Posted on 09/25/2009 5:20:16 AM PDT by Jaxter
Tried to get these posted last night but I had some technical difficulties. These are pictures I took yesterday afternoon roughly between 2:45 amd 3:45. I didn't see any violence and only saw one arrest. Some guy wearing a sombrero. The police were very professional and exercised great restraint. It was the Bush Doctrine - overwhelming force.
Looking up Liberty Ave. torwards Lawrenceville/Bloomfield.
One block over on Penn, looking the same direction.
32nd and Penn
Same intersection, a little closer
Some of the sickos tried to sneak through between Penn and Smallman via Mulberry.
The idiots in the orange hats were ACLU observers.
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I think this is the "acoustic weapon" everybody was talking about in the middle of the pic. 
Have to have a few drunk Yinzers celebrating the Pens Stanley Cup.
ACLU observers making sure the fake Stanley Cup didn't get thrown at any of their precious anarchists.
Some nitwit dressed like Abe Lincoln. He was welcoming everybody to America.
Some of these anarchists were pretty pathetic.
Back on Liberty. This is Cheerleaders Gentlemen's Club. It is one of the listed targets for today's festivities as is the building I work in.
There were a whole lot of rental vehicles everwhere being used by the police.
Ping. Sorry I didn’t get these posted last night. It was a long day.
Professional protesters. Living off the government dole.
All of the anarchists fit the same MO. Blue, red, green hair, stinky converse sneaks, no shower, skinny, dirty jeans, t-shirts, Starbucks breath and still waking up from sleeping in their Mom’s basement.
Thank you. Good pictures. You should mark them somehow so the press doesn’t steal them.
I was told by my local police that they love it when we have our tea parties because we are so well behaved. Now look at this scum.
Don’t exactly look like the Tea Party crowd, do they?
Looks like only 200 demonstrators or less.
So far, this looks pretty tame--and the crowds look small. Hopefully, it will remain that way.
Excellent work.
So, can someone remind me just WHAT these kids are protesting? I have a feeling it’s not a protest against the DICTATORS invited to PA. I know they’re not protesting 0bama. They CAN’T be protesting NATO or the U.N. or Global Warming or Environmentalism.
They can’t be protesting Capitalism, because from what I can see, they all have name-brand clothing and ‘Che’ bandanas, Starbucks lattes and ipods and cellphones. And Nikes on their feet! I doubt they all took public transportation to PA from wherever, and how many hippie-wannabees can one cram into a Prius?
So, that only leaves that they must be protesting the Liberty and Democracy found in America that allows them to look like fools. *SMIRK*
Van Jones became a revolutionary communist following the 1992 L.A./Rodney King Riots (58 dead)
various sources
Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:19:07 AM by ETL
"Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, 'I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, "This is what I need to be a part of." I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.'..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333342/posts
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.
Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197
There were more police than protestors, at least at the point I saw them.
According to the Pens message board, the Penguins/Stanley Cup thing was meant to mock the protest.
I also heard some Carnegie Mellon/ Pitt students came out to counter protest in Oakland.
They look like the people, young and old, at the Farmer’s Market on the Green in Burlington VT on any given Saturday in the summer.
Funny, the MSM ignored the 9/12 march but has this plastered everywhere.
As I said...
I agree. If that's all they got they're pretty pathetic. There was more trouble last night up in Oakland but nothing to compare with what happened in London.
"If you want to be a non-conformist, you have to look like us, think like us, and listen to the same music we do."
"You can't be a non-conformist if you don't drink coffee."
~Goth kid from South Park
The police need to find a way of policing these things without the black gas masks. It doesn’t say “America”.
Looks like that acoustic weapon thingy’s levitating in mid-air.
Deafening kids with sound weapons and confronting them with masks and clubs — USA, USA, USA!!! /s
It’s interesting to compare the current Sedition Media coverage of the G-20 in Pittsburgh. So much coverage!
Why? It fits the established narrative. It’s all that modern New World Order meetings should be. The Elite in jets and limos and designer and custom clothing at the best hotels, surrounded by regular military units in full urban warfare gear. And at the outskirts, beyond the military secured inner-ring that no regular folk may enter, An outer-ring of a mix of dozens of police forces launching tear gas and special crowd control weapons from black painted armored vehicles at a mix of community organized rabble of college kids, pothead dead-enders and welfare-for-life folks, spiced with mimes, street theater troupes with puppet masks, saffron robed lines of baldy monks beating drums and waving incense rods, and here and there a cohort of union members with the officers in cheap suits.
The demonstrators provide the theater and excitement, and the issues they herald are nearly all pro-socialism — they are defining what the narrative insists that the people, the rabble, the lowly proles should be asking for from their elite. MORE OF IT! MORE RULES! LESS FREEDOM. SOCIALISM!
Compare that to what happened with the coverage of the 912 marchers! Nothing, no coverage at all. The TRUE VOICES OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY ignored, incomprehensible by the DC elite, the legacy media, the academics, or even the big business elite.
What is happening in Pittsburgh is Kafke-esque illusion. It is absent any connection to REAL America.
We don’t fit their narrative, to them we are invisible people. Only those play actors willing to be participants in the socialist and deconstructionist delusion are news worthy subjects.
The Narrative: There are a class of elites of every color and race and gender who know how to run the world. They know how to dress like red carpet people, they know the best vacation spots in the world, the best jets. They deserve the best since they provide the ideas that run the world
Below them are the others, a mix of workers, students and the poor — and the the near insane. The working class, the poor. At a meeting of the elites the wildest of the
those come out to show the true colors of their class — violence, rebellion, screeching, but still all for more Big Brotherism, more socialism. And some are “heroes” asking for relief for politically correct causes. But the coloring book requires that in the lower classes, the discussion is on the street, rude, crude, violent. That’s why they are not the elite.
That narrative is all false. None of it is true.
The truth is what was seen in DC on 9/12/2009. Two million regular citizens arrived under their own power and funds at the same place at the same time. They dressed well. The behaved very well. The demonstration was peaceful, the speakers intelligent and well-informed. The place was CLEANER after they left than before.
Liberty!
Wow...look at all those protesters, there must be tens of thousands! (dripping in sarcasm)
If they go down, who stops the rioters?
Oh, and the black robocop outfits have some intimidation value, too.
these people love the Chinese.....you get a bunch of ‘lend lease’ chinese tanks and drivers...
and MOW ‘EM DOWN!!!!
welcome to Tianamin-burg beeeyotches.
This is hard for me on an emotional level. I dislike these commie protesters. But I also dislike the idea behind G20, G7, G3, GX and any other group of governments deciding just what rules and regulations we have to live by. The protesters and the freedom-smashing governments and NGOs are really on the same side.
I also dislike the police state tactics.
Why can’t we just respect the second amendment and let everyday citizens shoot these protesters when the protesters damage their property and/or threaten their safety?
What’s wrong with the people exercising their God-given right to defend themselves against the socialist protester vermin?
The funny thing is that the media is adamant that the “teabaggers” are thuggish brutes. Yet it is at the lefty protests that the violence is so predictable that I doubt you could even play the odds for it occurring on Tradesports...
Be careful out there!
I thanked the police who were at a local town hall for all of their hard work. They know which side respects the rule of law.
I also heard some Carnegie Mellon/ Pitt students came out to counter protest in Oakland."
You're probably right about that. They were pretty funny. They kept laughing and chanting "Let's Go Pens". It was almost a carnival atmosphere.
I heard the same thing about the Pitt students ridiculing the protestors and telling them to go home. I think they were expecting a friendlier bunch of locals like Seattle with the WTO thing or London.
Interesting... that may come in handy.
Rushs’ Club Gitmo hats are orange. Might add to the...uhh...chaos....heh heh heh.
"It's nothing but a bunch of white racist! Where are all the black people?"
“I think they were expecting a friendlier bunch of locals”
Maybe the police are there to protect the protesters from the locals.
Trib -””When they were protesting, they were mad at the students because they were making fun of them,” Doyle said of people he described as anarchists, wearing all black with masks.
Police gave an order to disperse and began firing tear gas. Students scattered and regrouped throughout Oakland, at times chanting “let’s go, Pitt” and “this is our campus.””
PG-”We’re here to spread positivity,” said 31-year-old Dan Mross, who took the day off to be one of the standard-bearers for a canvas “Let’s Go Pens” sign. Nearby, his friend hoisted a plastic Stanley Cup above his head....
Like many residents, Mr. Mross expressed frustration at the visiting protesters bringing their grievances to the streets of Pittsburgh. “This is 4,000, 5,000 cops, and for what, a handful of anarchists who don’t even know what they’re mad at? This is our house.”
I tried to pull up videos or images of the 1999 Seattle WTO Riots and all I could find were the protester edited images. No police or media images; Out of sight out of mind I guess.
Thanks for the photos. Compare these bandana covered, filthy, unwashed, spike-haired losers to the million or more that showed up on 9/12. On 9/12, you couldn’t find a single face covered by a bandana because people were openly confronting their government and its long train of abuses and usurpations. Why do these cowards in Pittsburgh need to cover their faces?
The only black people that I saw were either policemen or local residents at their doors and windows making fun of the protestors.
Yeah. After the tea party, the left wing media made a big deal about all the protesters being white. I couldn't help but count the number of black protesters in this far left wing gathering. I didn't count any. Go figure.
I wonder if the media will notice this "racist" protest at the G-20.
Yeah. But I wouldn’t dismiss them as just kids though.
But yeah the whole “sound weapon” thing is WAY too dystopianistic.
“the black robocop outfits have some intimidation value”
Yeah, mainly to the TV viewers.
Thanks for posting, hope your leg feels better today after a good soak in the tub.
Was this an older or industrial part of the city?
I noted a lot of buildings posted for sale or closed, lots of grass and weeds in and on the sidewalk and in the gutter and a lot of very old/damaged ute poles.
Looked like as many photogs as protesters.
Anyway, keep up the good work, we have a town hall meeting tonight (Anchorage), I will try and get some pics as well.
Great photos...and very good judgment in not showing the police ‘rooftop’ presence.
Gearing up for the ‘big’ protest today. Hopefully all goes as well...but you want to know how I think this is going to play out? Pgh ‘over reacted’ too much police; too much spent; stiffling free speech; the success of the (keeping prayers going here) THIS in our fair city will be spun to the negative.
LOL...those kids with the Cup had to be yunzers from Lawrenceville, Bloomfield, Oakland (waaaaay south of Forbes—where I grew up). Tough crowd...don’t want to spend their weekend boarding up their mom’s living room window.
Just neighborhood in Pittsburgh is older. Those row houses in the background I am sure are over one hundred years old (I grew up in one like that in another Pgh neighborhood).
These are people who are not wealthy...there are a few ‘trendy housing areas’ (S. Side Flats; Mexican War Streets; Shadyside—where old, gentrified housing has been ‘redone’—but not Bloomfield/Lawrenceville).
I loved the kids with the Penguin stuff...too cool...anyone of the them could bitc# clapped an anarachist (or ten) w/o any PD help.
Thanks for the reply.
Given that Alaska is bearly (ya, a pun) 50 years old, we don’t have a lot of older buidlings that are not made of sod or logs.
The area just looked ‘down at it heels’ with all the weeds and such.
Have a good weekend!
This is in the upper Strip District/lower Lawrenceville area of the city, which is mostly old buildings and pretty run down. I live across the river in Sharpsburg which is getting pretty run down itself. I hope to be retired and out of there in 3 or 4 years. There were many more police and curious civilians like me than protestors where I was.
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