D.C. Protesters Arrested After Storming Senate Office Building
- Posted on October 11, 2011 at 12:54pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Several protesters were arrested inside the Hart Senate office building Tuesday after they executed a planned invasion. The protesters were chanting anti-War slogans once they entered.
MyFoxDC.com has the video:
The protesters are reportedly part of the anti-war group “October 2011 Stop the Machine,” and has been holding demonstrations in the city and camping out.
The Daily Caller reported Tuesday morning on the group’s plans to disrupt work in the office building:
Anti-war protesters plan to storm the inside and outside of the Hart Senate Office Building at 11:30 a.m. today, with the intent of causing enough havoc to shut business down.
David Swanson, one of the original organizers of the October 2011/Stop the Machine protests — which is distinct from the Occupy D.C. protests in McPherson Square — explained the plan to an assembled crowd of less than 100, mainly elderly and middle-aged protesters in Freedom Square Tuesday morning.
The plan is to send protesters into the Hart building in small insurgent groups, which will begin causing chaos at 11:30 a.m.
“If you go inside, there are people who are wanting to go into the elevators and fill them and not get out and push all the buttons. If you like that, do it,” he said.
The activists also plan to block access to bathrooms.
“There are people who would like to sit down and block the hallways that connect that building to the adjacent building: Do that. There is a big atrium in which banners can be dropped from various levels and people can line up. People can gather at the floor level or around at various levels up above, and we are going to have chants and songs. And by all means, think of chants and songs.”
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“We are trying to time everything to 11:30. We don’t want to have a march. This is extremely difficult to communicate. We want to avoid having a march,” he said.
A Politico reporter confirms six people were arrested.
And while the protesters are being linked to the anti-war group, liberal outlet Talking Points Memo says the participants are actually part of the Occupy D.C. movement and were chanting “Power to the people!” That wouldn’t be odd, as the the anti-war marchers and the Occupy protesters have been working together in other cities.
UPDATE:
Video from NBCWashington.com seems to support the idea that the protesters were a mixed bag. Their cameras caught protesters unfurling a banner saying “TAX THE RICH:”
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Comments (82)
momsense
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:51pmWhy are we being so nice to these thugs and criminals? They ought to be eating lead sandwiches when they assault the cops and the public at large.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:58pmObamas pee party be gettin frisky.
Report Post »pbhiller
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 2:01pmAnd how much are these demonstrators costing the average taxpayer because the police have to work longer, the police are being kept from their real duties, the idiot demonstrators are reaking havoc and destroying public and private properties. If they want to emmulate the Tea Party maybe they ought to be trained first.
Report Post »navydoc2008
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 2:01pmBecause someday that may be us.
Report Post »RagsdaleCombs
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 2:22pmOne of the biggest differences between their lunacy and us is we are stable. If we resort to violence we will be no better than them. Christ said it very clearly that peace comes from active demonstration of proper behavior, not from chaos and disorder. Chaos and disorder are properly described as works of the devil and the flesh. Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:12 stated, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.”
Report Post »TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 4:01pmBe very careful what you wish for. I believe that part comes next…
Report Post »Tim Law
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 6:47pm@ PBHILLERS
I read in the paper today that NY police are already at 1.9 million in overtime. Add up all the dollar’s in all cities and this is getting real pricey. But hey who care we don’t have anything better to spend the money on. no poor people, no old people, no children feel free to add to the list………..
Report Post »johnannegalt
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 7:30pmA letter to all of you protesters– “In your non-ideological ideology, the four-letter epithet substitutes perfectly for any word in any sentence, conveying no meaning, no idea, and no value. You are very nearly the perfect zeroes behind the big “O” at the White House. The American people are growing weary with your “protests.” In short order, you’re going to get the reaction your leaders want(but you do not) and then your tyrannical friends are going to show you what love isn’t.
Most of you are too young to remember naked communism. Most of your professors refused to teach you anything negative about it. Most of your teachers wouldn’t tell you the unvarnished truth. Well, that’s a damnable shame, and what’s worse is that the lack of a historical context into which you might place your current situations, perhaps in time to save your hides.”.. cont…
http://markamerica.com/2011/10/10/note-to-indignant-occu-pukes-your-time-is-almost-up/
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:20pmThis is America, not China were you murder protestors and run them over with tanks. Even idiots like these get due process and regular police treatment, appropriately escalated when needed. Maybe taze them a little, though. And plenty of pepper spray in the eyes.
Report Post »Akbarjonnie Shaheed
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:51pmThe People know where this is coming from and why re-election will not stand a chance in hell. Even Demos are skattering like rats in a cat house.
Report Post »scott2012
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 6:15pmI say, redirect their anger, use them as advance shock troops (bezerkers), claim the‘re nancy’s people. They can’t explain that!
Report Post »BigPaulie
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:47pmCome on hippies, the 60′s are OVER. Take a shower already.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:46pmIt is a federal crime to kill, assault, intimidate or interfere with federal employees performing official duties. Isn’t this interfering if they block the hallways or bathrooms? (not that going to the bathroom is an official doody :-))
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:45pmThere’s a difference between a peaceful demonstration or march and interfering with the rights of others and “occupying” buildings. Gosh, they could also take their complaints through the court system. Heck – they could picket our current president and his fellow Dems.
This isn’t communist world, muslim world, or socialist world. Arrest them, lock them up. Deport them if it turns out they aren’t here legally.
Someone tell them that the 60s are over. They aren’t flower children. This is all rigged and manipulated by the unions and the people who want to tear down a great country. Naive, stupid – it really doesn’t matter. This isn’t the way to go about things. The money being used to police these events and to clean up is money spent out of the taxpayers pockets and out of the local govt pockets. If it’s spent on this crud – it can’t be used to help people who really need it.
Frankly, except for the union folks (etc.) this just looks like young people with NOTHING to do so they all flock to the “in” place of the moment.
Report Post »t00nces2
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 3:09pmI think the Sixties are never over. We have to guard against them every generation.
Report Post »steveh931
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:44pmThis will serve no purpose and is a complete waste of time, go home!
Report Post »dthomps6
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:59pmRemember when Butters on Southpark became Professor Chaos and caused trouble by switching soup orders at Bennigans and then threatening to flood the world by leaving an outdoor hose on? This is pretty much the same thing.
Report Post »Joe America
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 3:28pmDTHOMPS6 >>.
Report Post »Great post! They are Butters! Meaningless chanting by a very small group of losers. How pathetic.
TLA
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:37pm“The activists also plan to block access to bathrooms.” ……Piss on ‘em!!
Report Post »diablosho
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:48pmThey’d probably be into that sort of thing, if you know what I mean!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:27pmTell me… Is this a Felony?
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:39pmWhat does it matter? Even if it could be a felony I doubt they would actually file felony charges against anyone unless there was explicit violence involving that individual.
Report Post »Not Amused
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:27pmThese few look pretty useless. Where’s the mob, where are the signs? Where’s the knowledge that five years of Democrat control of Congress has brought them the usual Democrat economic failure.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:22pmThe objective of these destructive and violent demonstrations is to create the chaos that justifies the declaration of martial law and suspension the constitution, thus creating a Dictatorship. This is the final phase of the Obama agenda and the Wannabe Tyrant expects to be a Dictator at the conclusion.
President Obama’s agenda is creating an economic crisis. If that agenda continues the economic crisis will reach its peak before the 2012 election. This latest stimulus plan guarantees that economic crisis. Politicians are not reelected during an economic crisis. The wannabe tyrants cannot afford free elections in 2012.
Only by creating the chaos that justifies martial law and suspension of the Constitution can the wannabe tyrants retain their power.
The American Revolution has not been in such danger since the War of 1812. Will we allow the tyranny of King George III to be reinstated under new management?
Report Post »http://commonsense21c.com/
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:29pmIndeed, I expect now for Mr Obama to call up troops to further secure the Fed buildings, and to be in position to detain the Republican members of Congress for when he crushes the Constitution and imposes martial law.
Report Post »Javelin
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:19pmFox News Opinion has a poll that currently shows a favorable view of these protesters. Wall street protesters are using Twitter to encourage supporters to vote in poll. Please go to foxnews.com and vote.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:48pmHere:
Report Post »http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/07/do-occupy-wall-street-protests-represent-your-views-economy/?intcmp=trending
chazman
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 4:20pm@SNOWLEOPARD
I have a son in the Marine Corps. The Marines do not like OBAMMY. Believe it …
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:17pm“The activists also plan to block access to bathrooms.”
Report Post »They block the bathrooms when they should actually occupy those bathrooms and wash up.
They are backwards aren’t they?
gsplgtr
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:23pmIf they block me from going in to use the mens’ room Ill just piss on them
Report Post ».338Lapua.17Confirmed.K.and.I.Sleep.Like.A.Baby
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:12pmThey are trying to do exactly what Glenn has warned us all about. This is the top down bottom up scenario happening before our very eyes. Get ready for the inside out.
Report Post »hapvalpsu
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:21pmThank you for your service to our country, and being a valued member of society, unlike those in the ‘Flea Party”.
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:22pmPELOSI the old bag wants to equate Tea Party Protests with these DIP WADS! Boy she is soooooooooooooooo much the hack. AND Minority Leader DIP WAD!
Report Post »gsplgtr
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:24pmwe can always turn them inside out!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:11pmNo arrests at all at legit Tea Party events. Notice all the attention the press is giving these idiots and how they LOVE to say it‘s the left’s Tea Party??? I seem to remember them IGNORING the Tea Party and saying they were insignificant BEFORE they tried to vilify them.. THEN they were controlling the conversation in DC to NOW they want to BE THE TEA PARTY of the left? HAHAHAHA
Report Post »ACLUHater
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:16pmMore proof that liberalism is a mental disorder. Block my bathroom and I would have to pi$$ on your heads.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:31pmIndeed, the fact is that Mr Obama is reaching levels of desperation; and as he grows more desperate, with the jaws of failed economy, politics, and ‘fast and furious’ coming further and further, then he will do one of two things:
A. Resign from the Presidency, and no I do not figure this highly of happening.
Report Post »B. Lash out full force, and declare martial law and go for broke.
Love_John_Galt
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:09pmJust more FLEA baggers…
Report Post »mils
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:14pmwashington is where they need to be…all of them.
I’m sure the payments for their services will be delivered where ever they are.
Washington needs ALL of these people at 1600 penn ave… defecating, dancing, being fools.
It’s not the banks..it’s what 1600 penn has allowed them to do. It’s not the banks, it’s the laws that allow things to happen…it’s paybacks, it’s loop holes.
cloward/piven…
Report Post »don young
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:09pmThey will keep it up until someone gets killed so obama can call marshal law that is what they really want so he can keep shafting the people in the united states.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:22pmThere are no Constitutional powers granted to the President, nor Congress, to declare “martial law”. The most they can do is suspend the write of habeous corpus, which does not in fact give them the power to start declaring things like curfews, gun confiscation, ordering civilians around, etc such as traditional martial law does.
Dirty little secret they probably hope you don’t realize.
Report Post »tbarr4
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:08pmArrest all of them, Clear the dump parks out Now!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:08pmAnd these dumb people vote for the DIM DEMS!!!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:06pmAt least some of the protesters are unarmed…
Report Post »jnobfan
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:06pmThis is what free speech looks like. They we not destroying anything or harming anyone.
Report Post »The message doesn’t matter, the right to assemble peacefully does.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 2:06pmBlocking and invading places of employeement with the attempt to shut down that place, is not freedom of assembly. They are by definition in that case preventing others from exercising their own freedom of assembly.
The “this is what….looks like” crap is old. You people really need to beg your intellectual masters for new slug lines to use.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:01pmTake a shower! Take a shower! Take a shower! Take a shower!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:29pmGolden shower…………………….Sorry I couldn’t resist.But the ‘protesters’ I believe are mostly anarchists and communists funded by Soros and other left wing groups,if they had any idea how communists operated they wouldn’t be out there.Communism is death plain and simple.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 12:59pmEnd stupidity now!!! End stupidity now!! What a bunch of losers. I am so glad the dems are tying their hopes to these fools. Let them!!! I love it!! This is going to backfire big time on the left. No way you can parade these fools around as anything good. They are usefull idiots at best. At worst they are drug laden, filthy, smelly human garbage that will end up killing a cop or something soon…Uh Oh party over then huh???
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 12:59pmAnd so it begins. Um, not.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:24pmAgreed. I look at it as nothing more than a stunt, as is most of this stuff.
There is a real potential for violence, but I don’t think that will occur anytime before October 15th when their supposed big rallies are supposed to occure, with union participation.
We’ll see. They may be brave in D.C. and NYC, but they‘re not going to get much slack from places where people are armed and don’t like to be pushed around by hippies.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 12:58pmAnd yet another example of how the Ocuupy Wall Street protestors have absolutely nothing in common with the tea party. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jvMojZc_bE
Report Post »NewLife56
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 12:57pmThis cannot be true, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN have said no one is violent or breaking any laws at these protest, this must be a mistake :-)
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:01pmBeckel say’s everything there is legit, his kind of folks. That’s good enough for me, They must all be idiots.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:07pmnope wont here any thing about these idiots ,the networks are paid puppets and will do what they are told, under a communist regime there are 3 ways to survive, get in line,do as you are told and never question, or you will have several punishments to choice from, out of a job, prison, or firing squad, anf right now they are doing the first 3, getting in line,doing as they are told, and not questioning.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:34pmWell, you were half right. There’s been little violence (unless you count police using pepper spray and batons against protesters), but all the media outlets regularly point out that the protesters are breaking laws.
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