Apparently, in the early morning hours after giving some warning, Oakland police declared Occupy Oakland an illegal protest and cleared the area out;
I envy the police…getting the opportunity to bash hippies before breakfast insures that there’s a good day ahead.
There are unsupported charges of the police using rubber bullets and police brutality, but reporters on the scene deny that they’ve seen any – not surprising since hippies think that any use of force used to arrest them is “brutality”.
In addition to the rape in Cleveland, police are investigating another sexual assault at Occupy Portland and Dallas.
David Allen Coe said it best
Justa Kickin Hippies Asses and Raise’n Hell
From the video: “People will be allowed to exercise their ‘freedom of speech’ from 6am to 10pm’…”
Riiiiight, the hippies are the ones I should be worried about.
If the hippies aren’t free, none of us are free.
These people, no matter where they are found, will ALWAYS tell you that the police used excessive force. ALWAYS.
And that’s why they lack any credibility.
Smithers release the hounds…
tear gas isn’t THAT hard to find.
They’ve moved onto the Embarcadero in SF. They still stink.
So it has much more to do with personal hygiene than constitutional rights……figured as much, them bein dirty,smelly hippies and all….
I love the smell of tear gas in the morning…
Jeff, thanks for the reminder, I just dug out the Coe CD just to hear that, again.
.03, every park in the city I lived in closed at sunset. You think that’s some kind of conspiracy to deprive people of their rights?
.03,
They can speak all they want… just not there from 2200 to 0600.
The point of the right of protesting is that protesting is very annoying and inconvenient. When all else fails it gives people with little other power the right to be a nuisance to bring attention to their issue. Laws that allow governments to sneakily undermine that right are, to me, just another example of politicians with little hammers and chisels chipping away our collective rights.
I’m skeptical when the government cites that propane tanks for cooking stoves are a ‘fire hazard’, graffitti and vandalism, and urination and defecation are reasons to shut down an entire protest. A reason to arrest specific people doing such things, fine, But that’s not what they did. They ended the protest by arresting everyone involved that wouldn’t leave the protest gathering.
The founders didn’t say that we have the right to protest only if we can provide our own suitable waste management and ensure that all cooking equipment is code compliant. They said we have a right to protest. This is just a round-about way of abrogating that right, IMO.
I realize that folks here probably have a particularly strong disdain for the Occupy Wall Street protesters, but think of the bigger picture of what’s going on here.
Good ole tear gas!
“Laws that allow governments to sneakily undermine that right are, to me, just another example of politicians with little hammers and chisels chipping away our collective rights.”. Yeah, most cities “sneakily” pass those laws about park hours in the dead of night, without public comment. Not to mention, they always try to limit the number of people who might get fried in a tent city when the local drunk/doper kicks over the people’s stove, and starts a fire. Those sneaky bastards knew that this was a good way to abrogate the right to “peaceably assemble”.