Posted on 01/26/2012 9:37:49 AM PST by Domandred
BOISE -- With a bill aimed at getting rid of the Occupy Boise encampment making its way through the Idaho Legislature, new pictures of people identified as Occupy members may not do much to help their cause.
The pictures don't reveal any crimes, rather the Department of Administration says they are violations of the good neighbor policy, meaning it shows Occupy members taking things and using things they shouldn't.
Since Occupy Boise set up camp in early November, the Director of the Department of Administration, Teresa Luna, says they have dealt with vandalism, violence, trespassing and theft.
Earlier this month, police arrested self-identified occupier, Arthur Stark, claiming he spray-painted the words, "I'm not a terrorist" on a federal building in Boise.
Then there are pictures obtained today by KTVB that show what the department says is a member of the Occupy encampment taking toilet paper from the Statehouse. One security guard we spoke to said they are missing toilet paper from all the floors of the Statehouse.
Luna also says one of her employees found an occupier walking around the basement of the LBJ building wearing nothing but a towel.
And a security guard says employees have caught occupiers showering, despite signs saying they are for employees only.
"It's hard to get anybody to take responsibility for the actions of the group, and what we get is we don't condone that type of behavior, but that is the type of behavior we are seeing since the encampment has started," said Luna.
Paul Johnson says he's been a part of the camp since it started in November and says he knows most, if not all, of the regulars. And he says the man in the security picture is not an active participant in the movement.
"We're out here in the open here, we live in a glass house. Anyone can come by, anyone can go to the showers at LBJ and claim that they're with Occupy and that's why they need it," said Johnson.
Since this is a loosely organized group of people Johnson says that anyone can show up and participate in what they are doing. He says people that are violating the good neighbor policy are doing so on their own and not a part of the group.
Yea guess not. Even in Boise Idaho Occupy are cretin rejects.
All the “occupy” bums are just that. Shiftless, irresponsible bums. Either old enough to know better, or too dumb to care.
Send ‘em out to the Birds of Prey area and let the hawks eat them.
How convenient...
Be aware that regardless of your beliefs or politics that efforts by our so-called authorities (who claim to work for us because we pay them) to ban peaceful protests in an effort to enhance their own authority is strike against every American. It weakens our Bill of Rights and it will come back to bite each and everyone of us when we see a need, and want our chance to protest.
I go with Oath Keepers on this. You think the Federal Reserve works in your interest?
They use that excuse for every one of the 4000+ arrests.
“No NO...he’s not with US”
They use that excuse for every one of the 4000+ arrests.
“No NO...he’s not with US”
When and where as I am so there!
Nonsense. No one is banning peaceful protests. You don't have the right to live in a park, vandalize property - state or otherwise, and make a 24/7 public nuisance of yourself. You think these big city mayors in Portland, Oakland, etc, wouldn't have been thrilled to let the occutards break park rules and live their peacefully? The reason even they had to kick them out was because they couldn't allow a bunch of filthy vandals and druggies to coordinate mischief and anarchy from public parks.
Since you responded first, you get the cigar, ale and single malt concession.
I’ve become a cynic about some of this stuff and a believer that we the people of the USA are easily manipulated like puppets on a string. Wasn’t the original basis for the Tea Party, as well as these protests, about the power and actions of the Federal Reserve, and how they keep us in the dark while giving our money away to their cronies at home and abroad?
When one has the money and power of the Federal Reserve behind them, I have no doubt that they can create their own versions of reality, and public opinion that can turn Mother Teresa into the Genghis Khan.
You don’t think it is possible to buy outlaw protesters who will do illegal and outlandish stuff thus turning off public opinion? The only thing I’m sure of in today’s PR world is that reality and public opinion have become a manipulable science and can represent either truth or fiction. Just because paid pundits or politicians or Parties say something I don’t automatically agree.
Umm, some of that was part of what the Tea Party was railing about. The occutards? Not so much. Occupywallstreet has NOTHING whatsoever in common with the Tea Party. The Tea Party is about LESS government, less spending, more rights for the states to determine their own paths. Occupy represents the complete opposite. Occupy represents MORE government, MORE taxation, MORE regulation, MORE federal government intrusion. There is simply no real similarities between the two. The Tea Party managed to demonstrate peacefully, legally, without making everything they touched a festering trash heap - AND managed real political accomplishments. Occupywallstreet is about nothing more than changing the subject. Hussein, the Democrats and left in general DO NOT want to talk about debt or government failure. They know if that is the debate in 2012 they will lose. In comes the occutards to change the debate.
You do not have a right to live in parks. That is not part of your right to assembly and speech. The occutards are nothing but aging hippies, deluded hipsters and assorted leftist agitators looking to change the subject from debt to income disparity. There is no constitutional right to turn a public park into a cesspool and call it a protest. When that becomes a right, please let me know. I will go build a vacation home on some beachfront park of my choice and call it a occupod.
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