Tea Party slashes police car tires and sprays "kill cops" on walls on the 4th of July, and the media is silent...

Ha ha! Fooled you!

It was the Occupy Movement that the media ignored.

If a leftist branch commits and act of violence in a media forest, does it make a noise?

Apparently not.

Spot the Idiots.

Occupidiots assault police at 2:45 minutes, apparently trying to provoke a reaction.

Notice the number of mask wearing Occupidiots?  Notice that Tear Partiers don't wear masks?

Question - why do peaceful protesters feel the need to wear masks?

More idiots wandering the streets in an unmedicated condition.

Zombie offers a photo-essay showing the level of psychosis at the OccupyMayDay protests.

What can you say about the kind of incoherence shown in the picture at right other than the person has an untreated psychosis? And, yet, this passes without notice among the Occupiers.

And in what universe does anyone think that there is a market for supporting Communism?   

But compare these pictures with the pictures of the San Francisco Tea Party rally.  And realize that it is the Tea Party that is branded as weird and extremist.                                                           

 

Thomas Sowell on the existential significance of the "Occupy Movement."

The Constitution promises equal treatment, even to people who aren't leftist dingbats.

The "Occupy" movement, which the Obama administration and much of the media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing sensation it has created.

The unwillingness of authorities to put a stop to their organized disruptions of other people's lives, their trespassing, vandalism and violence is a de facto suspension, if not repeal, of the 14th Amendment's requirement that the government provide "equal protection of the laws" to all its citizens.

I like this chart:

More unmedicated idiots wandering the streets in Oakland.

Via Zombie.

A lot of people in Oakland needing serious medication.

A pictorial retrospective on the May Day "General Strike" in Oakland.

Occupy Wall Street forces Representative of the Forces of Faceless, Evil Capitalism to Knuckle Under!

Small Cafe shuts down because of 12 straight weeks of being under barricades - lays off 71 workers.

But the important thing is that the kids meant well.

No matter how many lives they destroyed in the process.

A different look at the UC Davis pepper-spraying incident.

OWS Exposed provides a completely different context to what we've been shown.  The police action appears to be professional and restrained and the pepper spraying occurred because the protesters had surrounded the police and lawfully arrested occupiers while chanting "let them free."  The Occupiers go so far as to tell the police that if they release the arrested, then the police will be "let free."

That's nothing less than false imprisonment.

The police also explained to the protesters blocking the walk-way that they would be pepper-sprayed if they didn't stop their efforts to falsely imprison the police, which, of course, they were doing in order to coerce the police to release the lawfully arrested Occupiers.

Here is the video -

Get a job, you damn hippy...

...and no you can't maim the "1%" with your home-made fragmentation grenades.


Glenn Reynolds advises:

#OCCUPYFAIL: Occupy Portland domestic terrorists arrested with hand grenades. All the media myths about the Tea Party seem to have come true with regard to the Occupy movement, but the press doesn’t seem to care all that much.

Here is the story:

The deputy also found two gas masks, protective eye goggles and a safety helmet. All three men told the deputy that they had spent the night at the Occupy Portland demonstration, and they brought the mortars and safety equipment to the demonstration in preparation of the expected confrontation between police and protesters Sunday morning.


The three had been at the demonstration during the confrontation Sunday morning and had left about an hour before the vehicle was stopped. During that confrontation, a police officer was injured by a firework, but the three men denied being involved in the incident.

When asked about the explosives, the three men told authorities that they knew the canning jar would explode, causing glass shrapnel to fly and possibly cause injury.

So, the "grenades" are home-made, but let's give full credit to the Occupiers desire to maim.

Then if that isn't disturbing enough, there's this from James Taranto:

In covering the Tea Party, of course, the Times emphasized its supposed extremism and violence. Brisbane doesn't even mention these themes in his column on Obamaville, even though there has been a good bit of violence there, whereas Tea Party violence was a figment of left-wing imaginations. That tells you something about the agenda of the Times and other like-minded news outlets.


The media helped create and now helps sustain the Obamaville monster, but that doesn't mean they can control it. In recent days videos have surfaced from Oakland, Calif., and Portland, Ore., showing Obamavillians attacking local news crews attempting to report on the goings-on.

The Portland video is especially creepy. It shows an angry white man--his face obscured part of the time by a pink scarf--shouting obscenities at a newsman, and declaring: "We are the 99%, you're the 1%. . . . We don't want you in our society." The distinction between demonization and dehumanization is a very fine one, and media figures who have encouraged this foul and dangerous movement will have a lot to answer for if it continues to escalate.

More Occupier Craziness.

Megan McArdle writes:

I am shocked that anyone would make this argument. This is outrageous. I don't know any people on the left who would think that this behavior were "non-violent" if it were, say, aimed at abortion clinics. It's bad enough that many of the occupiers seem to put as little thought as possible into the space they share with many fellow citizens. A sizeable number of them now seem to have decided that physical intimidation is a legitimate tactic with which to express their rage and frustration.


I have no doubt that support for these tactics is a minority sentiment on the left. But where are the condemnations that our left-wing commentariat were so eagerly demanding from the right a year ago every time Michelle Bachmann or another tea party figure said something stupid?

No, I'm not interested in more Tu Quoque Kabuki. Rather, I think there is actually something dangerous afoot at some of these protests--something that is manifesting itself not in a worrisome undertone or overheated rhetoric, but in the actual use of force against fellow citizens. It is, of course, very nice that they haven't hurt anybody yet (as far as I'm aware, anyway), but that's no excuse for using physical force--and their own fear of hurting you--to blockade things run by people you don't like. Moreover, the more you up the physical confrontation, the higher the chance that someone will get hurt.

It seems to me that those on the left who oppose these tactics should be voicing their opposition loudly. These kinds of happenings are very bad for the movement. They're also, um, wrong. Yes, the cops have made mistakes, and I don't understand why the drivers of those cars aren't up on charges. But that's no excuse for averredly peaceful protesters to start acting like a mob.

* In fact, there was a real outrage: another luxury car owner ran his automobile at protesters who were blocking the street. But according to the police, witnesses, apparently including cops, it say the protesters stepped in front of the car right before they were hit. Protesters dispute this. I don't know which is right, so I propose that Occupy protesters stop attempting to "take the streets" and drivers refrain from hitting them with their cars.

More Occupier Hijinks.

Does the law apply to everyone or just to the little people.

San Diego occupiers attack street cart vendors with blood and urine

The coffee and hot dog carts were located in Civic Center Plaza, the same location as the Occupy San Diego protesters.

That group first settled in to the plaza Oct. 7 and set up a tent city which has since twice been taken down by police.

Coffee cart owner Linda Jenson and hot dog cart operators Letty and Pete Soto said they initially provided free food and drink to demonstrators, but when they stopped, the protesters became violent.

And according to one city councilman, bodily fluids were used in the attacks.

“Both carts have had items stolen, have had their covers vandalized with markings and graffiti, as well as one of the carts had urine and blood splattered on it,” said Councilman Carl DeMaio.

The damages will likely require at least a complete cleaning if not a replacement of the cart covers, DeMaio said.

In addition to the attacks, the vendors also said they recently received death threats.

Check out the video of Letty Soto's presentation to the San Diego City Council:


And in New York, Occupiers terrorize a small restaurant:
 

A business owner near the Occupy Wall Street encampment claims she has been repeatedly harassed and threatened with bodily harm by protesters after she and her employees refused to give in to their outlandish demands.

“I’ve been told, ‘Watch your back!’ 10 times,” Stacey Tzortzatos, owner of Panini & Co. Breads, located across from Zuccotti Park, told The Post yesterday.

She and her employees are terrified by the constant threats, which she said began after she demanded the protesters stop using her shop’s restroom as a place to bathe every day.

The final straw came about two weeks ago, when the demonstrators broke a bathroom sink, flooding the shop, and clogged the toilet -- setting her back $3,000 in damages.

She put up a sign that said the bathroom was out of order, but they tore it down shortly afterward, she said.

The common thread that seems to run through these stories is "entitlement."  These people seem to have the entitlement attitude of a four year old, which, they think, permits them to take what they want and get angry if they are denied what they want.

Any student of the 20th Century will see this as a 'bad thing.'

William McGurn writes:

The president is by no means alone. The mayor of Oakland, Calif., Jean Quan, issued words of support for the Occupy movement that sprang up outside her City Hall, claiming that sometimes "democracy is messy." Indeed it is: According to the San Francisco Chronicle, eyewitnesses claim her husband was among those who helped close the port down last week.


Ditto for Mayor Vincent Gray in the District of Columbia. On Friday a mob from Occupy DC attacked the Washington Convention Center where a conservative group was holding its meeting. The police did not protect them, and some who called for help claim 911 operators hung up. Earlier in the month, the D.C. government issued a press release boasting that "a fired-up Mayor Gray" had spoken in a freedom march that had "merged with separate demonstrations in support of DC voting rights and the Occupy Wall Street movement."

In short, instead of seeing "broken windows," too many of our urban leaders have persuaded themselves that the drugs, sexual assault and vandalism that have accompanied the Occupy movement are all "isolated incidents." In New York, Mayor Bloomberg says that he won't tolerate the kind of violence they had in Oakland. Of course, this is the same mayor who complains that the protesters have no right to erect tents when the whole of Zuccotti Park is blanketed with them.

Using mobs to attack other political parties is redolent of the tactics that destabilized Weimar Germany in the 1920s.

Content-based discrimination.

The Tea Party organization is demanding a refund for obeying the law in the light of the free ride given to the Occupiers:

On Friday, Oct. 28, Corky Mann, treasurer of the Richmond Tea Party, hand-delivered an invoice to the City of Richmond for the total costs incurred from three separate April 15 events at Richmond's downtown Kanawha Plaza.


The annual Richmond Tea Party Tax Day Rally, a major venue through which we both alert and educate Virginians on fiscal and other policy issues, has been a mainstay event for the organization each year since the 2009 inaugural rally.

The $8,500 invoice represents dollars budgeted for the Richmond Tea Party's three Tax Day rallies. When combined with the many hundreds of volunteer hours utilized for these events alone, the overall investment represents a good portion of the organization's available resources.

For each event at Kanawha Plaza we filed timely applications for governmental review and paid all required permit fees. We arranged for toilets, first-aid care, staging, lights and sound, off-duty police officers for security, event insurance and volunteers trained to support an orderly day of protest. We always left the property as clean as — or cleaner than — we found it.

The Occupy Richmond group met none of these benchmarks while camped out in the same Kanawha Plaza between Oct. 15th and Oct. 31 (the morning they were finally evicted). So in the spirit of our founding principle of equal application of the law, the Richmond Tea Party is requesting a full refund from the City of Richmond for city-imposed costs related to these three rallies.

Occupy Richmond participants, as well as their political supporters, appeared to be using the immediate urgency of their concerns as an excuse for bypassing required procedures and costs. Yet, despite knowing the urgency of our fiscal and overall national plight three years ago, Tea Partiers never expected free services, never destroyed the public areas entrusted to us, never demanded access beyond that allowed by our permit, never failed to make proper payment of fees and insurance, and never strained police and emergency services systems to the detriment of those in need of those protections and services.

Such irresponsible actions and expectations never, to be blunt, crossed our minds. Though we weren't remotely assured that our concerns had been addressed as the sun set those three April days, we disbanded and continued our citizen activism through other efforts.

The Occupy Richmond group, however, as well as many other Occupy groups across America, are not only demanding to be exempted from the rigorous requirements met by any other group before them, they are being given that exemption in city after city — by politicians either too weak or agenda-focused to do their jobs for all their citizenry.

Richmond City Councilman E. Martin Jewell even wanted a resolution that would make the Occupiers' illegal actions legal — and surely would have done so except for the inconvenient requirement that he actually act within the rules.

Democratic commentator Bob Beckel recently compared the disparity between the Tea Party's treatment by local governments and the Occupiers' to one person getting a better deal on a car than another. Imagine an America where basic equalities and a God-given right to public self-expression are reduced to clearance-sale status, depending on the agenda and whims of the "bosses" on duty at a given time.

In addition to our concerns regarding equal application of the law, our reaction to these unequal requirements is aimed at the public safety, exposure to liability and budgetary realities of fellow citizens who host legitimate political demonstrations. Of course, we will always welcome the opportunity to respond to opposing ideologies and are confident that, given actual arguments regarding policy and consequence, we will continue to offer our principled perspective with good results.

This matter clearly reflects the consequences of forcing banks to provide mortgage loans to unqualified applicants, of highly placed leaders encouraging a departure from the requirements of societal law and order, and of the demonizing of any entity acting within the parameters of the norm.

The actions of Occupiers everywhere, combined with hateful speech and unsubstantiated claims, reflect ever-escalating misinformation from agenda-driven leaders, forced to double-down on deceit, distraction and misplaced blame.

In some parts of the country, the consequences of these tactics include destroying property, attacking law enforcement officers and straining the budgets and patience of citizens across the nation. For this, the Richmond Tea Party holds responsible those in power who are selectively applying the law based on their political preferences, and we will gladly invest the refunded dollars from the city of Richmond in our efforts to bring lawful, organized activism to the citizens of Virginia.

Mobs are dangerous and scary, and when mobs form, they do things like pushing a 78 year old woman down a flight of stairs.

But can you imagine the media fire storm if this had happened at a Tea Party protest?

According to Power Line:

Rampaging Occupiers Attack 78-Year-Old Woman


We posted video last night in which degenerates from Occupy D.C. stormed the Washington Convention Center where Americans For Prosperity was holding a dinner. In the course of their riot, the Occupiers attacked a 78-year-old woman who had been attending the dinner, and pushed her down a flight of stairs. You see her at around the 3:20 mark of this video, shot by the Daily Caller:



The woman’s name is Dolores Broderson. Small Dead Animals got this email:

Ray Patnaude emails: “My wife and I were at the AFP dinner. Some info on the AFP member who was pushed down the stairs by the protestors… she is the second woman the police are helping up in the Daily Caller video. Her name is Dolores Broderson, age 78. She rode on a bus for 11 hours from Detroit to get there. She went to the emergency room with a bloody nose and bruises on her hand and leg.”

She rode from Detroit for 11 hours because AFP is a genuine grass-roots movement, unlike the Occupiers and their sugar daddies. But that is a relatively minor point. The Occupier movement stands for riot, assault, rape, vandalism, sexual harassment, public urination, public defecation and public masturbation. And Barack Obama owns it lock, stock and barrel. He has endorsed the Occupiers and never uttered a single word to distance himself from them. Their disgusting behavior should be hung around his neck like an anvil when he runs for reelection next year.

"Let it sink in: Their protests now need rape shelters. This is actually happening. And New York City lets it go on."

...according to Hot Air:

Zuccotti Park has become so overrun by sexual predators attacking women in the night that organizers felt compelled to set up a female-only sleeping tent yesterday to keep the sickos away.


The large, metal-framed “safety tent” — which will be guarded by an all-female patrol — can accommodate as many as 18 people and will be used during the day for women-only meetings, said Occupy Wall Street organizers.

“This is all about safety in numbers,” said Becky Wartell, 24, a protester from Portland, Maine…

Some of the male OWS protesters remained in denial over the growing number of sex attacks.

“Sexual harassment gets called rape, and it’s not,” one scoffed when told of the women’s tent.

This can’t be repeated enough: With a few exceptions, foremost among them the New York Post, the coverage of OWS protests compared to the coverage of tea-party protests is the worst media double standard in recent history. Nothing compares, because nothing else involves this much distortion on both ends of the coverage. It’s not just that most press outlets (like the protesters themselves) look the other way at depravity happening inside Obamaville, it’s that for years they treated the tea-party movement as some sort of feral mob that was forever on the brink of rampaging through the streets — like, say, Occupy Oakland just did. If you missed it when I posted it last week, go watch the ad the DNC ran in August 2009 when tea partiers first started showing up to town halls on ObamaCare. That set the tone. We began the year with tea-party pols being smeared as killers over a shooting they had nothing to do with and we end it with actual rapes being shrugged off by the press because they’re bad PR for a movement they support. Disgrace.

Via the Daily Caller, watch the not-at-all feral or mobbish revolutionary heroes of Occupy D.C. do their thing last night outside AFP. The video doesn’t capture the extent of the menace, either. For that, read R.S. McCain’s interview with D.C. reporter Michelle Fields, who at one point found herself surrounded by a group of men screaming “F*** Michelle Fields.” No wonder she doesn’t want to go back. Tahrir Square indeed.

There is something very, very wrong with the culture of the left that generates this kind of disordered humanity.

Occupiers attempt to suppress ungood thoughtcrime.

You'd think that the Occupiers would protest against the real power in America, i.e., the Obama administration, but that, apparently, would be politically incorrect.  So, instead, they turn their guns on a group that is most manifestly not in power, conservatives at the Americans for Prosperity meeting, which is clearly the "tell" that the Occupier movement is really about suppressing points of view that the Left doesn't want heard.



According to Robert Stacy McCain:

A Republican consultant (who shall not be named) said: “I’ve never seen so many losers in my life.” Truly, it was LoserFest 2011.

"Occupiers" use children as human shields in attempting to blockade a D.C. building.

It seems as if their strategy is now to provoke a riot.



Putting innocents into a position where they can get hurt is a classic leftist agitprop strategy.

Via Brutally Honest  from Verum Serum.

Atlanta "Occupiers" Arrested for Attacking the Police.

According to OWS Exposed:

Who would have ever thought that a group of people carrying signs saying "Death" to its enemies would start rioting?

Scenes from the OWS movement in Oakland:

Ten points to the person who can correctly guess the location of this photo:

No, it's not Libya, or Palestine, or Syria.

It's Oakland, California.

Occupy Oakland, to be more specific. Because, as we all know, a violent riot is the most effective way of creating jobs and reducing corporate political influence.

Yesterday, "Occupiers" marched through the streets of Oakland, shut down the city's harbor--the fifth busiest in the US--and provided cover for violent anarchists to commit acts of vandalism, such as spray-painting a Whole Foods and breaking the windows of a Wells Fargo. By nightfall, the protesters themselves devolved into a violent mob, setting fires in the streets and breaking into abandoned buildings:

Occupy protesters voicing anger over a budget trim that forced the closure of a homeless aid program converged on the empty building where it had been housed. They blocked off city streets with Dumpsters and other large trash bins, starting bonfires that leapt 15-feet in the air.

City officials released a statement describing the spasm of unrest.

"Oakland Police responded to a late night call that protesters had broken into and occupied a downtown building and set several simultaneous fires," the statement read. "The protesters began hurling rocks, explosives, bottles, and flaming objects at responding officers. Several private and municipal buildings sustained heavy vandalism. Dozens of protesters wielding shields were surrounded and arrested."

Protesters reported running from several rounds of tear gas and bright flashes and deafening pops that some thought were caused by "flash bang" grenades. Fire crews arrived and suppressed the flames.

Meanwhile, protesters and police faced off for the rest of the night in an uneasy standoff.

A clip from a live UStream feed in the streets of Oakland feels more like it came from Iraq than California, as flash grenades explode and people run through the streets with weapons:

Larry Kelley, a Townhall.com/Townhall Magazine contributor, was on the ground in Oakland yesterday and sent a few shots of the "peaceful" protesters in action.




A giant banner proclaiming "Death to Capitalism":


 
Anti-Israel protesters:
 
 

Anarchists (with the black scarves) leading the Occupy march:
 

If you are a leftist and Oakland is tired of you, it is most definitely time to go home.

Megan McArdle writes:

Remember all the paranoia about the "violent undertone" at tea party protests? Some of the things happening at a few of these protests is starting to seem like more than an undertone. I would far rather have my neighbor stand outside his house with a gun, then have him lob fireworks at my house, or get a bunch of his friends to cordon off my house so they could "arrest me". The tea party were demonstrating in a combined space and making life a little hot for legislators. These people are roaming around in mobs, damaging property and repeatedly clashing with the police. And no, I'm afraid I don't think that this is because the police are biased against left wing protesters; I think it's because the tea partiers stayed within the law.


Perhaps I am overreacting, but the events in Oakland seem to suggest that some faction of that group, at least, is not trying to work change within the system; they're trying to take over bits of it by force. Camping in a public park is a harmless extension of one's public rights. Barricading ports, shutting down streets, breaking into buildings, and setting bonfires . . . these are not.

I think that goes too far for most people. It certainly does for me. And the latest poll from Quinnipiac seems to indicate that the growing public disorder is costing them the high levels of support they once enjoyed. A few weeks ago, a Time poll showed that Occupy Wall Street had about twice as much public support as the tea party. Now their unfavorables are higher than their favorables, and both are only a few points better than the tea partiers. Among independents, they're indistinguishable.