#Occupy Oakland Old-Timers Lash Out at Youths For Mass Violence & Destruction
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, February 6, 2012, 7:48 PM
10 #Occupy Oakland criminals were arraigned in court today.
Later this afternoon #Occupy Oakland factions faced off in front of City Hall.
(The same city hall they broke in and trashed just last month.)
SFGate reported:
A tense face-off between Occupy Oakland activists and members of a new group formed to protest their tactics erupted this afternoon in front of Oakland City Hall, with both sides accusing each other of missing the point of the Occupy movement.
About 40 people calling themselves members of Stand for Oakland gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza around noon to denounce what they said was violence and vandalism by Occupy Oakland protesters in recent weeks.
They said they sympathized with Occupy Oakland’s focus on economic disparity, but maintained that destruction during clashes with police was giving the overall Occupy movement a bad name. They cited in particular activists’ trashing of parts of City Hall after their failed attempt Jan. 28 to take over the long-empty Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center.
Several of the 150 Occupy Oakland protesters who gathered alongside the new group said any violence and destruction during their actions was in reaction to heavy-handedness by Oakland police.
One young Occupier, who like many declined to give his name, argued with members of the new group that Occupy would have been eliminating blight by taking over an empty convention center.
“You are blight, don’t you see it?” retorted Aaron Merritt, a 39-year-old graphic designer.
The young Occupier shot back: “You’re in the matrix. You’ve been indoctrinated.”
The Stand for Oakland rally participants included City Councilwoman Desley Brooks – who briefly joined Occupy’s encampment in its early days outside City Hall – and unlike the Occupy Oakland group they had obtained a city permit for their gathering. They were also generally older than the Occupy crowd.
#Occupy Oakland protesters torched a US flag and threw bottles of urine at the media this past weekend.
ADVERTISEMENT
-
Featured Story:
Horrible… Obama Tells Foolish Supporters: I’m Not Over-Spending… “I’m Running to Pay Down Our Debt”
Published May 23, 2012 at 11:51 pm - 51 Comments
Opus#6@AmericanPerspective commented:
What do you want to bet brawn wins over brains/wisdom. It’s a dog-eat-dog world in Occutopia.
bg commented:
++
OT..
TEA Party Patriots
February 6, 2012
Palin: Happy Birthday, President Reagan
Palin Named Woman of the Year by
Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute..
more here..
==
dunce commented:
Let me explain to the useful idiots, the purpose of OWS is to provide public expressions of support of obama policies that appear to be unorganized and spontaneous as the tea party is and was. As Monk would say “you can thank me later”.
tommy mc donnell commented:
don’t buy the lie that they are concerned about economic disparity. if they were they wouldn’t support an economic system that concentrates all wealth in the hands of less than 1% of the people. the politicans!
by the way there is nothing unjust about income disparity.
bg commented:
++
re: #2 February 6, 2012 at 8:30 pm bg
Reagan’s Message Today Would Be Optimistic
more here..
==
bg commented:
++
the “youth” of today would gladly eliminate
the elderly if their dear leader so wished..
==
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
They, and their city, deserves everything they get, good and hard.
Enjoy it, idiots. You asked for it.
bg commented:
++
“You’re in the matrix. You’ve been indoctrinated.”
Occupier, Obama wants you to take the blue pil!!
==
The Real Jeff commented:
The Occupoopers are beginning to turn on each other, hopefully signaling the end of a useless, idiotic and just plain stupid idea. This past weekends festivites featured a pitiful turnout of O’Poopers who were themselves heckled by the people of Oakland, who seem to be weary of putting up with this bunch anymore. Glad to see it. Now get rid of your A-hole Mayor and the rest of the ilk who supported the further ruination of the City of Oakland.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Now get rid of your A-hole Mayor and the rest of the ilk who supported the further ruination of the City of Oakland.
That city’s beyond hope, just like San Francisco. Their supply of A-holes, both the voting kind and the politician kind, is too vast.
Fen commented:
The pigs will sell Boxer to the glue factory for a bottle of whiskey
wanumba commented:
There is no talking to people who think other people are trapped in a computer program.
tommy mc donnell commented:
its just the whites againist the reds. they’ll work it out in the end.
Rob Crawford commented:
That’s one seriously deluded moron.