There is a web site for Citizens Intervention – Enough is Enough Rally Oct 29, U.S. Capitol.

In the above video Annabel Park mentions Thomas Paine. I wonder if she knows that Paine was a socialist. I wonder if you know that.

From Chapter Two “A Broader Patriotism” Thomas Paine and The Promise of Red Republicanism” in the book The “S” Word: A Short History Of An American Tradition… Socialism.

[The] many socialist Paineites …and their affiliation to every species of radicalism in the land boded evil to the future of our republic.
-New York Times, 1856

Things they never told you in high school history class.

I first heard an allusion to her supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement on network news.  I am trying to track down a more complete report of exactly what she said.

For now, I will just use this Daily Kos post as a placeholder for more information to follow.

Elizabeth Warren has embraced OWS.  In fact, she was fighting Wall Street long before it was cool.  🙂

Elizabeth Warren is running for office in the most high-profile race in the country not involving Barack Obama. It’s a position that calls for some tact. So what does she think about the Occupy Wall Street protests that are roiling the country?

“I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do,” she says. “I support what they do.”

Warren’s boast isn’t bluster: As a professor of commercial law at Harvard and the force behind Obama’s consumer-protection bureau, Warren has been one of the most articulate voices challenging the excesses of Wall Street.

No one else has Warren’s gift to send the right into a sputtering frenzy.

The story Warren Takes Credit for Occupy Wall Street comes tantalizingly close to explaining the origins of her remarks. This comes from The Daily Beast blog which is part of Newsweek. Upon further research I find that this post on The Daily Beast is the source of all the news stories and the quote.

The Harvard professor has spooked the right. As she begins her high-profile Senate campaign against GOP star Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the consumer advocate tells Samuel P. Jacobs how she created ‘much of the intellectual foundation’ for the Occupy Wall Street movement. She also talks about her past life as a Republican and the challenges of being a woman on the campaign trail—and says she’s no ‘guileless Marxist.’

For those of you who don’t know much about Elizabeth Warren, below is a video that gives some credence to her claims. For the rest of us, we already know what makes her claims credible.

Here is the Thanks Obamacare web site.

I just found a poster that I had hanging in my office since the 1970s.  I can’t even remember where I got it.

I should have explained to people the purpose of the poster. If they ever heard me saying one of these lines, they were supposed to slap me.