As if to emphasise the point made in the previous post, that there is a vast disconnection - or at the very least a news lag - at InfoWars, the InfoPuppy, Paul Joseph Watson's latest dispatch (today, 30th October) concerns the a video of the attendance of US Border Guard at the Occupy Phoenix protest (first uploaded to YouTube on 18th October, see below).
Armed Citizen Militia Shows Up At Occupy Phoenix
The scoop-like language employed by Watson - more often seen in mediocre British tabloids - to cover this ancient (by internet standards) story is puffed up with a subplot that only Watson's spaghetti like mainframe could fail to notice actually exposes InfoWars for what it actually is, a reactionary right wing outfit purporting to have transcended the left/right paradigm.
For years, InfoWars have rallied in favour of the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution (which concerns the right to bear arms) and against illegal immigration. But when US Border Guard were then accused of neo-Nazi affiliations, the InfoPuppy seized on the opportunity to join the chorus and taking an oddly expedient opportunity to distance himself (a resident of Yorkshire, England) from the armed militia he dubbed, 'Minutemen on steroids' who organise armed patrols of the US border with Mexico.
Watson asks, insidiously, 'Is this a means of infiltrating the ‘Occupy’ movement, a minority fringe extremist group trying to attach itself to the protesters, or merely concerned citizens expressing their right to bear arms peaceably?'
There are plenty of efforts to split the Occupy movement, some by means of the co-opting of political organisations but others on grounds of political difference - whether left vs right, those who do and do not understand the relevance of fractional reserve banking and those (like InfoWars) who wilfully confuse a belief in social co-operation with Nationalsozialistische ideology.
Because momentum in the Occupy movement is shifting towards a more popular and diverse demographic, the InfoWars collective are becoming more marginalised. Trying to create disharmony is a tactic used from top to bottom.
If you want to avoid painting yourself into a corner, Alex, you need to start looking into ways of engaging with people instead of attacking them. We have a common enemy. I spend as much time trying to encourage the cognitively dissonant who dismiss 'conspiracy theorists' to look at evidence as I do pointing out why it may be time for you to re-evaluate your approach - especially as the Occupy movement battle lines become more tangible.
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