Publicly funded seditionists attack the Thin Blue Line
This week Jean Quan, Oakland’s perpetually embarrassing excuse for a Mayor, has started shooting off distress flares. It would seem that the angry rabble of Bolsheviks and vanguard anarchists she cynically welcomed into her city with open arms have turned against the good interests of law and order and started to become an actual nuisance.
In November of 2011:
“The pro-99 percent activists — whose cause I support — will have the freedom to get their message across without the conflict that marred last week’s events,” Quan said. “Although getting the balance right is never an easy task, in Oakland we are committed to honoring free speech and protecting public safety.”
Police are upset that they were asked to clear the protesters’ encampment a week ago, only to have the mayor let the camp resume a day later. The raid last Tuesday, along with the tear gas-clouded standoff with marchers that night and other law enforcement actions related to the protest, cost Oakland $1 million, said Sgt. Dom Arotzarena, president of the Oakland police union.
Officials assessed damage to City Hall caused by Occupy Oakland protesters while leaders of the movement claimed Sunday that police acted illegally in arresting hundreds of demonstrators and could face a lawsuit.
Mayor Jean Quan was among those inspecting damage caused after dozens of people broke into City Hall on Saturday, smashing glass display cases, spray-painting graffiti, and burning an American flag.
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Quan, who faced heavy criticism for the police action last fall, on Saturday called on the Occupy movement to “stop using Oakland as its playground.”
“People in the community and people in the Occupy movement have to stop making excuses for this behavior,” Quan said.
On Sunday, Quan said she is tired of the protesters’ repeated actions.
“I’m mostly frustrated because it appears that most of them constantly come from outside of Oakland,” Quan said. “I think a lot of the young people who come to these demonstrations think they’re being revolutionary when they’re really hurting the people they claim that they are representing.”
For all her gross ineptitude Quan’s understanding of the nature of the protesters is not without merit. The self-perpetuating unionized bureaucrats, New Left remnants and petty bourgeoisie Progressives from San Francisco, Berkeley and other far left enclaves in the Bay Area make the pilgrimage into working class Oakland in order to raise their banners and riot. They can’t be asked to burn down their organic farmer’s market or fair trade cafes so they trash Oakland in the name of social justice and economic equality.
It’s along this vein of thought I’d bring your attention to Dr. Robert Ovetz. Now you should know that Ovetz, a Bay area community college teacher, is so important that he feels the need to write his own wikipedia article to let you know as much. Heady stuff.
When he’s not engaged in the self-aggrandizement facilitated by Web 2.0 he’s running hilariously comedic campaigns for school boards and solemnly interviewing disgraced Marxist “Economists” about why capitalism is in its death throws. Hilarity for the extremely bored starts at around 6:48 as said idiot attempts to fumble through Businesses 101.
Well, our tax payer funded left wing hero and Occupy gadfly managed to rouse himself from Marin County to assault an Oakland Police officer. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, on Monday, Ovetz was arrested for “suspicion of misdemeanor assault and assault on a police officer”. Yet if you check that article today and you won’t find Ovetz’s name anywhere, it’s been totally scrubbed.
Why would the SF Chronicle remove the name of a professor of left wing extremist tendencies who came down to Oakland and was then charged with attacking a cop? The SF Chronicle has had the courage to call a spade a spade in the past, why not now? I have a request into the Chronicle now and I’ll let your know when I find out.
Update: Just a cursory search demonstrates that this rabbit hole is deep indeed. More to come as I put it together.
Category: Occupy
The problem with Occupy [insert city] is that their whole premise is about “give me”. There’s a reason you’ll see Leftists in large crowds protesting this or that. Its a feel good action that doesn’t actually require sacrifice. Typically Right leaning individuals are wary of crowds from the get go, but more than that, they’re busy with their jobs etc.
So who could see something wrong with a bunch of people who are angry (about what specifically we’re still trying to figure out) and have NO respect for the rule of law? Obviously no one in a position of Authority in the Bay Area.
““I’m mostly frustrated because it appears that most of them constantly come from outside of Oakland,” Quan said. “I think a lot of the young people who come to these demonstrations think they’re being revolutionary when they’re really hurting the people they claim that they are representing.””
Whoa! Did she fall down and hit her head on something?
The lefties were desperate. Between the economy, Iran, Fast & Furious and the other bad news they needed a good distraction.
And then the mayors let the lefties play. Instead of TV drama they get lice and filth. The “mainstream” media shilled these fleabags for months.
This is the death knell of the “New left.” Remember, the KKK used to boast 1 million dues paying members. “Birth Of A Nation” was screened at the White House (much like how our current leadership gave the Occupy Movement a wink and a nod). Only this time the implosion went by quick.
I know a guy in New York who has a love of history; he said that the Occutards managed to reprise the entire history of the Soviet Union, birth to final collapse, in the first two weeks.
And then, having run out of the Soviet Union to emulate, they decided to imitate Somalia and other “failed states.”
They wanted “hope and change” but after four months of shit piling up, overdoses, deaths, and rapes, the Democrat leadership can’t backpedal quickly enough from what they embraced.
Memo to liberals–NO, you cannot pick up the clean end of a turd. This piece of shit is all YOURS. You embraced it in the beginning, you need to take responsibility for what you failed to condemn, even though you had 100-plus years of history telling you this was going to turn to shit sooner rather than later.
@4: It is interesting though they set out to create communes that would further grow into an ideal society. In a matter of days it became readily apparent that their Ideology didn’t hold up in the real world.
Good news is maybe a few (of the non-mentially infirmed) will come to their senses and join the Conservative Side. As an added bonus. . . We have Soap.
Just to get out in front of Joey or Insipid, what Sparky said in #5. Just about covers it, perfectly.
We went on a one hour walk today in the minus 5 degree Celcius weather to show our solidarity for all of those heroic centurions in Afghanistan supporiing the Ayn Rand Capitalist Christian American Lifestyle against the mysoginistic hillbillies of the hindu kush. It was a gruelling walk for us.
There was a wide paved path straight up the gently sloping hill. The many gravel paths that crossed the paved path gave our little group many temptations to veer off the straight path to the right or the left. As we approached the summit it became quite icy. But we used our intellegence to chose our steps carefully and to avoid falling on our asses.
Now someone might grow a bit testy and say, shut the fuck up your are being sarcastic. Our reply to that is to say, God damn it, give us a break. At least we thought about what our soldiers are doing today in Afghanistan. That is more than what 80% of Americans will do today. Of the other 20% the vast majority of them are your parents and siblings.
We thought about you today. We also thought about the peasents in Afghanistan and how they are caught between the Taliban and NATO/Government forces.
We are a highly incompitent bunch. But some things are so obvious even an idiot can see it. NATO did not have to lose the war in Afganistan. If it wouild have allied itself with Iran it could have provided better conditions for 30 million people. But allas 5 million Isralis count for more than 30 million Afghans.
Dipshit–minus 5 Celsius, not Celcius. At least you fucking Eurotrash could at least learn to spell your system of measurement correctly before you come here to troll your drivel.
Oh, for those who don’t feel like doing the math, that’s 23 degrees Farenheit. IOW, a typical NH February day. Morning, that’s a bit colder.
So Curt, do us the courtesy of licking a power line, preferably while you have a copper strap attached between you and earth ground, mkay?
@#8 “NATO did not have to lose the war in Afganistan.”:
In the future there will be arguments as to whose strategy was the most FUBAR in Afghanistan; the USSR or NATO.
Almost have to go with NATO–because once again, we had history on our side, yet failed to learn that if you give an enemy safe haven from which he can rest, regroup, and launch attacks, you’re gonna have a hell of a time beating him.
Frankly, at least Laos and Cambodia were technically neutral, Pakistan claims to be our ally but damned if they don’t fuck us over every chance they get.
Putting on the tinfoil hat here, I’m wondering if we would take this kind of shit from them if they didn’t have nukes or the ability to make/use them.
Amen NHSparky. We saw exactly how the Soviets fought and lost and proceeded to use their playbook of trying to believe that we could negotiate with the goathumpers. Have none of our war planners never studied Sun Tzu? Do they not know the definition of victory?
“I’m mostly frustrated because it appears that most of them constantly come from outside of Oakland,” Quan said. “I think a lot of the young people who come to these demonstrations think they’re being revolutionary when they’re really hurting the people they claim that they are representing.”
That’s the money shot. That’s how it always goes with those that embrace revolutionary communism.
Another “when keeping it real goes wrong” moment.
Never again use the words, “Jean Quan” and “money shot” in the same post again.
EVER.
To All: We lost the war in A-stan the second we weren’t determined to win it. I mean think about it, from about 2003-2008 all the entire country gave a shit about was Iraq. During that time a host of really bad descisions were made in A-stan. We could easily have recovered, and indeed have to *some* degree. But rather than show the raw determination to win, we have said: “hey we actually didn’t lose in Iraq? How can that be? We had to lose somewhere. . .OH THAT’s right, we’re still in Afghanistan.”
We could in theory still win in A-stan. But it would require for us to double down (AGAIN!!!) and go with the sense that not only are we going to kill our enemy, but we are going to leave our allies in such a strong position that they need not fear.
As an aside 80% of the worlds Heroin comes from A-stan. I think its something like 30% of the Pot. Imagine if they were no longer growing those particular crops, how much better our country would be.
woops wrong window Mia culpa
Doc: time for some oxygen!
Wondering if all the destruction is to lay the groundwork for declaring Oakland a disaster area, and get a couple billion in federal largesse, courtesy of you and me.
After all, what is Oakland?
After all, what is Oakland?
Detroit with better scenery?
After all, what is Oakland?
a fun place to riot?
@#18, not much longer, Sparky.