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Category: Occupy

  • Publicly funded seditionists attack the Thin Blue Line

    This week Jean Quan, Oakland’s perpetually embarrassing excuse for a Mayor, has started shooting off distress flares. It would seem that the angry rabble of Bolsheviks and vanguard anarchists she cynically welcomed into her city with open arms have turned against the good interests of law and order and started to become an actual nuisance.

    In November of 2011:

    “The pro-99 percent activists — whose cause I support — will have the freedom to get their message across without the conflict that marred last week’s events,” Quan said. “Although getting the balance right is never an easy task, in Oakland we are committed to honoring free speech and protecting public safety.”

    Police are upset that they were asked to clear the protesters’ encampment a week ago, only to have the mayor let the camp resume a day later. The raid last Tuesday, along with the tear gas-clouded standoff with marchers that night and other law enforcement actions related to the protest, cost Oakland $1 million, said Sgt. Dom Arotzarena, president of the Oakland police union.

    Fast forward to today:

    Officials assessed damage to City Hall caused by Occupy Oakland protesters while leaders of the movement claimed Sunday that police acted illegally in arresting hundreds of demonstrators and could face a lawsuit.

    Mayor Jean Quan was among those inspecting damage caused after dozens of people broke into City Hall on Saturday, smashing glass display cases, spray-painting graffiti, and burning an American flag.

    …

    Quan, who faced heavy criticism for the police action last fall, on Saturday called on the Occupy movement to “stop using Oakland as its playground.”

    “People in the community and people in the Occupy movement have to stop making excuses for this behavior,” Quan said.

    On Sunday, Quan said she is tired of the protesters’ repeated actions.

    “I’m mostly frustrated because it appears that most of them constantly come from outside of Oakland,” Quan said. “I think a lot of the young people who come to these demonstrations think they’re being revolutionary when they’re really hurting the people they claim that they are representing.”

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  • Smells like BS

    Patrick and Alan both sent us a link to an NPR broadcast they heard on the radio on the way home about a guy who calls himself Leo Webb and claims he was a sniper. And “watched half my squadron die” – whatever the hell a squadron is, since he says he was in the Army. It doesn’t help his case that he’s at Occupy Oakland. There’s no record of a Leo Webb on AKO, not that it means anything, there could be several reasons why he’s not there, but it doesn’t help him with me;

  • DC cops taze Occupy protester

    DC cops made preparations to end the hippie occupation of public spaces in the city today by posting warning notices. Some goober went around behind them and tore the notices down, so when they moved on him to arrest him, he resisted. One female officer drew out her tazer and tazed his fat, hippie ass. Here’s the video, but it comes with a STRONG LANGUAGE WARNING and HIPPIE BUTT CRACK WARNING;

    I’m sure the stench of his burning skin ran half of the rats out of McPherson Square. From the Washington Post;

    But the driver of a passing SUV shouted praise to police officers who were in a tense standoff with a group of demonstrators after the arrest.

    Robert Fields, who visited the square Sunday, also said it was time for the occupiers to go and criticized authorities for allowing the tents to remain so long.

    So now the protesters are discussing whether or not they’ll acquiesce to the police when they’re evicted. They ought to review the video several times before they arrive at a firm conclusion. I look forward to the videos of twitching and screaming hippies.

  • Classy Occupy Oakland burn flag in City Hall

    According to the Washington Times, 300 Occupy Oakland protesters were arrested yesterday after they took over City hall and managed to burn a n American flag to make no rational point whatsoever;

    Saturday’s protests — the most turbulent since Oakland police forcefully dismantled an Occupy encampment in November — came just days after the group said it planned to use a vacant building as a social center and political hub and threatened to try to shut down the port, occupy the airport and take over City Hall.

    An exasperated Mayor Jean Quan, who faced heavy criticism for the police action last fall, called on the Occupy movement to “stop using Oakland as its playground.”

    Here’s some video of the people who want to convince us that they’re just like the rest of us. You can see a still photo of the grown-ups burning a flag at about 3:35;

    Yeah, I’d be real proud to count myself in their 99%. A woman in the video says that police are being too heavy handed. I’d vehemently disagree. Not only are they not being forceful enough, the city’s prosecutors aren’t either. The only way to put an end to this is to make their antics too costly for the protesters to continue.

    An overnight in jail obviously isn’t influencing them, so throw away the key and give them an ass-whooping every morning for breakfast.

  • Biting the hand that feeds you, two

    The other day I wrote that Occupy Wall Street protesters had stolen a laptop from the church which allowed them to sleep inside out of the New York weather. Despite the warning from Rev. Bob Brashear that they’d be out on the street if it happened again, i predicted that it would. And I was, of course, right. Says the New York Post;

    When the Rev. Bob Brashear prepared for Sunday services at West Park Presbyterian Church on West 86th Street, he noticed parts of the bronze baptismal font were gone.

    In a fire-and-brimstone message to occupiers later that day, he thundered, “It was like pissing on the 99 percent.”

    A rabbi complained that, at another church, OWS protesters urinated on a cross;

    In a letter last week to OWS obtained by The Post, the rabbi fumed, “The Park Slope church housing occupiers was desecrated when an occupier peed inside the building and the pee came into contact with a cross.”

    Classy bunch, ain’t they?

  • OWS protester throws smoke bomb at White House

    Of course, if this was a veteran who had thrown a couple of smoke bombs at the White House, this would be leading the news on every channel, but since it was only the OWS clowns, “feisty” is the only adjective they can summon at DC’s Fox5;

    Two smoke bombs were apparently thrown over the White House fence as an “Occupy” protest grew feisty Tuesday evening, FOX News Channel reported.

    Smoke Bomb Thrown Over White House Fence During Occupy Protest: MyFoxDC.com

    President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were not in the White House at the time of the alleged incident….

    Well, that’s a given. When are they ever in the White House?

  • Occupy hippies to protest at Capitol

    Yes, the unwashed masses still think they’re relevant and have something to contribute to the national conversation. Today they plan to protest at the Capitol says Associated Press;

    Participants say they plan to decry the influence of corporate money in politics and show the House of Representatives what real democracy looks like. The House reconvenes Tuesday after its winter recess.

    The protest comes as the nation’s capital has emerged as one of the strongest bastions of the Occupy movement, in part because the National Park Service has allowed protesters to maintain their encampments in two public squares near the White House.

    I’d like to decry the influence on politics that the unproductive mouths that we feed, house and then have to listen to while they whine that they’re not getting enough. And then on top of it all, we have to suffer under their choice of elected officials because they multiply like rats.

  • Coast Guard to protect grain shipment from Occu-spazes

    Old Trooper sends a link to the Daily Caller which reports that President Obama is sending the Coast Guard to Washington State’s Port of Longview to protect a grain shipment to Asia from those Occu-tards;

    The group of leftwing activists had shut down ports all along the West Coast on Dec. 8, including the Port of Longview. The Coast Guard will apparently be helping the ship load its grain at the port, and then depart for Asia, safely.

    The local unions and “Occupy” groups are planning to band together to protest the Coast Guard protections of the grain shipment when it happens.

    Apparently it’s a protest just for the sake of protesting according to The Daily News;

    “We just want to swell the population of the city to show there are people behind us,” said Jeff Washburn, president of the Cowlitz Wahkiakum Central Labor Council, which passed a resolution calling for a protest this week.

    He added that the labor council plans no attempt to stop the ship, a sentiment echoed in a similar call for protest by leaders of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

    However, the Occupy movement it taking a more aggressive stance, calling for members nationwide to gather outside Port of Longview gates and thwart efforts to load the ship….

    What is there about a grain shipment to protest? Talk about some mental masturbation.