When some Politician wants to take credit for something simply for political gain, well, they will. It seems to be part of human nature to want to be part of "a winner" and certainly Elizabeth Warren showed her human nature in wanting to boast "I’m a Wall Street Occupier" when she came out with:
I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do
Now, combine that with Elizabeth Warren’s Intellectual Foundation for Warrenism:
You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did.
Yeah, tell that to the guy in Oakland who actually had to face down that marauding band of Occupy Oaklanders whose underpinnings come from her moral code.
Oakland developer Phil Tagami is used to working behind the scenes to broker some of the biggest deals in town. Late Wednesday, he was using different persuasive skills – holding a loaded shotgun to scare away rioters trying to get into a downtown building.
"We had people who attempted to break into our building," the landmark Rotunda Building on Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall, Tagami said Thursday. He grabbed a shotgun that he usually keeps at home, went down to the ground floor and "discouraged them," he said.
"I was standing there and they saw me there, and I lifted it – I didn’t point it – I just held it in my hands," Tagami said. "And I just racked it, and they ran."
Although they didn’t get inside the building – Tagami, 46, oversaw its $50 million renovation and has an office there
Once again, Individual actions and self-reliance have trumped collective-reliance on the collective. Now, Conservatives understand from a pragmatic standpoint
that while we do outsource law enforcement to the State as part of that social compact, we realize that that are times when that right needs to be pulled back to ourselves. After all, each one of us is responsible for ourselves and our property from those that would harm us.
Thanks to Elizabeth Warren and her say-so on the OWS created anarchy in Oakland the last couple of days, I think this was timely. After all, imagine my reaction if my selectmen (we have no mayor) decided to do the same thing as Oakland Mayor Jean Quan did!
After all, the ultimate aim of those behind the Occupy movement is not reform but revolution. this is merely the propaganda stage in "shaping the battlefield". They are demonizing the 1%, scapegoating them whether deserved or not (and remember, bad people inhabit all strata of society and not just the 1%) and now, mark my words, they are now starting to include the Police (all police, not just the bad apples) – go read the whole thing:
But some things are expected, according to Dominique Arotzarena, president of the Oakland Police Officer’s Association. During the protests in Oakland, officers “took a lot of people spitting on them all. Then every name in the book and they just took it.” Why tolerate threats and more? “We’re police officers – part of the job.”
