Forum Post: Occupy Oakland Turns Destructive and Violent - This Must Stop
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 3, 2011, 9:31 a.m. EST by Jimboiam
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111103/D9QP7IC80.html
Peaceful Occupy protests degenerate into chaos
.....City officials released a statement describing the spasm of unrest.
"Oakland Police responded to a late night call that protesters had broken into and occupied a downtown building and set several simultaneous fires," the statement read. "The protesters began hurling rocks, explosives, bottles, and flaming objects at responding officers. Several private and municipal buildings sustained heavy vandalism. Dozens of protesters wielding shields were surrounded and arrested."
Protesters reported running from several rounds of tear gas and bright flashes and deafening pops that some thought were caused by "flash bang" grenades. Fire crews arrived and suppressed the flames.....
In an old school strike driven by blue collar unions, those troublemakers would have been tuned up around the corner, out of sight.
Without condoning such behavior, I find such press coverage slanted. "Setting several simultaneous fires" sounds serious until they let slip that these are mere bonfires. And if the protesters were hurling "explosives" at police, why weren't any cops hurt? It makes me think they mean at most firecrackers. However unruly a few of the Oakland protesters became, let's not embroider the story.
The occupy movement needs to hand over to police anyone who engages in destruction of property or throws objects at police violence will only serve to discredit this movement. I don't know if some of these individuals are provicators or just an angry fringe but they need to be removed.
The end draws near...
Agents provocateurs are now being deployed by the PTB. They need an excuse to clamp down on this movement. Since the occupiers are peaceful the PTB simply send in the clowns to start the violence In the 60's you could always immediately know who these people were because they'd be the guys screaming kill the pigs! They were in fact 'the pigs."
Need proof of who is resorting to destructive and violent actions, and those individuals should not be protected. Post pictures of them, isolate them, do not engage or participate. Some people love violence and chaos, and some could be planted...no way to tell the difference. Maybe start following them home?
This is the same excuse used every time a lefty protest turns violent. It was not your mythical "agent provocateur", it was lefty protesters doing what they always do. This movement will be the cause of its own demise.
BS! We don't show up to rallies with automatic rifles do we? But u fucks do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0HNr2Y7B5c
Think again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkNVxaqCfyM&feature=bf_next&list=UL3cUP1aoHPEk&lf=mfu_in_order
"But u fucks do." Nice, but I have never been to a rally. Besides, how many of those people with SEMI-AUTOMATIC rifles were arrested? How many of them started riots? Your movement loses on its own accord.
finally. some fucking action