Animal Update 11/12
by digby
Last night we heard from the religious right about Occupy Wall Street. Today, the famed comic book artist Frank Miller weighs in for the macho terrorist hunters:
Everybody’s been too damn polite about this nonsense:
The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached – is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.
This is no popular uprising. This is garbage. And goodness knows they’re spewing their garbage – both politically and physically – every which way they can find.
Wake up, pond scum. America is at war against a ruthless enemy.
Maybe, between bouts of self-pity and all the other tasty tidbits of narcissism you’ve been served up in your sheltered, comfy little worlds, you’ve heard terms like al-Qaeda and Islamicism.
And this enemy of mine — not of yours, apparently – must be getting a dark chuckle, if not an outright horselaugh – out of your vain, childish, self-destructive spectacle.
In the name of decency, go home to your parents, you losers. Go back to your mommas’ basements and play with your Lords Of Warcraft.
Or better yet, enlist for the real thing. Maybe our military could whip some of you into shape.
They might not let you babies keep your iPhones, though. Try to soldier on.
Schmucks.
There is quite an argument going on in the comments. But I think this comment is the most entertaining:
The Occupiers are astroturf concocted by the white house and big left. and is composed of child molesters, rapeos, escaped mental patients, anti-semites and trust fund babies. They have no coherent message. But because they want more government regulations which favors the state and the very people they think they’re protesting against, they are nothing but tools of the very elites they claim to oppose.
The media’s embrace of them, as well as cities run by corrupt kleptocrats, shows just what a sham the whole thing is. Contrast that to the way the press and cities have treated the tea party and you see how dishonest the whole charade is.
Boy this country is getting very, very confused …
I blame the internet.
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