Forum Post: Do not allow Koch money to tie Occupy with tea party
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 15, 2011, 8:32 a.m. EST by RationalReaper
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I'm very serious about this as you can see the attempts to link the two together right here on this forum. When the tea party was first a rag tag group of disgruntled Americans I saw potential . Once sayruh palin began trying to align herself with the tea party..a noticeable change took place. Suddenly tea party was an entirely different organism than what it had started out. The message had abruptly change from a plight of trampled Americans to an extreme hard line right agenda with canned talking points.Soon it became clear that big money was directing that movement. Money from Dick Armey...money from Karl Rove...money from Koch... what had started out pure had quickly become polluted....infected and morphed into an entirely different strain of lethal virus. Lethal to the middle class and the poor. Do not allow this to happen with Occupy....Don't even allow the left wing of our government attach to Occupy...lest they too, corrupt the purity of the people's message.
It is amazing how many decent people who believe in what the TeaParty stands for don't understand the machine behind the message-
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
possibly. certainly more people around the world can relate to this. not me personally, but it does appear to be much bigger than the tea party.
Occupy is much much bigger and that is without big money or media helping it along.
I don't think the comparison will stand, as this seems to be becoming a world wide cause. However, I do think it is being seen by many as extreme left just as TP is seen as extreme right.
Occupy will become the center
Message what message get a grip.
We expect recent efforts to boycott products produced by companies owned or controlled by the Koch brothers, (Charles and David), (pronounced "coke"), to grow in 2011, and will eventually include an effort to have pension funds drop the company's bonds.
Their company, Georgia Pacific, has $10 billion in outstanding bonds.
The organizers of the boycott are suggesting people not purchase things that their company produces, including: Brawny Towels, Dixie Cup Products, Angel Soft Toilet Paper, Mardi Gras Napkins, Quilted Northern Toilet Paper; and Stainmaster Carpets.
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