
Reality Check: Practical Protestors and Extremist Elites
A billionaire media baron presiding over a deeply corrupt plutocratic government — no, not Berlusconi; Bloomberg — has swept in to crush a small protest movement that dared question the legitimacy and efficacy of the ruling oligarchy. The ‘ideological cleansing’ of Zuccotti Park — in the dead of night, with no warning, by hordes of heavily armed police, and the press literally penned up far from the action, all in the classic police-state style to which most Americans seem happily habituated — is a temporary setback to the Occupy movement in New York. But over in London, where — at