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In reply to the discussion: ALL HOLY HELL HAS BROKEN OUT IN OAKLAND. This Is What It Has Come To... [View all]2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)56. Fuckers reporting that Occupiers throwing fire
bombs and shit at police and that is why they had to "respond"
Our news is nothing but a bunch of treasonous assholes who have probably been the main reason the fascist have been able to control the people. The rest of the world now makes fun of our "Baghdad Bob" reporting. We have become a joke to the world.
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ALL HOLY HELL HAS BROKEN OUT IN OAKLAND. This Is What It Has Come To... [View all]
kpete
Jan 2012
OP
I agree BeHereNow, All this brutality because Occupy wanted to occupy an abandoned building.
fasttense
Jan 2012
#58
Police brutality is systematically killing everything we supposedly stand for,
99th_Monkey
Jan 2012
#133
It's a class thing. That's the best advice IVE ever got, but it doesn't work for the rich.
saras
Jan 2012
#114
Yep... K & R !!! - And They're Calling In Police Officers From All Over The Bay Area...
WillyT
Jan 2012
#3
I hope the Occupy Marines who have pledged to protect the protesters are calling up a response-
BeHereNow
Jan 2012
#9
The other cities in the area need to revisit their "mutual aid" policies pronto
KamaAina
Jan 2012
#110
Look again. True, many of the beating victims are not that young. But some are children.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2012
#29
What democracy makes it necessary for a mother to have to buy a gas mask for her children
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#104
+1. I wonder if knowing the feds are going to take over OPD had anything to do with this?
freshwest
Jan 2012
#126
No, I was referrring to a thread here about the Feds taking over OPD because of violence.
freshwest
Jan 2012
#131
I have nothing against peaceful protests and including children when safely possible
nobodyspecial
Jan 2012
#80
"Safe" is subjective. The first black students to integrate white enclaves were in dire jeopardy
riderinthestorm
Jan 2012
#103
I know right? Sometimes it just is what life hands us, and brave kids step up. I love that pic
riderinthestorm
Jan 2012
#129
Call a news conference and use his bully pulpit to denounce these blue shirts actions and call
Hestia
Jan 2012
#96
The Stream Reporter Is Saying That People Are So Pissed, They'll Just Keep On Reforming And Marching
WillyT
Jan 2012
#14
100 people arrested in Oakland, and I have NO WAY of know if my daughter was one of them.
Raksha
Jan 2012
#38
There would've been no attempt to take the Civic Center, an illegal act, without those people.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#68
Well, for some marching in the streets and intending to take over a building...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#73
Is it rational and reasonable if you want to create a game changing national movement?
hack89
Jan 2012
#76
When I first saw the picture that looks like it was taken with a night vision lense
Jazzgirl
Jan 2012
#90
Looks like we need to help and donate gas masks. The cops will have to wake up when everyone
Hestia
Jan 2012
#99
The Rite of Spring-it is the nature of evolution, as unstoppable as state repression nt
HarryPowell
Jan 2012
#121