Evicting Hippies

I wonder if the “(Un)occupy” Albuquerque, counterpart to Occupy Wall Street, movement protestors got a shower in following their eviction from the University of New Mexico on their way to whatever place they move on to next? Not that it matters much. Certainly the indeterminate group has the right to protest whatever it is that they feel like within the law. This, by the way, was why they were evicted from Yale Park on the UNM campus; because they were impeding students, attracting vagrants and diverting UNM police from their real, actual jobs. How annoying must an anti-capitalist, otherwise vague protest movement be to be kicked out by a state university? It must have been startling. But I digress. Freedom of expression cuts both ways and it is inconceivable that I could ever support drivel such as the following:

"This isn't about roasting marshmallows and running an encampment, the reason people are here, the reason people are frustrated, the reason you're watching television is that 99 percent of the county is frustrated that we don't have a democracy that works for us,"

This “99 percent” presumption illustrates precisely why this movement agitates me. I am not a 1 percenter, but I disagree with everything these hippies stand for and they certainly do not represent 99% of the population. Most of these people don’t even understand what it is that they claim to be protesting and every time they speak demonstrate extreme ignorance. Our country is a representative democracy and over the last 90 years the government has expanded its power in attempt to “solve” the problems being protested; only making them worse and demanding more and more. The kind of democracy these “(Un)occupiers” want is mob rule, akin to the aberration of the French Revolution. But like most anarchists, these moochers are hardly the types that could actually do anything so they protest for handouts and for someone else to be responsible for them. Good on the UNM administration for their successful hippy disposal effort.