Marathon Pundit: Sign at Occupy Chicago tonight: Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine

There was not grand march for Occupy Chicago tonight, unlike the last two Saturdays. Why not? Perhaps because of the failure of their attorneys--the radical National Lawyers Guild--to secure a permanent home for the protesters. Why do they need one? Well, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is probably wondering the same thing--only his thoughts are spiced with colorful curse words. The NLG, whose best known member, Lynne Stewart, is serving a prison sentence for illegally passing messages on to the Blind Sheik, who was the leader of the first plot to blow up the World Trade Center, was unable to convince the city to drop charges against three hundred Occupy Chicago members who refused to leave Grant Park after its 11pm closing time.

As for their base on the corner of Jackson and LaSalle in the south Loop, the police are telling the Occupy Chicago protesters to "remain constantly mobile" there, according to the group's Facebook page. Great idea. Free speech and taking over the sidewalks of a busy street corner are not the same thing.

I arrived at Occupy Chicago's daily Grant Park general assembly a little after 9pm; the "mass movement" could only garner about 125 devotees. The woman pictured on the left arrived a little bit before 10pm--by then the meeting had fizzled out. As for her sign: "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine," it's just the latest instance of anti-Israeli sentiment from the crowd that loves to chant, "The people united, will never be divided."

Well, look who is doing the dividing...

For more on this subject, read The Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Origins Of Occupy Wall Street Are Being Ignored By The Media from Yid With Lid.

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