Posted on 11/12/2011 9:35:55 AM PST by libstripper
City leaders across the U.S. felt increasing pressure Friday to shut down Occupy protest encampments after two men died in shootings and two others were found dead inside their tents this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
City Council President Larry Reid said outside City Hall that the shooting was further proof the tents must come down. He was confronted by a protester who said he wouldn't be in office much longer.
"You didn't elect me," Reid snapped back. "You probably ain't even registered to vote!"
Reid said the encampment has been a major setback for the area while attracting sex offenders, mentally ill and homeless people, and anarchists.
"This is no longer about Occupy Wall Street," he said. "This is about occupying Oakland and extracting whatever you can get out of Oakland by holding our city hostage.
Reid, by the way, is Afro-American.
why shut it down? I am finally beginning to see results.
It’s called culling the herd.
shut em down? heck i’d fence them in!
lol
They need to be quarantined.
Good idea. It would be like Sheriff Joe's tent city.
Self correcting problem bump.
Shut it down? Hell no.
Let them consume themselves.
Given their behavior so far, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them start sneaking bodies out to dump them elsewhere. Hell they don’t want to report rape.
and the herd is doing all of the work for us.
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Since the MSM likes to compare the Occupy Wall Street crowd to the Tea Party...........
Can we compare how many shootings have happened at Tea Party events vs. Occupy Wall Street?
How many sexual assaults?
How many drug deals gone bad?
How much violence in general?
How many Tea Party protests involved vandalism against enemies, real and imagined, destroying business property of people such as small business owners?
Yet the Tea Party is allegedly violent and racist................
Time for the cattle prods and Tazers.
do a search on Freep; evidently ben smith of politico wrote an article yesterday that “Occupy is Winning”- hysterical...
indeed
(”There will be a variety of tactics used,” said organizer Adriane DeJerk, 26. “No social movement has ever been successful while being completely peaceful.”)
I suppose it depends on what you call a “social movement.” The Industrial Revolution? The many American mass migrations to settle new territory? If by social movement “De-jerk” means socialism, then, she’s correct. Nobody worth their salt would give into another French Revolution with a guillotine for all us “rich” folks. The kind of chaos these people want should be resisted with whatever violence they insist on using. If they throw firebombs, the police are justified in shooting back. There should be no ridiculous “courageous restraint” exercised so police are permanently scared or killed while the protesters go on to be honored, tenured professors of English at some major university.
“There will be a variety of tactics used,” said organizer Adriane DeJerk, 26. “No social movement has ever been successful while being completely peaceful.”
Adriane’s surname is most appropriate.
I heard they’re not recycling, either.
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