the 99 percent

Maybe the best thing you can say about the current “Occupy” movements is that they have good intentions. But if this true, I would immediately recall Bernard of Clairvaux’s famous phrase “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

A much more precise description of the protesters might be to call them naive. In a recent article for the Jewish World Review, Thomas Sowell expands on that:

The Moral Infrastructure

If in fact 99 percent of the people in the country were like these “Occupy” mobs, we would not have a country. We would have anarchy.

If the “Occupy” movement, or any other mob, actually represents a majority, then they already have the votes to accomplish legally whatever they are trying to accomplish by illegal means.

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