Occupy Oakland - Before & After

[stocktrader23]

[garce]

I just thought it was a bunch of lazy hippies who don't want to clean up after themselves.

My bad...

[alias]

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[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

ADG

[Caligari]

"democracy is messy" - Oakland Mayor Jean Quan

i would expect to see more of these attacks soon.

great pics ADG

[stocktrader23]

Originally Posted by Caligari

"democracy is messy" - Oakland Mayor Jean Quan

i would expect to see more of these attacks soon.

great pics ADG

They've been pulling these overnight raids / arresting everyone in a few cities now. Some departments will back off, some will escalate... who knows how this will turn out.

[stocktrader23]

New Headline for Fox News: Occupy Oakland Protesters Destroy Park; Don't Clean Up After Themselves.

[Caligari]

check this out, posted in another thread-

found this on facebook:
My friend's first-hand experience of Occupy Oakland's eviction: "What the news is telling you about the Occupy Oakland raid is not the whole truth. I was there for every single minute of it. At 5 am approx 3-400 police surrounded the plaza in full riot gear and gave everyone 5 mins to exit. I moved to just outside the barrier they established because I am not in a position where I can get arrested right now. Myself and approx 15-20 other protesters (one legal observer from the national lawyers guild) were facing approx 30 police in riot gear and witnessing the "eviction." It was brutal. Over 300 police in full riot gear fired tear gas, rubber bullets and flash bombs. They arrested over 90 people. Then, the 90 pound hippy chick right next to me was thrown to the pavement by a baton and she did NOTHING (we were outside of the plaza, mind you). I spoke loud and clear and reminded him that he attacked an unarmed WOMAN! Then they started pushing us back with barricades and when we didn't move as fast as they wished, they began grabbing people and trying to drag them over the fences. There was a struggle and then they came from behind the barricades swinging clubs and arresting everyone they could get their hands on... Slamming their faces into the concrete... many of them women. I barely got away. And when I asked them why were these people arrested, they said, 'I don't know... my superior ordered me, so I did.' They shut down the entire downtown with police barricades. Buses and the 12th st Bart Station were shut down. They DESTROYED EVERYTHING in the camp... this was no eviction. When those of us left regrouped and started a march in the streets to shut down broadway, another formation came and more arrests were made. I could go on. It was insane. I've never seen anything like this in my life. You might wanna think about calling someone and saying something. Word is they are holding arrestees on a $10,000 bail until their arraignment on Thursday. Call Mayor: 510.238.3141 Alemeda County Sheriff: 510.272.6878 and demand cite & release."

[alias]

Pretty sad.

[Coup]

So much for the first amendment.

[porno jew]

what the cops are doing is a good thing. their cruelty creates worldwide sympathy and escalates things in a positive manner.

[stocktrader23]

http://open.salon.com/blog/yserba/20..._to_the_ground

[stocktrader23]

[cykoe6]

It is nice to see the police finally doing their job........ not sure why it had to take so many weeks.

[DWB]

Don't eat the brown acid.

[BIGTYMER]

Fuck the pigs!

[ruff]

Fuckers never learn. This is what the movement needs. Pig dynamics. Get everybody stirred up and the movement only grows. Thug cops today are the sons of the thug cops of the 60's.

[seeandsee]

peaceful protests will make them not change it...

[Sin_Vraal]

Originally Posted by seeandsee

peaceful protests will make them not change it...

unfortunately whomever is telling the police to tear gas hippies is making a big mistake. that will make the crowds very ugly very fast, AND draw the unwanted attention of gun nuts and the likely very large slew of non protestors who think the hippies (99%) are stupid hippies but shouldnt have their rights violated.

[ottopottomouse]

[signupdamnit]

Originally Posted by stocktrader23

New Headline for Fox News: Occupy Oakland Protesters Destroy Park; Don't Clean Up After Themselves.

"Protesters arrested for littering. Did not clean up the blood dripping to the ground after being beaten by police during peaceful protests. Post from "theking" to follow explaining how they must be arrested because littering is a crime and the Law is the Law."

[MediaGuy]

[Caligari]

Right about now "They Live" could be the most prophetic film of the last 50 years.

[The Demon]

Originally Posted by Caligari

Right about now "They Live" could be the most prophetic film of the last 50 years.

Hint: When you're trying to seem like an enlightened thinker, don't compare the US to a movie that destroys your credibility because of massive exaggeration.

[L-Pink]

That mess is nothing, you should see the parking lots after a Raider game.

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[Caligari]

Originally Posted by The Demon

Hint: When you're trying to seem like an enlightened thinker, don't compare the US to a movie that destroys your credibility because of massive exaggeration.

Hint: If you don't want to look like a complete tool stop making inane repug comments go back to sleep.

[The Demon]

Originally Posted by Caligari

Hint: If you don't want to look like a complete tool stop making inane repug comments go back to sleep.

Hint: If you call my comments about your idiotic comparisons inane, then you've already succeeded looking like a complete tool.

[J. Falcon]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

That mess is nothing, you should see the parking lots after a Raider game.

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[stocktrader23]

Originally Posted by The Demon

Hint: If you call my comments about your idiotic comparisons inane, then you've already succeeded looking like a complete tool.

Just shut the fuck up, Dave.

[The Demon]

Originally Posted by stocktrader23

Just shut the fuck up, Dave.

Sorry stocktrader, nobody has taken you seriously in any of your posts because the aforementioned message is the gist of your arguments. "Shut up ur stupid!!" Keep trying though. Also, calling me Dave is as useful as me calling you Ginger.

[Caligari]

Originally Posted by The Demon

Hint: If you call my comments about your idiotic comparisons inane, then you've already succeeded looking like a complete tool.

Hint: Since your idiotic comments have been proven to be inane, comparisons to you and any tool in the shed are successful.

[DWB]

[The Demon]

Originally Posted by Caligari

Hint: Since your idiotic comments have been proven to be inane, comparisons to you and any tool in the shed are successful.

Don't think you know what inane means, otherwise you'd cease your redundant comments. I like it when stupid people attempt to use big words (for them). Please, continue comparing the US to "They Live". It's amusing.

[Caligari]

Originally Posted by The Demon

Don't think you know what inane means, otherwise you'd cease your redundant comments. I like it when stupid people attempt to use big words (for them). Please, continue comparing the US to "They Live". It's amusing.

Inane: Silly; stupid; not significant; The Demon.

[The Demon]

Originally Posted by Caligari

Inane: Silly; stupid; not significant; The Demon.

Irony

Also,

[Caligari]

Irony: What the demon uses to remove wrinkles from his trousers

[shimmy2]

oakland is the city of dope, couldn't be saved by john the pope - too short

[stocktrader23]

Originally Posted by The Demon

Sorry stocktrader, nobody has taken you seriously in any of your posts because the aforementioned message is the gist of your arguments. "Shut up ur stupid!!" Keep trying though. Also, calling me Dave is as useful as me calling you Ginger.

I like Ginger, David.

[cherrylula]

Those people were not "protesting," they were illegally camping in the park.

BIG DIFFERENCE

They have a right to protest, but if those hippies were in my neighborhood fucking CAMPING and SLEEPING in the park, I'd want them gone too.

[Caligari]

For those who are unfamiliar with the film "They Live" (1988) this is why the film is so prophetic.
From - http://criticality.org/2011/04/they-...-view-society/

based on the story by Ray Nelson, Eight O’Clock in the Morning narrates a metaphor of the suppression of consciousness and submission of modern society by a ruling class. In the case of They Live the ruling class is an alien elite that secretly rules the world by enslaving and resource exploitation.

And from Film School Rejects-
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/opi...presidency.php

Piper plays Nada, a man who ekes out a living bouncing between construction sites. He overtly states that he believes in the American way, and that he plays by the rules. He is confident success will find him if he just keeps working hard.

He meets up with Frank (Keith David). Frank has moved to a new city to find work, leaving his wife and family behind. “The steel mills were laying people off left and right,” he explains to Nada, “They finally went under. We gave the steel companies a break when they needed it. You know what they gave themselves? Raises.”

The film is abundantly populated with drifters like Nada and Frank–people willing to work, but either unable to find a job, or unable to live off the wages when they do.

One night Frank and Nada are watching television and a man breaks into the broadcast. He’s referred to as a “hacker,” and he is trying to get a message to the American people. He says “we are sleeping while they live.” He talks about the police state that has our country under its jack boot. And he bemoans the economic inequities that have befallen our nation.

“They are dismantling the sleeping middle class,” he says, “More and more people are becoming poor.”

In the film there is a famous fight (remember the south park homage?)scene where Roddy Piper's character is trying to convince his friend that he is living in a false reality and he needs to look at the world through the glasses to "wake up."
The writer goes on to explain-

The entire film is steeped in metaphor, but the aforementioned alley fight scene transcends metaphor and becomes a sort of self-contained social satire. It illustrates how difficult it is to make everyday U.S. citizens see that the American Dream has been subverted by a long stream of self-serving politicians, and the attitude that what’s good for big business is good for America. As the events of the past two months have illustrated vividly, this is not the case. Big business, left unchecked, will seek only to become bigger and more monolithic, stamping out competition, and reducing economic opportunity for the middle class (formerly known as “the backbone of America”).

Meanwhile, the oversized financial entities created by unchecked capitalism receive billions in tax savings, while the middle class, now bearing the largest portion of the country’s tax burden proportionately, gets insulting stipends by way of “economic stimulus payments.” The tragic irony comes when the monolithic entities fail and it falls to the middle class to bail them out with their tax dollars.

Note this was written in 2008 and the writer (like many others) was convinced that Obama would be the catalyst for real change...which did not happen.

Nevertheless, if you have not seen the film "They Live" I recommend you seek it out. It is one of Carpenter's masterpieces and a prophetic look at current events.

[Barry-xlovecam]

This "thing" has gained to much traction in just a month for it to be ignored ... We'll see if it is just getting started.

New poll out last night the current US Congress gets a 9% approval rating.

[baddog]

Originally Posted by cherrylula

Those people were not "protesting," they were illegally camping in the park.

BIG DIFFERENCE

They have a right to protest, but if those hippies were in my neighborhood fucking CAMPING and SLEEPING in the park, I'd want them gone too.

That kind of logic will not be tolerated on GFY. #OccupyGFY

[Caligari]

Originally Posted by cherrylula

Those people were not "protesting," they were illegally camping in the park.

BIG DIFFERENCE

They have a right to protest, but if those hippies were in my neighborhood fucking CAMPING and SLEEPING in the park, I'd want them gone too.

yes damn those hippies!

[baddog]

Originally Posted by Caligari

yes damn those hippies!

Why do you think those people were camping in the park? Is that second pic even from Oakland (notice rain gear on the top pic, not the second)?

[Caligari]

Originally Posted by baddog

Why do you think those people were camping in the park? Is that second pic even from Oakland (notice rain gear on the top pic, not the second)?

1)point of pics- because its always "those hippies"
2)does it matter which protest? its the same response everywhere...

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by Caligari

Right about now "They Live" could be the most prophetic film of the last 50 years.

Only because it's educating people who were blind to this going on for 50 years already
but they have ignored it calling the victims a bunch of bums.

Now that more arrogant jackasses have gone broke and found themselves on the street,
it's suddenly inhumane for this to happen.

It's inhumane because "I'm not a fucking bum!".

[directfiesta]

Originally Posted by Caligari

check this out, posted in another thread-

wow .... doing that to ' their own people ' .....

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Caligari

check this out, posted in another thread-

you must be wrong
well respected posters here who have never been to the rallies have told us that the protesters deserve what they get.

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by stocktrader23

So how much is it gonna cost the tax payers to clean up their fucking mess?

This is what the protesters don't understand. Their silly protesting with camping out and war drums is costing cities hundreds of thousands of dollars in police and clean up costs. Wonderful - Our cities are going broke, but let's force them to spend more for utterly no reason.

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by Rochard

So how much is it gonna cost the tax payers to clean up their fucking mess?

This is what the protesters don't understand. Their silly protesting with camping out and war drums is costing cities hundreds of thousands of dollars in police and clean up costs. Wonderful - Our cities are going broke, but let's force them to spend more for utterly no reason.

so it's the protestors fault the cities are going broke?

what the hell is going on today