Liberal Media on #Occupy Oakland Mob Violence: “A Day of Mostly Peaceful Rallies Against Economic Inequality”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, November 3, 2011, 5:17 AM
Reuters described the mass mob violence and rioting by Occupy protesters yesterday as:
“A day of mostly peaceful rallies against economic inequality and police brutality.”
Here are a few shots from the mostly peaceful protests yesterday in Oakland.
Occupy Oakland demonstrators burn rubbish in Oakland, November 3, 2011. (REUTERS/Stephen Lam)
Demonstrators from the “Occupy Oakland” movement climb aboard trucks at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, November 2, 2011. (REUTERS/Robert Galbraith)
Demonstrators from the “Occupy Oakland” movement turn back a pickup truck at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California November 2, 2011. Demonstrators on Wednesday shut down operations at the Port of Oakland, one of the largest container ports in the United States, in protests against economic inequality and corporate greed. Thousands of protesters blocked a major Oakland streets in what they called a general strike against economic conditions and police brutality, but fell short of their stated aim of paralyzing the Northern California city. (REUTERS/Robert Galbraith))
The Associated Press also insisted it was a “mainly peaceful” gathering.
Occupy Oakland protesters pass a burning garbage heap during a confrontation with police on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Following a mainly peaceful day-long protest by thousands of anti-Wall Street demonstrators, several hundred rallied through the night with some painting graffiti, breaking windows and setting file to garbage cans. (AP/Noah Berger)
Demonstrators from the “Occupy Oakland” movement dance after blocking an intersection at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, November 2, 2011. (REUTERS/Robert Galbraith)
The #Occupy thugs and goons smashed up a Wholefoods Store in the afternoon.
The Daily Mail has video:
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Multitude commented:
Individual conservatives need to begin factoring this into their primary decision-making process. To elect a Perry will have an effect of placing a Nixon into the White House during Vietnam protests; it is perceptually as bad as branding themselves as “another 8 years!” Romney will represent the globalists well, continuing Obama’s allegiance in principal but aligning with a different globalist faction that has slightly more interest in a U.S. representation (vs. the faction Obama represents that benefits from a destruction of U.S. economic hegemony).
The establishment Republican party has no connection with the people and will rightfully be seen as a vote for more corrupt reappropriation of public wealth for their cronies, before the goodies run out and the exploitation is ended by the death of the nation.
Do we want to be associated with more of this rape of the nation? Or will conservatives elect a primary candidate who will stand apart and attack the institution? The latter allows us to present the nation with a choice: Legal revolution via political means from within, via the tea party option, or illegal revolution from outside via violent means via the OWS and progressive national and union workers socialists option.
KornKing commented:
Nothing quite so peaceful as a few smashed windows-must be kids havin’ a little fun?
Sherry commented:
Gee. I’d hate to see a slightly violent protest.
Mona commented:
Cloward-Piven. Alinsky. A sick little smile on Obummer’s face, watching it all unfold. Everything’s going according to plan. Very, very frightening times, and a battle going on here at a deeper level than smashed windows and SEIU t-shirts.
“If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their wicked ways I will hear them from heaven and heal their land 2 Chronicles 7:14 Time to get on our knees.
daryl commented:
This s**t-hole bunch will morph into various stages of the maggots they really are. We haven’t seen nothing yet.
myohmy commented:
Paging Nancy Pelosi. Paging Nancy Pelosi. “God bless them.”
Clutch commented:
Oh for a whiff of grapeshot for those crowds! OK, more than just a whiff…
daryl commented:
The Yasser Arafat do-rag on the guy in the top photo says loads.
They’ve crossed the peaceful “protest” stage long ago.
They will make the ‘civil unrest’ of the 60s (Watt’s, Detroit, D.C. fires) look like a Sunday School picnic weinie roast camp fires.
Mikey commented:
This sick group of anarchists need to get their cumupins.
If I was in the area and armed…
gosh! commented:
This will be nothing ……………compare to what will happen next summer …………….coming to city near-you……………..prepare your self………………just saying.
Voice of Reason commented:
Watching the local news last night here in the Bay Area, constant reporting of how peaceful this was at the same time showing protesters spray painting a Whole Foods store, smashed ATM machines, garbage bins being tossed around, breaking windows at Wells Fargo Bank, blocking commerce. This was Oakland under siege and the mayor looked the other way. Where is Pelosi and the Dems calling these angry mobs like they did the Tea Party, and without clear evidence like we have here? Okay, they want a revolution. But then what? What will be remaining after than and what will be put in its place? Unfortunately, we have an Orwellian press and propaganda machine who keep on trying to put lipstick on the pig.
bg commented:
++
Frances Fox Piven Rings in The New
Year By Calling for Violent Revolution
[She’s considered by many as the grandmother of using the American welfare state to implement revolution. Make people dependent on the government, overload the government rolls, and once government services become unsustainable, the people will rise up, overthrow the oppressive capitalist system, andfinally create income equality. Collapse the system and create a new one. [.]
In a chilling and almost unbelievable editorial again in The Nation (”Mobilizing the Jobless,” January 10/17, 2011 edition), she calls on the jobless to rise up in a violent show of solidarity and force. As before, those calls are dripping with language of class struggle. Language she and her late husband Richard Cloward made popular in the 60s.
“So where are the angry crowds, the demonstrations,
sit-ins and unruly mobs?” she writes.[.]
“[T]he out-of-work have to stop blaming themselves for their hard times and turn their anger on the bosses, the bureaucrats or the politicians who are in fact responsible.”
Only then, once their rage has been properly stoked, can the angry take
action. And when they do, sh[e] says, the “protesters need targets.”
For Piven, the best “targets” are the people or organizations “capable of making some kind of response to angry demands.” Regular demands, notice, just won’t do. No, people must be fired up and not easily deterred. Angry and not quickly placated.[.]
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MJ commented:
“If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their wicked ways I will hear them from heaven and heal their land 2 Chronicles 7:14 Time to get on our knees.
Amen, Mona, absolutely.
Claudia commented:
Oakland Mayor should be really proud of herself. She could have had this contained days ago but apologized, allowed the protestors to come back and gave her city workers the day off to protest. Talk about inciting a riot. She is the one who should be jailed.
Obamas regulation destroy jobs commented:
I’ve already been on my knees praying, crying for America.GOD help us. I knew in my gut this man was one evil MSucker…when I read Manchurian Candidate, and Culture of Corruption-I felt sick to my stomach. Sick that the first thing he did was shut down our defense shield to Poland—and all of his CZARS? A pedophile?? A MAO and devout communist…gee–how could there be so many communists, so many that want socialism? to be ruled by a dictator? to stop ALL innovation? Freedom? Why would anyone want that???????