11 radical socialists were arrested on Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco. The anti-capitalists blamed the banks for their financial woes.

The protesters told reporters they were just practicing their First Amendment rights… As they blocked the entrances to the bank and trespassed.
Reuters reported:

Police arrested 11 demonstrators for blocking access to Wells Fargo’s corporate headquarters in San Francisco on Wednesday, and the city’s famed cable cars were halted for two hours during protests against economic inequality, officials said.

The 11 arrested at Wells Fargo were issued citations for trespassing after occupying an entrance to the building, prompting bank officials to briefly shut down the office tower, San Francisco police officer Albie Esparza said.

A separate Wells Fargo bank branch around the corner was closed for the day due to the protests, Esparza said.

“Our role here was to allow and facilitate First Amendment rights and make sure peace was maintained. And it was a peaceful protest,” Esparza said.

 

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  1. #1 October 13, 2011 at 8:21 am

    Obama Nation commented:

    Congressman Bill Posey Spokesman Admits Media Ridicule Stopping Them From Addressing Obama’s Social Security Number Fraud, Failed E-Verify, Etc….

    http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/10/rep-posey-spokesman-media-ridicule.html

  2. #2 October 13, 2011 at 8:24 am

    Larkin commented:

    To a leftist, the First Amendment means anything they want it to mean.

    It’s their license for anarchy.

  3. #3 October 13, 2011 at 8:25 am

    #1AMERICAN commented:

    these people have no clue in life

  4. #4 October 13, 2011 at 8:28 am

    orisda423 commented:

    What is so hard to understand about LOAN!!! I don’t see banks spinning a wheel to see who to foreclose on.

  5. #5 October 13, 2011 at 8:41 am

    daryl commented:

    “The protesters told reporters they were just practicing their First Amendment rights…”

    Instead of “practicing” their 1st amendment rights first, someone should have explained to them or a cursory glance at the constitution should have told them that forcibly “blocking the door” to a bank is NOT considered as “peaceable assembly” NOR is it considered “petioning the government for a redress of their grievances”.
    Ignorant mfs. And now they’re in jail. Constitutional scholars they ain’t.

  6. #6 October 13, 2011 at 8:42 am

    Militant Conservative commented:

    #4 October 13, 2011 at 8:28 am
    orisda423 commented:

    Dumbass, this is not wheel of misfortune. This is who did not pay thier loan.

    Who is in arrears, that’s who gets foreclosed on. Suck it up socialist.

    No pay no play. Ain’t nothing in life free, contrary to your warped mind.

    powder is dry

  7. #7 October 13, 2011 at 8:43 am

    Bob Z commented:

    To the Union thug….the union stole your pension. They are good at that.

  8. #8 October 13, 2011 at 8:44 am

    manateespirit commented:

    Norah Dye states in this video her father lost his job because of globalization.

    Welcome to the one world order. This plan has been in place a long time…way before this administration. She’s probably right. However, all we hear and read is globalization is a GREAT idea! Our kids have to be “globally competitive”! Here in Missouri, University of Missouri is sending professors to teach freshmen and sophomore Chinese students. When they are juniors and seniors, they will then take places at Mizzou and Rolla. The chancellor is excited; this deal to educate CHINESE students will generate about $4 million for the university system. How is this plan helping AMERICAN students become competitive?

    So this young woman may be correct in her statement. Americans are being pushed aside in the quest for globalization. Pity. But it’s the plan!!!

    http://www.missourieducationwatchdog.com/2011/09/university-of-missouris-version-of.html

  9. #9 October 13, 2011 at 8:46 am

    donh commented:

    You will note there is not one single American flag in the crowd. Tea Parties always collect a beautiful array of flags. These are 40+ year old socialist slackers who have been living in their parent’s basement nursing a drug habbit, gaming the entitlement system. Now their entire world is crumbling when daddy gets foreclosed. Maybe daddy would have been able to pay his mortgage if these God Damn slackers would GET A JOB !

  10. #10 October 13, 2011 at 8:46 am

    Patman commented:

    The last guy on the vid: Maybe if the unions hadn’t raped and pillaged and held hostage the company he worked for, then maybe he’d be enjoying his retirement right now.

    Liberals are demented. But if we lock them up, then we need to feed and bathe them too.

  11. #11 October 13, 2011 at 8:50 am

    Jenny commented:

    These people are stupid and are tools to divert attention away from the real pillaging going on by the obama administration – stealing taxpayer $$ to fund the new world order via green energy companies. Where’s the outrage that this administration took over a car company, allowed CORPORATE GE to pay NO taxes?

    OPEN YOUR EYES YOU IDIOTS!~

  12. #12 October 13, 2011 at 9:01 am

    Maria commented:

    I wish they will all stop whinning. If you can’t afford a house, dont buy one one. I can’t afford it, so I live with roommates, plain and simple.

  13. #13 October 13, 2011 at 9:02 am

    Obama Nation commented:

    Breaking News…Corrupt Hawaii Judge Nishimura refuses to uphold a legally issued subpoena that would have allowed for the forensic examination of Obama’s alleged Long Form Birth Certificate. She dismisses the case despite ample evidence that “expert after expert” have declared the document a likely forgery. This is an outrage!

    http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/10/rep-posey-spokesman-media-ridicule.html

  14. #14 October 13, 2011 at 9:11 am

    big L commented:

    The Govt motors also gets a $49 billion dollar tax forgivness on into the future.Pretty neat huh…?

  15. #15 October 13, 2011 at 9:30 am

    Sam Stone commented:

    3 years of the Tea Party = zero arrests

    4 weeks of the fleabaggers = thousand+ arrests

  17. #17 October 13, 2011 at 9:50 am

    Ginger commented:

    #1…Obama Nation…This is the first I have heard of this! Where can I get more info?

    ———————————————————————-

    2. We exposed his alias, Harrison J Bounel and how it is associated with Barack H Obama and the address that he calls home in Chicago as of 2009 to present day.

    3. We also showed the connection that Harrison J Bounel also has to Michelle L Obama where she is listed as Harrison J Bounel’s spouse as of 2011.

    4. We also showed where the Harrison J Bounel alias was removed from the databases linking it to his social security number; however, we also proved that the alias is still searchable using the last name of Bounel and the state of IL in the search cues.

  18. #18 October 13, 2011 at 9:53 am

    Obama Nation commented:

    It is legal to protest but it’s not legal to block the doorway. It’s called incommoding are there are statutes in the law that forbid it.

    When protesting it really important to know where to zig and where to zag, otherwise you could wind up being arrested.

    Breaking News…Corrupt Hawaii Judge Nishimura refuses to uphold a legally issued subpoena that would have allowed for the forensic examination of Obama’s alleged Long Form Birth Certificate. She dismisses the case despite ample evidence that “expert after expert” have declared the document a likely forgery. This is an outrage!

    http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/10/rep-posey-spokesman-media-ridicule.html

  19. #19 October 13, 2011 at 9:53 am

    platypus commented:

    My head is spinning! I thought SF, the home of Stretch Pelosi, was lib/left??? Now they’re turning on their own???

    I thought only the GOP did that.

    I have to lay down now.

  20. #20 October 13, 2011 at 9:54 am

    Obama Nation commented:

    is legal to protest but it’s not legal to block the doorway. It’s called incommoding and there are statutes in the law that forbid it.

    When protesting it really important to know where to zig and where to zag, otherwise you could wind up being arrested.

    Breaking News…Corrupt Hawaii Judge Nishimura refuses to uphold a legally issued subpoena that would have allowed for the forensic examination of Obama’s alleged Long Form Birth Certificate. She dismisses the case despite ample evidence that “expert after expert” have declared the document a likely forgery. This is an outrage!

    http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/10/rep-posey-spokesman-media-ridicule.html

  21. #21 October 13, 2011 at 9:55 am

    Obama Nation commented:

    It is legal to protest but it’s not legal to block the doorway. It’s called incommoding and there are statutes in the law that forbid it.

    When protesting it really important to know where to zig and where to zag, otherwise you could wind up being arrested.

    Breaking News…Corrupt Hawaii Judge Nishimura refuses to uphold a legally issued subpoena that would have allowed for the forensic examination of Obama’s alleged Long Form Birth Certificate. She dismisses the case despite ample evidence that “expert after expert” have declared the document a likely forgery. This is an outrage!

    http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/10/rep-posey-spokesman-media-ridicule.html

  22. #22 October 13, 2011 at 10:04 am

    Toddy Littman commented:

    This explains why so many on the left hate Herman Cain. His “9-9-9″ plan all too easily could have accidentally exposed the socialists’ secret plan to take over America: “whine-whine-whine.”

  23. #23 October 13, 2011 at 10:09 am

    tadcf commented:

    First, they ignored us; then they called us names; then they fought us; then, we won. —Gandhi (on nonviolent demonstration)

    Conservatives seem to be in the ‘calling names’ stage.

  24. #24 October 13, 2011 at 10:13 am

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    they have to keep perpetuating this lie to cover up for the socialist politicans that caused this financial collapse.

  25. #25 October 13, 2011 at 10:14 am

    MamaGrizzly commented:

    “The Govt motors also gets a $49 billion dollar tax forgivness on into the future.Pretty neat huh…?”

    I kind of agree with the “knowing we’re being ripped off” thing.

    A lot of good people are getting hurt by the “big boys” of corporate-land, who are living off Obama’s . . . (never mind).

    When the corporate moguls change the game so that regular people can’t compete and make a living, while they get rich on their demise, we see a Soros-like nightmare go viral through society.

    I think most Americans know that fairness and right dealing is a value everyone can live with. But when no one cares about their neighbor, people are going to get really mad.

    We need JOBS. JOBS pay the mortgage. JOBS pay for other jobs. JOBS give people dignity. When people become homeless, there is hell to pay all around. JOBS prevent that from happening.

    This group looks really scruffy, but what I’m seeing is a mixed bag. Occupy fakers, and then normal people who don’t know what else to do.

    Gotta wonder how much of this could have been averted if Obama hadn’t DRAINED THE TREASURE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

    Why isn’t Congress demanding an ACCOUNTING of the distribution of funds? Hmmm? Where did ALL the money go? ALL OF IT. Down to the last dollar?

    It’s our money and we have a right to know.

    This is what dictators do: they disempower the majority, who are then left to scramble and focus only on survival, while the dictator and his people amass more and more power with no one to stop them PRECISELY BECAUSE all the regular people can do is to scramble.

    So while the entire thing is a Soros wet dream, we are now seeing the beginning of regular people entering the fray, out of desperation.

    Steve-Barry-Barack Little/Obama and his buddies Soros, GE, et al, are having a frickin’ GREAT time. Trust me.

  26. #26 October 13, 2011 at 10:23 am

    MamaGrizzly commented:

    Some very good, more in-depth coverage of all of this here (lots of pics):

    http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

  27. #27 October 13, 2011 at 10:31 am

    wanumba commented:

    #8 October 13, 2011 at 8:44 am
    manateespirit commented:
    Norah Dye states in this video her father lost his job because of globalization.

    Welcome to the one world order. This plan has been in place a long time…way before this administration. She’s probably right. However, all we hear and read is globalization is a GREAT idea! Our kids have to be “globally competitive”! Here in Missouri, University of Missouri is sending professors to teach freshmen and sophomore Chinese students. When they are juniors and seniors, they will then take places at Mizzou and Rolla. The chancellor is excited; this deal to educate CHINESE students will generate about $4 million for the university system. How is this plan helping AMERICAN students become competitive?

    ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

    This is the BIG SCAM. The protestors are mad at “the greedy banks” beuase their No. 1 demand is STUDENT LOAN RELIEF.

    WHat greedy LOAN OFFICER talked them into signing a STUDENT LOAN for a wildly inflated COLLEGE TUTION AND FEES DIPLOMA?
    The inflation in COLLEGE TUITION absolutely DWARFS the propert value inflation.

    THe UNIVERISITIES have JACKED their costs year after year, and while AMericans are in record unemployment, still their jobs right and left, UNIVERISITIES STILL RAISED TUITION AND FEES THIS YEAR AGAIN.

    The UNIVERSITIES ARE THE LOAN OFFICERS FOR STUDENT LOANS. THEY signed students on to WORTHLESS DIPLOMA progrms. The professors pull down big salaries for hardly ANY work.

    How many professors have people had who pass out last year’s tests, year after year, too LAZY to make a NEW ONE? HOw many jobs can anyone ELSE get away with that?

    Tenured protected greedy professors and fat cat UNIVERISTY adminstrators have TAUGHT student to go after the banks while THEY suck up all the cash inthe state.

  28. #28 October 13, 2011 at 11:19 am

    ilikai commented:

    This is the only time I don’t feel sorry for the bank, Wells Fargo screwed up my credit rating so bad 10 years ago and I am still trying to get it fixed. Wells Fargo can go under for all I care, and I am not the only one that feels that way. My banker told me that WF is hated by a bunch of people he has dealt with in the past.

  29. #29 October 13, 2011 at 11:22 am

    orisda423 commented:

    militant conserative

    Is that not what I said. LOAN means to be paid back.

  30. #30 October 13, 2011 at 11:25 am

    11B40 commented:

    Greetings:

    I live in the San Francisco Bay area, a couple of soviets south of what the locals like to refer to as “The City”. It’s relatively rare that any leftist demonstrators get arrested for interfering with their fellow citizens rights to travel or do their commerce. It’s even more rare that those few who get arrested get convicted of anything. Apparently, there are legions of lefty influenced lawyers around and about who are more than willing to go to bat for their fellow travelers, resulting in virtually no significant punishment and repeat performances in the near futures.

    I have often wondered why people and especially organizations whose rights are trampled on in these demonstrations don’t pursue legal redress in civil or even small claims court. I think that if even half a dozen or so of Wells Fargo’s employees sued each and every one of those arrested for harassment or civil rights violations, the miscreants might get a somewhat stronger message from their bank statements or credit reports about the intelligence of their actions.

  32. #32 October 13, 2011 at 11:55 am

    FurryGuy commented:

    So criminal trespass is now a 1st Amendment “right”?

  33. #33 October 13, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    Valerie commented:

    They were “practicing” their rights, and as far as I can tell, they did exactly as planned. They knew what the minimum would be to get themselves arrested, they did that, and said their piece for the cameras. Mission accomplished.

    They are blaming the banks, though, instead of the people that controlled the behavior of the banks — Congress.

    They get one point for getting their ideas across, and minus one point for missing the mark so obviously. Net score = zero.

    Also, it would be interesting to know the backstory on these protesters. Are their families being foreclosed on, is there a real issue here, perhaps one they don’t even recognize?

  34. #34 October 13, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    gosh! commented:

    Distraction………..distraction from the important things they will affect your lifes…………today the supreme court will decided whether churches should have the final say on who their ministers should be….what is at sake here is your first admendment right and your religious freedom …………

  35. #35 October 13, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    BarbaAZ commented:

    My experience with Wells Fargo Bank has been a positive one for several years now. It’s a bank and a business—not your daddy, and definitely NOT a welfare or entitlement dispensing site. If you keep your nose clean you shouldn’t have any trouble with them. Blame the Dodd-Frank “economic justice” fiasco for the housing bubble and crash. They made banks give loans to persons who could in no way pay them back. Stupido!!

    Those protesters were useful idiots for George Soros and obama’s regime. Just shows you how believing a lie can get you into trouble. Coconut Macaroons have a higher IQ than they do,

  36. #36 October 13, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    mcc commented:

    Elizabeth Scalia (yes, his niece) lays it all out with links. We’re in Act III:

    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theanchoress/2011/10/12/act-iii-american-fall-the-revolution/

  37. #37 October 13, 2011 at 12:10 pm

    Obama Nation commented:

    All Obama has to do to create MILLIONS of job openings in this country is to mandate the use of e-verify and enforce our existing immigration laws. One of the primary reasons that jobs are so scarce is they have been stolen by illegal immigrants who have no legal right to be here.

    Please Read How Illegal Immigration Hurts Black Americans
    http://www.theroot.com/views/how-illegal-immigrat…

  38. #38 October 13, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    Obama Nation commented:

    Freshman Repubican Says ‘Evicting’ Illegals Opens Up Millions of Jobs for Americans

    http://www.christianpost.com/news/freshman-repubican-says-evicting-illegals-opens-up-millions-of-jobs-for-americans-56216/

  39. #39 October 13, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    SeniorD commented:

    I thought the 1st Amendment dealt with prohibiting thefederalgovernment American citizens speaking their minds. I also thought Well Fargo was a private enterprise which accomodates people as a service. I can’t believe these dirty, smelly generally non-thinking ‘protesters’ don’t realize the difference.

    But then, we are talking about California, the land of fruits and nuts.

  40. #40 October 13, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    GotFreedom commented:

    Why don’t they go and protest at Freddie and Fannie and GM who have yet to completely pay back their TARP $$$? Not to mention that the banks (including WF) have completely paid back TARP with substantial interest to the govt–have Freddie/Fannie/GM?

    “Documents Reveal How Paulson Forced Banks To Take TARP Cash”
    http://www.businessinsider.com/uncovered-tarp-docs-reveal-how-paulson-forced-banks-to-take-the-cash-2009-5#ixzz1YtQAFA1w

    “Documents Detail Historic Treasury/Bankers Meeting – but Geithner Input on Key Document Withheld from the Public”
    http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/may/judicial-watch-forces-release-bank-bailout-documents
    . . .”These documents show our government exercising unrestrained power over the private sector. Despite promises of transparency, the Obama administration tried to cover up the very existence of these smoking-gun documents. And the cover-up continues, as the Obama administration protects Timothy Geithner by withholding a key document about his role in this infamous bankers meeting.”

  41. #42 October 13, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    jimg commented:

    @tadcf

    Nope. It’s a mixture of ignoring and laughing, and I doubt it’ll ever move beyond that.

    But I’ll tell you what. You flip 63 seats in the House next election, and I’ll take your tantrums more seriously from now on. Deal?

  42. #43 October 13, 2011 at 2:22 pm

    Molon Labe commented:

    #23

    Were you referring to the Ganhdai who cheered on Hitler and told the British to surrender?

    OR

    Was it the Ganhdai who refused to allow the doctors to give his wife the drugs that would have saved her but demanded them for himself when he later came down with the same illness?

    OR

    The Ganhdai that said nothing when the British left India and the massive massacres of Muslims and Hindu’s occurred just as predicted that would occur without the stabilizing influence of the British, but as Ganhdai said it takes some broken eggs to make an omlet?

    I think conservatives need to recognize violent law breaking thugs and treat them for what they are. Hope they used pepper spray and then tasered them. Remember its for the Cause. Viva the Revoluccion!

  43. #44 October 13, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    Craig commented:

    You people are so fuc…ng ignorants. You think the BANKS can do no harm.

    Watch this video and educate yourself:

    DYLAN RATIGAN: FORECLOSURE FRAUD & $45 TRILLION DOLLARS
    http://newsworldwide.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/dylan-ratigan-foreclosure-fraud-45-trillion-dollars/

  44. #45 October 13, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    Molon Labe commented:

    Craig brays again.

    Res ipsa loquitur.

    You are so right. Its amazing how ignorant and uneducated you are. Tell us why banks are greedy and these people wanting the banks money aren’t greedy? I can understand why you believe in dancing magic monkeys and unicorns.

  45. #46 October 13, 2011 at 4:12 pm

    Craig commented:

    Hey empty Melon Head, watch the fu….g video you idiot scumbag.
    You will learn something. People are in courts fighting the illegal forclosures of the Federal Banks… and they are winning.

    Get an education you ignorant twit, and WATCH IT.

  46. #47 October 13, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    Jesusland commented:

    Craig,

    that’s curious, I just read a “sob story” headlined at the Huffington Post about a guy who was foreclosed by Bank of America, but only after living in the house TWO YEARS FOR FREE. To make the sob story worse, it was a ZERO DOWN PAYMENT mortage, so his “mortgage” payments were actually just rent payments and he lost nothing. TWO YEARS FOR FREE he lived in that “rental” property, and Huff Po selling this to its readers as a “sob story.”

  47. #48 October 13, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    Molon Labe commented:

    Craig the Marxist Ronulian brays

    Craig you are so dull. If you understand economics you might realize how stupid you sound. Gee I understand you believe everything you see on Oprah and Jerry Springer but must you then tell us this is the universal truth?

    I’d like to ask you a question but we would never know which one of the many voices you hear would give us an answer.

    So consult with them and tell us if banks are greedy why do these people want more government action. A government that is far greedier than any corporation.

    You know that antipersperiant thats strong enough for a man but Ph balanced for a woman? It gave Craig third degree burns.

  48. #49 October 13, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    Molon Labe commented:

    Craig the Marxist Ronulian brays

    I’m fourth generation Canadian, honest, vene if all my relatives live and were born in St George’s county. Trust me, if you can’t trust a Canadian who can you trust?

  49. #52 October 15, 2011 at 7:49 pm

    Bill commented:

    Who put the gun to their heads and forced them to buy more house than they could afford?

  50. #53 October 18, 2011 at 7:08 am

    Vincent J. DiPentima commented:

    George Soros once commented,”the way to destroy the United States is Econonomically” and he is one who would like nothing better then to see the United States become a socialist-communist nation. This cannot stAnd, George Soros, and his wall street protestorsm along with Pres. Obama(Who wants to transform the United States) coup[led with his Democratic party must be removed from office by Americans who loyal to their country, and all of us who fought in WW2 to prevent this corrupt typs of organizations.

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