I had hoped to make this comment on one of the articles waxing poetic on the demise of the occupation movement, but those articles seem to have been replaced with others. I think November 17th showed that the eviction two days earlier only strengthened the occupation movement. The police could do nothing because they were outnumbered by a ridiculous margin. There was easily ten thousand people protesting, perhaps as many as twenty thousand. Similar numbers were seen in Los Angeles. What is never reported are all the small towns across America where this is also happening, but on a smaller scale.

Now the 1% and their minions will be attempting divide and conquer (again, boring, we know this one already). They tried it by saying that minorities are not really a part of this (untrue). Now it is trying to turn women against it. Good luck, the demographics on poverty put the vast majority of women squarely (not on the edges) in the 99% group. The inclusivity of the movement means that there is no background checks done on the people who show up. Crime will always happen when large numbers of people gather for any length of time. These red herrings are fooling no one. Why don't you just drink the cool-aid and figure out that the occupation movement is going to win? Don't you want to be on the winning side?

I'll have what you're having but make mine a double.

Win? Win what? The very concept is laughable. You complain that the financially successful are greedy, and expect that picketing them (as if they even notice) will somehow cause them to have an epiphany and become not greedy. Given your desire to have Big Brother provide you with your every want, need and desire from cradle to grave, it seems to me that you should be Occupying Congress. But that would only make sense if you were actually trying to accomplish something, and not simply foist your brand of entitlement redistribution on the unwary. Win? Your handlers don't want you to do anything so prosaic as win. They want you to somehow maintain sufficient presence in the news that they can call out the even more uniformed rabble at election time, rally them behind the Them versus Us class rhetoric, and get them to vote for the man most responsible for their continued economic suffering. Your naivité is almost comical, but for the danger it presents. Win? God, yes, these few, these hapless few, these band of misfits. They don't even know why they are there, and couldn't cobble together a coherent reason for their existence if their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor depended upon it.

Apparently the respond to thing doesn't work. The comment I made was in response to :. Great name, or should I say punctuation, by the way. Shows a lot of imagination.

a lot of truth in this article.

conservatism's opponents are comprised mostly of communalists. the communalist is the person who believes the government should ensure outcomes that are most equitable for all.

essentially, the leftists' (communalists') beliefs will result in a society where income redistribution is a fact of life.

the leftists' mouth platitudes about the evils of slavery out of one side of their mouths while out of the other side they are advocating taking the fruits of the labors of some citizens and giving them to other citizens who have done nothing to earn these fruits.

in a nutshell, the opposition to conservatism seeks to enslave the productive in the service of the non-productive.

for what else can it be called when hardwoking people have the fruits of their labor taken from them by force and given to people who have done nothing to deserve these fruits, if not slavery.

Raven, if everyone in the movement is equal, how is it possible for women to hold "dominant" positions? That's as ridiculous as your baseless assertion that there are MILLIONS of OWS supporters. Do you have anything other than your feelings to back this up?

@LKS,

You've got their number--professional malcontents and whiners, opportunistic, parasitic attention-seekers.

Ignore them. They can't stand that.

How shocking--you mean people have sex when they camp and they drink and vomit? Shocking. Do you camp at all Penny? Let's look at what happens at a hotel during a political event? Do you think there might be some drinking or even vomiting, and surely no one is having sex outside of marriage. The famed Tailhook Convention took place in my city a few years back. Over three hundred men from the Navy and Marines had their careers ended over the sexual assault of 87 women. No one called for the end of the military or Tailhook for that matter.

No darlin', you don't END the Occupy Movement with weak information like this. The Occupy Movement needs to be looking at ALL the disparity going on between races and sexes and genders and classes to have full impact. They may figure that next step out and they may well be the key to showing the rest of us how screwed up we have gotten this whole thing by letting a small sliver of our society create policy and manipulate power.

Did CWA care when it was BLACK AND BROWN women and their families getting the crumbs? Did CWA care when BLACK AND BROWN children we getting inferior educations? Honey bunch--we BETTER care about others and what they suffer. Left to suffer the "theys" greatly impart the rest of "us". We need to fix things on a MASSIVE level NOW. When the BLACK AND BROWN people were crying out for the same reliefs the the Occupy Movement ask for, did we listen? No. We did not. Until it started hurting the white people.

Rather than suggest that the Occupiers end all this messiness, LISTEN to them and become part of the solution for the change this country needs. It is not us and them us honey. Until WE find a better road to WE, WE are all in for the impacts we were willing to just let the few suffer.

And for heaven's sake, tell your staffer to NOT walk thru the park on the way to and from the Metro. My goodness, you have to make an effort to walk thru, no on is MAKING her witness things she deems offensive. And at the next conservative conference, please do bed checks and monitor bar tabs.

I have to say, the levels and lengths to which ad hominem attacks on OWS have good on in this website really only remind me of the various antisemitic theories of Jews controlling everything. Nowhere else have I seen such utter and complete nonsense passed along as solid, serious arguments. You have to be running out of stuff, so I'm really curious to see what's next (how about dog fights in Zuccotti?), before Godwin's law unavoidable kicks in and the Nazi analogies come ablazing.

I gotta say, William Buckley was a figure I thoroughly despised but deeply respected. He must be turning over in his grave with his magazine having become what it is now.