“愤怒日”华尔街占领点燃恐惧
分析家警告:严重的混乱可能会随之而来,因为由激进的活动家,左派组织,自称为“革命者”和反资本主义的鼓动者组成的联盟,其中一些人据说与奥巴马政府有关,策划9月17日“占领”华尔街。在打着一个“愤怒日”的旗帜下,批评者和支持者说,抗议活动可能仅仅是更大的活动的开始,在美国和世界各地,目标城市列表还在不断增加。
努力的真正目标仍然模糊。但是,尽管许多与会者的社会主义和集体主义倾向,组织者发表了一份声明说要爆破由黑帮银行家操纵的美国“盗贼统治”之后,甚至有些立宪主义者已表示出不温不火的同情。
运动下属的组织之一,上周公布的“战术计划”以“我们必须阻止他们的影响力,他们的动机和他们的手法,以防继续破坏我们的民主共和国”为结束语。该集团被称为“美国的愤怒日”,该集团还呼吁结束金钱在政治中的影响。
声明说:“我们要求我们国家的资源不再被用来娇惯和有利于黑帮银行家和他们的爪牙”,“我们要求我们的国家不再被‘太大而不能进监狱(无法无天)’的银行所挟持。”
该文件还表达了对美国的中央银行及其政策的广泛不满。写道:我们要求找到解决方案制止美联储窃取我们的未来。
虽然即将到来的事件和正式目标甚至参与者也模糊不清,组织者估计,示威者的人数单在纽约可能就有成千上万,也许更多。从旧金山和洛杉矶,伦敦,巴黎和马德里,“团结”的示威活动也正在计划中。
显然是受到最近中东起义的启发,该计划背后的想法慢慢演变,从单日的抗议到组织者现在已经开始召集的“占领”。许多活动家正在计划设立帐篷和营地供几个星期,甚至几个月的时间使用。有些人说他们会继续,直到他们的要求得到满足。
即使同时散发了有关公民抗命、拒捕及干扰法院诉讼的信息,团体和与事件相关联的网站曾多次表示,抗议活动将“非暴力”。但批评家警告说,暴力和骚乱可能成为当天的秩序。
以捍卫自由企业为中心的电子邮件警告罗恩•阿诺德:“美国激进主义者正在计划以数以百计的同时暴力起义,推翻资本主义制度,我说的是在我们自己国家中的反资本主义的恐怖分子。”
根据阿诺德,“好战的进步”计划以几十万名示威者站满美国的街道,“拼命创造马克思主义式的革命”。他说:“他们的终极目标是消灭资本主义,并以社会主义取代。我保证,没有达到这一目标,他们就会停止。”
阿诺德指出,落井下石,是人们“拉这些抗议活动背后的琴弦”—— 至少据报道,其中一些与奥巴马政府相关的人,通过前集团与不光彩的“社会组织”ACORN装备,正在接受联邦纳税人的钱。他硬说:“我们是立足游击示威的法案。”
同时,主办单位,正在呼吁一个和平的计划“无领导的抵抗运动。”但努力的准确的根源仍然有些神秘。
一些消息来源说,自称为“反消费主义者”广告克星杂志7月中旬首先发表檄文。其倡导迅速升温。许多组织跳出来支持。
消息指出,“好吧你救世主,叛乱分子,激进主义者和乌托邦梦想家,我们正在经历一种罕见的危机和机遇时刻,”签署“文化干扰器HQ”张贴在杂志的网站上。“预示着美好未来的一个全球性的革命战术转变正在发生。”
根据该声明,示威者将专注于一个特定的要求以“推动我们走向未来的激进民主。”消息称,在纽约,活动家的“洪流”将“不断重复一个简单的需求直到奥巴马投降。”
然而,多份报告声称故事有一个更为险恶的一面。例如,《世界网络日报》报道,即将举行的示威活动背后的许多个人其实都是直接与奥巴马总统相关 -具有讽刺意味的是,其总统竞选中,正是受到了黑帮银行家据说有针对性的资助。
抗议与橡果的创始人和主要的美国工会领导人,包括服务业雇员国际联盟是紧密联系在一起的,报道称《世界网络日报》里刊登了亚伦•克莱因(Aaron Klein)写的“华尔街欲达到英国式暴动,‘愤怒日’旨在使股市暴跌”。克莱因指出,特别关注的是,几个具体的个人参与,首先是橡果创始人Wade Rathke,今年早些时候他呼吁针对全美国银行家的“愤怒日”。
然后是服务业雇员国际联盟的斯蒂芬•勒纳,显然是白宫的常客,有视频捕捉到今年早些时候他讨论计划“让股市暴跌”,以“重新分配财富”为目标“暗中颠覆”国家。许多分析家称他的计划,相当于“经济恐怖主义”。
比尔•乔波Bill Csapo,“占领华尔街”网站上OccupyWallSt.org列出的媒体联系人,原本告诉《新美国》,他不知道勒纳是否参加,但他打算弄清楚。但在后续的电子邮件中,他说:“违背了我们的谈话,我决定既不调查服务业雇员国际联盟参与9月17日运动的声明,也不调查斯蒂芬•勒纳使全球经济崩溃的宏伟计划。”
“占领华尔街”网站帮助示威活动组织游说,在其网站上醒目地列出了所谓的“第二权利法案”。据网站,其理念被早期的社会主义者信奉,之后,富兰克林罗斯福总统在1944年国情咨文中进一步提倡。
批评者说,从本质上讲,计划呼吁政府创建一个新的“权利”,将严重限制经济自由。国家强制执行的特权,包括有足够的盈利能力的 “有用和有报酬的的工作”, 提供“适当的娱乐”;按一定价格出售产品的能力;避免“不公平竞争”和“老人、疾病、事故和失业的经济恐惧”;“安居”、“医疗照顾”和“良好的教育”等等。
“所有这些权利[原文]拼成安全,”罗斯福的话被“占领华尔街”援引。但是,即使主要攻击美国自由的传统观念和不可剥夺的消极权利特征,活动家表示最大的关注似乎是金钱对政治制度的影响。
公开支持抗议活动的其他组织包括欧元革命,占领广场,和著名的匿名黑客活动家。精明的观察家也指出了,在9月17日的美国宪法 纪念日之后,主办单位希望今年晚些时候在华盛顿游行。
目前还不清楚,即将发生的事件是否能严重影响世界,即将发生的事件是否能起到抛砖引玉的效果。尽管一些分析家预计将会产生严重混乱,但也有人说计划很可能黄没有多大的冲击。但是,至少有一位评论家,自由企业活动家罗恩•阿诺德,不是坚持弄清其影响,而是计划9月17日下乡旅行。
附英文:
Day of Rage” Wall St. Occupation Sparks Fears
Written by Alex Newman
Tuesday, 13 September 2011 14:36
Tweet 2Analysts are warning that serious chaos could ensue as a coalition of radical activists, leftist organizations, self-described “revolutionaries” and anti-capitalist agitators — some of whom are reportedly linked to the Obama administration — plots to “occupy" Wall Street starting on September 17. Under the banner of a “Day of Rage,” critics and supporters say the protests could be just the start of something much bigger — and the list of targeted cities in the U.S. and around the world is still growing. Tweet2
The real goals of the effort remain murky. But despite the apparent socialist and collectivist bent of many participants, even some constitutionalists have expressed tepid sympathy after organizers released a statement blasting the American “kleptocracy” run by “banksters.”
“We must stop their influence, their motives, and their tricks, from continuing to destroy our democratic republic,” concluded a “tactical plan” released last week by one of the organizations affiliated with the movement. The group, known as US Day of Rage, also called for an end to the influence of money in politics.
“We demand that the resources of our nation no longer be used to coddle and benefit banksters and their minions,” the statement said. “We demand that our nation no longer be held hostage to 'too big to fail' banks.”
The document also played on widespread resentment against the U.S. central bank and its policies. “We demand that solutions be found that stop the Federal Reserve from stealing our future,” it said.
While confusion about the upcoming events and the official goals is rampant even among participants, organizers are estimating that the number of protesters just in New York could be in the tens of thousands — maybe more. “Solidarity” demonstrations are also being planned from San Francisco and Los Angeles to London, Paris and Madrid.
The idea behind the scheme slowly evolved from a single day of protests — apparently inspired by recent uprisings in the Middle East — into what organizers have now started calling an “occupation.” Many activists were planning to set up tents and camp out for weeks or even months. Some said they would stay until their demands are met.
Even while distributing information about civil disobedience, resisting arrest and interfering with court proceedings, groups and websites associated with the event have repeatedly stated that the protests will be “non-violent.” Critics, however, are warning that violence and rioting could become the order of the day.
“American radicals are planning hundreds of simultaneous violent uprisings to topple our system of capitalism,” warned Ron Arnold with the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise in an e-mail. “I'm talking about anti-capitalist terrorists in our own country.”
The “militant progressives” plan to fill American streets with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators “hell-bent on creating Marxist-style revolution,” according to Arnold. “Their ultimate goal is to kill capitalism and replace it with socialism. And I guarantee that they'll stop at nothing to reach that goal."
Adding insult to injury, Arnold noted, is that people “pulling the strings behind these protests” — at least some of whom are reportedly connected to the Obama administration — are receiving federal taxpayer dollars through front groups associated with the disgraced “community organizing” outfit known as ACORN. "We are footing the bill for their guerilla demonstrations,” he charged.
Organizers, meanwhile, are calling the scheme a peaceful “leaderless resistance movement.” But the precise roots and origin of the efforts still remain somewhat of a mystery.
Several sources said the first call to arms came in mid-July in the magazine AdBusters, which describes itself as “anti-consumerist.” The idea quickly picked up steam. And numerous organizations have since popped up to support the effort.
“Alright you redeemers, rebels, radicals and utopian dreamers out there, we are living through a rare crisis and moment of opportunity,” noted a message, signed “Culture Jammers HQ,” posted on the magazine’s website. “A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right now that bodes well for the future.”
According to the statement, demonstrators would be zeroing in on one specific demand to “propel us toward the radical democracy of the future.” The “flood” of activists in New York, the message said, would then “incessantly repeat our one simple demand until Barack Obama capitulates.”
Multiple reports, however, claim that there is a far more sinister side to the story. World Net Daily, for example, reported that many of the individuals behind the upcoming demonstrations are in fact directly tied to President Obama — whose presidential campaign, ironically, was heavily financed by the very same “banksters” supposedly being targeted.
The protest “is closely tied to the founders of ACORN and leaders of major U.S. unions, including the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU,” reported WND in an article entitled “Wall Street targeted for Britain-style riots” by Aaron Klein.
The involvement of a few specific individuals is of particular concern, Klein noted. First there is ACORN founder Wade Rathke, who earlier this year called for “days of rage” around America targeting bankers.
Then there is the SEIU’s Stephen Lerner, apparently a regular guest of the White House, who was caught on video earlier this year discussing plans to “bring down the stock market” and "destabilize" the nation with a goal of "redistributing wealth." Numerous analysts called his scheme the equivalent of “economic terrorism.”
Bill Csapo, the man listed as a media contact on the website OccupyWallSt.org, originally told The New American that he was not sure whether Lerner was involved and that he planned to find out. But in a follow-up e-mail, he said: “contrary to our conversation, I have begun neither the investigation on the claim of SEIU involvement in the Sept. 17 movement, nor the grand scheme of Stephen Lerner to collapse the global economy.”
OccupyWallSt.org, which is helping organize logistics for the demonstrations, prominently lists the so-called “Second Bill of Rights” on its website. According to the site, the ideas were espoused by early socialists before being advanced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s in his 1944 State of the Union speech.
Essentially the scheme calls on the government to create a new set of “rights” that critics say would severely limit economic liberty. The state-enforced privileges include “a useful and remunerative job” with enough earning power to provide “adequate recreation;” the ability to sell products at a certain price; protection from “unfair competition” and “the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;” a “decent home,” “medical care” and a “good education;” and more.
“All of these rights [sic] spell security,” FDR is quoted as saying by the Wall Street occupiers. But even though attacks on traditional notions of American liberty and inalienable negative rights feature prominently, the biggest concern expressed by activists appears to be the effect of money on the political system.
Other organizations publicly supporting the protests include Euro Revolution, Take the Square, and the “hacktivist” group of hacker activists known as Anonymous. Following September 17, which astute observers noted was also Constitution Day in America, organizers hope to march on Washington later this year.
It remains unclear whether or not the upcoming events will serve as a catalyst with serious implications for the world. While some analysts expect severe chaos, others say the plans may well fizzle out without much of an impact. But rather than sticking around to find out, at least one critic, free-enterprise activist Ron Arnold, plans to take a trip to the countryside on September 17.
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