Gordon Osmond

Gordon Osmond
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Retired lawyer, playwright, English teacher, tennis umpire. Author of So You Think You Know English: A Guide to English for Those Who Think They Don't Need One. ISBN: 978-1-61546-414-2 and Wet Firecrackers http://www.publishamerica.net/product38929.html Osmond hosts a weekly interactive broadcast dedicated to the discussion of books and ESL education. To participate, check out www.publishamericaauthors.com

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OCTOBER 22, 2011 3:34PM

OWS: Anarchy Anyone?

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Anarchy Anyone?

 

Are there protesters because there's a shortage of jobs, or is widespread unemployment due in part to so many preferring to protest? Shades of the chicken and egg, no? 

 

My money is on the chicken as many protesters, particularly those who have demonstrated the capacity to formulate a declarative or imperative sentence, have voiced the view that getting a job is much too prosaic a response to their needs when system overhaul demands their support.

 

But what system do they want to overhaul? Obama is doing his level best to produce a socialistic one, yet the mob is clearly not inclined to jump on his bandwagon. And it's doubtful that any spokesman for the system that enables these hippies of all ages to communicate so efficiently would be welcome into the littering tents overnight.

 

Anarchy would seem to be only other choice and force the only available means of bringing it about in the United States of America.

 

The protesters would be well advised to define their goals. If they want to lead the country in a particular political direction, they should emulate the Tea Party template and bring about significant change in the halls of Congress.  If they choose anarchy through force, they should have at it and suffer the crushing consequences.

 

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Perhaps their lack of definition and specificity alludes to the anarchy and confusion they wish.

Too bad we don't hear many solutions for what troubles them . . . . Of course, the whiff of hypocrisy is in the air. I suspect many of them would agree that the government needs to provide "more".
"Is widespread unemployment due in part to so many preferring to protest?"

This is hardly tantalizing bait. My indignant mind refuses to formulate a sentence, declarative, imperative or otherwise, in response.
Gordon, let's face it, a bunch of left wing punks aren't going to be willing to die for anything---it's the pissed off heavily armed right wingers who are on the skids that will be getting the ball rolling.
Gordon, although I know you will disagree with me. I simply think they are like me, fed up with the corporatization of America and the World for that matter. They are fed up, with things such as they may be. I went to school in Brooklyn, so don't correct my grammar. ;-)
You are a facist. I'll take anarchy over facism anyday.