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Category: Occupy

  • Tell me something I don’t know

    Old Trooper sends a link from our buddy Gateway Pundit who reports that the Occupy protesters are full of shit;

    There’s a whole lot of squatting going on at Camp Poopstock Santa Cruz. Verum Serum posted on this disturbing report from the Mercury Times:

    This week, two portable restrooms were installed in the park to supplement the one on Water Street since October, Pleich said.

    “I think a lot of those sanitation issues came before the portable restrooms,” Pleich said. He added that there are hand-washing stations.

    “We’re doing everything we can to ameliorate this problem,” Pleich said.

    I recommend a lower fiber diet and an ideology that is more digestible.

  • Occupy Black Friday

    Yeah, I’m tired of the OWS posts, too, but every time I turn around they piss me off. Country Singer sends a link to Ace of Spades who mentions that their next tactic is “Occupy Black Friday” wherein they stop retail sales at publicly traded companies so they can “Hit the 1% where it hurts – in the wallet.”

    Yeah, that’ll work. Think the 1% can’t weather one bad sales season, think they’ll all go bankrupt because of one day’s sales? Besides, the 99% are already “camping out” at the retailers so they can spend their money.

    Oh, yeah, ever hear of internet sales? How are you planning to interrupt those without breaking some terrorism laws?

    And who is really going to be hurt? If sales are down, it’s the employees who’ll lose their jobs, starting with the newest and the lowest paid. So who is the inspiration for this occupy movement? This gathering the young Americans? Back to Ace:

    Lasn is sixty-nine years old and lives with his wife on a five-acre farm outside Vancouver. He has thinning white hair and the small eyes of a bulldog. In a lilting voice, he speaks of “a dark age coming for humanity” and of “killing capitalism,” alternating gusts of passion with gentle laughter. He has learned not to let premonitions of apocalypse spoil his good mood.

    So this movement was blueprinted by a sixty-nine year old Canadian. Feel foolish yet?

    Well, all of this talk about revolution and killing capitalism makes me feel good about moving out here to West Virginia where the local entrepreneurs are being rounded up by police in droves; here, here and here.

  • How to let the world know you’re an idiot if it’s not general knowledge quite yet

    Sporkmaster sends us an interview with one of the pepper-sprayed students in the picture above and it’s pretty hillarious;

    “Move or we’re going to shoot you,” Pike is reported to have yelled at one student right before delivering pepper spray. Then, turning to his fellow officers and brandishing the can in the air, “Don’t worry, I’m going to spray these kids down.”

    That would have been a warning to me that I’m about to get sprayed, causing my feet to move and get me out of range. But, ya know, I’m fairly bright.

    W: I still have a burning sensation in my throat, lips and nose, especially when I start coughing, or when I’m lying in bed. Everyone who got sprayed has sustained effects like this.

    XJ: Can you tell us how it happened, from where you were sitting?

    W: I’d pulled my beanie hat over my eyes, to protect my eyes. I received a lot of pepper spray in my throat. I vomited twice, right away, then spent the next hour or two dry heaving. Someone said they saw him spray down my throat intentionally, but I was so freaked out, and I was blinded by my hat, so I can’t verify. I did get a large quantity of pepper spray in my lungs.

    See, that’s where I have an advantage over this student, apparently…my body came equipped with lips that I can close, thus not allowing pepper spray into my lungs and throat. I know, it must sound like I’m bragging about my superior genetic development, but I’m just pointing out how I can avoid pepper-spray in my lungs, whereas this poor youngster can’t, I guess.

    He used military grade pepper spray on us.

    Yeah, because military grade pepper spray uses a different pepper than the civil grade pepper spray. And it’s got tiny soldiers hidden in it who can pry your mouth open and jump in your throat.

    Another student, 20 years old, who was sprayed and then arrested—instead of receiving medical care for the pepper spray exposure, he was made to wait in the back of a police car.

    He was made to wait with all of the other innocent perpetrators, right? Of course, he wouldn’t have had to wait in the police car if he’d done what he was told in the first place, right?

    One of the reasons I am involved with #OWS, and advocating for an occupy movement on the UC campus, is to fight privatization and austerity in the UC system, and fight rising tuition costs. I think that citizens have the right to get an education regardless of economic condition. Most people are not going to get a job where they can afford to pay off student loans. But to exclude people from knowledge is unconscionable.

    If you don’t like people being excluded from getting an education, you should be protesting those public school teachers who spent your class time teaching you how to put condoms on bananas instead of teaching you Constitutional law.

    It’s too bad that I wasn’t in Sgt Pike’s position, because I would have done one of those 3 Stooges slap things right down the line of hippies.

    Yeah, I can laugh at the stupid hippies complaining about pepper spray because I’ve been tear gassed more times than I can count and I survived without so much as a whimper. So grow up, Junior. There’s a price for everything…and you made the first down payment on your idiotic behavior. To quote Red Foreman; your life is hard because you’re a dumbass.

  • Occupier-on-occupier violence at UC Berkeley

    The Daily Californian article sent by Old Trooper doesn’t say it was occupier o occupier violence, but it sounds like it;

    At about 5:09 p.m., the female student was approached by a man at “the northeast exterior of the Haas Pavilion,” according to a UCPD crime alert. The man asked the student if she was going to the protest on Sproul Plaza, and when the victim answered “no,” the suspect yelled at her.

    “People like you are the reason that California is in debt,” he said, according to the crime alert.

    The suspect then allegedly threw a full aluminum water bottle at the victim’s face.

    It was the description of the criminal that did it for me;

    The suspect was described as a white or Hispanic male in his early 20s, wearing a brown and green knit cap with earflaps and strings, a black coat and dark pants.

    See? A knit cap with earflaps and strings…had to be a hippie. None of us in the 1% wear that shit.

    Meanwhile the Occupy Portland Kremlin is planning to shut down all of the ports on the West Coast;

    According to a statement from Occupy Oakland, this move is in “response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation.” “We call on each West Coast occupation to organize a mass mobilization to shut down its local port.”

    Yeah, that’ll help the economy. The West coast police departments need to hire John Pike for training their officers because that’s what police do – maintain law and order for the majority of us.

    By the way, if they need someone to swing a baton indiscriminately, I’m available for the rock bottom price of a plane ticket. Additionally, I feel no need to apologize for my actions in the service of law and order.

  • More fun from Occupy Wall Street.

    Lets see, it seems that the OWS managed to to get a retired police chief to decry the New York Police department. The same person that was arrested at a Occupy protest in New York. Oh and if you have to ask he was from Philadelphia. I figure that he is part of the police equivalent of the IVAW.

    I think that these people need to be reminded about Appeal to Authority fallacy.

  • Matthis inciting OWS

    Our favorite disgraced IVAW member is trying to incite OWS protesters with his arrogant use of his false military experience again, writing n the Huffington Post;

    These operations do not strike me as random. What the police are engaging in looks like a military crowd control tactic called ‘snatch and grab,’ something I practiced in training on various occasions in the military.

    Yeah, all of you military journalists who did riot control training, raise your hands. Yeah, none.

    But, that’s OK, he’s faking his own importance in the OWS protests, too;

    “Dude, they’re scoping you out,” said a fellow protester, and pointed to a police group in the rear of the police line. A few white shirts… and a few others. One had a camera pointed right at me. I felt pointedly threatened, like they’d recognized me and I’d been marked. When the ‘snatch and grabs’ began at Zuccotti, I knew I couldn’t stick around.

    Yeah, nothing worse than an arrogant chickenshit. I’m sure matthis is just that important that the police want to single him out of a crowd of smelly hippies because he’s such an effective leader…he’s so effective that when they take his picture, he scurries away like a frightened chipmunk and writes a missive to warn everone else.

    If this is the first you’re reading about Matthis, he joined the Army voluntarily to avoid a charge for selling drugs near a school playground, served a tour in Japan, then Germany where he took a TDY trip to Afghanistan for six days and calls himself an Afghanistan veteran. Then he skipped out on his recall to active duty from the IRR and calls himself a “war resister” – he never opposed the war against terror until it was his turn to go. He left the IVAW because they wouldn’t completely sign on to his flag-burning antics while wearing their T-shirt.

    He regularly takes his lies to classrooms and tells high school students what the Army will do to them when he has no idea what military life is really like. He tells about atrocities they commit, although his experiences with war are limited to “no shit” bar room stories.

    He was a military journalist who never took part in riot-control training. the Army doesn’t waste their time training people who’ll never need that training.

    Mattis is a chump who still thinks that basic training was hard because that’s the hardest he had it in his five years of military service. Matthis regularly encourages people to take chances that he would never involve himself in, that’s why he’s telling OWS protesters to stick with the fight while he himself hides out in his girlfriend’s apartment.

    Thanks to a nameless ninja for the link.

  • Crocodile tears for the police

    Sporkmaster sent this link yesterday from the Atlantic in which the author says that he doesn’t blame the police for their “brutality” at UC Davis, but rather he blames the “system”.

    A regular guy named John Pike has become the new face of evil among people following the Occupy protests around the country. The UC Davis police officer’s matter-of-fact pepper spraying of seated, obviously peaceful students has provoked justifiable outrage. James Fallows summed up the situation with his usual precise moral compass. “This is what happens when authority is unaccountable and has lost any sense of human connection to a subject population,” he wrote. “That’s what I think here.”

    What Alexis Madrigal and the filthy fucking hippies fail to accept is that the police have a responsibility to the 99% of us who are going about our daily lives, working and taking care of our families and NOT protesting for socialism and communism, to keep the peace and to keep us safe.

    Like you do with a two-year-old child, you have to set boundaries so that the child doesn’t resort to more dangerous behavior. Personally, I’d like to see the police use batons and fire hoses on hippies who think they own the streets, but that’s not my call, fortunately for the hippies.

    I don’t know how many times I’ve seen hippies yell and verbally attack police for doing their jobs like keeping sidewalks clear for regular pedestrians.

    One female security guard at the National Archives was verbally assaulted by IVAW and VFP members because she tried to prevent from crawling out on the National Archives’ facade. I had to intervene to prevent them from attacking her physically, so they switched to attacking me, the pussies.

    But the thing is, the cops have a responsibility to protect us from the 1% – the hippies – more than they have a responsibility to protect the so-called civil rights of the hippies to disrupt our lives.

  • No, that’s not hypocrisy at all

    Yeah, that’s Brad Spitzer, an accountant for Deloitte, the financial manager for the Occupy Wall Street leaving his $700/night hotel room, heading out for his daily participation in the day’s activities at Zuccotti Park according to the link sent to us by Old Trooper at the New York Post. Dutro said that he paid for the hotel himself, as if that neutralizes the hypocrisy.

    It reminds me of the anti-war protests in Washington, DC in the early 70s when supposed veterans who were protesting the war camped out on the National Mall while John Kerry, their leader, was staying with rich family friends in trendy Georgetown.

    “Tents are not for me,” says Dutro, but as a leader doesn’t he have a responsibility to share the misery with his fellow protesters, like they want to share their misery with the rest of America?