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Sunday, January 29, 2012

“Through everything that has happened since September, from Occupy to the acceleration of “Bills” — NDAA, SOPA, PIPA, ACTA — never have I felt so helpless and enraged as I do tonight. These kids are heroes, and the rest of the country needs to open its collective eyes and grab what remains of its civil rights, because they are evaporating, quickly. Do you want to know what a police state looks like? Well, you sure as hell still do not know unless you were watching our citizen journalists.”

-- Cathy Jones, attorney for Occupy Oakland.

Posted by Will Bunch @ 3:59 PM  Permalink | 87 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:29 PM, 01/29/2012
    Peaceful protesters always break into buildings and wear masks, Then there's this:

    "The first speaker, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, took perhaps the most pointed stance, urging the crowd to fight the rich.

    “Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world,” said Ortiz, a retired professor from Cal State East Bay. “Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.”"
    RG
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:45 PM, 01/29/2012
    Of course Occupy Oakland shut down ports despite union pleas not to and hurt everyday workers. All with no discernible impact to the 1%. They also put $20k worth of donations in an account at Wells Fargo, http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2011/11/09/occupy-oakland-deposits-20000-with-wells-fargo/
    RG
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:46 PM, 01/29/2012
    Private property is such a bourgeois concept.
    Mr. Smith
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:57 PM, 01/29/2012
    Their main sign said "If its Vacant, Take it". They truly think they have the right to property without having to pay for it. What a childish mentality.
    RG
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:02 PM, 01/29/2012
    Will's been watching "V for Vendetta" too many times.
    TyroneShoes
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:06 PM, 01/29/2012
    Meanwhile, the city Will should be reporting on is falling apart. Remember, the Daily News is the local paper, meanwhile Will rambles on about Oakland miscreants, Reagan, and other nonsense.

    http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dncrime/Cops-Teens-beat-cabbie-and-passenger.html
    RG
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:09 PM, 01/29/2012
    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. That's really the only appropriate reaction to this blog post.
    Wiseman6
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:10 PM, 01/29/2012
    Nothing on th HATE CRIME that happened in Philadelphia last night? How can a liberal not report an obsess about a hate crime? What is different?
    Keep The Change
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:08 AM, 01/30/2012
    Will writes a column, not news stories nitwit. There is a news story on the assault on the front page bellyacher.
    dontlikeneocons
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:12 PM, 01/29/2012
    ///Do you want to know what a police state looks like?////

    Oh sure, because what's happening in Oakland is so much like the Gestapo circa 1933 or Rankovic's secret police in Yugoslavia.
    General Turgidson
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:36 PM, 01/29/2012
    Revolutionaries and anarchists represented by lawyers. How convenient.
    RG
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