The Fatal Flaw in the Occupation
The arrests of three Occupy Oakland protestors for mugging a critic is but the most recent failure of the Occupier movement. Time and time again the Occupiers have demonstrated boasting of their invincible numbers and widespread support, only to be swept aside whenever local municipalities have chosen to act, and treated as criminals when they attempted to exercise their supposed superior power. They have been unable to realize the fruits of their "Occupation," because the atuhorities won't let them do so.
But this strikes to the root of the flaw in the Occupiers' logic ...
... they are attempting an "occupation" of territory which they have not ever "conquered." Since the territory is actually controlled by municipalities of the United States of America, their "occupation" is on sufferance of those municipal authorities, and can be terminated whenever the Occupiers sufficiently annoy them. And the Occupiers are very annoying.
This failure of reasoning in turn stems from the Occupiers' deliberate self-blinding regarding military affairs. They have convinced themselves that "battle" is just a pointless brute slaughter and that military victory over a people does nothing to degrade the resistance of a people; consequently, they fail to see how the victorious battles for (say) Iraq enabled the US Army to meaningfully occupy Iraq and the lack of victorious battle for (say) Boston or Oakland prevents the Occupiers from meaningfully occupying Boston or Oakland.
This is a subset of the general rule that an error in information or reasoning in one matter, especially if unchecked by regular examination by means of logic against observatioanl evidence of one's own ideas for error can pollute one's store of information and lead to faulty conclusions in other mattters down the line. And the Occupiers, by and large, are people unused to questioning their own conclusions.
So they pay for it -- with failure.
But this strikes to the root of the flaw in the Occupiers' logic ...
... they are attempting an "occupation" of territory which they have not ever "conquered." Since the territory is actually controlled by municipalities of the United States of America, their "occupation" is on sufferance of those municipal authorities, and can be terminated whenever the Occupiers sufficiently annoy them. And the Occupiers are very annoying.
This failure of reasoning in turn stems from the Occupiers' deliberate self-blinding regarding military affairs. They have convinced themselves that "battle" is just a pointless brute slaughter and that military victory over a people does nothing to degrade the resistance of a people; consequently, they fail to see how the victorious battles for (say) Iraq enabled the US Army to meaningfully occupy Iraq and the lack of victorious battle for (say) Boston or Oakland prevents the Occupiers from meaningfully occupying Boston or Oakland.
This is a subset of the general rule that an error in information or reasoning in one matter, especially if unchecked by regular examination by means of logic against observatioanl evidence of one's own ideas for error can pollute one's store of information and lead to faulty conclusions in other mattters down the line. And the Occupiers, by and large, are people unused to questioning their own conclusions.
So they pay for it -- with failure.