Raise your hand if you’re shocked. Yeah, OK, you wiseacres: put those hands down. Everybody knows that progressive activists never clean up after themselves:
Why are liberals so filthy? http://t.co/FxNEukizhl
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) January 14, 2015
Swear to God, it’s not hard to police a site afterward. Do you think that progressive activists don’t know about cleaning up after themselves, or just don’t care to do it? …I mean, it’s hard in this case for them to be both.
Via Twitchy.
Oh, this is entertaining: remember that video showing the Occupy Colorado Springs people being made to look even more like fools by Gov. Hickenlooper (D, darn it)? Well, it turned out that the guy who shot the original footage that Verum Serum grabbed-and-edited is an Occupier, and he was not happy that we were all laughing at the superior intellect. So, he went for a copyright take-down*.
Unfortunately for Mr. Occupier, one of the first things that the VRWC learned when we started up with this activism thing was this: Get a camera. Get lots of cameras. Film everything. And lo! – somebody else was filming this event.
I believe that the technical term here is ‘pwn3d.’
Moe Lane
*Suuuuure. Now they care about private property. Doesn’t information want to be free, Michael Clifton?
Shame? Me? It is to laugh.
…and take notes. As Jonah Goldberg notes, this is what democracy looks like:
For those without video: Governor Hickenlooper of Colorado (Democrat, alas) shut up local Occupiers by letting them whine for enough time to annoy the crowd… then put the question of whether the Occupiers should be allowed to continue to a vote. The crowd, of course, then promptly voted for the Occupiers to shut up, with shouts of “We are the 99%!” made to speed them on their way.
It’s a shame that a Democrat came up with this technique first, but I certainly hope that nobody reading this is so foolish as to disdain a clever technical coup simply because somebody from the Other Side came up with it.
