Posted on 11/06/2011 12:16:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It was inevitable that the “F*** the Police” generation would grow into a meaner version of the left that has long called police officers “pigs” and worse. Despite its union support, the Occupy Wall Street crowd has taken police hate and confrontation to a level seldom seen outside of organized crime.
Gone are the days of goofy liberal protests where police officers stand idly by watching the street theater. The Occupiers have escalated their levels of abuse, confrontation, intimidation, harassment and threats – all so they can score good video clips to boost their movement. Even an awful incident like the Scott Olsen injury is viewed as a “win” by many in the movement. They got it on video, after all.
Meanwhile, in Occupying events around the United States, police are mocked, screamed at, spat upon, confronted, pushed, knocked off motorcycles and loads more. New York confrontations resulted in hundreds of protesters arrested. While Occupiers attacked Oakland police with everything from “eggs” and “paint” to “feces” and “M-80” firecrackers, the bigger threat is a new tactic called “doxing.” It’s part of the culture that comes from hacker group Anonymous, which is one of the major organizers of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Doxing is a hacker tactic designed to dig up the public, and often not-so-public, information on an individual. “The time has come to retaliate against Oakland police via all non-violent means, beginning with doxing (releasing of documents and data) of individual officers and particularly higher-ups involved in the department's conduct of late,” reported CNET on an Occupy Wall Street statement.
The same strategy was used on New York policeman Anthony Bologna, who famously pepper sprayed Occupy Wall Street protesters....
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The authorities are very afraid of the occupy movement. They just never expected the resolved of the leaders.
Just remember, the ultimate targets of OWS are you and I.
a few bikers based in oakland could sweep these asshats off the streets
of course, the oakland cops should realize that the 0bamaville inhabitants in oakland are commie radicals that need to be put down
meanwhile, no congress critter has called for an investigation into the funding behind these seditious groups
congress should be held liable for allowing it to escalate.
hell, keeping these kind of idiots under control is actually one of the few jobs of congress
Orwellian 'unperson' tactics. As a youth, we'd challenge anything that smacked of the intrusiveness described in "1984"; as a grandparent, we see our youth embracing it?? Strange times indeed.
I though he was serious until I got to that part. But be careful what you wish for. They might just make it a crime to film police or take down an officer's name.
After watching the video, I'm having a hard time working up any sympathy for Anthony Bologna. He violated the NYPD's own pepper spray use policy,* and wearing a white shirt, he should know better.
The women he sprayed were already under physical control, having been surrounded by police officers holding a barricade, and were not resisting, fleeing, or attempting to assault anyone. People may well quip that they were emotionally disturbed, sure, but they were already under physical control.
I'll bet the cops who were managing the situation perfectly well and who caught the backdraft from Bologna's pepper spray temper tantrum would say the same thing if their jobs didn't hinge on keeping their mouths shut.
We need calm, rational, and patient people as police officers, not a gang of hot-tempered thugs and bullies prone to fly off the handle at the slightest provocation.
*Pepper spray may be used when a police officer “reasonably believes” that it is necessary to: 1) protect himself, or another from unlawful use of force (e.g., assault); 2) effect an arrest, or establish physical control of a subject resisting arrest; 3) establish physical control of a subject attempting to flee from arrest or custody; 4) establish physical control of an emotionally disturbed person (EDP); and 5) control a dangerous animal by deterring an attack, to prevent injury to persons or animals present.
I suppose you're right, but when the OWSP act provocatively, I think they deserve to get the snot beat out of them. A lot of these folks are just spoiled overgrown brats who need the kind of lesson they can only absorb physically.
An Open Letter to the Citizens of Oakland from the Oakland Police Officers’ Association
I think it’s time for Sheriff Joe Arpaio to step in and take over NY’s OWS.
What they deserve, and how we must demand the police behave in the face of provocation, are two entirely separate things.
Wild, out-of-control police officers can beat the snot out of limited-government demonstrators just as easily as anti-American demonstrators. Just start talking about cutting their lavish pensions, and see what they do, and see what they turn a blind eye to.
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