Radical Far Left Mob Arrested in St. Louis During Street Protest (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, August 15, 2011, 6:39 PM
Police arrested over a dozen far left protesters today after they blocked traffic by staging a sit-in protest on Market Street. The protesters want companies to redistribute wealth.
KMOV reported:
Traffic on Market Street is back to normal in downtown St. Louis, this after dozens of protesters took to the streets speaking out against alleged corporate greed.
The protest started around 1 p.m. at the intersection of 8th and Market, just outside the Peabody Energy headquarters. Protesters marched into the roadway, sat down in the middle of the intersection, linked arms, chanted and waited to be arrested.
Police lined the sidewalks and blocked the entrances of nearby buildings before moving in and taking more than a dozen protesters into custody.
The protest was organized by a group called Midwest Rising and targeted what the group calls corporate greed and environmental and human exploitation by big business. This protest specifically named Peabody Energy and Bank of America.
Activists demanded that Peabody Energy returns $61 million in tax breaks to the city and halt plans to build an export terminal in Washington for the export of coal to China. The protesters also demanded Bank of America to stop financing for companies engaged in mountaintop removal coal mining.
More… Ed took this photo at the protest:
They brought their drums with them to the rally.
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NeoKong commented:
I would have joined them but I was at work.
Gman commented:
So basically they don’t want jobs created.
Ginger commented:
I wonder if their little pea size brains really understand what they are protesting. Shall I say union organized and welfare people!
MAJ Mike commented:
We’ll see more of this. The Lib-Cong watched the riots and looting in the UK and believe that they can get away with the same thing here.
My concealed carry permit is current and I’ve reconfirmed the zeroes on Heckler & Koch’s and Armalite’s finist products. I refuse to be a victim.
rbosque commented:
People and companies who work hard should be entitled to their profits. People are entitled to their earnings. The left seems to think that all you have to be is a lazy, noisy parasite and someone will give them money. The fruits of liberal and gov’t brainwashing.
Being lazy and expecting a handout doesn’t work that way in this country, they can alway be miserable in a Communist country and they can leave at any time. Maybe if people are encouraged to work, the economy would be a lot better….
Wm T Sherman commented:
I want everyone in town to wear paper bags over their heads. I will block traffic until my demands are met.
LKP commented:
Communists, socialists and dirty hippies all!
Wm T Sherman commented:
Arm yourselves. The entitlement bubble is drying up, and in America, poor people have cars.
rathernot@cbs.tv commented:
Somebody should just walk through their little mob handing out suckers made in obastard’s image and wrapped with fake $100 bills and tell them, “Okay, we give up, here’s your redistributed wealth. There’s more where that came from, too. Bye.”
SSBN 627(B) commented:
Those Evil, Evil Corporations.
I kinda like my Evil Corporation. Stable, secure employment, decent compensation. They don’t make me work way too hard for my pay (though I sometimes do anyway).
Gonna see if we can’t expand into silver platter production. Looks like the market is underserved.
Mike Hewitt commented:
Dirty Hippies .misfits and Bedwetters !
Ozark Lee commented:
I’m really surprised that it took this long. Stephen Lerner called for this sort of crap back in March and the unions were going to be the vehicles. I expected this in May but he is dealing with a bunch of slow learners. Do you not think the flash mob riots, coming soon to a city near you, are not part of this as well? This is very well orchestrated and the useful idiots – well they are useful idiots.
…Lee
workingclass artist commented:
Send them to Sheriff Joe Arpaio…He’s go some pink undies they can wear and he’ll put them to work.
Conservative Ken commented:
Well guess who sponsors this lovely group? Our favorite Purple People Beaters.
check link below…
http://convergence2011.org/
Patty commented:
Hold the phone! The wish to stop the production of coal. So, the sound like they are doing the work of this liberal administration. Jobs will be lost and families could go hungry.
I heard Obama say he created jobs today but seems to me they have been all government ones. Now, I suppose if you don’t work for the gov. or Obama then you can’t work. Sad.
Militant Conservative commented:
Major Mike, salute
I have been carrying my Glock 19 religiously
For ove a decade. Since the election I have
an M1 carbine with a full range bag for both
Weapons. I’m always going to the range, lol
When the excrement hits the fan, I will go home
Then it gets nasty. I have what it takes to endure.
Welfare queens spitting out whelps got nothing.
I’m dumure and sly, welfare kings and queens are
Highly visible, they even have a golden grill.
I got thier number, plan A , B & C.
Whose your daddy.
Alan Kellogg commented:
So certain people think that money comes from an infinite vault, and is free to be handed out to all comers. Some people need a good talkin’ to.
rbosque commented:
If these idiots want a piece of the pie, then they can always BUY COMPANY STOCK, MUTUAL FUNDS or CORPORATE BONDS.
If not they can always pick fruit or shovel s#*&. Either way, no one is going to give them squat unless they earned it.
Obama’s America, a bunch of whiney Communists.
Patty commented:
Acorn comes to mind. What can we expect and hope the national media picks this up.
befuddled commented:
“The protest was organized by a group called Midwest Rising and targeted what the group calls corporate greed and environmental and human exploitation by big business.”
This is what we in the modern world call “jobs”. After Obama is done, most everyone, outside of McDonald’s, won’t recognize it either. Perhaps these green activists should follow the Solar Panel maker over to China for their jobs. I wonder how long China would tolerate these mindless drones.
Beef commented:
“Activists demanded that Peabody Energy returns $61 million in tax breaks to the city and halt plans to build an export terminal in Washington for the export of coal to China. ”
God forbid Peabody Energy builds a new facility that will employ people by exporting something to China. That’s the last thing we need, jobs and reducing the trade deficit with China.
I hope the police got some good beatings in.
Molon Labe commented:
The government should redistribute the earthly assets of these protesters, in keeping with their wishes.
SandyfromChesterfield commented:
Are they part of the Yes We Can Social Club that were arrested for prostitution, weapons, drugs and endangering a child?
SandyfromChesterfield commented:
A collaborative project of Rising Tide, the Instead of War Coalition, Climate Action STL, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, and Organization for Black Struggle (OBS).
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) This is ACORN’s new name.
Contessa61 commented:
Corporations DO redistribute wealth, to their shareholders.
Being from Wisconsin, If I hear, “This is what Democracy Looks Like” one more time, I think I will puke.
ogee commented:
This is not funny. These are God’s mountains and destroying them and killing everyone and everything downstream for China is making God weep. These are USA’s finest ecosystem in the world given by our creator to USA. Stop it! google for pics and gag. Educate yourselves of what’s going on there. Retrain the workers like they did when they put a stop to clear cutting the rain forest in Oregon.
feduptoo commented:
Washington’s coal going to China too? They already get coal from Wyoming. In my State, along with 2 other States….Obama’s EPA has banned new coal mining permits.
We have already lost a coke plant that supplied our steel company.
The big O, has also caused the shut down of 5 electric plants, due to having to follow his “no coal” dream….they say they will have to fit the plants to natural gas, which over 600 people will lose their jobs and not be rehired! Not to mention a hike in our electric rates of 40%, which they already had raised our rates in 2010!
Obama’s energy policy is for foreigners, not the USA!
He has raised foreign aid by 40%, and gave Africa another $1.2 Million, last week.
Obama is NOT working for US citizens, he works for foreigners!
tom beebe st louis commented:
An investigative reporter, if such exists in the St Louis journalistic community, might ask where this group was organized and trained. I believe they will find a major publicly owned and operated institution was the training ground for Alinsky tactics in defiance of the law. Ummmm… I wonder which one?