Democrat-endorsed Occupiers have cost taxpayers $30 million so far for policing and cleanup

They don’t care. They believe they’re doing you a favor.

“I say, God bless them” – Nancy Pelosi

Breitbart – Occupy LA turned out to be a lot more costly to the city than originally anticipated. After the park surrounding LA’s City Hall was cleared by the LAPD in November, published estimates suggested the total cost of the two month occupation would be about $2.3 million. A new report released Friday by the city puts the total at $4.7 million. The city has said the cost of the occupation will be offset by unspecified budget cuts.

The total cost of occupations last fall hasn’t been officially tallied by anyone. However, in most cases, each city that hosted a camp has released some information on the estimated cost for policing and cleanup. A tally based on press reports nationwide puts the total at nearly $30 million:

• Occupy Asheville – $170,000
• Occupy Atlanta – $652,000
• Occupy Austin – $800,000
• Occupy Bellingham – $51,000
• Occupy Boston – $1,025,000 plus $50,000 to repair park
• Occupy Charlotte – $447,000
• Occupy Chicago – $49,000
• Occupy Cincinnati – $128,000
• Occupy DC – $1,640,000
• Occupy Denver – $782,689
• Occupy DesMoines – $7,800
• Occupy Eugene – $130,000
• Occupy Fresno – $110,000
• Occupy Hartford – $45,000
• Occupy Irvine – $23,000
• Occupy LA – $4,700,000
• Occupy Lansing – $20,000
• Occupy Long Beach – $40,000
• Occupy Minnesota – $400,000
• Occupy Nashville – $4,500
• Occupy New Haven – $145,000
• Occupy New Orleans – $50,000
• Occupy New York – $7,000,000
• Occupy Oakland – $3,000,000
• Occupy OKC — $85,000
• Occupy Olympia – $252,000
• Occupy Palm Desert – $88,786
• Occupy Philadelphia – $1,000,000
• Occupy Phoenix – $204,162
• Occupy Portland – $1,290,000 + $130,000 to repair damaged parks
• Occupy Providence – $9,000
• Occupy Raleigh – $60, 000
• Occupy Richmond – $33,691
• Occupy Sacramento – $300,000
• Occupy San Diego – $2,400,000
• Occupy San Francisco – $950,000 plus $50,000 to restore park
• Occupy Santa Cruz – $40,000
• Occupy St. Louis – $2,200
• Occupy Seattle – $625,999
• Occupy Tucson – $170,000

Total: $29,110,827

Video: Batman fed up with occupy jokers

The Dark Knight sheds some light.

May 3, 2012 by StevenCrowder

Number of Occupier arrests passes 7000

I’m betting it will hit 9,000 by end of summer, and 13,000 by election day.

“I say, God bless them.” – Nancy Pelosi

(h/t Weasel Zippers) – Click here for details on every arrest.

*Make that 7,055.

I love the way the media continually insists that these 7000 plus arrestees have nothing to do with the “peaceful” Occupy movement. There has not been a single arrest among the Tea Party in over 4 years, millions of protestors, and thousands of ralleys. Yet, we are to believe that they are the dangerous ones.

Video: Seattle May Day Occupiers go on smashing spree

The Democrat-endorsed Occupiers threw a big tantrum in Seattle.

“I say, God bless them” – Nancy Pelosi

Video via The Blaze

Video: LA May Day Occupier slams woman cop with drum

Marching to the beat of a different drummer. This isn’t what Henry David Thoreau had in mind.

Via The Blaze

Also, the LA Times reports that a female officer was struck in the head with a skateboard and taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. It’s unclear if this is the same incident and the attack weapons are simply confused, or if this is a separate attack.

Occupiers send envelopes of white powder to banks, 5 Occupiers arrested in plot to blow up Cleveland bridge, banks

More May Day mayhem courtesy of the Democrat-backed Occupy bowel movement.

Stories via Weasel Zippers:

(CBS News) — Police say the white powder contained in several envelopes that were mailed to various bank branches in New York City turned out to be non-toxic.

Police say seven envelopes were sent Monday to several Wells Fargo branches, a JP Morgan Chase branch and an office building. Telephone calls to Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase were not immediately returned.

Police say the suspicious envelopes caused evacuations of several bank branches, but no injuries were reported. Police had no suspects.

Representatives at some of the banks involved told CBS News the envelopes contained a note stating “Happy May Day.” The envelopes were sent on the eve of planned May Day protests around the country.

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(Fox News) — Five people described as anarchists were arrested Monday in a Cleveland-area park for trying to blow up a bridge, sources tell Fox News.

The public was never in danger from the explosive devices, which were inoperable and controlled by an undercover FBI employee, according to sources close to the investigation.

A criminal complaint was filed Tuesday morning in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, according to an FBI press release.

Court documents say three of the suspects are self-proclaimed anarchists who formed a small group and considered a series of plots over several months.

According to the complaint, the suspects initially planned to use smoke grenades to distract law enforcement so that they could topple financial institution signs atop high rise buildings in Cleveland. However, the plot later called for the use of C-4 explosives, authorities said. The final plan allegedly named the Route 82 Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge, which crosses from Brecksville to Sagamore Hills, as the target.

The FBI and the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force are involved in the investigation.

Keep reading…

San Francisco: Occupiers smash up businesses, cars for 5 block stretch

‘May Day! May Day!’

The Democrat-endorsed Occupiers are off to a rollicking start with the launch of the ‘spring offensive’. The national media will ignore it as they always do. Remember, Obama got Osama. Rinse. Repeat.

Mission Local (h/t Weasel Zippers)— A group of protesters vandalized dozens of businesses, cars and any property they came across while they marched through the Mission on Monday night.

The mile-long trek of vandalism began on 18th and Dolores streets, where a group of more than 100 protesters met as part of an early May Day march. Protesters walked West on 18th Street, turned left on Valencia Street, turned right on Duboce Avenue and another made a right on Mission Street before being confronted by riot police at 14th and Mission streets, according to Justin Beck and independent journalist who followed the protesters.

It is not immediately known how many people were arrested. The Occupy San Francisco group released a statement early Tuesday Morning saying that the group of vandals were not part of the movement, but the statement was taken down shortly after.

The vandalism began almost immediately after the group took off from Dolores Park at around 9 p.m. A group of protesters paint-bombed Tartine Bakery on 18th and Guerrero Streets. When they reached Farina one protester grabbed a chair and attempted to break the window, said police officer D. Daza. The protester was not successful. Several of the protesters, described as wearing all black and covering their faces, threw paint sacks and wrote anarchy signs and a message that read “Yuppies out!” at the restaurant’s windows.

Police confronted the protesters in front of the restaurant and a small group of them dispersed, but the main crew continued on Valencia Street. They paint-bombed and broke some of the windows at Mission Police Station, according to officer Daza. By then a group of about 50 had moved to other restaurants north of Valencia Street.

Armed with crowbars, bats and other metal objects, a group of protesters smashed businesses windows in a five block stretch of Valencia Street, from 18th Street to Duboce Avenue.

The bar manager at Locanda, Gabriel Lowe, said he heard three loud bangs, and when he looked out of the window he saw a protester throwing paint sacks at the storefront. Several witnesses said they saw a protester trying to break the restaurant’s windows with its valet parking sign. The ordeal lasted about five minutes, Lowe said.

A diminished group of protesters continued smashing car windshields and side mirrors and slashing tires as they marched along Valencia Street. They appeared to be targeting luxury cars such as BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes, but they also vandalized a 1990s Toyota Sienna minivan.

Steven Lopez was having dinner with friends at his Glen Park home when he received a phone call from his alarm company informing him that someone had broken some of the windows at his ArtZone 461 Gallery on Valencia Street.

“We are a small art gallery, we are not elistist,” Lopez said, puzzled as to why his gallery was targeted.

Keep reading…

Video: What Reason TV Saw at the Occupy the Justice Dept. Rally in DC

The result of two generations of Democrat indoctrination.

Apr 24, 2012 by ReasonTV – On Tuesday, April 24 members of the Occupy movement gathered in DC at the Department of Justice to protest “mass incarceration” of black and Latino youth, demand the release of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, end the “racist death penalty,” and more. Among the celebrities scheduled to address the crowd were actor Danny Glover, rapper Chuck D, activist Angela Davis, and others.

Reason.tv asked protesters what they thought about praise by two of the rally’s organizers, ANSWER Coalition and the Workers World Party, of North Korea, Barack Obama’s terrible drug war record, and whether Cuba’s court and electoral system was more trustworthy than our own.

US Professors attend Occupy Wall Street Conference in Tehran

America’s Marxist academics visited their Iranian pals in Tehran. Just another example of the Unholy Alliance between the radical Left and radical Islam.

Weekly Standard: An alarming news report from Iran’s Press TV, a propoganda arm of the Iranian government, showing American professors gathering in Tehran to discuss the Occupy Wall Street Movement.

The professors interviewed on Press TV include Alex Vitale of Brooklyn College, Heather Gautney of Fordham University, and John Hammond of City University of New York.

Occupy Wall Street marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with Jew-hating cartoon

More anti-Semitism from the Democrat-backed, Obama, Pelosi, et.al celebrated Occupiers.

Via the official Occupy Wall Street Facebook page.

Via Weasel Zippers

Previous Occupier Jew-hatred:

• Anti-semitism at Occupy DC’s emancipation day
• Anti-Semitism among Occupiers continues to spread
• Video: Anti-semitism and the socialist-Islamist-fascist axis of “Occupy Wall Street”
• Video: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ anti-Semitism breaking out (updated)

Anti-semitism at Occupy DC’s emancipation day

Another example of what the Left has done to black people. Jew-hatred has been a major theme among the Occupiers from the get-go. Behold, as the spring and summer unfold, we will see much more of this sort of thing.

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Via Breitbart – As #OccupyWallStreet prepares for their “spring offensive,” MRCTV ran into an outspoken Jew-hater among #OccupyDC in Washington D.C.

Previous Occupier Jew-hatred:

• Anti-Semitism among Occupiers continues to spread
• Video: Anti-semitism and the socialist-Islamist-fascist axis of “Occupy Wall Street”
• Video: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ anti-Semitism breaking out (updated)

Video: Occupy training for ‘May Day’ protests

The giddy side of the Marxist weirdos.

This is what the Democrat party-approved Occupiers do when they aren’t destroying private property, crapping and masturbating in public, threatening police, raping, doing drugs, stinking up parks, preaching Marxism and anti-Semitism, and whining.

The Blaze – Just as professional sports teams hold pre-season training sessions to make sure their players are game-ready, the Occupy Wall Street folks are also holding spring training sessions to prepare their rookies for the movement’s “opening day” on May 1st: the “May Day” protest.

The OWS Spring Training camps have been in session for a few weeks now. These classes are held in a couple of locations in lower Manhattan and consist of trained leaders teaching the inexperienced Occupier the basics of the OWS movement. The Zuccotti Park location teaches how to communicate using the “mic check” technique and also educates the faithful in what these folks call “civil disobedience.”  (more >>>)

The videos have to be seen to be believed. Coming soon, a whole lot of bunny hopping.

Occupy Wall Street dumps tub of human waste down public stairwell and inside bank

Why are Leftists so obsessed with their own poop?

NBC NY (h/t Weasel Zippers) — Police say an Occupy Wall Street protester dumped a tub of human waste down a public stairwell and inside a bank vestibule, and got caught on video.

Police said Occupy Wall Street protesters were captured on surveillance video dragging a large receptacle of human urine and feces to an open-air plaza at the corner of Nassau and Cedar streets last Wednesday evening, just before 8 p.m.

They then poured the waste down a set of stairs there, police said.

About 20 minutes later, one of the protesters entered a Chase ATM vestibule on Water Street and poured human waste inside there, police said.

A witness gave police the license plate number of the van used to transport the waste, and police were able to match the plate to its registered owner, a Philadelphia man.

He was arrested on Wall Street Saturday on charges of unlawful possession of noxious matter and aggravated unlicensed operation of motor vehicle.

UPDATE

And the feces just keeps on flying…

(h/t OWS exposed)

(Miami New Times) — For three years, this has been Charane Odho’s neighborhood. It’s poor and imperfect, the 37-year-old grandma with pale skin, dark tattoos, and raven hair admits — but it’s home nonetheless. Suddenly, however, it’s occupied.

“It’s like we live in a huge crack house now!” Odho says. She points a long manicured fingernail at brown smears on her apartment complex’s yellow paint. “They poop on the walls,” she says, stifling a gag as she steps over stinking piles on the pavement. “They poop in the back of the building and wipe themselves with socks… Who are these people? We don’t know who the hell they are.”

Welcome to phase two of Occupy Miami. Protesters call it “Peace City.” Locals call it a living hell.

They arrived the last day of January: young and old; black, white, and brown; clean-cut professionals and grimy gutter punks. Their tents and lean-tos once clogged a lawn outside county hall like a South American favela. Now they have overtaken Odho’s Overtown apartment building, ripping off doors, tagging the building with black and red graffiti, and hanging posters from the railings. Yet there is little the cops, let alone Odho, can do. The squatters didn’t invade. They were invited.

Occupy Miami members line the building's stairways.

When scores of Miami-Dade Police in riot gear swarmed Government Center on January 31, the crackdown looked like the end of Occupy Miami. The four-month-old movement was already splintering. The tent city had grown dirty and occasionally violent, and even some protesters were glad to see the sit-in shut down.

Yet Occupy Miami didn’t die. A mysterious, messianic slumlord who calls himself Señor Paz — Mr. Peace — welcomed the protesters into his dilapidated building at 540 NW Seventh St. For the occupiers, it was a miracle: a haven from the police and a place to plan their campaign against corruption and fat-cat corporations. Paz was their savior.

But for the building’s rent-paying tenants, Paz has unleashed a nightmare in Overtown. The squatters blast loud music late at night, openly use drugs, and regularly wage drunken fights with one another. And though Paz claims he is trying to save the neighborhood from crime, tenants say he is to blame for the violence and narcotics. Some residents have begun to fight back against their unwanted neighbors. Tensions are boiling.

Read the whole thing. It’s long, and it gets worse. >>

Occupy Oakland plans major protest at San Francisco synagogue hosting Israeli President, Shimon Peres

The Jew-hating, Democrat-backed Occupy bowel movement never misses a chance to demonstrate their twisted world view.

The Blaze – Occupy Oakland demonstrators plan to hold a major “unwelcoming” of Israeli President Shimon Peres Tuesday during his visit to a San Francisco synagogue.

“Israeli President Shimon Peres will come to Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco to give a talk titled ‘Israel and the Jewish People: A Vision of Tomorrow,’” Occupy Oakland announced in a post on its website Sunday. “In light of this theme, we want to show Peres what our vision of tomorrow would look like by warmly greeting him with a mass protest against apartheid outside of the temple.”

Peres, Occupy Oakland charges, has “signed into law racist and colonialist legislation” and “a series of laws and amendments disenfranchising and ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their land” The group also blasts him for including former President George W. Bush, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Ruport Murdoch and Henry Kissinger in his annual Israeli Presidential Conference, calling them “guilty of collaboration with the apartheid regime”:

Shimon Peres serves the wealthy colonial elite and the settler state of Israel. Peres tours the world speaking on behalf of Jewish people, co-opting the history of the Holocaust. At the same time, he has on his conscience a massive arms trade and racist laws which advance the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinian peoples. His very presence at a synagogue in San Francisco normalizes settler colonialism here and in Israel, connecting two settler states in the name of Judaism and an imperial and colonial “vision of tomorrow.”

To contest the normalization and cultural violence of this event, a number of Bay Area activists, including the proposers, are organizing a protest outside of the synagogue on March 6, 2012 at 6:30 PM. This proposal does not seek to create a formal Occupy Oakland working group, but does not oppose this, and will participate if one is formed. We ask Occupy Oakland to take a stand against apartheid and settler colonialism by endorsing, participating in, and helping plan this action. We hope Occupy Oakland will help think up and enact creative ways for us to show Peres that he is not welcome to promote apartheid and colonialism in the already colonized Bay Area.

Portland anarchists smash up banks and Starbucks ahead of Occupy F29

I seem to recall John Stewart saying he was down with the Occupy movement until they start smashing Starbucks windows, or something close to that. Well, John…?

This spring and summer the Occupy commies are going to be back with a vengeance. People don’t understand how well organized, determined, and hate-filled these people are.

Katu.com – PORTLAND, Ore. – Businesses in Northeast and Southeast Portland were damaged overnight and the vandals explained their actions in e-mails, police said.

The vandalism comes ahead of a planned Occupy Portland march and rally in Portland on Wednesday afternoon as part of the Shut Down the Corporations Day of Action. The event is also known as the F29 march and organizers said they will be focusing on corporations that are part of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Police said at about 10:20 p.m. Tuesday, a U.S. Bank branch near S.E. Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard and S.E. Main Street had windows broken out and the ATM was damaged. Police said rocks were found inside and outside the building.

About four hours later at around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday, police said they responded to reports of glass breaking at a Key Bank branch located at N.E. 38th and Broadway Street. Police said the suspects used rocks to break out the windows and damage an ATM machine there as well. Police searched the area and said they found no suspects.

A Starbucks coffee shop on N.E. Sandy Boulevard near the Key Bank branch also had windows broken by rocks, police said.

Police said they received an e-mail that said it was from “Some Of Those Responsible” and read in part, “about an hour and a half ago (around ten pm, Tuesday night) a group of anticapitalists rolled up on the US Bank at SE 39th and Main and smashed out its windows and ATMs.”

The authors of the e-mail seemed to distance themselves from the Occupy Portland movement by saying “We don’t know whether this will be taken as solidarity or antagonism by the core of Occupy, but frankly that isn’t worth dwelling on for us. You said you wanted to help shut down corporations, and we helped to do that in our own way. Take it or leave it, we’re going to keep doing it.”

They closed with “good night, Occupy, and good luck tomorrow.” The full e-mail can be read here.

Police said a second e-mail was received after the Key Bank branch and Starbucks locations were vandalized, which read in part, “wherever capital chooses for its bunker, we will be there to attack it in the night.” It was signed “For freedom, for equality, for anarchy”. (Warning: this e-mail contains profanity)  (more >>>)

 

Another occupy Oakland, another flag burning

The Democrats’ beloved Occupy kids show more of their love of country.

((h/t Weasel Zippers) – Occupy Oakland protester burn an American Flag during a march against police brutality near Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. (SFGate)

Documentary: Occupy unmasked

A new documentary that intends to rip the mask off the Occupy movement and demonstrate the alliance between America-hating radicals and the equally despicable Democrat party. The film features champions of freedom Andrew Breitbart and David Horowitz.

International group Anonymous threatens to launch attacks against Israel

The ‘Anonymous’ morons, who are part of the equally moronic Occupy movement, are threatening Israel and propagating anti-Semitism. In a new message they brag about how they are about to single-handedly take down Israel. They officially align themselves with the Iranian terrorist regime.

UPDATE: The infamous hacker group warned last week that it would launch a ‘crusade’ against an ‘entity that didn’t deserve to live’ — or did it?

Jerusalem Post – International hacker group Anonymous released a video on YouTube overnight Thursday threatening to launch a  crusade against the Israeli government, who it accused of committing “crimes against humanity.”

The release of the clip came amid an internet feud between Israeli and Arab hackers, which began in early January when a Saudi hacker published tens of thousands of Israeli credit card numbers on the Internet. Anonymous, a loosely organized international group of hackers who seek anarchy through disrupting government and law enforcement networks, threatened to shut down the Knesset website in June, but failed to carry out the threat.

In the video released overnight Thursday, Anonymous accuses Israel of bettering “the lives of a select few, while carelessly trampling the liberties of the masses.

The group charges the Israeli government with circulating propaganda through political lobbying and the mainstream media.

“Your Zionist bigotry has displaced and killed a great many. As the world weeps you laugh while planning your next attack,” the video states, making reference to talk of a potential Israeli military strike against Iran. “You label all who refuse to comply with your superstitious demands as anti-Semitic and have taken steps to ensure a nuclear holocaust…we will not allow you to attack a sovereign country based upon a campaign of lies.”

Anonymous threatens in the YouTube clip to wage a three-step campaign against the Israeli government’s “reign of terror.”

“Step one will be initiated after the release of this video and will be comprised of systematically removing you from the internet. Step two will be later disclosed and is already in initiation; and, as for step three, well, think of this one as a present from Anonymous to you – we will not stop until the police state becomes a free state. We are Anonymous, we are legion, we do not forgive, we do not forget. Israeli government expect us,” the video warns in its conclusion.

Video: Occupiers pillage Portland

Democrats’ Occu-morons in Portland yesterday.

(Via Gateway Pundit) – The #Occupy goons tore up Portland last night.
Don’t expect the state-run media to report on this.
The hoodlums smashed windows, dumped trashed, intimidated cops-media and rioted.
You won’t believe this—

From the video: February 7, 2012: Violence/Language warning. Viewer Discretion Is Advised. What was supposed to be another “Peaceful Protest” by Occupy Portland ran hopelessly awry and out of control this evening. The self described mob shouted profanity, broke windows, and sought to intimidate police and citizen journalists who would try and film it. Some occupiers overturned trash cans while others seemingly not in agreement with the vandals, uprighted the cans and tried to clean up the mess. Portland Police responded with the riot squad. A total of ten arrests were made, three caught on film, with two of the perps identifying themselves and claiming that they were just walking down the sidewalk and were pushed into the street. One claims the cops attacked him with a bottle. One of those arrested identifies herself as a “Emmalyn Garrett.” The other identifies himself as “Effy Artinez” (SP?). Chants made by the Occu-Mob included “Fu*k the Police!,” “All Cops Are Bastards,” and “America Has Got to Go!” Again, viewer discretion is advised.

D.C. crime rises as cops shifted from neighborhoods to patrol Occupiers

The “99%” has caused crime to increase by 17%.

Washington Examiner – The union representing District police said Wednesday that officers are being pulled from neighborhood patrols and reassigned to monitor the Occupy DC protests and that crime has increased in the city since the Occupiers arrived three months ago.

The Fraternal Order of Police’s Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee wrote to Mayor Vincent Gray Wednesday demanding that he correct statements he’s made about the Occupy movement, specifically that he “wasn’t sure” crime was up in the District and that he “didn’t know of a situation” where a neighborhood had been neglected during Occupy protests. Gray made the statements during a Dec. 15 interview with NewsChannel 8.

The union contends that violent crime increased by 17 percent in the District and overall crime by 14 percent in the 30 days prior to Dec. 15. The union also attached to its letter to Gray a series of “deployment accountability logs,” which show that officers from other districts or shifts were redeployed to McPherson Square to deal with the Occupiers.

It’s not clear whether the increase in crime in the District can be attributed to Occupy DC. But union Chairman Kris Baumann says he believes the mayor has downplayed rising crime rates.

“We know that if there’s no police officers on the street, crime increases. What we haven’t done is been honest with the public – this is a problem,” he said. “I don’t want to blame First Amendment protesters for poor decisions that were made by local officials. But we’ve now reached a level that the crime rates are increasing.”

Gray’s spokeswoman, Doxie McCoy, said the mayor’s office is reviewing the union’s 40-page letter.

Baumann says police want local officials to explain how they plan to move forward with the Occupy protest, which is entering its fourth month with no end in sight.  (more >>>)

Occupy LA cost Los Angeles taxpayers $2.3 million

Marxifornia deserves them.

Occupy LA

ABC – A preliminary report released Friday by the city administrative officer estimates the nearly two-month Occupy LA encampment at City Hall cost the budget-strapped city at least $2.3 million, but officials said the sum is expected to grow by the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

City Administrative Officer Miguel A. Santana told The Associated Press his office requested the cost estimates from various city departments two weeks ago.

The city attorney’s office has already said it expects its previously submitted $188,000 estimate to climb significantly.

“This is based on a moment in time,” Santana said. “Obviously the numbers are going to grow.”

The latest tab adds to costs tallied by cities nationwide that have been dealing with the anti-Wall Street movement. An AP survey of 18 nationwide cities through mid-November found that the protests had cost local taxpayers a total of at least $13 million.

TIME Ragazine hails “The Protestor” as person of the year

The Obama Administration apparatchiks at TIME Ragazine are making Goebbels proud again with its choice of “The Protestor” as its 2011 person of the year.

Last week TIME named “Occupy Wall Street” the #1 story of the year, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise. The vast majority of Americans could care less about the Occupiers or the Arab Spring. The former they detest, the latter they fear.

But not TIME. Not Democrats. They think their support for both bowel movements will keep them occupying the White House.

Ed Morrissey at Hotair astutely points out TIME’s hypocrisy.

In 2009, Time had the same opportunity to pick “the protester” when the protests were the Tea Party and Iran’s Green Revolution, which followed from Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, and so on.  Who did they pick?  Ben Bernanke.  When the Tea Party movement actually delivered results at the ballot box in 2010 in a historic midterm drubbing of Barack Obama’s Democrats — they lost 68 seats, the worst outing since 1938 — they could have hailed The Protester then, too.  Who did they pick?  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

For TIME and Liberals, the only legitimate protestors are those who protest in the name of Leftwing causes. Those who stand up for life and liberty, is anathema to them.

The Japanese tsunami should have been the 2011 story of the year.

Those individuals who rushed into Joplin, MO, after the devastating tornadoes are far more deserving to be the ‘person of the year’ than a bunch of radicals, be they Leftist or Islamic.

But TIME would never point out the good in America. Because for Liberals, socialists, and Marxists, good can only be accomplished through the State.

LA Occupiers to attempt to shut down Port of Los Angeles

Because they are smarter, better, and more righteous than you.

 

KTLA – Two weeks after their central command post at City Hall was dismantled by police, Occupy L.A. protesters are setting their sights on a new mission — shutting down the Port of Los Angeles.

Protesters will be gathering at Harry Bridges Park in San Pedro starting at 5 a.m. Monday, according to an announcement posted on Occupy L.A.’s website Sunday.

Activists will then march to the gate of the SSA terminal, all in the early, and most heavily trafficked, hours of the port’s morning.

Occupy L.A. organizers say Monday’s event will specifically target Goldman Sachs, partial owner of shipping agent SSA Marine, which has 5 terminals and a warehouse in the Harbor area.

“SSA/Goldman Sachs symbolize the ruin that corporate greed has brought into our lives,” the statement said.

“The 1% are depriving port truck drivers and other workers of decent pay, working conditions and the right to organize, even while the port of LA/LB is the largest in the US and a huge engine of profits for the 1%.”

They called on members from the International Longshoreman Worker’s Union to join in what they hope is a full shutdown of ports along the West Coast. Occupy movements in San Diego, Oakland and Seattle are also expected to take on their local ports.

Video: Chuck Woolery on Occupy Wall Street

Heh. Chuck Woolery continues to try and save America “1% at a time.”

TIME Ragazine declares Occupy Wall Street year’s #1 story

TIME is making Goebbels proud again.

Can there be any doubt left that the media is the enemy? The Occupiers owe everything to the 1% media. The total number of protestors across the country was what, maybe fifty thousand people? And half of those were supplied by unions and college students skipping class. Another quarter were homeless hippies. The rest – hardcore Marxists, socialists, and anarchists. This, according to Democrats “is the best of America”.

Obama’s Marxist class warfare speeches, the occupy movement, the fawning media coverage of both: it’s all deliberate, all planned. The cheery on the top of this garbage heap was Obama’s 99% anti-American, Marxist claptrap speech he delivered in Osawatomie, Kansas on Tuesday.

Will TIME make the Occupiers the #1 story next year after these same people set the streets of America on fire?

TIME –

On Sept. 17, a couple hundred protesters demonstrating against the excesses of corporate execs and the pervasive influence of high finance in U.S. politics set up camp in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park and refused to leave. It was an unlikely occupation, one without leaders, agendas or even a clear sense of goals, but it soon was echoed in myriad cities across the U.S. and the world. To some, Occupy Wall Street is the left-wing iteration of the Tea Party, directing their rage not at big government but at the big banks that gutted the world economy and took billions in bailouts from the U.S. government while awarding themselves hefty bonuses.

But many in the movement see their cause as part of a more global zeitgeist, in keeping with the anti-austerity demonstrations in Europe and the leaderless uprisings of the Arab Spring. The Occupy movement has remained leaderless, amorphous and spontaneous — demonstrators carry signs advocating everything from financial reform to healthcare reform to a ban on fracking — it’s still unclear what sort of real lasting political effect the movement can have. But the sheer persistence of the occupations, galvanized by incidents of heavy-handed policing in New York and California that shocked the nation, have given the protesters’ appeals for economic justice a weight that may play a real role in the upcoming presidential election.

 

Video: Occupiers planning to disrupt, heckle GOP Iowa caucus

The Occupier 5th column Marxists say they plan to come out in force and flood the Iowa Caucus in January.

(h/t Weasel Zippers)

I hope the only thing they end up occupying are jail cells.

 

Occupy LA leaves 30 tons of garbage for sanitation crews to clean up

15 of the 30 tons is human feces, no doubt. Meanwhile, over at Occupy Boston, police say that the crime is “out of control”. The occupiers are awash in drugs, theft, violence, and even prostitution.

Never forget that Obama, Pelosi, and the entire Democrat party insist that the ‘occupiers’ are “the best the country has to offer.”

LA Times (h/t Weasel Zippers) — Sanitation officials said Wednesday that they expect to haul away 30 tons of debris from the Occupy L.A. encampment –- everything from clothing to heaps of garbage to oddball curiosities left behind by the protesters who lived at the City Hall tent city for two months.

Andrea Alarcon, president of the city Public Works board, said workers already have removed 25 tons of belongings from the City Hall park, all of it heading straight to a landfill.

Sanitation crews also have vacuumed up about 3,000 gallons of water that had washed into a catch basin in recent days and are testing it for hazardous materials, she said.

The sheer volume of personal belongings left behind after the early morning Los Angeles Police Department raid has astonished city workers: books and CDs, luggage and boom boxes, mattresses and dining chairs, cellphones, electric razors, a small red guitar with its neck snapped – all surrounded by dozens of collapsed and empty tents. (more >>>)