Occupiers lose Battle of Wardman Park

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  February 10th at 07:00 PM  | 

The basic premise of the Occupations, including Occupy DC, is that they, the “99%”, are not being heard in elections, so they must impose themselves on spaces where they are not welcome in order to force their message out. It’s a strategy reminiscent of George Lincoln Rockwell’s Phase One for the American Nazi Party, and I expect it to be just as ineffective at achieving | Read More »

Unions Plan Siege On Conservative Political Action Conference [CPAC]

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 4th at 09:00 AM  | 

Next weekend, political conservatives from all over the nation will be descending on Washington, DC to attend the annual Conservative Political Action Conference—better known as CPAC. Across town, however, union bosses and their adopted #OccupyDC progeny are planning to disrupt and lay siege to the conservative conference. According to the AFL-CIO’s Washington DC Metro Council website, “Actions are currently being planned for noontime andafter work on Friday, | Read More »

Occupy DC throws smoke bomb at White House… AND WAS NOT MADE TO RETREAT?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 17th at 10:00 PM  | 

Just for calibration… back in April of 2009 I attended the DC Tax Day Tea Party; and one of the more interesting moments of that day was when a box was found to have been thrown over the White House fence, causing the US Secret Service to pretty much push everybody out of Lafayette Park. Never knew who threw the box (obviously, nothing in it), | Read More »

A PSA for the failed #OccupyDC barn-builders.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 4th at 09:45 PM  | 

Well… shed builders, at least. Seriously, that’s not even close to being a barn. Moving along: as the link above notes, some of the people ‘occupying’ DC tried to put up a wooden structure today… and, apparently, was not able to get the blessed thing even half-done before the cops finally decided to put this exercise in sustained disdain for property rights out of its | Read More »

Occupy DC: Corporate-funded, corporate-controlled, corporate-aimed.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 8th at 12:00 PM  | 

This ABC News article is correct enough, as it goes: On the surface, the “Occupy the Koches: Guerilla Drive-In” event looked like any other “Occupy” movement protest against the proverbial 1 percent of the population who hold the nation’s wealth. But a confederation of long-established progressive political advocacy groups — the Campaign for America’s Future, Campaign for Community Change, Common Cause, Health Care for America | Read More »

The Real Occupy DC.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 6th at 05:45 PM  | 

A couple of things to take away from this video: (For those without video access, it starts with Rudy Giuliani at the AFP summit hanging the Occupiers around Barack Obama’s neck; continues with scenes of Progressives Acting Badly by trying to interfere with the free movement of more productive members of society attending said summit; and ends with several actual residents of DC pointing out | Read More »

Occupy DC tries, fails to trigger Mob incident.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 5th at 11:33 AM  | 

Background: Americans for Prosperity is having its annual summit this weekend, and the Occupy movement decided to send some people over to disrupt it – which is to say, they tried to rush the building. They failed, of course – the American Left simply is not very good at demonstrations* – but in the process of expressing their inner kindergarteners (the ones that weren’t using | Read More »

Astroturf on literal parade: Occupy DC agitator admits to paying protesters.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 7th at 09:45 AM  | 

The Daily Caller has some entertaining video up of a ‘Occupy DC organizer’ admitting that some of the spontaneous voluntary protesters that he has in tow – ones, not even incidentally, that are more, ah, diverse than the baseline of ‘pasty-faced white twenty-something hipster who’s seriously underwater in his/her liberal arts degree student debt’ – are actually being paid to show up and wave signs | Read More »