Our buddy, Zombie went to check out the latest Occupy stunt in Berkeley in “Meet the New Farm, Same as the Old Farm? Occupy Seizes Berkeley’s “Gill Tract””
Are you ready for the most ridiculous and pointless Occupation ever?
Last week, on Earth Day, the Occupy movement illegally took over an entire farm and transformed it into…a farm!
So proud are they of this revolutionary act that they showed off the farm to the media yesterday, so naturally I had to check it out.
Jason sends us a link from the Idaho Statesman which tells the story of an Air Force veteran who decided to test the judicial decision from last month which declared that Occupy Boise’s tents were free speech.
Ike Sweesy parked his Corvette near the Occupy encampment to see if he’d get the benefit of the court decision. The police, apparently disagreed;
“Part of our American heritage means that freedom can cost you,” said Sweesy [in regards to his $125 towing fee levy]. “We are making a statement: … A tent is not a statement of protest.”
Sweesy, who’s retired from the Air Force, got the idea when he heard Nampa resident Ronalee Linsenmann on a radio show talking about why she’d pulled her bumper-sticker-covered Geo Metro onto the grass near the Occupy Boise tents.
He’s right, though. his car is no more free speech than the filthy hippies’ tents. I hope the judge feels ashamed if only for a minute.
Jason sends us a link from the Boise Guardian which reports a US District Court judge declared that tents are free speech, and if there are no tents, the Occupy movement is rendered pointless;
Winmill found the new state law “only prohibits ‘sleeping’ and ‘camping’ on state grounds and does not purport to ban the maintenance of a symbolic tent city which could be staffed 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Yet Gov. Otter’s letter announcing his signing of the legislation appears to require the removal of all tents, and that appears to be how the State Police are interpreting the law. Such action is simply not authorized by the statute.”
The judge also said, “Because the reach of the State’s enforcement may exceed the grasp of the statute, this creates the appearance that the state is stretching to suppress the core political message of Occupy Boise – its tents – as presented in a public forum. These circumstances render the State’s enforcement policy of removing Occupy Boise’s tents presumptively invalid under the 1st Amendment.”
In describing Otter’s eviction order for Occupy Boise, Winmill wrote, “Governor Otter’s edict, and the stated intention of the State Police, is to remove Occupy Boise entirely – tents and all. … This creates the appearance that the State is stretching to shut down a political message – a tent city – presented in a public forum.”
I guess no one has thought for a moment that the Occupy movement is pointless with or without their symbolic tents. And since everything seems to be free speech these days, the first hippie to get his lights punched out as an expression of free speech had better be prepared to except the judge’s ruling.
So while people are dying in a war against their government in Syria, Afghans are rioting over burnt Korans, our troops are fighting our nation’s enemies, bombs rock Iraq, we’re focused on the real important shit here in the US. Namely, Nike sneakers. Consumers rioted in Orlando last night;
Hundreds of people were dispersed from the Foot Locker House of Hoops store after trouble broke out Thursday night in the countdown to the doors opening at midnight, WOFL-TV reported.
Orange County Sheriff deputies on horseback and dressed in riot gear with helmets and plastic shields moved in around 9:45pm local time when things got out of control.
Two people were arrested on a charge of trespassing after being warned to leave the site.
Angry shoppers were turned away in Prince Georges County, MD today;
People waiting in line told FOX 5 that the manager of the store announced to the crowd that the shoe, the new Nike Foamposite Galaxy, would not be sold.
Some people starting lining up two days ago. Overnight, the crowd grew to about 300.
At times, police say they became unruly and ordered them to leave.
Some did go, but about a hundred stayed.
The shoes sell retail for about $220, but bids on them for over a thousand dollars have been spotted on Ebay. I found one pair on Ebay with a “But it now” price of $1700.
So it’s good to see that Americans who are about to pay $5/gallon for gas have their priorities straight.
The other day, USAToday dared to run an opinion piece that declared the Occupy movement had disappeared with a wimper;
the Occupiers chose a course best described as doing nothing. They did nothing day after day, week after week, under the mistaken belief that camping in public plazas would prompt some kind of action from others.
Eventually it did, as patient-but-fed-up city governments moved to dismantle the encampments amid concerns about public safety and sanitation.
Well, some hippie named Rich Latta, not surprisingly from Austin took exception to the characterization.
Your piece accuses the protesters of sitting around and doing nothing. So maybe they should take up their Second Amendment-sanctioned guns and storm Wall Street and our nation’s capitals. If our country doesn’t change, it could very well come to that one day.
According to other sources on the internet, Rich Latta is a massage therapist by trade, so pardon me if I’m not particularly worried about a massage therapist who threatens gun violence. Especially when you realize that he’s talking about other people perpetrating that gun violence and not his stick-boy body.
The Daily Caller‘s Jim Treacher writes;
Wow. Just imagine how Janet Napolitano would react if a “right-wing extremist” talked about “storming Wall Street and our nation’s capitals” with guns. Everybody freaked out when Tea Partiers brought registered weapons to rallies. MSNBC even tried to (literally) frame a black guy as a gun-toting white racist.
But an Occupier publishes a letter in a national newspaper about “storming Wall Street” with guns, and I don’t find out about it until a week later. It’s not seen as a credible threat, despite the fact that Occupy’s rap sheet dwarfs that of the Tea Party. Rich Latta of Austin, TX isn’t being investigated for his threat, because it isn’t politically convenient.
Well, and no one is particularly worried about a message therapist who threatens that someday him and his fellow hippies might actually do anything besides bitch and whine.
Thanks to Old Trooper for one of those links.
CBS San Francisco reports that police were getting ready for hippies crossing into Berkeley from Oakland when a 9-1-1 call about a trespasser came into the station so they didn’t give it a priority.
Peter Cukor, 67, had been beaten to death with a flower pot. The suspect, 23-year-old Daniel Dewitt, was taken into custody and will be arraigned on Wednesday.
His mother Candy said it’s a tragedy.
“Our hearts go out to the other family. It breaks my heart. We’ve all lost in this,” she said.
Beaten with a flowerpot after 67 years of law abiding life on the planet. I don’t necessarily blame the police, but I do blame the Occupy protesters who made the police lose focus on their community while the filthy hippie invaders came with their vacuous intellect and intent to disrupt that community.
And Candy DeWitt, the perp’s mother…what did you lose? The guy was beaten to death with a flower pot and you compare your loss to that of Mr. Cukor? Seriously?
Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.
We have several friends who attend the Conservative Political Action Conference every year, most notably, our buddy, the fetching Skye at Midnight Blue, so we’ll be paying particular attention when the “Occupiers” make their planned move against the CPAC gathering in DC. David Keene at the Washington Times writes;
The Occupiers have some experience in disrupting conservative gatherings in the District. Last year, they furiously tried to close down a conference run by Americans for Prosperity and injured an elderly attendee in the process. This year, they are bragging that they are coming to CPAC prepared “to physically assault” speakers and, presumably, attendees.
Press reports of their planning meetings reveal that they are preparing counterfeit credentials to get some of their people into the conference itself, and there is some reason to believe that their union allies may have moved early to reserve rooms for many of them in the main conference hotel.
I actually feel sorry for any Occupier who tries to confront the tenacious Skye. They may leave the hotel with their genitalia packed in ice, in a small plastic bag.
TruthOut has an article by Chris Hedges complaining that the Anarchist group Black Bloc is giving the Occupy Wall Street clowns a bad name;
The Black Bloc movement is infected with a deeply disturbing hypermasculinity. This hypermasculinity, I expect, is its primary appeal. It taps into the lust that lurks within us to destroy, not only things but human beings. It offers the godlike power that comes with mob violence. Marching as a uniformed mass, all dressed in black to become part of an anonymous bloc, faces covered, temporarily overcomes alienation, feelings of inadequacy, powerlessness and loneliness
Funny, but of all of the pictures I’ve seen from OWS protesters confronting the police, crapping on police cars, crapping on sidewalks, throwing bricks at cops, defacing public and private property, none of them have been dressed in black. Like the picture above of Austin police trying to apprehend a female protester when they tossed out Occupy protesters in the Texas capital. Look at the people who are getting in the faces of police in the video of the cleanup in McPherson Square in DC this weekend. How many of them are wearing the black uniform of the Black Bloc?
Um, none-to-few. The cancer in the occupy movement is the intellectual vacuum of the entire movement which attracts criminals and liars by the score. There’s something wrong with people who live among rats, vermin and filth.