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Practicing Yoga while protesting:

Multi-tasking in Manhattan



image“Ma, don’t worry”. Your protester, who didn’t return home to his bed in the basement last night, is still down there changing the financial world on Wall Street and in lower Manhattan guarded by New York’s finest. He or she merely spent the night beating the drum and `yakking’. Don’t worry about their promise to camp out in tents without clean clothes all winter. They’ll be home as soon as the juice on their cellphones and the batteries on their ipads bring them home for recharge.
Meantime, all they ever accomplished down there was no “Arab Spring” like the ones in Egypt and other places. And after the Cairo Square protest it was discovered there was no “Arab Spring” there either. All the hundreds of comrades ever did in Manhattan was make fools of themselves. While legions of families worry how their university graduates have not been able to find work, the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Day of Rage gang filled the time at the protest nobody attended by boning up on their yoga. Their rhetoric to force a Cairo-style anarchy on American cities that has been going the rounds on social networks since last March needn’t have worried anyone.

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Best news of all: The mighty mainstream media, worried about the embarrassment of a failed protest in action, let the darlings down. Without the on-the-job TheBlaze.com we would barely have known what was happening on Wall Street yesterday. The Blaze always did its job but now that GBTV is here they are gaining massive Internet traffic. Gotta’ love yesterday’s headline “The Blaze Reports From Inside The ‘Comrade’s Ranks: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Day of Rage. The Blaze’s Buck Sexton, covering the protest, got it right when concluding that “the moment the Skippy Peanut Butter runs out, most of these self-styled radicals will hop a bus back to campus, or their parents’ suburban basements.” He could have added and when the cokes and tokes run out. Why in these heady Marxist times did Day of Rage fizzle out long before it even started? Radicals like Code Pink, who were in attendance, rely on Street Theatre. The problem with Street Theatre is that it is at best only a poor imitation of real life. Real people, who are losing real jobs and real homes, do not have the luxury to join sit-ins and strum guitars as they are out there pounding the pavement everyday looking for real work. The protesters claimed they were there to right the injustices of the financial system, to protest “the influence of money in U.S. politics”. They can start by turning down George Soros‘ money. Their chants of “fat cat” bankers were more credible than their claim of being anti-government: ”In the single most enthusiastic crowd moment, one of the organizers took the bullhorn and summarized the message of the whole event. (The Blaze, Sept. 17, 2011). “The system is going to collapse,” he said, “we are here to make it collapse faster”. In his fundamental Transformation of America, isn’t this the same thing President Barack Obama wants? Months of training was lost on this lot, who did yesterday what they do best, act and dodge all heavy lifting, bored and listless until nagged to do otherwise. And that in a nutshell is what the real Mothers’ worry should be. Marxism thrives on exploitation of the masses and for sure the desultory drones and zombies of yesterday’s protest will soon be nagged to go on to the next level.


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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