Yeah, this is just like a Tea Party rally. This is apparently the DC crowd.
Best comment at YouTube; @KeffieKampo Apparently government cheese comes out pretty firm.? No wiping necessary.
And they wonder why a New York judge won’t allow them to camp out in Zucotti Park.
Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway, in his motion to prevent the protesters’ return to the park claims that police found “makeshift items” that he said could be used as weapons.
Of course it would have to be the deputy mayor who filed the motion because the full-fledged mayor is a gutless coward.
Oddly enough, this video comes from Adam Kokesh who wanders among his former friends at Occupy DC and acts surprised at their naivete. At about 1:56 in the video “Ron” a “Progressive Labor Party organizer tells the students at his anti-capitalist teach in that they should (from The Blaze);
“think in terms of building revolution against this whole system of capitalism.” He went on to say that the fight must be taken to industrial workers, the military, campuses — even churches.
“The other thing we stress is building a base in the military. If we’re talking about revolution, it means we have to win other some section of the military to be on our side and most of them are working class people just like the rest of us…We have people organizing inside the military…,”
I don’t doubt that there are people trying to organize a revolution from the military, but this isn’t some third world country, There are enough members of the military who have seen what it’s like through out the world and realize that the US is the best system, however flawed it might be.
Personally, I think “Ron” is speaking out his anus. There’s no one successfully organizing the military to fight capitalism – that would last about ten seconds.
The filthy hippies should have been tossed over the Berlin Wall in the 60s so they would have a frame of reference for their intentions today. We ought to have a reverse Mariel boat lift from the US to Cuba and toss out the undesirables who are dissatisfied with our system here like Castro did in the 80s. Let them get a crash-course in communism, and while they’re there, they can ask Castro what happened to all of the Socialists.
Tman sends us a link from SFGate which relates the cost to the city of Oakland for the Occu-tards there.
The city said Monday that it had spent $2.4 million since the first tent was pitched at Frank Ogawa Plaza on Oct. 10, including $1.1 million in police costs alone. Those expenses shot up sharply with Monday’s sweep to clear out the encampment outside City Hall.
The 13 outside law enforcement agencies that sent officers to help Oakland police will charge a total of $500,000, officials said.
So who is it the 99% are trying to help with this round of theater? How many homeless children could have been housed, how many hungry children could be fed? Smooth move, Ex-Lax.
Meanwhile, the OWS in new York City have been ejected this morning according to the New York Times
The protesters, about 200 of whom have been staying in the park overnight, initially resisted with chants of “Whose park? Our park!” as officers began moving in and tearing down tents. The protesters rallied around an area known as the kitchen, near the middle of the park and began building barricades with tables and pieces of scrap wood.
Whose park? Dozens were arrested for resisting the police.
Occupy Portland is being cleaned up by city workers (from Oregon Live);
[Bob Downing, central services manager for the parks bureau] said about 70 dump truck loads of trash and debris were hauled from the camps over the weekend. He said about 30 city employees worked Sunday to clear the parks.
What? You don’t want to know the story about this picture, do you? All you care about is the fact that a former Marine on an off-duty detail from his NY cop job gets to drag a hippie by the scruff of his neck out into the street.
Reuters reports that Scott Olsen the former Marine who was injured at Occupy Oakland has issued a statement most of which we already knew, but were excoriated for voicing over the last few weeks;
Olsen served two tours in Iraq, working as a technician and earning a handful of service medals.
Friends say he soured on military life after leaving the service and started a now-defunct website called “I hate the Marine Corps” which served as a forum for disgruntled servicemen.
Olsen received an “administrative discharge” from the service in late 2009, his uncle George Nygaard has said, though the precise reasons for it have not been confirmed.
Such a discharge can result from any number of behavioral or disciplinary issues.
Yeah, his discharge probably had nothing to do with the pictures on his Flickr page – those pictures of marijuana plants.
This should serve as an warning to those fucksticks and all of those hippies writing at the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review and the Village Voice – veterans can judge the service of other veterans without official documentation – that’s why Milblogs exist – to school you scumbag journalists who won’t take the time to do your research.
Yeah, but if the police were to use tear gas or tasers, they’d be screaming to high heaven; (Mercury News link)
About 3:30 p.m., near the Embarcadero and Broadway, police attempted to prevent marching demonstrators from blocking the intersection where MUNI light rail tracks are located.
A female protester emerged from the crowd and an “exacto razor blade attached to a pen or pencil-like object,” San Francisco police said in an email.
“The female slashed the inside of the officer’s hand and ran back into the crowd before the officer had time to realize he was cut,” police said.
In a second incident, a protester grabbed an officer’s police radio and ran back into the crowd. As the officer attempted to retrieve it, a second protester blocked the officer and tore his uniform and cut his cheek, police said, intimating that a weapon had been used.
No arrests have been made in these two incidents.
So, in every other country in the world, this would indicate an escalation, which would mean the police need to escalate their response. But these are cry baby hippies who need to be coddled by the authorities.
Jose Vasquez, the executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War (what war?) sits down with Cornell Ag School grad, Keith Olbermann, to discuss how IVAW finds itself intermingled with smelly hippies of the Occupy Wall Street movement (it’s a movement in the “bowel” sense of the word).
I just think it’s hilarious that I get to hear Vasquez talk about “taking an oath to serve the country”. Vasquez decided to become a conscientious objector to the war in Iraq after ten years of service as a medic in the final moments before his unit deployed to Iraq. Vasquez said publicly that if his unit had deployed to Afghanistan instead, he would have deployed to the “just” war, too. Under his leadership, while the Iraq War was winding down, IVAW voted to oppose the war in Afghanistan, so his sense of “taking an oath to serve the country” are somewhat narrowly defined.
Of course, he has to mention that crank General Smedley Butler…using him as figurehead doesn’t help IVAW. Olbemann and Vasquez agree that veterans give the Occupy movement a measure of credibility. In that, they’re sadly mistaken. As the occupy movement collapses, it proves that no amount of credibility veterans give them will improve their image in the public’s eyes. In fact, I figure veterans’ participation in the display of public masturbation called the Occupy movement with have some splash back on veterans as a whole.
I call it public masturbation because it does nothing productive, only gives the occupiers a measure of satisfaction and embarrasses anyone else who happens to see it. Kind of like the mutual stroking Vasquez and Olbermann are involved in during this video.
