The Mob

[Core Imposter]

"The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The mob has many heads but no brains"

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"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

Edgar Allan Poe

"the frustration of the American people."

Barack Obama, in attempting to harness the power of the Occupy Wall Street mob.

Hope and change has come to America in the form of a mob. Hoping to change by force what he could not with reason, Obama now is now fanning the flame of economic frustration in a deliberate attempt to eventually suspend the operation of the constitutional principals of our republic.

I charge openly that he will, if possible, take any course opened by anarchy to seize power permanently. I cry tryant.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I cry wolf also.

 

[BvBPL]

Is there a discussion here, or is this a place to make quotes by long dead writers appear to be snide comments about the current executive?

 

[Wolfbeckett]

Thought this thread was going to be about the mafia, was disappointed.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

The so called "mob" isn't getting enough air time due to our mainstream media tactics of manipulating the message of their diverse grievances. Some just simply doesn't air them at all...

For example:


Link to video.

As you can see here, this was recorded by not Fox News, but by somebody else who was video taping the whole interview.

 

[Core Imposter]

Is there a discussion here, or is this a place to make quotes by long dead writers appear to be snide comments about the current executive?

I think charging a President with tryanny rises above the level of snide comments.

But perhaps you'd like a quote by someone still breathing.

"As far as this Occupy Wall Street movement goes, you know I see it sort of like a Paris mob,” “I see the president’s rhetoric of envy inflaming the public.”

Rand Paul

We could discuss Obama's threats to "take it to the American people", made repeatedly over the past year in the backdrop of serious economic distress. Any thinking person knows that the Chief Executive's primary responsibility is to protect the people and yet here he is deliberately provoking unrest at a time when unrest must necessarily lead to violence. And it will and the blood will be on his hands.

He does this for his political future; he has been clear that he proposed his so-called jobs bill for the express purpose and aim to give him a political point to run on. He is intentionally sowing dissention.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Mob action worked in the Civil Rights era, by god. It worked for labor. It'll work for us. It's about time people realized the ballot box is usually an empty gesture.

 

[BvBPL]

Any thinking person knows that the Chief Executive's primary responsibility is to protect the people....

No, it isn’t. The executive’s primary duties are to “defend the Constitution,” command the armies, make treaties, and advise the legislature. The defense of the Constitution is also called upon in the oath of office, so it would presumably be first among duties. (Section II, articles 1-4)

I am so tired of you Revisionists trying to bend the Constitution to your own needs. You should just let the document stand on its own instead of reading into it invisible duties and rights.

(oh, and by the way, the freedom to assemble is in the Constitution too, so the Pres is called upon to defend people’s rights to do so.)

Sovereignty lies in the THE PEOPLE, not a magical document that was written by self-serving aristocrats in the 19th century.

Then The People should get a surgeon. Sovereignty sounds suspiciously like a tumor.

If nothing else, determining the supreme executive through farcical aquatic ceremonies seem like less of a public health risk.

 

[Smellincoffee]

No, it isn’t. The executive’s primary duties are to “defend the Constitution,” command the armies, make treaties, and advise the legislature. The defense of the Constitution is also called upon in the oath of office, so it would presumably be first among duties. (Section II, articles 1-4)

I am so tired of you Revisionists trying to bend the Constitution to your own needs. You should just let the document stand on its own instead of reading into it invisible duties and rights.

(oh, and by the way, the freedom to assemble is in the Constitution too, so the Pres is called upon to defend people’s rights to do so.)

Sovereignty lies in the THE PEOPLE, not a magical document that was written by self-serving aristocrats in the 19th century.

 

[Core Imposter]

Mob action worked in the Civil Rights era, by god. It worked for labor. It'll work for us. It's about time people realized the ballot box is usually an empty gesture.

If you want a solution give up the coffee and have some Tea. Krugman put his seal of approval on the Mob today in a witless column in which he blamed the credit crisis on bank's reckless lending. Totally peddling ignorance and I pray you see through it.

It was the Congress that forced the banks to lend recklessly by law and by operation of Fannie and Freddy and the Fed that fed the bubble. The liberals have blown up the country and now eagerly look to the mob to mop up the survivors.

I wonder if Obama will enforce a no fly zone over New York when things get out of hand? Perhaps a few cruise missiles? God save us if the mob realizes that no restraining political power exists above the local level.

 

[civver_764]

I wonder if you're living in the real world.

 

[warpus]

That's all very funny MisterCooper, but I'm still waiting for the punchline

 

[downtown]

Since when does large protest = death and destruction? The OWS protests are still substantially smaller than the biggest Tea Party events. If this is chaos, what was last summer...Kabul?

 

[squadbroken]

But perhaps you'd like a quote by someone still breathing.

"As far as this Occupy Wall Street movement goes, you know I see it sort of like a Paris mob,” “I see the president’s rhetoric of envy inflaming the public.”

Rand Paul

ahahaha Rand Paul

What next, quoting David Duke on the subject of race?

Oh and for crying out loud learn how to spell "tyrant".

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

Sovereignty lies in the THE PEOPLE, not a magical document that was written by self-serving aristocrats in the 19th century.

so does that mean that we should let the average person vote on laws instead of electing representatives who know what they're doing?

 

[holy king]

 

[W|M]

so does that mean that we should let the average person vote on laws instead of electing representatives who know what they're doing?

Those representatives have absolutely no idea what they're doing.

 

[Leoreth]

Mob rule is what reactionaries call democracy when they don't like what the majorities say.

 

[ParkCungHee]

So if this is a Parisian mob does this make republicans:

- Absolute Monarchists
- Any of various revolutionary figures who are suddenly annoyed that they have to listen to the people?
- A government nobody ever wanted, and no one ever mourned, that will flee at the first sight of danger
- Left-National-Populist Dictators who deliberately allow the riots to spread to crush them.
- Germans Occupiers
- French Socialists?

 

[W|M]

I think importing French socialists into the government would be a good idea.