At Renew America, Hassan Nurullah perfectly describes the mob taking part in the "Occupy Wall Street" fiasco:

[...] All that as a frame of reference to illustrate the empty headedness of the modern-leftist-leaning American youth and how that mental vacuum accentuates the utter meaninglessness of the various so-called "occupy" protests they are taking part in. Our youth know precious little of their own nation's history. Thus, they can hardly be expected to know anything about British history.

Many of the "yahoos" taking part in these protests don the mask of a mustachioed grinning visage, representing one of western history's earliest patsies — Guy Fawkes.

Guy Fawkes was an English born Catholic mercenary who fought with Spain in the Roman church's war against the Dutch Republic. The Dutch rebellion was driven by Rome's oppressive taxes and constant persecution of Protestants.

Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators was the fellow responsible for lighting the fuse. The plotters did not know their plan had been discovered. Fawkes was arrested guarding the gunpowder cache and through "enhanced interrogation techniques" gave up his fellow plotters.

Guy Fawkes was the tool of what the leftist youth today would consider the ultimate oppressor. But if there is one thing painfully apparent when it comes to liberals choosing their heroes, history is the only thing more meaningless to them than truth.

Guy Fawkes was adopted as the cool symbol of rebellion not because of what he stood for in reality, but because of a comic book called "V for Vendetta" written by a Brit named Alan Moore and the movie the comic subsequently inspired. For American liberal youth, cool imagery always trumps reality, as well as objective truth.

This is no different really than our youth wearing paraphernalia depicting the murderous Che Guevara while listening to iPods chock full of the rock music Che vowed he would destroy if his rebellion succeeded in the world. Though Che and Fidel executed unknown numbers of gay men in communist Cuba, American youth see no irony in representing Che while participating in a gay rights march.

How many of the protesters disrupting Wall Street do so while tweeting the goings on via an iPhone or iPad made by Apple, which is the very apex of what can be achieved by an industry unfettered by intrusive government policy. Apple is a manifestation of the very practices the Wall Street occupiers say they oppose.

I am a huge Apple fan, have been since the 80's. The recently deceased visionary head of Apple was a capitalist's capitalist. Steve Jobs provided products that have made a tremendously positive impact on the world.

However, there are not many companies responsible for more outsourcing than Apple. Nor is there a more restrictive platform in the free market than Apple's. Yet, you never see anti-corporate youth denouncing Apple or picketing outside of Apple's Cupertino headquarters for the enormous profits they themselves contributed to.