Why Flag-Burning Bodes Ill for OWS

[MADem]

15. I like the idea of calling the bankers to account. I like the idea of focusing on social justice

issues. I like making greedy bastards who foreclose on people squirm. I like calling attention to the plight of unemployed and underemployed people, people who have lost their retirement funds, people who can't afford to retire, kids who cannot afford or pay back college loans, and stuff like that. I am in the "Right On" crowd on those issues.

I don't like unfocused bullshit. I'm tired of the camping paradigm--I find it lame, scruffy, and tiresome. I don't like flag burning for the sake of shocking people, especially when so many of our disabled vets and gold star families are members of the 99%. Sure, you CAN do it, and you can fart in church, too. Does that mean you should, or you must? I don't like stupid and ambiguous graffiti, I don't like gratuitous property damage along with declarations that these vandals represent the 99 percent, I don't like dumbass building "takeovers" (the only exception being when OWS activists protect an existing homeowner from being evicted), and I don't like taunting, bullshit stunts.

If you want to be treated like an adult, you need to act like one. MLK knew how to "do" civil disobedience without flag burning and sleeping in parks. I think OWS needs to grow up--I'm not the only one who feels this way, either--a lot of this stupid horseshit is turning people off.

I will probably be told, yet again, by the "LALALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAAAAR YOU" crowd with their fingers in their ears how much I "hate" OWS, too. I don't hate OWS at all, in actual fact--I have a strong dislike for the assholes who are making OWS look like a bunch of nitwits, though.