Protesters face their “Valley Forge moment”
With an impending early snow storm on the horizon, Occupy Wall STreet protesters across the East Coast are calling it their “Valley Forge moment” hoping they will prove their mettle, according to the Associated Press;
With the temperature dropping, they are stockpiling donated coats, blankets and scarves, trying to secure cots and military-grade tents, and getting survival tips from the homeless people who have joined their encampments.
“Everyone’s been calling it our Valley Forge moment,” said Michael McCarthy, a former Navy medic in Providence. “Everybody thought that George Washington couldn’t possibly survive in the Northeast.”
Yeah, that’s it…you guys are brave, courageous and fearless just like the colonial troops from our revolution. They needed survival tips from drunkards and derelicts, too. I guess you’re not really a bunch of clueles, whining spolled brats at all, what with your donated coats and blankets that you’re actually using instead of the homeless who would normally benefit from the donations.
But when the hyperbole starts getting thick, you can always count on someone to invoke the troops fighting in the mountains overseas;
“This is like war. You know, soldiers do it when they occupy a place. I’m sure the mountains of Afghanistan get pretty cold.”
Yeah, this is just like war…except that no one is shooting at you and wishing that you were dead. ANd no one with the ammo and tools to kill you are pointing their guns at you. In fact, the people with the guns and the ammo are out there to protect you from yourselves. So, yeah, it’s just like war only completely different.
Thanks to our buddy, Bev Perlman for the link.
Why doesn’t the media tell us what these protestors do now? They sure as hell love to tell us if they are veterans to bolster their OWS credibility.
What the hell does Shamar Thomas do for a living now? What the hell does Scott Olsen do for a living now? What does the “former Navy medic” in this story do now?
I sure as hell would like to know.
Wait first they said that they do not want to feed the homless people that have encroached into their camp. Now they are trying to get some free advice about how to bundle up in the cold weather from these same people.
Does anyone else find this a bit odd?
They should have started this protest back in May.
Jeff – they couldn’t start in May they would have missed their vacation at mommy & daddy’s house on the beach.
Funny, I though the 7 train stopped well short of the ‘Stan.
I say we take up donations to send TSO and John down there to start investigating all these supposed vets. I have a real hard time believing that anybody whos served would side with a bunch of whiny handout seekers.
“Soldiers received irregular supplies of meat and bread, some getting their only nourishment from “fire cake,” a tasteless mixture of flour and water. However, due to the talents of Baker General Christopher Ludwig, the men at Valley Forge more often than not received fresh baked bread, about one pound daily. So severe were conditions at times that Washington despaired “that unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place … this Army must inevitably … Starve, dissolve, or disperse, in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can.” Animals fared no better. General Henry Knox, Washington’s Chief of Artillery, wrote that hundreds of horses either starved to death or died of exhaustion.
Clothing, too, was wholly inadequate. Many wounded soldiers from previous battles died from exposure. Long marches had destroyed shoes. Blankets were scarce. Tattered garments were seldom replaced. At one point these shortages caused nearly 4,000 men to be listed as unfit for duty.
Undernourished and poorly clothed, living in crowded, damp quarters, the army was ravaged by sickness and disease. Typhoid, jaundice, dysentery, and pneumonia were among the many diseases that killed 2,500 men that winter”
Yeah, that’s exactly like the conditions that the occutards have to deal with, except for the lack of food, shelter, clothing, etc. I know that many of the occutards will die from starvation and exposure, because they only have a half million dollars to buy necessities and send some of their people to the store to purchase the stuff, or order it online and have it delivered.
I guess trying to fan the hyperbole flames is a new trick to solicit more funds from the easily duped?
These people are desperate to tie their bullshit to something that actually means something in the real world. First dragging in veterans, now trying to say they’re roughing it like real men of the revolution. I give them a few more weeks before they fizzle out, winter can be a cold bitch.
Don’t forget small pox. Small Pox ran rampant through Valley forge. I do not really see a Baron Von Steuben (sadly a case of stolen Valor, or barony whatever) teaching them bayonet training.
Let’s see. So far they have invoked the images of MLK and the Founding Fathers. That didn’t work. Now it’s Valley Forge. What’s next, planting a red flag adorned with a hammer and sickle on a skyscraper and calling it Mount Suribachi?
There is something about a large group of well trained, heavily armed, and highly motivated people out to blow you pesonally away, that puts a little authenticity in that war thingy.
AirCav@9, they’d invoke the image of Wake Island, but none of them know where it is, or what happened there.
Hi,
I’m the guy quoted here. I was in Afghanistan in ’08, with Second Battalion Seventh Marines. I know where Wake Island is too, by the way.
We’re going to be out here exercising our God-given, Constitutionally protected rights. While you guys are arm-chair quarterbacking, I’ll be out here making shit happen. Yes, there are hippies and homeless here too. Some of the hippie chicks are hot, and the homeless guys are vets, idiots and crazies.
Truthfully, this is all a stunt. A worthy stunt though, compared to the whiny bitching that you’re doing from the warmth of your apartment or house somewhere.
Fuck you. Come on over and argue, debate, rant, march… I don’t care. Be a fucking citizen or shut the fuck up.
A stunt is still a stunt. If you act in a way that you are not taken seriously then your views will not be taken seriously. If your views are not taken seriously then no one will really care what you are doing.
Simple as that.
In Recondo School the instructors woke us up at midnight with artillery simulators. I think we should do the same with these freaks. It is pretty entertaining to watch people come out the top of their tents and run around half naked
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Hi Mikey!
Yes, you are the man. You are in the trenches and the shit is deep. What a guy, a rebel with a cause! You are really making the shit happen, as you say! Keep telling youurself these things. What you are doing is changing the world! On the other hand, there is this: The public is being fed pictures of filth, pro-marxist placards, violence, as well as stories of sexual assaults, a mother abandoning her family to wallow in squalor for the cause, thefts, and public defecation and urination, to name a few. The pols who were siding up to your mob are backing away quickly and the taxpayers are learning the high cost of your stunts. In short, while we are clean, warm, and comfortable, you and yours are being scoffed at, laughed at, and made fun of while creating a magnet for the rats and every misfit and nutjob within miles of each occupied site. I guess that’s the price of good citizenship, eh?
@ JonP -Excellent idea – cherry bombs or m-80s would be a fine substitute, tossed outside the tents. Of course that might interrupt the rituals of the Family Circle Jerk, the nightly worship of the image of Che and Mao or the pimping out / rape of minor girls. But it would be hysterically funny!!!
BTW – comparing this to war – ANY war – is enough to earn every obne of these inbred,scumbags a bitch-slap across their unwashed faces. They are an ongoing insult to every man or woman, including some of my dear friends, who died in foreign hell-holes so that these cocksuckers would have the freedom to whine, babble their incoherent drug addled bullsh*t for the dung-eating media, and defecate in public parks. Damn them all to hell.
“We’re going to be out here exercising our God-given, Constitutionally protected rights. While you guys are
arm-chair quarterbackingactually working at jobs, I’ll be out here making shit happen. ” Fixed it for you, Mikey. But, do keep on keeping on. The occuturds haven’t managed to offend everyone yet, but we have faith in you guys.Tired/Wired Memes:
Tired: #OccupyWallStreet
Wired: #RedeployToMomsBasement
Hey, Mikey, I’d have to go along with Jayman, in #16, he seems to have pretty well described every one of the morons you hang out with. Most especially para. #2.
BTW, “Some of the hippie chicks are hot,”, does that mean you like pit and leg hair? Someone ought to introduce you to ObamaGurl.
Occupy Sesame Street clowns shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same breath with Valley Forge soldiers. The Continental Army soldiers gave their lives for the constitution these little shitwads are trampling on with their socialistic attitudes. After cooking and eating their shoes to stay alive, congress decided to not pay many of these soldiers. They decided round up every member of congress and KILL them. But George Washington talked them out of it, saying that would make them no better than the oppressive tyrants they’d just freed themselves from. Big mistake. Should have killed every last one of the rat bastards as a warning and example to today’s rat bastards in congress. OWS people? They just shit on police cars.