A little background from Newsbusters, BTW it's brilliant what Frank wrote:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2011/11/12/artist-frank-miller-shocks-left-harsh-criticism-ows-protestsArtist Frank Miller Shocks Left With Harsh Criticism of OWS Protests
By P.J. Gladnick | November 12, 2011 | 14:07
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First let us look at Stephen Kelly of the UK Guardian speculating that Batman could become a hero for the OWS movement:
This weekend, following speculation that Christopher Nolan is going to use the protests as a backdrop for scenes in The Dark Knight Rises, the movement could play host to a caped crusader who's both friend and foe. And if it does turns out to be false (Entertainment Weekly rebutted the rumours earlier this week), then it's a missed opportunity.
...Batman is one of the most politically complex fictional characters there has ever been. By his very nature and ideals, he is not only more relevant to the Occupy Wall Street protests than its current anarchist veneer of V for Vendetta, but also holds up a mirror to its uneasy reality. Such is the beauty and the beast of subversive popular culture.
For, while you cannot deny the revolutionary backbone of V and the ability of his masks to lazily signify automatic rebellion, he is not the hero we need right now. Batman, on the other hand, is a hero rooted in our reality – one set in a fictional city beset by economic deprivation and grotesque greed. His main animus, if not his methods, is defined by the ideals of philanthropy and a simplistic sense of justice: a selfless billionaire by day who strives to protect the defenceless people of Gotham by night – the 1% fighting for the 99%. In Frank Miller's fantastic comic, Year One, the character crashes a dinner party of a corrupt elite and issues the following warning: "You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over."
Kelly invokes Frank Miller to make his case for Batman being on the side of the OWS protestors. So what does Frank Miller think of the OWS protests? Well, take a look at some of what Miller himself posted last week.
Read the entire post and I think even fantasist Stephen Kelly would agree that the chances of Frank Miller ever creating a Batman story in which he defends the OWS protests ranks somewhere between nil and none. Meanwhile, as you can see from the reaction at the Democratic Underground, the Left appears to be in a state of shock over Miller's "Thought Crime."
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2291636rucky (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-12-11 06:30 AM
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Has Frank Miller always been this much of an asshole?
http://frankmillerink.com/2011/11/anarchy
Everybody’s been too damn polite about this nonsense:
The “Occupy†movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy†is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
“Occupy†is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement†– HAH! Some “movementâ€, except if the word “bowel†is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.
This is no popular uprising. This is garbage. And goodness knows they’re spewing their garbage – both politically and physically – every which way they can find.
WTF, Frank?
BTW, the OP didn't post the entire message from Frank Miller, here's the rest
Wake up, pond scum. America is at war against a ruthless enemy.
Maybe, between bouts of self-pity and all the other tasty tidbits of narcissism you’ve been served up in your sheltered, comfy little worlds, you’ve heard terms like al-Qaeda and Islamicism.
And this enemy of mine — not of yours, apparently - must be getting a dark chuckle, if not an outright horselaugh - out of your vain, childish, self-destructive spectacle.
In the name of decency, go home to your parents, you losers. Go back to your mommas’ basements and play with your Lords Of Warcraft.
Or better yet, enlist for the real thing. Maybe our military could whip some of you into shape.
They might not let you babies keep your iPhones, though. Try to soldier on.
Schmucks.
FMmmonk (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-12-11 06:46 AM
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3. Too bad. We have yet begun to fight.
Sticks and stones corporate whores.
B Calm (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-12-11 06:51 AM
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5. I think these Neocons are scared shitless. . .
The DU displays a few comments from this link, yet don't post the responses to the leftist posts:
http://frankmillerink.com/2011/11/anarchychade (38 posts) Sat Nov-12-11 06:00 PM
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36. Wow, learned a new vocabulary word from the comments
The people participating in OWS are "victocrats" - people who "blame others" instead of "taking responsibility" and "pulling themselves up by the bootstraps."
Disappointing read, as I like his work.
Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-12-11 06:23 PM
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38. “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you,
and then you win.â€
---Mahatma Gandhi
