Homeland Security Chair: OWS "Anarchists"

[Shireling]

Homeland Security Chair Calls Occupy Wall Street Protesters ‘Ragtag Mob,’ ‘Anarchists’
By Hayley Miller on October 7th, 2011

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) joined Herman Cain among the ranks of Republican pols who are unimpressed with the Occupy Wall Street protesters and their nationwide counterparts, calling them a "ragtag mob" and "anarchists" on the Laura Ingraham radio show Friday.

"The fact is these people are anarchists. They have no idea what they're doing out there," King said. "They have no sense of purpose other than a basically anti-American tone and anti-capitalist. It's a ragtag mob basically."

King, whose Long Island district includes many Wall Street commuters, dismissed the demonstrators as "a bunch of angry 1960s do-overs" trying "to create chaos and take away the focus on the Obama record."
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"We have to be careful not to allow this to get any legitimacy," he warned. "I'm taking this seriously in that I'm old enough to remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy," he said. "We can't allow that to happen."

http: www.vxec.com/2011/10/homeland-security-chair-calls-occupy

[arcane1]

1. "shaping policy" meant ENDING A WAR!!!!

Geez,do these people think before they speak? Do conservatives wish we were still in Vietnam???

[saras]

9. No and yes. Get a clue. If you understand politics, what's so hard about right-wingers?

No, they don't think before they speak. They don't BELIEVE in thinking, they don't TRUST it. They go out of their way to cultivate brain-stem reactions that short-circuit thinking entirely. If they DO think, they hate it and try to suppress it with pharmaceuticals.

Yes, they wish we were still in Vietnam. The number of Americans lost was trivial, and with some minor tweaking of the draft system, they could have ALL been poor or minorities. War economies are more prosperous. War is masculine and heroic, and toughens up a society. Being in wars gives a certain tone to the rest of government. Military discipline and obedience are vastly preferable to human independence. They, or at least some of their intellectuals, talk lustfully about permanent global war.

[MADem]

2. It's not the anarchists who are shaping policy--it's the unemployed and underemployed, and

the people who see the "middle class" disappearing out of sheer greed.

[Demeter]

28. WE ARE THE 99%

and we are watching you....we will stay here until you shape up, or ship out.

And if you injure us, we will tell the world and sue your asses off.

We will boycott you, default on you, refuse to vote for your pet politicians, deny your endless greed and bloodlust.

[Arctic Dave]

3. WTF ?!

That motherfucker needs to be tossed out on his ass.

[krabigirl]

4. Screw him!

[yellerpup]

5. This King is an embarrassment to NY.

He permanently has his foot in his mouth.

[Lint Head]

6. Rep. Peter King's sense of purpose is to destroy democracy and free speech.

[ixion]

7. yeah, because "shaping policy" is for corrupt jackasses, not We, the People.

because it's their country, we're just trying to survive in it. :argh:

[BeyondGeography]

8. Anarchy in the markets is what you fought for, dipshit

They're just protesting the results.

[chill_wind]

17. +1

[Warpy]

10. Wow. That idiocy is just stunning.

The fat cat is the anarchist, wanting a lack of regulation and a government too weak to touch him.

OWS want government as an entity that stands with the people against the powerful reinstated. That's quite the opposite from anarchy.

[ZombieHorde]

13. Why would a fat cats want anarchy? They would loose all their money and property.

Fat cats would hate anarchy.

[EC]

18. Huh?

Anarchy is the absence of laws and regulations...that's what they want. Of course, I suppose without a government there wouldn't be any currancy?

[ZombieHorde]

23. No government = no money and no property.

Money and ownership are abstract concepts directly connected to the abstract concept of government. Money has no inherent value.

[Warpy]

26. Anarchy for themselves, totalitarianism for us

I thought I made that clear.

[ZombieHorde]

27. Wasn't clear to me, but I can a little slow from time to time. nt

[bemildred]

11. Could he be any more clear?

"We have to be careful not to allow this to get any legitimacy," he warned. "I'm taking this seriously in that I'm old enough to remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy," he said. "We can't allow that to happen."

[oldhippydude]

21. as a member of the "mob of the 60's"

he's absolutely correct in the outcome... no wonder he's more paranoid than john mitchell

[bemildred]

22. Even after all these years, it's still all about showing the hippies who is the boss.

And that is just pathetic. Especially with the REAL problems our country faces.

[The Wizard]

12. Peter King

Another drunk bigoted Republican reading from the Hank Williams Jr. playbook.

[harun]

14. Well OWS has all the right people dissing them.

[BanzaiBonnie]

15. OMG, don't let the people, those unwashed masses

have a say in government policy.


This guy is NOT about Democracy at all. He doesn't understand it and it scares the hell out of him. Now he's seeing a real populist movement on the streets.

[Vincardog]

16. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) is right. The OWS folks want to shape policy they want to US Govt. to work

FOR the PEOPLE, not to work for the RICH self satisfied set entitled bigots.
"We ( the RICH self satisfied set entitled bigots) can't allow that to happen."
WHY THE FUCK NOT?

[lsewpershad]

19. His feigned ignorance

is so obvious. It will eventually cause his demise in congress. Maybe he's too stupid to see ot coming.

[Hydra]

20. Any doubt now what the mindset is?

When you want keep normal people out of the discussion, it's not a democracy.

When your biggest fear is that normal people will get what they want?

What do we call that form of gov't?

[MadMaddie]

24. Yet he had no problem and said not a word about the

Teabaggers?

[Livluvgrow]

25. Capitalism vs Democracy

Teabaggers are pawns of a Capitalist system. OWS is Democracy those people on the right loath Democracy. It is that very reason first and foremost as to why I HATE the right.

[MadMaddie]

29. You summed it up very nicely!

My exact sentiment!

[BiggJawn]

30. "Rag-Tag Mob"

Isn't that what George III called the Continental Army under Washington?

[Enthusiast]

31. He should lose his position immediately.

Just sayin'.