From Human Events
Don’t s#!+ where you eat. That basic workplace rule takes on a more literal meaning in the Occupy camps. People defecate where they dine. This isn’t a cheap shot. It’s reality. From Seattle to New York to Oakland to Washington, DC, the pooparazzi’s cameras have captured occupation defecations.
This isn’t just bad PR. It’s bad hygiene. Those obsessed with the environment stand strangely aloof from their pollution of their own surroundings. Self-righteousness and self-awareness aren’t usually a package deal.
Do you recall the public defecations during 1963’s March on Washington? The rapes at last year’s Tea Party rallies? The narcotics busts plaguing the annual March for Life?
No? Me neither. It’s only Occupy Wall Street and its imitators that bequeath this disgraceful, and disgusting, legacy.
The group’s behavior rebuts its demands. For a little faction to tell a big country how it should rearrange itself, that group should be able to order its house, at least minimally, in a responsible way. This mob’s words lack weight, and their narcissistic stench can’t make up for it.
If Occupy Wall Street were a restaurant, the board of health would board up its entrances. If Occupy Wall Street were a hotel (or even a housing project), building inspectors would shut it down. If “occupier” were an occupation, unions would protest their inhumane working conditions.
Read the rest at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48092
A somewhat objective, while supportive, article why one Occupy group failed:
The Richmonder. “Why Occupy Richmond Failed.” The Richmonder. 12 Nov. 2011. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. http://www.the-richmonder.com/2011/11/why-occupy-richmond-failed.html .
Choice quotes:
“Ultimately Occupy Richmond failed because it was unable to act as quickly as its most paranoid and delusional hangers-on were able to act. What Occupy Richmond needed was to obtain permission to continue to camp in Kanawha Plaza, in spite of a city ordinance that forbade camping in Richmond City parks. Occupy Richmond had a decent chance of obtaining such permission if it had only phrased its request properly and put it to Richmond City Council in a respectful way. But Occupy Richmond seemed unable to reach a decision to act, unable to appoint a spokesperson until it was too late.”
“Instead of slavishly trying to imitate Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Richmond needs to get creative and find a way of protesting that matches the laws and culture of Richmond, Virginia. Occupy Wall Street has an encampment. If Occupy Richmond wants to continue it needs to accept that it will have to be more mobile. New Yorkers can take the subway to Occupy Wall Street; Occupy Richmond needs to recognize that it may need to commute, not camp.”
“Occupy Richmond started out as a protest against corporate power, but it is now about the “right to camp” and pursuing a personal vendetta against the mayor.” [comment reply to a critic]