The police arrested 1 (I think) person in a tent and then all left. About 2 dozen cops mostly bike cops but a few in cars made the announcement that the park was closed at about 10:15. They took down the tent only and arrested the person.
There was another group of people willing to get arrested, who locked hands, but it appears they were left alone. No riot gear or attempts to clear the entire park. As far as I could tell nobody was pepper sprayed. While, once again, I think the arrests were a serious mistake, I applaud the police for their professionalism.
I saw on the news this morning that this angry mob will protest Romney’s visit.
More and more, this left-wing teabagger movement is beginning to alarm me.
I read on Drudge that In L.A., one Occupy protester said violence is necessary to achieve their goals.
And In NYC, an Occupy protester is trying to whip the mob up against Jews, saying it’s all the Jews’ fault.
@1 “I read on Drudge that In L.A., one Occupy protester said violence is necessary to achieve their goals.”
Is his name Patrick Howley? You know, the American Spectator’s agent provocateur at the Smithsonian?
The whole world now knows rightwingers are trying to discredit the Occupy movement by instigating violence at these events. Sorry, bub, it’s not gonna work — they’ve been exposed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
This is why the moneyed class that has run America for the last 30 years is going to be overthrown.
“The number of U.S. homes that received a first-time default notice during the July to September quarter increased 14 percent compared to the second quarter of the year, RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday. That increase signals banks are moving more aggressively now against borrowers who have fallen behind on their mortgage payments than they have since industrywide foreclosure processing problems emerged last fall.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44.....al_estate/
“The Defense Department, which has promised to publish a reliable account of how it spends its money by 2017, has discovered that its financial ledgers are in worse shape than expected and that it will have to spend billions of dollars in the coming years to make its financial accounting credible, the Center for Public Integrity reported Thursday.”
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.c.....y-is-going
Roger Rabbit Commentary: “Industrywide foreclosure processing problems” is a euphemism for fraud, perjury, and false swearing in thousands upon thousands of court filings. Dishonest banks being sued for billions because of “problems” in their foreclosure practices are raising fees on honest customers to make up their losses. Meanwhile, the military/industrial complex can’t tell us what they did with the trillions of dollars they took from us in the name of “national security.”
“Angry” protests? You ain’t seen nothing yet, Troll. This is a slave rebellion, and it’s just beginning.
Meanwhile, over on Stefan’s sucky little blog, Mark Griswold treats us to this screed:
“Can someone, anyone, seriously explain to me why kids are staging walk outs to go join the protests? Especially the college kids. I’ll bet not one of them paid a single dime for their education. It would be like going to a restaurant, ordering and paying for your food and then walking out before you ate it because the movie theater across the street was charging too much for tickets. There are a lot of things our liberal friends do that I may not agree with but, after having been surrounded by them for 30 years I can sort of understand where they’re coming from.”
Well, Mark, there are lots of things you say that I don’t agree with and can’t understand, such as when you very publicly expressed your wish that terrorists would kill more innocent Americans so GOP candidates would do better at the ballot box:
“Congratulations Speaker Pelosi, now let the bombs fall where they may. My prediction: terror attack on domestic soil passenger aircraft within the next six months. Casualties in the 2-300 range. And, unfortunately, maybe that’s just what we need. It’s obvious people don’t remember what happened 5 years ago. Posted by FullContactPolitics at November 8, 2006 10:52 AM
http://blog.usefulwork.com/cgi.....ry_id=7430
Don’t get me wrong, Mark, I knew where you were coming from when you posted that:
Frank Chopp, 53,515, 84.8085%
Mark Griswold, 9,586, 15.1915%
http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/R.....e8ed16caeb
But you see, Mark, the problem there wasn’t not enough terrorist attacks; the problem was that you were a lousy candidate.
And now that you’re not a candidate anymore, but merely a blowhard, it seems to me your comments should be evaluated in light of your track record. When voters had an opportunity to express their opinion on your opinions, they rejected you by a margin of 5.5-to-1. Doesn’t this sort of suggest that you’re, er, out of touch with what other people think?
So why should anyone care what you say?
#4 was posted by Roger Rabbit. The Mrs. and I share a computer, and WordPress sometimes defaults back to a previously used screen name. I didn’t catch it this time.
@1: You should apply the same standard of “isolated nut” as I assume you do to the teahadists calling for armed insurrection, political assassination/intimidation, etc.
Mark obviously has no idea who pays for the tuition of college students today. Most pay for it through a combination of work and student loans, with some assistance from parents, if they have the means.
The small percentage who’s parents pay the entire cost of their college education are more likely to identify themselves with the one percenters than with the Occupy protesters.
As for unruly crowds, I remember working a Husky game in front of the visitor’s bleachers when Oregon State was playing. (This was part of a fundraising program for my kid’s sports team). The crowd was pretty unruly, apparantly someone at Oregon State was counterfeiting tickets to the “open seating” bleacher area, so there were more people than seats available. Soon they started jumping up and down on the bleachers until the boards broke, and then demanded to be seated in the premium seats. I pointed out to one of the instigators that the U.W. might bill Arizona State for the damages (yea, it was a bluff, but I was jsut trying to control the crowd). He just shrugged, and said his father paid all his bills anyway, so he didn’t care. He then made a snarky comment about being superior to someone who made his living being an usher.
This guy was obviously not someone participating in the “Occupy Wall Street” protests, by now he probably was workign at his dad’s firm in conjunction with Wall Street.
Of course, the guys at the Kappa Sigma Fraternity at the University of Arkansas make no bones about which side of the debate they are on:
@8 The Occupy protests are simply a reaction to the fact the one-percenters’ sense of entitlement has gotten out of control.
Speaking of which, it occurs to me that money can’t turn trash into class. It only creates an overclass of moneyed trash.
First off, if they’re in college they’re adults not kids. We all make the mistake of calling college students kids (and treating them like kids) far too often. Second, I’ve read clearly stated statements from college students as to why they’re supporting the occupy movement. Why doesn’t Mark just Google up some of those statements and read them for himself?
Meanwhile, over at Crosscut, Marcie Sillam has paen to the corporate excess of SLU.
Over at The AVE I have written a very different view of SLU. Here is the link: http://handbill.us/?p=10959
Some excerpts:
Marcie Sillam’s desription of SLU is so far from the truth that it reads like a flack piece for Vulcan. She does not understand the amazing mix of cultures that created the atmosphere she sees as a soil for our current crop of corporations.
Her “history” of Seattle innovation left off:
Wobblies, the Long Shoreman’s Union and Harry Bridges
Marc Tobey and the amazing artists of the NW school
Jimi Hendrix
Ed Krebs and Eddie Fisher, their Nobel led to a huge part of modern anti cancer therapy
Quncey Jones
Bill Holm, the “formline” … the basis for the huge renaissance in art from our own
REI and The Mountaineers
Donald Thomas, Nobel for Bone Marrow transplant
Jacob Lawrence
UW Immunology faculty .. the founders of Immunex and Genetic Systems
Tom Hutchinson and Hal Weintraub, the Hutchinson Cancer Center
Lee Hood, the true father of the Human Genome Project
Chief Seattle, whose vision allowed Seattle to come to be.
Chief Leschi, brave leader of the effort to stop extermination of what came before.
Victor Steinbrueck and Pike Place Market
Washington’s wine industry
I thiunk she is way from the truth in extolling VULCAN’s original claim to be developin an urban biotech complex. The major driving force in SLU is not … at least not yet … biotech. Seattle ranks well below much more entrepreneurail places like the Bay Area, Southern California, Pennsylvania near U. Penn, and of course Boston. The founding companies for SLU, Rosetta and Zymogenetics, have now failed or shrunk. Immunex chose to build its campus outside of SLU and then sold itself, and that campus, to AMGEN. Most of today’s biotech innovation is still occurring in Bothell and the Eastside.
I think this failure is in part because the SLU development has ignored traditional Seattle values. This city has never been about downtown. Seattle’s innovators have worked from their homes, the UW campus, or neighboring … more rural .. districts. As a resident of SLU, I note the absence of bars and bookshops. We do not even have a branch of the UW bookstore. The new restaurants, while great places to meet for a business lunch, do not offer the kind of casual atmosphere where creative people .. .. are likely to gather. Even the condoes sprouting up here lack public spaces that engender discussion.
The most visible effect of the SLU corporate atmosphere is that the art community has been driven out. The SLU gallery scene is anemic.
In sum SLU is a business district, an expansion of down town office space and Manhattan style housing that is quite unlike the odd Seattle mix Ms. Sillman extols.
@8
And I bet most of them are going to graduate deeply in debit and be paying for their educations for at least a decade after they graduate.
I think the troll is Jewish…and financed by Soros…
No…the Rothchilds. Yeah. Them.
Michael @ 12: Thanks, I don’t know why the link to the photo didn’t get posted.
By the way, I have to say that every encounter I’ve ever had with a Seattle policeman has been pleasant and professional. I even sent a letter to the department once when I was pulled over for expired tabs (I had them, I just forgot to put them on the license plate). The officer was so pleasant and polite it was worthy of mention.
That doesn’t mean, however, that everyone else has the same experience. It takes only a bad apple having a bad day, etc. to make the entire department look bad. That’s why I don’t understand the department’s defensive posture about releasing dashboard cam footage and having independent reviews of all shootings or other use of force. That would go a long way in re-establishing the credibility of the department and the public’s support.
@16
I got pulled over on 99 last spring, came out of the headed north of down town too fast and got a ticket for. The cop that pulled me over was pleasant and professional. I put a check for $120 bucks in the mail the next day.
Mr. or Mrs. Roger Rabbit
Well done!
cheering and clapping