Smashed Windows and Torched Cars: Occupy Protests Turn Violent in Rome
- Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:12am by
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Demonstrators march past a burning car in downtown Rome on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. (AFP)
ROME (The Blaze/AP) — Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures.
Police officers shelter from firecrackers during clashes in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures entitled Occupy Wall Street. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
The “Occupy Wall Street” protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S. moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months.
Protesters hurl objects at police in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures. The "Occupy Wall Street" protests, that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S., moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Black smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group of violent protesters broke away from the main demonstration. They smashed car windows, set at least two vehicles on fire and assaulted two news crews of Sky Italia, the TV reported. Others burned Italian and EU flags.
Police face protestersin Rome, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Watch footage of the protest, via Sky Italia:
Police were out in force in Rome as some 100,000 protesters were expected a day after Premier Silvio Berlusconi barely survived a confidence vote. Italy, with a national debt ratio second only to Greece in the 17-nation eurozone, is rapidly becoming a focus of concern in Europe’s debt crisis.
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“People of Europe: Rise Up!” read a banner in Rome. Some peaceful demonstrators turned against the violent group and tried to stop them, hurling bottles at them, Sky and the ANSA news agency reported. Others fled, scared by the violence.
Protesters nicknamed “the indignant” also marched in other cities across the world.
In Frankfurt, continental Europe’s financial capital, some 5,000 people protested in front of the European Central Bank, while in London, around 500 people marched from St. Paul’s cathedral to the nearby stock exchange.
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Comments (194)
drattastic
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:30amThis will make our fleabaggers jealous ,they’ll have to burn something now.
Report Post »jrandolph1200
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:34amSadly I believe you may be correct :(
Report Post »knockered
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:57amThis is exactly what oblamer,his radical friends, soros and the other idiots in his party wants. What are they going to do when all they have left is a bunch of poor idiots to lead. The business world will quit and their entire source of income will vanish, what then. Those leftover radicals from the 60′s are now rich and comfortable but still want to make trouble for the rest of us. Glenn Beck has called all of this to a tee. If we are going to maintain the life we have now be prepared to fight for what is yours cause they will try and take it.
Report Post »GTH
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:57amThe bull statue on wal*street would be a great place to start.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:01pmThey might want to consider that we have the RIGHT to be armed in this country .. THANK GOD for the Second Ammendment .. they try to burn my property and it will not go well for them!
TEA!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:07pmMy Local NBC station (NBC2 Ft Myers FL) has been promoting this event 24/7 for 3 days now … on the weather information station .. will they cover violence if it occurs? They show 12 people “planning” events in Ft. Myers and Naples FL and say that Thousands will attend — How do they know? Are they busing them in (ASTROTURF)? They NEVER announced a TEA Party before hand and RARELY even after and NEVER gave a true count of how many attended.
IF this turns violent I hold NBC2 as partically RESPONSIBLE! I have voiced my opinion of their coverage of this event on their facebook page.
TEA!
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:08pm@gth
Report Post »Maybe your house would be a good place to start ,or would that be your parent’s basement .
YepImaConservative
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:36pm>GTH. Guy Fawkes is in Rome… and he’s calling you.
He said… “drop your c*cks (your’s and your friends) and put on your socks”… he has a job for you.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:43pmCATB
Report Post »I think Florida would be a bit dangerous for them….lol….we do have the “stand your ground” protection If you feel your life is in danger you have a right to protect yourself…..thank God for that……I don’t think Florida will be in too much danger….
CatB
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:53pmLOL .. after promoting this for DAYS and predicting “thousands” would attend (Southwest FL).. someone has posted photos .. 1 hour into the demonstation and it looks like 10 of 10′s of people .. perhaps 100 so far .. I GUESS the BUSES (with ASTROTURF) ARE LATE!
ROFL
TEA!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:02pm@CatB:
Maybe they should be encouraged to protest in the swamps where the gators live; after all we need to keep the poor reptiles well fed…
On the serious side though, does anyone expect the other fist to show shortly?
Stir up the chaos with one fist; then the other disguised as a “more peaceful, logical solution” a.k.a. Van Jones, comes in as the peace maker to settle the problem. I never thought of this before, yet if Van Jones is able to appeal as a “peacemaker” to the masses of the left, imagine him as the next VP nominee for Obama or as the Democratic Socialist Progressive Presidential candidate?
Somehow that may be one path they are preparing for, a contingency plan in case Obama resigns or God calls him home of natural causes.
A third possibility is this — a scenario with the radical Islamists striking out or appearing to strike out at the US, such as Iran is alleged to have done, and ones like Van Jones, Sharpton, Jesse Jackson Jr and the others suddenly call for the protection of the states, and unity in defense with the Tea Party and others…suddenly appearing as centerists…
With Van Jones riding in on the tall, white horse as a saviour of the nation (and a despot in the making).
Who will Soros throw to the wolves first — VJ, Obama, Unions or the Radical Islamists?
Report Post »WATCHMAN15
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:43pmTo GTH
I say we send a real herd of a1000 well fed stampeding bulls into the flea infested Zuccotti Park.
Report Post »robert
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:59pmEurope is beginning to catch fire. The violence there will only get worse.
But are we far behind since we are in the midst of potential violence from the OWS crowd?
And that’s not all. Consider: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=355449
“Race riots are coming back to America.”
“Thank God for YouTube. Or else we never would have know that hundreds of times in more than 50 cities since 2010, groups of black people have been roaming the streets of America—assaulting, intimidating, stalking, threatening, vandalizing, stealing, shooting, stabbing, even raping and killing.
“But today the denials are crumbling. The curtains are lifting. We now can see what so many public officials and media have been curiously desperate to deny: Race riots are back.
(snip)
“In July 2011, hundreds of blacks created an “astonishing” amount of violence at downtown Philadelphia restaurants, hotels and bars.
“July 4, 2011, 10-20black people assault and stab a student and his dog from LaSalle University.He’s still alive, though many people do not know why. The dog probably saved him.
“In Spring of 2010,police break up a black flash mob in the Tioga-Nicetown section of Philly. Kids were bored and acting stupid, said the reporter. The video tells another story.
“Then came the reader comments to the race-neutral stories: Hundreds and hundreds wanted to know why reporters repeatedly refused to identify the race of the attackers.”
Civil war II?
Report Post »Gerrymanderer
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:12pmTap Out 2011: OWS vs. Tea Party; Far Left vs. Far Right Round 1: Soros vs. Koch Round 2: Democracy Now Lefties vs. Glenn Beck Righties Live on pay-per-view. Who will win?
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:51pmwho will win?
Report Post »The TRUTH will always win! They won the last battle. We will win the war.
redbone007
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 3:28pmThis order just came from Bill Maher, “Bill Maher to ‘Occupy’ Mob: It Might Be Time to Get Violent”
Report Post »Spirit 72
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 3:33pmGB is fantastic calling out what the left will do next. My only beef with him is that he is a little weak on calling out what to do. How about:
1. Call your city councilmen / mayor and (firmly but politely) tell them to enforce loitering laws, littering laws, and arrest those who damage property. It ceases to be “free speech” when damage is done or people interfere with flow of traffic. Stop it before it grows to anarchy.
Report Post »2. Unlawful assembly is on the books in most cities. Ensure your police enforce it.
3. Other ideas ??
tifosa
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 6:06pmHow about watch the NY vid live. http://www.myfoxny.com/subindex/video/live_video btw, wouldn’t you say that use of the word “fleabaggers” opens up the use of “teabaggers?”
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 6:30pmBallot_Box…as in most states, there were several locations of #Occupies, and actually livestream rooms and vids of each. These were some of the plans http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/october/329546/Occupy-Florida-protests-planned-today
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 6:43pmHooray! There is, FINALLY, one country in which the OWS, grass-roots, spontaneous global protest performs per the play book! I would have thought it would be Greece, but Italy, dahling Italy, with all those hot-tempered, gonad charged tempers, finally has one of those MB Wienie Roasts (fire in a Mercedes Benz, for those with money to burn! Wow, I’ll bet the organizers of this spontaneous movement are finally vindicated–all their hard work finally, after protests in all those countries, have something for the evening news!
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 6:48pmCities could make a fortune selling permits, demanding bonds and insurance from the ‘organizers’. If there aren’t any organizers, how do the people know where to assemble, who will publish their newspaper, make their signs, invite all the Hollywood crowd, etc, Vendors could make a fortune selling molotov cocktails and fire extinguishers, tear gas and gas masks, Va-poo-riser, deodorant and perfume, con-dumbs, etc. Television crews could be charged royalty fees on each showing of a film–after all, if the city weren’t there, there would be nothing to film.
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 7:31pmThis is “Obama’s Tinderbox” coming to a U.S. city near you.
The jackazz does not realize that the terrorists
are rubbing their hands together saying,
Thanks Obama, while the policemen & firemen have their hands full
controlling your protege protesters,
this is the perfect time to capitalize on a terrorist hit-
when all resources are being used trying to contain Barack’s bonfire.
The guy is a disgusting, self-centered, gutless, irresponsible creep-
the epitome of a raging community activist,
out to destroy a country
to protect his sordid ego.
Incapable of leading & listening to the American people-
Report Post »this little tyrant IS solely accountable for what happens in our streets.
America has had ENOUGH of him…..he is indignant, dangerous and insufferable !
mashuser2
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 9:55pmBlaze sells a lie on this one. This is not “Occupy Rome.” The Romans are just pissed because their idiot leader somehow squeaked through by the hairs on his arse. Repeat – not EVERY PROTEST is an “Occupy” protest.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 2:06amTif
Report Post »The conversation was about being violent, and in peoples faces. I seriously doubt it will get close to that in florida because we….(i know this sounds silly)….but have a right to protect ourselves…..not just allowed to own weapons….if we feel threatened we can freely protect ourselves…and judging by the signs, and some of the things these people are saying (actually on film)….I think given the chance these people would EAT THE RICH….just sayin’
winolet
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:28amGlenn Beck warned us about this. It’s part of the SEIU and ACORN plan to have riots all over the world. Obama is tied to both of these organizations as well as their leaders.
Report Post »GTH
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:59amLoL! Do you really think Glen Beck would be preaching the stuff he does if he had to do it for free? Or even pay to do it.
Report Post »Another sheep yelling out, “Please scam me!”
bryan69
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:11pmGlenn is a capitalist. He also is a very generous man with what he EARNS. Of course we will pay for this knowledge you bafoon. I am very happy to support him and greatful he is there to warn us.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:18pmGTH doesn’t know anything about working. He doesn’t realize that people generally get paid for it.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:40pmPay for “this knowledge?” Is Beck like some Gnostic cult leader, imparting secret knowledge to those of his adepts who are foolish enough to shell out $9(/month for GBTV? Everything he says, surmises, hypothesizes or just makes up is available for free, usually right here.
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:29pmYup. Sure enough. Socialist left again with smashing, breaking, beating, burning. Hey O’Bumbum!~!! Wanna call Tea Partiers any names now? DIP WAD! How about you Eddie Haskell Schultz??????
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:38pmActually Glen has paid to preach about this stuff. He is just getting reimbursed for his investment. It is called capitalism. But the fact is, he has been very accurate to date. Unless maybe him telling everybody about this stuff causes it to happen….Maybe he is in league with Soros after all? Soros the Sith overlord, just like star wars. The world is running backward through time. Just this year we have slipped back into the 60′s and the cold war era…If we are lucky we can stop in the 50′s, if not we will end up in the dark ages. I got my sword and shield ready.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:40pm@GTH…I think your mother has some mac-n-cheese ready for you. So leave your basement bedroom and get your 35 years old a$$ upstairs.
Report Post »robert
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 4:49pmGlenn is the only one who offers a well-informed theory as to the origins of these so-called protests.
Geraldo, the delusional advocate of the rainbow utopia, sees these demonstrations as what he terms “spontaneous.” That’s absolute nonsense. If they were spontaneous, we would have seen much chatter between these people on the internet outraged over a unifying issue that would identify who they are and where they’re coming from. We not only are unable to find a paper trail, the people themselves were extensively interviewed and found to consist mostly of malcontents who really didn’t know what they want. They’ve been sucked in by the PC cult.
In the absence of a single unifying issue, as a call to arms so to speak, the only other motivating factor that would send them into the streets are clever propagandists who have prompted them to protest. So Glenn is right. They were prompted to act for the sake of protesting, not for a specific cause.
But, as I said many times, let them go. The chaos and confusion they are causing will only serve to weaken the corporate and federal geeks, which will be beneficial to the average person in many ways.
We are seeing the beginning of a revolution which will eventually turn into civil war. These are the last days of the US empire, not the beginning of a socialist takeover. There won’t be anything left to takeover, but armed militias enforcing a breakup into ethnic and political enclaves.
Report Post »Justagrunt
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 6:33pmAnyone who takes up arms against the United States in a time of war cannot expect to arrested, mirandized, and have a trial. He was an enemy combatant and was treated as such.
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 7:09pmwinolet, you are just another puppet that need a moron like becky to tell you what to think.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 8:51pmI just can’t figure out why the left comes here.. other than they have nothing better to do with their time than make rude remarks.. these people are nothing more than puppets.. and most probably are sitting in their bedroom at their Mom and Dads house in the underwear.. thats okay, because I know in the end,, they will be shut up! When they wake up.. it may be to late for them!!
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 9:59pmAnd now the NAZIS have gotten in on it:
http://1389blog.com/2011/10/15/the-occupy-movement-turns-nazi/
Report Post »thegr8restoration
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:20amIf one car or business is lit on fire (in the U.S) all this will unravel. They know it, that is why they try to insight us the Tea Party to respond. They need us to confront them the same way in order to force Obama to declare marshal law. They know it is the only way to retain power or gain power depending on perspective. Remember this they can occupy Wall Street but they can not occupy Main Street!
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:23amCities will burn, country living is good.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:29amJust three words for the police would solve all “shoot to kill”
Report Post »GTH
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:01pmThey can’t shoot them all.
Report Post »bryan69
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:14pm@Bluefish49 – That’s what I keep yelling at my computer screen. If this is what they want, lets give it to them. I’ve been shot. I tell you now, it discourages people from violence when the bullets come flying in. You burn a car or hurl a rock, I hurl lead. Good plan.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:19pm@GTH
Report Post »Oh yes they can, all 124,697 of them, but I prefer the more humane method, deportation, pack a hobo sac GTH your on the list.
hidden_lion
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:43pmGTH “They can’t shoot them all.”
Sure they can. But that wouldn’t be good either. Listen for the sound of drones flying…The government can kill whoever they want now, that line has been crossed and accepted by the Sheep of the States of America. (nothing united about us anymore)
Report Post »momrules
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:16amWith the encouragrment of the left ie. the Hollywood inciters such as Bill Maher, Sean Penn Sarandon, etc and MSNBC hosts and guest, and some of the Democratic Congress the protesters have been given the green light to advance violently. They will get more extreme now that they have been given this permission and some people are going to get hurt or killed. This is just collateral damage to the ones thet are really behind these protests.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:39amI understand tha tthe polize family and many of the movie stars are laughing all the way to the bank. Nancy is proposing a world tax on the use of gravity for us and all countries to eliminate the large debts.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:12amOk, whose been drinking… the Leaded water out of the Aqueducts?
Report Post »LarryofArabia
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:11amRemember this fact – stupid people are down-trodden for one reason. They’re stupid. That’s a fact they cannot escape. The general can be the smartest, the bravest and the brightest. But the general does not fight the fight – his soldiers do. When a plan is evil and sinister, God will crush them. He always does. Hitler, Stalin, Tojo, Saddam and whoever else you can think of; in the end, they all meet the same fate. The gnashing of teeth. They have no future.
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:23amStuck on stupid.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 3:23pmAnd then the stupid people are jealous of the smart people and want to make the smart and successful people as miserable as they are.
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 7:41pmExcellent point, and you just can’t fix stupid.
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:07amWhat? No bullets? Only batons and tear gas?
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:18amMy question is, where are the advocates for global warming. All those bodies in the same place is spoiling my oxygen. Not only are they emitting massive amounts of carbon through their sulfuric rhetoric, but the body heat and the stench is violating my equal rights to a cooler climate.
Report Post »jeff36607
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:46pmWhen I was stationed in England in the ’80s, a group of protestors camped about a mile from the base for about three years. Every once in a while they would move their camp across the street from the main gate to a plot of ground next to a farmer’s field. The farmer liked the base and when the protestors showed up he would always decide that it was a good day to spread manure. He would make sure he got a lot of it right next to where the protestors were camped. The protestors would then quickly decide to go back to their camp a mile away.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:03amI bet that for the first time in her adult life, Michelle Obama is proud of the world.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:41pmgood one…and true
Report Post »The Eleventh Doctor
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:03amGlenn was right again.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:18amYep.
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 7:38amHe has been 95% of the time. Maybe more!
Report Post »LarryofArabia
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:00amYou think you see chaos now? Just wait and see the anarchy when Barry loses on election night.
Report Post »db321
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:08amWhat election night? Don’t think it going to happen. It may be a dark night – but Joy comes in the morning.
Report Post »LarryofArabia
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:54amI didn’t know Italy had hippies. It seems stupidity knows no bounds. Thanks Barry.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:26amIt’s never been about hippies. It is truly about people able to do these things thanks to the mob. It is similar to kleptomania, peeping in windows, etc..dark perverted sides of our nature that only rise up when the opportunity is there. As long as they can hide in a crowd and get away with their antics…they will do so.
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 8:05pmSpent nine years in Europe, and all of those countries have hippies.
Report Post »BMroxy
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:54amSo now the occupy movement is going global within other countries. Possible areas where rioting and violence is a more common way to “get your way” than here in The United States. We can expect now the Occupy Wall Street protesters to look at other occupiers around the globe and learn from them how to protest and riot. Just as what has happened in Rome it only takes one group within the entire group of protesters to become extreme to set off the chaos and violence. While I think here in America we should use this event as an example of what we don’t want to do, I don’t think the protesters will view it the same way.
Report Post »jfreak13713
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:52amThe vilolence only seems to breakout is areas where there are strick gun laws why is that? It my guess that these cowards will only cause trouble in areas where they know their fellow citizens are limited in their ability to protect life and property. America this is why we MUST protect gun rights here! I dare some of these people to show up at my home here in Georgia! PLEASE, hunting season hasn’t even started yet!
Report Post »jackal
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:02amIn saying that then why not more violence in New York?Mayor Blooperberg hates guns and NYC has some of the strictist gun laws in the country.I think it has more to do with severe unrest and unempolyment with Italy being only second to Greece with debt issues hence most likely high unemployment occurring.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:48pmItalian socialism has broken them financially, now they can’t afford to pay the sheep to live. The only solution is the butcher shop.
Report Post »DesertDave54
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:52pm@JFREAK13713– Good for you! I do believe in Texas we have the “Castle Law” and it HAS been tested. I have plenty 3″mag buckshot for any fleabagger who wants to come onto my Central Texas suburban ranch! Sadly enough, there are plenty of apathetic sheeple out there- they want to hide their heads in the sand. Let the fleabaggers get them;THEN they’ll understand. Hey, if Georgia gets overrun, come on over to Texas! Obama and his “organizers”(I REALLY do believe they are the ones behind this!) know how badly the Organizer-in-Chief is doing and they’re getting their army ready. The OIC even said as much when he was running! Check it out for yourself. Something about being funded and organized as well as the military. Well, it’s out there, folks. And some gov’t types are behind it, as well! Mayor Bloomberg! That guy is a gazillonaire. You want them to take over our streets, America? I’ll gladly die defending it, but too many won’t. 21st Century hippies, who are paid to do this, copulating and defecating in the streets. Revolution IS here. You got it right, jfreak. Have a bug-out bag ready to head west. Most of Texas will be safe. Just step around the bodies of the good marxist, hippies, and socialists (of course they’d be good, because they won’t be breathing). May God continue to bless our land.
Report Post »tbarr4
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:49amTHis crap is coming here! Arrest them all now!!
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:58amNero fiddled while Rome burned. Why was that again? Because it was Nero who orchestrated the burning.
Obama and the High Road politics of Joel Rogers under the express control and funding by George Soros, Warren Buffet, GE, GM, and the Unions are playing the fiddle.
I say we preempt them and burn them down.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 3:01pmYou realize, of course, that the NWO advocates started and must fan the flames of this as much as possible. That way they can “protect” us and clamp down with martial law. That’s why the TV stations are acting like cheerleaders for this!! Couldn’t use the tea party folks…..they weren’t stupid enough to become useful idiots!!
Report Post »After seeing this though, I have vowed that my grandchildren will NOT become useful idiots for anyone!!! What they do not learn at school, they WILL learn at home!!
SamIamTwo
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:48amI hear Uganda is going to send in some advisers to assist Rome. Attempted humor in the light of darkness. Here we go. And America will be blamed for starting this one up.
The banks should have never been bailed out…nor anyone on WS. It was a dumb move…we have existing laws in place to take care of people who take on high risk contracts…
I would never protest it but banks cry when they face a crisis, the gov’t covers their butts and now they hold the cash so no one can use it to make jobs…yeah it sucks. Banks should not have it both ways…and this is going to def-con 4.
Me, taking more cash out of the bank…I could personally start a run on the banks?
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:50am“Occupy Wall Street”people warned not to let their efforts get hijacked (like the GOP hijacked the Tea Party)
Report Post »Napolitano suggests common goals.
End the Fed
End the wars
End the income tax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF30eMuWFHI
YepImaConservative
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:29pm>VECHORIK. “…hijacked (like the GOP hijacked the Tea Party)” LMAO.
Who did the GOP hijack the “Tea Party” from? Ron Paul and his supporters? I thought the “Tea Party” was all inclusive?
Tell ya’ what… we‘ll give it back when you tell Ron Paul he’s no Republican… Lol.
If the “Tea Party” was left up to just Ron Paul and his ilk (some rather sinister ilk too)… we‘d be seeing the same crap as we’re seeing from your drug addled protesting brothers and sisters on the left. You know the one’s… the Neo-Libs out there with the other naive Libs right now as I write…
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:52pmIf these people were serious about this movement, that is what they would do. Pull their money, close their credit cards and stop applying for loans. Give back their cars. The banks would reform their ways to attract the people back…That is how capitalism/democracy could solve the problem. I am thinking of pulling my money, before the banks decide to fight back.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:45amPer this article, “The “Occupy Wall Street” protests that began in Canada…”
DID I MISS SOMETHING?
I thought WALL STREET was in NEW YORK CITY?!?!?
How did it begin in Canada?
HUH?
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:56amI caught that too Tom, WTH? Who is writing this stuff?
Report Post »oitsugina
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:56amI think it has something to do with Adbusters, which I believe originates in Canada….here is an link:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/seius-stephen-lerner-invokes-bill-ayers-days-of-rage-to-take-down-wall-street-this-september/
Report Post »Beckett
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:38amIt was “started” by a Canadian company, Adbusters.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:43amWell, the tea party movement has been around for nearly three years with not one incident of violence from our participants. The OWS movement has been around for a month. Now, tell me again which side is the violent ones.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:28pmThem, for now.
Report Post »SilentRunning
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:40pmYou are right. Garbage is not left all over the place either. Why do you think that is?
Report Post »Dano.50
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 6:11pmIf ows isn’t a perfect example of “Garbage in, garbage out” I don’t know what is.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:39amThe Euro protesters sure know how to party..LOL. The American protesters are amateurs that think protesting is a fun game, a festival of sorts. Soon as they end up like this though, they will be in for a rude awakening. Time to order another batch of ammo.
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:26amSave some for me.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 5:12pmNothing wrong with using slingshots. Use marbles and always aim for the ankles. Save the guns for muslims and aim 3 inches below the turban.
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 8:34pmTake a page from the protester‘s of the sixties’ book of dirty tricks. All you need is a cheap bow and arrows with pointed metal tips, boxes and boxes of .00 Buck, and duct tape. Call it a mini mortar or mini grenade launcher.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:38amSo how soon until US cities erupt in flames like this, or worse? And which will be the first to go up?
Report Post »quickstudy
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:45amI’m guessing NY and Chicago in that order. Timeframe I’d say is 1 week.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:57amThey best bring in troops if this happens ( I hope not ). I’ve been saying all along that I hope the National Guard is on alert!
Report Post »jackal
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:09amHow about Detroit?anything happening there I wonder?I have not seen any reports there but unemploment is high and economy and housing hurting.
Report Post »winolet
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:32amDetroit started Oct. 13th with approx. 200 protestors. Lansing just started; not sure how many are there.
Report Post »eaglenva
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:54pmSnow,
I would hope cooler heads prevail and not give into the agitators. If the protestors (agitators) destroy parts of NY or any other major city what’s the great loss.
For those out there abdicating weapons orientated responses, chill out please. That being said, I do agree and give notice to anyone that if you come at me and mine your dead meat, that is the way self preservation works (can you say Bill of Rights).
It’s not going to be good for anybody if our young get hurt, no matter how brainwashed.
III
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:54pmI know Phoenix started with a small band yesterday, and the main show goes off downtown today and in two (or more) cities here in AZ as well. CATB can confirm this much, if these flea-dwelling skunks want to have a revolution here in AZ, those who make it past the police and start the violence will have a brief “blaze of glory” moment before heading to boot hill.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:56pma few in Grand Rapids, pretty tame really, a few of my deluded classmates attended it, with their kids no less. I tried to warn them it would eventually get nasty. Right now I think they are just having a good time, makes them feel part of something. They do not understand the consequences if they were to get any of what the seem to want.
Report Post »voodoolife
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:51pmI’d say Detroit or Chicago.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:30amWhy the violence? Go to the gym if you have pent up anger. Non of these protesters have any restraint or decency. The cost of violence is tremendous. Put them in jail. Learn, idiots, how to protest in peaceful ways or go home. Selfish “I want more and more” lazy people. If this is our youth we are in serious trouble. But, then again, we are in serious trouble everywhere.
Report Post »Rabble In Arms
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:30amWhat does Socialism look like? THIS is what Socialism looks like!
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:24amYou city folk raised em. Now, deal with em. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Report Post »ZomBrad
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:24amAt the risk of sounding like a Blaze stereotype that all sound the same to the liberal blazers, and huffpo plants……The end is happening soon! Make sure you have a crown to throw at the Lord’s feet when the time comes!
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 8:45pm@zombrad Read Matthew 24 and pay particular attention to verse 8., 32-33…Then read all of 25…. These two chapters will give you a better understanding…. But most importantly, you better be ready–because only the FATHER knows when HE will come.
Report Post »Affirmative Blaction
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:22amWell that did not take very long.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:19amPlease pasta, er, pass the grated parmesan cheese topped popcorn… this will get Al Dente…
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