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No Thankfulness at Thanksgiving for the OWS Crowd By Ron Hart
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"All the Occupy movements start with a premise that we all owe them..so they can self-righteously explain that they are the paragons of virtue to which we owe everything". Now that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country."
Newt Gingrich
Ever since I was promoted from the children's table to the adult table at age 40 (mostly because I fought with the 12-year-olds), I have valued Thanksgiving dinner. And I am proud to say that I no longer fight with children, even if they start it.
I am also proud that we do well together as a family - in short doses - as long as there is plenty of booze around and football on TV. We Hart males are even willing to watch the Detroit Lions just to avoid any family interaction.
The fact that there are family tensions, liquor, a readily accessible carving knife and no physical injuries to date at my family's holiday events shows our abiding love for each other. Either that, or a strong respect for the legal system, cell phone video cameras and the rules of evidence.
Thanksgiving is about family, so we all really need to thank our parents first. If your parents never had children, chances are good that you don't, either. Depending entirely on which day you ask me, I am proud to say that I have two kids, but three total (you know who you are). My kid count is according to their mothers, court documents, and several DNA tests (all hotly contested by the kids).
For some reason they do like to get together on Thanksgiving, mainly because my mother cooks. It is an antiquated custom of the members of her generation, like threshing their own wheat and spending only the money they had.
My mom is proud when she sees the Occupy Wall Street crowd, specifically because none of her kids is there in lower Manhattan's Assault and Battery Park and involved in it. Like most mothers her age, she is not caught up in the politics of OWS. She is only concerned that they have sweaters and are getting enough to eat.
The least thankful of all Americans are the Occupy Wall Street-ers who have skirmished with police. This week, New York cops elevated their arsenal from pepper spray (protestors had developed immunity to it because being sprayed with mace is how most of their dates ended) to cops on horseback led by Mayor Bloomberg riding a German Shepherd (he is tiny) armed with guns, clubs, and water cannons in order to remove the protestors from their Obamaville encampments. I am not a military historian, but I think the NYPD's strengths will match up well against the protestors' hacky-sack throwing and STD infections. It could be a bloodbath—or, even worse for the protestors, an actual bath.
We did not become the least popular country in the world just by bombing other countries. If we have learned anything from the French, it is that to be really disliked we have to muster up some arrogance, too. Our poorest 99% OWS crowds get to protest and live in New York City, where an acre of land costs $90 million, for free. Our police protect them and we pay to clean up after them. They want to be given what others have earned and, as we feel when confronted with a poorly-written college social studies paper, we have no idea what they are saying.
We have a great and bountiful country. Let's call the OWS hate for the rest of us what it really is: envy. If we are going to redistribute anything in this country, it should be the work ethic of the 53% who pay all the taxes so these intellectually incoherent layabouts can "occupy" our parks and waste our police force's time and who show themselves to be entirely --- un-thankful.
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© 2010 Ron Hart
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