Do They Also Crash Obama's Big Bucks Fundraisers?
Got this press release:
COALITION OF ACTIVISTS & OCCUPIERS TO CRASH DAVID KOCH'S SOUTH HAMPTON FUNDRAISER FOR MITT ROMNEY* * *
Umbrella Coalition Vows to Not Allow Koch Industries to Influence Election, Sets Sights on David Koch's Private Party for Romney
[SOUTH HAMPTON, NY] At 4pm on July 8th, 2012 a diverse coalition of activists and occupiers from across New York will descend upon a $50,000 per-guest fundraiser for presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the South Hampton home of billionaire David Koch. Citing the ever-growing and pervasive influence of Koch Industries' money on our electoral system, organizers from Occupy Wall Street, The Long Island Progressive Coalition, Greenpeace, Moveon.org, Strong For All, United New York, The Occupied Storefront and Occupy Huntington, Long Island, have announced that they will take action to non-violently disrupt the fundraiser at David Koch's shorefront estate located at 880 Meadow Lane in South Hampton.
Are they also "disrupting" the fundraisers Hollywood stars throw to raise big money for Obama? Are they outside George Soros' house?
Why is one Big Politics guy okay and not the other?







Thoughtcrime.
It's because of profit.
http://coloradoright.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/stop-making-profit/
Stinky the Clown at June 28, 2012 7:19 AM
Dan Carlin mentioned this on his last podcast. The occupy people only care about corrpution when it's done by republicans. I guess corrupt democrats are just fine (even though they are often worse than the republicans).
mike at June 28, 2012 9:26 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/do-they-also-cr.html#comment-3247042">comment from mikeIt is entirely naive -- and absurdly so -- the way the Occupy people ignore the abuses by the Democrats, which are myriad -- as are those by the Republicans.
This is politics of idiocy. Once you join a "team," you are predisposed to support and stand behind it. I'm an independent. I look at politicians and issues independently and generally find myself choosing the lesser of two evils, but at least I'm choosing.
Amy Alkon
at June 28, 2012 9:34 AM
Hardly the first time or occurance of such hypocracy. For me being just outside of DC see it often.
The two most striking ones were, Anti-war protests effectively vanishing after the 2008 election, and anti-patriot act protests, During Bush and Obamas resigning. Same bill, same abuses but 80% of the protesters and the press vanish, depending on who is in office.
Reminds me I think it was on this blog that I went over how the top 10 richest people got their money, in response to someones question. Basically the Ocupy people complain they are evil because they got rich not for doing anything other than suffling papers around and manipulating markets. But that exactly describes only two of the top ten Buffett and Soros, the rest made things. In the Koch brothers case, one hass a PHd from MIT and made their fortune inventing things which have helped the planet and environment.
The rule of thumb is with anything in advertising and politics, the message is usually the opposite of what the truth is, otherwise there would be no need to advertise it.
In politics this means many Republicans with family values turn a blind eye to their own lives and infidelities.
and it means theat Democrats, who claim to be for racial equality are usually the biggest racists.
Joe J at June 28, 2012 10:17 AM
It's very simple - Republicans are anti-Communist and therefore always wrong.
Democrats are pro-Communist, and therefore always right.
brian at June 28, 2012 11:12 AM
"This is politics of idiocy. "
No, it's the politics of narcissism. The Left looks at the vastness and splendor of America and thinks, "Rightfully, this should all be mine." Corrupt behavior on their side is OK because, y'know, it's different when they do it.
Cousin Dave at June 28, 2012 11:18 AM
You mean something like this?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/25/1103146/-Mitt-Romney-sends-his-bus-to-go-heckle-Obama-supporters-again
Factual Interjection at June 28, 2012 12:24 PM
Democrats and liberals/progressives have no internalized sense of right and wrong. To them, whether an act is right or wrong, good or evil, depends not on the nature of the act itself, but on who does it.
Ken R at June 29, 2012 3:44 AM
"they will take action to non-violently disrupt the fundraiser"
This is a contradiction. The only way to actually 'disrupt' the fundraiser in that sense, *is* to use force against the attendees in some way ... what do they plan to do if attendees insist on entering and proceeding? This is a direct threat of violence and nothing more. They can try prevent the fundraiser from going ahead but pretending they are not using force, and thereby pretending that they retain some kind of moral high ground, is just bullshit PR and is dishonest. They should just admit they think what Koch is doing should be stopped using force.
Lobster at June 29, 2012 7:34 AM
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