The Occupy Wall Street movement that has been astro-turfed by the left into the “Occupy This or That” movement makes me, above all else,  sad.  The Occupiers are protesting seemingly everything but the real failures they are protesting are their own.  They protest their own failure to pursue an education that offered them a chance at future employment.  They decry their own lack of personal responsibility that would have afforded them the level of savings to go to school and escape that liberal indoctrination without a crushing debt.  While I have no evidence other than common sense I am willing to bet that practically none of the Occupiers had full-time summer jobs when in high school.  I am willing to make wager that few if any of the group are able to provide for themselves absent the generosity of others, beginning with a too lenient set of parents and ending with social promotion from the schools they attended.  And, most aggravating is they are begging the government to step in and be that which they most loudly protest against. They argue so vehemently against the Plutocracy they claim exists in the structure of the Wall Street banks with their insistence that they are the “99%”. (Heaven fore-fend I should ever be so wanting of self-respect as to be a part of that group.) They claim to be so much the victims of a huge conspiracy of faceless kings and queens as to have no power to set their own course or achieve their own dreams.  Yet the solution they desperately pursue is to turn over completely their right to self-determination to an Oligarchy run by faceless administrators and mind numbed bureaucrats. A corporate head at least answers to the whims of choices made by both the free markets and the voting stock holder. Yet, proof lies in Mr. Obama’s instructions to his advisors to by-pass congress that the government largesse the protesters crave comes at a massive price in the loss of freedom. The flawed logic is mind numbing. They bemoan the existence of corporations while championing unions.  Unions like the AFL-CIO which is a corporation and as of 2010’s audited financial statements had 1.8 Billion dollars in Real Estate assets including mortgages.  (Kind of just like a Wall Street bank, hunh?)  They rage against the cost of an education and in the same breath the failure of our society to pay teachers enough. The rail against capitalism while selling T-shirts to each other with clever slogans and beg for handouts from the passing stock brokers. Lord Acton’s caution of the corrupting effect of absolute power has been proven true over and over in the history of man.  Yet these useful idiots sit in squalor chanting for revolution; A revolt against personal freedom and into the hands of a not even momentarily benevolent dictatorship.  The mere statement of it is so ironic it is absurd.  They demand, “Free me from my freedoms.”  The state motto of New Hampshire reads, “Live free or die.”  The motto of the Occupy Wall Street crowd seems , “Better to live as a slave than to have to work like a free man.”  I am nearly overcome by sadness.