Dayum… This blog post by comic book legend Frank Miller pretty much nails it. Which means of course that his body of work, long respected by the masses will now suddenly become lame, uninspired, hacky, and a list of other bullshit history-revising adjectives that hippies use to smear people and their livlihood once they find out that they don’t agree with them politically on something – even one issue.
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.
FM
The problem of course is that the few Occupiers (and most of its supporters) who are not pond scum criminals still aren’t bright enough to not get offended at someone like Miller calling out the pond scum criminals. The facts bear Miller out: there are rapes and crime and mass disorganization in the Occupy protests. Just because you support it’s Anarchists for Big Government brand of philosophy doesn’t mean the movement isn’t infested with vermin that is perfectly legitimate to call out.
As one of the commenters notes:
Only 14% of the 1% are actually financial institutions on Wall Street. The majority of the 1% are lawyers and doctors.
Do you know where the largest collection of lawyers in the U.S. is?
Washington DC
Do you know what the richest area in the US is?
Washington DCI could get behind a movemnet if it truly was protesting the actual causes of this “income inequality” they speak about, but the fact is they should be protesting Washington DC, but then that would make Obama look bad now wouldn’t it?
The politician who has recived more money from Wall Street than any other politician?
Barack ObamaLook up the ties between General Electric, the largest corporation on the planet (besides the US Government) and Barack Obama.
G.E. paid no federal income taxes last year, why?If these Occupy morons had any semblance of intelligence, they would be protesting Washington DC and Barack Obama, but they don’t beause they are simple tools of the DNC and their reelection strategy.
Seriously, 30 minutes on google and anyone can look this up, they should use their $400 iPhones to do so.
PR Daily agrees the Occupy movement is a PR disaster:
Dorothy Crenshaw, CEO and creative director of Crenshaw Communications, praised OWS’s canny cultivation of the media and public sympathy. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s evacuation of Zuccotti Park seems to have strengthened the movement, she suggests. But she sees risks in the protesters’ tactics of shutting down streets and subway stations.
She adds: “If they start to disrupt the commute or work schedule of so-called ‘regular people’—part of that huge 99 percent who are just trying to get through the workday and earn a living—I think they risk losing the very group that should be most sympathetic.”
The movement’s PR efforts drew derision from Fraser P. Seitel, managing partner of Emerald Partners and author of The Practice of Public Relations. OWS, he says, has “botched an opportunity to capture public opinion and achieve something. Americans, by every measure, distrust the politicians who run Washington and lead major institutions. So public opinion was ripe for the plucking.”
However, the movement blew it by having no overriding purpose, stated goals, or visible leadership, he says, and it is increasingly perceived as a bunch of publicity-hungry complainers intent on disrupting others who are making a living.
“Occupy Wall Street is right about one thing,” he says. “The whole world is watching. And it’s generally repulsed by what it’s seen.”