OWS (Occupy Wall Street)

The movement called OWS (Occupy Wall Street) is a collection of unemployed (unemployable?) losers who are steadily gaining momentum in other parts of the country.  The way to measure the seriousness of this "movement" is to see what happens when the weather turns and the malcontents become uncomfortable.  In the meantime one has to speculate on why all of the sudden this "movement" sprung up.  Newt Gingrich is on record as suggesting this is the result of Obama's beating up on Wall Street since his poll numbers started cratering about a year ago.  This particular explanation makes sense at least from an historical standpoint.  Usually when unrest and discontent starts to get out of hand in totalitarian regimes, the dictator finds a bogey man to occupy the thoughts of the masses and deflect their anger against him.  Gingrich is right about this.  Obama approved the bailout of Wall Street and he willingly accepted (and accepts) big contributions from this quarter.  But he clearly decided that they make the most defenseless target to attack since they were bailed out, still pay themselves outsized bonuses, plus the work force is not unionized and lives infinitely better than the democrats core constituency. Easy envy target.  James Taranto here in the WSJ captures some of the essence of this strategy.  The biggest danger is that the "movement" spirals out of control and violence erupts, which of course the radical left would like and will probably do everything they can to abet.

ADDED:  This Surber post indicates the so-called demonstration has taken another turn, this time much for the worse.  Some investigations have turned up the information that this is the work of the swame WTO crowd who trashed Seattle a few years back, as well as a union connection and even a possible al-Qaeda one based on  intel provided by Andrew Breibert's website.  This is getting interesting since there are also links to the WH via the union activities.  Typically radicals either orchestrate and or take-over "movements" and turn them in the direction they want, so that "Protests" can evolve into opportunity to take down the existing government.  Those radicals are at work here.  Democrats supporting this stuff are definitely playing with fire that may in the end consume them if these various ties of this OWS crowd to known radicals prove to be the case.  Time will tell.