Deduct the FBI infiltrators and the number drops to about six.

What Mr. Ed said.

I was sent the screed "advertising" this event, and they're lucky they're not charged with sedition.

These people have no idea that Glenn Beck has been making fools of them this whole time. Poor idiots. It is all about the money and it always has been.

"Its title of OAS is just too close to the hated OWS."

--->>> so they think government is corrupt...BUT BANKSTERS AREN'T???

Doesn't "hated OWS" = WE LOVE THE BANKSTERS??? Do they not realize the "WS" in OWS stands for Wall Street? So we know where their heart is...with the BANKSTERS!

It is indeed funny to watch the misnomer "progressives" and their talking points. Funny how you will chastise Conservatives for such a low number as 10 million...yet praise Al Sharpton for having no more members show at his dog and pony shows than a few thousand or even hundreds.

It was inevitable that Beck and Rush would eventually overplay their hand. Their MO has been to ratchet up the rhetoric so that it gets even more fantastic each time (because they go for the emotional instead of the intellectual). The question is will Beck and Rush back off and try to regain the trust of their followers or will they continue their behavior until even their followers will realize how ridiculous much of what they say truly is.

I think, in all seriousness, that President Obama should organize a public health program to encourage people to breathe more, and to get more oxygen.

It wasn't anywhere near 10 million or even 10 thousand. They MAY have had 1000 on Friday, which decreased by half every day thereafter once everyone realized it was a bust and either went back home or decided to stay home.

I think there are MAYBE 40 people there right now. The best this "operation" can do at this point is to keep working on co-opting Rolling Thunders numbers even though Rolling Thunder has released an official statement denying any affiliation with OWS.

Lather.Rinse.Repeat

"who have now taken it over the government --- through peaceful elections."

Yes, peaceful meaningless often unverifiable elections stacked in favor of parties that rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from interests that have no interest in democracy, peace, the Constitution, or humanity in general.

But at least we are participating in the farce that we still call representative government, which is denying our humanity (and basic common sense) progressively further with each meaningless changeover between the R party and the D party.

What do these hillbilly inbred misinformed morons have to complain about hahaha! Fucking morons, let's point and laugh at them because we are enlightened and they are retards.

After all, their stupid beliefs are pretty hypocritical since they bought into the very propaganda our own government has used as a cover for its increasingly tyrannical composition (i.e. Muslim terrorists, communism blah blah bullshit blah). You know, the government that we elected peacefully.

What's so surprising.
If there's anything THE BLAZE bloggers can't stand -
it's the truth. Glenn has made a career feeding their paranoid fantasies.
In injecting reality was more than the dolts could bear. They've been on his backside since he refused to step into the Cliven Bundy pile of poop.

SH @ 10 said:

each meaningless changeover between the R party and the D party.

While that's totally hipster of ya, and once, long ago, used to have some association with reality, if you think there is no difference between the R and D party, then you ain't paying attention. Or you're just way way cooler than me.

we are now talking about a new stage name for him ... GLEN ARNOLD OR BENIDICT BECK...maybe BENIDICK BECK... take your pick

Interesting article. Beck is a whore who reinvents himself every few months. All the self-proclaimed "profit" of doom and gloom cares about is selling his tchotchkes. Breitbart had his number!

Brad @ 12

Hipsters suck. Get with the times Brad, they aren't the "cool" kids any more.

I have been paying attention. You make much more of the narrow creek that separates the two parties than I do. Sure, the fringe T party peeps and militia types are way different than the Ds. But they are almost as far from the leaders and power brokers in the R party as they are from the D party.

The Secretary of State is worth hundreds of millions. Do you think he has anything in common with you Brad? Do you think he cares about you or your interests, or those of the people his party nominally represents? Or for that matter the people his foreign policy destroys on a daily basis around the world?

Tell me, in the last 22 years, how the D party has substantively advanced any of these issues, which I find to be some of the most important and form the fundamental basis for the malaise and decline of the US and the west in general. This could and should (at least in large part) be the platform of at least one major party in this country, and some issues should clearly overlap between every sane party.

But, beyond paying lip service to some of these issues when the public seems truly fed up (but rarely doing anything about them after elected), both parties have been happy to ignore them and not attack the other party about it. That is what makes them so similar, everything they don't debate or argue about (i.e. implicitly agree upon).

Non exhaustive and in no particular order:

1) Integrity of the electoral process.

2) Reform of the monetary/banking/financial system to distribute capital in a fair way that fosters widespread economic prosperity to all classes of society and relieves the private and public sector from crushing amounts of interest based debt (forgiving all student loan debt would be a good start). Abolishing, or at least fire walling and regulating the shadow banking system, i.e. reinstating some of the basic protections Clinton and his banking buddies decided weren't necessary any more. Prosecuting the bankers who destroyed our country and the government officials who let it happen. Making major financial fraud, and aiding and abetting such fraud, a capital offense, retroactively. When Vietnam is more diligent in prosecuting financial fraud than our country, we have a serious problem.

3) Rooting out public corruption.

4) Instituting a fair tax system. Abolish income tax on families for the first 100,000 earned. Increase capital gains taxes and tax on non-essential consumption. Institute "Tobin Tax" on speculative and non-productive financial transactions, and make it impossible for companies that offshore these transactions to take losses on their books for any of these transactions (for tax purposes). If I earn money in China I have to pay US income tax. If JP Morgan does, they can shelter their money and avoid taxes indefinitely. Every major transnational corporation does this.

5) Promoting the decentralization of democratic authority to small localities rather than massive centralized bureaucracies.

6) Ending the militarist, murderous, immoral, insane, imperial, warmonger, interventionist, bankrupt foreign policy (which includes the use of DU weapons which will poison generations of people in the regions they were used, and beyond).

7) Protecting basic civil liberties for everyone, reinstating the rule of law, policing the government and the elected leaders. De militarizing local police and DHS. Holding law enforcement(and anyone acting under color of law) accountable for abuses of power and illegal actions, including military and CIA psychopaths running amok around the world.

8) Instituting a new Manhattan project to find a long-term, sustainable, non polluting source of energy.

9) Environmental restoration and prosecuting powerful interests that destroy (or threaten to destroy) ecologies and lives (i.e. BP Gulf oil spill / banning fracking / decommissioning all nuclear power plants etc.). Also, being honest about the potential health effects of environmental disasters.

10) Abolishing the use of toxic pesticides and genetically modified organisms rather than expanding their use. Promoting, through information, research and investment, organic farming techniques, year round indoor farming, hydroponic and aquaponic farming. Every house, every block, every tenement and every neighborhood should be able to produce much of the food it needs year round without the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

11) Acknowledging the extreme danger that the Fukushima catastrophe has created for humanity, actively monitoring the radiation spread, sharing that knowledge with the people, providing information on how to mitigate the damage to health, taking action now to create a sustainable food and water system that could be largely protected from the long term bio accumulation of radioactive particles (see 10)

12) Bringing back manufacturing and skilled jobs to this country by curbing the ability of major companies to engage in wage arbitrage and then sell their products in the US while pocketing the profit. No more NAFTA or TTIP or SPP negotiated in secret and written by the interests who stand most to gain. No more insulating transnational entities from judicial oversight.

13) Free, quality healthcare for all.

14) Free quality education through grad school. Free vocational training. 0% interest business start-up loans.

The D party is so different from the R that when it had absolute control of the country for a session of Congress it was able to pass all of these really important bills in the areas outlined above which totally distinguished them from what the R party had done before.

Oh wait, it didn't do that? Well then it must have passed every bill necessary to fulfill the promises in the platform it presented to convince the people to vote for them? It did that at least, right? I mean, otherwise, it would not have actually believed in its platform or wanted to create a sharp delineation with the policies of the previous party, right?

SH @15--

1. Name three hipsters who suck.

2. I'm with you on how painfully similar the parties are in oh so many ways. And I'm with you almost 100% on everything you're saying we should be promoting.

3. I'm also with Brad, cuz despite all the painful similarities between the two parties, in those areas where there are differences those differences actually make a significant difference to significant numbers of people. Take the ACA, for instance. As flawed as that legislation is(extremely)it's a helluva lot better than the nothing the Repubs woulda not come up with.

4. I have no trouble embracing both your sides on this one. Thanks, once again, to the paradoxical nature of the universe.

David @ 16

Haha. The hipster thing was a bit harsh on my part. I can name three who smell bad though.

I feel like most of what I said is common sense, and don't present really divisive political issues. Of course the massive misinformation and propaganda that attends any genuine efforts of people to assert their interests in these and other fundamental policy areas proves that you can turn anything political. Ex. How the hell did the GMO labeling proposition in CA ever lose? It isn't like organic products are prohibitively expensive because they write "organic" next to the ingredients on the packaging.

I highly respect and agree with Brad and you as well that the Ds have important policy differences with Rs.

My problem is that putting a band-aid over the problems caused by the very policy choices both parties are complicit in perpetuating for many years is incredibly disingenuous. In that respect, D looks worse than R because they pretend they are different, when they are just playing cover for the oligarchy by letting out some steam before society explodes and real change is enacted.

And we all know that on many of the fundamental problems, when actual people (not corrupt party robots) are polled, the dividing line between R and D largely disappears. Where is the party representing the segment of society that agrees by a vast majority on certain fundamental issues?

I really appreciate that you got through my rant at all!

Brad: You really ought to re-post that Donald Duck cartoon where he goes crazy after listening to the Beck-like character over the radio.

Thanks SH @17--

And I'm with you on all that, too. There are times when I have been more furious at Obama than Bush. Bush has perhaps a little cleverness but is not that smart. I wasn't surprised when he turned out to be a lying idiot. But Obama is smart, and when he turned out to not only also be a lying idiot but also an idiot idiot, despite his intelligence, it really pissed me off.

The closest thing we have to that party you're asking about I guess is the Greens, but come election time the media has such a stranglehold on the "debate" and the monied interests have such a stranglehold on the "discourse"(like the anti-GMO prop situation you mentioned) that even when Kucinich or Nader comes along actually coming close to representing public opinion, they're not going to be taken seriously. But you know all this.

I'm also inclined to suspect another aspect of the problem is a simple failure of imagination on the part of the American voting public. When Nader was running in 2000 I heard so many people say basically that of course he's the best candidate by far but no sense voting for him cuz no way in hell can he win. And in part it becomes self-fulfilling prophecy.

But even with all the fucked up stuff we agree is so fucked up, and how little anyone in Washington is actually representing the will of the people, I would still take, as a start, the simple, essential amount of progress of knowing that our votes were going to be counted as cast.

In the meanwhile, keep at it all and nice talking with you.

SH @ 15:

Oh, I see. When you suggest there's no difference between Rs and Ds, what you actually mean is that neither of them have enacted the very specific policies that you want in place. That, of course, is an entirely different matter and completely unsupportive of the original point you offered. To say that the difference between the two parties is "meaningless", at this stage of the game, is patently absurd, demonstrably incorrect from top to bottom, and displays woeful ignorance of the real world.

That's not to say I'm fans of either of those two parties. But your original assertion is just flat out ridiculous and lazy.

Ernie @ 18 -

This one? It's duckin' brilliant!...

David @ 19

Very nice talking with you too. I think your points on the monopoly over public discourse and the lack of imagination of the American public is spot on.

If we had any kind of honest discourse, or if people weren't so disillusioned about what is actually possible when they stand together in furtherance of their own interests, we as a society would be unstoppable and truly "progressive."

The party that represented these interests would change the game for generations because range of acceptable issues to debate would really be indicative of the actual problems concerning society, not those few narrow areas where the parties agree to disagree and anything else is taboo.

Of course, if we are living in an oligarchical system, there may be other factors at play than simple corruption or the stupidity of our leaders. Politicians may be physically threatened or blackmailed if they actually go off the reservation. I wouldn't be surprised, given the trillions of dollars and unbelievable amount of power that the oligarchs stand to lose if the government actually pursued the general welfare of society.

Brad @ 20

Nothing of the sort. The differences are meaningless precisely because neither party addresses the fundamental causes of the problems they supposedly seek to remedy, while exacerbating them by pushing psycho policies both are complicit in perpetuating.

These aren't just policies that I want addressed. There are broad segments of society which agree on many of the points I outlined. When either party meaningfully addresses any of these fundamental policies (or many others I didn't mention), then the difference will cease to be meaningless. THAT is the reality I see Brad.

I do not really understand your aggression.
Does either party display policy differences that would dramatically improve the lot of the majority of our population rather than small segments here or there, or those which provide only temporary fixes? Does either party not support, to the detriment of all, the continual enrichment, empowerment, and lawlessness of a tiny portion of society which owns an incredible amount of the nation's wealth and exercises vast power within government and corporate spheres? What difference could possibly matter between the parties so long as this continues?

The only real difference I see between the parties is that the Ds seek to integrate and celebrate segments of society that have suffered discrimination and unequal protection under the law. This is a noble and important goal, but goals which are rendered largely meaningless when at the same time EVERYONE is losing fundamental rights left and right.

The Ds are complicit in killing human beings all over the world, Kerry is running around trying to start world war III with Russia and China, the police state becomes more institutionally entrenched, people's economic situation is deteriorating drastically year after year, big banks keep getting bailed out and fraudsters escape justice, elections are no more fundamentally secure than when you began this blog, money printing continues but very little of it ends up in the hands of the majority of the population who would actually do productive things with this money (like invest in their communities), the military-industrial complex grows fatter off of the wealth of the nation in order to murder people in the name of empire, and so much more horrifying shit.

People are literally starving, dying, committing suicide, lacking even a modicum of hope or dignity in our own country, every day, because of all of the resources the government (which includes the currently ruling D party) is complicit in squandering.

My point is that whatever good the D party does that distinguishes them from the R party in your mind, is erased a hundred fold by all of the truly horrifying ways they are pretty much identical. That is just how I see it. They are both serial killers. Maybe the D party leaves a few bucks for the family of the victim after the crime, but that does not illustrate a meaningful distinction in my mind.

Sounds like all of Glenn's listeners made it!

Ok, here is the truth about OAS because I went! It was poorly planned. Some of us were on the Mall, some where at the WH, some where at the Congress and some at the Monument. It appears the FEDS purposely took down the ustream feed on Friday and Saturday so we didn't know where to mass. Most of us camped out on the outskirts of DC and many got stuck in flooded camps south of DC in North Virginia so they had a hard time getting into DC. Next time, the planners should announce for everyone to bring a portable encrypted shortwave radio to circumvent the FEDS from taking down the ustream feed. That way, we know where to walk to and mass. This COULD have been a very effective rally if only a few things had been different

Atiboy -

Well, that's weird. I was watching the live OAS stream for several hours without a problem on Friday, as people (weren't) showing up. The guy was broadcasting on Ustream (or LiveStream?) from his bus. And whenever he took a break, he cut away to another live stream from Pete Santilli's show on the Mall.

Didn't seem to be any interruptions at all. You suppose the "FEDS" were zooming in their super-duper microwave systems onto only the devices of the OAS marchers, then? Ya know, to keep them from being able to depose the President and such through their mightiness?

The only failures are Anti-American liberal zombies such as Brad Friedman and they know it.

I don't appreciate Glenn Beck, Mr. One World Religion, mocking a Christian man who held a prayer meeting. I don't care if he only had 40 people there. He obeyed God and prayed to the One True God of the Bible about this country. Meanwhile, Glenn Beck - Mr. One World Government, brought a "Black Robe Brigade". Who cares if he had tons of people show at his event? God didn't hear their One World Religion Prayer and called it an abomination. But, this small group, God heard.

Therefore, this event was successful where as Beck's event was a BUST!!

As far as Beck being anything but a shill for the Federal Government, fewer and fewer people are fooled by him everyday.

As much as I dislike Glenn Beck and his kind, and as much as I like to see these nutjobs turn on him, this article is essentially just about the comment section on another article. I could have just read it myself.

I saw the acronym "OAS" and thought Organization of American States...

Yeah Beck FAILS,,,much like any of the pedestalized divide & conquer airheads from any organization,,,Sharpton comes to mind also.