Re: Occupiers' New Mascot...

[Ubiquitous]

What else did you expect from a bunch of "useful idiots"?

And you posted this off-topic article here because?


In article <atropos-4A1D58...@news.giganews.com>,
atr...@mac.com wrote:
>
>
>...Robin Hood.
>
>Seriously. These dimwits are actually invoking Robin Hood.
>
>From the Canadian magazine "Adbusters" that helped launch the protests
>comes a (grammatically-challenged) call for an October 29 "Robin Hood
>soak-the-rich tax parade":
>
> Alright you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,
> We're living through a magical moment Š #OCCUPYWALLSTREET has
> catalyzed into an international insurgency for democracy...
> the mood at our assemblies is electric... people who go
> there are drawn into a Gandhian spirit of camaraderie and
> hope for a new kind of future. Across the globe the 99% are
> marching! You have inspired more than you know. People are
> digging into Act One of the long Spring.
>
> Its now time to amp up the edgy theatrics... deviant pranks,
> subversive performances and playful détournements of all
> kinds. Open your insurrectionary imagination. Anything,
> from a bottom-up transformation of the global economy to
> changing the way we eat, the way we get around, the way we
> live, love and communicate Š be the spark that sustains a
> global revolution of everyday life!
>
> As the movement matures, lets consider a response to our
> critics. Lets occupy the core of our global system. Lets
> dethrone the greed that defines this new century. Lets work
> to define our one great demand.
>
> OCTOBER 29 ­ #ROBINHOOD GLOBAL MARCH
>
> This is a proposal for the general assemblies of the Occupy
> movement.
>
> On October 29, on the eve of the G20 Leaders Summit in France,
> let¹s the people of the world rise up and demand that our
> G20 leaders immediately impose a 1% #ROBINHOOD tax on all
> financial transactions and currency trades. Let¹s send them
> a clear message: We want you to slow down some of that
> $1.3-trillion easy money that¹s sloshing around the global
> casino each day-- enough cash to fund every social program
> and environmental initiative in the world. Take this idea to
> your local general assembly and join your comrades in the
> streets on October 29.
>
>Only one problem: the progs apparently don't know anything about the
>story of Robin Hood. Robin Hood was a libertarian.
>
> All one has to do is to consult the story of Robin Hood to
> find at least three reasons why one would not find Robin
> Hood voting for Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi if his feathered
> hat depended on it.
>
> 1. Robin Hood's claim to fame was not that he 'took from the
> rich to give to the poor', but that he took from the tax
> collector and gave back to the people their own money. The
> central issue was overtaxation, and Robin Hood was most
> emphatically not on the side of the bureaucracy. The ultimate
> bad guy was Prince John, the very caricature of greedy,
> arrogant government; the proximate bad guy was the Sheriff
> of Nottingham, the ruthless enforcer whose audit strategy
> was even more intimidating than that of the IRS. The victims
> were the taxpayers whose property was confiscated to feed
> John's insatiable lust for higher revenues. As Robin Hood
> speeds to its exciting conclusion, Friar Tuck adopts as
> his battle cry, "Praise the Lord and pass the tax rebate!"
>
> 2. Robin Hood was waging a struggle not only against
> overtaxation but against illegitimate, unconstitutional
> government. As the characters ridicule "Prince John, the
> phony king of England," they are staking their fight on
> the view that John has overstepped his legal and constitutional
> bounds. He had, in other words, gone beyond the exercise
> of powers rightfully his. Unimpressed with Prince John's
> 'living constitution', which bore a disturbing resemblance
> to a regime of raw, unconstrained power, Robin Hood and his
> merry band seem to prefer a stricter construction.
>
> 3. At the same time, they are emboldened to resist John's
> usurpation by a sense that acts of government must be tested
> not only against the written law but against natural law.
> John has violated not only the law of England, he has waged
> war against the law of God. The disrespect held by John
> and his minions for the law of God-- or, to put it another
> way, their attempt to elevate his rule above any sort of
> limit, human or divine-- is epitomized when the Sheriff of
> Nottingham robs even Friar Tuck's church to pad the revenues.
> The idea of natural law can, of course, be put to a variety
> of uses, not all of which conservatives find agreeable, but
> one of the most distinct features of the modern left is a
> moral nihilism which denies the possibility of higher
> objective truth, and consequently denies the possibility
> of inherent limits on the ambitions of the state. To the
> extent that Robin Hood sought to hold John's regime to an
> unwritten standard of limitation and accountability, modern
> liberals can hardly claim him as one of their own.
>
>http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/busch/02/robinhood.html
>
>"Praise the Lord and pass the tax rebate!" Can't wait to see that
>emblazoned on some giant banners at the Occupiers Oct. 29 event.
>
>Or it could just be that these people are so deeply stupid that they
>don't realize they are invoking the antithesis of that which they claim
>to support.

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