This past week has seen a swell in the surge of protesters to downtown Manhattan, as part of a contingency to basically yell “Fuck you!” to Wall Street bankers and President Barack “Osama” Obama. Their goal is to have a similar impact as the protests that have taken place in the Middle East of late. Sadly, they are the same type of misguided fools as the Tea Party protesters, just on the opposite political side of the spectrum.
For starters, we are not a Middle Eastern country run by dictatorship, nor do any of these folks have anything NEAR the semblance of the pains those folks have been through. Therefore, they lack the emotional heart to actually make a difference. Those folks overseas are fighting for their lives, something nobody over here (less military personnel) has any idea about. Let’s face it: these are middle to under-middle class young adults basically searching for a cause, an identity, a meme, notoriety, and possibly a lawsuit – courtesy of the great city of New York.
The reasons I am so agitated by this event are many. For starters, let’s discuss how nobody participating has any regard for our city. Do any of them care about the long-term impact this “peaceful” protest will have on our already destroyed city budget? We’re closing down schools, laying off teachers, closing firehouses and hospitals. Do any of them care that the police who are there to protect them (although all you’ll hear from their side is schoolyard ‘Fuck the Police!’ rhetoric) are going to further bankrupt the city into the millions of dollars? Do they care about all of the downtown businesses that are already struggling, and losing money during this stay because folks don’t want to go near the crazy train that are the protesters? I doubt it.
This shows the narcissism of our current generation.
And let’s be honest. Most of us are extremely angry at the government and Wall Street over the economy and bailouts and things that are or aren’t happening. But you should have learned from every other protest that’s happened in this country that not since the days of the ‘colored’ water fountains have any of them meant a goddamned difference in any way. Okay, maybe Kent, but still. Did the WTO get the hint when they destroyed Seattle? Did George W. Bush give a flying fuck when they destroyed Portland?
No.
And now you’ve completely steered your “cause” away from Wall Street and made it all about police brutality. Yes, I’ve seen the footage. That’s not police brutality. You know who knows about police brutality? Poor minorities, none of which there seem to be. Poor minorities know better than to scream in a police officer’s face for hours. Police brutality is when a man gets shot 41 times for pulling out his keys; it’s when a man is sodomized with a baton; it’s when a man is beaten to within an inch of his life on the side of the road, not being thrown to the ground or maced or shoved. And these white kids are overreacting like a Jerry Springer crowd. Stop acting like you've never seen COPS.
Sure, there are some bad cops. But most of these guys are just there, begrudgingly because of duty, or perhaps because they need the overtime. I've seen how the situation plays out: They start out fine, but these protester idiots heckle them until the boiling point. You need to view this from their perspective. A man can only take “Fuck you” X amount of times before boiling over. And you know damn well these privileged kids are doing nothing short of poking at the bears. As far as I’m concerned, you get everything you deserve down there. You are exactly like the paparazzi; taunting folks with cameras in their faces - apparently that's all this generation understands anymore. As a matter of fact, I wish that I was NYPD right now so that I could stomp on some heads, myself.
I’ve said it before, but I do truly believe many folks down there are secretly looking to be roughed up by the police, for fame or money or something else I can't comprehend. But when I saw the girl taking swings at cops, that proved my theory. Who is stupid enough to take swings at the po-po and not expect to get beaten down? Is it right how she was taken down? You’re goddamned right it is right. They are the only folks willing to serve to protect our monkey asses in this world. Does corruption exist, HELL YEAH. But DO NOT throw fists and try to call it police brutality. I realize the hatred that exists in smaller towns around America, where the fuzz has nothing to do but clock speeding cars, but these motherfucking protesters are causing THAT many police to be possibly stopping REAL crimes like rape and murder, not to mention that subway theft has become way out of hand. NYPD are the greatest police squad in the world, as far as I’m concerned, and although there is much corruption within, this is also not the era of Serpico, so get off your box. You should thank them each and every time you see one for shaping this city into something you suburban twats can live in without fear. The next time you’re walking down the sidewalk in Red Hook, blabbing on your cell without a care in the world – realize that ten or more years ago you’d have been mugged, raped, or much worse. NYPD put that fear into the city, it’s why I’m much more terrified to go to other cities, where the cops are nowhere to be found.
Also, let's talk money and responsibility. Traditionally, it's my opinion that many of the liberal protesters of the world come from families with money, which causes them early resentment of it, and shapes them into middle-fingering the "amighty dollar". It doesn't include ALL liberal protesters, but usually the ones most fervently for a cause such as this is basically hate-fucking their parents. Basically, what I'm saying here is to come and talk with me when real life hits you, you have real responsibilities, and need money. Then we'll see what your opinions on spending your days protesting are. I guarantee most of these protesters today will go on to make money and realize that protesting is shit.
In summation, the protesters are just as frantically insane as the Tea Partiers or even the Westboro Baptist Church; what they are about is singular, and they refuse to consider anything outside of their scope. They go places with bad signs and yell.
This is, ironically, EXACTLY where the "powers that be" actually want them to be: easily manipulated.
And, really? Using a comic book hero (V for Vendetta) your theme, and donning masks? REALLY? You want to be taken seriously? Why not just show up as Papa fucking Smurf?
Pack up your bongs and go the fuck back to Ohio.
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