A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Wall Street

This past weekend, something called "Occupy Wall Street" took over the streets of New York City.  This "uprising" actually began around late September in Zucotti Park.  This past weekend, throngs of people numbering in the thousands showed up and shut down the Brooklyn Bridge, some shouting their grievances at the evil corporatists and others who obviously thought the Grateful Dead were having a reunion concert nearby.  Similar protests have quickly formed in L.A., Washington D.C., and Boston.  Van Jones, the former green czar who was booted from the Obama administration for, among other things, dabbling in the 9/11 trutherism, was instrumental in growing this movement as well (that should tell you everything you need to know).

Here is the listing of some of the grievances that I am sure would have even kept George III up at night:

• They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one's skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
• They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
• They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices.
• They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
• They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
• They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
• They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
• They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.

At the end of the list, there is an asterisk that notes that the above charges are not inclusive.

But I hate to point out the obvious to these protestors, at least to the ones who know why they are there in the first place:  even President Obama received millions from the same evil Wall Street thugs they are now protesting against.  I wonder when the Occupy the White House movement will start?  And of course many liberals have hastily declared that this movement is real, authentic, and reasonable.  Even President Obama stated that Occupy Wall Street shows Americans' frustrations on the economy.  Hmmm.  I wonder why the Tea Party movement didn't equally show the frustrations of American people?  No, no, no, I forgot:  that movement is AstroTurf and is full of racists, bigots, and two worst charges of them all in the current day:  old and white.

John Hinderaker at Powerline posted the picture below today.  It's actually pretty clever but still indicative of the type of crowd that clogged the streets of New York City over the weekend.