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Occupy LA ENDS! About time…

Occupy LA was brought to an end.

Under the unblinking eye of the media 1400 Officers moved in, arresting 200 people.

Who paid for the extra Police?

Who paid for the EMS personnel on site?

Who was paying for the porta – potties?

Who is going to pay for the Parks & Recreation time to

  1. Clean up the squalid mess (Tree Houses? you have to be kidding me!)
  2. Destroyed Landscaping
  3. Graffiti on public buildings

Oh yeah… US the Taxpayers!

Again, a protest against injustice, wrongdoing, and corruption isn’t a bad thing.

A protest that goes on and on and on and on. (60 days?) Without a simple easy to follow set of talking points is doomed and pointless.

Occupy wasn’t a bad idea, It Became a bad idea because of all the dissimilar agendas and finally because  people being interviewed as representatives of the movement NEVER agreed on what they were trying to accomplish.

Occupy LA ended pretty well, leaving only the squalid non-biodegradable remnants of a group of idealistic children. The place looks like a land fill. There’s some irony in the non-biodegradable nature of the stuff left behind.

It remains to be seen what will happen with the other cities as they begin removing their own infestations of Occupy. I’d imagine that the police of those cities will be trying very had to make sure they don’t have violent ends after all, the last thing we need is to make martyrs.

Occupy “feels” a lot like a petulant child holding it’s breath and kicking it’s feet. I’m sure that like the childs temper tantrum, this largely ineffective protest will be forgotten in a week or two.

OWS will probably be replaced in the public consciousness by something the Kardashians do.

Oh Joy!

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Occupy (Whatever)… It’s time for you to go.

I don’t have a problem with protests.

I don’t have a problem with freedom of speech, I exercise that right, in this space pretty regularly.

Hell, I’m unemployed and part of the reason I’m unemployed is that my industry was linked to the government. As the markets became uncertain, so did congress. One of the first things congress did was  to stop making decisions about funding.

As the time for decisions passed, contracts in my industry starved. This caused a slow painful death of the project I was working on and many others. The deaths of those projects meant thousands of people being laid off.

If anyone would have a reason to be encamped with an Occupy (whatever) protest it would be me!

I am, however tired of the Occupy Wall street movement. I’m  tired of their directionless unfocused protests.

I’m pretty sure that there are a lot more people like me at this point than there are of the protesters.

Whatever point these people were trying to make they’ve made. It’s now time for them to exit the stage and stop being PAINS in the ASSES!

These Occupy people are costing all the tax payers money. This at a time when most cities are having a hard time meeting  budget in the first place. It’s not just about the special police protection… It’s about clean up, and disruptions in traffic.

In LA anything that disrupts traffic (Including Presidential visits!) costs everyone time and money in the form of work and gas.

The LA Occupy Wall Street group is sucking up even more tax payer money by asking a Federal Judge to stop their eviction. This is plan wrong on it’s face.

It’s interesting to note… while these people are against capitalism, they are selling buttons to fund their cause. If that’s not capitalism in it’s purest sense I don’t know what is.

LAPD as said that they’re going to evict these people. They made a big deal about setting a deadline. The deadline came and went they’ve still done nothing.

LAPDs inaction and failure to execute their plan makes them look weak and impotent. Exposing to anyone else in LA that the rule of law and authority need not be followed.

The Occupy crowd needs to move on and change the world by finding the architects of the banking collapse and exposing them. Bring the people who caused and fed the criminal banking excesses to account.

Then Occupy will have done something useful.

Anything less than that and it’s pretty obvious that Occupy really was nothing more than a bunch of overeducated, unemployed, whiny never do wells,

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LAPD may not charge WalMart pepper spray perpetrator? WTH??? (Updated)

I caught this while reading news on the web this morning, it made my head spin….

Apparently the LAPD may not charge the woman in the pepper spraying incident.

I have to ask, why the hell not?

In my mind pepper spraying in a wall-mart is akin to yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater.

Initial reports attributed her actions to “Competitive Shopping”? No, that’s not competitive…

This woman is a terrorist!

She used a chemical weapon on men, women and children. Yeah folks… it’s a chemical weapon…

She knowingly did this without regard or concern for the innocent people around her. What would have happened if someone in the crowd was asthmatic? Or simply violently allergic to capsaicin or whatever active ingredient was in the spray?

How the hell is that not an offense worthy of prosecution?

Here’s another little chilling thought… She could have just as easily been spraying any other material into the crowd (sarin, ricin, aerosolized ebola?).

She should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law as a terrorist and I’d be all for her incarceration until trial being handled in Guantanamo Bay.

The real shit is that if someone had grabbed the bitch and fed that bottle of pepper spray to her… I’m sure assault charges would have been leveled against the person who acted to put a stop to her bullshit.

So why is this woman going to get off scott free?

Now there’s an interesting question….

As cynical as I am, I’m betting that she’s claiming she didn’t understand what she was doing, or she’s claiming that the pepper spray unit was malfunctioning.

It will be interesting to see where this goes in the coming weeks.

At minimum I’d hope that the people she assaulted get a chance to file suit against her for bodily injury. Especially if the City and County of Los Angeles isn’t going to do it’s duty.

She sure started their Holiday Season off with a dose of good cheer!

I hope her xbox was worth it.

UPDATE 11/28/2011


The lady claims that she was scared by the crowd and all the pushing and shoving.

Okaaaayyyy…


But she still grabbed an xbox and went to the check-out counter, completed her purchase and left the store.

Most of us, if we were scared would just leave the store without bothering to grab and pay for anything.

I can say with certainty I’d leave.

I’ve been in a couple of situations in Malls where the crowd and the pushing and shoving was in fact escalating. I dropped the shit I was going to buy and left the store.

You can always buy shit…

I’ve even left Disneyland due to overcrowding.

Big crowds are inherently dangerous especially when they’re culturally dissimilar. You can see the tension building and you know it’s only a matter of time before someone commits a cultural insult and fists, knives, bullets, or bottles, will be flying.

It’s always best to “GIT while the Gitting is good” as my Southern relatives would say.

Bail out before an incident occurs and you’re ahead of the game. You’re less likely to spend the night in lockup, and after the police have cleared the area… You might still be able to get what you wanted at a discount because the box was trashed in the riot.

This lady needs to be tried & prosecuted!


I know DAMN well I would be cooling my heels in jail if I’d pulled the same stunt.

UPDATE 12/8/2011

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/walmart-pepper-spray-city-attorney.html


It looks like some kind of favoritism is in play. The LA District Attorney will not file Felony charges. Instead they’ve decided that the case will be given to city prosecutors for possible misdemeanor charges.

WTF!?!?!

If it was me or anyone else, the full breadth of the law would be shoved right up our ass….

Why does this lady merit special treatment??

I suppose that If you’re a Hispanic woman in LA, you can engage in terrorist actions with no fear of consequences…