Occupy Yourself
My good friend Mark Shea is convinced that the Occupy Wall Street mob represents an honest protests against the excesses and dishonesty of bankers and capitalists, and that the bad publicity they have been receiving in the media is due to an ideological slant trying to make them look bad.
He points out how badly the Tea Party protesters were and are portrayed, and cautions his readers not to take the media presentation as unbiased.
Since I used to work in the newspaper field, both as writer and editor, for two newspapers that were both bankrupt (I suppose hiring me acts as the reverse of the curse of Midas) I am not hasty to dismiss Mr Shea’s complaint of news bias.
I am, however, willing to aid that bias in this case, whether it is a bias or not.
Take a look:
http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2011/11/zuccotti-utopia-portraits-of-revolutionaries/
I had to sit and listen to Lefty dunderheads call my best friend Mark “The Man” Whipple and my martial arts guru Cory “Divine Wind of Ninth Heaven” Comstock get called racists, not to mention myself, on the grounds that we supported the Tea Party protests against excessive government spending and the demand to return to Constitutional limitations on the Federal power. Mark is black, and was adopted by white parents; Corey married a fine young Japanese lady who can break boards with her head; and I have one or two Chinese daughters and/or Goddaughters living in my house, so if we are racists, then our leader, Herr Hitler, is spinning in his grave.
Now, to me, the Occupy Wall Street people look very different from the Tea Party people.
Occupy Wall Street:
In case you don’t recognize him, Guy Fawkes is a Catholic mutineer attempting to blow up the English monarch with gunpowder and restore England to religious conformity with Europe. This is his reincarnation from a funnybook by Alan “Kiddie Porn” Moore as a fighter against the malefic tyranny of Thatcherite England — a less likely emblem for Anarchy cannot be imagined.
Tea Party:
Now, to be sure, one might object that Jack Kirby’s super patriot was not Rightwing. He has always been more like an FDR Nazi-fighter figure. To which I answer, yes, but that was back in the days when the Democrat Party represented someone other than the very bankers and corporations and billionaires, so roundly reviled by the current administration, who are cronies, conspirators and catamites of the current administration. Cap would not applaud the take-over of GM by DC, or the shenanigans between Freddie and Fanny and Goldman-Sacks: the relationship between the Glorious Leader and the state-run syndicates was precisely the definition of the fascism Steve Rogers was fighting.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
