Here are some excerpts from ‘Walking Along Avenue J(ew),’ an op-ed by Arnold Ahlert that exposes the Occupation Wall Street movement as nothing more than a rabble army being manipulated and used by people with sinister motives. (From Friday’s issue of Jewish World Review):
I am a student of history, and one thing I can tell you is that the surest path to totalitarianism is the one that begins by singling out a specific subset of a nation's population, and blaming them for everything that's going wrong. If that has a familiar ring, maybe it's because the latest incarnation of this strategy, known as the Occupation Wall Street (OWS) movement, is playing itself out, even as I write this.
Understand what the insidiousness of their slogan, the "ninety-nine percent versus the one percent" is really all about: an "enemy" comprised of one percent of the population is easy to identify, easy to scapegoat and, above all, easy to attack, if this movement gets out of hand. Understand who most of the adherents of this movement are: the historical descendants of every useful idiot who's ever been unwittingly conscripted into a rabble army--enabled by people with far more sinister motives than the rabble itself. Understand that those enablers are people who cannot achieve the kind of power they desire by legitimate means, so they must stoke the rabble in order to achieve it.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: At the beginning of this op-ed, Ahlert included 20 anti-Semitic comments he received from OWS supporters. That’s what he is referring to when he writes, “Look again at the comments above .......”]
How easily is the rabble stoked? Look again at the comments above and keep in mind that they have been written by people living in the freest, most prosperous nation in the world. Keep in mind that both the communist and Nazi parties have lent their support to the OWS movement. Keep in mind that the American left, from the man in the street to the man in the Oval Office, is dedicated to dividing Americans by race, religion and most of all by class. Without Us versus Them, all of these self-professed champions of the "little people" would be relegated to the margins of the American experience.
The facade of hope and change has crumbled. In less than four years it has been replaced by the fear and resentment which now represents the most viable path by which our current president and members of his party hope to maintain their power. It was power bestowed upon them by people who were willing to believe the unbelievable, many of whom have had their lofty illusions smashed against the rocks of reality.
Decent Americans should hope that the OWS movement represents, not a new beginning, but the dying gasps of an ideology that, in its most virulent incarnation, has killed more than a hundred million people in a quixotic search for social justice that doesn't exist. Moreover it can't exist: every society which has ever demanded rigid equality has always required an equally rigid enforcement class to maintain it. It is that enforcement class which wishes the OWS movement to succeed.
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