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Occupy Portland Protesters, Police Engage in Standoff as Mayor Orders Eviction

Occupy Portland Protesters, Police Engage in Standoff as Mayor Orders Eviction

Hundreds of protesters and supporters gather hours before a mandate from the city to vacate the Occupy Portland Camp in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Hundreds of Occupy Portland protesters engaged in a standoff with police Saturday night into Sunday morning, defying an eviction order and refusing to leave the Oregon park area where they had gathered.

City officials had set a midnight Saturday deadline to disperse, but the face off continued into the early Sunday morning hours.

By mid-morning, the streets had cleared and protesters returned to their camp, with dozens arrested. Portland Mayor Sam Adams vowed the protesters would be forced out, but said the process it would take several days to complete.

The number of Occupy Portland protesters and their supporters swelled to thousands at one point, but thinned to several hundred by the end, according to the Oregonian.

The Portland Tribune reported one police officer was injured around 1:45 a.m. Sunday when what looked like a large firecracker was thrown from the crowd toward police. Officers said other Occupy protesters pointed out the man who threw it so he could be taken into custody.

At 5 a.m., Police Lt. Robert King described the situation as a “static position,” but said he was concerned about escalation as daylight approached and demonstrators showed no signs of leaving.

“We are concerned this is moving toward a confrontation with police,” King said.

Organizers said their goal was for enough people will join them to make it difficult if not impossible for police to carry through on any eviction.

“Occupy the street,” one organizer said through a bull horn. “Remain peaceful and aware. We have strength in holding the streets.”

Adams had ordered the camp shut down, citing unhealthy conditions and the encampment’s attraction of drug users and thieves.

Occupy Portland Protesters, Police Engage in Standoff as Mayor Orders Eviction

The Oregonian

Occupy Portland Protesters, Police Engage in Standoff as Mayor Orders Eviction

The Oregonian

Occupy Portland Protesters, Police Engage in Standoff as Mayor Orders Eviction

The Oregonian

Occupy Portland Protesters, Police Engage in Standoff as Mayor Orders Eviction

The Oregonian

Police numbers shifted throughout the night, and around 4 a.m. a line of about 200 police stretched across a street and in front of a federal courthouse.

Protesters facing them appeared to be in a festive spirits with some banging on plastic pails, another clanging a cowbell while others danced in the streets as a man juggled nearby.

Police prepared for a possible clash, warning earlier that dozens of anarchists may be planning a confrontation with authorities. Officers seized pieces of cement blocks Friday, saying they were told some demonstrators had plans to use them as weapons against police. They said they believe some demonstrators are building shields and trying to collect gas masks.

“We‘ll take action that’s appropriate, when it’s appropriate,” King told The Associated Press.

It appeared earlier that about 200 campers planned to get arrested. But police action seemed less likely after the crowds swelled the parks in the early morning hours.

In the hours leading up to midnight, protesters held general assembly meetings where they talked about what to do when the deadline came. The also repeated the main message of Occupy Wall Street movement of peaceful resistance to income inequality and what they see as corporate greed.

As those speeches were going on, some snacked on coffee and burritos as others sang protest song. About 60 bicycle riders circled the camp repeatedly to show support.

“We are a peaceful resistance,” said rider Chico Tallman, a 63-year-old accountant. “But we’re fed up with the direction the country is going. It’s all about profit.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:33am

    It is no different than the question of “How do you fight an enemy that is willing to die for their cause? You accommodate them.” So we need not ask how to handle a group of misfits that are willing to go to jail for their cause.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:36am

      Good analysis… Wrong solution!

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    • normbal
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:53am

      Exactly the right solution.

      Jail them. Use the FEMA camps the progressives have been building for so long. Reeducate them. Have Michael Moore give them economy lessons (how to be a member of the 1% but sell yourself as the 99%).

      These are lawbreakers, plain and simple. They are intentionally obstructing traffic, forcing business to close, crashing private conferences in DC and Denver, committing felonious assault all over, violating private property rights elsewhere; they need to be arrested.

      Elected officials and sworn police officers are abdicating their responsibility, their DUTY, to contain, arrest, and prosecute these criminals.

      This is Barack insane Obama’s party. It’s his (and Trumka’s union) army. It’s the 1918 communist revolution – delayed – and it’s coming to a neighborhood near you.

      Bring it.

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:09am

      Yes. Jail them. This would also give “jobs” to all of the Lefty lawyers who have “volunteered” to defend them while they block up the court system. The guys are diabolical . Been studying their Community Organizer/ Saul Alinsky Rules for years ! ( more of the Obama Jobs Program ?? )

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:17am

      Ricco act should be applied. It is a conspiracy from city to city. They are organized and have leaders. Ricco act used against abortion protesters and criminal groups. We have learned that free speech doesn’t allow school kids to wear an American flag, why should it be allowed for sedition and destruction?

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    • SageInWaiting
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:23am

      @NORMBAL… who holds the keys to those “FEMA Camps?” You said it, “This is Barack insane Obama’s party. It’s his (and Trumka’s union) army.” The Occupier-in-Chief” holds those keys. WE are their planned tenants. I fear that by this time next year, there will be martial law and a civil war under way and to squelch OUR rebellion, the Chief Occupier will call in the blue-hats: troops from Pakistan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia who would LOVE to put down an infidel force. Let’s not forget the millions already pre-stationed in cities around this country waiting for orders to march and detonate their kids in the name of @llah.

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:36am

      A couple of other good lines that could apply…

      “Jail ‘em all, let the courts sort ‘em out“ and ” We begin tear gassing in 5 minutes” Might as well have some fun with these fools.

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    • Gamaliel
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:49am

      To ISHKA4ME – Excellent point! Application of RICO would end it. That won’t happen because it is the Progressives (ACLU, politicians, judges, etc.) who use it to stop opposition against their agenda.

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    • affinnity
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:06am

      If you arrest them they can’t freeze to death.

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    • Hankstwocents
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:09am

      NORMBAL, I agree with the FEMA re-education camps being used, but sadly that won’t happen until they are ready to cull the whole 99%. The ones who will run the camps will have to be useful idiots like these people. The administration is training the idiots to be FEMA camp guards.

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    • Crane Guy
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:22am

      Think of the jobs it will create. Prison guards, kitchen people, medical….what a country.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:24am

      THIS IS ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU JOIN THE OWS BUT IN DC IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!!!

      U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcPnDigSu2M

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    • Unix
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:29am

      This will not end well…maybe not here or now…but soon.

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    • Wyld_goose
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:29am

      You fight fire with fire. Enough of this waiting on police and mayors to decide on whether or not to do something about these encampments and roaches. It’s time for the citizens to form up and begin pushing back. These cockroaches are just looking for a reason to riot and struggle. Cops remain hands off because they don’t want a riot over a misdemeanors. We need to get in their face, we need to manipulator their open free voting system. We need to become John Q Public. Its time to freely assemble.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:08pm

      What they need to do is get a good old fashioned southern fire and brimstone preacher out there with a huge PA system attached, and have him start preaching…..that would send them away like rats jumping off of a burning ship…..and the ones that stay may be SAVED!!!!!!!!

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    • RIGHTHOOK
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:47pm

      Q.: Who is Occupy Wall Street (or Portland, or Oakland, or ….)
      A.: It’s the T-Ball Generation … First generation to hit a “pitch” off a stick
      … nobody wins, nobody loses … and EVERYONE gets a free Hagen-Daz premium
      ice cream bar for showing up!

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    • Robert Hawk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:28pm

      This is the result of teaching young childern the doctine of stoic-sophism in any of its representative theocracies (Socialism, communism, progressivism, Darwinim, Objectivism, or Liberation Theology). The children no longer can think logically or independently, they turn instead to the group think which has been instilled in them and rally for a state countrolled solution. I have yet to hear a singlie idea from the mouths of these babes which is not founded in Marx & Engels dialectic of materialism. As a matter of fact the entire movement is founded on Marx and Engels dialectic. its all about income re-distrubion, the hall mark of Marx and Engels dialectic of materialism.

      But what can one expect from Portland Oregon, they are the founders of soviet style subversion in the United States. Stoic-Sophism became the major religion there back in the late 1950s. There is hardly a place you can visit or a person you can talk to that is not bound down in Marx & Engels Stoic-Sophist based doctrine. Go look for yourself

      http://oregonprogressivenetwork.org/organizations/Communist-Party-of-Oregon
      http://socialistpartyoforegon.org/
      http://progparty.org/

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:52pm

      Don’t need tear gas, just fire hoses with cold water. Douse them and all there tents as the sun goes down..They will leave as the temp drops….Simple, humane and it will help deal with the stink

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:57pm

      @banjarmon
      Thanks for the link. I sent it to GB’s team.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:01pm

      @motonutt
      Remember Noriega in Panama? They used music against him.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_psychological_operations

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:04pm

      @banjarmon

      Good link! But the story somehow avoided talking about the cost of union labor. Skilled welders is not the problem.

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    • sonnybethel
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:39pm

      I agree, let them go to jail a while. It is just too bad that they can not be deported a while. The realaty of how other countries deal with this knock the piss and vineger out of them!

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    • Itshardtobehumble
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:52pm

      Putting them in jail will only cost taxpayers more money.

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    • RossPoldark
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:32pm

      Send in the national guards!!! A few military tanks, grenade launchers, M16s, and now we’re talking. The police remind me of a cat playing with a mouse. The cat plays with the mouse for a while, and then he goes in for the kill. Alright already, go in for the kill and stop playing around!!!

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    • Disnylv
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:38am

      ALL occupies need to get a life and go live it, just like the rest of the 54% of america is trying to do and leave our police, our firemen, the streets, banks, and OUR WAY OF LIFE ALONE. You want Cuban life so much, GO LIVE IN CUBA. YOu want Sharia law, GO LIVE IN IRAN, you hate Jews, GO TO IRAQ, GET THE HECK OUT OF HERE AND DO NOT PHONE HOME

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  • YoungBloodNews
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:31am

    Im sick of this stupid hipster movement making my generation look bad. Its become an F’n circus. You want real change? How about marching and protesting the FED…. Oh wait, that would require a brain cell or two to understand the FEDs purpose….

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    • coindexter
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:41am

      have we all figured IT out? we are a nation without leaders…the OWS, the 99′ers, the 69′ers…whatever…are banking on it. we have NO ONE to step up at the local or state level to take this thing on. the rest of us are too busy working for a living and a future. it will require the people to stand up and put this “movement” to bed. these cretins do not represent real America.

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:44am

      I don‘t know if you’ve ever heard of David Icke, but watch this….. this guy is more awake than Ron Paul and has been for a very long time.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNFou4XXwjs&feature=related

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    • Southernguy
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:44am

      I would have had several dozen firetrucks backed in there and hosed em’ all down, lol. See how long they want to stand around in the cold, while soaking wet ;)

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:42am

      You speak their language,f‘n this and f’n that, and it appears you have the brain cell, so you and others in your generation could set up a booth, or whatever, and make up a ten or so points sheet for the protestors to fill out and send to whomever because what is happening now and in the future, your future, it appears, will be grim and bleak and you know this but many protestors haven’t a clue. The clueless will be your future problem. Being a “baby boomer” I have come across many of you younger people as respectful and grateful for the opportunities this country has to offer, only if you pursue as an individual. The future is in your hands, youngbloodnews, and I have faith in you that you will do the right thing. God Bless.

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    • whatthecrazy
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:56am

      Just looking at these pictures you can almost smell the stench…………………………….

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    • smokie
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:25pm

      I have learned through experience that a great deal of your generation are decent people trying to deal with this mess.
      Many of my books have been lent to readers whose parents won’t let them have the books I possess. I’ve met others like me who lend out forbidden books about Constitutions and John Adams.
      I know that what I‘ve seen at Occupy doesn’t represent the whole lot.
      I think a lot of my anger stems from knowing that my sister’s kids will have to put up with the insanity of these few mobs in their lives as they get on with their productive lives.

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    • YoungBloodNews
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:34pm

      @Stag

      I know of Icke and am familiar with his opinions. I read a wide range of news from left to right to fringe. The reptile thing is a little much for me personally but he has some other good points.

      @Amazing
      Sorry, I wrestle with my language and unnecessary name calling, I know its a fault and will work on fixing it.

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    • nolemming
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 3:44pm

      I probably shouldn’t jump in here but here goes…

      @YOUNGBLOODNEWS it is borne of frustration and I am not going to chide you on your choice of words, in fact I have spat more than a few choice words myself, it’s better to release it harmlessly than to get physically angry, (OWS)

      @AMAZINGGRACE8 I feel your frustration also, however, as a “Shadow Boomer” I followed your generation, and though many good things came from them they were also a part of the original 60′s movement that did this very same thing. The “Boomers” were a far cry from innocent, in fact many of them are now behind this second wave of recreating their failed social attacks on America. In fact, if I remember correctly, that was the generatin that gave us that wonderful Jane Fonda who made a trip to Vietnam and turned on our troops who were being held in prisons. Also the generation that spat on our troops as they returned from a war that our govt sent them to, then deserted them. If I am wrong, please correct me.

      I’m sure that YOUNGBLOODNEWS feels as though he is being painted with a broad brush belonging to this generation, and that is of course frustrating, isn’t it? I could much more easily overlook some cuss words than overlook the property and personal destruction that is happening right now, that we should be much more worried about. Not trying to pick a fight, just sayin’…..

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    • nolemming
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 4:05pm

      My bottom line point here is that the majority of us are united on the fact that these protests are misguided (at least), and if we start picking on each other over trivial things we are going to just drive wedges. Truthfully I could care less what generation any of us comes from, all that matters to me is that we are united in one main thought and we don’t break our momentum with each other. Don’t become small factions that have to fingerpoint back and forth. I hope this makes my earlier post a little clearer, it was not meant to “pick” but to make a point that we a have to come somewhere or sometime, but what is imortant is that we all are here now. Hope that makes sense.

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    • RossPoldark
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:34pm

      How about marching to the root of all of this…The white house and Obuma!!!

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    • pitboss711
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 12:22am

      Rebels without a clue.

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  • hogtrashhd
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:26am

    jeez.. just get the dam hoses and dogs out.. that’s all that needs to be done… this pussyfooting around is make the situation worse.. put a boot up there a@@es..

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    • Southernguy
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:45am

      Size 12 Cowboy boot, hehehe

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    • Gamaliel
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:45am

      The Portland Police are between a rock and a hard place. Mayor Sam Adams NEVER backs them up. They know if they have to do anything assertive or defensive it is THEY who will be prosecuted. Pray for them!

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    • Californiasodbuster
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:10pm

      That’s why cowboy boots are pointed, you can get the cockroach’s in the corners.

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  • chicago76
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:25am

    The occupiers are waiting for the Big Crash to happen. They know it is going to. Everyone knows its coming. When it happens they are counting on the unemployed and disillusioned sympathizers out there to join them and that’s when they expect their numbers to swell from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands and more. When that happens they will lead the revolution. Just a thought. Be prepared.

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    • SanDiegoCountyCitizen
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:52am

      Come on… anyone reading the The Blaze has been stocking bullets, beans and band-aids for a long time!

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:06am

      SANDIEGO: Actually, been listening to a ton of Trolls who are full of “beans” lately…hmmm….

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    • Itshardtobehumble
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 3:41pm

      So true it will happen, but this unemployed, disillusioned sympathizer is bringing a baseball bat with me, with their name on it. Called “The occupiers attitude adjustment.”

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  • biker mike
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:23am

    I want an investigation on who is threatening local officials at these cities to allow illegal take over of public and private land, and allowing illegal assembly without permits, perhaps maybe I see a nice chunk of land near the ocean, pitch a tent and say I’m protesting the protest, live there and build a house

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:38am

      Who do you think is threatening them? I will give you a hint-WH

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    • Lordchamp
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:14am

      It’s all because there are no politicians with any backbone anywhere in the system. They are afraid of the minority opinion instead of just doing what they were elected to do.

      What our OUR RIGHTS? At what point do they begin to protect the rights of those of us living within the LAW?

      When you infringe on the rights of others you forfeit your own rights. They HAVE NO RIGHT TO PROTEST when they reach that point.

      When you block me from walking or driving on a public street you are no longer a protested you are a criminal and should be treated as such.

      Leaders stand up and lead. Do your jobs and the right thing because it is the right thing. Not the easy thing of allowing decisions to be made by default and no action.

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    • Gamaliel
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:46am

      The Progressives ARE the mayors who are encouraging and allowing this to happen.

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:01am

      GAM: Agree. Just why do you think the Democrats chose the cities they chose to set up their Obamaville Occupies ? Because they are controlled by Democrats politicians who will follow the White House agenda ! This is so “transparent” to anyone with a brain. The MSM continues to evade the issue and ignore the reality of what is happening. Shows how dangerous it is when the MSM is in the pocket of the White House ! Remember how the MSM played character assassination of the Bush Administration ? Now the MSM broadcasts the Obama Administrations’s Playbook. No balance. All bias. Dangerous.

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  • MidWestMom
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:22am

    Enforce the law, clear ‘em out and arrest them. If they get violent, use proper procedures (tear gas, rubber bullets….whatever).

    All those arrested should be thrown in a cell. Process them all one at a time…finger printing, mug shots etc etc. Depending on how many protesters you have…they could spend days in those cells.

    Look at the faces of the protesters in the pictures. I’m betting most of them are the 99%….the 99% who have no idea why they’re there, who have no idea what the supposed “issues” are, who think it’s a “great party”, etc. I’d like to see them all lined up and asked those simple questions. The answers will prove my point.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:35am

      I am definitely not on the side of the OWS goons but they do make one thing perfectly clear. The police only have power over the people if the people let them have power over them. When the cops are outnumbered 50:1 notice how restrained they are. Unlike when they outnumber some hapless creep and go completely beserk beating them and shooting them to a pulp. Just a thought. Oh by the way, cops in Hazelwood, Missouri are now wearing military boots with their pants choked up instead of shoes. Like they are military commandos or something. They are not there to protect and to serve. They are an “apparatus”.

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:03am

      MIL-DOT: Please take the Van Jones rhetoric somewhere else. The New York Times runs comments like that all of the time…think you would feel more comfortable in the arms of their anarchy/ revolution crowd ….

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    • COFemale
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:26am

      Frankly, I am all for sleeping gas – just spray it over them and when the fall asleep scoop up their sorry _____________ and throw them in jail for littering, camping without a license, violation of park rules and reckless endangerment of non-protesters and failure to open the directions of a police officer.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:46am

      Piles of Cow manure as a fertilizer would make a great way to disperse these dolts. Just a few truckloads would mask the stench of these children. Spread it around the tents, and these city kids would gag.
      Nuke Barry 2012

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:48am

      When the cops are outnumbered 50:1 notice how restrained they are
      — Only restrained because they’ve been ordered to be. They should be told to do their jobs, enforce the law. If it was your property or business being occupied & trashed would you want the police to idly stand by or do their job?

      When they outnumber some hapless creep and go completely berserk
      — Very, very, very few instances of that happen. And if a cop does participate in such reprehensible behavior, I’m all for holding them accountable, punishment and termination. Not diminishing the seriousness of that behavior but there’s always a few bad members in any group

      cops in Hazelwood, Missouri are now wearing military boots with their pants choked up
      — maybe new to Hazelwood, but I’ve seen the same in many places – big & small. Cops I know personally tell me it’s a safety measure. They’ve learned from swat teams that pants choked up don’t get caught on things and it’s difficult to chase someone if your footwear can slip off easily. Trust me; these aren’t guys that will turn on the general public. They would throw down their badge, tell the higher ups to stuff it and walk away. It isn’t necessarily a threatening commando thing

      Bottom line is the longer they are allowed to continue more idiots will join the party. The situation will become more volatile and will erupt into a bigger problem than the police are facing now

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  • Viking64
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:18am

    The OWS protesters are showing us all just how great it is to be filthy , stupid, misguided, lazy, free loading, drugged up , thieves, ignorant, criminal , insane, and complete useful idiots. Think I’ll past and stick to just working, paying taxes, abiding our laws, and trying to teach my kids some values, love of country and just plain common sense. These protests show one only needs a loud group of fools to start a big nigh mare! I feel sympathy for the police who have to see, listen too, and smell these pathetic twits.

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    • armymp
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:41pm

      Someone needs to exterminate this vermin. They are a plague on our society.

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  • biker mike
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:16am

    I want an investigation on who is strong arming these city governments to allow the breaking of the laws, you can not take public and private land for your own use , rent free, can not protest with out paying for permits , maybe I’ll look around for some nice coastal land, and pitch a tent, maybe build a hose, and say I’m protesting at live there for years

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:19am

      on the occupy web site they are now having seminars on how to resist arrest. Just thought everyone should know. The seminar is on 11/17/11

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    • Turkey Lurker
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:26am

      I believe that would be Mayor Sam Adams and the liberals that infest government who have allowed this travesty to continue to the point it is now.

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    • RossPoldark
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:45pm

      George Soros and his ilk.

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  • Marengo Ohio Patriot
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:10am

    call in the national guard and get it over with.. these are nothing more than punk a** criminals.

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    • okdavidson
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:35am

      the problem with that is then it becomes martial law. no good. the cops need to stop being so nice and do their damn job. they have had amazing restraint, hell, i wouldnt have lasted this long! i think this is part of what obumber wants, to bring in martial law. the longer he lets this go, the crazier the ppl get, the closer it gets to election. if at that point he calls martial law there is no election till its over…

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    • Southernguy
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:46am

      Well, let the State martial law begin.

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  • Matrix22
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:09am

    Have you ever noticed that when asked, “what is your goal here?” they always reply that the goal is more occupiers? So their goal of the protest is to get more protesters? That’s incredibly illogical nonsense! It‘s like saying I’m going to drive to the gas station so I can get more gas to drive. It’s either that crap or, “end corporate greed!” which is just as stupid and illogical.

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    • Mtroom
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:48am

      I’ve been thinking the same things..Just waiting for one of them,any of them for that matter, to give me an answer worthy of the question…The most common answer I hear from this “movement” is “we are the 99%ers and we have the right” (I thought they were left)…but whatever …None of them have made any sense to me…They call this fighting corporate greed?…They say “greed” is the issue?…Isn’t wanting more ..isn’t that greed?…So, they stand in front of me and say greed has taken over America while at the same time demanding more…Who are the greedy ones OWS…you morons…your just as guilty as the people you are b’tchn at…While the people that are the true 1% ers (like Moore, Pelosi, Reid, etc…) are cashing huge pay checks urging you on..My god, I still can’t believe that so many are so stupid.

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    • whatthecrazy
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:51am

      IF they want to protest what ever they need to show up at 8am and leave by 5pm and return daily and i bet they wouldnt want to show up every day because it would become a hassel to thier lazy butts………

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  • GRAMPA-D-NH
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:08am

    So far, every “leader” who has professed determination to flush the vermin from the public square have been humiliated. I happen to believe its staged with the purpose to give the movement victories and the general public the growing sense of seige.

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  • M24
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:05am

    What happens when you dont clean a wound ?? it gets infected!!

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:03am

    Again, if there were such a perfect candidate to solve all the world’s problems, I would never vote for one who “ did not ” support Israel.

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  • olddog
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:03am

    Any protester rioter arrested should be held for a minimum of 30-days to be carefully checked out and also made to pay for their time in jail and expence to the city and peacefull residents living there.

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  • Uechi
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:02am

    Time to leave Marxists, anarchists and useful idiots. Don’t move get your delusional head cracked open and arrested. The Tea party has done none of this but they are racists and terrorists and these Wallstreet protestor JO’s are as American as Apple Pie?. This must be a Twilight Zone episode because it requires the suspension of all reason and logic.

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  • Romanticpoet
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:54am

    Commendations to the police officers for showing restraint. The Obama backed action is just waiting for violence to invoke Martial law.

    Two S.F. police officers cut with razors………

    These occupiers will eventually realize their message will be overpowered by headlines say “head lice and body lice outbreak in Portland #OWS”, “Drug resistant TB found by CDC at #OWS”, “Occupiers rushing for STD testing in NYC”, etc.

    With the filth, the unsanitary conditions……. the eventual headline will be: “Cholera and dysentery overtakes #OWS (put name of city here).”

    Useful idiots……one and all at #OWS.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:58am

      No likely with the lame steam liberal media on their side..

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    • Romanticpoet
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:11am

      @Demint Disciple:

      When any full-on outbreak occurs, the Liberal biased media won’t have a choice. It WILL BE the news they can’t ignore or refuse to report.

      When cases of drug resistant TB are found in families of the protestors, the biased media won’t have a choice in this either.

      Remember, MOST of these protestors GO HOME and then return to the occupy movement. Even IF they stay at local hotels, the housekeeping staff and the hotel workers are EXPOSED to this too.

      It IS only a matter of time.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:47am

      Hey Roman, News Flash buddy-the cops are not showing restraint. They are being ORDERED to stand down by the goon mayors. The mayors are taking their marching orders from the Obama Squad. The cops will do whatever they are told. Oathkeepers my butt. They would open up their skulls like bags of potato chips if they were told to do it. They will do whatever they are told to do by the politcians in order to get their pensions. And make no mistake about it. They will go after Tea Party as well if they were told to.

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  • Oldtexan in support of Israel
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:53am

    You just can’t fix stupid!

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:49am

    Clean them out, they want to be arrested, then do so; they are in clear violation of lawfully given and legally supported orders to vacate the area. I imagine the admin must be howling down the neck of most mayors and governors telling them not to harm the rioters or all hades will come down.

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  • Red Bubba
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:46am

    The mayor set an ultimatum, gave the moron mob plenty of time to get reinforcements, and then failed to follow through anf liberate the park from the mob. Pathetic.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:52am

      If the TEA party folks did what the OWS goons are doing now, the mayors would order the cops to open their heads like grapes.

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  • In detroit
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:44am

    Should of cleared them out , now your enemy knows your afraid wich will bring more trouble always keep your word. What I dont understand and have no respect for is the occupation of munincipal facilities why not go home at night rest up , eat some soup, take a nice hot shower ect. I think that is why the public does not like them its not a lawful group , if they would change there message and there image might gain support and shake some stuff up everybody has been kicked in the gut these past goin on six years but know one wants to here some poor me crybaby change my daiper message bloomberg folded , portlands mayor folded only brings more trouble babe

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  • amerbur
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:33am

    Oregon gets what theyvote for and deserve. Good luck Oregon.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:43am

      Organizers said they hope enough people will join them to make it difficult if not impossible for police to carry through on any eviction. <<< Not impossible, all you need is the fire dept and a couple of hoses.. I just checked the weather there, it's like 40 degrees.. Start washing the filth down and we'll see how many and how long they stay there , wet and cold… Trust me they will be calling for their mommies in a matter of minutes..If not then icicles will form and then frost bite over night .. Time to stop playing games with these morons..

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    • Matrix22
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:12am

      Demint…I agree, but don’t turn the hoses directly on them! (That would reek of 60‘s civil rights protests and we don’t want that all over the media giving credibility to this insanity). Instead, shoot it above them and make it “rain” down on them…that way it just freezes them out vs. “violently spraying them”

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  • lukerw
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:30am

    Socialists rebel as the Bottom Up… Socialists in the Leadership suppress the rebels as the Top Down… then, comes the Inside OUT…

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:26am

    60 bike riders circled showing support. Why am I not surprised that this feminized faction is backing the Commies.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:37am

      The Front of the Socialist movement is… the “bleeding heart” calling for symphathy… and the “save the children” calling for help… all alike a Mother in Distress…

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    • randy
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:42am

      Protesters facing them appeared to be in a festive spirits with some banging on plastic pails, another clanging a cowbell while others danced in the streets as a man juggled nearby.

      Sorry people………. quit trying to re-live woodstock

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:57am

      Chico Tallman, a 63-year-old accountant. Hey Chico , Don’t you think at your age you can find something better to do with your time ? My father in law is your age , I can NEVER imagine him hanging out there with those bums.. WTF ??? Oh and BTW, Profit is your problem ? you’re an accountant right ? Do you send ALL of the extra money that you make away and take only what you need to live on? No I didn’t think so..

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:59am

      DEMINT: am sure that all of the “ Vietnam vets” we have seen for years panhandling are there. Age is no guarantee of wisdom ! Some of these guys must come from hardy gene pools, though, to have survived all of these years on drugs and booze….

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:26am

    Bet after Obama calls Holder – The phone will ring in th Mayor office and Holders will be on the other end. The Mayor will have a change of mind.

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:56am

      Bingo….( get another horses’ head ready ? Whatever they “do” it worked on Clinton recently ! ) Democrat mayor ? Democrat city ? Coincidence ? ha..ha….

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  • BrerRabbit
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:24am

    I have yet to understand what came be done to appease these nuts. Not that I’m really interested in appeasement. They breatk the law…..lock’em up. I’m willing to pay.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 8:49am

      They do not want appeasement… they want Revolution!

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:21am

      So, you’re willing to pay to lock up demonstrators with whom you disagree, but you’re not wiling to pay for healthcare to help poor people survive. Like dad always said, got to get your priorities straight, and you got em straight . . . from Fox News..

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:47am

      LUKER: Agree. Read comments from NYT readers for months calling for “overthrowing the plutocrats” and ” revolution in the streets of American.” The International Workers Left/ anti-cpaitalism crowd has been sowing the seeds for this for a long time. When did Obama take office ?……

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