Occupy Movement Recruiting Police and Marines: ‘Tell Police to Get Involved!’
- Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:13am by
Christopher Santarelli
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Last week, a video went viral showing Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas berating a group of New York City Police Officers who were minding a crowd of “Occupy Wall Street” protesters near Times Square on the Global Day of Rage. Now, that video has sparked an offshoot movement calling on Marines to join the Occupy movement. In fact, it even has its own website and suggested dress code.
(Related: NYC shootings increase and cops blame the Occupy protests)
First, the video. In it, Thomas, an Iraq War veteran, confronts a seemingly random group of officers, hinting at instances of alleged police brutality:
The police appear to be simply attempting to move along the crowd when Sgt. Thomas berates and accuses the police of “walking around trying to hurt people.” Sgt. Thomas has become a celebrity of sorts for his YouTube tirade, having since appeared on Current TV as a guest of Keith Olbermann, Russia Today, and has visited the Occupiers in Zuccotti Park. Blaze Reporter Buck Sexton noticed Thomas in the crowds Saturday:
Having worked in intelligence prior to joining The Blaze, Sexton notes that there are plenty of former service members who wear the NYPD blues now:
“While Sgt. Thomas is correct– there is no honor in police brutality– it wasn’t apparent then or now that anyone takes the opposite side of that argument. So the implication seemed to be that police actions taken against Occupy Wall Street should fall under the designation “brutality.”
As someone who has stood in the crowd with the Occupiers many times, I’ve never witnessed a violent act initiated by a police officer, nor seen anyone threatened for exercising their 1st amendment rights. I also know that there are hundreds if not thousands of veterans who also served in Iraq and Afghanistan currently wearing the uniform of the NYPD. In fact, the Police Commissioner himself is a decorated Marine and a Vietnam veteran.” [Emphasis added]
That said, and seemingly inspired by Sgt.Thomas, a new movement has sprouted up called is “OccupyMARINES,” a group that says it “will support demonstrators with organization, direction, supply and logistics, and leadership.”
In fact, the group’s website even suggests a dress code for those service members coming down to join the protesters:
OccupyMARINES Are Organizing A Dress Code For All Non-Active ‘Occupy’ Military Supporters.
OccupyMARINES Are Organizing Blouses Which Identify Branch
Affiliation Affixed With An OWS Logo For Shirts And Sweatshirts.Non-Dress Uniform:
1. Dicky’s EMT Black Cargo Pants
(http://www.dickies.com/occupational-clothing/occupational-men/occupational-mens-pants/EMT-Pant-2112377.jsp)
2. Ranger Joe’s Corcoran Boots-I XC Jump Black Aviator Boots
(http://www.rangerjoes.com/Corcoran-Boots-I-XC-Jump-P1365C4.aspx)3. Blouse Bands
Should Non-Active Military Supporters Present Themselves At Demonstrator Groups In Military Dress Uniform We Ask They Do Not Actively Participate With Group Activities; We Will Honor Our Military Uniforms And The Sacrifices Of Our Brothers And Sisters. Only Non-Dress Uniform Supporters May Actively Participate.
OccupyMARINES makes clear it is not looking for active-duty support, only former service members.
But another movement isn’t making that distinction. As Business Insider notes, there’s also a movement sprouting up called “Occupy Police.” Occupy Police describe themselves as “the 99% protecting 100%.”
According to the group’s website, Monday marks Day 4 of the “#OccupyPolice movement.” The about section of the group’s website reads: “There‘s a misconception that police aren’t part of the 99%– This should end that misconception.” It gives further instructions on its website:
- If you are a protester, send us photos of You in Solidarity with Police at your occupation and we will post them to the site
- If you are an officer, send us photos of You in Solidarity with Protesters at your and we will post them to the site
- If you have video showing Police in Solidarity with the people, send it to us and we will post it on our YouTube channel and share it with the world
- Make signs that say “Police are part of the 99%’ with “#OccupyPolice & OccupyPolice.org” on the signs, fly the signs in the street then take a picture and send it to us and we will post it to the site
- Tell Police they are part of the 99%
- Tell Police to get involved!
The group plans to hold its first General Assembly live on Twitter Monday night.
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Comments (229)
ejbonk
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:39amIf your a police officer or a military member stay out of this,for your family’s sake, Your career’s sake and for your own sake. These people at Occupy Wall Street are Dangerous,and unpredictable.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:26pmNot to mention that they were just seen PROTESTING AGAINST THE POLICE … mental illness?
TEA!
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:39pmTheir military benefits should be revoked for participating in this.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 2:40pmyes, his benefits should be stripped for exercising his rights as an american, the rights he fought for… you are a really smart dude.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 2:48pmJLGunner
Report Post »Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:39pm
Their military benefits should be revoked for participating in this.
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The OAth Keepers, who are close to the Tea PArty are a more dangerous unfit, and yet their is no call to curtail their 1st Amendment rights. I guess the 1st Amendment only applies to those that the Tea Party and Beck agrees with.
JLGunner
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 3:38pm@ clive What do you think this mans real reason for getting involved in this is? Now let’s talk about getting “smart” or as I say, educated. Do some diggin there “smart guy”.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 4:37pm@ encinom Did the Oath Keepers deficate on police cars, smoke weed, and damage property? Did any of them call for the end of our capatilistic system and replace it with socialism (more than barack already has)? You really think the Tea Party gatherings were anything like this dibacle? You must have loved it when Nancy Pelosi stated that she was “terrified” of the Tea Party.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:38amStanding up for free speech, nothing wrong with that. Emboldening those who have a stated goal of destroying our system of government, with violence if necessary and replacing it with an unconstitutional system is wrong headed at best and treasonous at worst.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:37pmLemon you’re an idiot,
Report Post »If you can’t see the cvonnection between the CRA and the entire system meltdown. If you can‘t see that our entiore collapse was based on programs likes NO INCOME NO JOB REQUIRED Bill Clinton regulations using the FDIC as a bargining chip you’re beyond stupid. And if you can‘t see that the reason the bailout truely happened was to protect the largest financial institution from have a run on their shares you’re braindead. The government protected Fannie May and Freddie Mac from having to shell out the trillions in loan guarantees from the meltdown. Frankin Raines bail out with a 50 million golden parachute and a vow of silence. The tax payers were saddled with fannie and freddie debt because if the truth actually came out the TAX PAYERS would turn against it’s real enemy THE GOVERNMENT
herekittykitty
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:37amNo WWII or Veitnam or Korean war vet would ever ever ever act like this. Those men and women were from an honorable generation. Today’s war vets are just like their non-vet counterparts, spoiled, entitled, victims. Not all – but many. Enough with the coddling, buck up and take responsibility for yourselves and respect authority.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:00pmOur Military did not suffer under Islamic Jihad back then as it does now.
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:17pm“No WWII or Veitnam or Korean war vet would ever ever ever act like this”.
Perhaps Senator John Kerry might be an exception?
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 1:15pmRespectfully, I disagree. Vietnam vets did come home and protest.
Remember John Kerry (who served in Vietnam)?
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 2:45pm@HEREKITTY
Report Post »WWII and Korean Vets may not have done this but my generation in the military certainly did. John Kerry is the perfect example. He was the mouthpiece for the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. He and his kind gave all of us a bad name. If this guy is a Marine, I suspect 99% of the Marine Corps is PO’ed.
@leftfighter
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 4:00pm@ Dismayed Veteran
I know I am…
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 4:02pmI have often wondered the men and women that either a) were drafted or b) entered ONLY as a way to fund college or get a ‘free’ ride in some way vs. joining up for love of country or to ‘get the bad guys’ are the ones that root to destroy the Constitution. I just don’t know enough military folks to get a feel for what makes the huge difference of patriotic vs. loathing of USA current and vets. I figured many here have served and could give some insight.
Report Post »There is a man I work with that is gay and I was surprised when he told me he had served in the 90′s in the Navy. When I thanked him for his service, he got real weird and said something about not being in combat, I told him it didn’t matter, he was ready to serve if needed and I had ultimate respect for our military, he said I shouldn’t and he absolutely is all liberal. We don’t see eye to eye on MANY things to say the least. He flipped when he saw a Beck book at my desk :-) Funny.
Love oathkeepers, but it’s people like this guy and my co worker that makes me wonder how many would use their training and turn on the Constitution. Any Insight?
another pucker
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:35amThis is getting serious! I think this guy is one of the few but can’t be sure! These officers seemed to just be standing there and he then goes on to make a video insinuating they were roughing people up. “The Truth has No Agenda”. It seems this fellow might be an infiltrator out to push some marxist socialist issue’s in the military and to make the majority of us think that the majority of military agree with him. Obama would love nothing more than to have a military that protects the Radicals. If he is still enlisted wouldn’t this go against some standard or code of behavior?
XOXOXO
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:38amThere is a jihad infestation in the US Military. We have seen the muslim jihadi kill marines and other military men and women several time. Our Military bases are infested with Islam.
Removing the muslims from the ranks will go a long way towards mitigating the damage they have inflicted.
Report Post »another pucker
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:40amOne more thing! He seems, in my opinion, someone who would try to declare himself to have authority over anyone who disagreed with him. I can see this guy at a NBP gathering spewing out hatred.
Report Post »Jim Killam
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 3:47pmThere is no truth but truth is second to their opinion. Please read my story at http://www.bookzandblogz.org It deals with unions and I also had police involvement with my attack.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:35amOne second they’re berating cops and attending anti-cop rallies and the next step they’re trying to get the cops to join them. This group is being used and manipulated and they don’t even realize it.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:42amThe bicameral mind is easily manipulated as it readily submits to external authority.
There people have abandoned the function of their conscious mind and will do WHATEVER their external authority figure instructs them.
Read “The Origin of Consciousness” by Julian Jaynes to see how those people are being manipulated.
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:35amCheck this out, over the past month the gun crimes have apparently gone up big time in NYC since OWS according to police
Report Post »http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/10/24/will-media-report-increase-nyc-shootings-ows-protests-began#ixzz1bhxCvKh5
momrules
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:34amThe uniform makes them more of a unit, separate from the rest. Is this Obama’s army or at least part of it?
Report Post »ccfonten
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:16pmGood thought, my impression as well. Just another branch of odumbo’s private army. He has the unions, ACORN, black panthers………..and now a bunch of wacked out former military.
Report Post »Be aware, alert, and prepared!!
Goals for 2012:::PRAY…..VOTE…..BUY MORE PRECIOUS METAL……………….LEAD!
RichNGadsden
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:34amIs this the same Marine pictured in that other story on Gangs in the Military? I’ve said it many times before, and will say it again. The military is a cross section of our nation’s society. And, the recruiters just can’t filter all of the idiots, dumb asses, and criminals out.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:34am.
Report Post »Don’t call this fool a Marine. Probably one of those gang members that got training in the military to come home and Run Amock in the streets…………
db321
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:34amThis friend of Van Jones is soon going to be an ex Marine. I don’t want an America where this guy makes the law!
Report Post »LoneRanger
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:32am152 years ago Abraham Lincoln warned us:
“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Abraham Lincoln – Lyceum Address 1838
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:15pmThis is one quote, I had not seen in a while. So true. Thanks for posting.
Report Post »walkyrie
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:32amYES! Preach on Brother JihadiAzsKicker! These are the fools and useful idiots, just as written.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:32amI want to see proof this idiot was in the Military. Just because he‘s wearing a camouflage shirt don’t mean crap. Military supply stores sell scores of these shirts.
Report Post »Concerned Cincinnati
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:20pmOh this idiot was in the military in fact he’s still on contract in the IRR. If you have a facebook theres a page Marines Against Sgt. Shamar Thomas. He has disgraced MY uniform and MY Marine Corps. You want to make your voice heard good you have the right to do so but when you where that uniform you represent me and thousands more so If you want to act like a fool thats your right but dont ever bring disgrace to fellow Marines
Report Post »aguy123
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 3:20pmDid FB pull the page? All i can locate is people against marins against sgt. shitbird….
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:31amShamar?
I wonder is our good Marine is a muslim.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:30amCrack don’t smoke itself…
Another thing?? Ever buy fatigues at military supply stores?? It wouldn’t be a first time some freak pretending to be a person in the military, making it look like those in the military supported this stupid crap. Don’t fall for this BS.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:36amThere are so many reasons this guy is either lying, or about to get a major UCMJ (uniform code of military justice) violation. IF he is in the military, wearing that shirt (out of regs) to a political rally, means he is “representing” the Marines. That is a big NO-NO. Next, while wearing the unform, incorrectly or not, he would need to be shaven, hat on, and button it up. There is nothing about this guy that says he has a shred of evidence that he is still in, or got out honorably.
Report Post »walkyrie
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:42amPreach On, brother RightUnite!
Report Post »OpenRevolt
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:46amVietnam? Iraq Veterans Against the War? General MacArthur attacking military WW I vets the Gov refused to pay? 1776?
There’s a long history of US troops protesting the government. Claiming people are just going to military depots, even if true in this case, is asinine and stupid.
The real world isn’t Star Wars. We don’t have a bunch of cloned storm troopers with the same brain. And thank God we don’t!
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:00pm@OPENREVOLT……Just because someone is wearing fatigues, does not mean they were in the military…. Try looking outside the box dude! Don’t fall for this crap!
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:30amThe police are getting involved!! Haven’t they heard about all the arrests?
Report Post »robinakilt
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:29amBrown shirts? Just because you served in the military does not automatically mean you are a man or woman or honor. Let us watch and see who the people are that become a part of this group. I am sure we will see a trend.
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:28amOh, Oh some of the Cannon Fodder is stirring………..
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:27amThat guy needs to be disciplined for misusing his uniform!! This is the new military. Full of people who side with criminals against the police and are incensed by children being taught to recite the pldge in a public school!
Report Post »James
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 1:14pmI disagree with you statement and find it offensive, I am currently in the military, and your generalization and stereotype does not apply to me.
Report Post »LoneRanger
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:26amAll veterans who are cops, firefighters, law enforcement support, corrections officers must visit http://www.publicsafetyveterans.com. We all must withdraw from our unions until such time as they dissacosiate from the AFL-CIO.
You took a pledge to defend this country – it does not expire with a DD214.
Pass this on to all your public safety friends. It would be a good idea if teachers did the same.
Report Post »sister1_rm
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:24amI’m so confused now. Last week the police were the enemies, now they want to be all chummy. Am I missing something? Maybe the unions have something to do with this. After all, law enforcement in most areas is union whether the officers want it or not.
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:21amWhy are they dressing like the New Black Panther party? What a pin head.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:38am@TEXASFARMER….That was my exact thought…..I’d bet dollars to dognuts he is envolved with the blackasspanthers….
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:21amI’m hoping for an early bitterly cold winter to drive these malcontents back to their dorm rooms ,parent’s basements and homeless shelters.
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:42amAnd, lots and lots of bitterly cold rain…before it snows!
Report Post »tugdiver
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:21amI hope the police stand on the side of good and not on the side of evil (Legion)
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:18amThere is also NO HONOR in being a useful idiot.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:27amYep, Glenn woke us, but we were asleep for too long. This woman worked during the Regan administration and I’m just now hearing of this.
Education (new world order) The deliberate dumbing-down of America
Report Post »We must get education out of the hands of Federal government and into the hands of the States
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LTTExVC1w
Vechorik
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 11:28am.forgot to add ———— if a candidate doesn’t support abolishing the Dept. of Education and returning education into the hands of the States — don’t vote for them!
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