By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--November 12, 2011
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One girl on the Occupier’s side claimed that, “we are representing more people than you guys.” I was amused at that because these Occupy events are usually sparsely attended by Occupiers. Rarely do these Occupy-Whatevers field more than a few dozen people. On the other hand the Tea Party events have fielded thousands and, ultimately, millions at their own events.
I’d say that the folks attending Blogcon 2011 represent far more people’s views than do these Occupiers.
As it happens, one young fellow from among the Occupiers was arrested by Denver police. This got their dander up, to be sure. The police were called names such as “the military” and others. The Occupiers were quite upset it appeared.
But think about this. They invaded and disrupted a private conference held on private property, yet they were mad that one of their own was arrested? Of course arrests such as these are exactly the sort of things these Occupiers love to see happen. They somehow imagine that arrests of their own proves the justification for their cause. How is anyone’s guess.
It was all good fun, though, for we bloggers here at Blogcon. The Occupiers were silly, loud and rather pointless — pretty much like they are everywhere else in the country. As the little disruption wound up the Occupiers went back to their tents and the rest of us got back to business at Blogcon 2011.
The topic after the Occupiers left? Wikipedia, a how to. That was preceded by such world-conquering and evil ideas such as a seminar on how to visualize data in pleasing ways, and how to better use WordPress and YouTbue features. Yeah. We’re taking over the world with our Koch money!
… by the way… I’ve been waiting for a check from these guys for years.
This young fellow was the loudest of the bunch acting in the role of chant leaders and “mic check” guy
-Yid With Lid Occupy Denver Fails in Attempt to Invade BlogCon
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.