Batman Meets His Greatest Villian: "Occupy Wall Street"

I know that sounds like the plot for a future Batman movie. Well, actually 1 of the great artists of comicdom has come out swinging against "Occupy Wall Street", an artist who has strong ties with Batman. He is known for his Batman limited series, later made into a graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. He is also famous for other graphic novels Sin City & 300. If you haven't figured out who I am talking about it is Frank Miller.

He recently  posted a long statement on his website, titled "ANARCHY". In the post Miller says he has decided to say what others are "too damn polite" to say about  "Occupy Wall Street" & he doesn't pull any punches.

 "The “Occupy”movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.

This is no popular uprising. This is garbage. And goodness knows they’re spewing their garbage – both politically and physically – every which way they can find.

Wake up, pond scum."

IMHO it sounds like he hit the nail right on the head. He goes on to tell them to grow up as well as look at what is really going on in the world.

This follows on his recent graphic novel Holy Terror: Islamist terrorism. Miller describes it as "propaganda" in the grand tradition. He said "Let's keep in mind that, back in the forties, Superman punched out Adolf Hitler."  Of course, back in the 40s most of the Entertainment industry or News industry weren't sympathetic to Hitler.  Since then much has changed. Today in the the Main Stream Media PC land of "we can't say anything negative about Islam even if it is the truth", he is coming under some major criticism for his stands.

But he doesn't let that bother him. Instead he coming out swinging against the MSM. In the same post where he defended his graphic novel Holy Terror, he had the following to say about the New York Slimes, er Times: "One need only read the front page of the sacred New York Times, that Gray, Senile Old Lady, let alone explore the serpentine chasm that is its editorial page, to read news so slanted as to be beyond recognition of the facts on the ground." He goes on to say that MSNBC is shamelessly practicing propaganda, not reporting the news. He goes on to say: "Come on. Propaganda is rampant. News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth."

Again he is exactly right, most of what passes for news in the MSM is propaganda intended to promote the socialist agenda of the left.

In this day & age when most of the Infotainment industry gladly promotes the liberal elitist socialist agenda, it is refreshing to see someone have the courage to stand up & say things that need to be said about what is really going on with groups like "Occupy Wall Street" rather than painting them as the good guys.

I have to put in 1 little postscript on a similar line about "Occupy Wall Street" by sharing something that was in a recent letter to the editor in our local paper. The author talked about the differences between the Tea Party movement & the "Occupy" movement. He compared the Tea Party to those who supported the American Revolution while calling the "occupy" gang as the modern day equivalent of the rabble who supported the French revolution a few years later. That person did an excellent job of making the right comparisons. The American Revolution lead to a new nation "under God" that promised liberty for all. The French revolution produced the loss of not only liberty & freedom for many,many years, it also produced the total destruction of property & untold loss of life as well.

Source: Frank Miller Doesn't Think Much of Occupy Wall Street