08-10-2011, 01:30 AM
Put Those Things Away Ladies. This Is Too Important
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Topless women with signs requesting that gawkers not look at them but listen to them. I can't help but think that Karl Rove has outdone himself. They need to stop off at Wall Street, pick up their pay cheques for discrediting the movement, and then let the grown-ups take over.I agree. We are seeing a flood of paid operatives intent on giving the media excuses to ridicule the movement. This is yet another aged and obsolete stunt held over from COINTELPRO days.
As a side note, I am getting a flood of emails (from email addresses I have never seen before; a dead giveaway right there) insisting that OccupyAMERICA is not a real grass roots movement but "Astroturf", meaning a fake manufactured front for a political agenda. But there is a really easy way to tell grassroots from astroturf.
20 people with professional printed signs in matching fonts in front of city hall with a lot of media coverage? Astroturf.
Millions of Americans marching in every major city while the media tries not to notice? Grassroots.
I'll let you make up your own minds, but the fact is that if either the Democrats or Republicans had the popular support to mount a record-setting mass movement across the land, there would be no need for a mass movement across the land.
The other side is playing dirty, and it is only going to get worse.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"