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What made ‘Occupy’ different than other protests? My latest in Taki’s

November 1, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

Excerpt:

The mix started out as 90% activists/10% street people, the uninstitutionalized mentally ill, and the like—a ratio that is now upside down, and not just here, but at Occupy Oakland and elsewhere. (…)

Call it the Deadbeat Constant, perhaps, or Conquest’s missing Fourth Law of Politics:

“Communities of idealists will be infiltrated and overtaken by criminals sooner rather than later.”

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