{"id":4697,"date":"2011-10-31T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2011-10-31T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:06:53","slug":"the-grass-roots-of-occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"The "Grass Roots" of Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

The OWS crowd insists that their uprising is purely a grass roots one. While some of it was certainly spontaneous, it’s origins were clearly planned by anti-capitalists.<\/p>\n

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The man behind the movement is a radical Canadian leftist agitator by the name of Kalle Lasn<\/strong>.  Lasn is founder of Ad Busters<\/a>.  A self-described group of anarchists and neo-Luddites, Adbusters are not merely environmentalists, animal-rights activists, anti-technology activists, or neo-Prohibitionists. They are all these things and more.  In his book entitled Culture Jam, Lasn writes, \u201cwe will wreck this world.\u201d And that is ultimately the goal of the organization he founded and runs.<\/p>\n

A little research<\/a> has uncovered the fact that the domain name www.OccupyWallStreet.org<\/a> was registered by Lasn\u2019s organization in June 2011, several months BEFORE the first protests began in New York City.  What is a Canadian citizen doing registering a domain for a grassroots movement months before the protests began?  Its questions like this that are not being asked by our mainstream media.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Left criticize the Tea Party’s "grass roots" bona fides because guys with lots of money happen to agree with them. But I doubt you’ll find the Koch brothers’ names on a central domain name used by any local Tea Party group months before the initial rallies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The OWS crowd insists that their uprising is purely a grass roots one. While some of it was certainly spontaneous, it’s origins were clearly planned by anti-capitalists. The man behind the movement is a radical Canadian leftist agitator by the name of Kalle Lasn.  Lasn is founder of Ad Busters.  A self-described group of anarchists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t