Attack on civility is approved by public officials including President Obama

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"“A lot of that anger, that frustration, dissipates,” Obama said in the ABC interview, if “everybody gets a fair shake, but we’re also asking a fair share from everybody.” So, "be prepared for shattered glass." Why is it "fair" that Obama is a multi-millionaire and other people are poor?

2/10/12, "Attack on civility," NY Post, Michael Walsh

"A specter is haunting America — the specter of violence that challenges the notion of civil discourse and threatens our democracy. Embodied by the Occupy Wall Street rabble and its imitators, and shamefully abetted by far too many Democratic elected officials, what once masqueraded as

• “dissent” is now unmasked as partisan thuggery.

The ugliness was on display Thursday at a Panel for Educational Policy meeting in Brooklyn, where a Department of Education proposal to close some 23 failing public schools ran into Occupy-style opposition — including from several elected officials.

“Tonight is just the beginning,” said City Councilman Jumaane Williams, who represents Flatbush and Canarsie. Then he chanted: “All day, all week, occupy the DOE.”

The crowd of more than 2,000 — bloated by swarms of Occupiers and their teachers-union promoters — shouted down any opposition via a standard Occupy trick, the so-called “peoples’ microphone,” in which one speaker’s words are picked up and relayed in short phrases. Naturally, four-letter words flew.

The goal was to thwart a legal and democratic process through disruption and intimidation.

Panel members bravely stood up to the thugs, voting to close 18 schools and eliminate the middle schools of five others while approving 16 new school sites and expansion elsewhere.

But the Occubullies, in New York and around the nation, aren’t going anywhere. Count on it.

Owing to their impressive rap sheets — including hundreds of arrests, destruction of property, rape, public defecation, lewdness, even murder — their public support has gradually sunk, and police have finally moved in to break up most illegal encampments.

But the movement is down, not out. Last week, Occupy DC For Revolution, was evicted from McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza. Even so, it has vowed to attack this weekend’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference — which it calls a “gathering of bigots, media mouthpieces, corrupt politicians and their 1 percent elite puppet masters.”

• Their Orwellian slogan — “Occupy CPAC: Liberate Discourse.”

Echoing the 1960s’ radicals’ tactics of “direct action,” Occupy DC reportedly plans to infiltrate the conference today and disrupt the proceedings.

Despite Occupy’s history of violence and intimidation, the left has supported it, which is why Williams — with state Sen. Bill Perkins and other union puppets — cheered the Occupiers in Brooklyn on Thursday.

“We understand their struggles, and we are on their side,” President Obama told ABC News last October, before the tide of public opinion began to turn.

In fact, the Democrats have always seen the Occupy throngs as allies, tolerating their lawlessness to further their class-warfare and income-redistribution agenda.

“A lot of that anger, that frustration, dissipates,” Obama said in the ABC interview, if “everybody gets a fair shake, but we’re also asking a fair share from everybody.”

In other words, raise taxes on “the rich,” or be prepared for shattered glass.

It’s bad enough when mock revolutionaries endanger public order — but it’s horrifying when public officials and their union-thug compadres support them. Both Occupy Wall Street and Occupy the DOE are backed by the teachers unions, and the AFL-CIO has been notably sympathetic to the protests....

The late-’60s riots ended with burned cities, broken skulls and a near-intergenerational civil war. This one could get even uglier." via Instapundit

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1/23/12, "George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War," Newsweek, Daily Beast, J. Arlidge

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Overwhelm the system:

5/2/1966, "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty," Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward

"By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption...that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty....

Advocacy must be supplemented by organized demonstrations to create a climate of militancy that will overcome the invidious and immobilizing attitudes which many potential recipients hold toward being "on welfare."...

As the crisis develops, it will be important to use the mass media to inform the broader liberal community about the inefficiencies and injustices of welfare. For example, the system will not be able to process many new applicants because of cumbersome and often unconstitutional investigatory procedures (which cost 20c for every dollar disbursed). As delays mount, so should the public demand that a simplified affidavit supplant these procedures, so that the poor may certify to their condition. If the system reacts by making the proof of eligibility more difficult, the demand should be made that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare dispatch "eligibility registrars" to enforce federal statutes governing local programs. And throughout the crisis, the mass media should be used to advance arguments for a new federal income distribution program. ...

To generate an expressly political movement, cadres of aggressive organizers would have to come from the civil rights movement and the churches, from militant low-income organizations like those formed by the Industrial Areas Foundation (that is, by Saul Alinsky), and from other groups on the Left. These activists should be quick to see the difference between programs to redress individual grievances and a large-scale social-action campaign for national policy reform....

Once eligibility for basic food and rent grants is established, the drain on local resources persists indefinitely....

Third, the prospects for mass influence are enhanced because this plan provides a practical basis for coalition between poor whites and poor Negroes. Advocates of low-income movements have not been able to suggest how poor whites and poor Negroes can be united in an expressly lower-class movement.

It seems reasonable to expect that

• the masses will deliver their loyalties to their benefactors.

• At least, they have always done so in the past."

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