Fail. #Occupy Octopus Marches Behind Rose Parade and Nobody Cares (Video)

The #Occupy protesters were excited to march behind the Rose Parade today.
It’s just too bad nobody cared.

Worse yet, the #occupiers were forced to form peace patrols to police their own.
The LA Times reported:

Occupy the Rose Parade activists said they had assembled a “peacekeeping” team to thwart members who might try to cause trouble during the event.

A team of about 36 Occupy protesters will, in three groups, march with the Occupy procession at the end of the Rose Parade to self-police and prevent violence or disturbance of the parade itself.

Hundreds of activists gathered in Pasadena’s Singer Park to prepare for their stroll down the parade route on Colorado Boulevard. The group will carry a 70-foot by 40-foot “float” made of recycled

The Ocuppy the Rose Parade movement has emphasized its goal of keeping Monday’s march peaceful.

Julio Toruno, 57, of Altadena spent hours spray-painting the peacekeeping group’s fluorescent yellow vests, which says “99” on the front and back to represent the 99% of Americans who are not among the nation’s wealthiest, according to protesters.
“If we can get small situations handled within our own group, we’ll avoid the need for police to come in,” said activist Roger Bruce of San Clemente, who will be in the peacekeeping group.

The group will use human microphones, in which a person yells and others echo, to draw attention to any troublemakers, he said.

“We think we can handle it with sweetness,” Bruce added.

#1 January 2, 2012 at 5:56 pm
Stuart commented:

Oh they march real fast.
And they march real hard.
They’re the terrorists of Colorado Boulevard
Not the little old lady from Pasadena.
#3 January 2, 2012 at 5:58 pm
dba...vagabond trader commented:

Bet someone had to clean up after them, kinda like when the elephants come to town with the circus.
#4 January 2, 2012 at 6:00 pm
ar05075 commented:

More old hippie commies and their young useful idiots.
#5 January 2, 2012 at 6:01 pm
gee! commented:

What was they ugly looking thing suppose to be? Empty grandstands……..crowds walking away……….they only embarrassed themselfs…………just saying
#6 January 2, 2012 at 6:03 pm
dfbaskwill commented:

“I think we can handle it with sweetness.” the intellectual giants echoed…. 99% of nothing is still nothing.
#7 January 2, 2012 at 6:18 pm
#1AMERICAN commented:

Go occupy a grave 6 feet under scumbags
#8 January 2, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Alana commented:

It was supposed to be an octopus, with tentacles, representing the long arms of . . . something or other, I forget. Corporations, probably.
#9 January 2, 2012 at 6:22 pm
gus commented:

This is what Obama USED TO organize. Before he started having peoples DIVORCE records unsealed.

You LIBTARDS should be so proud of yourselves. Scum bags.
#10 January 2, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Sasja commented:

Pathetic bunch of losers.
#11 January 2, 2012 at 6:31 pm
FurryGuy commented:

The occupy anarchists must be mightily peeved that they went to all the trouble to hold a protest and none of the 99% cared.
#12 January 2, 2012 at 6:42 pm
bg commented:

++

hah, it still made for quite a dud via my local news..

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#13 January 2, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Jane commented:

That was hilarious! Most people had already exited the stands. If you were ground level, you weren’t able to see their dopey octopus. They just made complete fools of themselves. lol
#14 January 2, 2012 at 6:47 pm
gus commented:

Octopussy.
#15 January 2, 2012 at 6:55 pm
aine commented:

The Nazis used images of a spider or an octopus to represent Jewish aggression and evil-doing, images meant to demonstrate that the Jews were poisoning the world. The Occupy octopus is a distinct symbol of anti-semitism…we’ve already seen their penchant for depicting all evil banks in the world as being controlled by da jooooos…

The irony of this idiotic demonstration by Occupy the Rose Parade is staggering, as the parade and most of the floats are subsidized by those evil corporations. The hypocrisy of these people boggles the mind.
#16 January 2, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Beth just south of Berkeley and just east of San Francisco commented:

The Octopus was also an editorial cartoon characterization of the railroads in control of the California legislature a century ago, before the reforms that brought in the initiative, the referendum and recall.

Prop 13 was an initiative
#17 January 2, 2012 at 7:19 pm
valerie commented:

This is typical of California. Demonstration in a public place, lots of people walking by, ignoring it. OWS held a meet-up in Encinitas on a nice Saturday (I think) and somebody tweeted “Why’s everyone carrying a surfboard?” (The beach, with good waves, was two blocks away.)
#18 January 2, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Militant Conservative commented:

Rush’s undeniable truths of life apply here.

“the world is governed by the aggressive use of force”

And

“The aggressor sets the rules”

Pity a few thousand years have not taught them.

Powder is dry
#19 January 2, 2012 at 7:55 pm
gus commented:

Militant. Yet those who are called violent war mongering haters…..”Us”, are afraid to fight and kick them BACK in the balls.
The “Birther” deal. I don’t know whether King Putt Putt was or was not born here. It was never my job to prove it. When we are called “birthers”, I say. Hell YES. I don’t care a flying fuk what the MSM says. The MSM is our enemy.
BTW and OFF topic. The TALIBAN issues a joint statement with AL QAEDA……..CALLING THE U.S.A it’s ENEMY.
And the MSM is silent.
#20 January 2, 2012 at 7:55 pm
squeaky commented:

http://conservativedailynews.com/2011/12/its-a-dogs-life/
#21 January 2, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Billy Sol commented:

too bad that Anheuser-Busch opted not to participate with the Clydesdale team . . . . .would luv to see these parasites wade thru some of St Louis’s finest horse dung!!
#22 January 2, 2012 at 8:10 pm
gus commented:

Billy, these COMMIE hehehehehheheheheh “squatters”, do not mind the stench of dung. In fact, the no longer notice that scent.
#23 January 2, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Molon Labe commented:

Did these OWS teams prevent their members from raping or killing anyone?
#24 January 2, 2012 at 9:40 pm
jhump commented:

Did these OWS teams prevent their members from raping or killing anyone?

Yup, with their candy ass down twinkles!
#25 January 2, 2012 at 10:08 pm
bigL commented:

it is like looking back to the latre sixties with these kids fathers and grandfathers occupying the college offices and the College Presidents caving in. Ove and over across the land.
#27 January 3, 2012 at 1:21 am
MPCpiano commented:

The 99% are most people who don’t know or care about the Occupiers or their stupid, negative cause. They are preoccupied with enjoying the parade and the beautiful weather, and when it is over, quickly getting their families to their cars and going about their life.
#28 January 3, 2012 at 1:26 am
Stu E. commented:

“We think we can handle it with sweetness,”

People who think this way deserve to be shot.
#29 January 3, 2012 at 6:24 am
Ghost of John Brown commented:

Jim,

It gets better. They whined like little babies that the Networks carrying the parade didn’t talk about them. Read their post – pretty hilarious.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9034
#31 January 3, 2012 at 6:37 am
Doriana commented:

I am be part of the 99% but these fools DO NOT represent me. I would like to hear the ACTUAL percentage of who they DO represent. I bet it’s less then 1%….. Just saying.
#32 January 3, 2012 at 7:03 am
Chad commented:

The Occupados are really as tone deaf as His Majesty, Barack I. After all, making a float with recycled plastic and then marching behind a parade that requires all floats to be covered natural materials is hilarious.

Do they realize how well this illustrates their own astroturfed nature? They may as well hang ‘kick me’ signs on their behinds.
#33 January 3, 2012 at 8:34 am
Trish commented:

I am pretty sick of them including me in their nasty ugly group. I am certainly NOT in the 1%, but I sure as heck am not in the 99% they refer to.
I am in the work for a living, pay my dues, go to church, love my family, carry a gun, want smaller government and less moochers percent, which I wager to think outnumbers the twisted Occupiers by a huge margin.
#34 January 3, 2012 at 11:27 am
rayra commented:

Yesterday, transnational socialists marched with an ‘Octopus of Greed’ to condemn ‘wall street bankers’ / corporate capitalism.
~75yrs ago, national socialists in Germany were using an Octopus as a sign of ‘Evil Jew Bankers’.

Know these ‘Occupy’ scum for who they are.

http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.org/index.php?topic=39882.0