Obama's Army.
Posted on 11/03/2011 2:23:06 AM PDT by markomalley
Anti-Wall Street protesters in two West Coast cities were subdued with tear gas and pepper spray after they shut down a California port and disrupted rush-hour traffic in Seattle, authorities said.
Oakland police fired tear gas on "several hundred people" throwing rocks and shooting fireworks at officers after demonstrators were asked to disperse early Thursday, a California police official said.
The violence came after protesters in the city appeared to carry out a successful strike of downtown businesses Wednesday as merchants and retailers shuttered their doors in what was a largely peaceful protest.
The protesters also disrupted business at the Port of Oakland, authorities said.
"Maritime operations remain effectively shut down, and the Port has been taking steps to help workers in the harbor area get home safely," the port said in a statement late Wednesday "Maritime operations will not resume until it is safe and secure to do so."
Port officials hope to resume business Thursday.
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Aren’t there laws about interferring with commerce in such a way as this has ultimately played out?
I understand the protesters were called rioters...and from videos of them breaking windows, setting fires, etc. it would appear this is so.
Further though they claim to “police” their turfs, this does not at all seem to be the case...more that crime is happening among them and a “pact” that no one squeals to the police. Bad place for any to be involved with.
There should be a pay to play fee for this movement to offset the costs of damage to public property and the police.
Enforce the RICO Act! Thanks markomalley.
One of these people had already been hit by a car.
We have people here that are too damned stupid to understand the consequences of blocking a busy street.
They have to be protected from themselves.
Point this out on every MSM venue.
More Alinsky tactics from Americas most dangerous enemies.
They will keep escalating to try and get their unwitting martyrs.
The first ammendment reads in part "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".
I don't see where establishing a homeless village in a private park to complaining about amorphous Wall Street villians has any coverage at all in the first ammendment. Surely the California & Seattle actions can't be considered as a peaceable assembly either.
As far as abridging their freedom of speech, when their speech and actions result in abridging others right to commerce, health and safety, its time to take action.
“Oakland police fired tear gas on “several hundred people” throwing rocks and shooting fireworks at officers after demonstrators were asked to disperse early Thursday, a California police official said.
The violence came after protesters in the city appeared to carry out a successful strike of downtown businesses Wednesday as merchants and retailers shuttered their doors in what was a largely peaceful protest.”
I think that in the same light CNN describes the “largely peaceful protest” one could describe the Nazi Brown Shirts as “peaceful community activists”. What propaganda the left spews to support their evil.
Oakland police fired tear gas on "several hundred people" throwing rocks and shooting fireworks at officers after demonstrators were asked to disperse early Thursday, a California police official said.
Ha-ha!
an aside: A couple days ago I was talking with the wife about this occupy nonsense, and Oakland, and how crappy its become, she was literally shocked. She actually thought Oakland was "nice". I looked at her and said, "Oakland is a sh_t-hole. The "nicest" thing about Oakland now is, the Hells Angels.
I only used them as a reference as back in my yute I used to ride with a (cough-outlaw) Bike Club. She knows how ... uh .... 'rowdy' Bikers can be at times due to a certain New Years Eve Party at another MC's Clubhouse we were at and things got 'a bit out of hand'. (no ambulances were required)
(I meant no slam or offense against the Hells Angels, and never would. Oakland just sucks, that's all.)
RICO anyone?
OWS is an organization acting in many states.
If only we had a DOJ interested in keeping the peace and not inciting rioters.
“I don’t see where establishing a homeless village in a private park to complaining about amorphous Wall Street villians has any coverage at all in the first ammendment.”
Well, there’s a whole lot of Supreme Court opinions on whether “No Law” means that anyone, in the name of free speech, can do anything, anywhere, anytime. The short answer is no, they can’t. The most famous is where Justice Holmes observed that there is no right to cry “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
In my view it is better to turn the question around. Instead of asking “does the First Amendment give people the right” to do whatever, ask “Can the Government restrict” whatever, within the bounds of the First Amendment. The answer in regard to camping out is “Yes.” In fact there is a Supreme Court case that says this, specifically about “camping out” in a public park.
468 U.S. 288
Clark v. Community for Creative Nonviolence
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
No. 82-1998 Argued: March 21, 1984 -— Decided: June 29, 1984
I note, by the way, that there is a huge overlap between the people who claim that the First Amendment authorizes them to disrupt traffic, commerce, and ordinary peoples’ lives by marching in the street and the ones who want the help of government to restrict the HIGHEST form of free speech, that is, actual spoken or written words.
So many of these people make unsupported claims on the First Ammenment....this is what you get when schools no longer teach what our country is based on and how it got here...bunch of mindless insanity running the streets crying for attention under any banner.
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