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ellisonz

(27,776 posts)
23. Hah...
Mon May 7, 2012, 05:19 PM
May 2012

No I'm just a public employee who understands the law regarding public usage of space and our Constitutional rights. For someone who is so adamant about the Second Amendment, you seem to have a shockingly poor gasp of the relationship between police powers and First Amendment exercise. Also, thinking that local "Occupy" groups don't have the legal power to expel another group from a public space is hardly being "good with them...until they start to smash stuff." To the contrary, I wish the police would do their jobs and try to uphold public safety rather than molest unarmed, nonviolent protestors. I understand that as a park employee, my legal authority is only backed up by police enforcement (generally failure to obey a park official is a misdemeanor).

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A black bloc is not an organized group... ellisonz May 2012 #1
Do such tactics have a place in Occupy? hack89 May 2012 #2
No. n/t ellisonz May 2012 #3
Who has the authority to toss them? ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #17
The police... ellisonz May 2012 #19
So you want the police to remove people dressed in black from Occupy meetings? ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #20
"Unless an individual has acted illegally, the police cannot do anything." ellisonz May 2012 #21
So you are good with them being part of Occupy until they start to smash stuff ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #22
Hah... ellisonz May 2012 #23
Having watched Martin Luther King hold peaceful non-violent protests and then watching his jwirr May 2012 #5
No. Black Bloc techniques are unfair, not just. JDPriestly May 2012 #6
I find it hard to believe that such tactics are acceptable to some IDemo May 2012 #4
Or, worse, doing nothing to stop them. randome May 2012 #8
or black bloc = police/government paid agitators nt msongs May 2012 #7
So all Black Bloc participants are police? hack89 May 2012 #9
Police budgets must consume about half of our GDP 4th law of robotics May 2012 #11
Can you imagine what the unemployment rate would be hack89 May 2012 #13
Oh man, that would be horrifying 4th law of robotics May 2012 #14
So are you guys claiming them or not because you can't have it both ways LOL snooper2 May 2012 #15
I think they are mocking the notion that all Black Bloc members are provocateurs ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #18
I don't intend to sound like a conspiracy theorist, Jamaal510 May 2012 #10
Because, unlike Occupy, the Tea Party does not believe in non-violence? hack89 May 2012 #12
It's hard to bash the crap out of shit.. snooper2 May 2012 #16
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