You know, when this video from Reason.tv came out, I invoked the 48 Hour Rule as a matter of course. For those who don’t know, the 48 Hour Rule is one of those useful rules of thumb that people come up with to make sure that they don’t get burned on a story; if something sounds too good to be true, or too bad to be true, or even just too much to be true, it’ll probably be debunked pretty quickly. 48 hours is usually enough time to establish that. And I was optimistically certain that this was the case, here: surely the LA school system hadn’t really employed somebody calling for the expulsion of the Jews . “ I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government, they need to be run out of this country .” – Patricia McAllister I know. I am charmingly naive. If you’re wondering, the LAUSD really did hire this winner ( as a substitute math teacher ) (link via PJ Tatler’s comments ); and if you click the link here you’ll get another link to a quite vile site that should explode, once and for all, the ridiculous argument that minorities cannot be racists. But let’s drill down to the really nauseating portion of all of this: it’s the way that Ms. Patricia McAllister is utterly unconcerned and matter-of-fact about the way she’s casually calling for the expulsion of the Jews . Because let’s not pretend that the ‘Zionist’ tag means a damned thing, in this context: McAllister thinks that the Jews run Wall Street, she wants those Jews gone, and she doesn’t consider them Americans in any way that matters. And she’s apparently welcome at Occupy LA. Because they certainly haven’t tried to disassociate themselves from McAllister’s remarks, either.- And yes, they have to. The rule was set during the first wave of Tea Party protests: police your own, or you will be lambasted in the national media . I insist that this rule be followed for the Left’s cargo cult imitation, as well. Even if the ranting is about the Jews. Moe Lane ( crosspost ) [UPDATE] : I actually agree with Erick : we need to bring in the sane portion of Occupy Wall Street. Just let this portion shrivel up and flake away in the sun…
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Anti-semitism on casual display at Occupy LA. #OWS
After some quiet time following last year’s departure of union bosses Andy Stern and Anna Burger, it appears the purple behemoth known as Service Employees International Union, has been quietly plotting its own Egyptian-style revolution. Given the ever-shrinking private-sector union membership ranks, as well as the realization that its political influence has shrunk as well, the SEIU’s plan is apparently to engage in a class-warfare based campaign. According to a Politico piece , SEIU’s plan (called “Fight for a Fair Economy”) and will reach outside the union movement in order to “mobilizing underpaid, underemployed and unemployed workers” and “channeling anger about jobs into action for positive change.” SEIU President Mary Kay Henry acknowledged in an interview that the new strategy, which would include aggressive outreach to non-union members, is “a risk.” “We felt like we were called in this moment to roll the dice and to think about how to use our members resources for the greatest hope for changing members lives,” she said. “ I hope what people will see is more of what we all witnessed in Madison. … more people in the streets making demands about what kind of America we want to see.” [snip] The plan does not revolve as centrally around the 2012 elections as the SEIU’s political program did in 2008, when it was the largest outside supporter of candidate Obama. It does, however, aim to organize public campaigns for economic issues around “national flash points” including this August’s recess, corporate shareholder meetings next spring, and the debates and conventions next year. Henry was elected last year with a promise to reorient the union, and some Democratic officials worry the change will mean a less intense focus on their party’s needs. It appears to be an expansion of the plans announced earlier this year when the Wall Street Journal noted the SEIU’s campaign to target specific cities . The campaign—called Fight for a Fair Economy—will focus on mobilizing mostly low-wage minority workers in 10 to 15 cities, including Cleveland, Milwaukee, Miami and Detroit , according to the memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The SEIU wants the effort to peak in the summer of 2012, with events at primaries, town-hall meetings and other campaign venues, according to the memo. SEIU spokeswoman Inga Skippings declined to confirm that the memo reflected the final plans of the union, which has two million members, and said its strategy continues to evolve. The cities designated for the campaign have high concentrations of SEIU members and are in states where governors have proposed cutting benefits to public-sector workers amid worries over pension costs and broader budget woes. In some of the targeted states, lawmakers are considering “right to work” legislation that would eliminate laws making union membership mandatory whenever a union is formed at an employer. [snip] The board member predicted the effort would cost “tens of millions” of dollars ; the SEIU spent more than $70 million on the 2008 elections. Other than an attempt at countering the Tea Party protests that emerged in 2009, it appears the SEIU’s plan won’t be anything more than a loud, obnoxious waste of its members’ dues. Then again, what’s new? ________________ “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 X-posted .
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SEIU Plans Nationwide, Madison-Style, Class Warfare Protest Movement
Here’s my post-election column. I’ll continue to update the results post here as we wait on key AK, WA, CO, AZ, and Florida returns. The grass-roots conservative midterm message: No surrender, no compromise, no capitulation. Share you thoughts! *** Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Democrats by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 On the eve of a historic midterm election upheaval, President Barack Obama tried to walk back his gratuitous slap at Americans who oppose his radical progressive agenda. “I probably should have used the word ‘opponents’ instead of ‘enemies’ to describe political adversaries,” Obama admitted Monday. “Probably”? Here is an ironclad certainty: It’s too little too late for the antagonist-in-chief to paper over two years of relentless Democratic incivility and hate toward his domestic “enemies.” Voters have spoken: They’ve had enough. Enough of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s rhetorical abuse. Enough of his feints at bipartisanship. Whatever the final tally, this week’s turnover in Congress is a GOP mandate for legislative pugilism, not peace. Voters have had enough of big government meddlers “getting things done.” They are sending fresh blood to the nation’s Capitol to get things undone . Just two short years ago, Obama campaigned as the transcendent unifier. “Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,” he proclaimed . “We have been and always will be the United States of America.” It’s been an Us vs. Them freefall ever since. “We don’t mind the Republicans joining us,” Obama taunted a few weeks ago. “They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back .” “They’re counting on young people staying home and union members staying home and black folks staying home ,” the fear-mongering agent of hope and change jeered on the campaign trail last month. “ You would think they’d be saying thank you ,” he sneered last April, when millions turned out for the nationwide Tax Day tea party protests. “ I want them just to get out of the way ” and “don’t do a lot of talking,” he scoffed in response to prescient critics of the federal trillion-dollar stimulus boondoggle. In addition to labeling GOP opponents of his open-borders policies “enemies” who needed to be “punished” by Latino voters, Obama accused them — that is, us — of lacking patriotism. “ Those aren’t the kinds of folks who represent our core American values ,” he told viewers of the Spanish-language network Univision. Democratic leaders have taken their cue from Team Obama’s persistent politics of polarization. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called vocal citizens who protested the federal health care takeover bill during the town hall revolts of 2009 “ un-American ,” too. Remember? “These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American,” Pelosi and Hoyer blasted in an op-ed piece for USA Today last summer. “Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.” This from the woman who called for a vengeful government investigation of grassroots opponents of the Ground Zero mosque. Obama’s pal Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida, whom the president hailed as an “ outstanding ” member of Congress, accused Republicans of wanting elderly people to “die quickly” and of presiding over a “holocaust in America.” Vice President Joe Biden hailed Grayson as a “guy who doesn’t back away from a fight, and doesn’t back down from what he believes in” and told him at a fundraiser: “We owe you one, buddy.” No mention of Grayson’s smear of a female Federal Reserve adviser as a “ K Street whore.” In California, entrenched incumbent jerk Pete Stark derided immigration enforcement activists at a town hall by asking: “Who are you going to kill today?” To an elderly constituent who opposed the health care bill, Stark retorted: “I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn’t be worth wasting the urine.” As voters who have been maligned by the ruling majority as stupid, unwashed, racist, selfish and violent headed to the polls Tuesday, Democrats released “talking points” attacking Republican leaders who “are not willing to compromise.” But “no compromise” is exactly the message that un-American Americans delivered to Washington this campaign season: No more compromising deals behind closed doors. No more compromising bailouts in times of manufactured crisis. No more compromising conservative principles for D.C. party elites. No more compromising the American economy for left-wing special interests. No more compromising transparency and ethics for bureaucratic self-preservation. Let us be clear, in case it hasn’t fully sunk into the minds of Obama and the trash-talking Democrats yet: You can take your faux olive branch and shove it. Thank you. See the article here: Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Democrats
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Where’s a vicious right-hand hook to the jaw when you need one?… Tea Party Protests Bill Ayers appearance at Northtown Books in Arcata, California on August 18, 2010. H/T: POed Patriot
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Video: Lefty Tells Conservatives Protesting Bill Ayers Appearance That Vietnam Vets are “Traitors Who Killed Innocent Vietnamese in the Name of This…
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