Saturday, September 17th is the peaceful Day of Rage. If what we are already seeing in San Francisco’s Bay of Rage, it will not be peaceful. On a previous article outlining these events (Rules for Radicals – Day of Rage Style) on August 6th, the administrator for their website added a comment concerning their peaceful actions. Since he has removed his comment, we will have to see tomorrow if their “original intent” has been changed.
The following article from World Net Daily gives a good summation of the events. Although a moral and virtuous people never advocate violence to achieve goals, the Day of Rage may wake up America to the reality that we are facing economically and politically.
David DeGerolamo
Is revolution hitting U.S. streets tomorrow?
Protesters training to incite violence, resist arrest, disrupt the legal system
Fight “market dictatorship”
“People of the world rise up!”
“We are legion.”
“Take to the streets.”
These and other battle cries were posted on the recent Twitter feed of a group calling itself Take The Square. The organization is one of the social media planners behind the “Day of Rage” protest slated to target Wall Street on Saturday.
WND previously reported how the U.S. section of the protest, complete with a planned tent city in downtown Manhattan, is closely tied to the founders of ACORN and leaders of major U.S. unions, including the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU.
While protest leaders claim they are non-violent, there are indications the protesters are training to incite violence, resist arrest and disrupt the legal system.
The protest aims to take root nationwide. Activists are advertising on social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter for a “Day of Rage” on Sept. 17 to begin with the “occupation” of Wall Street and continue with protests across the nation.
Planners have their own website – USDayofRage.org – which tells protesters to “bring your own tent.”
The website is not specific about the purpose of the “Day of Rage” other than calling for “integrity” to be “restored to our elections.”
The site accuses corporations of using “money to act as the voices of millions, while individual citizens, the legitimate voters, are silenced and demoralized by the farce.”
Advertisements claim the protests at Wall Street and nationwide will be “non-violent.” However, the official website provides resources, including videos and detailed written instructions, for protesters to engage in “civil disobedience.”
The resources provided include instructions on how to resist police arrest and disrupt court hearings. This week, the ‘Day of Rage’ twitter feed posted links to what it called “nonviolent civil disobedience training talks.” Similar instructions are provided on the website of an affiliated organization, which calls itself “Occupy Wall Street” and is also involved in planning the Sept. 17 protests.
The use of the term “Day of Rage” recalls the “Days of Rage” organized in the 1960s by the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization co-founded by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, close associates for years of President Obama.
Numerous radicals, many with direct ties to Obama, are linked to planned protests and other activism scheduled for the coming months. In March, ACORN founder Wade Rathke announced what he called “days of rage in 10 cities around JP Morgan Chase.” Rathke was president of an SEIU local in New Orleans. The planned Sept. 17 protest appears to be the culmination of Rathke’s efforts.
Those efforts are being organized by Stephen Lerner, an SEIU board member who reportedly visited the Obama White House at least four times. Lerner is considered one of the most capable organizers of the radical left. He recently organized the SEIU’s so-called Justice for Janitors campaign. As part of his planned protests, Lerner called for “a week of civil disobedience, direct action all over the city.” His stated aim is to “destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.”
In an interview about the planned protests, Lerner outlined his goals: “How do we bring down the stock market? How do we bring down their bonuses? How do we interfere with their ability to, to be rich?”
There are other indications a coalition of radicals and unions are planning chaos using the current economic crisis. Last month, WND reported that a slew of extremist organizations, some tied to Obama, are preparing protests to coincide with major NATO and G-8 summits in Chicago next May.
Foreshadowing possible violent confrontations, some of the same radical trainers behind the infamous 1999 Seattle riots against the World Trade Organization have been mobilizing new protest efforts geared toward world summits as well as the current economic crisis. Some of the activists are tied to Obama.
