Occupy Wall Street Conspiracy Theory

 by Tina Hulme

Are his opponents planning to make Obama the whipping boy for Occupy Wall Street?

Thanks to cartoonaday.com

Finally, in the last few days, we’ve started seeing reports on the protests going on in the Financial District of New York City.

“Occupy Wall Street” had been going on for a full three weeks and news reports were practically non-existent.

It was bizarre - and soon the general public started crying foul on what was seemingly a situation being carefully controlled within the media (which is supposed to be unbiased.)

It turned my thoughts to how the situation was reminiscent of Hitler becoming dictator of Germany in 1933.

No, I am not comparing Obama to Hitler - quite the opposite. His opponents may be the ones taking what I call “the Hitler move” in this political game of chess.

Jacob G. Hornberger posted this on the blog site The Future of Freedom Foundation on June 28th 2004:

“Hitler and his fellow members of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party, who were determined to bring down the republic and establish dictatorial rule in Germany, did everything they could to create chaos in the streets, including initiating political violence and murder. The situation got so bad that martial law was proclaimed in Berlin.” 

Hitler actually lost the election in 1932, so created a state of civil unrest in order to make the current government look ineffective.

That’s why, when I think about the Wall Street protests, it seems oddly similar.

From the very beginning, the news refused report on the civil unrest until it had grown and spread to other cities, leading to the arrest of over 700 people. I turned to my husband and said: ”You know Obama is going to get blamed for this. I bet this is a plot to kill his chances in the 2012 election.”

When my husband asked me to explain, I went on to tell him what I’m arguing here; that the protests were suspiciously allowed to go unreported for 3 weeks, growing to a threatening size, before the media started to report on them (and this was despite bloggers posting about them for weeks.)

I theorized that if the protests got to an extremely newsworthy size, or if they grew to the point where Obama had no choice but to declare martial law in the interest of public safety, then everyone would blame him for not coming up with a solution before the problem got to this breaking point - or they’d just blame him in general.

The smartest thing for any Obama opponent to do would be to recreate the 1932-1933 Berlin scenario, which would require them to be a group with enough clout to hush and control the media, as seems to have happened here.

This may seem like conspiracy theory to most, and to a certain extent it is, but I also know that the easiest cover is to create a notion so crazy no one would think it could be true.

I have no proof that Obama opponents are fanning the flames of Occupy Wall Street, or that they controlled the media into reporting it in a way that would hurt the president’s election chances, but it seems to make sense when you think about how history has a habit of repeating itself.

Just today, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain started what will become a ripple effect of blaming Obama for the chaos. He said:

“I don’t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration." 

I disagree with Mr. Cain. I don’t think these demonstrations are a distraction, but the main event.

I think the protestors are being used as political pawns to get Obama out of office; and their real message is being forgotten or ignored as a result.

Let’s not forget that there’s an entire government of Republicans and Democrats alike responsible for what laws and policies have been allowed to pass while Obama has been in office.

If you think his policies are failing, you can blame them too - not just the man himself.

Obama can’t wave a magic wand and make things happen. In fact, the House of Representatives usually prevent his laws being passed; which proves we’re not living in a dictatorship.

In fact, half the time, we’re the ones making our government ineffective; by voting these people into power in the first place.

That’s why, when it comes to the government failing the American people, this quote from V for Vendetta seems appropriate:

“If your looking for the guilty party, you only need look in the mirror.” 

Now the politicians will make Occupy Wall Street about themselves, and start a crusade against the current administration.

As for me, I just want the same answers the protestors want. Answers like: “Why is it that someone who makes 40k-50k can barely make ends meet?” or “Why aren’t the banks being punished for accepting bailouts, and then not forgiving the thousands of people they foreclosed on while the government forgave them?”

This was not Obama’s doing. Those cries were started long before he hit office. Lets not make Occupy Wall Street about him, or his administration.

Don’t be fooled, people.