Topic: Occupy Oakland "organized into" riot

[Pandora]

Whole Foods, Banks targeted

Rioters bused to port/Teamsters in the house

More Occupy Oakland pics

Okay.  Waiting to see if this catches on across the country.

[ToddF]

California, check
Sh*thole inner city, check
Leftist mayor, check
Giving in to the demands of trash, check

With a setup like this, what could possible go wrong? 

[Libertas]

B-b-b-b-butthe Tea Partiers are the real threat to America!  Not these innocents trashing sh*t!

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[Sectionhand]

I wonder why it is that shutting down the Port of Oakland doesn't seem to bother DHS or the Commerce Dept . Oh ... I forgot . The protestors are Stymie's Army .

[IronDioPriest]

I am not surprised, but I still have a sense of incredulity. Not so much at the protesters, but at the media and the Democrats. After all the hand-wringing, baseless accusations,  and slander that went on for three years over the Tea Parties, I don't know how so many people can wake up in the morning and look at themselves in the mirror, believing that their utter lack of intellectual honesty is the right thing to do. How can they possibly look at the Tea Parties and say what they said, and look at this debacle and treat it with legitimacy? My conscience would never allow it. Does half our population really possess no conscience?

[Pandora]

I am not surprised, but I still have a sense of incredulity. Not so much at the protesters, but at the media and the Democrats. After all the hand-wringing, baseless accusations,  and slander that went on for three years over the Tea Parties, I don't know how so many people can wake up in the morning and look at themselves in the mirror, believing that their utter lack of intellectual honesty is the right thing to do. How can they possibly look at the Tea Parties and say what they said, and look at this debacle and treat it with legitimacy? My conscience would never allow it. Does half our population really possess no conscience?

Almost half; mostly.

[Sectionhand]

I am not surprised, but I still have a sense of incredulity. Not so much at the protesters, but at the media and the Democrats. After all the hand-wringing, baseless accusations,  and slander that went on for three years over the Tea Parties, I don't know how so many people can wake up in the morning and look at themselves in the mirror, believing that their utter lack of intellectual honesty is the right thing to do. How can they possibly look at the Tea Parties and say what they said, and look at this debacle and treat it with legitimacy? My conscience would never allow it. Does half our population really possess no conscience?

When you don't have a brain it's impossible to have a conscience .

[BMG]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/03/BACM1LQ5FU.DTL&tsp=1

City Administrator Deanna Santana apologized to business owners for the "chaotic events" that enveloped the city. Mayor Jean Quan called the rioters "a small and isolated group."

"It shouldn't mar the overall impact of the demonstration and the fact that people in the 99 percent movement demonstrated peacefully and, for the most part, were productive and very peaceful," Quan said.

Tagami disagreed, calling the Occupy Oakland encampment "basically concealment and cover for anarchists who are doing this to our city."

"We're very concerned that a group of people can be allowed to do this type of destruction to our town and to our image without any repercussions," Tagami said. "They need to be held accountable." He rejected assertions that the anarchists were a small minority, saying, "No, you can't have it both ways."

Tagami added, "I support a peaceful protest. But it was a siege situation last night, and quite frankly, I'm glad we were here. But I never want to have to do that again."

Other businesses that professed support for Occupy Oakland's general strike didn't escape the damage. Windows at the Men's Wearhouse, which closed Wednesday and put up signs of support, were shattered.

[Libertas]

Screw apologies by enabling political hacks!

 

Businesses should sue these cities and expedite their collapse!  See how they like legions of pissed off people calling for their heads!

[BMG]

Businesses should sue these cities and expedite their collapse!

I agree. It can be shown that the protests were supported and encouraged by the government. I think that the business community could have a legitimate claim here...to sue the government for their lost revenue as a direct result of the government supporting the protesters.

[jpatrickham]

'Largely Peaceful March' in Oakland? Times Again Downplays Occupy's Destruction
 
By: Clay Waters
 
November 04, 2011 13:06 ET

"Yesterday Times Watch asked how prominently the New York Times would play the undeniable violence, property damage, and arrests that took place during the Occupy Oakland protests on Wednesday night. The answer: On the front of the National section, page A15.  Reporter Maria Wollan got in some of the destructive details from the protests, but still tried to emphasize the “peaceful march” that proceeded the violent part and to separate the ordinary Occupy Oakland protesters from the "fringe group" responsible for violence.



In “Oakland Police Clash With Fringe Protesters" (itself a forgiving headline), reporter Maria Wollan treated the left-wing and anarchist rioters much more respectfully than she did a clever, peaceful conservative protest against affirmative action on the left-wing University of California at Berkeley, in a hostile September 27 article.



Protesters and city officials here took a deep breath and tried to calm the waters Thursday after a night of vandalism and tear gas disrupted an orderly day of anti-Wall Street marches. But tensions remained high, both between demonstrators and the police and between Occupy Oakland protesters and a belligerent fringe group that seemed intent on clashing with law enforcement and destroying property.

More than 100 people were arrested in the melee, and the injured included both protesters and police officers.

After an afternoon of picketing banks, a crowd that city officials estimated as at least 7,000 strong descended on the city’s waterfront Wednesday evening, temporarily closing one of the busiest ports in the country. Port officials reported no injuries or property damage, and the port was reopened Thursday morning.

....

Conflicts within the protest movement were evident throughout the night as people on the street argued and screamed at one another, encounters that on several occasions nearly came to blows. Some members of the group that had closed the port reprimanded those who smashed windows, threw rocks, ignited a 15-foot-high bonfire of garbage and covered downtown storefronts with graffiti."

http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111104010616.aspx

 

[Pandora]

Yep.  "Mostly peaceful"; the talking point of the left.  Leftists on my local forum here are citing them, chapter and verse -- "mostly peaceful"/"a few outliers" **eta, oh yeah, this one too; "movement hijacked by a few anarchists"** -- conveniently ignoring what they were saying about the TEA Partiers earlier this year.

 

[charlesoakwood]

Wells Fargo to City of Oakland: You know how much
I pay in taxes.  WTF am I paying you taxes?  Do you
expect me to continue to pay taxes?

I'd run a full page add with pictures of my store with
a statement including how much I paid in taxes asking
the public, when it comes to your house is this what
you pay taxes for?