Libertarians, corporations, and "Occupy Wall Street"

I wasn't enamored with the Tea Party from the very beginning, and I said so.

I am bemused about Occupy [enter name of urban area] more than anything else.  Such demonstrations in dictatorships inevitably lead to more repression on the part of the regime, international pressure, calls for the ouster of a ruler who has lost his legitimacy, general strikes, and sometimes civil war.

Yes, a few cops are going to break some heads, the mullahs in Iran and the old farts in China will blather, we're already on schedule for an election that will settle Barack Obama's fate, people actually have to be working to go on strike, and of all the fringes of the political spectrum the Wall Street warriors are probably the worst armed and least likely to resort to anything much beyond name-calling and mild civil disobedience.

In short:  we won't have an Arab spring because we're not a sheikdom and it's not spring.

What Occupy Everybody is really about