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Arab Spring Veteran Hails ‘Revolution’ in America: Reporting From Inside Occupy Wall Street’s General Assembly

This afternoon in New York City, I watched as Occupy Wall Street tried to turn New York‘s Washington Square into a launchpad for Cairo’s Tahrir Square here at home.Arab Spring Veteran Hails Revolution in America

The General Assembly– Occupy Wall Street’s cross between the Politburo and a summer camp powwow– held the Washington Square Rally to unify the protest’s message and attract new recruits. The main effort of the Occupiers has become spreading the movement into every sector of society and promoting the occupation of every city and town. They are explicit about this, and they are serious.

At around 3:15 p.m., I nestled into the crowd of well over a thousand Occupiers as the General Assembly kicked off. The crowd practiced a human megaphone technique of staged repetition, which makes every speech three times as long as it should be. Even when Occupy organizers tried to keep it short, it reminded me of Castro’s famous 6 hour long addresses on the revolution and sugar cane harvests to captive (literally) crowds.Arab Spring Veteran Hails Revolution in America

But it was worth braving the inanity and pungent odors wafting through the crowd to learn the techniques and plans of the Occupy Wall Street movement. I now know first-hand their signals, working groups, and plans to bring down capitalism.

Despite early criticism of their fragmented message and lack of clear goals, the protest organizers made it clear to the crowd that they have stepped up their game. They have received help from Unions, media consultants, and donations from abroad. Now that they have solidified their initial beachhead at Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza) and want the Occupy movement to metastasize across America.

Organizers spoke about their various “working groups” such as Labor, Media, and Public Relations. All of these protest sub-units are intended to provide daily support for the protestors, unify their message, and coordinate “direct action.” The direct action cell is responsible for coming up with activities that will force a police response, and garner more press attention when the batons and pepper spray inevitably come out.

The highlight for the Wall Street occupiers was a keynote speech by a man named Muhammad who claimed to be a veteran of the Arab Spring revolt in Cairo. Muhammad got the crowd fired up with these words below:

“I am an Arab Citizen from Egypt. I am coming from there, from the Arab Spring to the fall of Wall Street, from the Arab Spring from Liberation Square to Washington Square to the fall of Wall Street and market domination, and capitalist domination, many things separate us- national borders, homeland insecurities, armies, corporations, and police. They have their laws, they have their debts, and we have our Revolution.”

You can watch the video of Muhammad from Tahrir Square rallying the General Assembly here:

Muhammad continued on to say in the second video clip: “They can cuff our hands, but they will never cuff our ideas and revolutionary souls… we have nothing to lose, except our chains. Long live Revolution.”

After the crowd cheered Muhammad’s revolutionary zeal, I wandered among them for a couple of hours, speaking to those with signs or who sought out anyone with a camera to explain their reasons for Occupation. In a nod to the various viral videos of quasi-insane, anti-semitic, or deeply ignorant protestors that have hit the web in the past few weeks, rally organizers yelled numerous times that all Occupiers should avoid saying things that hurt the movement.

Arab Spring Veteran Hails Revolution in AmericaOne of the more prevalent themes today was that of student loan debt. There were many placards referring to the chains and bonds of graduate students who owe tens of thousands of dollars.

Some of these students gave interviews to an eager press corps stretching from local New York outlets to international conglomerates. None of the students that I overheard ever asked “Why does college have to cost so much today?” Instead, the focus was always on the banks. Universities are apparently sacrosanct.

As I mingled, it was clear the Occupiers have a more unified message, and their presentation is much more slick than what I saw on September 17th. But at their core, the protestors’ grievances were leftism a la carte. Their answer to every grievance was always increased state control regardless of the issue. Somehow in the midst of all this outrage at injustices large and small, from banks to student loans,  I didn’t hear one word, nor did I read one sign, that criticized the White House.

An effigy of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s bloody severed head on a pike, however, was happily paraded around for all protestors to cheer.Arab Spring Veteran Hails Revolution in America

And as I left Washington Square Park, listening to the usual chants of “we are the 99%“ and ”Wall Street got bailed out we got sold out,” I was struck by a new, insidious addition to the mindless slogans. It was something one of the chief organizers said to close out the General Assembly, and others in the crowd were repeating over and over again.

“Occupy everything,” they chanted.

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  • Sirfoldallot
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:21pm

    All hands on deck, we are going in a sea of idiots !

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    • KangarooJack
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:42pm

      Ship of Fools….hey, how’s that next flottila going??

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    • Down2TheC
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 10:39pm

      Keel Haul the lamers! Bring it on… I’m stocked.

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    • donh2
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:08pm

      These Are Not Spirit Fingers !!!….These are COLD….THEEEESE are Spirit Fingers …..>>>>>… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDbnkfHtD_E

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:33pm

      Strang’em UP. When ya got ‘em.

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 1:07am

      “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” ~ George Washington

      These people are the foot soldiers of Communism. To view them as anything less is error.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 1:27am

      As a citizen of the United States. I demand that the police and the military move to support and defend the Constitution of The United States.

      I demand Congress issue an arrest Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid, and that the military move in and shut down the Federal Reserve.

      If they will not then it is relegated to the peaceful citizens of the United States’ right, and DUTY to make it happen.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 3:25am

      Quoted For Truth.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:58am

      WOW! That Arab Spring really did work wonders! Mr. Everyman Muhammud can now vacation in New York City! I think he needs to set up an exchange program so the New York revolutionaries can go to Egypt and see the incredibly free and comfortable lifestyle the revolution has brought to Egypt! A two week homestay would probably suffice. And their Egyptian counterparts could come to New York as a reminder of “where” they were in Egypt such a short time ago….After two weeks they would certainly be itching to get on that plane back to Egypt….

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    • mad_hatter
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 5:16am

      ABC News prooves that the Union Leaders are trying to hijack ‘Occupy Wall Street’: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/occupy_hijacked.html

      I say that they help design, start, after waiting to distance themselves, are not taking it back.

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    • Secessionista
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 5:41am

      These people are creepy. In another time, they would be slaves. In yet another time, they will be slaves.

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    • mils
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 8:27am

      they are in the wrong place…Washington is where they need to be ..

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 8:28am

      So I a m wondering…since this is Obama/Acorn/Sorros generated….I wonder just what “the plan” is? I mean since they have been busted and all..

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    • Hankstwocents
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:06am

      What would they say if it was Obummer’s head on a pike?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:39pm

      I wonder if this guy was one of the people that gang-raped that female American reporter?

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    • Rightsofman
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 6:03pm

      That head on a stick image should make Pelosi feel all comfy and cozy. Sniff, sniff.

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    • ACLUHater
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:23pm

      I love the student loan debt complaint. Did anyone force these losers to go to college? Liberal logic is a joke. Conservatives need to vote! Get all of your old relatives who never voted and get them to elect a conservative!

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    • BJC
      Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:49pm

      This where the OWS name comes from…http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/10/86-the-99.html

      Don‘t think the Muslims won’t use OWS to bring America to her knees.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:18pm

    Fifty years of slowly yielding the reigns of government, the press and the schools to leftists who hate the U.S. Constitution and don’t want young people to know anything about it has brought U.S. to where we are today. You might say, America is getting its JUST DESSERTS…… Protests, agitation, demonstration and Obama!

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  • ssbstspd
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:18pm

    and it works out , very convient that this is all over the headlines and news reals, takes away from the fact that egypt is ushering in the muslim brotherhood, and we all know their number 1 and 2 goals.

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  • ssbstspd
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:15pm

    these sheep masters are just waiting for the cops or anyone to screw up. They are salivating for blood in the streets. that is their goal.

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    • kralspaces
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:28pm

      well, it will probably be their blood and then what? more blood? Father Winter needs to arrive early this year. To be continued next summer…

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  • ssbstspd
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:13pm

    They have been organized from the jump start, they just wanted you to think not. they have been posting on Craigslist.org for months on end looking for radicalized college students with progressive ideas. They are paying these people over 400 dollars a week to take part in the whole protesting and schooling i mean propagandizing they others. We must defeat this corrupt and planned event. the question is how ?

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 10:11pm

      If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. – Sun Tzu

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:01pm

      ASTROTURF !!!

      Hey Pelosi .. where are your TEARS?!

      TEA!

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  • longun45
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:11pm

    Only a thousand people? These spoiled kids should just go home and get back into their bed. There is no movement here, only wanna be BS.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:09pm

    Keep your powder dry and stay vigilant.

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    • IntegrityFirst08
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:15pm

      Are the Dem Senators really involving their names with these protests? If so why are they not on TV being told to defend the actions of these people.

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    • jmc610
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:43pm

      Charlie Rangel was this morning… it was pathetic.

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:03pm

      Pelosi has also . .she actually said unlike the TEA Party these are not ASTROTURF .. I nearly fell off my CHAIR .. why isn’t ANYONE asking them to “explain” this idiotic statements?

      TEA!

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  • ColdDeadHands
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:07pm

    We have infinite patience with with these shenanigans for good reason. Because we know that if it comes down to our livelihoods and lifestyles being disrupted to the point where WE feel compelled to hit the streets, thanks to the likes of these malcontents…….. it will get ugly, quickly. Remember, we DO outnumber them!

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:11pm

      “Remember, we DO outnumber them!”

      You sure about that? I see a lot of Occupations springing up every day…
      http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/?see_all=1

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    • MARCH4HIM
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:19pm

      well If you count me and ….’my little freind “…as one ..
      your math is poor…
      and you would be making a huge mistake…

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:26pm

      The Bolsheviks had guns too–and were quite capable of using them. You argument is completely useless, because any powers you could assume to your “side” are non-unique and could also be utilized by the “other side.” At which point it boils down to a numbers game–and we’re back to the original point of contention, who outnumbers who?

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    • ColdDeadHands
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:26pm

      Yeah, pretty sure. The link you posted shows a whole lot of cities, each with about 25 “occupiers” Ooooh, we‘re shakin’
      And the one held in Tampa on Thursday lasted all of one day. Their parents called them home for supper.

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:31pm

      Yeah yeah, your armchair-militia rhetoric is adorable. Meanwhile, in the real world, 1,012 occupations and counting.

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    • MARCH4HIM
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:47pm

      I’v heared that… some people …. count a thousand …
      As….sixty seconds.

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    • Damnaged
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:27pm

      Ok, let’s see. 5,000 smelly hippies armed with Molotov cocktails vs 500 people with various firearms, at least half of whom probably came from the military.

      Wait, hold on… I’ve seen this movie. I think it’s called Black Hawk Down.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:00am

      @ROBE
      I’d prefer not to give you any ideas, but none of your people could make it in the military world where I grew up 99.9% of the most highly trained in this country, both active, short termers and retirees are all American patriots, 1 is worth any hundred of yours on any field.

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    • doctroprint
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:35am

      Clap your hands all you want for the 1001 fools that may gather in any city. If the question is who out numbers who.. just cancel 2 nfl games in a row in any city, and we will see “who will out number who” we are a funny kind of people but will swarm like hornets when poked at with a stick.

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    • klystron525
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 3:05am

      Yes, we really DO outnumber you POS human debris, its just that we have jobs and don’t have time to waste on mental masturbation “occupations”. And even if we didn’t, all we have to do when you worthless punks start rioting in our neighborhoods is drop the first half dozen of you in your tracks, then the rest of you cowardly little p*ssies will scatter and run. Remember, WE are the one who have military experience, excellent marksmanship and really badass guns. WE are the ones who know how to shoot, move and communicate. You wanna riot? Be afraid, be VERY afraid.

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:22am

      The Third Archon

      Are you really comparing the United States to the Bolsheviks? Really?

      Wow! You really need to study history.

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 5:59am

      My sentiments……………..EXACTLY, coldlivehands-that votes.

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    • MARCH4HIM
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 8:26am

      @floridacracker
      I was responding to..“ robespierre ”..on that post. sorry for the confusion.

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  • Sgt.Crust
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:07pm

    They have all the rights to peacefully protest, and stay w/in the bounds of their permit! Once it expires, the police will round them up, one by one. And they think there will be an army to replace the ones arrested, I’d love to see their faces when no one else shows up…looks more like they are the 1%? Who opened the doors to the insane asylum, all of the lunatics are out!?

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  • Beckett
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:59pm

    I am following the Live Feed

    http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

    Gold, Gas, Grub, Guns, Ground and God!

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:59pm

    well,if any of those no water,no soap using commies want to come occupy my front yard,i would be willing to help them out, help them get out of my country, either with a trip to anywhere or never ever land, their choice, but i am sure they will not get here, and if they start this way, i can see them coming from a half mile away, with out a scope, a mile with,so good luck,better yet,stay there or go to california,and help your communist buddies with their new dream act, hope you all can eat dirt and live in a box and dodge bullet,

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  • raspberrytea
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:51pm

    This is truly depressing. May God help us. I think about my grandkids never knowing the America that I knew.
    It makes me sad.

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  • hi
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:49pm

    They can cut off our hands??? We don’t do that in America but they do cut off hands in lib land when the Muslims and commies take over!

    Wake up stupid people. You WANT the government to control you? That’s what you are asking for.

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:48pm

    Unions, Communists, Socialists, Anarcists united for the coming insurection here in America. Glenn Beck gave ample warning. If you not prepared. You better get on the stick! Prepare for yourself, family and others if you can.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:00pm

      @NOBALONEY……I believe that in the future, Glenn Beck will be remembered in the history books as a great man. He will be responsible for many thousands of people surviving the collapse thats coming, due to efforts to educate and advise the American people.

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    • Bete Noire
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:03pm

      Does that stick take a 9mm?

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:06pm

      @TXPILOT

      Don’t forget the history books are written by the winning side. Something tells me Glenn Beck won’t make the final cut.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 10:58pm

      @Robespierre, this explains your movement and what the future holds should it succeed.
      CG Jung
      All mass movements, as one might expect, slip with the greatest of ease down an inclined plane made up of large numbers. Where the many are, there is security; what the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and necessary, and therefore good. In the clamour of the many resides the power to snatch wish-fulfilments by force; sweetest of all, however, is that gentle and painless slipping back into the kingdom of childhood, into the paradise of parental care, into happy-go-luckiness and irresponsibility. All the thinking and looking after are done from the top; to all questions there is an answer, and for all needs the necessary provision is made. The infantile dream-state of the mass man is so unrealistic that he never thinks to ask who is paying for this paradise. The balancing of accounts is left to a higher political or social authority, which welcomes the task, for its power is thereby increased; and the more power it has, the weaker and more helpless the individual becomes.

      Whenever social conditions of this type develop on a large scale, the road to tyranny lies open and the freedom of the individual turns into spiritual and physical slavery.

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    • SERUM
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:29am

      ROBESPIERRE was a doomed man from the beginning!

      May he R.I.H. -Roast In Hell!

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:40am

      R0bespierre

      Try as you might Americans will never embrace communism. 300+ million Americans to your foolish immature rabble. You make me laugh. O there might be bloodshed and their might be further protests but the vast majority know what these groups represent. Communism, Socialism and Anarchy.

      All you have are a bunch of spoiled smelly kids being hoodwinked by far left progressives from the 60′s backed by monies from those who spit on the constitution.Do you think Americans will stand for that.. You boys dont have the stones for the long haul. I’m sure once the weather turns cold and the little boys and girls go home to snuggle into their warm beds their capitalist parents provide for them so you to will disappear. Back into the shadows of oppression and propaganda leaving absolutely no mark on America other then the smell in Washington Park. Obama and his cronies picked the wrong horse on this one. 2012 he will lose worst then Carter did to Regan and just like when Carter was thrown out Americans will remember this marxist in chief as an utter failure and traitor to the founders ideas of America. The progressive left will have to hide for another 50 years licking it’s wounds.

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  • CanadianDutchman
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:47pm

    For the life of me I cannot understand why the american people can listen to such a idiot like muhamud speak, areeople so brainwashed to think this is true democracy, send him back to Eygpt or Iraq where ever he came from, this unbelievable, seems like total anarchy. Arrest this arab nut job.
    Nothing like Muslim brotherhood at work…….

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    • dmforman
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:02pm

      Our kids don’t understand our government or history. It’s not taught in our public schools. We have been indoctrinating our children to this way of thinking for many years. Little by little the indoctrination has gotten worse and people haven’t noticed. These kids do not understand what they are are asking for or protesting against. Our country is in big trouble and we must teach our family, friends, and children our history and how our government/constitution is supposed to work. Hopefully we haven’t been asleep for too long and that we have time to turn things around.

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    • Bete Noire
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:14pm

      Brother, as a fellow Canadian. (dual US/CDN citizenship, born in Canada) I am glad to hear your input. BUT, Canada is not an example anyone should look to or follow. There is much to be cleaned up in the Great White North. Mounties that wear turbans, native Americans occupying sections of the Trans Canada highway, Sikh boys barely out of puberty wearing their daggers in public, a public healthcare system that exceeds 10% of GDP. The Canadian Government is completely sold out to political correctness and socialism. Look inwards first.

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    • georgiavietvet
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:18pm

      the only way to stop this is to get obama and holder out of office and then go after the leaders and organizers of these protests for sedition, treason and advocating violence, and inciting to riot. if there are any deaths directly related to these protests, murder charges would be appropriate. they will holler free speech rights,but free speech does not cover the violence they are advocating. lock them up…………………………………….

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  • angelonquest2000
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:46pm

    They are well funded through unions (obamas friends), and acorn. Probably secretly through the government. They are nieve enough to follow their leadership and in the end will only be tossed aside. Congress doesnt realize when obama takes over as a dictator they will be obsolete and out on the street. It does sound like some of the brotherhood is in there. They are also being paid by the unions to do this.

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  • Damnaged
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:45pm

    Why do they all say the same thing? Tocqueville explained it: I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives. Each of them, living apart, is as a stranger to the fate of all the rest; his children and his private friends constitute to him the whole of mankind. As for the rest of his fellow citizens, he is close to them, but he does not see them; he touches them, but he does not feel them; he exists only in himself and for himself alone; and if his kindred still remain to him, he may be said at any rate to have lost his country.

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    • Damnaged
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:46pm

      Continued…

      Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

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  • TT1488
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:43pm

    These people are freaking sheep. You can lead a horse to water and apparently feeble weak minded americans to terrorism. This idiot is speaking of a different revolution. And the puppeteer continues to pull the strings.

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  • R0bespierre
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:41pm

    Glad to see international solidarity from our comrades in the Middle East. I hope for their continued success in ensuring the defeat of the counterrevolutionary Islamists, and I hope the same platform can be replicated here in the United States.

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    • Damnaged
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:47pm

      What is a counterrevolutionary Islamist?

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:56pm

      Simple – the protests in the Middle East were in response to despotic leadership. The primary pair of ideologies arising from the ashes are either Islamist and demand religious control of the nation, or liberal/socialist demanding democratic control of the political and economic realm. As the Islamists are demanding a return to despotism (just under a color they prefer) they are counterrevolutionary to the gains made in the Arab Spring, and I should hope the majority of the peoples of Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere acknowledge this.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 10:43pm

      How pathetic is your symbol ROBESPIERRE? Anarchy = no control, communism = total control. I would recommend a few books for you, but I’m sure you’d just burn them you’re obviously too far gone.

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 10:48pm

      I disagree with your assessment of both political philosophies, RLTW. You can have statist socialism, where the means of production are directly controlled by the state, or you can have libertarian socialism (Anarcho-Communism, if you’re sufficiently radical) where the means of production are directly controlled by the people who use them (ie, workplace democracies, labor syndicates, credit unions over banking corporations, etc.)

      If you want to stand against USSR-style state socialism, I’ll stand with you. But that’s not the goal of #OCCUPYWALLSTREET or much of the radical American Left, which is as much antigovernment as it is anticorporate.

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    • Damnaged
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:22pm

      Oh, ok. What you said means nothing. Islamic Jurisprudence and Socialist are still both Fascist ideologies in which people who don’t agree get killed or imprisoned. You’re no better than they are.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:22pm

      @Robespierre
      Goal or not tyranny will always be the end state. You as with your entire kind attempt to skip beyond man’s Spiritual/enlightened reality, you would prefer to push mankind over some utopian edge. Do things need fixing? Yes, but your kind lack both the maturity and spirituality to guide man forward, you lack the patients of history. The majority of the protesters don’t even believe in man’s history.

      God

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    • Mstrrlm
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 1:16am

      @R0BESPIERRE
      You said you didn’t think we out number them maybe maybe not but what I can GUARANTEE you is we have the great equalizer we have more guns and ammo then them for sure!!!!! Hell I have more then enough bullets for just 1 gun to take care of all the protestors at ALL the protest myself. And what you dumb ass dont understand is WE will ALWAYS have the military on OUR side.

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    • citizen b
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 2:56am

      @MSTRRLM so you are saying you would murder your fellow countrymen who are expressing their constitutional right to free speech and assembly, if they disagree with you? how unamerican. fortunately you and people who share your jackboot mentality do not own this country. if everyone thought like you, no one would have rights, including you. you should be ashamed of yourself.

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    • Californiasodbuster
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 3:11am

      At toads pierre , your thoughts on how Americans think and live are so backwards, my father came from your war torn country in 1947, you are either a muslim , or an indoctrinated lamb, or sheep.
      Our great country has always bailed out your coward snively asses.
      I hope akbar visit’s you soon.
      May God have mercy on your pathetic soul.

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:44am

      R0bespierre

      You haven‘t a clue as to Islam and it’s true political ideology.

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 6:42am

      Pierre with the robes, you’re full of crap. If you have carpet to fly on: go now: we don’t need you around here. I’ll talk to you later.

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  • slr4528
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:41pm

    Obama’s reelection campaign has really taken off! Anyone with children in college needs to email all of these Blaze articles to their children in college to educate them on how their respective college‘s main goal is to probably transform them into Obama’s army of useful idiots. I hope Glenn Beck’s team is successful into reaching out to the college kids.

    Even though I think Glenn is out to lunch on his opinion of Romney,Ha Ha, I still like and respect how Glenn is reaching out to the younger generation.

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  • asking why
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:33pm

    Sounds like the brotherhood has made it here Where is homeland security to put a stop to this oh i forget Obama does not want a stop to this he is all for it the only thing he puts a stop to is when the cops arrested his friend the then he held his beer summit The top democrats want this its called a new world order I just hope for them they dont come into my yard because they will not like what greets them
    bunch of stupid idots dont they know they being used then they will be usless
    Where is the gov. & mayor they need to put a stop to it they also need to freeze the bank account of the donations and use it to clean up the city

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 10:51pm

      @RLTW

      Umm…no, they’re shouting in a park because there is a lot of people, and they have to shout because they aren’t aloud to use megaphones according to some fascist municipal ordinance…

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    • RLTW
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 11:46pm

      @TTA, and you people call yourselves tech savvy. I can think of multiple ways just based on the tech on site, the law wouldn’t know what to do, and I can barely type.

      The fact is you people feel more alive as part of the collective, being an individual is just too hard for you.

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:50am

      The Third Archon

      fascist municipal ordinance…

      I guess all city laws are a fascist municipal ordinances to you. Except of course when it applies for your goals. lol

      What a fool.

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  • hillbilly patriot
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:28pm

    Do they feel as dumb as they sound repeating what someone else says over and over? The term ‘useful idiot’ make some much more sense after seeing these videos.

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:35pm

      The “People’s Microphone” is a clever way around laws prohibiting megaphone usage in New York City.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:55pm

      Your username is “hillbilly,” and yet you are engaging in an ad hominem attack against, of all things, these peoples’ intellect?

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    • MARCH4HIM
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:11pm

      Glenn Beck should have copyrighted the term “american fall/autumn,”…Back when he had a chance…Then he could have sued the pants off them ,supposedly broke protesting buffoons…
      And then there pockets would truly be empty…along with their numb….skull.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 10:35pm

      It’s called collective possession; these people have lost their individuality and voluntarily given themselves over to the mob.

      Only people of small heart and mind would even consider this as a course of action, only the unenlightened would believe all their problems reside outside themselves.

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:58am

      R0bespierre

      Are you embarrassed to say what these people are? The “People’s Microphone” Come on. These aren’t “THE PEOPLE” These are communists, socialist and anarchist who comprise a minute percentage of the population in this country and you call them “The People” Grandstanding doesn’t make you correct or your message bolder it only exemplifies your weakness and eventual defeat of “THE PEOPLE” .

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 5:10am

      correction

      “by the ”PEOPLE”

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 6:32am

      Hillbillypatriot,Don’t get rattled by by thirdarchon. He ain’t speaka no english. I got ya back.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:26pm

    Anyone want to figure that a few agents of Hamas, Hezbolla and the Muslim Brotherhood are among the protesters and getting ready to make a strike or two with things that go boom in the night?

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:34pm

      Nope. Not among them. Simply funding and directing them. They need foot soldiers within our borders – they found them.

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:36pm

      Probably none. More likely any activists invited over from the Middle East are representatives of the socialist or labor-rights fighters who helped in the Arab Spring.

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    • IntegrityFirst08
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:44pm

      If I was NYPD that would be my biggest fear Snow. To know that they are tied to some arm of a terrorist cell is a disgusting thought. However I know that they wouldnt pass up an opportunity when one arrises.

      Is Communist infiltration not a worry anylonger? Is that something we live with now, I mean its right out in the open, you cant deny it. I cant imagine that there are not agents here with status pushing this thing to the limits trying to make America buckle. Im not a conspiracy theorist, more like a realist. But this just isnt right, where are all the Senators condemning this rhetoric. Make the case against Communism for americas sake.

      What the hell is going on, wheres the leaders with a set of balls?

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    • spirited
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:53pm

      “I am an Arab Citizen from Egypt.” should be their first clue.
      “ I am coming from there” should be the second.
      “ from the Arab Spring to the fall of Wall Street” the third.
      “ from the Arab Spring from Liberation Square to Washington Square” the fourth.
      “ to the fall of Wall Street” the fifth.
      “ and market domination” the sixth.
      “ and capitalist domination” the seventh.
      ” many things separate us – national borders, homeland insecurities, armies, corporations, and police.” the ninth.
      ” They have their laws, they have their debts” the tenth.

      “and we have our Revolution.” And…, eerily, he ended them with that “we” thing; –we’ve been hearing for about four years now.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:05pm

      @IntegrityFirst08

      Firstly: You might want to change your handle to IntergityFirst12 since there is precious little of that in the current government.

      Next: “..a leader with a set of balls..?” Well let’s see; China, Syria, Libya, North Korea……….

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    • dmforman
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:06pm

      Hopefully the cops will wake up and realize that their union is funding these idiots. Their money is being used against them. When will they wake up and speak out against their union and how their union spends their money against them?

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    • IntegrityFirst08
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:11pm

      @ 82nd – Very true sir. the 08 was a comfortable number but since you say it like that it needs to be changed haha

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:34pm

      “Next: “..a leader with a set of balls..?” Well let’s see; China, Syria, Libya, North Korea……….”
      If that is the political result of “having a set of balls” then I would like my political leadership to be thoroughly “ball-less.” For that matter, how do you conservatives complain from one part of your mouth about “tyrannical” government, and yet out of the other side bemoan the lack of strong authoritarian leadership in the government–oh wait, I guess when it’s YOUR OWN tyranny, you find it perfectly reasonable to submit to it.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:53pm

      @The Third Archon

      So are things at the HufPo? I was talking about leaders who do what they need to do to move their respective countries to the top of the heap. The leadership NOT the methods.

      If our leaders remain “thoroughly ball-less” China will control us even more & you will have no option but to “submit” to them.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 10:43pm

      No, no, no…

      1) The countries you cited are “at the top of the map?” Says who? By what measure? Certainly not by economic output, welfare of the populace, or even military dominance.

      2) Even if they WERE “at the top of the map” by any measure, you haven’t proven, and there’s no self-evident reason to presuppose, that their position would be the result of the “balls,” or lack thereof, of their leadership. Success in any of the measurable categories probably has a lot more to do with geopolitical factors and resource distribution than whether or not the countries leadership “has balls” or not.

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    • eaglenva
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:38am

      @Snow – if not yet, as we have speculated I would think the infiltrations of the ‘big stick’ instigators is going to happen slow and steady. Then before it is realized the thoughts of the mindless sheep are manipulated more towards violence and bang, many people are hurt or worse, lots of property damage and bingo-bango Obumber has his next little plank in place.

      III

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 5:08am

      R0bespierre

      LOL. I‘ll say it again you haven’t a clue as to the political ideology of Islam….or maybe you are a Muslim practicing taqiyya or maybe your just another useful idiot and you truly believe what you say. Either way your new here so I wont embarrass you to much. Islam isn’t about socialism, labor rights or communism. But nice try though.

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 5:16am

      The Third Archon

      WOW! I’ve seen posts taken out of context or even used on a play of words but holy smokes.
      This ones a stretch dude. lol

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    • R0bespierre
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 1:22am

      “LOL. I‘ll say it again you haven’t a clue as to the political ideology of Islam….or maybe you are a Muslim practicing taqiyya or maybe your just another useful idiot and you truly believe what you say. Either way your new here so I wont embarrass you to much. Islam isn’t about socialism, labor rights or communism. But nice try though.”
      Notice how in your thought experiment, in every possibility there is the underlying assumption that “Islam” is some secret worldwide conspiracy theory to conquer the Earth any more than Christianity or any other proselytizing religion. Islam may even have the most incidences of violent members (probably not true, because Christians are still numerically the largest faith)–that still doesn’t prove a rigid global hierarchy of military level coordination and efficiency. It’s a giant leap to conclude that Islam is somehow essentially different in how it is organized and conducted compared to most popular religions, at the very least, say Abrahamic religions for certain. Similar ritual practices, communal worship, even some shared holidays and saints. Similar moral edicts.

      It’s more likely that Islam is a religion that, not like Christianity and every other belief system since the dawn of time, wants itself to be taken is true, and by implication that mutually exclusive accounts of the world are false. Even if there members are more proportionally violent (empirically unconfirmed), that doesn’t suggest a massive conspiracy

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:15am

      R0bespierre

      Well thank you for that. As I thought, you haven’t a clue about Islam.

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  • AxelPhantom
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:18pm

    Metastasize is an apt choice of words; Cancer wins by strangling the healthy cells until they can no longer function.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:28pm

      And the way the rhetoric is being notched up hour by hour, its only a matter of time until things turn violent; also if there are agents of the Muslum Brotherhood or Radical Islam among the group, most likely on the behalf of the admin, it is a fair chance the violence will be literally EXPLOSIVE.

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 10:51pm

      Snow,
      Tomorrow we top off the fuel tanks and the water tanks (though it actually rained here today) and pick up some other “necessary” items. A regular Sunday routine. We have our year’s worth, but time to start working on more charity packs. When I talk to my mom in DC tomorrow I will make sure she still has her stores on full.

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 3:03am

      I hope your h2o tanks were filled up. Many prayers toward your way. Sounds like theyre getting to close roads. Come back on this cause I’m interested.

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 6:17am

      Talk to me axelphantom. Did ya get your fuel/water tanks filled up? Are you on the move or are you sitting? just wondering.

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:38am

      Sorry, called it an early night yesterday. The water is good, still have to get down to the station for the fuel, BTW mom is in DC I am in rural Texas, so not too worried for the immediate future, but I like to be prepared.

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 1:38pm

      1casawizard

      After re-reading your posts, I got the feeling you thought I am a trucker. Nope, the tanks are at my home.

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  • Liberty1791
    Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:15pm

    Idiots.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:32pm

      Dangerous, well funded, well controlled idiots. This is a civil war.

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on October 9, 2011 at 6:20am

      If they get shown a little flash/bang they’ll run home.

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