The silliness of last year comes around again
From Bellingham station KGMI also
comes this news item:
Seattle Police prep for possible May Day offensive
A group called Puget Sound Anarchists has made a call for protestors to "wipe that grin off Lloyd Blankfein's face."
The anarchists posted the message on their website in reference to the chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, calling on demonstrators to rally tomorrow in front of the company's office in downtown Seattle.
The Seattle Police Department says officers will be posted at that location and others around the city tomorrow in preparation for demonstrations that get out of hand.
Last year, May Day protestors became violent and vandalized downtown businesses.
This is just asinine.
Readers will know that I am
by no means a friend of Goldman Sachs or any other "crony capitalist" organization but this sort of mindless mob activity hurts the small business owners and is about as far from 'sticking it to the man' as they can get.
May Day heralded the start of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which murdered about 60,000,000 poor souls. The Mao took up the mantle and another 50,000,000 souls went to their rest. Socialism and Communism has never worked any place it has been tried. Marx's basic premise of the fixed pool of Capital that needs to be equitably distributed is fatally flawed at the outset -- Marx's basic premise was dead wrong.
Why this keeps lingering around the periphery of the self-absorbed and mentally ill is beyond me. I guess they like the idea of being taken care of and getting 'free stuff' from a large central government. Move to Cuba if you want your workers paradise...
Posted by DaveH at April 30, 2013 7:02 PM