Ringo goes to see the hippies
Our buddy Ringo sends us two links to his reportage from the bowls of the “Occupy LA” protests.
When I saw that picture, I thought of John Lennon’s Revolution;
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You’d better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow
Even John Lennon would tell you that carrying a sign imprinted with Ernie Guevara’s mug isn’t going to win you many fans.
Category: I hate hippies
Thanks for sharing my pictures, John!
Since the revolting peasants look like they’ll be staying for a while (the weather’s much nicer in LA than NY), I’ll be adding some new reports every now and again. Part Three should be up tomorrow night.
BTW – The pictures in Part One were taken on the failed first attempt to “occupy” Los Angeles back on Sept 17. Part Two is from last Saturday when a mob of more than 1000 actually did take over LA City Hall Park where more than 100 have remained camped out on the grass. And to make things worse, the city council has actually welcomed them! The mayor even went out yesterday and donated rain ponchos to the squatting hippies.
We need Uncle Jimbo and his “Don’t be a Douche'” t-shirt there with them…
I have to admit to something that has always puzzled me. How in the name of all that good and Reaganesque did Guevara become the poster child of the left. I get the whole Marxism connection, but if you are a Marxist, wouldn’t you put Marx on a shirt rather than a bullying murder who’s economic policies resemble Marxism in the same way that Wallace Shawn resembles Christina Hendricks. And if you are using him because you support the violent over-throw of “the system” then aren’t you betraying your principles (and his memory) by using his symbolism to chant, walk in circles, and smoke pot?
This is precisely why these people, no matter how desperately mainstream liberals and progressives what it, will never be the Left’s Tea Party. We live in a center right country and as soon as the RCP, ISO, PSL & Co. start to attempt to co-opt this thing (like Big Labor already is) then it all comes crashing down. Enough pictures of Che or interviews with Maoists or a Molotov cocktail into a line of cops from an anarchist and it’s over.
Execpt, that if this continues long enough it won’t. People will understand the message, despite the history that goes with it.
I’d almost be willing to bet good money that those who wear these shirts, and wave these signs don’t know anything more about Ernesto than what they read on wikipedia.
Ah there he is. How did I know that asshole Che would show up before long. Oh and “big labor” too. Gee how did I know those assholes would be all over this too.
This is more of the same, and a great reason to be afraid of these guys because if anyone ever acquiesces to these idiots they’ll only want more.
Che’s popularity and myth has been growing over the years… especially on campuses around the country. Since Che didn’t follow his own writings from his own book (a book that he wrote)… It resulted in his demise. Couldn’t happen to a nicer phony! Viva la counter-revolution!
Hey don’t forget all that mass murder… Oh wait not that communism…the other kind.
They want us to embrace the compassionate communism, not the murdering kind? Got it.
Where the hell was the dogs and the fire hoses? Come on these people don’t know the meaning of violence. I wonder how quickly the revolution would be over if they had to face some real adversity?
revolting peasants
On more than one level, Ringo. Well put.
…man do they stink on ice…
The even more sad thing about the revolting peasants is that the left-minded thinkers who are merely ignorant don’t understand how this makes them look. What they are doing solves nothing and and advances the Country killing policies of the current POTUS.
They don’t understand that if they get what they want, we will be another communist society.
“They don’t understand that if they get what they want, we will be another communist society.” Oh, I think that the money behind this understands all too well, defend. This is what they want, the SEIU has turned from assaulting Tea Partiers to assaulting the entire country, with some help from George Soros, ANSWER, WCW and the others.