My Occupy LA Arrest, by Family Guy writer Patrick Meighan

[dellinger63]

No worries. When they grow up they'll learn to listen to police or anyone with a gun for that matter. Riot weren't you just a few months ago pushing for Fed money to distributed so teachers, police and firemen could retain their jobs? Or was that then and now is now?

You should give Occupy that idea and come up with a sign saying "Support our Police" could give that dying Occupy movement the shot in the arm it needs.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

No worries. When they grow up they'll learn to listen to police or anyone with a gun for that matter.

So you think the police should be able to brutalize protesters? Violate their legal rights? Refuse to bail out those with bail in their hands? Do whatever the police wish? A facist police state is okay by you, as long as it's against a group of people or a sect or a religion you don't personally like?

Screw the Constitution, huh?

You're no libertarian.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

So you think the police should be able to brutalize protesters? Violate their legal rights? Refuse to bail out those with bail in their hands? Do whatever the police wish? A facist police state is okay by you, as long as it's against a group of people or a sect or a religion you don't personally like?

Screw the Constitution, huh?

You're no libertarian.

I'm all for protesting, during day light hours, and not interfering with the general public. Especially the general public going and coming from work. The General Public, most 99%ers, who are ultimately paying for the unemployment and or social handouts of the downtrodden 99%. (Presuming none of the 1%ers are on food stamps or unemployment but you never know)

The protesters should ask themselves one question next time when setting up. Do the local laws allow overnight camping? If so, bingo that's the spot. For instance in Chicago, lower Wacker Dr. would be an ideal choice. Blocking bridges and roads are no nos. It's not really that hard to protest w/o problems. Maybe look to the Tea Partiers among the Occupy hoard for some guidance. They seemed to do it right the last time.

Also not that they'd want to but protesting specific events at specific times frees up a huge amount of time, as opposed to sitting in a park, and you can even maintain a job, if that's not too much of selling out for them.

While they sit in a park imagining they represent the 99%, they watch 90% of the 99 pass by on the way to work each weekday.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

While they sit in a park imagining they represent the 99%, they watch 90% of the 99 pass by on the way to work each weekday.

You mean like Patrick Meighan is unemployed?

You didn't even bother to read the article, I'll guess. You don't have to, when your mind is already made up.

At 9 a.m. we were finally taken from the pavement into the station to be processed. The charge was sitting in the park after the police said not to. It’s a misdemeanor. Almost always, for a misdemeanor, the police just give you a ticket and let you go. It costs you a couple hundred dollars. Apparently, that’s what happened with most every other misdemeanor arrest in LA that day.

With us Occupy LA protestors, however, they set bail at $5,000 and booked us into jail. Almost none of the protesters could afford to bail themselves out. I’m lucky and I could afford it, except the LAPD spent all day refusing to actually *accept* the bail they set. If you were an accused murderer or a rapist in LAPD custody that day, you could bail yourself right out and be back on the street, no problem. But if you were a nonviolent Occupy LA protestor with bail money in hand, you were held long into the following morning, with absolutely no access to a lawyer.

God help this country, when the Bush sheep say that police fascism and brutality are justified.