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Occupy DC Protest Thugs Storm Smithsonian – Pin Guard Against Wall (Video)
NBC via Gateway Pundit ^ | Saturday, October 8, 2011, 5:23 PM | Jim Hoft

Posted on 10/08/2011 6:10:10 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

Chanting “The whole world is watching!” the Occupy DC protesters tried to storm the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum today. They pinned a guard against the wall. The mob forced the museum to shut its doors early.

Hey, didn’t we see the tea party do this sorta thing too? NBC Washington reported on the violent mob outing.

According to Smithsonian spokesperson Linda St. Thomas, a crowd of “about 100 to 200 people” tried to enter through the museum’s Mall entrance.

“They were carrying signs and a lot of protest materials,” St. Thomas said in a statement. “You cannot bring that stuff into the museum under any circumstances.”

According to St. Thomas, the crowd tried to shove its way into the museum after being denied entry by security.

“One security guard was grabbed and pinned against the wall. He could not extract himself,” the spokesperson said. “Another security guard came over to help him and ended up pepper-spraying one person.”

Videos quickly circulated online showing Smithsonian security telling protesters to “get back” while protesters and bystanders covered their faces to shield themselves from the pepper spray. At least one person was seen writhing on the ground in apparent agony.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: morons; occupy; occupydc; pigsonparade
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To: Hunton Peck
When I last went to the Air a& Space Museum three years ago or so it looked like they had pretty impressive security there. But I guess all that security was a government-union illusion, a Potemkin Village. Do the Metropolitan DC Police have any jurisdiction there? These people should have been gassed at least so that regular tax payers and foreign visitors could visit the museum with a minimum of disruption.

Who is responsible for letting this go on for more than 20 seconds?

ML/NJ

21 posted on 10/08/2011 6:25:26 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: 6SJ7

My guess is one of the herd grunted “Hey! That sign says, uhhh . . . Air and, uh, Space, man! That’s like, bombers, and military stuff, and the rape of the solar system! Get ‘em!”


22 posted on 10/08/2011 6:26:07 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: DefeatCorruption
can they NOT SEE how truly stupid they are?

I'll bet many of the businesses whom they may be searching for jobs with in the near future can see how truly stupid they are.

23 posted on 10/08/2011 6:26:39 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Compassionate Conservatism? Promoting self reliance is compassionate. Promoting dependency is not.)
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To: Voltage
Obama understands their frustration! They are excused.

Nancy Piglosi also......Nancy Pelosi: ‘God bless’ Wall Street protesters

Dems = Party of Food Stamps.
24 posted on 10/08/2011 6:27:02 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Hunton Peck
“The whole world is watching”.....you make total idiots out of yourselves for trying to over run a museum?! I don't get it but then again I don't get anything Liberals do.
25 posted on 10/08/2011 6:27:57 PM PDT by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: Hunton Peck

How long before the museum is deconstructed like the library was in Alexandria, Egypt.


26 posted on 10/08/2011 6:28:24 PM PDT by x_plus_one (Obama: Brainwashing the masses to believe that racism is a greater danger than radical Islam)
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To: jakerobins
And the Thug in Chief continues to encourage these people as does Pelosi...I say they are complicit in any violence.

Someone needs to pressure The Hague to file charges against these people if anyone gets hurt.

27 posted on 10/08/2011 6:28:36 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Hunton Peck
What the hell are they protesting at a museum???
28 posted on 10/08/2011 6:28:36 PM PDT by txroadkill (Antlers up! The Claw must be feared!)
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To: Hunton Peck

How long before the museum is deconstructed like the library was in Alexandria, Egypt.


29 posted on 10/08/2011 6:28:46 PM PDT by x_plus_one (Obama: Brainwashing the masses to believe that racism is a greater danger than radical Islam)
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To: 6SJ7

If they are going to storm a museum, why a government funded one. Why not storm the Phillips? Privately funded by evil capitalists! Carots everywhere! Think of the damage they could do.


30 posted on 10/08/2011 6:28:49 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Hunton Peck

Idiots.


31 posted on 10/08/2011 6:30:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The world is watching for the same reason I am watching this mosquito buzzing around me right now: not because I have any care for it, but because it is good at pestering me.


32 posted on 10/08/2011 6:31:52 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: ladyjane

I think we’re working up to a plan of destroying symbols of American exceptionalism and the Air and Space museum certainly contains them.


33 posted on 10/08/2011 6:32:27 PM PDT by cripplecreek (ALCS/NLCS playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2789907/posts)
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To: Hunton Peck

COMMIE BASTARDS


34 posted on 10/08/2011 6:35:09 PM PDT by onyx (You're here on FR so, support it! Compiling New Sarah Palin Ping List! Tell me if you want on it!)
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35 posted on 10/08/2011 6:35:44 PM PDT by onyx (You're here on FR so, support it! Compiling New Sarah Palin Ping List! Tell me if you want on it!)
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To: All
I wonder why those commie punks didn't try to storm the Capitol building? It's not very far from the Air & Space museum. Oh, that's right, their favorite Democrats are working there.

I guess next they'll try for the Archives Building and try to tear up the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. How about the Smithsonian Natural History Museum? I mean didn't white, capitalist America steal all of those artifacts from some poor oppressed indigenous people somewhere on earth?

If these clowns were for real all they have to do is march about mile or two down the National Mall and they'd find the source of their frustration living in a building called the White House (now known as the White Hut.)

36 posted on 10/08/2011 6:39:16 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: txroadkill

What is at/under this museum? That would attract them?


37 posted on 10/08/2011 6:41:20 PM PDT by txhurl (Did you want to talk or fish? Or feed the fish?)
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To: Hunton Peck

The occupy “insert location here” crowd are the angry, bolshevik mobs of current day America. They sense trouble, and in their troubled state they are being steered by outside forces to advance the outsider’s agenda.


38 posted on 10/08/2011 6:42:21 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: buccaneer81; doc1019; mongo141
I have to correct myself here - my memory ain't quite as tack-sharp as it used to be. It was NASA HQ I was assigned to, not Air & Space. The brain cells are going gray along with the hair. LOL I was transferred there after two years packing heat at DOJ. Went plain-clothes (unarmed) and worked another three in internal security at the Five-Sided Rathole after that. Got sick of the whole damned business after a fashion and went into IT in the late 90's.

Regardless, I'd have still pumped a lead enema up a few keisters.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

39 posted on 10/08/2011 6:42:36 PM PDT by Viking2002 (RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!)
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To: Hunton Peck

Racists! They disagreed with the black security guards!!


40 posted on 10/08/2011 6:45:49 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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