000 arrests, dozens of rapes, hundreds of thefts, and multiple murders, it is exceedingly evident that OWS is an anarchistic group of morons with no apparent purpose.

The only rallying cry they see to have is, "We are the 99%," a lie that spits in the face of the facts. However, it appears that OWS has a new cry: kill the police. Occupy Wall Street is now advising people to resist arrest. And they do not mean peacefully existing arrest. No, instead OWS suggests that, if a police officer tries to arrest you, you have the right to murder him on the spot:

And, no, this is not some random tweet.  This is a widely shared view among OWS protesters, whose blood lust is startling.

Just some examples of their insanity.  After an OWSer rushed police and was hit over the head, another protester took exception and screamed, "SOMEBODY KILL THESE COPS:"

And various states of insanity:

"Kill somebody:"

On top of it all, on Occupy Wall Street's official website, it has insane (and scary) ramblings like this post, entitled, "Goodbye life and freedom. License to kill is here. James Bond and Darth Vader is in your nabourhood."

The post is as crazy as you might think, as it claims that OWS must go out and kill, "secret spies" are everywhere, and that chips are being implanted in our brains:

Technology is used to control you from the invention of TV to the atom bomb and the next invention to be used is the smartphone. Next invention will be the chipimplant which will promiss a life of heavensand without it you are lost.

You would think that an absolutely insane post like this would be lambasted or, at least, laughed at.  Nope. In fact, OWS is in complete agreement with this nutjob with comments such as:

These people are out of their minds.

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OWS Protester Assaults Man with Hammer, Striking Him in Head

A man was rushed to Maine Medical Center's emergency room early Friday morning after an Occupy Wall Street protester struck him in the head with a hammer. The victim was in the hospital for several hours, was treated, and then released.

According to police, the assault happened after the victim was playing drums loudly at Occupy Maine. Chris Schisler, 34, took exception to the drums, approached the man, and, after a brief argument, hit him in the head with a hammer.

Schisler

Witnesses stated that the man started playing drums at seven in the morning, waking fellow protesters up and demanding that they clean up the park they were in. Schisler became agitated and told him to stop. When the victim refused, Schisler first smashed his drum and then quickly struck him in the head.

Schisler was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. His bail is set at $10,000.

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Video- Occupy New York Follows, Screams at Elementary School Children

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Organized Anarchy Leads to One Last Question

In the topsey turvey world of 21^st century America those who live by the kindness of strangers wish to dictate how much kindness they deserve changing the strangers from benefactors to victims.  We have reached a point where our national motto should be “Stand and Deliver” as a runaway government devours everything in sight in an effort to satisfy the growing demands of their pre-programmed supporters. 

America has taken such a bizarre turn that oxymorons are the only things that make sense any more.  Organized anarchy has exploited militant apathy to create regulated liberty so that producers must provide for slackers and the informed must follow the dictates of the willfully ignorant. You can’t fix stupid but there is a cure for ignorance.  If we could just get these products of public education and sports hypnosis to take off the blinders long enough to understand the meaning behind the matrix perhaps we could garner one more electoral victory to stop us before we step off the cliff.  Except of course the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media are working as hard as they can to make sure our choice comes down to Tweedle De and Tweedle Dum. 

Our Progressive era seeks to change the old adage, “Those who refuse to learn from History are doomed to repeat it” to “Those who refuse to learn from History doom the rest of us to repeat it.”  The patients have seized control of the asylum.  The land of the free and the home of the brave is transforming into the land of the free lunch and the home of the knaves.  Symbiosis is the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms as in parasitism. What we are witnessing today is symbiosis on steroids wherein the parasite isn’t merely along for the ride but instead demands the driver’s seat. 

Looking at the almost bewildering explosion of reality we call today our minds behold the organized anarchy of the occupy everywhere movement that is spreading around the world.  We are now witnessing a government supported revolution akin to Mao’s Cultural Revolution. This isn’t a revolt of the 99% seeking to devour the 1% it is the 46% that pay no federal taxes seeking to increase the production from their 54% milk cows. To call forcing one segment of the population to work to support another segment of the population paying your fair share makes theft a contribution and bondage a responsibility.  

The people involved express a variety of causes.  They want a bailout for home owners who are upside down or in foreclosure.  At the same time they want those who accepted the bailout on Wall Street prosecuted.  They want student loans forgiven, wars stopped, big corporations downsized, and an end to capitalism.  Many politicians and their major media publicity machine have embraced the movement labeling it the Progressive version of the Ta Party.  This is a window on the future.  Showing the silent majority what is to come: a shabby world where the Lilliputians have not only bound Gulliver they have harnessed him to the cart and forced him to be their beast of burden. 

By seeking the destruction of capitalism instead of seeking to break the umbilical cord between the crony capitalists and their bought and paid for politicians what they really seek is to force us to worship the myth of free enterprise as we sacrifice the energy and inventiveness of the productive on the altar of the indolent. 

It is time to lay our cards on the table.  It is time to call a spade a spade.  Capitalism is an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined by competition in a free market.  Socialism is an economic characterized by collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.  Fascism is an economic system that exalts the nation above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government with severe economic regimentation.  Essentially fascism is socialism pretending to be capitalism since private ownership exists in a government straightjacket. 

Which of these systems do we have?  Which of these systems is staring us in the face every day? 

I challenge anyone and everyone to take this test.   Watch the stock market for one month.  Watch its ups and downs.  What you will see is that the market does not move because of innovation or production it moves in response to government actions, statements, and policies.  While we still have private ownership the government is increasingly regulating and controlling the economy.  Take the test.  Review the definitions above and you decide.  Which of these systems do we have?  Or does it have us? 

America has never experienced a truly capitalistic system.  We were born under mercantilism. We grew to power under Henry Clay’s American System of nationalistic paternalism.  We have flirted with socialism in a mixed system since FDR reshuffled the deck and institutionalized the New Deal.  And now we struggle to maintain some visage of freedom at the edge of a crony capitalism whose Progressive public-private security blanket has become the pillow that smothers all incentive.  We have morphed from a representative republic operating on democratic principles into a state wholly owned by a good old boy coalition composed of the perpetually re-elected, the unions, and the crony capitalists: the Outfit. 

The over educated under informed lemmings that call themselves the 99% are being duped by the Outfit.  They are a collective battering ram assailing the last remnants of American individualism.  They are using the threat of social unrest to demand the final triumph of “I want what I want” over “I get what I earn.” 

What’s the cure for the Great Recession?  Is it more government spending and more government control as the Outfit and their 99% fellow-travelers tell us?  Is it “Drill baby drill” and a return to a golden-age of pure capitalism that never really existed?  

First we must understand our situation.  What is the cause of the chronic state of our anemic recovery?  Is it as our president tells us and the world: Americans are soft, arrogant  and lazy?  Or have we finally reached the tipping point?  Have we finally reached the point where all the Peters being robbed to pay for Paul’s vacation have decided to change their name to Paul? Is this a recession or is it a strike?  The central planners look at the wreckage of a once great economy that their programs have gutted and say, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.”  They should be asking “How many omelets can they make if the goose doesn’t lay any more golden eggs?” 

Which leads to one last question: “Who is John Galt?” 

Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for Southside Virginia Community College.  He is the author of the History of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2011 Robert R. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com  Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens