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Billionaire Tycoon Claps For Herman Cain’s Attacks On Occupy Wall Street Movement
ThinkProgress / News Analysis
Published: Wednesday 19 October 2011
“Cain also reiterated his point that the jobless should blame themselves, not the speculators who crashed the economy.”
Former restaurant lobbyist Herman Cain doubled down tonight on his attacks against the Occupy Wall Street movement. In previous weeks, Cain blasted protesters for daring to stand-up to Wall Street power, at one point referring to the Americans in Zuccotti Park as un-American. Cain also reiterated his point that the jobless should blame themselves, not the speculators who crashed the economy.
Many people in the crowd began clapping for Cain’s response. But one person in particular stood out: casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson. Adelson owns casinos in Las Vegas and China, including the Venetian, where the debate was held tonight. Adelson has served as a major donor to far-right causes. This New Yorker profile reveals Adelson’s many years of funding stealth attack group and Bush-era Republican politicians.
Like the Koch brothers, another set of billionaires close to Cain, Cain’s snide attacks against protesters serve the country’s elite. Conservatives have worked overtime trying to pin blame for the economic downturn on President Obama and public school teachers. Such misdirection only helps to shield plutocrats from ever having to pay their fair share.
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Lee Fang is an investigative researcher and contributing author for NationofChange. A resident of Sacramento, CA, Lee has written for the Boston Globe, The Nation, and ThinkProgress.org.
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9 comments on "Billionaire Tycoon Claps For Herman Cain’s Attacks On Occupy Wall Street Movement"
doukatm
October 21, 2011 10:45am
Very well put! Awesome! thanks for sharing!
October 19, 2011 5:06pm
Another fat cat. We can only hope that they succumb to their unbridled oral greed and fall over dead from a heart attack.
October 19, 2011 2:45pm
The “Occupy” Movement needs a Protest Song
The "Occupy Wall Street" movement needs a world wide protest song. It's name should reflect at least one important goal of the protestors. A title could be "It's Time for Regulation". "We're gonna heal our nation - it's time - oh yes it's time - time for regulation! - I'm no song writer as you can see, but a protest theme is important and music makes a powerful ally in delivering a constant and repetitive message.There must be someone who can produce the goods and keep public awareness alive with a great protest song?
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October 19, 2011 1:41pm
traitor to America
October 19, 2011 12:53pm
Let’s wake up America!
The 1% of Piratical Capitalists are strangling the other 99% of Americans and the rest of the world to death!
I’m sick and tired of the Democrats, the Republicans, the tea party, and the news media!
I’m sick and tired of listening to incessant political nonsense while we the people, are losing everything!
Are we supposed to remain passive while we lose our jobs, our homes, our families, our health, our savings, our future, and our lives!? Are we…really!?!?! Do you people out there want to let this happen!?
Are we just supposed to lie down and die?! Sure, the elite rich would love that wouldn’t they? If we’re dead, then we can’t cause any trouble. If we’re dead, then we can’t come after them!
We’ve been blind and passive way too long. We keep dancing around the real solution here, while the rich pay off our politicians and the courts to stay free and so they can repeatedly rape us!
No-way, it’s time we put a stop to this! They need a lesson here. Unfortunately, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Russian Revolution were necessary because the royals and elite rich just never did get it. They didn’t care that millions of people were being hurt or dying because of them.
We have that same exact international situation right here…right now. We’re not dead yet, and there are millions and millions of us around the world. And that, is POWER!
People, we are in the midst of a Global Revolution! It’s happening now and it’s time we pulled these arrogant royals off of their thrones. Yes people, it’s time it got ugly.
This is why.
THE NEW AMERICAN PIRATES, ARE KILLING AMERICANS.
This is not about glamorized or fictional piracy. This is, “real piracy.”
Hundreds of our wealthiest leaders and most powerful corporations know that in the next few years, they will be able to siphon, skim, and steal, so much “NEW CASH,” that they and their progeny will be ultra-rich for generations to come.
Welcome to the modern “Piratical Capitalism” movement. And, welcome to WAR!
No, this is not funny, or fiction, or a conspiracy, it is just simple greed and simple theft.
The new pirates of America have launched an all-out siege on us…the 99%, in order to capture, amass, and hold many trillions of dollars for themselves.
All of the recent political power grabs and nonsensical debating is purely a slight-of-hand deflection. President Obama, Democrats, Republicans, the International Press, and even the Tea Party, are watching the tiny pea in the shell game…while the rich and powerful “Piratical Right” is stealing America right out from under us.
Consider that their combined total plunder from corporate flipping, downsizing, offshore labor, speculation, price fixing of oil and energy plus, corruption in defense, health care, banking, student loans, foreclosures, etc., etc., is a trillion dollar treasure for these pirates.
Go ahead, put your own calculator to it.
Are they smarter than we are? Yes, and they are laughing at us. I, we, you, and all of us, have not been able see the big picture of what is happening to our own country and to our own people. The rape and theft of America, has been cleverly packaged, promoted, and sold under the guise of “cost-cutting,” “deregulation,” and “free enterprise.”
The “Piratical Right” is directly responsible for millions of people dying, getting sick, losing their jobs and homes, losing their ability to fight, their spirit, and even losing their will to live. The sick smell of this carnage now permeates the air across America.
To us, this is all unimaginable, because we look for some sense or the morality of things. These modern-day American pirates however, have no moral compass. They are devoid of any conscience, humanity or soul, and are feeding on the flesh of the American people.
Don’t look to the President, the Senate, Congress, the press, or any political party to help. Sadly, they just don’t see it, don’t care, or are part of it. “We the people” are on our own. Start asking questions. Demand answers. If we don’t fight back America…who will!?
History has taught us how to stop piracy!
October 19, 2011 11:59am
Class warfare? What class warfare?
October 19, 2011 1:37pm
It is time for people to take the power by speaking out. I personally have been at Freedom Plaza with the October 2011 Movement most of the time since it began on October 16. More, many many more, millions more need to be on the streets in some movement to stop the domination of the American people by the wealthy elite using corporations and the Congress to accomplish it.
Friends, relatives and acquaintances who have spoken with me on my visits home from DC frequently ask me why October 2011 does not seek to influence the 2012 election by finding a candidate who will support our positions. They are shocked and highly critical when I tell them that the movement (whether we are talking about October 2011, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy DC, SOUL or any of the other movements that have taken it to the streets) is not about candidates. but rather about ideas.
Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, the Berrigans, and Daniel Ellsberg did not support candidates. They developed ideas that grew out of obviously unjust practices, developed large followings who supported those ideas then they confronted the establishment with demands for change. This is what needs to happen in America NOW!
Who can legitimately argue with the following:
-Protect the rights of workers including collective bargaining, create jobs and raise wages;
-Tax the rich and corporations;
-End the wars, bring the troops home, cut military spending;
-Protect the social safety net, strengthen Social Security, Medicaid, and improved Medicare for all;
-End corporate welfare for oil companies and other big businesses;
-Transition to a clean energy economy, reverse environmental degradation;
-Get money out of politics; and
-Stop foreclosures?
We need the support of everyone. We need contributions and mostly we need feet in the street.
October 19, 2011 1:37pm
It's only class warfare when the working classes try to better themselves.