This is the same woman who was so disturbed by Tea Party protests she told them to go “straight to hell.” (CNS) – When asked to comment Wednesday about the deaths and crimes that have occurred around Occupy protests being held across the country, Rep. Maxine Waters said “that’s life and it happens.” “That’s a distraction from the goals
This evening, USA Today published a story describing the law-breaking participants in the “Occupy movement” as a “violent fringe”. But how can a movement whose entire existence is predicated upon breaking the law be anything but criminal and destined to incite violence? The mere concept of this “occupation” promotes the idea that the occupiers would perpetrate an act that is bound to break multiple laws in virtually every location where these people have erected their disease- and crime-infested tent cities. So at what point does anecdotal evidence indicate a trend and show that this is not “fringe” behavior? When do hundreds of incidents of mass lawbreaking, violence, rape and murder demonstrate that this anti-social behavior is standard procedure from these crowds and not the exception? BigGovernment.com is maintaining a running total of the violations rung up by the Occupy crew. Just a sampling of the Occupiers’ stunts: NY: 10/1/2011 — Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 — Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation Phoenix: 10/28/2011 — Flier at Occupy Phoenix Asks, “When Should You Shoot a Cop?” NY: 10/18/2011 — Thieves Preying on Fellow Protesters NY: 10/9/2011 — Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR NY: 10/7/2011 — Occupiers Rush Police … More Cleveland: 10/18/2011 — ‘ Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped NY: 10/10/2011 — ‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street? Seattle: 10/18/2011 — Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested 10/12/2011 — Iran Supports ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Portland: 10/16/2011 – #OccupyPortland Protester Desecrates Memorial To U.S. War Dead Portland: 10/15/2011 — #OccupyPortland Protesters Sing “F*** The USA” There are a couple hundred more and undoubtedly far more that have not seen the light of day, considering the Occupy folks’ tendency to hide the violations . Yet despite the hundreds of incidents that have occurred across the nation, local law enforcement and governmental authorities have been hesitant to enforce the laws and jail the violators. Given that many of these “protests” are occurring in large cities that are dominated by left-wing politicians, I suppose there’s not a lot of surprise there. What is interesting, however, is the double standard between the Occupy groups and the Tea Party groups, which the mainstream media and the Vice President are fond of comparing to the Occupy criminals. Dana Loesch documented the disparity between how St. Louis city leaders and law enforcement officials treated Tea Party protests versus the Occupiers. Tea Party: permits and fees. Occupy: no permits, no fees, used city power and property to live for days/weeks, and only kicked them out when it was time to hang Christmas lights in Kiener Plaza. But of course the Occupy groups never had any desire to follow laws, get permits, etc. They are lawless. This is their brand. That there is rampant violence and other violations in the so-called “fringe” of the Occupy crowd should surprise no one. They came to break the law and they did. In the USA Today article about “the fringe”, the author comes perilously close to addressing the issue: Violence undercuts public sympathy for the protesters’ cause, says Terry Madonna , a polling expert at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. He wonders whether Occupy, a movement that has no publicly identified leaders or hierarchy, can stop such violence within or outside its ranks. Of course they can’t stop the violence, and it has nothing to do with whether there are leaders or a hierarchy. Lawlessness leads to lawlessness. Unless they adopt a lawful approach to making their point (and I fully support their right to protest – within the bounds of the law ) there will be no end to the escalation of their violent behavior, especially when the authorities stand idly by and allow it to happen. The union-cowed , left-leaning politicians and law enforcement agencies that have permitted these “Occupiers” – fringe or not – to flagrantly break the law are complicit in each and every one of these violations and should be held accountable for their (in)actions.
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Occupy “movement” criminals depicted as “fringe”. Really?
There’s been a surprising number of people that on the right that have actually issued limited support for the Occupy Wall Street movement, myself included. I even wrote an entire article announcing my support of the movement , not because I agreed with their politics or their odd sense of community, but rather because I hoped this movement would move to push the Democrat party closer to its core ideology as the Tea Party has been working on doing with Republicans. I was not alone in this extension of good will. John Sexton at Verum Serum was also ready to extend them the benefit of the doubt : Already there are signs that OWS is starting to mature. I saw a video recently of a speaker at one event (I don’t recall where) who gave a fairly good political sermon on bondage in Egypt and freedom under Moses. It was a bit forced for my taste, but it was also fairly coherent by OWS standards. I don’t think OWS is there yet, but I think they’ll get there if they don’t self-destruct by starting a riot. Even Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks saw a glimmer of hope that these protestors might not be idiots: My first instinct was to sympathize with Occupy Wall Street (OWS). At the time of the initial protests, I was in Italy giving a lecture on the tea party ethos to graduate students participating in the Istituto Bruno Leoni’s annual Mises Seminar. I was getting reports of OWS signs that I had often see at Tea Party protests, such as “End the Fed” and “Stop Crony Capitalism.” And, much like Sexton, Kibbe warned that the path OWS could lay out, would be destructive to their cause. In contrast OWS, whose ranks represent a small fraction of total tea party protestors, has struggled to maintain civility or to even identify a unifying sense of purpose in their uprising. At Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, there is stealing, property damage and arrests often provoked by protestors wanting conflict with the police. Real people—not members of the so-called 1%—are being hurt as their small businesses are impacted and their property destroyed. So, it appears that all of our hopes have been dashed. From threatening to stab reporters in the neck , to blatant anti-semitism , to very odd group chanting , Occupy Wall Street appears more and more to be devoid of the ideological passion I’d hoped they’d have, and leans more towards the childish, tantrum throwing, entitlement expecting rioters that we had become familiar with through the protests in Europe these last few years. As Sexton warned above, rioting would be the quickest way to derail any legitimacy, and the OWS crowd has decided that’s precisely the path they will take. Of course the narrative that the OWS crowd might has some control issues will be heard almost exclusively on the right. The national media will exist primarily to defend against that concept. But I think it’s safe to say that this is not the movement we’ve been waiting for. This is not the movement that will push the left further left as we push further right to help differentiate the parties in a way that might actually cause moderates to make a real decision for once. I patiently wait for worthy adversaries in the arena of ideas. This movement is not them.
The Hill: ” Immigration sparks war of words between Romney, Perry at debate ” ABC News: ” Obama: Occupy Wall Street ‘Not That Different’ From Tea Party Protests ” Politico: ” Wall Street to Dems: you can’t have it both ways ”
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I forget, how many rapes happened at Tea Party protests? Now I remember — none. (CBS Cleveland) — An “Occupy Cleveland” protester tells police she was raped in her tent over the weekend. Cleveland police are investigating an alleged sexual assault incident Saturday at the “Occupy Cleveland” rally involving a 19-year-old female student from Parma.
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“Occupy Cleveland” Protester Raped By Fellow Occupier…
