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The Spectacle Blog
I’m not sure if this is artistic irony or infighting, with the unwashed membership of green groups fighting back against their establishment overlords, but this story, “Environmentalists Join The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Fray”, is pretty darn hilarious.
While this soiled and spoiled mob may not have gotten the memo when recruited on campus, the shaggy movement depends upon big business to underwrite much of its advocacy, and most of its lobbying heft.
I learned this while sitting around a table with BP, Niagara Mohawk Power, American Gas Association and others, on behalf of Enron, in a coalition cooked up by Enron, and …the Union of Concerned Scientists and like-minded folks piling out of a Volkswagon (this was the summer of 1997, so the Prius was just being rolled out in Japan). This, my first outside meeting as Director of Federal Government Relations for Enron, was the beginning of the end of my uncomfortable three-week adventure in sleazy ‘green jobs’ and ‘global warming’ advocacy and Baptist-and-Bootlegger coalitions for the supposed free-market pioneer that, it turned out, was just another rent-seeker creating a movement to add value to their uneconomic wind (now GE Wind) and solar (now BP’s) ventures.
It was in fancy offices of a New York firm. Goldman was Enron’s advisor on creating the market for selling carbon dioxide ration coupons.
So the love — or love-hate — affair has been going on for some time. Here’s a nice tasteof what the greenies would find upon occupying Wall Street. They’re among friends, having occupied — or been occupied by — Wall Street for some time.
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martin j smith| 10.10.11 @ 10:16AM
Crony capitalism at its best. This is the issue that many on the LEFT really will not admit and I suspect in many cases do not know or understand.
JP| 10.10.11 @ 11:03AM
Goldman Sachs did Enron's bidding right up to the bitter end. In the Summer of 2001, Robert Rubin (former Treas Sec under Clinton) made a trip to Paul O'Neil's office with hands outstretched. O'Neil refused to swing even a short term cash infusion for Goldman's client. Within a week, Enron went bust.
Spambalaya| 10.10.11 @ 3:13PM
Let's see now... Howley, while "pursuing" a story for The American Spectator, admitted in his article that he
1) attended an event with the express purpose of undermining its organizers
2) committed criminal trespass on federal property
3) deliberately resisted arrest
4) alarmed "hundreds of stunned khaki-clad tourists" and "a circle of gawking old housewives" (as well as dozens of museum employees, no doubt) in a city where terrorism is always a possibility and one museum had suffered a terrorist shooting by a right-wing fanatic only two summers ago, and
5) forced the early closure of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum as a result of his headlong flight through the museum, inconveniencing or even ruining the plans of untold hundreds if not thousands of tourists and locals.
And those are just the things he openly admits to. You could add the fact that he probably caused the pepper-spraying of several other protesters as a result of his successful attempt to slip past security guards, as well as putting the guards' safety at risk (acceptable losses, right?) from possible violent escalation (which thankfully did not occur).
If AmSpec was a publicly traded stock, I'd be shorting the crap out of it today. Several security guards, dozens of protesters, hundreds if not thousands of museum attendees and employees, and the October 2011 organization all have an excellent civil damages case here against Howley and AmSpec if they choose to pursue it.
Skippy| 10.10.11 @ 3:53PM
Umm...wrong article, muttonhead.
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