Occupy Wall Street's Wrongheaded 'Black Friday' Protest Exposes Founder's Agenda

Occupy Wall Street vowed to "occupy" malls across America in their ongoing anti-greed, anti-corporate, anti-capitalist protest. Except it isn't working. At least according to a FOX News article that reported that as of mid-morning, most malls hadn't seen too much action from the Great Unwashed.

However, one thing the "Black Friday Protest-That-Never-Happened" did do was once again expose the man behind the organization of Occupy Wall Street, Kalle Lasn.

In 2007, Lasn, a former marketing consultant, called for a national "Buy Nothing Day" on November 23, 2007, which was "Black Friday." Lasn is a Canadian and has a special loathing toward consumerism. He thinks it makes us bad people. From the NYT article (emphasis ours):

Mr. Lasn, from Vancouver, says the targets of the movement are the wealthiest one billion people on the planet, “the 20 percent who consume 80 percent of the goodies in the global marketplace.” The goal, he told me, “is to create an economy and a culture in which it eventually becomes cool to consume less.” (The magazine, with about 120,000 readers, two-thirds of them in the United States, is not for profit, but it does sell advertising… as does this newspaper of course.)

Isn't that interesting? On one hand, Lasn wants to condemn buying anything but yet his site, Adbusters, sells ads. Sounds like consumerism to us.

In case our Canuck Commie missed it: Retailers weren't bailed out like the banks -- which the press believes is the primary focus of OWS. In fact, retailers have this little game with the state going on called SALES TAX. We know, it's insidious. Diabolical, even. Those states that do such a thing use their sales taxes for public services such as:  supporting state law enforcement, fire and police departments, state employee wages, maintenance of city infrastructures such as highways and bridges, and entitlement programs.

So in other words, without sales taxes, a state would be in a whole lotta hurt.

And those who are in the Occupy camp wouldn't have anyone to provoke into a fight because all the police would probably be home, defending their own property from these zombie anarchists.