Ron Capshaw documents his recent visit to #OWS:
"They are clearly not readers, their literature is youtube and television. They don’t know if they should applaud when the older quote Eugene Debs and FDR. They do at the mention of Jon Stewart or the appearance of Micheal Moore and Susan Sarandon who do a drop-by (the older reveal an ability to anticipate the charges of the other side, evidenced by them blocking camera-views of the limos that bore the stars to the protests). I asked one protester why he was wearing a Guy Falkes mask. He looked at me as if I were the dumbest thing on earth and said, “Man, that’s V For Vendetta.” Some of them wave signs whose content that don’t know the meaning of. I asked one protestor waving a sign characterizing Wall Street Workers as “little Eichmans” who Eichman was and was told he was a Republican. Another holding a sign saying Christ was against Wall Street told me the Son of God once “kicked the ass of those Jew money-changers” (anti-Semitism is clearly fashionable; one protester, questioned by a yarmichal wearing citizen, told him to “go back to Isreal, Jew.”)
But someone who has a read a book has coached them. Wall Street workers are “fascists” rather than crony capitalists (the coaches might have feared that this description might have tracked back to the president who bailed out the corporations in the first place)."
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