What can you say about the burning need of our elected officials who moonlight as corporate apologists (Or is that the other way around?) to break up a lawful assembly of peaceful protesters because the president was in the next town jacking his jaw, or the mayor just grew tired of the great unwashed thinking they had these things called "rights?"
Rubber bullets, rock-hard canvas beanbags fired from shotguns (if you watched the "Jackass" movies you saw up close how nasty those things hurt) and flash/bang stun grenades all were employed by the thin blue line as if they were giggling boys with toys. This in concert with efforts by police across the country in busting or just busting up We The People--the awesome NY State Police in Albany excepted--smells of the Department of Homeland Security's, if not the CIA's, involvement, either or both owing George Orwell his props.
#occupyobama - Truth-Out.org 10/22/11...
I'm loving this idea. Since no Progressive Democrat will primary Obama prior to the general election, why not get the #occupy movement to turn out en masse wherever he campaigns and do as he urged before he lost the House, hold him accountable. It could also be interesting to find out if there will be many Obama supporters who won't want to be affiliated with the movement, and how often the police will have to intervene from campaign stop to campaign stop in order to keep the more vocal of the lot in line.
Barry wanted to co-opt the #occupy movement? How 'bout the #occupy movement co-opt Barry?
I would say those elected officials would do anything to avoid biting the hands that feed...
ReplyDeleteI'm even more for an #occupycongress movement, if there is one, to take back the House and thereby force Obama to have something of the progressive agenda he promised during campaign speeches in '08.
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