Figures… Democrat Congressman Joins Occupy Denver Protesters During Riots With Police

Rep. Perlmutter went out to join the protesters – Right before they battled police…

The People’s Press Collective reported today that Democrat Congressman Ed Perlmutter joined the Occupy Denver protesters yesterday right before the rioting started against the police. Rep. Perlmutter said he “put career on line” by attending the protest.

Grounded: A man is arrested after clashing with police during the Occupy Denver protest after a march through the downtown district. (Daily Mail)

Perlmutter was walking around the protest grounds with a bullhorn.
The Post reported:

During the mid-afternoon stalemate, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter waded into the crowd alone but for a bullhorn, urging protesters to remain as peaceful as they had been during his previous visit. A few in the crowd drowned his words, shouting that it was the cops in assault gear who needed to tone it down, not them.

“Obviously you’re making an impression,” said Perlmutter, the Seventh District Democrat. “You’ve got to de-escalate this thing.”

“We want jobs!” a man shouted back. “Democrats won’t get elected anymore!”

Others standing near Perlmutter defended him to the crowd. “He’s the only elected official who bothered to come down here today,” one said.

Denver police said the Occupy protesters attacked them during the melee yesterday.

#1 October 30, 2011 at 11:50 am
Missy8s commented:

As employers we need to start generating a blacklist of protesters who get arrested…

Don’t hire them, if they happen to be employed don’t support the businesses they work for…
#2 October 30, 2011 at 12:00 pm
NeoKong commented:

I guess he thought he could control the mob.
Just wait until the DNC convention next year.
#3 October 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Highlander commented:

If they don’t get jobs, then “Democrats won’t get elected anymore”? So, does that mean that they finally recognize that it’s the failed Democratic economic and environmental policies that cost them their jobs in the first place? I sure hope so.
#4 October 30, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Remco Kimber commented:

Biggest lie of the day, month, of the entire history of the #OWS movement,

WE WANT JOBS!

Yeah, right; more like,

WE WANT AN EXPANSION OF THE WELFARE, GIVE-ME STATE.
#5 October 30, 2011 at 12:09 pm
nickie commented:

Unfortunately, Democrats have jumped aboard this sinking ship, overestimating its popularity and kowtowing to the unions. However, this is not a Dem/Rep thing, it is a radical attempt to bring everything down and create the “perfect socialist state”(which only exists in the mind, since it sure has never existed anywhere on the earth).

What’s funny though, is as they try to create their own little “utopia camps”, how fail these are-inability to enunciate even one clear goal or solution, a consensus bureaucracy failure, theft(apparently not to each according to their needs), rape, drugs, violence. Even power struggles and cover ups of illegality.

Indeed, the prototypical “socialist paradise”. Listen now as on of those brave protesters who is just there because “OWS is mad about bailouts” speaks their truth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jMV0TR3pGzg
#6 October 30, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Joe College commented:

You have to go to the UK paper the Daily Mail to get real coverage of this trouble, which the American press will not cover. The American papers do not trust the citizenry with knowledge of what is actually happening at this ‘protests’.
#7 October 30, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Sickofobama commented:

Perlmutter is a progressive idiot.

You know why he thinks he put his career on the line?

Because the majority of Americans disagree with those pissers at the Occupy Denver.

I’m surprised my girly man representative Jared Polis isn’t down, too, with he and his partner’s (NO, HE’S NOT A WOMAN) new baby.

Poor thing will grow up to be a libtard.
#8 October 30, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Patty commented:

Lemon, you need to be fired. NO favortism there, barf. reporting there. Idiot. Talk to the Cops. Such a lame stream media.

Really, this is so pathetic. This doesn’t deserve air time. Reporters need to be fired if this is going out on the Airways. People won’t all the facts not just what these newies want out there.

Very Bias!! Very Sick! Poor reporting.
#9 October 30, 2011 at 1:03 pm
CBDebver commented:

Perlmutter’s district consists largely of three groups — retired, government workers, and the “disabled”. All three groups rely on government money for their upkeep. They are the ones who loved it when Wall Street facilitiated government’s borrowing and spending binge via all of their exotic financial instruments. Now that the government’s credit card is maxed out, they want to blame Wall Street instead of their own greed for lavish pensions, salaries, and disability benefits in excess of government’s ability to pay.
#10 October 30, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Patty commented:

Correction: People want facts not your bias opinions of them. Poor reporting. Stinks.
#11 October 30, 2011 at 1:09 pm
jainphx commented:

No bias in that report was there. Lemon is a lemon.
#12 October 30, 2011 at 1:15 pm
jainphx commented:

How long can a free society sit back and be propagandized by a media that is supposed to be relating the news. They are, and have been the biggest problem to our every day life. The Congressman should be brought on ethics charges. I’m just utterly po on this whole thing, but thats what they want.
#13 October 30, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Sl commented:

If you don’t break the law, nothing would happen…plain and simple
#14 October 30, 2011 at 1:18 pm
David commented:

I’m sure Perlmutter believes the Tea Party Patriots are an unruly, racist, violent mob… ” God bless them ” N. Pelosi
#15 October 30, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Patty commented:

#11
jainphx commented:

Oh, it is bias. No serious reporting
#16 October 30, 2011 at 1:46 pm
patman commented:

It is the most beautiful day here in Colorado. I mean, it’s spectacular.

It’s even more beautiful knowing idiots and radicals are getting maced and shot with pepper balls in a park that is typically overrun with bums, drunks, drug addicts and posers.

The park itself is beautiful, and in big need of an enema.
#17 October 30, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Jayne on the Left Coast commented:

Anyone else getting fed up with all the media coverage of the anarchist? I am waiting for something big to happen that will knock the mob thugs “story” off the media.
#18 October 30, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Ella commented:

Do these people go home at night? It’s already been pretty cold after the sun goes down. Next week there’s another weather system on the radar. Hope it’s a big one.
#19 October 30, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Coasta commented:

We will hear them scream again in protest when a fool living in one of tents knocks over a heat source and 20 tents poof into flames in 5 minutes.

Stupid is what stupid does. Geez, is it really worth the sheckles obummer gives them every week?
#20 October 30, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Bama person commented:

Typical democrat, they NEVER do ANYTHING wrong, it is always someone else fault. THE BLAME GAME.
#21 October 30, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Greenstew commented:

Peaceful? So laughable! About 16 seconds into the video you can see something being thrown at the police. Don’t forget morons…..the whole world is watching……watching and laughing!
#22 October 30, 2011 at 2:44 pm
MikeSilver commented:

Just like a Tea Party Rally. I mean it would be like one if we had been maced by the Po Po, hadn’t taken a shower in a week, didn’t have jobs to go to the next day, and didn’t make a huge mess. Other than that, just like a Tea Party Rally.
#23 October 30, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Valerie commented:

I sincerely hope this kind of bravado does not become a fad. Some very bad people are looking for a “Kent State moment” and if chance hands them a “Bobby Kennedy moment” instead, they may take it.

And it really won’t matter who did it, because you know that there will be a race to get the first few reports out blaming you-know-who.

We already saw this with the Oakland protests. The videos showing the overall situation, including items being thrown from among the protesters, were up almost as fast as the news reports came out about the injury of a sainted veteran who turned out to be a jew-bashing Marine hater, and yet we had the trolls here, blaming the police. Their justification for laying blame so soon was that the LSM said it, so that must be The Truth.
#24 October 30, 2011 at 3:14 pm
WillofLa commented:

I have figured out who these peopel are. They are the grand children and great grand children of the Hippies and 60′s radicals who took over the government, our culture, and our society. They took over the schools, of course there were radicals already in the universities because that’s where these kids got the inspiration to take over the administration buildings protesting against the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, anti-establishment, and most of those professor’s were Communists already, or had ties to Communists who had come out of the woodwork when they saw their work had gotten far enough along in our society, concentrating on the public’s sentiment that was beginning to get more intense against the way the government was treating big businesses, big banking, and foreign investors who were promoting liberals in the Democrat Party.

These are the kids of those professor’s, not literally but the children of their students. These students were intending to have children so that they could raise them contrary to how they were raised, without church, without religion, without trust of the government and those we elect, without the support of the history they were taught in public school, and without the love of our founding fathers. These were the people who were digging up other things about our founding fathers that was contrary to the image they were taught to believe in public school. That image was clean, couragous, brave, tough, and faithful. Also we were taught in school that these men were just as human as anyone else, but they had a eye to the future of this nation that was one that promoted the cause America was supposed to stand for and that was a stand against tyranny, and the promotion of freedom.

These little scumbag’s were going to teach their kids, and have heavy influence over their grandkids that this country was a lie, and the government was there to give you a life, and anything they heard in school about America’s image of purity and faith as also a lie. These young people are the result of that programing that our founding was for the purpose of greed, racism, discremination of the Blacks, and American Indian’s, Mexican’s, and was the oppression of the “masses” in order to keep people from being free. They taught their kids that the rich people had that same cause as those who claimed our forefathers were rich also, and the rich from that time made sure their decendents would be the ones who remained in control over the people of this nation. That is the only lie here, and the parents and grandparents of these protesters were going to drive it into the heads of their kids, and their grandkids in order to produce the people who would change America into the country it should be.

And at the same time we see that the only people who were ready to take advantage of the teaching of these protesters parents and grandparents were Communists. They were ready to provide the kids of the Hippies and 60′s radicals, a smooth road to the government so they to could affect changes that was just a continuation of what they had started in the 60′s and 70′s.

This is why these kids have no idea of what business in America is supposed to be. They think America can operate just fine without all the big banks, big businesses, and big corporations. Well, in a way it did back after the end of World War Two. But there was still huge corporations who built the materials for the winning of WWII. These kids who believe they should be the ones who are primary beneficiaries of all the hard work their grandparents and great grandparents built that made America the great and powerful nation is was, doesn’t need to be all that powerful now. They believe America should tone down now and learn to be nice to everyone in the world, and all that greed for money isn’t neccessary any more. And they want the government to stop giving all the money they have been in order to control the big businesses and big banks, that all that is doing is stealing money from them.

Yeah, and I want to know, where are the protesters think all the money it took to build this nation to be as prosperous as it’s been came from? Are they ready to prove their grandparents and great grandparents wrong? That it does take a lot of work to keep America stong.

The Hippies and 60′s radicals have created a monster out of their own young that is turning on them and are telling them, “You made to much money, and in the wrong way. You are supposed to give that money to us so that we can have a better life. You promised in the 60′s and 70′s that you would take care of us and look who you are taking care of? The big banks! Give us the money!!”
#25 October 30, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Stephen morgan commented:

There is nothing more beautiful than a dirty hippie getting maced!!
#26 October 30, 2011 at 3:35 pm
WillofLa commented:

What do you expect when liberal Democrats go to length to send the message that our government is there to make their life better. The liberals have always declared that the role of government should be to take care of the people while the people get to do whatever they want. In other words the role of government is to pay for them to have the good life and everybody else pays for it. It’s the entitlement mentality the liberal Democrats gave to the Blacks. Did the liberal Democrats think that no one else was watching what the government was giving to the Blacks? Did they think that no one else would want the kind of life they were giving to Blacks, and that White kids should just get out there and get a job and pay all the taxes the government demands so that there is enough to pay the Blacks to have the good life, and no one else should want the same thing?

See, the liberals screwed up by not telling Blacks that the government would make sure Blacks would be treated fairly and have all the advantages our society was giving everyone else. The liberals guaranteed that their life would be secure and prospreous and easy. Did the liberal Democrats not think anyone else would want it easy and prosperous to? Didn’t they think that all that giving away to Blacks would attract lazy White kids to? And how did those White kids get lazy, when it has always been White’s who have worked the hardest and were the only ones who had the “ambition” to see this country grow and become strong? Did the liberals who were promoting easy, prosperous, a free life, and with all the trimmings was not how liberals outside the government were raising their children? Did the liberal Democrats think that promoting liberalism and all it’s lies wouldn’t be the way whole generations of White kids were being raised by liberal parents and grandparents and great grandparents? That’s the way they were brain washed through all the demonstating and protesting they went through during the 60′s and 70′s, wasn’t it?

What the hell did the Democrats expect?? Did they expect only Blacks would want an easy life to?

The bad thing about Liberalism is it rubs off real easy on everyone who comes in contact with it. It’s like a bad cold, you get close to someone who has a bad cold and it’s probably true that you are more probable to get a cold than not. It depends on the exposure time. If you hang out long enough you will be just as sick as the ones who carry the disease.
#27 October 30, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Blackbird commented:

Wrap your head around the thought of what, exactly, Nancy Pelosi would have done a year ago if this was a TEA Party crowd and that was a Republican Congressman. Would any of the Democrats have come out and stated their support of the “brave” protestors. Yeah, that is exactly what makes their stance so clownish. Kabuki indeed. I really want to see a Rep introduce a bill expressly prohibiting federal funds being spent for rebuilding after the riots. This nonsense would end mighty quick if the cities thought they would have to pick up the tab.
#28 October 30, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Opaobie commented:

No point in bringing up obvious ethics violations if not outright lawbreaking for the Progressive Congressman. Too bad he didn’t get maced and banged and bundled off to jail for at least the rest of this congressional session.
#29 October 30, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Dave-O commented:

These are all Perlmutter’s people. He needs them to be re-elected. He is (and always has been) a Pelosi lapdog. I’m sure he felt right at home amongst the filth and trash. He was probably recruiting campaign volunteers – he just can’t help himself. Best piece of advice I’ve ever heard was to never get between Perlmutter and a TV camera.
#31 October 30, 2011 at 5:22 pm
alec commented:

Bring on the snow! Let’s see how tuff they are then!
#32 October 30, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Buffalobob commented:

Others standing near Perlmutter defended him to the crowd. “He’s the only elected official who bothered to come down here today,” one said. Correction he is the only one stupid enough to hitch his sinking boat to a 10,000 pound anchor.
#33 October 30, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Earthmover commented:

@25 Last week someone on here said “it’s all funny till someone gets pepper
sprayed, then it’s hilarious!” Thats funny.
#34 October 30, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Christopher Taylor commented:

Rep. Perlmutter said he “put career on line” by attending the protest.

We can only hope so.
#35 October 30, 2011 at 8:11 pm
kansas commented:

Hey if Perlmutt gets defeated because he supported this he can always sue.
#36 October 30, 2011 at 11:21 pm
SandyfromChesterfield commented:

The guy on the ground being handcuffed is the person that knocked the police officer off of his motorcycle. There is a video of that encounter.

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/10/30/video-obama-backed-occupy-denver-protester-tries-to-knock-police-officer-off-his-motorcycle/