Category: Occupy

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.

Nice.

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.

ADDED: Canada Free Press takes a walk through the Occupy DC filth.

Jerry920 sends a link that reports that the Occupy Portland, Ore. crew declared “Mission Accomplished” and went back to Mommy’s basement;

“We don’t have enough physical bodies to stop the police from what they are doing,” he said. “We all declared victory and went home, but the reality is we needed to be here.”

Though riot-geared police and some protesters faced off this afternoon as the parks were being cleared, Sgt. Pete Simpson told KATU-TV he did not expect any violence.

“I think we’ve arrested everyone who wanted to be arrested,” he said.

But only after enriching the evil corporations who make protective masks;

I guess their bravado melted as fast as their stupid hippie numbers. And now the cops get to get slean up after the Animal Farm.

So that’s Michael Moore’s cabin. You remember Michael Moore, right? He’s the guy who was down at the Occupy Wall Street protest railing about the 1% keeping all of the wealth to themselves. There’s more about Moore’s cabin at Big Government. Thanks to UpNorth for the link.

Another ninja sent us a link to Frank Miller’s rant against the occupy movement. Frank Miller is the guy who created the “300” comic book and produced the movie;

The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

I think old Frank (and by “old” I mean that he’s two years younger than me) has it right. Nice to see someone out of Hollywood with some courage.

Adirondack Patriot sent us a link from Albany that detailed the state police hauling off arrestees from the Occupy Albany protest by the truckloads;

After the second van filled with protesters pulled away, dozens of demonstrators milled about on the sidewalk and on the fringes of the park. The people serving as the legal team at the protest were speaking with police. A fourth police van arrived at about 11:40 as the remaining demonstrators sang “This Land is Your Land.”

James tells us that at Occupy Salt Lake, another protester is found dead in his tent, authorities are planning to yank their occupation permit and drive them back into their parents’ basement.

[Police Chief Chris] Burbank says authorities found a propane heater inside the dead man’s tent.

Darwin strikes again. If you can’t stand those cold Salt Lake City nights, occupy Miami or Honolulu for Pete’s sake. Stupid hippie fucks.

I guess the hippies are getting tired of the echo chamber they’ve created in regards to their good works at the pestilence-ridden Occupy Wall Street encampment and they’re reading some of the more relevent material written about them, because TAH is now being quoted in filthy hippie publications like the New York Times;

But not [every veteran] agrees [about Scott Olsen]. Jonn Lilyea, a Gulf War Army veteran and blogger, warns Scott Olsen, the critically injured Occupy Oakland protester (and an Iraq veteran), “if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.”

I guess that’s one of the blogging benefits of saying that which no one else is willing to say. So if you’re wondering where the newest spate of trolls originates, now you know.

Jim sends us a link to a report from the Daily News about Joan Baez (who incidentally was refused permission to play for the troops at Walter Reed a few years back)…and the hippies didn’t even know who she was;

“She’s a war hero who served in Vietnam, I think,” said 19-year-old Luke Fields, who hails from Morningside Heights. “She saw first-hand that war was a nightmare.”

Stupid hippie fucks.

Donald Douglas at the American Power Blog reports that seven Occupy Wall Street ‘tards have died from various maladies since the movement began. Just Plain Jason sent us a link last night about “Zucotti Lung” which is wiping out New York City protesters. No, really. It’s a thing.

As the weather turns, the protesters in Zuccotti Park, the nexus of the Occupy Wall Street protests in Lower Manhattan, have been forced to confront a simple truth: packing themselves like sardines inside a public plaza, where cigarettes are shared and a good night’s sleep remains elusive, may not be conducive to good health.

“Pretty much everything here is a good way to get sick,” said Salvatore Cipolla, 23, from Long Island. “It’ll definitely thin the herd.”

“The herd” was an interesting metaphor.

Oh, ya mean the Arabs had a good plan when they started their “Arab Spring” in the Spring instead of in the Fall. So what is this, the Hippie Winter? I think we’ve been predicting that petulance follows hippie like the…well…like the plague. Living outside in major urban centers like rats probably wasn’t a good idea. Of course, it could be chalked up to Darwin and natural selection.