Costs of the Occupiers; Plus: Friday showdown in NYC, Boston backlash, Austin arrests, Denver arrests
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My column today tallies up some of the taxpayer costs imposed by the Kamp Alinsky Kids across the country so far. There have been other nasty consequences, too — like the cancellation of a food drive and festival in Boston due to Occupier overload. Go here to donate. Latest word from NYC is that protesters are gearing up for a sunrise showdown to fight clean-up evacuation by Zuccotti Park’s private owners. (Update: The rabble-rousers got into a scuffle with police, as they wanted. The rabble is still piling up. Several arrests. See NYPost.) In Austin, TX, four squatters were arrested after refusing to leave while city workers power-washed the filthy plaza that served as Occupation Central. We’ve only just begun to see the dark side of the movement. They’ve been spoiling for a fight long before Day One of the Month of Rage.
More updates: The occupiers have met the enemy and it is…SANITATION!
Update: Denver clears occupiers’ camp at the Capitol, arrests 23.
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Costs of the Occupiers
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011
The trash generated by the “Occupy Wall Street” protests keeps piling up. So do the bills. Liberal media outlets claim the anarchic, anti-capitalist movement is more popular than the Tea Party. But wait until Americans across the country get a full picture of the costs of the aimless occupiers.
In New York City, government officials estimate the month-long siege of Zuccotti Park has now imposed $3.2 million in overtime police costs on the public. On Thursday, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office pressured left-wing activists to vacate the park for cleaning, Occupy Wall Street urged sympathizers to flood the city’s customer services lines: “Call 311 and tell Bloomberg not to evict us!”
In Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter told the press that demonstrators outside city hall have incurred $164,000 in overtime public employee costs and $237,000 in regular time. “At the current rate, if Occupy Philly continues to the end of the month, the city would spend another nearly $690,000 on police overtime alone,” the local NBC affiliate reported. “Besides the extra police presence being dedicated to the Occupy Philly protests, other city departments have also incurred costs.”
In Seattle, police have so far billed $30,000 in overtime and the parks department racked up nearly $4,000 in additional costs related to the protests there. Occupiers have blocked traffic, assaulted an officer, and pitched illegal tents. Merchants in the area have been hurt as the riff-raff deter customers. One business owner in Westlake Park, where hundreds of protesters remain camped out, told Seattle TV station KIRO: “There’s definitely fewer people you can identify as people out, just walking through the area.”
Seattle’s pushover mayor, Democrat Mike McGinn, now faces even greater demands from the insatiable mob – which wants a “guaranteed parking
space near City Hall Plaza that allows for around-the-clock parking,” “24-hour access to the first floor of City Hall for restroom access, and a written statement from the mayor approving the protesters’ long-term occupancy of City Hall Plaza.”
In Boston, City Council President Steve Murphy anticipates a $2 million hit to taxpayers if the protests refuse to disband by the end of October. The local Fox affiliate notes the tab represents 8% of the yearly budget for police overtime. “While we’re all sympathetic with
our protesters down there,” Murphy said, “Wall Street isn’t picking up the tab on this thing. It’s the Boston taxpayers.”
When fiscally conservative Tea Party activists held protests over the past two years, they filed for all the required permits and paid for their own power. Occupy Boston, by contrast, neither sought nor obtained any proper permits at any level, according to the Boston Globe. Instead, city and park officials have been cowed into providing them gratis electricity and camp space lest there be “conflict.”
Many of these occupiers are primarily occupied as paid rent-a-mobsters for unions, left-wing think tanks, and the radical Working Families Party. While one collective hand soaks the taxpayers, the other hand is busy soliciting free stuff. Occupy Los Angeles activists took to
Skype on their laptops to solicit donations of iPhones and iPads.
Occupy Wall Street members on Twitter organized an ongoing “#needsoftheoccupiers” drive for everything from batteries and tarps to “gently used” coats and sweaters, wool socks, sleeping bags, and energy bars. Occupy Austin organizers publicized their wish list, including a free barbecue grill, port-o-potties, extension cords, a Bobcat forestry cutter for clearing brush, and network cameras for a livestream.
These are not principled advocates of fiscal responsibility. They are professional freeloaders.
Unlike Tea Party activists who focused like a laser beam on politicians in both parties responsible for redistributing wealth to Big Business cronies by force, the Occupy Wall Street movement is everywhere and nowhere. The entitled Kamp Alinsky Kids are poaching WiFi and trespassing on private property under the guise of “social justice,” but in plain service of themselves.
Their t-shirts and speeches glorify Marxist radicals Che Guevara, Emiliano Zapata, and Chairman Mao. They lionize convicted Death Row cop killer Troy Davis and WikiLeaks collaborator Bradley Manning. They condemn “Nazi Bankers,” Jews, Fox News, the American Legislative
Exchange Council, Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker, the Koch family, and the New York Police Department (“pigs!”). They promote the illegal alien DREAM Act and 9/11 Trutherism.
They spout bumper-sticker profanities and inanities: “F**k banks.” “Unf**k the world.” “Fuuuuu*k.” “Free education.” “Smash nationalism.”
“People not profits.”
They flash peace signs while celebrity supporter Roseanne Barr calls for beheading financial industry workers and fellow marchers call explicitly for “violent revolution” or for Obama to “Send Seal Team 6” to Wall Street.
Then they huff and puff (preferably in a creepy, uniform chant they call the “human microphone”) that we just haven’t taken the time to understand what they’re all about — as they hawk $20 “Eat the Rich” polo shirts and license their protest photos to Getty Images.
Viva la revolucion! Up with people! Stop the greed! (Cha-ching. Cha-ching.)
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Related (h/t Hot Air): All I can say is: Mother Fudge Biscuits, these people are ridiculous….
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The only hand signal that should be used is the International Sign of Friendship. (Okay, okay, I’ll explain it to you….make a fist, raise your middle finger, raise the finger next to your middle finger halfway up.)
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So, how many cop cars have you crapped on today?
There, that’s better.
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This ILMC lady is full of it.
She claims to care about government debt – what a joke.
She sat and watched Sherman burn his way through the South; those actions created tens of millions of homeless people.
Dear Mrs. ILMC – please stop telling lies and try to do something good for this country.
Thanks,
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You know, putting random ridiculous claims after ad hominem attacks is pretty darn simple.
On October 4th, 2011 at 6:39 pm, I said:
On October 12, Ann Coulter said:
On October 14th, 2011 at 1:15 pm, AlohaGuy said:
Send her an e-mail. Maybe Debbie Schlussel has a template you could use.
Why do they hate us?
Now wait a minute…. isn’t that ‘capitolism’ and isn’t that what their protests is all about? Is there no shame from the leftist/communist/socialist/marxist scum of the earth where hipocricy is concerned?
These clowns have NO credibility whatsoever. Much like our resident closet liberal.
…something about the mote in his eye and the beam in your own
Damn, is he at it again?
You could have stopped there… raising the rest of the fingers to the first knuckle works better IMHO… but thanks for the International Sign. I use it quite often actually. I was told it was a universal greeting that surpassed language barriers. No wonder I got dirty looks using it.
I am surprised no one has suggested the “occupied” sites be called Obamavilles. It’d be nice to see history go full circle again.
There’s an OWS march and protest scheduled Saturday, Oct. 15 in Pittsburgh from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
I can’t wait for the inevitable confrontations to happen, not only from the police, but with the multitude of Pitt fans (Saturday) and Steeler fans (Sunday, if the protesters hang around) who will be coming into town.
The first protester who tries to filch a hot sausage sandwich, hamburger or hot dog from any of the multitude of tailgaters will likely be pounded into the sidewalk. This is assuming, of course, that they are energetic enough in the first place to walk across the bridge from downtown to the North Shore where Heinz Field is located.
Occupy Pittsburgh protest march approved, but camp iffy
Read more: Occupy Pittsburgh protest march approved, but camp iffy – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_761795.html#ixzz1amPZDtND
Silly me, I though public parks, sidewalks and streets belonged to all the people. I guess they only belong to the radical leftists. You kind of wonder if and when the taxpayers will wake up and demand their rightful access to their paid for property.
Oh, a couple of weeks ago I predicted violence, injury and death. We are well on our way and apparently some nut on MSNBC is praying for a Kent State moment. My hope he is one of the innocent bystanders who ended up dead at that scene.
Made a donation to GBFB with this comment:
Trying to compensate for the loss of your event thanks to Occupy Boston. Godspeed, Tea Party member
Unbelievable! As best I can tell they want to drag children into this … looks like a tactic to use the kids as human shields.
Looks like after they
flush the toiletclean up the park, the protestor move back with the kiddies for a “sleep over”.http://occupywallst.org/article/parents-bring-children-ows-tonight/#comments
Bold emphasis mine.
I’ve completely changed my mind about the OWS protesters once I saw this one’s story.
Nice one, Rogue. But in my day, we would not only have sailed that pond, we ensured the instigating party could never create a hazard to navigaion ever again. It’s hard to launch a loogie when one has no teeth and a tongue tied in a knot.
“Obamavilles”.
Good one!
Damn good one!!
Too funny, JD.
Thanks!
When the various cities remove the protesters and/or they give up when it gets cold, these cities and private property owners will be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in clean up costs alone.
The biggest clean up costs the Tea Party had were the emptying the trash cans, which may have been payed for by the Tear Party and not the city.
Just saw this at Atlas Shrugs.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/10/doomberg-caved-ows-stayed-violence-breaks-out-anyway.html
Bloomberg sure came through.
What a despicable, useless fool.
Since all the buzz about the dirty hippies they are wanting donations for “suits”.
Put some lipstick on that pig. Hilarious!
http://www.suitsforwallstreet.org/
Here is something interesting that may just tie into the OWS deal:
So that is the plan. Use OWS to make it seem like you have public support to implement (by EO is my guess) tougher regulations on WS as well as having the DOJ go after criminal prosecutions.
Hmmmm….wasting away in Obamaville. Heh, thanks, EXPAT!
Wow…crap like this is why I stock up on ammo. I mean the political and social split in the US along class and local. I got a feeling we’ll have a good ole fashion civil war on ideals soon. Political discourse won’t cut it when we have all or nothing on both sides like now.
It looks like a new Occupy Wall Street spokesperson has been found. She will do this until their demands are met. OWS Spokesperson
Zuccotti Park is privately owned, it is not a public park.
The Pee Party (P*ss On America) Movement, with Obama community organizing from behind.
Leftist answer to the Tea Party
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i0diCAkcT8g/SlqeQedqOmI/AAAAAAAAACY/BVPJY8mfqhQ/s1600-h/pissing-on-america.jpg
These people have become revolting and they are making it clear that they have declared war on our Country’s basic tenets. They even prefer “occupy” to the normal term, “demonstrate.” They have been dedicated to violence to effect change since the beginning and will not be satisfied until they achieve it. And they are prepared for it.
They know they have the media on their side, as well as Liberals of all stripes. They also know that if they maintain their solidarity, the only way the police can effectively deal with them is with force. They are banking on that to ignite riots all across the Nation.
That’s why the local politicians and police are so hamstrung by self imposed limitations on their actions. They will be blamed by the media, attacked by lawsuits, risk jail in some cases and have little backing from the American people in general, until they are directly effected. The plain costs to taxpayers, although gross in itself, will not spark the public to react.
I’m glad I don’t live in a target city. Things are going to get much uglier before these people can be stopped. The only way they will be stopped, is to be crushed. They will accept nothing less before giving up their anti-American quest at this place and time in our history.
Lefties are always like this. Remember what they did in Madison WI earlier this year?
I think that you are correct.
And, the sooner that they are crushed, the better for America.
So “moderate Republican” Bloomberg caves (again) and makes the job of the NYPD that much harder and more dangerous. Good job, moron!
Meanwhile in Los Angelels…
Wonder if Mayor Bloomberg is policing the park to make sure smokers are obeying the no-smoking in the parks law.
Wonder if the Mayor of Boston is policing public housing in case someone is caught exhaling SHS through the wall. It’s now policy for all Boston public housing to be smoke-free, and evict smokers unless they quit. One Boston occupier, an excuse for a human being stated that there should be a ‘no smoking’ policy on the protest otherwise she wasn’t going to spend the night, she was going home.
Sorry Ms Malkin, I know it’s off topic but why doesn’t anyone take up the cause of smokers being evicted, refused employment, medical care etc., PH, hospitals and universities are refusing to employ smokers, ex-smokers, NRT users AND their families, this hate-filled campaign is just another money making tool for the pharmaceutical industry, corporations the occupiers are ‘supposedly’ protesting about.
I posted about the smoking because it seems violent behaviour, leaving filth everywhere appears to be acceptable to the public, but a LEGAL activity, with harmless SHS, as proved by the WHO 7 year study (surpressed, didn’t fit the agenda) is deemed evil and being people denormalised and ostracised, something not seen since leading up to the atricities in WW2.
Democracy and a civilised world has been destroyed by politicans, lobbyists and vested interest groups. Such damage caused by a few to the many.
Once again apologies Ms Malkin, but my anger is at boiling point with the Bloombergs & Glantz of this world.
Obowmao: All hail the Occupoopers!
Another lot of occupiers are supposed to be occupying the London Stock Exchange Saturday. It’ll be the same old lot, trade unionists, public sector workers, anarchists, students and bored rich kids.
Awesome!!!
tramper #140, your concerns are well gounded. I’ve also wondered why it is that the anti-smoking lobby has overpowered every attempt to keep smoking legal in public places.
I gave up smoking cigarettes in 1984 after 40 years of smoking. That was my choice. Smokers today have the same choice. Do not give me the addiction line of crap. It holds no water. Like anything else that is self destructive, it is a choice.
These flakes also have a choice. They can be a mongrel herd of useful idiots if they wish. They cannot be saviors of the American way of life. They are part of the Left’s attempts to destroy it. They have no concept of what it takes to keep the engine of our ecomony running. They only know what they don’t want.
They will push us to defending our selves against anarchy. They will lose. They will shed blood. They will have to be crushed. The future is written by the Left. The epilogue will be written by the Right.
Look at this simply. Since the SEIU, and other labor unions are behind much of the protesting, it is just a favor from one union to another doled out at the expense of the taxpayer.
With regards to the Tea Party, those same public sector unions have in fact, demanded that the Tea Party be stopped in every way they could.
Having some photoshop fun …
http://thepeoplescube.com/red/gallery/infidel-castrate-a74/fleabagger-i3084.jpg
I seem to recall similar expensive clean up costs related to the protest at the WI state capitol. Send these bozos the bill and attach liens to whatever they own if they fail to pay.
I’m a snot nosed college brat! I don’t have a job, so I’m going to terrorize the companies that provide jobs because they won’t hire me. Never mind the fact that these companies are so over-taxed and over-regulated by the Obama administration that they can barely stay afloat, much less hire anybody. Instead of making it a full time job searching for a job, even though it might mean I’ll have to do something they call “work” (not sure what that is right now) instead of just attend college where my mind is filled with liberal propaganda, I’m going to make it a full time job living on the street, sleeping, defecating, fighting with police, and yelling things that I’ve been taught by my liberal professors. I’ve heard from the communist republicans that protesting corporations isn’t covered in the constitution (only the government for a redress of grievances), but they’re flat out LYING! I haven’t actually read the constitution, but I’m sure they are lying! VOTE DEMOCRAT AND BE JUST LIKE ME!
Capitalism has its problems but communism is an unmitigated tyrannical disaster. The government, per se, is not the problem. It is merely the instrument being exploited by Americas enemies. Healthcare, education, and all manner of critical industries have been coopted or directly corrupted ( via “subsidies”) by the communist cabal in control of our government.
I am beginning to believe that this cannot be fixed. The grifting thugee mob is too entrenched, the crippled dependent class too large now to overcome with education, training, and temporary assistance. The communist apparatus has effectively crippled our society and we are in the midst of witnessing a soft coup which may well turn violent at any time.
Our water supply company had a major equipment failure last night. We are still without a water supply right now. That brings into sharp focus for me how dependent we all are on a properly functioning government and social structure, and that it can be easily brought to its knees.
We must be prepared to combat these communist saboteurs in the most civil, legal, yet effective way possible.
LOL. Excellent Patron. Excellent.
Take the money from the government subsidy payments made to Big Education – the only industry thst can raise its prices with impunity, year after year. All rthe esult of constant cash imfusions of taxpayer money.
Poo…. It is the only thing the American Vichy Left actually produces.
After decades of liberal indoctrination of our young people in our public and private schools, our robotic zombies have come home to roost.
@Patroned heart.
Voting democrat doesn’t worry me. What worries me is alot of people here and there are thinking in political terms only. Look at the divisions in your nations today? Even the Armed services can’t co-operate on longer term goals and needs, or even the state of the force. the Civilians are even worse today. We are reaching a breaking point as no house devided can stand. And let me point these ever likely events out.
What if Obama cheats the ellections with these “youths” and unregisterd European voters like in the last elllection? Will those of the Tea Party, just ho hum and let it be? Or will they actully stick to there remarks and find backing amony some other self serving political leaders for a coup?
Or what if Obama doesn’t win and decides “You know what I got alot of pissed off college kids and minorities in my camp, lets teach these Mofo’s the right way to vote.”
Thats what worries me, I watch various forums that have cross political views and I will say for the amjority you don’t see nice debate. Its I’ld like to shoot you liberal scum and “Lol stupid religious redumblicians go to a tea bagging.”
Sooner or later words turn into actions. And the left has struck first with these ocupations of our economic lifelines. This is empowring them, they are told there cause is just and right, and that moderates and the right are to be swept away for being out dated in the name of progress.
The Right feels this push and KNOWS it is not winning its youth are being corrupted, and with the rigged process, will only see waterd down canidates or half meassures in the election process, and will thus have to resort to force at some point or being locked out and culled.
Way things are from self serving systems we have in place now, it can’t stand its a system based on divisions to garner gain. I fully expect a soviet style break up, or a Political based Civil War such as the Facist and Communist Civil War of Spain to take place in our near future.
Many still dissmiss these notions, but look around, how many of the leftist that have came on this site, have been turned? How many of us have they turned? We can not co-exsist, and political men that don’t take kindly to a defeat can build up a radical base with no problem.
It is onlt a matter of time.
Memo to self: buy more ammo.
Time to sweep the areas with water cannons to clean them up. It will be the protestors choice whether they move or not.
This is going on all over the world. The protests are planned in 82(not the 1000 countries sawyer said) today. I wonder is these people are as filthy as the ones we have here in the US?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/occupy-protests-spread-worldwide-demonstrations-planned-in-82-countries/
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This, (and other current scandals) can be laid at the feet of Obama. HE started this, THIS is “his army”…”marchin’”, puttin’ on they “marchin’ shoes”.
What a disgrace this lizard is to our Country. He doesn’t give a squat what happens to the USA, OR the world, as long as he gets his “COMMUNITST REVOLUTION”. Well, these azzwipes ain’t gonna get no phuqing revolution.
shudda picked “preview”…just sayin’.
Thank you for the polite reply, unusual in these days of hate the smoker.
What I can’t get my head around is that so many have lapped up the propaganda that SHS will kill them, deep down I think most don’t believe it but keep to the mantra because they prsonally don’t like smoking and suits them to use it as a legitmate crutch to browbeat & denormalise smokers.
What most can’t see/don’t want to see, is that there’s many getting very rich off the back of this hate campaign. They seem to be able to fathom out the divide and rule tactics of the left but seem devoid of common sense to see that anti-smoking/alcohol/overweight are pitting sections of society against one another by fearmongering, lies & propaganda, in reality it’s eugenics dressed up as ‘public health’. If those that support the anti-cartel would just do a little research instead of running with the herd they would find that this has been a well planned agenda, and the same is going to happen to the overweight and drinkers, make no mistake about that.
Even the most dense of people must know that if SHS was dangerous, killed non-smokers tobacco would’ve have been made illegal a decade ago.
No one has been able to answer, or wants to answer, what happens when smokers are no longer eligible for employment, medical care & housing, as is happening at an alarming speed now, where will they go, what will they do? Makes one think doesn’t it.
You are right smoking is not an addicition, although the antis use that description all the time, but revert to it being a habit when there’s funding/lawsuits involved. BTW: I enjoy smoking, calms my nerves when the Engineer Glantz gets on his hobby horse
As is always being said, follow the money.
As to the occupiers, one load of bull, if they really wanted democracy for all they wouldn’t, like the woman in Boston, want to exclude anyone. But heh, it’s only those filthy smokers.
Tramper, I enjoyed smoking too, but when I chose to give up cigarettes, I was ready. I was feeling guilty about subjecting our daughter to all of our SHS, not because I thought she would develope any medical problems, but just because it smelled so bad. She never complained, bless her heart.
It was bad enough in the house, but terrible in the car. Anyway, I support your right to smoke anywhere in public and wherever business owners wish to OK it.
Twisten, I agree that the results of this “movement” are going to be laid at the feet of our President. There are ample quotes available from his speeches calling for class warfare. He will not be able to shake off the jacket.
If these braindead hippy wanna’bes and their disillusioned, older, real (former)hippies try to start a revolution, they will fail.
Their leaders may be willing to shed blood, but these candy-a..sed kids demonstrating today will not be able to handle it. They have been brought up to believe they are invincible. Finding out they are not, will be personally crushing for them.
Simply put, Freedom of speech does not and will not eliminate the Freedom of STUPIDITY!?!
I am beginning to wonder if we will see these occupy nut jobs at election time? Some cities are not putting up with illegal activity from these groups and some officials kowtow (Bloomberg, Pelosi, Obama) to them. God only knows what kind of buffoonery this will lead to.
yaymm: congratulations on quitting smoking! It sounds like such a hard thing to do.
In other news, OWS has gained the support of the American Nazi Party AND the Communist Party USA: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/figures-nazi-party-throws-support-behind-occupy-wall-street-movement/
Where you been? How’s the book coming? My offer to help research in England stands – as long as the expense account holds up.
Occupy Portland Protesters Sing “F*ck the USA”
Yep, so much like the Tea Party.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKzGbgSe8lg&feature=youtu.be
Green eyed Lady: Thanks for the youtube, I think. These are our future leaders.
Any non-renewals of trade shows and business conferences in these cities? Any reduction in tourism?
I would think any outfit/vacationer with a concern for safety would consider a city less volatile.
Hitting these city/state leaders in the pocket-book might help them grow a few…
(I remember NYC SOHO and midtown before Giuliani – not safe or clean.)
Aren’t these the same people who profess to care about the environment? Since they love living in third world squalid conditions, could we sent them to one of those countries?
Funny how OWS have gone straight to step 4.
It is clear that the Occupy whatever thugs are vicious, violent, disrepectful Maoists, Lenninists, Marxists, Fascists, Socialists, Communists, Pillagers who have no respect for others, but are self serving, selfish, filthy, crude, unsanitary, rabid pit-bull like monsters. It is also clear, now, that the media, which is falsely painting them as wonderful, after falsely, and viciously, attacking the Tea Party, that the media is in bed with these people, that the media is leftist, dishonest, and vile, and that they cannot be trusted.
It is also clear that with the media acting as a propaganda machine for such leftist, vicious people, as they did with Obama the inexperiened street thug, that the stupid people in the USA who get their marching orders through leftist press – MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, PBS, NYT, et al, that these same people will drink the “kool aid” and vote for Obama the over rated, underqualified again, and that these same people will continue to lie and call Conservatives, Tea Party, Pro-lifers, etc., violent, racist, haters, and so forth, while praising these mean Occupy people, the mean abortion lovers, and the mean Obama supporters as “wonderful.”
The press has once again proven themselves bias and a leftist talking points mouthpiece.
A little anecdote:
I was in San Francisco last weekend (WhiskyFest, woo hoo!). I did see some of these bozos on Market Street trying to protest. Could not have been more than 4 dozen there at midday on Saturday.
Fleet Week on the other hand brought in thousands and blocked the streets all around Fisherman’s Wharf. The Blue Angels rocked!
Similar numbers around Bezerkley from what I have been told.
Man, if you can’t sell the liberal tripe in the Bay Area…there probably isn’t a big enough market for it country-wide (Portland excluded).
I can understand not smoking in restuarants or where people eat, through common courtesy I never did anyway. All I want is smoking/non-smoking estabishments and why this can’t be accommodated escapes me, well not really, the pogram doesn’t allow for choice only enforcement and that isn’t right. As a smoker I say either call a halt to the hate a smoker campaign or make tobacco ILLEGAL IMMEDIATELY and be done with it.
Good for you quitting, I did for a few months but I admit I missed it so went back. Tried the patches, inhalors etc., absolutely useless, ended up chucking them, to do it on your own back is the best way, but there’s no money in that for the anti-lobby. They’ve become desperate now knowing NRT doesn’t live up to the claims, it’s why they’re all out now to ban electronic cigarettes & smokeless tobacco products. That and an ingrained hatred of seeing people with anything that looks like a cigarette. These people are evil, and I feel really sorry that the overweight are going to be subjected to the same propaganda, deceit and lies, from the same organisations, RobertWoodJohnson, being one of the leading antagonists.
Again thanks for being polite & nice. It’s sad that one has to thank someone for being nice & polite to a smoker, but that’s the times we live in, target a section of society and don’t let up until they’re completely demonised & denormalised. While they take my money they’ll never wear me down, make me angry, certainly, denormalised, never.
What surprises me is that the OWS types say a job is a right but also say that capitalism is evil…..who gives jobs but capitalists? Do they only want to work for the government?
Has any of these occupier mobs enlisted ordinary working people of all ages? I ask because here in London they were all the usual suspects, anarchists, trade unionists, students and bored rich kids.
I think it was a bit of a damp squib here anyway, they didn’t get as much media exposure they probably hoped for, they’re camping out for a 2nd night outside St.Paul’s Catherdral, which is near the Bank of England, there’s not many either, but the police stopped them occupying the London Stock Exchange and some other buildings.
“Rabble without a Cause.”