The ongoing circus that is Occupy Wall Street may be getting a Richmond sideshow:
Organizers in Richmond have set up an Occupy Richmond Facebook page that has more than 1,700 followers. They plan to hold a rally Oct. 15, to be held somewhere near the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond.
It will be interesting to see if they manage to garner the same sort of crowds as the tea party rallies did in a similar spot. I suspect not, given the bleatings recorded in Reed Williams’ piece:
“Let’s try to focus on what’s important and not try to fight a war on too many fronts,” [disaffected youth Cullen Montgomery] said. “I think we need to have health care, food, shelter, education – a chance for everyone to work.”
And a chicken in every pot, too (with apologies to Herbert Hoover).
But let’s give these earnest folks a chance to air their grievances, which are many and sometimes contradictory. Looking over their Facebook page, one sees calls for revolution, ending the Fed, angry dismissals of Thomas Jefferson (though his likeness is used on posters), the occasional anarchist, anti-tea partiers and a few trying mightily to keep a lid on the crazy.
In other words, it’s not mildly different from a VCU faculty meeting.
I’ve no idea whether Richmond’s restless proles will be able to muster in front of the Fed building. But I can’t help thinking the entire proposed exercise bears a strong resemblance to this:
