The New Hampshire Tea Party Coalition warns libertarians to run, don’t walk, from OccupyWall Street:

“While there have been a few instances where protesters have been seen touting legitimate issues such as opposition to crony capitalism, corporatism, and the corruption and illegitimacy of the Federal Reserve, make no mistake about it — this is purely a communist, world government-inspired, “astroturfed” movement, funded and promoted by the usual suspects. Obama loves it.
The list… thanks to this article in The Blaze, reveals all:

– The Working Families Party was established in the 90s by key members of the the socialist organizations The New Party, ACORN, SEIU, and a coalition of other labor unions and community organizations.

– Patrick Gaspard, the current executive director of the DNC, former director of Obama’s Office of Political Affairs, was an organizer for the New Party, the executive vice president of the SEIU Local 1199, political director for Bertha Lewis (the former president of ACORN) and a co-chair of the Working Families Party.
– The New Party is a socialist political coalition co-founded in 1992 by academic and political activist Joel Rogers.
– The first strategic meetings to plan the New Party were held in Joel Rogers’ Madison, Wisconsin home; Wade Rathke, ACORN and SEIU founder and Gerry Hudson from Democratic Socialists of America and SEIU were in attendance at those meetings.
– The New Party’s influential Chicago chapter began to formed in January 1995. Its members consisted mainly of individuals from ACORN, SEIU and the Democratic Socialists of America. Obama attended a New Party function and received their endorsement in 1995.
– In 1994, a New Party newspaper listed more than 100 activists “who are building the NP;” some names among the list of 100 were Noam Chomsky, Frances Fox Piven, Wade Rathke, Cornel West, Jon Barton of SEIU, Maude Hurd of ACORN and Margaret Shelleda of SEIU.
– Gerry Hudson, SEIU Executive Vice President and original New Party member, serves on the board of the Apollo Alliance organized by Joel Rogers’ group COWS Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The Alliance is a project of the Tides Center. Harry Reid credited the Apollo Alliance with helping to write the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
– Some Hispanics were paid to be present at the OWS rallies to make it look inclusive. Who paid them?
– George Soros’ Open Society Institute is a major source of money behind the Apollo Alliance and the Tides Foundation. Soros is a convicted international criminal of the financial kind… just what these protesters are supposed to hate.
– Meet the Obama link to Wall Street terror and see how his apologetic stance on the riots could turn them even more violent.
Indeed, pre-printed signs don’t just appear, someone has to pay for printing them… and this assault on the tea party and on middle class America has been in the planning for quite some time now.
Planning for a “global socialist revolution” was being done already, per this video. What these people want is a totalitarian government to enforce their ‘demands’. And they have already stated they would like to “kill and eat the rich” and put people who won’t let capitalism go into “re-education camps”, and re-elect Obama, despite the fact that Obama continues to be the politician who receives the most money from Wall Street.”

My Comment:

Socialism of the anarchist, local sort is a far better thing than corporate criminality. But OW is not that kind of anarchism and it does strike me as fundamentally opposed to what the Tea Party started out about.

I don’t see any way of making common cause over some of these demands. They are just what got everyone riled up in the first place.