"Occupy Wall Street," the "99 Percent" and the Three Percent.

You have to give the collectivists of the Occupy Wall Street movement credit for meme crafting. Calling themselves the "99 Percent" was absolutely brilliant, if absolutely untrue. These folks claim to represent everyone except "Wall Street bankers." It is a polite way of saying "We are the Borg. Resistance is futile." Of course they aren't. If examination of the various protests from up close reveals anything it is that they are collections of individuals with little coherent program or analysis and personal agendas that would be rejected by, well, 99 percent of the American people.

Witness this speaker in New York, echoed in that peculiar chanting way of these new Yippies: “You can have sex with animals!”

Ann Coulter and others have dubbed this conglomeration the "Flea Party," saying that they are irritating, parasitical and almost impossible to pin down philosophically. The one thing that they almost all seem to agree upon is some sort of anti-capitalist analysis -- one which is megaphoned by the willing "mainstream" press. Lenin was right when he noted that some "capitalists will sell us the rope that we use to hang them."

Amazingly, some folks who should know better find much to be admired in the antics of the "99 percent," mostly those of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" sort. Well, it is a human trait to seek out allies when you think that you are weak, even "allies" who aren't your allies, and represent a future vision absolutely antithetical to what you believe. Most often, the "enemy of my enemy" is still decidedly NOT my friend.

But you have to give them credit for the breathtaking lie represented by the adoption of the name, the "99 percent." As Three Percenters we recognize and even embrace the fact that we are a determined minority. We do not claim to represent the will of the majority of the American people, only the interests of their liberty -- for only by securing their liberty can we secure our own, and vice versa. We recognize that in some measure what we say and do is unpopular and downright scary, but we do not need some false claim of "popular will" to sustain us or to sell that lie to a larger audience.

We are perfectly content that we represent only ourselves -- that we will be free, that we insist upon our rights to individual liberty and personal property and to the responsibilities and fatigues, even the dangers, of supporting them. We proclaim, as did did the Founders, "Don't tread on me!"

The flag did not say, "Don't tread on US," or "Don't tread on the collective." It said, and says, "Don't tread on me!" It is the ultimate expression of personal liberty, not the collective herd.

We recognize that history is made, for good or ill, by determined minorities. One such determined minority were the Founders. It remains to be seen how determined the "99 percenters" are, but that they are a decided minority that seeks to lie about their majority status in the country should tell you something.

In fact, it tells you everything.