I concur with the fundamental insight that the "Occupy" movement is essentially a front for a large, well funded, clandestine, and insidious effort to derail our political institutions. First and foremost, it is important to understand, as surely you do, that the "Occupy" movement is not a spontaneous, grassroots uprising of citizens concerned about income inequality or crony capitalism. Certainly, there are legitimate - if misguided - activists within the crowds; but, like their counterparts in the leftist protests of the 1960s, they are the "useful idiots" of people with a much more belligerent agenda. Most of the agitators are not the "legitimate activists," at least not in recent weeks; rather, most of them are "rent a mob" scum - often hired by labor unions and other leftist organizations to suggest that there is a greater affinity for the leftist agenda than in fact exists - and pot smoking anarchists. This is why they are becoming more violent and, concomitantly, less acceptable to rank and file Americans.

On the surface, the "Occupy" movement is about derailing capitalism; and there is no doubt in my mind that that is the fundamental goal of the "useful idiots" on the streets. The people behind this movement, nevertheless, have a different agenda, in my opinion. After all, much of the behind the scenes financial support for the "Occupy" movement may be traced to the modern day "Dr. Strangelove" of the political left, George Soros. Soros is a leftist scumbag, to be sure; but he is hardly anti-business, at least with respect to the business and financial ventures that enrich his own pocketbook. There are others, less known but just as insidious in this pursuit, who finance leftist agitators, because they stand to amass wealth or political power for themselves from whatever turbulence the agitators manage to reap. For the "men behind the curtain" orchestrating the "great and powerful Oz," the aim is power politics, pure and simple. They could not care less about socialism, or communism, or social justice; for them, these pursuits are just means to an end - an end where they are the real "masters" of the world, as evidenced by their ability to manipulate world events to their own satisfaction.

What is the goal that these "masters" hope to achieve in our body politic with the "Occupy" movement? In my mind, they want to foster a permanent, revolutionary block within our own political life, one that does not accept the resolution of the ballot box as the final say on the merits of their agenda. Most countries around the world, including the so-called democratic countries that constitute the European Union today, have revolutionary blocks - sometimes armed militias - within their numbers. In these countries, elections are always precarious to some degree, because the revolutionaries stand ready to assume power with street protests and Molotov cocktails, if and when the voters go against them. For them, what prevails will not be the overriding consensus of reasonable voters, but whatever the few force upon the many through intimidation, strikes, and even violence. Soros and his ilk want the same type of revolutionary block to be a permanent part of our political life, so that we never again will be able to presume that elections settle matters, or that our common rule of law will prevail over self-interested, brute force. They want to de-Americanize America - rip to shreds what makes us truly distinctive from the rest of the world - and turn us into just another corrupt oligarchy, a faux republic that masks global tyranny under the guise of "respect for workers" and "social justice." It is not that they want to get rid of capitalism, so much as control the levers of the global, capitalist system for their own benefit. They want the ultimate in crony capitalism, a global system of labor and commerce that keeps a few at the top, eliminates effectively the middle class, and enslaves the great mass of men. The great irony is that the "men behind the curtain" who are financing the "Occupy" movement want to foster the very same crony capitalism - except on a global scale - that the rank and file "Occupiers" oppose. Thus, we may see how the "Occupiers" on the streets are "useful idiots," in that they are unwittingly aiding in the creation of a global system that is inimical to their stated ideals.

In summary, the "Occupy" movement may seem to be an assault on capitalism; and that is indeed the real goal of most of the rank and file street protesters. Nevertheless, for the men behind the curtain, the financiers like Soros and others, the real goal is fostering in America an anti-democratic impulse, one that seeks change through intimidation and violence, rather than through the normal process of elections. They know that if and when America ceases to be in line with her own Declaration of Independence, when she ceases to be a nation that allows for her own citizens to be self-governing, and that upholds the rule of law as ultimate in the affairs of men, then there will be no nation on earth obstructing their reach for power.