{"id":271,"date":"2012-10-19T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T22:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2012-10-19T14:21:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T22:21:53","slug":"meanwhile-at-the-vanguard-of-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/10\/19\/meanwhile-at-the-vanguard-of-the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile… at the Vanguard of the Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

     While the entire “Occupy” movement has thankfully disappeared from the public’s eyes (and the hoods of Police cars), small remnants of politically ignorant freedom-hating fools remain. \u00a0To secure their own power and position as Lords of the Flies, these groups have formed within their little soviets a ruling elite, known as a Spokes council. \u00a0These counsels are controlled from within and have the power to expel from the horizontal non-hierarchical Occupy collectives \u00a0anyone who “makes trouble” by opposing the collective will.<\/p>\n

     It is <\/em>easy to reach a consensus when you’ve purged away any and all dissent.<\/p>\n

     It seems that the Occupy Las Vegas group’s Spokes council was going to have a glorious meeting<\/a> of the vanguard of their Anarcho-Syndicalist utopia. \u00a0So, I decided to drop by and see the overwhelming forces that would liberate us from our freedom and stuff.<\/p>\n

     This is the glorious scene, comrade, that I beheld that day.<\/p>\n

\"Glorious<\/a><\/p>\n

Heh.<\/p>\n

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     While the entire “Occupy” movement has thankfully disappeared from the public’s eyes (and the hoods of Police cars), small remnants of politically ignorant freedom-hating fools remain. \u00a0To secure their own power and position as Lords of the Flies, these groups … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[22,20],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressives","tag-fail","tag-occupy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}