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Occupy Oakland in flames: Cops use tear gas and protesters are run over on violent night..
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 3 Nov 2011 | Hannah Roberts and Mark Duell

Posted on 11/03/2011 7:46:52 AM PDT by smokingfrog

Occupy Oakland protesters claimed victory after they shut down one of the nation's busiest shipping ports - escalating a movement whose tactics had largely been limited to marches, rallies and camps.

In a five-hour stand-off protesters vandalised businesses and smashed bank windows, as they tried to shut down the city - and police appeared to respond using tear gas and flash bang grenades.

The California demonstrators blocked operations at the city's port and stopped traffic on Wednesday in protests against economic inequality and police brutality, marred by scattered vandalism.

Police in riot gear arrested dozens of protesters who had marched through downtown to break into a vacant building, shattering windows, spraying graffiti and setting fires along the way.

‘We go from having a peaceful movement to now just chaos,’ protester Monique Agnew, 40, said.

Around 3,000 people converged on the Port of Oakland, the nation's fifth-busiest harbour, swarming the area and blocking exits and streets with illegally parked vehicles and chain-link fences.

Port officials said they had to cease maritime operations, citing concerns for workers' safety - but hope to resume operations on Thursday and that their workers can get to their jobs safely.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 0bamanation; 0bamasfault; 99percenters; anarchists; anticapitalists; communists; marxists; oakland; obamanation; obamasfault; occupyoakland; ows; owsoakland; thugs; vandals
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1 posted on 11/03/2011 7:46:53 AM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Obama’s base.


2 posted on 11/03/2011 7:48:57 AM PDT by petercooper (2012 - Purge more RINO's.)
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To: smokingfrog

Yet Quinnipiac reports that public support for OWS is no lower than for the Tea Party...


3 posted on 11/03/2011 7:49:54 AM PDT by pabianice (")
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To: smokingfrog

I wonder if we’ll see similar accounts documented in U.S. newspapers.


4 posted on 11/03/2011 7:50:58 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: smokingfrog

This is not going to end well and it will all be on Obama, Pelosi and every Dem mayor who did nothing or, as this moron in Oakland, encouraged the protestors and enabled them. People are going to die.


5 posted on 11/03/2011 7:51:30 AM PDT by xkaydet65 (IACTA ALEA EST!!!')
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To: smokingfrog

Note this report is from a Brit newspaper. The US Rancid Media won’t cover it if it harms Dem supporters.


6 posted on 11/03/2011 7:51:36 AM PDT by pabianice (")
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To: smokingfrog

7 posted on 11/03/2011 7:51:39 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: smokingfrog

Time to bring out the water cannon and rubber bullets and disperse this rabble!


8 posted on 11/03/2011 7:53:23 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: smokingfrog

Violent Night
Unholy Night
Hippies Shake
With Mortal Fright

Not One Virgin
Here to be found
Rats and poo lying
All around

Sleep in pungent grease
Sleep in pungent grease


9 posted on 11/03/2011 7:53:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: smokingfrog

the riots will continue next summer.

the republican nominee should run ads associating comrade obama with the protests.


10 posted on 11/03/2011 7:53:35 AM PDT by ken21
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To: smokingfrog

Oh we long for the days of peaceful, orderly, respectful, clean, oderless gatherings of the TEA Party people. What you’re watching with the “occupiers” is the current state of the Democratic Progressive Party. Scary, isn’t it?


11 posted on 11/03/2011 7:53:48 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: smokingfrog
From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party's] 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
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"The RCP [Revolutionary Communist Party] upheld the 1992 sometimes-violent unrest in Los Angeles and nationally as a 'rebellion' in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdicts. Then-LAPD chief Daryl Gates alleged that the RCP was involved in the 'riots'. Los Angeles has long been one of the RCP's larger and more active branches. William 'Mobile' Shaw was a local leader who recently passed and received public commendation from the party."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party%2C_USA
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"I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion."--Maxine Waters

12 posted on 11/03/2011 7:53:50 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: smokingfrog

Holder’s ‘people’.


13 posted on 11/03/2011 7:54:22 AM PDT by WayneS (Comments now include 25 percent more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: smokingfrog
The RCP calls for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government...

From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
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REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845

14 posted on 11/03/2011 7:54:42 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: smokingfrog
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Maxine Waters on the Los Angeles riots of 1992 (Rodney King riots):

"[Maxine] Waters has been criticized for her comments regarding the Los Angeles riots of 1992. In defense of the people that looted stores and damaged property, Waters said 'If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.'[5] She also said it was 'a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice' and 'The anger in my district is righteous. I'm just as angry as they are.' She responded to the mass looting of Korean-owned stores by saying: 'There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes. They are not crooks. Everybody in the street was not a thug or a hood.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Waters#Los_Angeles_riots_of_1992

15 posted on 11/03/2011 7:55:21 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: GreenHornet
Full Coverage in The Boston Globe
16 posted on 11/03/2011 7:55:37 AM PDT by pabianice (")
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To: smokingfrog
Re: Occupy Wall Street, 2011

He [NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly] said that following Wednesday's [Oct 12, 2011] 10,000-strong union march, a much smaller group tried to storm police barricades at Wall Street and Broadway.

"They locked their arms. They counted down - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. Then they decided to charge the police. That is going to be met with some physical force," Kelly said.

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Re: Kent State, 1969

"the purpose of all this agitation at Kent State was to recruit as much cannon fodder as possible, and then to provoke a "major confrontation." When it came, it would be neither accidental nor spontaneous. It would be exactly what the revolutionaries wanted.

On April 8, 1969, S.D.S. toughs marched through various campus buildings, disrupting classes as planned, chanting "Ho, Ho, Ho chi Minh," and striking campus police officers. One of these hoodlums pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of assault and battery, and drew a fine and jail sentence. The university scheduled a disciplinary hearing for two others on April sixteenth, at which time about one hundred revolutionaries smashed into the Music and Speech building where the hearing was being held, destroyed property, and again attacked police officers. Of the fifty-eight demonstrators arrested, ten were not even students at the school. At the rally preceding the march on the disciplinary hearing, non-student Jim Mellen told the audience as follows: "We're no longer asking you to come and help us make a revolution. We're telling you that the revolution has begun, and the only choice you have to make is which side you're on. And we're also telling you that if you get in the way of the revolution, it's going to run right over you." Mr. Mellen's remarks were included in a liberally distributed S.D.S. pamphlet, which began with a quotation from Mao Tse-tung and the following warning: "The war is on at Kent State University ...."

At a meeting in Williams Hall on April 28, 1969, revolutionary Communist Bernardine Dohrn said that people fighting "oppression" would have to carry weapons for "self defense." On May sixth, at another campus rally, Joyce Cecora called for armed rebellion: "They used guns at Cornell and they got what they wanted. It will come to that here!" And at still another rally on campus on May twenty-second, S.D.S. member Rick Skirvin said this: "We'll start blowing up buildings, we'll start buying guns, we'll do anything to bring this motherf***er down."

Michener quotes a student named Ken Tennant as follows: "With me it goes back to the music festival they held at Fred Fuller Park in September, 1969. Four Weathermen came down from Chicago, with insignia on their bib overalls. They were selling their organization newspaper, and I said, 'I'll buy a copy if you'll tell me what your outfit stands for.' They said, 'We're going to destroy this corrupt American society and build a better.' I asked how, and they explained, 'We've decided to close down schools all over the nation. We're going to start in Chicago. But we have our eye on Kent State, too. It could be ripe.' "

Bear in mind that we have room here to cite only a few examples of the inflammatory agitation and propaganda on the campus at Kent State for almost two years. The evidence establishes—in the words of the revolutionaries—that the goal of S.D.S. was to provoke a violent confrontation in which somebody would be hurt, or even worse.

And the most incredible such example took place on April 10, 1970, when Jerry Rubin spoke on the campus at Kent State. Jerry Rubin is a Communist, of course. We can be absolutely sure of that because he has said so repeatedly. In fact he said he was a Communist when your reporter asked him about it at the Democrat National Convention in Miami in 1972. At that Convention Rubin also said that, when he and his Comrades take over, your reporter will be gassed. At Kent State, Communist Jerry Rubin said this: "The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. And I mean that quite literally, because until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not ready to change this country. Our parents are our first oppressors."

Your first reaction on reading a thing like this, of course, is that maybe I have taken it out of context. You refuse to believe that anybody would say this. But Rubin really told the students what you just read. It is important to remember that, at the time, Jerry Rubin was a convicted criminal—he had been convicted for leading the turmoil at the 1968 Democrat National Convention in Chicago, where terrorists attacked the police—which raises the question of how such a man could be permitted to address students on a university campus in Ohio.**

Rubin also told the Kent State students to burn down the suburbs. "The American school system will be ended in two years," he explained. "We are going to bring it down. Quit being students. Become criminals. We have to disrupt every institution and break every law. We should have more laws so we can break them, too. Everybody should have their own law to break." As for the campus itself, Comrade Rubin told the students to ignore their professors, and to "burn all the books. It's quiet here now but things are going to start again."

The campus was now ready. Almost two years of intensive Communist propaganda had their effect. A sufficient number of students was willing to serve as cannon fodder for the revolutionary "cause." The Communists needed only an excuse to provoke their "major confrontation." Three weeks later they got their excuse.

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"...it is important to quote at length from the state grand jury report on the affair: "Fifty-eight Guardsmen were injured by rocks and other objects hurled at them as they moved across the 'Commons' to Taylor Hall Hill and down to the practice football field, and were then forced to retreat .... it is clear that from the time the Guard reached the practice football field, they were on the defensive and had every reason to be concerned for their own welfare .... The circumstances present at that time indicate that 74 men surrounded by several hundred hostile rioters were forced to retreat back up the hill toward Taylor Hall under a constant barrage of rocks and other flying objects, accompanied by a constant flow of obscenities and chants such as 'Kill, Kill, Kill.' Photographic evidence has established, beyond any doubt, that as the National Guardsmen approached the top of the hill adjacent to Taylor Hall, a large segment of the crowd surged up the hill, led by smaller groups of agitators approaching to within short distances of the rear ranks of the Guardsmen.

"The testimony of the students and Guardsmen is clear that several members of the Guard were knocked to the ground or to their knees by the force of the objects thrown at them. ..."

MUCH MORE AT LINK:

http://25thaviation.org/facts/id960.htm

17 posted on 11/03/2011 7:56:27 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: smokingfrog

A few people have tried that Occupy garbage here, the police just arrested them.


18 posted on 11/03/2011 7:57:05 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Great words.

It saddens me to associate them with a wonderful melody.


19 posted on 11/03/2011 8:00:22 AM PDT by Da Coyote (Politics is proof of God. He created a position for those without any abilities whatsoever.)
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To: smokingfrog

Most disappointing is that Republicans are not jumping on this IMMEDIATELY. It’s an easy case to make, linking Obama directly to the violence, given (1) his inflammatory class warfare rhetoric over the last couple years and (2) his words of support for the Occupy movement.

Remember what the communists did with the Gabby Giffords incident? Linked it to the tea party, with no basis in fact. Here we have a real link to Obama, but I doubt the scared Republicans will take the opportunity. They have no killer instinct and no will to win.


20 posted on 11/03/2011 8:00:48 AM PDT by crusader71
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