Did you hear about the violence out in Oakland?
Don't just dismiss it as, "Oh, that's just California" because this bad behavior is being enacted all over the United States in the big cities, which are usually run by liberals, have dense populations who want to dump the electoral college so that the popular vote has more impact on national elections, thus further empowering the cities to press their will on the rest of us. We have to pay for their malfeasance.
So the coverage of the OWS protests has been shockingly misreported. Rapes have gone unreported or diminished in importance; the number of people arrested hasn't been reported; the filth of the protesters has been ignored.
Instead the pig sty has been reported through a dreamy prism, reflecting the golden age (for liberals) of the 60s anti-war struggle. Admiration for the flea bitten, unkempt sloths among us is unmatched. Just as anything Sarah Palin does is appalling and controversial, conversely the occupiers can do little wrong.
In fact, we are being set up to believe that only a few anarchists, a "splinter group," are at the bottom of the actual violence, and that these are just well meaning, sincere people who want life to be better for all of us.
Here's an example, describing the vandalism as if it's a lark for an afternoon.
There were several other instances perhaps connected to the suspected splinter group, including smashed windows at Wells Fargo and Bank of America branches.
Such incidents were the exception during the daylight hours. At another downtown Wells Fargo branch, about 20 good-humored protesters sat in front of the entranceway, blanketed by yellow police tape, chanting, "Shut it down, shut it down!" A dumpster blocked the ATM. No one attempted to get past the group, which refused to leave until the door was chained. "An emerging reality is being created," says Michael Babel, 38, a graduate student who lives in San Francisco. "This is the movement we've been waiting for." As he spoke, a passing man blared through a megaphone: "The 99% is here. They're not cracking down on us. We're cracking down on them.Haha. Yeah. Good humored protesters chanting and blocking businesses from operating. Stopping one of the largest ports in the country from working. Smashing windows. City workers were given a day off work to protest, paid for by the taxpayers.
Haha. Yeah.
The story goes on to gush about bringing children to the chaos. Oakland's a great place to live, after all.
On foot, in wheelchairs and on bicycles (and the odd unicycle), protesters converged under the watch of circling helicopters. Police officers were invisible. Mutt Mule, 39, a longtime Oakland resident, banged on a drum and took swills from a second champagne bottle after knocking an empty one over. "It's a big f------ party," he said. "We're having a ball." Nearby, fellow protesters danced to a break-beat DJ; others climbed on stranded vehicles with banners that spanned the angry ("They Grind Our Bones to Make Our Bread") to the outlandish ("Occupy Everything!").A big party! Get it?
So Geraldo Rivera is on Fox and Friends claiming, just as Time does in this article, that there are two groups here. Disgruntled kids and anarchists.
What the heck's the difference, at this point?
They're creating the kind of atmosphere that makes anarchists able to do their vicious work. And once these things get started, the primal urge kicks in and everybody gets vicious. It's, unfortunately, human nature. Look at the Canadian students who were so sorry, once they got caught, stealing and vandalizing, but protested losing jobs and positions because of their now criminal past.
We've covered the anarchist movement here before.
Everyone knows this isn't going to end well. Even if they clean up the mess these people have left when winter arrives, they'll be back in the spring.
Just watch.
Does THIS look like fun?
And remember, it's not just fun loving Oakland. It's all over.
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