The occupy movement so far is a classic failure. However if it is still in vogue in the spring and they can coalesce around a unifying theme and get the disinterested college students to get involved it could make this summer very interesting. With the Presidential race heating at the same time and the timeline for a war with Iran starting in June, could be an explosive summer reminiscent of 1968. The only thing missing is the psychedelic music and love ins.
Think the Dems will still want to be associated with 'em....?
1. For perspective, consider the famous Weathermen ‘Days of Rage’ protests of the Chicago 7 trial in October 1969. Planned as war in the streets, even the Black Panthers decided that these folks were too psychotic even for them. Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), said “We oppose the anarchistic, adventuristic, chauvinistic, individualistic, masochistic, Custeristic Weathermen.” Susan Braudy, “Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left,: p. 188
a. Too nuts for the Black Panthers, but they became respected advisors and co-authors to a Democratic President.
b. At a 1969 “War Council” in Flint, Michigan, Bernardine Dohrn gave her most memorable and notorious speech to her followers. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman “fork salute,” she said of the bloody murders recently committed by the Manson Family in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and a Folgers Coffee heiress and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion were brutally stabbed to death: “Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!”
Bernardine Dohrn - Discover the Networks
2. At other rallies, Dohrn said, "Bring the revolution home, kill your parents -- that's where it's at."
After a Chicago Democratic official, Richard Elrod, became paralyzed while fighting with a privileged looter during the Weathermen's "Days of Rage," Dohrn led the Weathermen in a song sung to the tune of Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay":
Lay, Elrod, lay,
Lay in the street for a while
Stay, Elrod, stay
Stay in your bed for a while
You thought you could stop the Weatherman
But up-front people put you on your can,
Stay, Elrod, stay
Stay in your iron lung,
Play, Elrod, play
Play with your toes for a while.
Coulter, “Demonic,” p. 162-163.
3. Reminder: "Ayers and Dohrn are simply the most visible of the far left supporters who propelled Barack Obama's early political career."
Barack Obama and Bill Ayers
...and that's the Bill Ayers who wrote Barack Obama's 'autobiography.'