Class warfare in action?

Well, the Wall Street Squatters are still squatting, and apparently 700 or so of them or were arrested over the weekend for sitting down on a bridge in Manhattan and blocking traffic for hours.

One reporter was on the scene, and was asked, "How is it down there?" He answered, "Actually kind of smelly."

Tea Party members dressed up like Ben Franklin and George Washington, apparently people they admire. The Wall Street Squatters dress up like vampires and punk rockers. Is this who they admire?

No one seems to understand what the Wall Street Squatters want, or what their message is. Of several who were interviewed briefly, maybe three out of five parroted an anti-capitalist slogan. Another guy said he was unemployed and decided just to see what was going on. Another guy apparently came for the free accupuncture one of the squatters offered.

What struck me is their specific complaints: no jobs, the economy in the crapper.

You know what? Those are two issues where they agree with the Tea Party.

The difference is that the Wall Street Squatters blame this mess on the financial industry, which has been bought out and hog-tied by the feds.

The Tea Party blames the feds.

So, trying on my Conspiracy Hat -- is this why the Comrade is pursuing all these bullshit economic policies that are designed deliberately to wreck the US economy? So these strange and somehow unkempt and bizarre people will rise up and make the revolution?

Is it working?

How do the Wall Street Squatters get time for all this? Some of them have been camped out on lawn chairs out there for more than a week. They probably do little trips home to check their mail for their Social Security, SSI, unemployment, and Workers' comp payments. I mean, really, who else has the time?

And who do they think are paying their bills?

That would be the White House?

And where does the White House get its money?

Doesn't seem to be getting much anymore -- after hitting free enterprise a few good knocks with the Obamacare and Dudd-Fudd wrecking balls.

But somehow, a goth with pink hair and white face make-up is kind of hard to take seriously as someone prepared to topple the Republic, know what I mean?

Hey, Comrade and Van Jones, this rabble ain't going to accomplish your goals. That was done in the 60s and 70s and it didn't work then. These are not people capable of much but lip service and squatting. They aren't "activists" in the true sense of the word. They aren't "active." They really aren't much like the sans-culottes of the French Revolution, and though a few seemed proud of being arrested for the bridge thing, somehow I don't think they'd stand strong against something like tear gas, let alone bullets.

Nice try, but this is going nowhere.

Save the Republic.