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More of that Famous American Fascism

A quietly hilarious video from yesterday’s Community Board meeting at the New York State Assembly, in which a representative of the Occupy Wall Street movement explains the new “consensed” (which isn’t a word, however hard he tries to make it one) policy on drumming.

Firstly, the very fact that this meeting happened makes a mockery of the America Is A Fascist State meme, which runs through much of the Occupy Wall Street movement. As I noted in my piece this afternoon, these people have “been invited into a government building in order to be indulged by a sympathetic, democratically elected assembly, and [are] being afforded the opportunity to justify what is effectively trespassing on private property. [Not to] mention that the laws that govern New York City parks are being wantonly waived in their favor, [and] various city ordinances are all but being ignored.”

Secondly, I’m not sure I have ever heard a more self-indulgent statement made by someone who ostensibly sounds so earnest and reasonable. If you were to switch off the sound, you would be forgiven for thinking that they were talking about education, or taxes, or health care. Instead, they are talking about . . . drumming, and we get such choice phrases as “balance the concerns of the community with the desires of the drummers to have their voices heard through their drums, drumming down Wall Street,” mention of the “drummers working group,” and and contention over whether the drummers will be drumming for two or four hours each day. The looks on the faces of the people to my right at the end of the clip say it all.

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   10/21/11 16:21

many more monkeys, many more drums, many more monkeys, drumming on drums.

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   10/21/11 17:22

dum-ditty-dum-ditty-dum-dum-dum

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   10/21/11 19:39

The pictures of the monkeys in that book are *exactly* what I picture the OWS drummers looking like.

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DavefromMinnesota
   10/21/11 16:31

Okay, so NYC is this big international cosmopolitan city. The cultural center of America. I am originally from northern Wisconsin and now live in St Paul Minnesota now. Flyover country. Not even flyover country, but north of flyover country.

But I have never seen anything as stupid and wacked as a meeting to discuss the drumming policy of the "general assembly". Good lord, is NYC trying to compete with Madison Wisconsin as the wacko capital of America? Are these the kind of people that populate our supposed number 1 city?

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   10/21/11 22:10

Yes. The sad fact is that it is impossible to overstate the infantile fatuity of the leftists that populate NYC.

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   10/21/11 16:44

Can some enterprising tea partier with some free time please camp out in a tent on the island in times square and refuse to leave until the OWS people do? Equal protection and all (and times square is not private property afaik)

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Beacon
   10/21/11 17:14

The Tea Party plays by the rules, they obtain legal permits, clean up afterwards and leave peacefully. Many have jobs and family obligations, they recognize the problems our country faces is driven by policies in DC and vast sums of money from K-Street...protesting in NYC is the wrong location. The citizens in NYC elected Mayor Bloomberg multiple times, oh well...OWS is not a tourist attaction that interests my family, no need to visit the city with this mayor in charge. Please pass the salt.

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   10/21/11 16:43

Jeez Louise! Bring out the hoses and get this nonsense over with already. This is ridiculous. The problem with the country is on display right in that video. The adults are letting the kids dictate the terms.

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   10/21/11 16:49
Celtic
   10/21/11 16:59

Okay, we've got the drums, all that's missing is the conch shell. When the fat kid's glasses get smashed, everybody better run.

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   10/21/11 17:08

Michael Moore wears glasses. I don't know if he has "a**-mar," but I nominate him to for the role.

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   10/21/11 17:27

They DO have a conch shell. See this video from NRO; go to minute 7:00:

External Link 

I made the same point in the comments section then. Truly surreal these folks.

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Mr. Vinnie Vegas
   10/21/11 17:05

For years, people have asked me why I don't take leftists seriously (from an intellectual standpoint, not from a public safety standpoint, of course). My answer has consistently been that they simply aren't serious people.

Add this video to the pile of evidence supporting my position.

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Mike Porter
   10/21/11 17:10

The irony here is that they are discovering the realities of government -- no matter how stupid the issues are here, they are beginning to see the fact that you really cannot make everyone happy, some actions from some people are just stupid, and the grown-ups have to start making actual decisions that make the kids unhappy.

Speaking of which, while these kids play "I'm a grown-up!" the real adults in this country are earning a living and making life better by voting and having intelligent discourse -- or, having protests that have a point...and leadership...and no arrests...

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FlightPlan
   10/21/11 17:10

I've just had my million dollar idea. A pest control company that specializes in womens' studies majors who are squatting on private property whining about how they've spent seven years getting a degree and now can't find a job.

This guy is a fool of the highest order.

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jmc
   10/21/11 17:15

If they accomplish nothing else (and they likely won't), they've given us "drummers working group," the greatest oxymoron of all time.

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   10/21/11 17:26
Bob Sacamento
   10/21/11 17:26

I am myself am most impressed with the "growing realization that people who live and work there aren't enjoying it." Maybe if you fertilize that realization it will grow faster. Plenty of fertilizer to spare there, you know.

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JohnFembup
   10/21/11 17:27

The person speaking noted that the "working group" tried to take into account "what we thought were the needs of the community".

In other words, no one thought it necessary to, you know, ASK members of the community what its needs are.

"This is what democracy looks like" my drumstick !

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   10/21/11 17:29

I liked the guy who declared that since he was representing the 99%, he got to make his own rules. Then declared this democracy in action.

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