If You Thought The Wall Street Protesters Were Crazy, Wait’ll You Get A Load Of The Lunatics In Atlanta
Written by Mockarena // October 9, 2011 // Hippies Smell // 47 Comments
From the source description: “Many curious citizens and media outlets came to the first Occupy Atlanta event, and were visible shocked and confused by the consistent Marxism employed by the group. People abandoned their individuality and liberty to be absorbed into a hypnotizing collective. The facilitator made it clear that he was not a “leader” and that everyone was completely equal; words often spoken by leftists, but in this case they actually applied their philosophy. Into this surreal and oppressive environment, Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights hero and icon of American leftism, came to speak as has so often done at left-wing rallies and events in Atlanta. He is practically worshiped in Democrat circles, and was visibly stunned to see these Marxists turn him away. It was reminiscent of previous Marxist revolutions in history when those who ignorantly supported the revolutionaries are, over time, purged and rejected for the “good of the collective”, when their usefulness has expired.”
Unreal. And the parroting and finger waving is just uber creepy. Seriously the weirdest protest ever.
47 Comments on "If You Thought The Wall Street Protesters Were Crazy, Wait’ll You Get A Load Of The Lunatics In Atlanta"
I could only watch about 3 min. That was very spooky and weird! Why were all those people repeating everything?
WTF? He is treating them like Kindergarten students… I just can’t grasp the concept that these people want to be treated like children o_O Raise your hands and wiggle your fingers if you agree with me.
O.M.G. that is something you would expect to see in San Francisco. Minions.
Nadine – if you’re curious, they never did let John Lewis speak. He left, because he had other obligations, and probably thought he was in the twilight zone.
Oh my hellanahalf
Seriously, what is happening to our country? It’s like there is a spell being cast upon the masses out there……and it’s creeping me out.
Where are our leaders??????????????????
Don’t you think that if Mitch Daniels watched enough of these examples of the recent craziness happening that he would reconsider, like really quickly? That’s what I’m praying about today….
Sounded like their problem was not being able to reach a concensus, which is apparently required to do anything. For their sake, I hope these loons are never caught in a burning building and have to decide who gets to leave first. Anyway, I raise my hand, and wiggle my finger at all of them.
If only I would have seen a joint passing around, then maybe I could understand this………
“we are the Borg”
that is seriously creepy stuff…
What in the world is the country coming to. That is the creepiest thing I have ever see. I don’t even want to know that stuff like that exists. WTF!!!???
Creepiest…s#it…ever.
It all seems very cult like.
let’ s take the LET”S TAKE THE temperature of this site TEMPERATURE OF THIS SITE and see if we AND SEE IF WE can arrive at CAN ARRIVE AT consensus that these people CONSENSUS THAT THESE PEOPLE are total whack jobs ARE TOTAL WHACK JOBS, this is not a vote THIS IS NOT A VOTE but only a straw poll BUT ONLY A STRAW POLL raise your hands RAISE YOUR HANDS now NOW carried CARRIED. back to the agenda BACK TO THE AGENDA. i could go on I COULD GO ON but this is BUT THIS IS very tiresome VERY TIRESOME
I couldn’t watch that whole video, it was so creepy! Makes me think of far too many horror movies I’ve seen, only *this is real life*!!! That makes it even creepier!
Also, I’m appalled that they distorted the ASL form of applause (hands up in the air, shaking hands back and forth) in this manner! As a woman who is half deaf, do you suppose I could sue someone for this?
What’s creepy is how many stupid people there are in this country.
“Sounded like their problem was not being able to reach a concensus, which is apparently required to do anything.”
This is a society that would take 50 years to invent the frickin’ candle (bonus points if you understood the referral)
What is this obsession with everyone being heard and not clapped for. I personally have always liked when I heard applause. It seems if to me, if you want to be heard, don’t talk while people are clapping for you. that hand signal stuff looks like the chicken dance with no music.
Another thing- why do they keep repeating after the speaker? That is just creepy.
Can these people not think for themselves? Maybe they can, maybe that is why they never reached a concensus?
In my more paranoid moments I think the silencing of John lewis was a planned stunt ot fool outsiders into believeing there is no connection between the political left anf the street loons left. The longer this these protest go one the more common my paranoid moments are becoming. Now I know how China gets volunteers for human wave assualts
What a bunch of zombies!! I am sure that this is the type of people that our government would like us all to become. Can you imagine Obama up there reciting his crap and these people repeating?
We are getting these Occupy (insert place-name here) people up here in Canada too. I still have no idea what they want, and I am mystified as to why they want to do the same in a country that is a lot more left wing than these folks. It makes my head hurt as I struggle to keep my IQ intact.
That is seriously creepy. I bet that’s how Charles Manson got his followers too…
Dweebs
Briana! That is exactly the book this brought to mind for me! So creepy… mindless lemmings….
Our only consolation is that hopefully their cumbersome rules of procedure will keep them from ever actually accomplishing anything at all….
I get the impression these people do not have good job interview skills. Might explain why they are unemployed and have time to protest. That is real spooky for sure. Real life Kool Aid drinkers.
What I watched of it was really creepy! I don’t get the repeating, but whatever!
Hey there, David Koresh.
Wow.
Why are they repeating everything? What is the purpose of that? OK. It’s clear that the purpose of the entire thing is perfectly unclear, but that is just the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
Cultish. But maybe this was their answer to a lack of a sound system. After all, if they rented decent sound equipment, it would be feeding the evil capitalist system that they are protesting. (That IS what they finally decided that they’re protesting, right?)
This is way beyond creepy. If these people had jobs they wouldn’t have time to do this. I think the plans are falling into place for the obama administration. Make the economy so bad that more and more people are out of work. More people are out of work and have time to protest. The protests start peacefully, but eventually become more and more violent (they joined the protestors trying to storm the Air and Space Museum). People start getting frightened and demand the government do something…you all know what comes next. The Bill of Rights comes tumbling down in the name of “peace”.
1. All I could think was “look! Jazz hands!”
2. There is an inverse correlation between chanting/parroting what someone says in a crowd dynamic and analyzing what is said and applying critical thinking skills. When you repeat something, you can analyze it until you stop. By having people repeat everything said without stopping, nothing can be processed, only stored.
They had another one of these in NYC with Frances Fox Piven. They did the same repeating thing. Very creepy. After the first minute you can’t even listen to what they are saying, as you are just creeped out by the Stepford type repeating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VsK2WeO7VbQ
Is this a “southern thing”???
that was 10 painful minutes of watching nothing getting accomplished. crazy. even a protest needs a leader. the guy who keeps saying that no one is better than anyone else to justify NOT hearing his representative speak doesn’t understand how our representative government works. i’m surprised he’s letting the guy with the megaphone keep it. seems to me he would think the megaphone makes that guy more important than everyone else. bizarre. really.
What a bunch of crap. Mindless idiots. I don’t get it and it hurts my brain to even try to understand where these people are coming from. I LOVE individuality…I hate sheep, lemmings, group think, pyscho babble crapola, etc. Who are these people and where do they come from?
We need to bring over plane-fuls of people who grew up in Communist Russia and have them explain the brutal realities that go along with this kind of thinking. The sad thing is that these people, even when confronted with the truth and reality behind their ideals, would still not listen. They are lazy, plain and simple. Thinking for themselves is too hard, forging a path in life on their own is too hard. They want to be told what to say, what to wear, and what to do every day because it spares their peabrains from having to put forth any effort. If only they would act like the stereotype of lemmings and march themselves all off a cliff.
Here’s a thought: “Hey, everyone…Congressman Lewis is going to speak now. Show him due respect and welcome him warmly. If you do not wish to hear him speak, you can take off for a few minutes and bring us all back some Starbucks…”
*eyeroll*
PS: John Lewis is waaaaay better than most of these robots. Gimme an ever-lovin’ break!
I am alarmed by the MSM beginning to amp the credit of “the people’s movement” as some are beginning to call it. News is slow and this is about all they’ve got to talk about. Many factions have joined the protesters giving it more voices. This is not a good thing.
That is EXACTLY why they are repeating the speaker as he talks. They don’t have microphones with speakers, so this is how they ensure that those at the back hear everything… each row repeats it until all of the crowd has heard it.
Creepy is an excellent word… all I could think of was Helter Skelter when I was watching this. I had to turn it off. I’m more worried than I was, before, about this country.
I would probably not agree with anything Mr Lewis would have to say.
But I’d be damned if anyone tried to shut him up at a rally of conservatives.
Apparently the freedom of speech no longer extends to everybody.
Almost felt empathy for Mr Lewis..thankfully it passed.
I got to 1:41 before I had to stop. Unsettling is what came to my mind.
Diane, regarding your comment “What a bunch of zombies!! I am sure that this is the type of people that our government would like us all to become.” Yes, it is all part of the outcome based education goals of No Child Left Behind and Race To The Top.
Looks like the start up to the French Revolution to me.
I love how their “fairness through equity and democracy” proved to be more than rude.
This whole performance is indicative of why the Athenian Democracy proved relatively short-lived and ineffective, especially when compared to the Roman Republic.
If they propose we change our government and political process to be like Miss Smith’s Second Grade Class, they have a lot of maturing and studying to do. History has proven time and again, to include by this display of ineptitude and indecisiveness, that change is worthless unless it is growth and progress. Their “new way” is digression into a very old way that has proven to fail.
Even a single google search would give you fact based answers to all of your comments about their ‘creepy’ behavior.
1. The repetition is used in NYC because the groups are quite large and they do no allow mics or bullhorns. The repeating is called the “human mic”. It is sometimes tedious, but allows a huge number of people to hear the voice of one person without electronic amplification. It’s actually quite a clever solution. I suppose they might be using the same method out of solidarity or because the group is too large for a single bullhorn to reach.
2. The hand gestures are to avoid loud responses which would interrupt the human mic and allow what the speak says to get lost in the supportive cheering.
3. People wanting those in the private sector to be held accountable for potentially criminal deeds and the reform of the relationship of politics and money aren’t ‘marxist’. Offer a specific marxist idea espoused in this video, please.
4. As for refusing to let the congressman speak, they didn’t agree. Some wanted it. Some didn’t. That very argument flies in the face of your complaint that they’re all mindlessly in lock step. I would have wanted him to speak, personally, but his position doesn’t give him that right.
Many of you used the video to confirm what you believed rather than trying to understand what was happening. That’s disappointing and not intellectually very rigorous.
Oh. My. God. Those are spirit fingers! Like cheerleaders do.
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