OWS Protests Turning Violent

[BDKJMU]

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[BDKJMU]

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Shut down the port, attacked a Wholefoods & banks.

Bunch of GD hippies...

[grizzaholic]

I give a pass on the attacking of a Wholefoods.

[BDKJMU]

In Seattle:

".....Officers launched pepper spray, shoved protesters out of the way and yanked others from under a police van during a tense 30-minute confrontation. Police said at least 10 officers were physically assaulted during the arrests, and at least two of them had minor injuries.

The melee broke out as the arrested protesters were led, handcuffed, into a police van.

As the conflict between police and protesters moved up and down Broadway, about 100 protesters chanted about officers' actions and about the issues of concern to their movement — corporate greed, big banks and the growing disparity between the incomes of the nation's rich and its poor.

Phil Neel, an Occupy Seattle member, said the five protesters who occupied the bank in the afternoon did so intending to be arrested.

Beforehand, the group held a brief rally and marched from its encampment at Seattle Central Community College north toward the bank. Then, as a larger group surrounded the bank, the five protesters, who had entered the building earlier, got to the floor.

Neel, 23, said the goal was to shut down the bank for the afternoon, and that is what happened.

Neel, of Seattle, called banks "the churches of capitalism" and said "we're defiling that holy ground in a sense."

After the protesters inside the bank were arrested, youths surrounded the police van and started pounding on it. Others lay down in the street in front of it and behind it.

Police yanked protesters out of the way, a move that spurred other protesters to shove officers.

Soon, officers doused the crowd with pepper spray; one woman sat at Broadway Avenue and East Thomas Street while other people poured water in her eyes so she could see.

The fight between police and protesters continued south on Broadway, then back north. When protesters reached the corner of East Harrison Street they stood in a circle, some held hands and hugged. Then the group marched south, back to Seattle Central Community College with police following closely behind.

Protest organizers then told the group to head east, down Pine Street, toward Westlake Park where they were set to rally in advance of the evening protest at the Sheraton....."
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[Grizalltheway]

Drove by occupy Helena the other day. There were 5, count em 5, participants.

[CAA Flagship]

Drove by occupy Helena the other day. There were 5, count em 5, participants.

Hope they were fat or they couldn't "occupy" a Honda.

[ASUG8]

I was so surprised to see that violence was erupting in Oakland....usually such a peaceful city.

[Wedgebuster]

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming..

[Ivytalk]

Drove by occupy Helena the other day. There were 5, count em 5, participants.

Is your siggy's name Helena? She's spectacular! I'd "occupy" her in a jiffy!

[Bronco]

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So happy the dems have embraced these groups


OAKLAND, CA — NOVEMBER 2: Demonstrators with the Occupy movement gather in front of a bank November 2, 2011 in Oakland, California. The group called for a general strike today, and planned to march on the city’s port later in the day. (Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

[Ivytalk]

I was so surprised to see that violence was erupting in Oakland....usually such a peaceful city.

Might as well be Raiders fans!

[clenz]

He looks like a very respectable man....and I see no reason he shouldn't have a very good job....

Except the fact he died his hair aqua, and has some emo douche mo-hawk flip going on with it.

[ASUG8]

He looks like a very respectable man....and I see no reason he shouldn't have a very good job....

Except the fact he died his hair aqua, and has some emo douche mo-hawk flip going on with it.

Did you miss the Soviet t-shirt? I'm sure that endears him to people he's trying to make sypathetic to the cause. This particular guy can blame the 1%ers for him not having a job, but methinks he's got some introspection to do.

[clenz]

He looks like a very respectable man....and I see no reason he shouldn't have a very good job....

Except the fact he died his hair aqua, and has some emo douche mo-hawk flip going on with it.

Did you miss the Soviet t-shirt? I'm sure that endears him to people he's trying to make sypathetic to the cause. This particular guy can blame the 1%ers for him not having a job, but methinks he's got some introspection to do.

Yeah...there's the shirt....and the fact that they guy probably can't carry a conversation for shit.

He was probably a design major with a minor in political studies.....

[Bronco]

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Dumb ass protesters should be down at Congress protesting the Dem's that had the great idea that everybody deserves to own a home

Time to bring out the water cannons and night sticks

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan

[GannonFan]

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Dumb ass protesters should be down at Congress protesting the Dem's that had the great idea that everybody deserves to own a home

Time to bring out the water cannons and night sticks

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan

Maybe the Dems pushed it first, but the GOP was more than happy to help carry the water for more home ownership. IMO, that was maybe Bush's biggest blunder as President - he gladly went along with and pushed for even higher home ownership rates.

[Bronco]

Really
Here's a time line

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[DSUrocks07]

I do remember Bush and Repubs making speeches about how "owning a home was the American Dream"

[Wedgebuster]

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Dumb ass protesters should be down at Congress protesting the Dem's that had the great idea that everybody deserves to own a home

Time to bring out the water cannons and night sticks

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan

Time to bring out the water cannons and night sticks


Don't forget the National Guard.

[Grizalltheway]

I do remember Bush and Repubs making speeches about how "owning a home was the American Dream"

No way. Every single problem the country has can be traced back to the Democratic party. Just ask Bongo.

[Wedgebuster]

But it is a story no more and so, on the bike, the full horror of it came through: My God, American soldiers had shot American college students. This was not China, not Tiananmen Square, and not Iran and the pro-democracy rallies of last year — not any of those places. This was America, just yesterday (take my word for it), and yet it had happened. How? I thought hard and then I remembered. Bullets had killed those kids, sure — but they were fired, in a way, from the mouths of politicians.

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/fou ... id=2376967

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

The face of these things will change and there will be harder individuals that are less of the lazy hippy thing and more of the hardened element. At some point there is going to be clashes inside the group and someone will end up dead, raped, etc...and the softer element abandons and the harder element forces police action.

[Grizalltheway]

The face of these things will change and there will be harder individuals that are less of the lazy hippy thing and more of the hardened element. At some point there is going to be clashes inside the group and someone will end up dead, raped, etc...and the softer element abandons and the harder element forces police action.

You should check out the interview Colbert did with two 'representatives' from OWS. Fuckin' hilarious. I'd link it for ya but colbertnation.com is blocked at work.

[BDKJMU]

Really
Here's a time line

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Good catch Bronco. I posted the same report on Fannie & Freddie back in March 2010:
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[houndawg]

Off the pigs.








Feed their carcasses to the masses.