In a recent blog post at the Students For Liberty website, writer Brandon Loran Maxwell provided a scathing and intelligent criticism of the Occupy Movement.

This is an enjoyable read. Tell us how you really feel, Brandon.

Contrary to left-wing embellishment, Occupy is neither avant-garde, nor debonair — but rather, an intellectually dejected and insolvent cultural miscarriage; a systematized parade of profound ignorance and unenlightened rebellion. It is, to say the least, a civic mortification.

Moreover, Occupy’s economically inept and directionless crusade has been permitted to freely swill from the troughs of public patience and expense for almost 12 painful and protracted months, despite wholly failing to formulate a single cohesive message, let alone any substantive solutions.  Instead, in a deficient and colorfully muddled conception of corporatism and capitalism, this throng of Zuccotti trust-fund babies, along with their opportunistic unionized protégés, has only debilitated and discredited the legitimate need for sober and enlightened discussion.

Indeed, the perverse transformation of discourse has been dizzying to suggest the least. In a mere matter of months, dialogue has gratuitously morphed from whether government should be engaging in preferential corporate treatment — the very antithesis of a free market — to unabashed demands for free education, free healthcare, and free jobs after college graduation. All of which haven’t the slightest to do with corporate cronyism. Others have gone so far as to demand guaranteed living wages “regardless of employment.”

The true tragedy of this angst-laden Occupy movement, however, hasn’t been its overly disseminated meltdown, but rather the disingenuous maiming of the very 99 percent it has arrogantly proclaimed to personify. Ripe with rapes, assaults, drug overdoses, and murders, Occupy has deplorably and disgracefully hindered hundreds of small business owners across the U.S., who, by no fault of their own, have spontaneously found their small businesses submerged at the bottom of Occupy’s populist cesspool.