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Author's program note. For two months now, bemused citizens of the Great Republic and lesser lands beyond the seas, have watched, first, with cursory interest, then curiosity, then with bafflement and exasperation as growing numbers of their fellow humans took over one public space after another. "That," said the most perspicacious amongst us, "will never last. Just wait until the first touch of winter hits 'em. They'll go back to where they came from plenty fast." But winter (including one unseasonable whopper storm that buried all the pumpkins this Halloween) has come and the disaffected have worked hard and assiduously to make themselves comfortable amidst debris for a longer term. And so perplexity has begun to change to sarcasm, irritation and a rage, now incipient, but certain to grow with their duration. To reverse Shakespeare's famous line from Richard III: "Merry meetings changed to our stern alarums."
It is time to peruse what is happening, and so I have unearthed my lorgnette, the better to scrutinize, perceive, and understand.
But, first, since the movement has no stirring tune of its own, I shall suggest one: Woody Guthrie's rendition of "This land is your land...." (1956). It is something this movement without petitions, platforms or pronunciamentos can easily take to heart...
They are saying something... but we have trouble comprehending what.
The great revolutions of the modern age, the American, the French, the Russian, the Chinese, the Indian were all epochal events of literate men... men who possessed language, who were motivated by great ideals and legions of ideas; men who wrote and spoke well, often sublimely, thought hard, studied, researched, communicated, persuaded. As such we, their political and cultural descendants, find what we wish to know, to venerate, and to revere in their articles, books, constitutions, bills of right and proclamations of wrong. And so these men and what they stood for revive us, rekindle us, resurrect us, and we rejoice to be the beneficiaries of such men and their living legacies.
But things are very different with movements such as Occupy America where there are few words and none limpid, clear, practical or precise. That is why we cannot compare this almost voiceless movement with the great revolutions with their stark and stirring words shot round the world. We must seek our clues elsewhere... thus I give you The Children's Crusade of 1212 A.D.
It came to pass in May 1212 that a shepherd-boy named Stephen of Cloyes from the fertile Orleannais boldly entered the Court of King Philip of France. He was just 12 years old... and the King made it clear he had seen more than his share of the unworthy and that the boy should leave at once. But this boy claimed to have a letter that Christ himself had given him, a letter which he had been ordered to present to his sovereign in person. "Plus ca change..." thought the Majesty of France... but Stephen, fueled by his God-given vision, persisted... forcing the reluctant monarch and his disdainful courtiers to listen and heed this God-favored boy. And as they listened, they began to hear... that God himself had directed that all the children of France must go to the Holy Land in a great Crusade, fueled by their innocence, purity, and the unwavering support of God, unmatched weapons with which they must triumph and purge the infidels from the Holy City.
Did the King really believe all this? Or did he just concur for safety's sake? Of course we shall never know. But one thing King Philip knew better than anyone: all that eloquence agitated the people... and had to stop. And so the King became an advocate of the Crusade, if only because he wanted Stephen, his message, and unrivaled ability to stir up the people and disrupt royal control out of his kingdom and just as fast as possible.
Battalions of Crusaders, all under 12 years old.
There was no question about it: boy Stephen's message, at once illogical, ill-developed, unlikely, improbable but always exciting, touched the people, particularly the young people like him. These in their thousands, then their tens of thousands, flocked to his banner, the sacred Oriflamme of France.
Stephen was asked a host of questions:
How would he feed the children? God would provide.
How would the children get past the sea? God would provide.
How would the children defeat the greatest soldiers of the day? Here above all God would provide because infidels affronted Him most grievously in His holy places.
And because he said everything with resounding resolution and complete assurance, the thirty thousand children who gathered round him, not one more than 12 years old, exuded the kind of complete confidence and total assurance that can only come when God himself is your Captain-General.
And so the King (now thoroughly alarmed at the masses of expectant children, seized by certainty and exaltation) moved heaven and earth (for he was the Elect of God, too) to get Stephen and his cohorts what they needed to leave France... and with dispatch. One legend says that Philip rode with Stephen to the royal boundary, there having his courtiers throw handfuls of gold as far as they could... knowing the cheering children would run ahead to get it and so leave the relieved King to his devices. A few children were trampled to death, of course,... but what of that? God had taken them unto himself... for he had need of their innocence, too.
But the seas did not part for the children of France.... as they had for the children of Israel.
The first great challenge appeared after the weary children had walked to Marseilles. Stephen, now bloated with honors and arrogance, had said... and thrilling, too... that they would need no ships to transport them... just to walk, safe and dry, through the parted waters, and so to Jerusalem.
But of course the waters did not part. And now the citizens of Marseilles grew alarmed, as well they might with thousands of restive, disappointed, needy children on their very doorsteps.
Seeing this mass of unhappy children, two good citizens, Hugh the Iron and William the Pig, offered on bended knee the free use of ships to transport the petite Crusaders. And so (perhaps with the complete assistance of King Philip) transported the children into the very hands of their enemies where there was imprisonment, the lash, long years of slavery and early death... And so this millennial Crusade ended... achieving nothing but disappointment, disillusion and despair. What's more it took 18 years to communicate this disaster to Europe which saw hardly a participant return, children no longer.
Of course with their cell phones, text messages and Internet, today's wired Crusaders are never disconnected. But this difference does not obscure the similarities between The Children's Crusade and Occupy America, millennial movements both. Both movements have been maddeningly imprecise, vague, and unspecific about their objectives and how to achieve them. So it has ever been with causes millennial and their participants, who do not worry about how their exasperatingly unclear objectives will be met. For Stephen of Cloyes and his following that was of no concern for they knew the God of Abraham and Moses would provide.
And the adherents of Occupy America believe that, too, which is why they are so calm and patient in the face of so much discomfort, scalding skepticism, and muddle. They know they will triumph... in due course and inevitably... for all they are sitting in the mud today, chilled by the descending temperatures of inclement November. How do they know? God told them so, just as He told young Stephen in long-ago France. The only thing missing is the language of God, the casualty of time and changing fashions. But make no mistake Occupy Americans will tell you if asked that they are well and truly the Children of God, doing God's work and doing it well until one day, when God signifies his approval, they will melt away as unexpectedly as they came, "our brows bound with victorious wreaths." (Richard III, Shakespeare.)
*** What do you think about the Occupy Movement? Let us know by posting your comments below.
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