The petty squabbling in some of these posts is really
sad.  So a well-dressed woman who writes for a living
(“feminist blatherings”??? uh, who’s a sexist pig,
then?) and isn’t a 24-year-old street fighter is a
“shill” and her brave stand for civil rights is “co-
opting” OWS???  And because she “disobeyed a direct
order” from the police and walked down a public
sidewalk, she is wrong?  Since when are direct orders
from the police to give up our rights okay? Some of
these posts sound so extremely leftist that I have to
think they are… TROLLS.  Naomi Wolfe, Sgt. Thomas,
Arianna Huffington:  BRAVO, I say.

From the Declaration of Independence

“We hold these truths to be self evident
That all men are created equal
That they are endowed by their creator
With certain unalienable rights to
Life, Liberty
and the Pursuit of Happiness
That to secure these rights
Governments are formed

But whenever any form of government
Becomes destructive

It is the Right of the People
It is their Duty

To throw off such government”

and also in the song by Attila and the Hunz, Don’t Trust the Government.

http://attilaandthehunz.com/

I congratulate Naomi Wolf on her sudden outbreak of courage. 

Her anti-Fascism campaign during the Bush administration was also extremely valuable - if she hadn’t dropped it as soon as a Democrat was elected.  In fact, Obama has carried Bush’s fascist policies even further, prosecuting and even torturing whistleblowers, for only one example.  Yet Wolf has been notably silent, to the point that I wondered whether she’d taken cover out of fear.

Several other commenters have condemned her commitment to the Democratic Party, and that would explain her silence; I don’t know that for myself.  But there is a sign here that she’s waking up.

I hope so.  An anti-fascist campaign is at least as necessary now as it was then, and Wolf has the ear of a lot of people.

Note that OWS is perfectly clear that the Democrats are just as much the problem as the Republicans.  So I’ll second Not One More’s point:

“Vote third party, don’t give your consent to the status quo.”

I had read her books,listened to some of her lectures/speeches and I even had outlined what she wrote about how fascism developed in an “incremental way”,in a society and eventually control such a society with distinction,through what she called a “fascist shift”,as the fascists reaches a comfortable zone within the social order or disorder of a society and publiclly declare their agenda.

I salute Truthdig for selecting her as “The Truthdigger of the Week”.

Naomi Wolf deserves such a recognition and deserves more. She has talked the talk and walked the walk and would pay the price for her sincere activities.

I wish her well…......

Divisiveness seems alive and strong from looking at some of the posts here.  Many right wing folks believe we lost the Vietnam war due to the protesters, and many white wing folks believe we lost good old boy racism due to Marten Luther King protests, not many opportunists are scared they will end their era of corruption and capitalist cronyism and may even end up like other corrupt dictators!

Get the Money Out!

RE: Shamar Thomas

“There is no honor in hurting unarmed civillians”

True.

That was intense.

Before I read this article I just wanted to say…

First to Naomi Wolf, I liked your movie.

Second…. for goodness sake, I was so blown away, moved, encouraged, charmed, and inspired by the Democracy Now interview with Nobel laureate Tawakkul Karman which can be viewed here…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB3f9y9zxyE

I hereby nominate her for Truthdigger of next week.

Wolf has always struck me as a publicity hound and opportunist.

I really don’t see how her support of the irredeemably corrupt Democratic Party, her contributions to the absurd identity-politics movement in this country, and her feminist blatherings over the years have helped anybody but herself and a few of her sisters.

Big deal, she got arrested. When was she released, 10 minutes afterwards?

It’s a shame that the police didn’t arrest all of the self-important tossers at the Huffington Post event.

They’d have done the citizenry and the culture a huge and long-overdue favor.

We need a million soldiers like him to stand up! His rant brought tears to my eyes. Someone who has already given so much and is willing to help. He deserves a medal for bravery.

Perhaps the cops stood down because the soldier had on the uniform and they did not really know what to do. Anybody else probably would have been taken to jail because they would have felt more powerful.

Since when have cops been allowed to break the law and ignore the Constitution? Anytime they want. It is obvious who they work for. Certainly not us. They will do whatever it takes to control us just as instructed.

The power brokers in charge want the protesters to disappear so get ready for the brutality. The media has been preparing the sheeple for it for quite some time! Remember “Don’t tase me bro!” That was just the beginning of the end of our right to protest.

I love Naiomi for standing up to them for what is right. My heart bleeds for our country.

So this shameless DNC shill is supposed to be some kind of “hero” for trying to co-opt the OWS movement?  Really, Truthdig?  REALLY?

Bite me.  Just, bite me.

At Huffington Post’s Request - Squash Your Rights

Think about it, the Huffington Post, another supposed left leaning media outlet (not!) requesting the protests conveniently moved out of sight and out of mind. And the police are carrying out their illegal demand. The establishment of free speech caged zones (sometimes relocated to actual jails by our corporate compliant police) are carried out equally by democrats and republicans.

When democrats start getting as pissed at democratic party antics (like the free speech caged zones during the presidential conventions) as they do republican antics, then things might change.

As long as people allow for lying and cheating as long as they benefit, things will continue as they are, and the wars, the cheating, the lack of health care etc.

Vote third party, don’t give your consent to the status quo.

http://www.NotOneMore.US -  Take the Pledge for Peace