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Outnumbered 4 to 1, The “99%” of #OccupyDenver Gets Mic-Checked…

...and a Lesson on Republican Democracy

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 12th, 2011 at 05:45 PM  | 

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After the “occupiers” of #OccupyDenver tried to occupy FreedomWorks’ BlogCon (blogger conference) mid-day on Saturday, before figuring out the hard way that a half dozen grimy squatters are really fodder for a hundred or more bloggers armed with cameras and derision for their up-twinkles, the occupiers tried to play their hand again early Saturday evening.

Unfortunately, for the occupiers, when the 99% realized they were out-numbered four to one, their demands diminished significantly–in fact, after inviting the BlogCon attendees to attend their general assembly, #OccupyDenver was mic-checked by BlogCon (at 2:25).

Then, moments later, the “occupiers” were schooled on the difference between mob rule and Republican Democracy:

[via BreitbartTV]

Shortly after this, they quietly went back to their encampment. [Quietly slunk away may be applied here.]

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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776

Cross-posted on LaborUnionReport.com

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  • buddyp

    My favorite bit of “reporting” on OWS

  • buddyp

    Oops, I tried to embed the video. Here’s the link

    How does one embed video in a comment, or is that a no-no here?

  • runner12

    The OWS crowd just got educated by the Tea Party. You have to love it.

    Long live the Tea Party.

  • Kyle-MI

    They have now tried to disrupt two conservative gatherings as well as a conservative presidential candidate (Bachmann). And there is the targeting of the Koch brothers.

    Targeting of Democrat crony capitalists? A big fat zero.

    They are not the 99%. More like the 40% (Democrat affiliation) at best. It is looking more and more like astroturf.

  • dajeeps

    and didn’t hurt anyone. Glad for that. It’s too bad these people have hitched their wagon to the more out of control folks in that movement. I do think something needs to be done with higher education to bring the cost down, but of course we likely don’t agree on the solution.

  • RichmondG30

    to bring down the cost of higher education for sure.

    How about get the Federal Government out of the college loan business?

    Quiz: When the Federal Government pushes banks to approve mortgages to anyone with a pulse and then guarantees the mortgages, what happens to the price of housing? CORRECT! It goes up. (Way, way up.)

    Next question: When the Federal Government gives a loan to anyone who wants to attend college, without regard to the degree the person pursue and his chances of ever being able to repay the loan, what happens to the price of higher education? CORRECT AGAIN. It goes up.

    If the banks instead had to make loan decisions based on risk, do you think perhaps there might be fewer college students and more competition among colleges to attract the scarce tuition dollars?

  • johnt

    Still has a few kinks in it but they will improve. Some coaching from RichardTrunka, Jimmy Hoffa, some encouragement from leading Democrats and the NY Times & they’ll get there. That and some lead pipes and baseball bats. I can’t wait for 2012.

  • publious

    The socialist/communist apologists so prevalent in OWS should read some history or speak with people who lived through the other side.

  • wilgolden

    The day was raining suckage and i needed this.

    I find little sympathy in my heart for someone who voluntaril racks up a quarter million in student loans, to obtain a Doctorate in Whale Song Poetry. Let the little bastards starve. Hunger has a way of waking up idiots, something that these little hothouse flowers have never experienced.

  • 1stRichard

    The weather is getting cold and likely the reason there was so few of the Occupy Mob, we occupied them, see here

    http://youtu.be/pXd8cdOTCQA

    Seems funny, the Occupy Mob has

  • buddyp

    Biden made the argument recently that budget cuts the Republicans supposedly wanted would result in fewer cops and, in turn, more rapes and robberies.

    Leaving aside the matter of Biden using incorrect figures, presumably he believes — I think reasonably — that there is some causal relationship between the number of cops available to fight crime and the level of crime that occurs.

    So every time I see a large mass of cops, often in full riot gear, dealing with illegal “occupy” protests (and I’m sure doing so after much law enforcement management time has gone into discussing the matter), I wonder how many more rapes and robberies are occurring because those cops are not out there fighting those crimes.

    And I’m not being facetious. All that time cops and law enforcement management is spending on those protesters presumably would have otherwise been spent fighting those crimes, presumably to some effect.

    Maybe Joe should tell the illegal protesters that it’s time for them to stop causing all those preventable rapes and robberies.