Occupiers Plan Coordinated Port Shutdowns Stretching From Anchorage to San Diego

(The Blaze/AP)-  Anti-Wall Street protesters up and down the West Coast are joining an effort to blockade some of the nation’s busiest ports from Anchorage to San Diego.

Occupy Protestors Plan Port Shutdown From Anchorage to San Diego

(file photo: Nov. 2 Port of Oakland)

Here is a video giving an overview of the planned port shutdowns:

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.Occupy Protestors Plan Port Shutdown From Anchorage to San Diego

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.

Kari Koch, organizer with Shut Down the Ports Working Group of Occupy Portland, said by shutting down the port, Wall Street will be unable to create profit.

“We will not stand for corporate profits at the expense of working people, we will not stand for attacks on workers, and we will not allow our schools to be closed, social services slashed, and families to be impoverished by your greed!” Koch said Monday in statement.

Organizers hope to draw thousands to stand in solidarity with longshoremen and port truckers they say are being exploited.

“Taking on and blocking the 1 percent at the port is also taking on the global issue of exploitation by capitalism,” said Occupy Oakland blockade organizer Barucha Peller.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents many thousands of longshoremen up and down the West Coast, has distanced itself from the shutdown effort. The union’s president suggested in a letter to members that protesters were attempting to co-opt the union’s cause to advance their own agenda.

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.

If protesters muster large enough numbers to block port entrances, arbitrators could declare unsafe working conditions, which would allow port workers to stay home.

Organized labor appears divided over the port shutdown effort. In Oakland, which saw strong union support for the Nov. 2 general strike that culminated in the closing of the port, the city‘s teachers union is backing Monday’s action, while the county’s construction workers have come out against the shutdown, saying the port has provided jobs to many unemployed workers and apprentices.

The Port of Oakland has appealed to city residents not to join the blockade, which they say could hurt the port’s standing among customers and cost local jobs.

Occupy Protestors Plan Port Shutdown From Anchorage to San Diego

“The port is going to do all that it can to keep operations going. Our businesses need to hear that. Our workers need to know that,” said Port of Oakland spokesman Isaac Kos-Read.

Officials at West Coast ports say they have been coordinating with law enforcement agencies as they prepare for possible disruptions. Protesters say police violence against blockades in any city will trigger an extension of blockades in other cities as a show of resolve.

Update: Occupy Protestors plan to blockade the port of Vancouver, according to CBC news.

The protestors appeared early Monday morning and refused to allow trucks into the port facility, but did let workers on foot pass.

This strategy had already rankled some of the so-called “99%” in the Vancouver area.

A member of the B.C. Trucking Federation criticized this strategy, and told CBC News that: ”The impact to truck drivers who are generally owners-operators accessing the port would certainly be part of the 99 per cent that they purport to represent, and they will immediately lose money.”

Protestors also planned to target ferry terminals in Victoria Island, British Columbia, in conjunction with Occupy Wall Street port shutdowns across the west coast.

 

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  • Athinkerinaseaoflibs
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:32am

    Why don’t encourage them to occupy a shipping container-maybe 10 to a box? Then close the box, and then send them to the parts of the world where there is real inequality between the bosses and the workers.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:41am

      These idiots have now been totally coopted by anarchists and marxists. It doesn‘t even register with them that they’re hurting dock workers with this. Some of these workers have only just found work again. This move will only harden resistance to OWS it will not gain them any friends or ground.

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 12:04pm

      You could put a lot more than 10 POS in a container ! Even the union is against these jacka$$e$, I would love to know what system they would install if they managed to bring down capitalism

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    • jfwootten
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 12:39pm

      Get me a mulcher, and I’ll fit 1000 of these idiots in a shipping container.

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    • Athinkerinaseaoflibs
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 1:37pm

      Figuring that one ship holds about 5-8 thousand containers, even with 10 at a time we are taking out the trash from 1 city per ship load. (50,000 to 80,000 morons per ship) A large port move 3-5 ships per day. Thats about quarter million morons per day per port. I figure in about 10 days we can have this problem all fixed. Next problem please

      Now to all you BHL (bleed heart liberals) who might say that this is too cruel. This is the way that the Human smugglers work and you are doing your best to make their business effort profitable with all your encouragement of illegal immigration. I am only proposing 10 per box. They would load it up with as many as would fit.

       
    • Allen Raymond
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 2:52pm

      It is amazing at peoples inability to see beyond themselves. Have you been told how to cook a live frog?
      If you drop it into hot water it will just jump out. You place your live frog in a pot with cold water and turn the heat on slowly. The frog will cook before it realizes its cooked. Or the Asian story of death by a thousand cuts. Each cut is insignificant and tolerable but soon becomes more difficult and intolerable.That is exactly what has happened to us Americans over the past 100 years. Let us be reasonable people and except a small cuts in our rights for protection and loss of freedoms.

      Shutting down the ports is and will always be difficult and unfair to the workers. Apparently the only way to get our leaders and the corporate moguls attention is to effect their pocket book. With a tremendous unemployment population and severe poverty level we as a people need to hold these ripoff artists accountable.

      We trusted our legislators to pass rules and regulations to protect the common folk and they have betrayed us. Every legislator that voted for the lax rules and regulations that drove our economy into the ground should be replaced without question. Every legislator that voted for the so called stimulus package that only stimulated the wealthy, so called to big to fail, corporations should be removed and replaced. The Idea that it is better to deal with the devil we know than the one we don’t is ludicrous.

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    • Zurich
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 2:58pm

      We should send them to Russia because Putin still needs some votes and useful idiots!

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    • Allen Raymond
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 3:07pm

      Wow! The American way has been denigrated to name calling and grouping. It is not capitalism that is under attack. It is our elected leaders that has made it possible for corporations to exhume exorbitant amount of profits on the back of the working class. State facts not labels and name calling.

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    • Jwmajic
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 4:11pm

      “we will not stand for attacks on workers,” Umm isn‘t that what they are doing to the longshoremen who are trying to feed their family’s? The corporations have insurance to cover their losses from this the only ones being hurt are the people who work there.
      I get a headache trying to follow their messed up logic only one word can describe what these people are doing.

      in·san·i·ty
         [in-san-i-tee] Show IPA
      noun, plural in·san·i·ties.
      1.
      the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. Synonyms: dementia, lunacy, madness, craziness, mania, aberration.
      2.
      Law . such unsoundness of mind as frees one from legal responsibility, as for committing a crime, or as signals one’s lack of legal capacity, as for entering into a contractual agreement.
      3.
      Psychiatry . (formerly) psychosis.
      4.
      a.
      extreme foolishness; folly; senselessness; foolhardiness: Trying to drive through that traffic would be pure insanity.
      b.
      a foolish or senseless action, policy, statement, etc.: We’ve heard decades of insanities in our political discourse.

      http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/insanity

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    • M 4 Colt
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 4:11pm

      Allen, it is clear to see that you have drank too much of the left’s kool aid and it is also clear that you are a product of our “new” education system. You people say that you are the 99% i say that is bull sh it! You are probably a late teen early twenty something who has not lived life yet. Life is what you make of YOURSELF not what others hand you or what you can get from the government. I worked as a A A Tool Machinist for most of my adult life. While i did i made a good wage but a few years ago i was in a major accident and am now disabled and can only work a few hours a day and i made a grand total of 6500 dollars for the whole year last year. You want to know something by your standards i am poor and should be getting help from the government, you know that social justice thing your always talking about. I DON’T WANT ANY FREE MONEY that the government has stole from other tax payers, i will make it on my own and if i need help i will ask my church for help. The problem with you so called 99% is you want everything handed to you, you don’t want to have to work for it and EARN IT FOR YOURSELF. Everything i own i got myself, no one gave me a thing but you see that’s the difference between my older generation and yours we were tough that if YOU WORKED HARD you could become anything you wanted. You young people today have had your heads filled with crap at college, well college is over it’s time to start EARNING YOUR ON WAY IN LIFE, SO GET A JOB AND get on with li

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    • Fla Del
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 4:32pm

      I would really advise these kids to watch themselves. They are going to be toe to toe with some really hard core union guys. They do not put up with much. Some of these Momma’s Boys could get slapped.

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    • Rogue
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 4:33pm

      Hey Allen – then why isn’t the Occupy movement targeting the political leaders who take money from lobbyists, spend tax money unwisely, or give corporations kickbakcs or political favors? Could it be that this movement has no interest in putting Democratic leaders under a microscope? Occupy lost it’s credibility a long time ago when they refused to protest the ACTUAL problem with our economy.

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    • droopy
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 5:26pm

      Great idea thinker. Could we be lucky enough to get our dear leader to go.

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    • Cherieo3
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 7:40pm

      Good idea…or even form a Sheriff Joe compound and put them all in there with just ‘pink’ undies…all other equipment, camera and toys put in storage for parents to pick up.

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    • Uranium Wedge
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 9:32pm

      Occupy who?

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    • KansasPatriot
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:32am

      These are O’s minions, his Army, bought and paid for by the DNC and O’s reelection campaign…

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  • littlefish
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:30am

    And “HE” has nothing to say about these worthless socialist wanna be’s.

    Time to “DE-PORT” these rabble rousers . . .with water cannons . . .wash them off right off the dock.
    De-Port them . . . and don’t throw them any more Life preservers

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    • FeelingForty
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:39am

      Domestic terrorism….nothing more….nothing less.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:41am

      WHERE ARE THE UNION THUG COPS?

      Have the Union Thug COPs joined the communist occupiers? The COPs in 1930s Germany eventually turned their backs on innocent German people and joined with the Nazi Party. Will this happen in America?

      Only TEA can save you now.

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:54am

      I agree .. this is terrorism .. straight up .. when will they be treated as such?

      TEA!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:04am

      Exactly how will taxing up the rich help these poor buggars? The won’t see a dime of the money.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:09am

      Obamas America

      Call it what it is ..Obama and Big Union Occupying America

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    • uzi4u2
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:10am

      If I was the person running these ports and these ******** showed up and blocked the trucks from coming and going and such, I’d tell the UNION truckers and lonshoremen, “Hey we can’t move stuff because your friends are screwing things up, so you all can go home till this is over, with out pay because you didn’t work….bye, have a nice day” Then we would see if these union thugs liked backing these commies.

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    • HKS
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:16am

      How pathetic, like that’s going to hurt anyone other than the working poor middle class. With friends like this the middle class don‘t need any other enemy’s.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:22am

      This was at least part of the reason for the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) or the Trans National Super-Highway that originates in Monterrey Mexico. And ‘will’ run directly through the center of the U.S. Unions are socialist in nature. And they can and will, as we see here, inflict any pain they see fit on the rest of the nation in order to coerce the ‘establishment’ to their point of view. Period.

      The SPP would deny them that opportunity. Ships would dock near Monterrey and unload directly onto rail lines and trucks, as they do now. But the Port of Entry is built (and waiting) in Kansas City. Americans didn’t like the idea. And it has been pushed below the radar. But continues apace.

      As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if this is, at least in part, is designed to aid that position. Government will tell Americans this is all part of “collective bargaining”. But it is really organized extortion of the people of America that government supports.

      Just like the big bankers, big insurance, international finance that Americans were left holding the bag for wth bailouts while the crooks go scott free, we will be the ones screwed here. And government is 100% okay with it.

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    • TexasHunter
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:23am

      UZ I like to call them AWSHOLES.. Occupy my business… I dare you smucks
      The White House
      1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
      Washington, DC 20500

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    • TexasHunter
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:33am

      RULER. Please do not say much more or there will be #’s knocking at your door. If you foil their plan how do you unravel the UFO tin hats that they are getting ready for us to wear.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:30am

    Quote: “ we will not stand for corporate profits at the expense of the working people” so im guessin you want the workin people to …. Work for bankrupt corporations ? Can these morons get any stupider ? I mean really, just a bunch of Marin county rich kids, havin fun and feeling a part of something, but just leftys at the end of the day… Just lefty kooks !

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:49am

      More Profits To The People.

      Those profits of the corporations pay for my pension plan, my 401K, and help out my health care insurance company. Those corporation profits also send a check to my retired parents too.

      Occupy are the enemy of the people.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:08am

      I am sure they will get stupider. I am listening to my local news and the seattle occupiers are joining with local bicycle clubs to send swarms of bicycles to the ports. I just wish someone would get the guts to send tanks to combat the swarming mobs of bikes. would make for some great tv.

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    • dthomps6
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:21am

      Since when are these people “working people”? How can you strike if you don’t have a job?

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    • Allen Raymond
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 3:28pm

      I am finding it quit difficult to believe that free thinking Americans cannot see past the media hipe. Unemployment is still at a record High. It has taken me years to discover that the rules for unemployment rate established by our individual states and the Federal government, is very inaccurate.

      The only people that are counted are NEW applications. Those that have dropped off or failed to submit their applications on time are not counted. Those that have secured part time employment at a reduced rate of income are NOT counted.

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  • antisocial21
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:28am

    IT’s so OBVIOUS that these losers are communists! They are always attacking “corporate profit” and calling it evil, the most absurd thing I have ever heard. Note to Occupy idiots: if corporations don’t make profits and pay taxes, the government won’t pay for your welfare checks.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:55am

      Thugary must at times be met with Thugary.

      The TEA may have to begin forming a Freedom Auxiliary of patriots to train in counter Occupy Thugary tactics. The police do not seem to have any interest in protecting us anymore. If the long shoreman union tried to do this, it would be illegal.

      Only the TEA can save us now.

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    • 1LarryG1
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 1:23pm

      The ILWU has a long affiliation with the Communist party going back to the 50′s with Harry Bridges. Maybe they’e changed their spots but doubts remain. This occupy movement is pure Communist from the top down starting with that red whore, Elizabeth Warren. Stern, Lerner and Trumpka leading the way. SEIU and AFL-CIO. And don’t forget Ayers and Obama.
      http://www.commieblaster.com/

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 2:56am

      Yeah, shut them down and add to the unemployed and government assistance. That’s what this country needs. Hike the prices up more than they already are. This OWS movement is a progressive funded “CRISIS” Be careful what you ask for sheepels. You need to change your name to OUCH, because it is really gonna hurt the entire country, including you. I bet you will be the ones crying and whining the most when your manmade crap hits the fan!

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:28am

    The OWS is being supported by the unions, and now they are trying to shut down ports which could result in allot of union members being out of work for a while, not to mention how it could affect everyone who works for a living. How may paychecks does a person have to miss before they take a Louisville Slugger down to the port and convince the unwashed idiots to let people go back to work?

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    • Trucker1313
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:38am

      Plus you messing with Truckers $$$$$$$$$$ and a lot of them are only a couple of pay check a way from loosing there Trucks.Me thinks it will get UGLY real fast

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    • NOTAMUSHROOM
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:41am

      Yeah but those union workers will still get paid for sitting at home I’ll bet.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 2:27pm

      A port shutdown really messes with the working man.

      First the supply chain gets effed up. You wait for parts. You get sent home. The there is mandatory overtime later on. At 1st overtime is nice, more pay. But after 2 or 3 months of straight over time, it is a real grind. It become difficult to plant for vacation, birthdays or whatever. Unless work keeps you fit, you are more likely to suffer the ill effects of long shifts or lack of exercise.

      Getting proper renumeration is constant struggle, but the OWS tactics is not the answer. Now they are another part of the problem.

      But keep it up OWS & you too shall be reviled.

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  • The Bove
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:26am

    Don’t give these creeps too much credit. Ignorance and violence will not win the day. Good, smart people will come to the cause of liberty. These looters will be cut off and end up where they belong.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:53am

      No they won’t. Not until enough decent folk start fighting back. Decent folk have too much to lose by fighting people who have nothing to lose.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:23am

    Im thinkin JOBS are not the priority thing in this movement….And wasnt communist subversion of the American system kinda frowned upon only a few short years ago ? They really got comfy and brave with a commie in the White House, is this just a bad dream or what ?

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  • indy1
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:21am

    There is no doubt Obama supports these commies.

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    • BehindBlueEyes
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:27am

      That’s because commies of a feather flock together.

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    • PASSION
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:51am

      20 years from now this will be recorded as a stain on freedom. Until then the MSM uses it as a ratings boost.

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  • TEMPEST86
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:19am

    Get a life! These people just want to see the world burn now. If this crap starts popping up in my neighborhood, then I know this is not going away anytime soon.

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  • thekuligs
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:17am

    These people are terrorist, if any other group in the word looked to shut down our port system–disrupt our food supply–there would be action against them; but I bet this time people will just watch them do it! I hope Alaska at least, defends its self.

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  • KeystoneState
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:15am

    And “Leader O” is loving every minute of it!

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  • theninthplanet
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:15am

    You are not the 99%. You do not represent me. I, along with other American Patriots, do not begrudge other people‘s wealth and I’d rather earn my own than rob someone else through taxes.

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  • mustang2011
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:12am

    these nut jobs are becoming home grown terrorist and should be treated as such.

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  • TRUTHCRUSHESLIES
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:12am

    While their at the ports the Army should move in and herd them or Shainghi them. Let them earn their keep by kidnapping their arses. Setting sail for China for Amnesty from them….Let’s see how the communists treat the communists.

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  • BehindBlueEyes
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:12am

    Get ready folks. These dopes are going to try to disrupt the food supply chain. This is all planed and financed by Soros and his puppet the commie in chief. It will give them the martial law option they need.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:08am

    This is PRACTICE… for a Combined Union support of a Radical/Communist STRIKE… that brings the US System to a HALT!

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  • Turtleman
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:08am

    These people are communists, the union leaders are communists, the president is a communist, the attorney general is a communist.
    Does anyone see a problem here?

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    • barber2
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:01am

      Did you see the picture of the crowds protesting Putin? Held big red flags with black hammer/sickles. This could get VERY interesting in Russia. The International Left is rumbling…

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:06am

    Watch for these events to happen:

    A. Any disruption of trade will lead to Obama ‘being forced to federalize/unionize all port acitivites for the duration of the crisis…”

    B. Corporations connected to old Soros will become controllers of them, or the major investors.

    C. Any problems will of course be blamed on the Tea Party and the Conservatives who want the US free of a tyranical government.

    D. Mr. Obama will support the various #Occupy bands.

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:04am

    Nothing helps the working man more than having his job shut down by a bunch of (paid) college malcontents and union thugs. Yep. Mr. Jones can proudly return home when he sees his job blocked and tell his family “no food for you tonight, we’re being helped by OWS!”

    Bunch of easily controlled idiot zombies. I’m ashamed that so many of them exist in a nation where their values are supposed to be the antithesis of our national identity.

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:08am

      Ghost, the conundrum here is what port jobs are not union jobs? Seems to me the old picture of the snake eating it’s own tail.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:11am

      The Tea Party shut down the harbor. Threw tea in the water.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:12am

      Amen to that! Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face… Bunch of unthinking, easily manipulated, brain-dead cretins……

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    • netmail
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:25am

      What has our “national identity” morphed in to anyway?? I’m 62 and can barely recognize this country anymore. I think our “identity” has largely been swallowed up by globalization, multi-culturism, criminals and financial chaos. (among other things)

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:53am

      The tea party acted at night, when nobody was conducting business. They shut down nothing, they raided ships with light guards.

      These are not your friends V, where you derive that notion is beyond me. If your only cause is disrupting the system and sticking it to the cops, then you are not practicing a sound ideology. These people are open socialists, linking cause with them to abandon libertarianism/conservatism completely. There is no middle ground here. By their own admission this isn’t even about “Wall Street” any longer, now they’re just targetting companies that make money, that had nothing to do with the unconstitutional bailouts. And being against the bailouts is the only common ground any libertarian would have with these hooligans. Well, that’s gone with this.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:35am

      Doesn’t matter, of course whether or not they acted at night or in daylight. They did effectively shut down the tea market, they destroyed the product. The Tea Party committed civil disobedience to get their point across when they threw tea into the harbor. So stop with the “civility” mess. When liberty is involved, no more Mr. Nice Guy. That‘s why we’re in the position we’re in now, where the idiots would normally call me all kinds of crazy and nutjobs and whacko and Ron Paul psychopath and all that garbage, now they have no choice but to accept the fact that we were right, and they were stupid.

      FEMA CAMPS DO EXIST, it’s totally unconstitutional, and the weak veneer of civilization is disappearing like so much fog in the morning.

      Those are my fellow countrymen. They can protest all they want, and I support it. I don’t have to subscribe to their ideology. And I will fight to prevent the police state detaining them in FEMA Camps.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 12:14pm

      Oh come now, spare me. Shutting down businesses that have done you no harm, who are doing you no harm, is NOT peacefully protesting. The 1st Amendment is clear on the “peacefully assemble” part. Putting people out of work is not peacefully protesting.

      You’re going to great lengths to validate these bozos. You are knowingly and consciously choosing to associate with communists, socialists and fascists. That’s fine, but let’s not pretend any longer with “libertarian-conservative”. Libertarianism has nothing, and has never had anything, in common with anti-free market ideology. That’s what these OWS hooligans are, anti-free market idiots. Support them as you will, but expect no sympathy from actual real life libertarians.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 8:04pm

      I’m not going to great lengths to validate anything, they can protest all they want. If they block traffic, then arrest them or cite them, but they can protest all day long as far as I’m concerned.

      Maybe the incompetent cops can keep the streets clear for the businesses to operate without violating anyone’s rights or pepper spraying people directly in the face while seated, or shooting some veteran in the face with a tear gas cannister (doubt it). Otherwise, the business owners should demand their tax dollars back for the cops public salaries and pensions.

      I’m not associating with them by defending their right to protest.

      And BTW, you’re not the arbiter of Conservative Libertarianism.

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:03am

    Is the OWS the REAL TEA PARTY?

    I mean…they’re shutting down ports…all they’re missing is throwing some tea in the water…

    TEA!!!

    http://www.infowars.com/beavis-and-butt-head-discover-infowars-com/

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    • uzi4u2
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:26am

      Idiot…with the ports shut down, what will happen to the prices goods that can’t come in to replace what is sold? Maybe you’d like to pay $500 for a pound of butter like Norway? These idiots are like all the communicst/socalist in history. Make it HARD on the working man and they will demand the government do something. And believe me, this government HAS the answer, they are just waiting to use it. Who are these OWS people really crewing with? Big businesses or the work stiffs they employ? If there are no goods to stock, you think an employer will keep those ther working? Pull your head out and look at history, these “usefull idiots” are destroying this country. If you don’t have aproblem with that, then you are big a fool as they.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:43am

      What if its cheap goods made in China?

      We‘re going to be paying a day’s wage for a loaf of bread anyway as long as the Federal Reserve keeps imploding our currency and subsequently our country.

      Of course the government has the answer and is waiting to use it…against EVERYONE, including the businessman and the protestor.

      So really, the businessman has no choice but to join the protestors against the corrupt government.

      Abolish the Federal Reserve. The real problem lies there in the printing of our currency. If you don’t understand this, then you are the idiot. I never said I subscribe to the OWS ideology.

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  • SmallGovBigGuns
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:03am

    “We will not stand for corporate profits at the expense of working people, we will not stand for attacks on workers, and we will not allow our schools to be closed, social services slashed, and families to be impoverished by your greed!” Koch said.

    He then continued “We will not get out of bed for a job at the expense of tax payers in form of wellfare insurance, we will not be productive members of society and we will continue to breed with eachother and teach our children to think like us! oh because greed, poverty gap and uh like social justice and stuff…. oh and like follow me on twitter and facebook for my solidarity and stuff”

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:08am

      Followed by the officers of the court tying his straight jacket tighter as the judge declares “As guilt has been determined by the jury, I hearby sentence you to 1000 years for the crimes of theft, tresspass and criminal conspiracy for the disruption of lawful business and commerce.”

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  • rock-n-roll-rebel
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 9:59am

    It’s those evil rich people that are forcing the government to take their money and influence, the poor politicians just don’t have a will of their own I guess. I am so mad I am going to go work for a poor person, it’s better than sleeping outside and worrying about being raped.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 9:59am

    Im kinda, sorta gettin the feelin that these folks really dont want to work….. Just sayin

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  • ronaldreaganthegreat
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 9:58am

    FEMA camps are now open for business for these anti-American communist parasite caulk suckers.

    Enjoy and TEA:-)

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:05am

      The Tea Party doesn’t support FEMA Concentration Camps, idiotboy.

      TEA!!

      And stop trying to jump on the bandwagon of the Anti-Police State and Anti-New World Order now that it’s popular…people like you were likely COWARDS who called people like me and Alex Jones crazy conspiracy theorists and Ron Paul nutjobs.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:07am

      Ronnie Raygun- the Horrible tripled our national debt by spending on the military industrial complex that built the FEMA Camps to torture and detain my fellow countrymen indefinitely.

      TIGGITY TEA!

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:15am

      You ain’t “Tea”.

      Stop perpetrating a fraud.

      RESIST THE NAZI POLICE STATE FEMA CAMPS = TEA.

      You’re a joke and probably a cop or some kind of agent.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:16am

      You’re not a Rebel Soldier, just leave that to people like me. You’re a joke who supports FEMA Camps.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVVfed4cpA

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    • barber2
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:07am

      V -MAN: Hie they to thy medicine chest….

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    • KAdams
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:16am

      @Vman: Might as well make them useful, instead of housing honest, hard-working American citizens. Ever hear of ‘Zombie Apocalypse’? Black awakening? You don’t have to dead to be a zombie.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:23am

      Barber2..speak english, not “ye ol’ english”.

      KADAMS

      Abolish FEMA and destroy the camps. No concentration camps on American soil. We already have prisons. No Secret prisons. I reject your severely flawed logic.

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    • The Sergeant Major
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 12:07pm

      Vman Help me out here, please name five people you personally know that have incardinated in a FEMA camp. Ok name One! This FEMA camp BS is starting to bore me. I’m sure you’re a great American and I commend you on your passion for our country.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 11:20am

      The Sergeant Major

      If you‘re bored then don’t read my posts or bother responding.

      The FEMA Camps are real, proven, recorded, admitted by government, and active, and I don’t have to prove ANYTHING to you.

      You can act oblivious all you want. No skin off my nose. That’s not going to shut me up about it.

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  • OH, I Get It!
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 9:55am

    How can these protesters afford to eat, travel, and pay their other expenses (bail, grass, etc)?

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    • drago
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:03am

      @Oh, think soros….

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    • SmallGovBigGuns
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:05am

      agree with DRAGO.. probably some under the table cash for protesting + wellfare insurance of course. thats why obama thinks its so important to extend it 14 more weeks

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:18am

      Don’t worry about all that.

      How did the 12 disciples eat? The Lord provided for them.

      Footsteps in the sand.

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    • barber2
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:58am

      V-Man: are you equating these goons with the 12 apostles ? Oh, and Christ was not about “stuff” which seems to be all that the Occupiers/ union thugs are pushing for. If only these guys had a spiritual union ! They seem focused on having stuff, hating “the rich,“ and disrupting the lives of the people they expect to get ”stuff” from. These are a bunch of materialistic, lost , bullies. God provides for those who put their trust in Him. No guarantees about “stuff.” Not His focus !

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:20am

      I didn’t equate anyone with anything, you did.

      The Lord causes the sun to rise on the righteous and the wicked.

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    • rush_is_right
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:50am

      @V-MAN MACE

      do you think Jesus was a community organizer like obama???

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:57am

      rush_is_right

      …hell no.

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    • The Sergeant Major
      Posted on December 12, 2011 at 12:10pm

      Shovel ready jobs? Reinvestment Act?

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