Occupiers proclaim they are vanguard of revolution
by Bob Hoig, Publisher
Midlands Business Journal
Barack Obama seems oblivious to it.
His Atty. Gen. Eric Holder, our chief law enforcement officer, turns a blind eye on it.
Officials responsible for public order in places as separated as New York, Washington, D.C., and Oakland appear timid as their communities are targeted.
This writer refers to the violent, destructive, disease-spreading and death-dealing “Occupy” movement that is currently tolerated, exposing Americans to the lethal pathologies that wracked Europe in the 20th Century.
The violence and anarchy are growing weekly from city to city.
In Washington, D.C., a lone citizen taking down banned occupier tents in laid waste McPherson Park was spit on and manhandled until police rescued him.
For law-abiding citizens, it’s becoming a familiar sight on the evening news — destroyed buildings, smoking rubble, placards calling for revolution and burning American flags.
Is a new era ahead for American justice — every man for himself?
Reports carried with regularity on television, cable and radio could be taken right out of the anarchy of Berlin in the 1930s. Nazis and communists fought it out for control of the streets and an eventual takeover of the German government.
For the hapless Germans, Hitler masterminded World War II and the destruction of Germany. It took 60 million lives on all sides before that conflict was settled in 1945.
Could it happen here? You bet.
This writer predicts it will unless President Obama bestirs himself to defend democracy while chaos and violence can be contained. The danger is that as protest morphs into anarchy, public safety will slip beyond society’s control.
Then peace can be guaranteed only by presidential decree and martial law. The end is dictatorship.
It is ominous that a Wall Street Journal poll last November found 30 percent of the occupiers say they will resort to violence. That snowball has rolled downhill considerably in the months since then.
If Obama and Holder continue to float above the growing chaos and violence, nothing is assured. The president has a sworn duty to the Constitution and to see that the laws are faithfully executed. Holder has a similar duty.
However, their actions on lesser issues have not been auspicious. With immigration control and Arizona’s appeal for federal enforcement of the law, Holder has appeared more hindrance than help in solving problems.
The leading Republican presidential candidates, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, could help by ending the bitter feuding.
It is hard to write about either of them without resorting to sarcasm.
With revolutionary occupiers in the background, does Gingrich really believe that the danger to American survival involves whether Romney withheld kosher meals to elderly Jews, as one of his robot-telephone calls recently insisted in Florida?
Does Romney think that whatever Gingrich did as an adviser to those rotten to the core mortgage funding agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have any impact on the United States if the occupiers have their way?
Sadly, Barack Obama holds officialdom’s highest cards. Responsibility for stopping a cadre of committed revolutionaries and the Utopians who flock with them rests mainly on the president.
February 3, 2012
