‘Occupy the Super Bowl’ Protesters Invade Indianapolis
- Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:46pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(AP)Protesters of a divisive labor measure have marched through the packed Super Bowl Village in downtown Indianapolis.
A mix of union members and Occupy protesters from across Indiana led a rally Saturday that began at the Statehouse before weaving through the crowded pre-game attraction. Speakers at the rally included two state representatives, a state senator and several union workers.
Indianapolis Education Association President Ann Wilkins told the crowd of about 75 protesters to remember which legislators voted for the right-to-work bill and vote them out in the November elections.
During the march on the Village, protesters chanted “Occupy the Super Bowl.” Organizers of Saturday’s event say that if Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels does sign the bill into law this week, the protests will likely continue.
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Comments (126)
BaltimoreJoe
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 12:48amWhich Union(s)?
Given the UAW positions I bought an Elantra… made in Georgia with non-UAW workers. We need to keep track of which Unions are supporting which causes.
Why support them by purchasing their goods if they take some of those dollars and use it to beat us at the polls, or hire thugs to beat us at rally’s? Only one in ten are union members, only one in ten of those got to vote for the union. However, we cannot vote out the UAW or SEIU leaders, only they can. Screw em.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 1:40am“Trade unions are the schools of communism” Lenin
We should all pay close attention to who is involved in this, and any other Occupy ‘protests’ in the lead up to the election. SEIU has already advertised positions for people with experience occupying government buildings and banks. Banks should be ready with extra security.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 1:50amIf those hippies interfere with Bubba’s tailgate party, or get between him and the stadium around game time, they are going to have his boot “occupy” their @ss.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 5:15am@TXpilot…Not too many Bubbas at the Super Bowl. There are however a lot of rich people. This should be interesting if they cause a problem at gametime. Those rich people have bodyguards…Now those guys can take Bubba down…I am sure a protestoer would rather pi@@ off a Bubba instead,
Report Post »MadonnaDJ88
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 6:42amWell said. I have American-made cars that are old…but my new one and all future ones will be foreign.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:10amEven though I can’t stand these brainless dopes, this will give the exposure that WE need. Society is fed up with these morons and when they disrupt something of this magnitude the frustration with these dopes will spill over into complete intolerance. Good job occupiers, as the Bible says in Proverbs 17:28 “Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.”
Open your mouths this one and final time for all the world to see how stupid you are!
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:37am“Disrupt” is s more appropriate word than “Occupy.”
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 9:17amFollow the Money… alike the Kennedy Administration… and put the Crooks in Jail!
Report Post »SurfinRallylizard
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 12:37amis there a logical argument against the right to work bill? it gives you a choice where you had none before, and that choice isn’t killing anyone… so…. whats the prob…????
Report Post »TAXEVERYONE
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:20amBuying cars and other products made by unions that support this Occupy movement doesn’t make much sense. We must send a message to the UAW, AFL/CIO, Teamsters, Communinications Workers, etc that we can impact them financially.
Report Post »randy
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 12:33amPople just have to remember
OBAMA = OWS
when it comes time to vote
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 12:47amOBAMA = turd
Report Post »notreally
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 6:13amObama=OWS=socialism
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:57pmThese people are so intelligent they have gone completely stupid . They prove that liberalism is a disease the facts are self evident if you except atrocious behavior as OK in order to push your agenda onto others just because it fits your way of thinking then you are sick sick sick & you need help. Soooo I wrote you a prescription -er i mean a song called The Devils song. you need at least one listen in the morning and one listen just before bed time until you see the light
Report Post »For all you really sick puppy’s
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10789987
conbones
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 12:16amThank you for the song, its actually not that bad.
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:53pmThe Occupier in Chief is just waiting for a violent outburst, especially from those drunk, racist, red-neck Tea Partyers, in order to restore order, even if that means suspending the Constitution and imposing martial law. “Peace and safety” comes at a price, you know….
Report Post »BlackBeaver
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 12:20amSageInWaiting, Just where did you learn that Tea Party adherents- or “Tea Partyers” as you call them, are “drunk, racist, redneck[s]” prone to violence? Some SEIU handout? In case you haven’t noticed there has only been one reported incident of violence at any function of the Tea Party movement, and that was the beating of a ‘Tea Partyer’ (who happened to be black) by SEIU union thugs!
As to the “Occupier in Chief”, you are correct that he would like nothing better than to have a violent incident- or series of violent incidents- regardless of who causes it, so that he can further impose his ‘benevolent’ control on our country. Too bad you felt obliged to insult the Tea Party movement to make your point!
Report Post »MadonnaDJ88
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 6:46amThere never has been nor will there ever be a violent outburst from a Tea Party group…UNLESS there are infiltrators PLACED at the scene for that purpose…and that will happen.
Report Post »taliesin319
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 1:22pmI can’t imagine where you received your information. As a former resident and weekly visitor to Manhattan I’ve had many opportunities to compare the union, communist worker party aka SEIU
Report Post »and others of that ilk egg OWS rowdys to mayhem at every turn. Tea Party people are plain ordinary citzens fed up with the activities of the aforementioned. I’ve both observed and attended such functions and never have I ever seen disrespect to any person there. No rapes, no theft, no urinating and defecating in public, no antisemitism, or destruction of property which are the hallmark of Obama’s Alinsky darlings. The party line was old when my parents heard it and at 72 I can vouch having listened to it spewed forth from every far left organization, its stale. The good thing about
the tea party is we are not likely to see you. There is nothing wrong with a red neck . They served their country as I did when others minced off to Sweden and Canada. Get informed. Hate is never
a good persuader.
Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:52pmId like to occupy the New york Giants Cheerleaders !!!!! Or the Patriots Cheerleaders !!!!! Either way ….
Report Post »flatdaddio
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:23pmIndiana is NOT NYC……these dopes will not be excepted with open arms….
Report Post »MadonnaDJ88
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 6:47amCorrect!!
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 8:08amFLATDADDIO,
Report Post »Fingers crossed that you are a SEER!
A Hoosier Says
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 7:27pmThey haven’t been accepted. I work by the state house, and the OWS protesters over the last few months have consisted of a handful of people, if even that much. Some days there were only one or two people out there, looking like nutjobs. During the recent protests with union workers rallying against the right to work legislation, they were bringing in bus loads of union members from Illinois. Indianapolis doesn’t support these morons.
Report Post »welloddyfriggindah
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:18pm…state reps, state senator, iea president, union lemmings?? I feel an arse-kickin‘ comin’ on….knotheads!
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:51pmI agree, this could get very messy! & it will not favor the occutards!
Report Post »bringiton
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 1:17pmI hope so.
Report Post »tissy46black
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:47pmsorry missed spelled the first name pat dollard
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:47pmWhat a way to get people on your side, obstruct a football game that has really nothing to do with politics and harass the people going to the game, many who have saved their hard earned non union paychecks to get there and enjoy probably a once in a lifetime event to get away from that everyday bs.
If I was at that game and they messed with me and my friends on the way in, we’d equally if not more mess em up on the way out after 4 hours of partying you can bet if they were still there. I wouldn’t miss the game for those slime, but afterwords is a different story, as if they stepped in our world on the way outta the place, the fun would continue…… on their freaking empty drug fogged heads, that is.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:46pmI think people will remember who DIDN’T vote for the right to work act, and vote THEM out next November.
Occupy has already heard it’s death nell with the public. This is just another stupid move – but then I’m being redundant.
Silversmith
Report Post »usnpops
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 1:23pmI wish you were right, but actually the Occupy thing is just beginning for 2012.
They have started in Oakland and San Francisco already. And they are waiting for better weather to spread it all over the country. They are planning “Guerilla” style attacks on Banks, Malls, the conventions, the election and highways. Hit, disrupt, and then run before the authorities are able to react.
Go to Adbusters and read what is coming. And note that the Teamsters, SEIU and the Worldwide AFL/CIO Are as well investing in this.
It’s going to be a long hot summer.
Report Post »taliesin319
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 1:30pmTruly there is nothing new under the sun. Their hippie grandparents also wanted to overthrow the government but were too stoned out of their minds to do more than whine about “ the man ” they went the way of all the disorganized Bolshevik wanna bes.
Report Post »Lurchbus
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:41pmNeed to buy a ticket like everyone else are get there buys out of there !!!!!
Report Post »tissy46black
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:40pmtwitter#occupy pat domllard @david Axelrod has personaly given order to @van jones to turn occupy movement voilent. check it out for your self
Report Post »mensaman62
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:39pmCan you post in English for those of us who don’t twitter?
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 1:41amYes! post a link!
Report Post »milum
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:27pmWhat a lark.
Report Post »Their antics would be amusing if I didn’t remember the mindless chants of the hippie sit-ins of the sixties that gave us the Great Society.
Oh my!
These people are their mindless children! They hope and changy to inherit the Earth.
Help!
USAMEDIC3008
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:31pmanyone watching whats going on in Calif right now
Report Post »It will be over befor Blaze gets there.
ronaldreaganthegreat
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:15pmOccut.a.r.d.s. are soon to get their a$$es beaten soon:-)
Report Post »rsanchez1
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:15pmIf they represent the 99%, wouldn’t they want right-to-work, protecting workers from the 1%’ers running the unions?
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:48pmYou would think so. But when Obummer and the libs talk about the America’s working people, they are only referencing the 9% of the private work force that are in the unions.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:09pmGot a question, has anyone wondered how long the insanity of the #Occupy bands will last until people of the left (as arranged by Obama) call for the President to ‘stop the violence and madness of the Occupy movment and the Tea party’ as the two are more and more being linked by the propaganda of the media and democrats?
Mind you I know the Tea Party stands for a complete difference of ideology than the useful idiots of the Occupy bands.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:21pm…around August.
Report Post »Ortho
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 12:10amAgree about mid August early September, right after school starts.
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 12:12amThey haven’t yet figured out that the tparty is really the silent majority speaking out, not a bunch of crazies that can be incited to riot! That tells you their IQ level?
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 3:33pmThe Occupiers and Tea Partiers will be linked only if we allow it to happen. The media has become nothing more than a propaganda tool of the Progressives. Why bother watching those channels anymore? Force their ratings to drop and they will get the message. Don’t channel search….channel delete.
Report Post »Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:00pmThey can go Occupy a toilet bowl.
Report Post »Echelon
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:00pmThe only thing these idiots can occupy is the Toilet Bowl :-)
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:06pmNo!…No!… If they occupy the toidy bowl, they will put up a tent and not let anyone else use it………
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:59pmThe first time these diseased obama-feces-peddlers drop their pants to defecate on the sidewalk, all heck is going to break loose.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:56pmLibs and their union henchmen have adopted the Occupy Movement as their own. I would like to point out to them that if you lie down with dogs, you will wake up with fleas. Nothing good will come from a movement that espouses violence and rage to make their point. The libs forget that they are in the minority in this country statistically. Morally and socially offending the greater majority will not gain them any victory. Instead they will gain the scorn of decent Americans who are appalled by the thuggery and selfishness displayed by these Occupiers.
Report Post »Dan_o
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:03pmOccupy = Useful Idiot
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:08pmDidn’t Nancy Peeelooski call these occupiers “grassroots”?
More like deadbeats—seems to me.
OMG in 2012
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 12:26amHow’s that diversity working out for all of us? completely out of control people who do not respect the rule of law right. Gutter bums, hope their proud. Here is a song about diversity that is for all who preach such stupidity. http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11826046
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:51pm75 … wow .. that many? ;-)
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:05pmCATB–
Not too impressive but wait until the Wisconsinites drive down.
Oakland is under seige now and plans are made to “protest” the summit in Chicago in May.
Wonder where these people are getting their money?
Guy Fawkes masks must be selling briskly.
OMG in 2012!!!!
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:06pmIf u ask a occupier it would be 7,500, if u ask a ABC, NBC, CNN,MSNBC, & a dem. rep., it would be 75,000
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:06pmI guess Obama‘s buses haven’t arrived yet ..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:06pmGrass roots ,,, Right?
Report Post »TheCenturion
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:49pmI have a large trash can they can occupy.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:47pmOoooohhh, this will NOT go well for them! lol lol lol
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:54pmIt won’t be pretty!
Report Post »alshere
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 12:47amThey are creating a target rich environment.
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