The long, sad arc of decline from the Freedom Riders — who had a clear message and moral standing — to the Occupiers and the PaperFlingers continues.

Worse still is the way these latter day tantrum-throwers — who are completely indifferent to the “99 percenters” charged with cleaning up their messes – are lionized in the media. The Sun’s front page slobbering today over the Occupods search for a “new goal” (what was the old goal, again?) was a new low. The guy who used to walk up and down Calvert Street wearing a sandwich board that said “Sun Lies” was more coherent and determined than the whole lot of OccuPaperFlingers taken together.

By golly, Usha, that was a incisive, insightful, and derisive post. Just what one expects when engaging a member of the left-o-sphere.

You’ve almost whittled it down to a haiku. Don’t give up! Get back in your Occutent, light a candle, sharpen the olde quill pen, and really give me what fer! Briefly!

My only answer to you James Hunt–the moderator should have edited you.  As for me being edited by the moderator, what I posted appeared exactly as I posted it.  It was a fond haiku dedicated to you and there was nothing reprehensible in it to edit.  The rule of law you speak of is hardly operational .  If it had teeth we wouldn’t be going after the kleptos at all.  The question is not what we should do after the klepto activities occur.  The question is how these massive frauds can be prevented in the first place.  It seems we have a set up where corruption has become entrenched and the rule of law has become a handmaiden of the corrupt.  Your fallacy lies in putting your faith in the infallibilty of the law.  The law is often written, edited and manipulated by our legislators to favor whom they wish and often those so fortunate are their own dear crony capitalists.  The big banks BOFA and Wachovia have been laundering money for the drug cartels–this has come to light recently.  At the top level the leaders in these banks knew about these activities.  So write people in the know–I refer you to Pro Publica–the article is there.  The Attorney General of NY has hesitated to prosecute because guess what–we can’t afford to take down these banks or have prolonged legal contests with them.  These banks are not only too big to fail, they are also too big to prosecute.  I also notice that among all the nefarious activities that have come to pass, your conservative bent of mind has sought news about the Fannie and Freddie story because to you that sums up the current recession.  You will argue that if the housing market had not been taken for a careening ride by Fannie and Freddie, then the foreclosures would not have occurred and the Big banks would not have had any reason to invent the devilish financial instruments they did–that the govt was not only complicit but the Democrats engineered the fall of the House of USA with their social engineering.  But I would argue that is not the whole story.  The fall of the House of USA has occurred because of longstanding venality encompassing the various factions of the American plutocracy and political class–the Democrats with their social engineering to garner votes, the Repubs with their reflexive genuflection to all the prodigals with enormous wealth (acquired through enormous political influence) and the prodigals themselves sitting at the top of the food chain eating everything below to extinction.  I think you are too busy eating your own prey to notice these particulars.  As for the SEC hunting down Freddie and Fannie– quasi govt agencies–may I say, there is nothing so bold or virtuous about hunting down a vassal within your own estate.  Call me when the SEC moves further afield to hunt down Wall Street’s emperors without clothes.                   

There is nothing wandering nor jeremiad about my post.  You may be suffering from the common malady of flimsy attention span, waning concentration, easy fatigability and inability to follow thought processes that play out like high speed car chases, perhaps, my friend?  Those skills are not really necessary to survive in your neck of the woods, I assume, and hence, if you ever possessed them, you may have let them suffer from disuse atrophy.  
You do have selective amnesia every time you write about this issue.  The govt.’s shenanigans exist for you.  But the shenanigans from the big capitalists simply don’t count in your august opinion.  That aside your main objection to the Occupistas seems to be that they are dirty and solipsistic, solipsistic because they are dirty, more than because of anything else. 
Having descended from the “dirty” Third World myself, I imagine you with an apron, a bucket, a mop, and plenty of cleaning fluids in your vicinity, scrubbing every thing in sight to glory, so they will be highly polished and clean, much to your own detriment.  There is, O fastidious one, virtue in dirt and exposure to it.  It builds up immunity, it prevents allergies and bronchial asthma, it staves off  lupus, Crohns and other autoimmune disorders. 
In fact the Western world is beset by its various new fandangled ailments because unlike the less developed sections of our globe, it is obsessed with cleanliness and this obsession has been duly punished by the gods with some nasty consequences (the cleaning fluids themselves, that put much profit in the pockets of the Capitalistas, can corrode and erode our innards, cause cancers, pollute our by ways, streams and waterways and saturate our fish and fowl with chemicals hitherto unknown to their systems).  I realize that parenthesis will be too much for you to handle and that is the main fun of it. 
The Occupistas can be as dirty as they want.  They are doing you and your immaculate kind a good service by dragging your immune system into the cesspool with them and giving you, what is quaintly called in Medicine, herd immunity.  As for their solipsistic nature, you fight solipsism with solipsism, not with roses, confetti and kisses.  Good bye to you too.