The Seattle Times tells us that: Hundreds of demonstrators marched onto Seattle’s University Bridge Thursday halting traffic during the evening rush hour in one of several rallies nationwide for “Jobs Not Cuts.†You may ask: How did they manage to get “hundreds†to show up, and how could “hundreds” halt traffic?
Cops protecting the occupation
Observe the cops keeping the occupiers safe as the occupiers illegally confront, harass, and obstruct drivers. Without those cops, the occupiers would have been road kill.
Stultum facit fortuna
Consensus leads to the madness of crowds, not the wisdom of crowds. As we move to a society ruled by consensus, madness and evil prevails.
Real eviction for fake Occupy Denver
You can tell that when Occupy Denver was finally evicted, it was a real eviction (not a pretend eviction to be immediately followed by them being allowed back in as happened with Occupy Oakland) because this time, no Kent State Moment, no highly dramatic confrontation footage, no gigantic hordes of police dressed in maximum menace gear. Seems that when you actually evict the Occupiers, you don’t need nearly as many …
The sins of “Occupy Wall Streetâ€
This should not be necessary, but I observe right wing blogs blissfully unaware of what has been going on, so, a list:
Herman Cain charged with making a woman feel bad about herself
And if a woman says whatever it is that she is saying (not that anyone is telling us what she is saying) the man must be guilty, right?
épater la bourgeoisie
Occupy Wall Street is the rage of a privileged elite. Here are some images of the digs of some of those arrested.
No friends to the right
Men’s Warehouse sends their staff to join the protest, with pay. Which means, of course, they send warehouse security away.
Riot choreography
Supposedly, according to Associated Press “Port of Oakland reopens after Wall Street protesters remove blockade that had shut down operations overnight†They very much wish that Wall Street protestors had been able to shut down operations Supposedly there was a general strike in Oakland yesterday, a strike, which, however, strangely only affected city operations. But what in fact happened was revealed by the Police Association:
Lew Rockwell drinks the left’s Koolaid
According to LewRockwell.com the protesters were peaceful, the only ones acting out with petty violence being loudly chastised by the crowd. The most belligerent participants by far were law enforcers, who responded to thrown bottles and civil disobedience with tear gas and rubber bullets.