Posted on 10/11/2011 4:23:28 AM PDT by AU72
That's like the temperance movement looking to get wasted.
I have my doubts that these spoiled protesters are going to stay through the winter, because in the northeast, winters tend to get harsh and only the truly hardy ones will stay, if at that. The only other possible situation is that the police and everyday folks who go about their lives simply demand that they leave and there could be a massive throwing out of the protesters, period.
This could get ugly.
This police action almost sounds like an implementation of the Colin Powell doctrine: overwhelming force, clear goal, quick exit.
You are sure about that?
It could also dwindle down to a hard kernel of real winter survival types with good tents and bags. But they would be pretty irrelevent, except for an occasional news mention, “There’re still here.”
I picture riot police first backed by horse police then an army of sanitation workers and dump trucks. Literally pick up the entire protest and dump it in the trash as you go.
This will at least wash them down if ie doesn’t clean them out: http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/56151/drenching-rain-to-return-to-no.asp
The same “Hybrid Howler” that slammed Florida over the weekend with high winds and heavy rain will drench the Northeast spanning late tonight into Thursday.
The return of the rain in the Northeast will affect outdoor plans, commutes and agriculture.
Over this past weekend, a storm with some tropical cyclone characteristics including torrential rain, damaging winds and storm surge, combined with warm and humid conditions affected Florida.
The storm will roll slowly but steadily northward along the Atlantic Seaboard and Appalachians through much of the balance of the week.
By the time it reaches the Northeast, it will still have some of the rain but will lack most of the other damaging qualities that some people in Florida got to know so well.
A modest form of nation rebuilding.
Well this is the begining of the end of the really nice weather, with more of the rainy weather coming, then down the road the snowy weather of winter. When that happens, look for these protests to wind down and end.
That is what is going to most likely happen.
He said a single shot against a U.S. law enforcement officer is "one too many."
"We are going to use overwhelming force. We're going to use tactics ... You shoot a law enforcement officer, you're going to get return fire," he said.
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I would have brought in a few fire trucks to water down the crowd first. Nothing better to dampen the spirits than soaking wet hippies, soaking wet tents, soaking wet food supplies and soaking wet sleeping bags..........and mud, lots and lots of mud.
Just watch, we’ll have to pay for their frostbite and hypothermia medical treatment.
BTW I heard on the radio this AM that there are “Occupy New Haven” and “Occupy New London” groups that are starting up. I wondered how people would distinguish them from the usual homeless bums hanging out. The content of the signs I guess.
I have to agree. I don’t think much of these peoply, but silencing them is a nasty can of worms to open. Unless they get violent, this should be allowed to play out. Otherwise we open the door to squashing our own freedom of assembly rights.
Nice to compare these xlowns behavior with the teach party though.
“Tossing their personal belongings seems like an illegal seizure.”
Nope. The 4th Amendment applies to searches and seizures of property and arrests of persons. A search incident to a lawful arrest allows for a lawful seizure of items that are “immediately apparent” that the evidence is incriminating. Here, their personal belongings were in the park after hours making them incriminating during a lawful arrest. Officers can legally seize anything within the arrestee’s “wingspan” or “grab area” as a means of performing a safety sweep (to protect officers from unknown weapons). Officers could also rely on the Plain View Doctrine.
(Can you tell someone is getting ready for her Criminal Procedure final in law school?) Muhahahaha..........
Massachusetts is a long way from Texas. This is striking in MA.
Yes, I agree!!! Good for them...not acting too PC, are they.
Apparently, a drive-by spraying of the stuff one night broke up a shanty-town style protest on the UVM campus one night during the Bush43 years.
Come to think of it, I remember a Reagan-era Dartmouth shanty-town demolishing by parties offended by the campus eyesore.
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