Sadly, Pepper Spray Needed to Clear 32 Far Left Loons From Occupy Des Moines Rally (Video)

This is what democracy looks like…
Police needed to break open the pepper spray to clear the far left loons from their camp at the Iowa Capitol grounds last night.

Iowa Politics posted the video:

Reuters reported, via Free Republic:

Iowa police arrested 30 adults and took two juveniles into custody during a protest against economic inequality late on Sunday, subduing one man with pepper spray.

Police said the protesters were warned several times Sunday that the state Capitol grounds closed at 11 p.m. local time. Those who did not disperse were arrested shortly after the closing, state public safety department spokeswoman Jessica Lown said on Monday.

The Iowa protest was part of the anti-Wall Street “Occupy” demonstrations across the country over the last month.

The protesters object to what they see as an unacceptable income gap between rich and poor. They also have complained about the Wall Street bailout in 2008, which they say left banks to enjoy huge profits while average Americans suffered under high unemployment and job insecurity.

On Monday, Iowa’s Republican Governor Terry Branstad told reporters the Capitol grounds were not meant to be a place for an overnight camp and no permits were available for such a use.

#1 October 10, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Patty commented:

Arrest them. Every last moron that has caused a Public Disturbance, ARREST THEIR SORRY ARSES!
#2 October 10, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Patty commented:

Don’t waste the Pepper spray. Police have better things to do with their time. And with all of these mentally challenged get the Paddy wagon standing ready.
#3 October 10, 2011 at 2:17 pm
havok commented:

If I was stuck around these loons and couldn’t leave… I would “Beg” the police to pepper spray me.. Burn out my ability to smell these unwashed, douche bags.. it would be doing me a huge favor..
#4 October 10, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Obama Nation commented:

Nothing on video tape?

http://www.commieblaster.com/
#5 October 10, 2011 at 2:18 pm
RedBeard commented:

Filthy scum.
#6 October 10, 2011 at 2:24 pm
lakewriter commented:

dang but you gotta admire those Republican governors! Can you imagine holding people accountable when they do something illegal! Way to go, guys! Turnin’ America around, one arrest at a time! We are on our way!!! ….takin’ her back to the greatness she was and is capable of being again!!
#7 October 10, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Patty commented:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7y07nfMCRA&feature=related

Gotta love this honest man!
#8 October 10, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Dean Toadblatt commented:

“Economic inequality”?

Every citizen is capable of achieving economic success in this country and many have. What they want is to rob people of their hard-earned wealth. And for what purpose? To squander like the gov’t does?
Corporations and business people keep people employed so long as gov’t gets out of their way. No one HAS to buy a corporate product or service but we DO HAVE to pay taxes. These people are parasites who only want what the don’t have.

The only “greed” here are in the mob’s thick skulls.
#9 October 10, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Mannie commented:

No pepper spray. Axe handles, iron pipes, and ball bats. Break some heads. Better use aluminum bats, those scum have hard heads.
#10 October 10, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Patty commented:

Work hard, earn money, spend and if you are creative you will own your own business. Become successful and then, Government takes more money. Will this give anyone the incentive to hire.

It all falls in Obama’s hands but the ignorant just don’t see it. We need capitalism for our nation to be a success. We need jobs so possibly one day we can create and give people jobs, so they can safe and be a success or buy that home and live the American dream.

But Obama is preventing this from happening and we aren’t free until he has left the White House.
#11 October 10, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Moonbat_One commented:

I guess Obama didn’t think to bribe the mayors in the other cities like he did with Bloomberg. Otherwise this would have happened weeks ago in Obamaville.
#12 October 10, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Patty commented:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8814560/If-capitalism-does-fail-the-alternative-is-far-far-worse.html

If Capitalism fails the alternative is far worse.
#13 October 10, 2011 at 3:00 pm
donh commented:

“Oh What a Beautiful Night” a fitting sound track to play side by side to this arrest video…>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqOiS7w0kVQ …. Send the police overtime bill to Obama. I attended my local Tea Parties . No one ever hid their faces with scarf or mask. Everything was carefully lawfully planned with regards to permits. Was that Mitch McConnell in the pink jacket and denim hat ? I alway knew he was on their side.
#14 October 10, 2011 at 3:01 pm
SOL commented:

Down with Marxist Occupiers!
#15 October 10, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Chris in N.Va commented:

Any moment one of these brave souls will feel compelled to scream out “Assault” after receiving the pepper spray, thereby earning the title of “seasoned” protester.

brrUMP-bump!
#16 October 10, 2011 at 3:11 pm
#1AMERICAN commented:

what a bunch of stupid fukks…
#17 October 10, 2011 at 3:12 pm
john03 commented:

All we are asking, is give pepper spray a chance.
#18 October 10, 2011 at 3:20 pm
atticcellar commented:

Here in Wisconsin State employees occupied the capitol refusing to leave for an extended period of time. Due to the financial and political clout they were coddled and allowed to stay causing extensive damage. Now we have a tiny group with no clout protesting and they are treated as criminals for exercising their first amendment rights.. Because they are not Union thugs that number in the thousands they receive different treatment than the commie government workers. NEWS UPDATE; RON PAUL WINS FAMILY VALUE VOTERS SUMMIT.. Globalist and former privately owned Federal Reserve Bank (bankister) Cain take second..
#19 October 10, 2011 at 3:25 pm
big L commented:

Where are the horses-the mounted police. Borrow them from some other municipality.
Like the gov said where are the permits? The group they can get to is the uNion. Go to the hall and remove for questioning the boss or clerk. As ‘person-of-interest”, no miranda needed. Detain as necessary, repeat. They will leave. If it was TeaPs we’d get rousted in 1 hour. The guy with the private park in NYC would be cited and hauled into the court system tout-suite.
#20 October 10, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Emerson commented:

If you’re poor and capable yet refuse to work are you then still a victim to anything but your own laziness and parasite-like qualities? Is the gap partly wide because of these kinds of people?
#21 October 10, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Dave-O commented:

Where are the water-cannons needed to wash them down and wash them out and off of the State Capital grounds? They look like they could use a shower. I see it as a win-win for everyone.
#22 October 10, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Black Sabbath commented:

Dogs.
Horses.
Water cannons.
Truncheons.

Crush the Leftists. Make them understand fear and respect.
#23 October 10, 2011 at 3:42 pm
thebronze commented:

Sadly?

Not even close to sadly!
#24 October 10, 2011 at 3:42 pm
juandos commented:

Are these whining protesters congenital idiots or do they work at it?
#25 October 10, 2011 at 3:57 pm
ohio commented:

Reminds me of that beautiful day in May of 1970 when, as a young trooper, about 700 of decended on the same type of scum on the oval at Ohio State. We won hands down.
The hippies bitch and complain about it to this day.
#26 October 10, 2011 at 3:58 pm
atticcellar commented:

Where are they to work? The mega corporations have off shored the jobs.. If unemployment stats were figured the same way they were in the last Depression unemployment would be at least as bad as it was then.. Unfortunately the people of the country have been brainwashed by the big government commie public school system to believe it is the governments duty to provide drone type jobs for the masses.. The only way to recover from this depression is to get the government out of the way.. Return to the principles of our founding fathers. Personal responsibility and independence.. Instead the citizens have become dependent on the out of control government and the huge corporations which are symbionts of the government. Any citizen who attempts to open a small business is encumbered with outrageous taxes and bookkeeping to prop up the corporate fascist system the banksters have created. The only man running willing to go up against the beast… Ron Paul.. 2012
#27 October 10, 2011 at 4:08 pm
JoeAstroturf commented:

Hey Jim, if their passing condoms out to that crowd like on Wall Street, please don’t even go there if it gets there. Thx
#28 October 10, 2011 at 4:12 pm
chuck in st paul commented:

Well hey, that’s just like the stupid teabagger meet-ups right? [/sarc, for those that needed it]
#29 October 10, 2011 at 4:20 pm
chuck in st paul commented:

Actually, I think the cops used the pepper spray to kill their sense of smell while dealing with these clowns.
#30 October 10, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Freddy commented:

The protesters object to what they see as an unacceptable income gap between rich and poor. They also have complained about the Wall Street bailout in 2008, which they say left banks to enjoy huge profits while average Americans suffered under high unemployment and job insecurity.

Can anyone remember the ‘moral hazard’ arguement so many pointed out BEFORE TARP and the other bailouts of 2008?

Seems like this is all we are really hearing about today.
#33 October 10, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Sam Stone commented:

When I see some of these videos it looks like a flashback to the past. Change the clothing and the music…..

Now the fleabaggers are talking about starting up on campus. I read one fleabagger write about then having to force out the National Guard. It sounded like the writer WANTED another Kent State to support his beliefs and then rail against the man even more.

Funny how they are only doing this since they elected the first black president!
They must all be racists!
#34 October 10, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Sam Stone commented:

#21 October 10, 2011 at 3:31 pm Dave-O commented: “Where are the water-cannons needed to wash them down and wash them out..”

That would require 3 years of study, 4 Environmental Reports on 7 different criteria, 24 Department heads approval and 12 EPA Regulation Exemptions with $400,000 in decontamination tents and crews and operational hazard standby team.
#35 October 10, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Sam Stone commented:

Christians in Egypt and elsewhere around the world are being slaughtered and churches being burned down and we have this circus theater of the far left to deal with?

Sick.
#36 October 10, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Mad Hatter commented:

Like everyone here, I’m sick of these radicals polluting our streets with their worthless “Occupy this and that” movement.

Over the weekend, I got talking to some friends of mine, they’re apolitical, and I wish I had their words on video tape to put on YouTube. For the most part, they’re easy going, good natured people, but once we got talking about the “Occupy Wall St.” crowd, they really let loose.

I asked them if they ever talked about this with their neighbors and fellow employees, and if so, what is their opinions of “Occupy Wall St.” A few of them have only talked to their fellow employees about this, and it’s the same attitude, stop whining, stop demanding things, stop blaming others, go home, clean up, go look for a job, and act like an adult.

The more I got thinking about it, the more I”m glad “Occupy Wall St.” is happening. The more they keep complaining and showing off their entitlement mentality, the more the American people are going to turn against them.

Keep it up kids, the more you stay at it, the more the American public is going to get burned out on your spoiled brat ways.
#37 October 10, 2011 at 6:54 pm
atticcellar commented:

When you have over 50% of the population collecting either a check or other benefits, I hardly think they are going to turn on themselves.. The gravy train is rolling.. Next stop.. 3rd world status or worse.
#38 October 10, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Militant Conservative commented:

I m ready for the coming insurection.

Come, take the cup of war from my hands and sup up.

Drink for you’ll have no choice, the war is of your making.

Some have prepared for the chaos you bring to town.

I am unafraid and prepared. Sucks being you, leftists.

The true American Patriots will not be denied.

When it hits the fan I have a failsafe, your destruction.

No malace, no whining, just keeping the constitution safe for the next gen.

My life is forfet, take it, but it is gonna cost ya.

powder is dry
#39 October 10, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Fiftycal commented:

Everyone has missed this. This is a combination of the Kymer Rouge style and the John Lennon “imagine” style. Since, presumably, most of these douchebags are literate, the ruling class can’t kill them because they are literate, they draw the line at “wealth”. As in you have a dollar more than they do.
#40 October 11, 2011 at 6:16 am
lhfree commented:

Pepper spray should be banned. No one should have it. The potential for its abuse is just too great.

However, I do support the removal of the occupiers. One set of rules for everybody. If the grounds close at 11 then they close at 11. Arrest them for trespassing. I can’t stand these enlightened philosophical liberal idiots across the country squatting on public grounds and private property. Screw the idiots. Well not literally as they’re unwashed and nasty and you could catch something but you get my point.
#41 October 11, 2011 at 11:12 am
hank kelly commented:

It’s full moon over Des Moines. All the rednecks are coming out like frogs. So, do the bidding of he Koch Bros as they laugh their asses off. Pay more taxes so that the 1% can have more. You poor, wretched, brainwashed teapartiers.