JohnE
Ace of Spades HQ
11/21/2011
Oh, you thought it was over? Not so fast.
The New Yorker is running a profile on Kalle Lasn, the man credited with starting this “youth of America movement” known as Occupy Wall Street.
Lasn is sixty-nine years old and lives with his wife on a five-acre farm outside Vancouver. He has thinning white hair and the small eyes of a bulldog. In a lilting voice, he speaks of “a dark age coming for humanity” and of “killing capitalism,” alternating gusts of passion with gentle laughter. He has learned not to let premonitions of apocalypse spoil his good mood.
So, the guy behind this “youthful” and “American” movement is old and Canadian? Here are his thoughts on Bloomberg evicting his useful idiots last week:
The police had established a strict media cordon, blocking access from nearby streets. “It was a military-style operation,” he said. These words made Lasn think of the bloody uprising in Syria. He quickly decided that the apparent end of Zuccotti was not a tragedy but the latest in a series of crisis-driven opportunities, what he calls “revolutionary moments,” akin to the slapping of a Tunisian fruit vender. “I just can’t believe how stupid Bloomberg can be!” he said to me later that day. “This means escalation. A raising of the stakes. It’s one step closer to, you know, a revolution.”
I sure hope this revolution isn’t violent and bloody. They’re radical leftists, so we should be fine…
The article continues at Ace of Spades HQ
