Occupy Wall Street Supports MoveOn.Org Scam
by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON (INFOWARS.COM)
(October 5, 2011) Fears expressed by some that the 'Occupy Wall Stree'’ movement is being hijacked by
the Democratic Party
establishment have intensified after the official OWS website announced
that it "stands in solidarity" with MoveOn.org, a lobbying group for
the Wall Street-backed Obama administration.
The front page of
the http://occupywallst.org/ proudly announces that numerous union
groups will be present in New York today to join demonstrators in
marches taking place this afternoon.
"Together we will protest this great
injustice.
We stand in solidarity with the honest workers of...MoveOn.org," states
the website, as well as listing numerous other organizations.
What is MoveOn.org?
MoveOn.org
is a lobbying organization that routinely backs Democratic candidates.
The group aggressively supported Barack Obama’s 2008
election campaign
and is now "Perhaps the lead lobby organization for his
policies...apart from Obama’s own Organizing for America," reports
Source Watch.
When
MoveOn organized an online donation drive for Obama which raised
$320,000, the Obama campaign responded in kind with the legally dubious
action of paying MoveOn $18,000 in “credit card processing fees”.
The group also received a $5 million dollar donation from George Soros, who is a keen supporter.
Back
in 2007, many leftists spoke of their betrayal by MoveOn.org after the
group advocated Nancy Pelosi’s funding bill that actually prolonged the
war in Iraq and prevented the troops being brought home.
“Join us
on Wednesday to create a huge show of support for anti-Wall Street
actions nationwide. Together, we’ll add hundreds of thousands of voices
expressing our solidarity with the protests at Occupy Wall Street and
across the country targeting the bankers who wrecked our economy,”
states MoveOn.org’s website.
Yes – the very same bankers –
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup prime amongst them – who
financed the Obama campaign, the same campaign vehemently supported by
MoveOn.org.
Why does Occupy Wall Street’s support for MoveOn.org
represent a problem? Because MoveOn.org is little more than a lobbying
front for the Obama administration, which itself is a creature of Wall
Street.
Another group that OWS website expresses its “solidarity”
with, AFL-CIO, has also announced that it will likely back Wall Street
puppet Obama in 2012.
The OWS website also stands in solidarity
with SEIU (Service Employees International Union), a group that spent
$28 million dollars supporting Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign,
making it the “organization that spent the most to help Barack Obama get
elected president.”
Why is the website that has positioned
itself as the central hub for Occupy Wall Street activists announcing
its support for groups which are little more than Barack Obama lobbying
fronts? Wall Street spent millions financing Obama’s path to the White
House and are supporting him to an even greater extent in 2012.
Why
is a website that claims to represent anti-Wall Street demonstrators
siding with groups that have aggressively supported the Wall
Street-backed Obama administration?
Some have argued that it is
not fair to cite postings on OccupyWallst.org as representative of the
movement’s character or goals.
However, this is not a forum
posting by an individual, it is prominently displayed on the front page
of the website claiming it represents OWS.
Either the Occupy Wall
Street website represents an accurate reflection of the sentiments of
the protesters, that is supportive of the Wall Street-financed Obama
administration and its lobbying front groups such as MoveOn.org, or the
message has been hijacked by these very groups.
Either way it represents a threat to the promise made by other OWS activists to remain non-partisan.
Who
is running this website and why are they ‘standing in solidarity’ with
organizations like MoveOn.org that have aggressively supported the
Wall-Street backed Obama administration?
I am going to submit
this question to the forum users on the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ website and
write a follow up piece on their response. That way we can move a lot
closer to understanding whether what is posing as the official website
for this “leaderless” group is really representative of the OWS
demonstrators or not.
*** Paul Joseph Watson is the
editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out
Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
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