#OWS’ers via Drudge: Occupy protesters seek to shut West Coast ports
Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation’s busiest ports from Anchorage, Alaska, to San Diego, with the thought that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits.
Demonstrators were to gather to march on the Port of Oakland, which Occupy protesters successfully shut down in November. Marchers also descended on the sprawling port complex spanning Los Angeles and Long Beach as the work day begins.
Occupy groups also planned blockades in Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia, and in Portland, Ore.
The protests being billed as action against “Wall Street on the waterfront” are perhaps the Occupy movement’s most dramatic gesture since police raids sent most remaining camps scattering last month. Demonstrators began forming those camps around the country about two months ago to protest what they call corporate greed and economic inequality.
Protesters have cited a longstanding dispute between longshoremen at the Port of Longview in Washington and grain exporter EGT as a key reason for the blockades. Shutdown supporters say they’re not asking longshoremen to organize a work stoppage in violation of their contract but simply asking them to exercise their free speech rights and stay off the job, in keeping with the union’s historic tradition of activism.
Uhm…
Live on ustream- They have closed the ports – http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland
See also:
*UPDATED* #OccupyWallStreet: The Rap Sheet, So Far
Police evict Occupy Boston protesters; 46 arrested
@jstrevino Joshua Treviño
If you wonder whether #OWS is taking a soviet turn, here’s @chrislhayes cheerfully endorsing its trespass and theft:http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/occupy-our-homes/6yz44rh
Tags: OccupyPortland, OWS
Why don’t they occupy a desk?
They need, and the public must DEMAND that they receive, REAL prison time via felony charges for this. Not just a week in jail.
High bonds, federal charges, the works.
Or else they’ll just keep doing it.
@ Speranza:
@ Bumr50:
That poster looks like Soviet style propaganda.
@ Rodan:
It really does. I wish there was a way to let them live under the utopia they dream of for a week or three… without pulling us all down with them.
Hunger strike ? Who cares?
It is like an enemy saying “Give me what I want or
I will hurt myself. I mean it.”
@ Bumr50:
Instead they get winks and nods from mayors all over the country. It’s sickening.
@ RIX:
LOL! Exactly! Too bad they don’t have the courage of their convictions to set themselves on fire and all…
@ m:
Send them to Venezuela or Cuba. Heck, send them to North Korea. These people are Communists plain and simple.
@ RIX:
Good let them starve.
Speranza wrote:
They should occupy a jail cell.
Incidentally, “occupy” is something of a military term which implies force and/or coercion. They’re revolutionaries on the cheap and they’re coalescing all of the very worst elements of our society, taking public spaces by force and fomenting violence, despite their talk of peace.
It’s naked Leninism and if allowed to continue, there’ll be mass violence in the streets.
Rodan wrote:
What should we expect from Che’ lovers?
@ MacDuff:
These OWS Would be lambs for the slaughter. They’re mostly rich brats who are mad their Transgender study degrees didn’t get them a job.
m wrote:
No, that would be bad for the environment & their
LGF accounts would be blocked for eternity.
While dogs and gas are wonderful tools for dispersal, they also play right into their propaganda.
Until the judges and prosecutors that take these cases start imprisoning these folks for a significant amount of time, none of the “crackdown” matters.
If they’re simply trotted to the station, booked, and released, or even sit in jail for the time it takes for their case to be expedited (and fast tracked because there are so many of them), they will simply return to the mob as heroes with jail bracelets.
Rodan wrote:
But they see themselves as hip revolutionaries,
takin to da man.
The young people that took on the Mullahs is Iran &
the Tienaman Square Protestors took on risk.
The OWS kids just seem like overindulged adolecents.
The old hippies did show up though.
@ Bumr50:
Alas, then they’re martyrs, but it’s the best of bad choices. Some teargas, fire hoses and dogs would, in the interim, provide some good entertainment…..
Bumr50 wrote:
I recommend water cannon. It’s cold, wet, non-lethal and most of ‘em could use a shower.
@ MacDuff:
The difference between a week or two in jail and 3-6 months in jail is like night and day.
That’s just for the rabble rousers.
These folks deliberately organizing to shut down a port of commerce should go to prison.
Rodan wrote:
They won’t. I have a friend in the Carolinas who
told me a story about the Occupy Chaolette Group.
One morning, a morning radio host took them coffee
& donuts from Dunkin Donuts to get interviews.
The yoots wanted Starbucks!
@ Bumr50:
Police dogs and tear gas? Isn’t it about time for flame throwers and quad-mount .50 cal machine guns?
@ RIX:
They are just Commie scum!
Kagan recused herself from the AZ case….
The Cowboys defense sure stunk it up last night. They should have won that game.
MacDuff wrote:
probably means the fix is in for at worse a 4-4 tie ( meaning the lower court ruling stands ). Liberals may not have principals, but they can count
Rodan wrote:
Basically yes & also snot nosed kids.
I think in the beginning it was like Woodstock,
they were looking to get laid & stoned.
It has morphed into something else.
This is not orgnic though, Van Jones predicted
“Something Big.”
MacDuff wrote:
I saw that. She also needs to recuse herself from the Hellcare case. Someone is going to come out with the smoking email that puts her square in the middle of creating that monster.
huckfunn wrote:
Doubt it. It is probably stored with that LA Times Videotape of obama with those radical arabs
@ MacDuff:
@ huckfunn:
I submit that she willingly recused herself from this case easily and willingly simply to demonstrate that she’s willing to recuse herself when she feels it’s justified.
It will be used as an argument for NOT recusing herself from the Obamacare case, which is much more important to her agenda.
Bumr50 wrote:
Yup
Nevergiveup wrote:
Don’t worry, assuming honor is never my first inclination by yeah, you’re probably right. She’s trying to cover for NOT recusing herself from the healthcare case.
Is this a precursor to civil war?
viw drudge
hmmm, some government program fouled it up?
MacDuff wrote:
Woder if she will be consistent & recuse herself
from the ObamaCare Case.
@ Bumr50:
Ya beat me. Yeah, what you said!
Ben_Dover wrote:
I doubt it; a civil war would require courage and conviction. These are just whiners enjoying Whinestock and pretending it’s ’69.
@ Bumr50:
Exactly
Jaw Dropping Stat of The Day: Debt Increases Nearly $49K Per Second Under Obama…
Obama is literally “WINNING!”
obama with maliki throwing away all we sacraficed in Iraq. No bases, No influence, No oil, No nothing.
@ lobo91:
and to whine when thomas doesn’t recuse himself from the hellcare case
@ coldwarrior:
Great point.
Either way it’s simply an attempt to set a precedent. Nothing more.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/andrew-breitbart-goes-off-on-coward-glenn-beck-he-is-dead-to-me/
viw weaselzippers
This will attract businesses!
NOT!
San Franciso Tops $10 Minimum Wage
OT- PSA
Nevergiveup wrote:
“Peace in our time” should be his slogan; it would be fitting.
MacDuff wrote:
He didn’t use that that but I swear I thought he used something from the Gettysburg Address
@ Rodan:
♫“If you’re going…to..San Fran-freak-show….”♫
Glen Beck has jumped the shark.
Glenn Beck: The Tea Party Supporting Gingrich Over Obama ‘Must Be About Race’
Anyone notice a major West Coast city missing from this list? San Francisco. The idiots who run this City were so effing stupid and such bad planners, they never saw the advent of container ports and Oakland stole just about ALL oceangoing commerce from them…..except the cruise ships.
I wonder if the LHWU is going to be so enthralled with these smelly shits shutting down the ports -- because even the TEAMSTERS are scared of the Longshoremen.
@ Bumr50:
McConnell is my senator, so I’ll call. Thanks for the heads-up.
@ Carolina Girl:
Wouldn’t that leave a still-lucrative tourist attraction in SF: The Castro District?
@ waldensianspirit:
Beck beclowns himself when he talks real-time politics or economics IMHO.
He does a masterful job of presenting big picture stuff and informing his audience on matters of history and the Marxist/Globalist infrastructures.
George Freaking Washington is not running for President, and he never will again. To attempt to hold people to standards that have been distorted by years of legendary status is folly. He was a great, great man but wasn’t perfect. The only records we have of him are written records in a time when only a certain few actually wrote.
@ Nevergiveup:
I think we’re looking at a 5-4 decision on that one, if I had to bet. I think Kagan is taking the out on a relatively minor decision so that she can say later that she DOES recuse herself when appropriate (setting the stage for her refusal to step away when Obamacare comes up).
Rodan wrote:
Geez. He’s becoming Howard Beal, and I kinda had an inkling that would eventually happen.
Rodan wrote:
no one can convince me that the only reason beck is for romney is because they are both mormon.
otherwise, beck would blow romney out of the water over romenycare, and then find a link from soros to bane capital.
glenn is a fool, and a dishonest man
@ Carolina Girl:
Then it will all come down to Anthony kennedy.
@ coldwarrior:
Newt threw down the Bain card.
@ RIX:
Kennedy is on record stating he will not retire until Обама is gone. Doesn’t that say something?
Carolina Girl wrote:
Can’t be 5-4 without Kagan--only 8 justices
@ coldwarrior:
Romney is a Progressive. Newt is actually Conservative. Beck has jumped the shark.
@ Bumr50:
Good on Newt.
@ Macker:
Back when being closeted was still de rigeur, the Castro was quite the destination for tourists (as Haight/Ashbury was in the 60′). Now it’s just a sideshow carnival and no one gives a crap about these idiots anymore; hence doing everything they can to get their “community” in the papers these days.
@ coldwarrior:
I never trusted populists who try and create “movements”. In the end, it’s not about US, or the alleged “movement”, it’s about THEM. It’s just another cult of personality.
The fact is, Beck and Obama are a lot alike.
@ coldwarrior:
and the reason beck wont talk about bain/romney is that many of the companies that romney raided and shipped overseas were bought by black and decker, and at the time, one of romney’s mormon buddies was ceo of black and decker.
coincidence, i think not. glenn specializes in making these connections but ignores this one
Bumr50 wrote:
HELL YEAH!!!
Macker wrote:
I says a lot. I Expect that the individual mandate
will be held unconstitutional, but that it will be
severed from the bill as a whole.
There is no severability clause, but they will give it
to them.
@ Nevergiveup:
I meant that the decision was going to come down to 5-4 if she hadn’t recused herself so she lost nothing by stepping away.
But I think Kennedy will come down with the conservative side -- that whole calling out of the Supreme Court by Jerk the Wonder Prez at the SOTU Show a couple years ago really really REALLY pissed Kennedy off. When asked about retirement, he stated that he would not retire while Obama was President. I think Kennedy will side with the conservative majority -- which is why they are so desperate to force Thomas to recuse himself -- it isn’t that they’re just worried about losing Kagan -- what they really need is to bump Thomas from the panel to force a tie.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Did they ever come up with a plan to develop Treasure Island?
RIX wrote:
Without the mandate, the whole thing collapses. I’d feel more comfortable if Congress simply drove a stake thru its heart.
coldwarrior wrote:
Romney’s basically Gordon Gekko sans personality.
@ RIX:
Mea culpa -- I missed that comment upthread. Well, I’m glad that someone else was aware of Kennedy’s pledge not to retire -- I have several libturd acquaintances that say he said no such thing.
And frankly, vis-a-vis Glenn Beck -- I stopped watching his show on Fox the day he outright appropriated a couple of paragraphs of Mark Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny” on his TV show, reworked a word or two, and then presented the analysis as his own.
Glenn Beck has no idea how much he shot himself in the foot. And how much harmed to his candidate Romney
@ MacDuff:
Hopefully McConnell takes the hint.
His money could be on the wrong horse.
coldwarrior wrote:
I particularly admire the double shot with the 10$ bet
@ huckfunn:
You mean after they rented to Willie Brown’s cronies the officers’ beautiful homes for like 10% of what they were worth?
I’m given to understand that a lot of film companies are renting space on the island.
@ Bumr50:
Good! Someone has been nneeding to do that! That makes me feel somewhat better about supporting Gingrich. If he was really running just to split the conservative vote so Romney could sneak by, I don’t think he’d have thrown that card on the table.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Are you kidding me? Beck is a Romney supporter? Beck honestly believes that flip-flopping RINO nightmare is a Conservative???
MacDuff wrote:
worse, he is goerge soros, an economic vampire who feeds on other people’s work; he is a destroyer of wealth just like soros.
waldensianspirit wrote:
that was a ‘well played’ shot
*golf clap*
The Newt -- Mitt feud Is getting personal and I’ve noticed that Mitt doesn’t handle conflict that well. He stammers a lot and appears visibly shaken, while Newt hardens and calmly launches salvos of facts and figures. I’d take Newt in a battle of wits any day of the week.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
@ huckfunn:
.
True the mandte is the key. But it can cause short term
damage until it is totally repealed.
@ coldwarrior:
Romney probably would outsource the Military to India.
@ Carolina Girl:
Beck is just too weired.
@ MacDuff:
I’m not much of a Trekkie, but I really liked this line a couple months back.
@ Bumr50:
Yeah, begging will work! Damn, but Obama projects weakness the way a cheap hooker projects bad sex…
Bumr50 wrote:
Was it via “strongly worded letter”?
@ huckfunn:
I agree. Ideally the legislature should fix bad law.
I was at a Xmas party Saturday night and while I never bring up politics, the libturds all wanted to yak away. I whacked one so bad with facts he pouted and ran outside for awhile.
It is scary to me how depressing ignorant the libturds are. They will make a statement and when you ask them what they “mean” by that, they go “oh, I don’t want to discuss THAT.”
Example: “Sarah Palin is a certified nut job.”
“Really? What has she done or said that makes her a nut job?”
“Well, I have family in Wasilla (first I’ve heard of it, by the way) and they think she’s crazy.”
“Yeah, but the people of Alaska thought she was great.”
“No they didn’t. I wouldn’t vote for John McCain because he appointed her and that’s why he lost the election, because of her.”
“Really? Because my understanding is that without Palin on the ticket, he would have lost by a larger margin.”
“No, that’s not true, because I didn’t vote for him because Palin was on the ticket.”
“Okay, based on what? What did Palin say or do during the campaign that made you want to vote for a Marxist?”
“I don’t want to discuss THAT right now.”
@ MacDuff:
He threatened to stamp his little foot!
@ RIX:
Beck is like Bachmann and Palin -- a little exposure and a little adulation and they tend to translate it into something more than it really is. Beck starts GBTV but really, how many people are signed up for it? Bachmann calls for an anti-Obamacare rally in D.C. on a Thursday, and thousands show up (mostly to see Mark Levin; Bachman had little to do with it) and Sarah, oh dear, well, let’s just say where you used to be what Fred Thompson called a “breath of fresh air” -- now you everywhere and I want to close the window.
@ Iron Fist:
@ MacDuff:
This also begs the question: What would Obama do if a foreign drone came down unscathed on our soil?
Would he just “give it back”? With a note that says “Better Luck Next Time”????
Carolina Girl wrote:
Damn, I wish I’d written that! Well done!
@ Carolina Girl:
That’s the Leftist mentality.
MacDuff wrote:
He threatened to de-friend them on Facebook.
Bumr50 wrote:
Well, with Obama, that may be his first inclination. I assume your analogy pertains to a real president and the answer is “not just no, but he’ll no!”
Later, folks!
@ Carolina Girl:
A specific example on Palin?
@ MacDuff:
Well thank you! I think the “boys” were rather surprised when Blondie didn’t back down when they wanted to hammer conservatives. I said at one point, rather snarkily “I research and write about these subjects on a daily basis, so if you want to debate me, fine, but have your ducks in a row and your facts straight. I can decimate the parrot mantra from MSLSD in two minutes.”
Bumr50 wrote:
Mad Mullah sez “Sure thing. I’ll just unclench my fist and we can be pals and such”.
@ MacDuff:
Now that’s somehow possible: get Michael Douglas to play Mittens!
@ Bumr50:
Yeah, it is perfectly logical that Iran will act in Iran’s interests. If I were Obaam I’d tell them that we had a homing device for a new super-secret guided W-88 built into it and we’d launch if they didn’t give it back. Obama would never do that, but I would. One reason I’ll never get close to the Presidency, I suppose…
@ waldensianspirit:
My complaint on Sarah is not that I don’t like her -- because I do, and in fact she seems to have stepped back a bit — but I didn’t need to have her take on every single event that took place in this country. It was more like we were getting Sarah overdose.
Macker wrote:
Nope, Guy Smiley.
@ Carolina Girl:
Yea, I understand. So far she hasn’t pulled a Bachmann or Beck. I want her around hammering on crony capitalism where she has a record
Danged communists.
Rodan wrote:
Speaking of which…Pooty may have an actual opponent!
@ Bumr50: Newt is a tough sob on the campaign trail
One wonders why one sees no personal interviews of the OWS protestors? Their life stories would generate no sympathy from a voter or a viewer?
@ Macker:
some choice, mafia or thug.
Kids Fighting People like it because it was cute. Call me jaded but I thought it was more like a dance class. At least make them wrestle to a take down, not of this PC owie crap.
@ 89 Carolina Girl: i hardly hear from Palin these days. And I am a facebook friend. The MSM pushed a lot of issues at her personally as part of her possible front runner campaign status. And they did it as a form of character assassination. In the manner of “Sarah Palin when did you stop beating your wife?”
At one time she was one of the few people pounding Obama down. So I am very ok with her responding to personal attacks by anyone whenever they occur. And she can energize a crowd and deliver a message.
The bigger picture is that these MSM hits on the GoP are opportunities to knock them down and call the MSM out as stupid. Trump, Cain, and Gingrich are the best at it. That’s a good reason to enable them in this election cycle so they can polarize Obama and Alinksky him
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, considering their entire frakked-up History….