A couple of recent stories about Occupy protestors:
Police arrest 6 at Oakland protest
5:06 PM, Jan. 8, 2012OAKLAND, Calif. (WTW) — Six people are facing charges after Oakland police say they broke the windows of police cars, vandalized a television news van and threw bottles at police officers.
Police spokeswoman Johnna Watson says the six were arrested on a variety of charges, including assaulting officers, possession of explosives and vandalism during a march and protest in downtown Oakland late Saturday.
Watson says officers found and an explosive device described as a quarter stick of dynamite on one of the suspects they arrested.
After the protest, Occupy Oakland issued a release saying the march was held as a protest against recent police actions.
The arrests came during a week in which protesters tried to occupy the mayor’s office, and police cleared demonstrators from the plaza in front of City Hall, arresting 12 people.
For the record, political “protestors” who possess these kind of explosives are rightly labelled “terrorists” in every single other context. And this isn’t the first time that the label “terrorist” correctly applied to the Occupy movement due to their being caught in possession of violent explosive devices.
Then theres this:
Report: Obama admin sends Coast Guard to protect ships from violent union members, occupiers
By Matthew Boyle – The Daily Caller Published: 1:39 PM 01/12/2012 | Updated: 12:23 AM 01/13/2012President Barack Obama’s administration has ordered the United States Coast Guard to protect grain ships at the Port of Longview from violent “Occupy” protesters and dockworker union members, according to a local news report.
The Daily News in Longview, Wash., reported that the Coast Guard will protect a grain shipment from an onslaught of “Occupy” protesters and members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). The ship will be transporting grain to Asia. A date for the shipment has not yet been set.
The group of leftwing activists had shut down ports all along the West Coast on Dec. 8, including the Port of Longview. The Coast Guard will apparently be helping the ship load its grain at the port, and then depart for Asia, safely.
The local unions and “Occupy” groups are planning to band together to protest the Coast Guard protections of the grain shipment when it happens.
The Coast Guard is a part of the United States Armed Forces and ordinarily falls under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security. The president can, however, at any time, move the Coast Guard to operate under the U.S. Department of Navy, and Congress can do the same during times of war. As the nation’s commander-in-chief, President Obama has the ability to control what actions the Coast Guard takes.
The Daily News reported that the ILWU said it has no plans to stop the grain ship.
Dockworker union members have protested the port since last January, according to a report on the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS).
Let’s pretend that the Tea Party had done stuff like that. I would say I can’t imagine how unglued the mainstream media would have become, but that really isn’t true – because they came maximally unglued over the Tea Party even though the Tea Party hadn’t done ANYTHING EVEN CLOSE to that fascist crap.
It wasn’t very long ago that I wrote about the Occupy movement – the same Occupy movement which held a seminar in COMMUNISM – shutting down the capitalist system using whatever means were necessary.
I keep documenting it. And yet the same mainstream media that demonized the PEACEFUL AND CLEAN Tea Party continues to falsely depict the Occupy movement as a “positive” political force for good.
Tags: explosives, Longview, Oakland, Occupy, protestors, terrorists, violence
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