All too easy, Slapnuts.


Now deny it cause the stats don't come from SocialistWorker.org



>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^quantumushroom:
Drug use, rapes, murders and random deaths are in every camp, all the attendant chaos one would expect when socialists, anarchists, code pink commies and feed-the-flames libmedia descend anywhere. These protestors are not even 1% of the 99%.

Citation needed, motherfucker.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Drug use, rapes, murders and random deaths are in every camp, all the attendant chaos one would expect when socialists, anarchists, code pink commies and feed-the-flames libmedia descend anywhere. These protestors are not even 1% of the 99%.


Citation needed, motherfucker.

The more they react to the protestors, the more I see the point of the protests. I have to wonder how many people are there protesting just because they saw someone else being treated in similar manners to this. Protesting the reaction to the protest.

January 22, 2010
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I reject your sanitized version of protestors, Reich. Drug use, rapes, murders and random deaths are in every camp, all the attendant chaos one would expect when socialists, anarchists, code pink commies and feed-the-flames libmedia descend anywhere. These protestors are not even 1% of the 99%.

Pepper spray doesn't work? Lay on hands. Hands don't work? Water cannon. Water cannon doesn't work? Rubber bullets. Rubber bullets don't work? Kent State!
I have no political agenda. My concern is that if peaceful protests are not allowed, the situation escalates. If protestors are orderly and peaceful, not blocking access, and are no threat, then leave them alone it's their right.

Because I was saying it out loud as I was typing it. >> ^Boise_Lib:

Why is Non-Violent in quotations?

Wow. That's probably the most flagrant, indiscriminate dosing of peaceful protestors I've yet seen in this movement. Share, spread, and keep building the resistance to the police state.

The shift from the atrocious pepper spraying of peaceful protesters to the where the protesters force the cops out is incredible. The major turn-point where the cops are straight up TOLD to leave starts around the 6:00 minute mark.

"As the students cry “Shame on you!” the police arrest a few students; but as the crowd circles them—non-threateningly, but insistent—the police begin to retreat. Then, amazingly, the students (via People’s mic) offer the retreating police a moment of peace: “We are willing to give you a brief moment of peace so that you may take your weapons and your friends and go. Please do not return.”

And the police do." /via Balloon-juice.com

More info, including the name of the more abusive cops there over at Balloon-Juice.

You might be able to write off one or two violent incidents perpetrated by the Police against non violent protestors as isolated incidents, examples of one or two bad apples abusing their authority. But no, this is happening everywhere and with alarming frequency. Something is very, very wrong.

>> ^Phreezdryd:

What the hell was the point of doing that?! From this view you can't see any protestors so I'm left to wonder what could've provoked one cop to shoot one guy walking along with a camera? I can't think of anything to justify that. More malicious behavior like the video of the flash grenade lobbed into the crowd trying to help an injured person. Is there something about Oakland I'm not aware of?

Oakland is the murder capital of the San Francisco Bay Area, and its crime spreads out in all directions that are accessible by public transit. Cops are surely more on guard in Oakland than most surrounding areas.

>> ^bmacs27:

>> ^Phreezdryd:
What the hell was the point of doing that?! From this view you can't see any protestors so I'm left to wonder what could've provoked one cop to shoot one guy walking along with a camera? I can't think of anything to justify that. More malicious behavior like the video of the flash grenade lobbed into the crowd trying to help an injured person. Is there something about Oakland I'm not aware of?

That all depends. You know about this right?

Yeah, I'd shoot that.

>> ^Phreezdryd:

What the hell was the point of doing that?! From this view you can't see any protestors so I'm left to wonder what could've provoked one cop to shoot one guy walking along with a camera? I can't think of anything to justify that. More malicious behavior like the video of the flash grenade lobbed into the crowd trying to help an injured person. Is there something about Oakland I'm not aware of?


That all depends. You know about this right?

What the hell was the point of doing that?! From this view you can't see any protestors so I'm left to wonder what could've provoked one cop to shoot one guy walking along with a camera? I can't think of anything to justify that. More malicious behavior like the video of the flash grenade lobbed into the crowd trying to help an injured person. Is there something about Oakland I'm not aware of?

>> ^bookface:

>> ^Mikus_Aurelius:
Failed compared to what?
There are plenty of people who know enough about economics to intelligently dispute Krugman's (or Keynes') theories. Based on the comments above, I'd guess none of them are posting here.
To be fair, I doubt there are are many economists camping out and beating bongos either. Most of the economic theories held by individual protestors are as unsupported as the ones on the sift. That does not invalidate their general unhappiness with the political system or their desire to see certain measurable inequalities in our economy addressed.

A good question. People in the US need to remember one glaringly obvious fact: socialism, communism, and the like didn't bring the world economy to its knees. The corporatist and capitalist criminals on Wall St. and the beltway did that. I don't know that any one of these economic theories is the solution to our situation but let's be clear: criminals brought us where we are today and not marxists, keynesians, or any of the other usual suspects.


P.S. no one needs a degree in economics to know they're getting ripped off by the 1% and friends, but playing a bongo does take some practice. Have you ever successfully played a hand drum? It's tough. Wait until you try tabla, buddy :-)

>> ^Mikus_Aurelius:

Failed compared to what?
There are plenty of people who know enough about economics to intelligently dispute Krugman's (or Keynes') theories. Based on the comments above, I'd guess none of them are posting here.
To be fair, I doubt there are are many economists camping out and beating bongos either. Most of the economic theories held by individual protestors are as unsupported as the ones on the sift. That does not invalidate their general unhappiness with the political system or their desire to see certain measurable inequalities in our economy addressed.


A good question. People in the US need to remember one glaringly obvious fact: socialism, communism, and the like didn't bring the world economy to its knees. The corporatist and capitalist criminals on Wall St. and the beltway did that. I don't know that any one of these economic theories is the solution to our situation but let's be clear: criminals brought us where we are today and not marxists, keynesians, or any of the other usual suspects.