Posted on 11/04/2011 11:27:03 AM PDT by Starman417
It's quite humorous to watch the media spin the recent violence from the Oakland occupiers:
“Oakland Police Clash with Fringe Protesters.”
Fringe? I think not.
Oh the media does it's best to spin the story that it's only a few protesters who are prone to violence:
When a man wearing a bandana broke a window with an empty beer bottle, another protester yelled, “Who are you? That isn’t what this is about!” Another man screamed, “The police are not your enemy!” at young people wearing gas masks and the Guy Fawkes guise that has come to represent anarchists and the hackers group Anonymous.
But in the same article they quote the mouthpiece of the Oakland Occupiers, Boots Riley:
“There are large disagreements inside the movement, but that’s actually what pushes us forward,” said Boots Riley, 40, a member of the rap group the Coup, who was on the bullhorn at the front of the marchers for much of Wednesday. “What we did during the day was much bigger, much more disruptive, than what the people breaking windows did last night,” he said.
Nevermind the fact that shutting down one of the busiest ports in the United States is completely counter-productive to their movement since they employ thousands of union employees, and shutting down commerce during a recession ain't all that smart either.
Nevermind all that.
How about the fact that the "peaceful" mouthpiece quoted by the media wrote the lyrics to “5 Million Ways To Kill a CEO”
Is that how you get those following you to be peaceful?
How about this line from another song of his:
“Death to the pigs is my basic statement.”
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
This has been the narrative ever since the “anti-globalization” protests of the ‘90s. I always say if Black Bloc and the other window smashers are just fringe players and the protests are always about non-violence, why do the “peaceful” protesters always tolerate Black Bloc’s presence? The pro-life marchers never let anyone with signs advocating violence participate. Tea Party rallies always removed Moby trolls and other people with provocative signs. But no one discourages these troublemakers from coming to any of these rallies.
The answer is, of COURSE they want these troublemakers around. They want violence. They want to destroy property. They just delegate those duties to the dumb kids willing to do them.
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It’s good that the war on capitalism has finally become more overt. This is why Obama and the Dem party’s embrace of the movement was such a dumb move politically. They were successfully cloaking their socialist leanings prior to Obama and OWS.
The lines are now clearly drawn, no grey areas anymore. Plausible deniability no longer possible for the Dems.
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