Fw: Thomas Sowell on the "Occupiers"

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 Subject: Thomas Sowell on the "Occupiers"





       This man is well worth reading

             Dr. Sowell on the occupiers


             Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, 
social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities 
Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a 
libertarian perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior 
Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 
Sowell was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem, New York City. He 
dropped out of high school, and served in the United States Marine Corps 
during the Korean War. He had received a bachelor's degree from Harvard 
University in 1958 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1959. 
In 1968, he earned his doctorate degree in economics from the University of 
Chicago. Dr. Sowell has served on the faculties of several universities, 
including Cornell and University of California, Los Angeles, and worked for 
"think tanks" such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980 he has worked at the 
Hoover Institution. He is the author of more than 30 books.
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             The following is written by Dr. Sowell, and I quote:
             "The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best 
illustration to date of what President Barack Obama's America looks like. It 
is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent 
rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and 
destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly.
             "It is an America where history is rewritten to honor 
dictators, murderers and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism, 
hatred, class warfare and murder are all promoted as acceptable means of 
overturning the American civil society.
             "It is an America where humans have been degraded to the level 
of animals: defecating in public, having sex in public, devoid of basic 
hygiene. It is an America where the basic tenets of a civil society, 
including faith, family, a free press and individual rights, have been 
rejected. It is an America where our founding documents have been shredded 
and, with them, every person's guaranteed liberties.
             "It is an America where, ultimately, great suffering will come 
to the American people, but the rulers like Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry 
Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Jesse Jackson, 
Louis Farrakhan, liberal college professors, union bosses and other loyal 
liberal/Communist Party members will live in opulent splendor.
             "It is the America that Obama and the Democratic Party have 
created with the willing assistance of the American media, Hollywood, 
unions, universities, the Communist Party of America, the Black Panthers and 
numerous anti-American foreign entities. "Barack Obama has brought more 
destruction upon this country in four years than any other event in the 
history of our nation, but it is just the beginning of what he and his 
comrades are capable of.
             "The Occupy Wall Street movement is just another step in their 
plan for the annihilation of America. "Socialism, in general, has a record 
of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.""
             Thomas Sowell