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Tag: Freak Shows

Contact High In Grand Circus Park, Anyone?

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 07:21:51 AM EST
Tags: Michigan, Detroit, Nolan Finley, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Tea Party, Redistribution, Freak Shows, Obama, Sympathizer (all tags)

Americas Irish Spring soap requiring slackers hit Detroit.

The Occupy Detroit group -- inspired by the protests on Wall Street seeking social, political and economic change -- plans to meet at 4 p.m. today at the Spirit of Detroit statute on Woodward. The group will march to Grand Circus Park at 6 p.m. and then occupy the area with sit-ins, pickets and other forms of protest.
Among those who plan to participate is Darlene Westfall, a Detroit Public Schools special education teacher.
"I've been teaching for 30 years and I have been considering getting another job because I can't make ends meet," said Westfall, a Westland resident. "I am getting the same salary I got in the mid-'90s. Something is not right."

Go figure, Darlene. BTW, nice Detroit zip code.

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RIGHT ON Nolan - Occupy DETROIT

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Mon Oct 10, 2011 at 10:36:55 AM EST
Tags: Michigan, Detroit, Nolan Finley, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Tea Party, Redistribution, Freak Shows, Obama, Sympathizer (all tags)

Nolan Finley, the best snark of the weekend pulls the whole "occupy" routine all together with his Sunday editorial.

I have seen SOME tea party types exclaim that these kids should be courted into the "tea" movement so "they won't be lost to the left." I argued I could offer no support other than to "agree the fed should be ended." And THAT argument however, needs even more discussion. My main point against saddling up with the occupy crowd, is frankly that they are little but a tool of this administration's allies. They are too closely aligned with Marxist and redistributive desires to be even slightly cozy. These kids are already tools of the left, and would be no more inclined to listen to conservative principles than Jennifer Granholm or Saul Alinsky.

Take your pick whom might be more radical.

In the editorial, Nolan calls them out as the radicals more aligned with the "sympathetic" administration of Barack Obama who as a matter of course ignored the millions of Tea Party types arguing for a return to limited government. He notes as "odd" the disparity in acknowledgment between those two groups. And as 'peace loving' lib-tards go, the occupy crowd doe not disappoint. Nolan closes with:

"State lawmakers in New York have received emails reportedly connected to Occupy Wall Street containing this cheery call to action: "It's time to kill the wealthy."
I haven't taken a poll, but my hunch is more Americans relate to "cut the spending" than to "kill the wealthy."
That's why I'm eager to see this freak show arrive in Detroit."
It'll be informative for voters to compare the American protesters Barack Obama sympathizes with to those he despises.

Eager, yes. As am I.

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