Throwing themselves in front of/onto a car? Imagine how upset that innocent driver was. I wonder how the idiot mayors allowing these protests (and, in cases like Oakland, encouraging them) are going to feel when the hardworking taxpayers in their cities refuse to raise taxes for the clean-up?

I regret that Ihave but one life to give for my movement.

the sooner it can be violently suppressed, which, due to the lack of laws being enforced by the executive branches, is where this will inevitably end up.

I’m stocking up on emergency rations of popcorn.

When they start threatening families, and when someone is illegally blocking my access like those clowns I’d consider it a threat, it’s time to start cracking skulls. When they finally get in the face of the wrong person and that person ups with a gun and lets one of them have it, maybe they’ll reconsider the course of their lives.

The most scientific way to discover the extent of hunger is to check out the fast food dumpster at KFC. I do this quite often and find i am the only one present. But this is not a total waste because I love the coleslaw and mash potato`s.

While the incident in DC looks bad for the occupiers, I am not crazy about what I am hearing from Oakland. Not that I trust the versions I am hearing in the news, but without contradictory reporting it is hard to dismiss the behavior of the Oakland police.

At this point, I want to point out that the city of Oakland is run by Democrats. They have a Democrat mayor and city council. While the police chief is probably a non-political office, you can bet that the mayor would not have chosen him if he leaned the wrong way. The actions of the police are the responsibility of the Democrats in charge. (It surely would be the case if it were a Republican mayor.) If the police did not handle this properly the buck stops at the mayor’s office.

So, where is Obama in all of this? He is the head of the Democrats. If the police are out-of-bounds (even if just a little) why hasn’t Obama called out his minion in the mayor’s office? Why hasn’t the DOJ at least threatened an investigation?

Don’t get me wrong. I in no way support the occupiers, but I think the goal of the whole movement is to replay the Vietnam war protests and the civil rights movement. In other words, they cannot succeed unless a bunch of protestors are beaten to a bloody pulp and/or killed. They cannot win over the apathetic emotionally driven swing voters with just peaceful protests.

The best way to stop them is to ignore them as best they can be ignored, especially for minor law violations like trespassing, littering, etc. If they are ignored, they will either collapse under their own weight or they will need to step up to more major confrontations that risk alienating the swing voters they are aiming for. To summarize then, the police should just have a policy of containment not one of trying to clean out these encampments. A clean-out tactic just plays into the occupiers’ plans. It creates a potentially violent confrontation over issues on which the vast majority of swing voters are apathetic.

Oakland shows just this case. The occupiers have the perfect two victims, Iraqi war veterans. Any criticism of the violent reaction of the occupiers is countered by the moral equivalence argument. “Yes, some fringe elements were behaving badly, but at least they didn’t beat down two innocent peaceful veterans.”

I understand the general sympathy of conservatives to the rule of law and therefore a natural tendency to favor the side of the Oakland police, but I think the smart political move is to remain neutral and to call out both sides when either steps over the line. Why can’t we criticize both the Democrat supported occupiers and the police of a Democrat controlled city? We don’t have to pick sides.

but the Occupy folks are exactly like the Westboro Baptist Church, just without the legal expertise.

99% white/not-african american

is that the Occupy people started getting really crazy during Napolitano’s speech denouncing the Patriot Act, rather than the multiple speakers who delivered a message extolling fiscal conservatism. One would think that they would have gotten agitated during the latter, rather than the former.