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More protests: Highway 24 blocked; vandalism, looting in Berkeley
SFGate ^ | 12-8-2014 | Kale Williams, Erin Allday and Evan Sernoffsky

Posted on 12/08/2014 12:59:30 AM PST by tcrlaf

Hundreds of protesters returned to East Bay streets on Sunday for a second night of raucous demonstrations against police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York.

Sunday’s protest started out largely peaceful in Berkeley, but by 9 p.m. crowds had climbed past lines of California Highway Patrol officers onto Highway 24 in Oakland, where they blocked multiple lanes of eastbound traffic.

Even as the crowd chanted “peaceful protest,” a group of people jumped on top of two law enforcement vehicles and kicked at the sirens, and several set small fires nearby. Police eventually moved protesters away from the cars, one of them damaged by fire.

SNIP---

Later in the evening, large crowds still remained in the streets, migrating to downtown Berkeley. On Shattuck Avenue and nearby streets, some businesses were vandalized and looted, and some trash bins were set on fire. Downtown Berkeley BART station was also closed.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: berkeley; california; ferguson; looting; protest
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To: lowbridge
...."Just need it for an excuse to vandalize and act like the a-holes they really are".....

That is Berkeley and Oakland...leftovers from the 60's....nothing has changed.

Looting and vandalism make you a hoodlum, not a protester.

In the 60's

This week at Berkeley...nothing changes


41 posted on 12/08/2014 11:53:57 AM PST by caww
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To: tcrlaf
Several stores looted, including Radio Shack...

Somebody told them there were resistors there. ;-)

-PJ

42 posted on 12/08/2014 11:56:51 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: nascarnation
WOW! That's gotta be more recent than the 1980s.
43 posted on 12/08/2014 12:01:48 PM PST by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: ExSoldier

He claims (20 yrs after the fact) that the sat images would let you read the lettering on the manhole covers.


44 posted on 12/08/2014 12:45:37 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: tcrlaf

CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU?


45 posted on 12/08/2014 12:47:15 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Luckily, Radio Shack got their address information.


46 posted on 12/08/2014 12:48:57 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Kackikat; dljordan

You should not be so quick to trust online dictionaries.

The simplest and best definition of anarchist is: “one who works to or tries to bring about anarchy”.

Following are two definitions of anarchy (sourced from the Oxford dictionary of the English language):

1) A state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems.
Synonyms

2) Absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, regarded as a political ideal.

The word is taken from the Greek anarkhos (’without a chief’)

Anarchy and revolution are NOT the same thing, they are not necessarily related to one another, and any dictionary that tries to equate them is simply wrong.


47 posted on 12/08/2014 1:21:48 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: WayneS

Online Dictionaries are only digital prints of real dictionaries....are you on drugs?

The simplest and best definition of anarchist is: “one who works to or tries to bring about anarchy”.—

*****-WELL its here..check

Following are two definitions of anarchy (sourced from the Oxford dictionary of the English language):

1) A state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems.

***-—Rebellious and disorderly...check!
Synonyms

2) Absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, regarded as a political ideal.

****They have no government responsibilty and are free to go wherever on the taxpayer dime...check!

The word is taken from the Greek anarkhos (’without a chief’)

****Whose the chief? It looks like a lot of chaos to me...check.

Anarchy and revolution are NOT the same thing, they are not necessarily related to one another, and any dictionary that tries to equate them is simply wrong.

****Wrong on all counts....because Merriam-Webster Dictionary agrees with me.


48 posted on 12/08/2014 1:36:05 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

Personal insults right out of the box. Nice.

Just so you’ll know, when I did a search using the words “definition anarchist” I had to dig 5 pages deep before I found ANY sign of the word revolution.

If you want to accept the PC, MSM, lib-tard definitions of words you are free to do so. Or, you could utilize a REAL dictionary, educate yourself a bit about the history and usage of words and learn their ACTUAL meanings. This I do not expect you to do, since you are so obsessed with proving you are right even over minor errors such as the one you originally displayed.

It’s been fun, but I gotta go do more “drugs”. Have a nice evening.


49 posted on 12/08/2014 1:43:54 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: WayneS

I should have added (sarc) after the drugs, it was meant as humor. You are the one obsessed with being right and went so far to criticize the dictionary.

Also, the online dictionary really is just a digital of the printed, so why the beef?


50 posted on 12/08/2014 1:48:10 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: WayneS

Here is one right from the ‘horse’s mouth’ so to speak:

http://anarchistnews.org/

Even the Berkley bunch call themselves anarchists.


51 posted on 12/08/2014 1:51:24 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: tcrlaf

How long before one of these “peaceful” protests turns violent and the useful idiots start begging for the cops space them fro getting their skull bashed in. The idiots who cheer them as they are trapped in their cars seem like prime targets.


52 posted on 12/08/2014 2:18:28 PM PST by matt04
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To: dljordan

Anarchists are the shock troops for communists. Communists have to tear down the civilization in order to rebuild it totally retarded.


53 posted on 12/08/2014 5:06:07 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Haiku Guy

Yeah, Burn Berkley Burn!!!! You deserve it.


54 posted on 12/08/2014 5:12:13 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Haiku Guy

>> “Berkeley has been living off of this Social Justice crap since the 60s”<<

.
Here’s “social justice” for you:

Most of the businesses along San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley and Oakland were owned by black families in the early ‘60s, but after “civil rights” and the “Great Society” got underway, most of them went out of business.

BBQ joints, clothes cleaners, automotive repair, grocers, all went under.
.


55 posted on 12/08/2014 5:30:58 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: tcrlaf

The dumbasses are at it again

I-80


56 posted on 12/08/2014 8:12:05 PM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S./CDC=Contagion Distribution Center)
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To: Kenton

Brilliant!


57 posted on 12/08/2014 8:14:45 PM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S./CDC=Contagion Distribution Center)
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To: tcrlaf

I wonder who gave our local media permission to discuss violence and break away from the “peaceful protest” narrative?


58 posted on 12/08/2014 8:19:54 PM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S./CDC=Contagion Distribution Center)
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To: matt04

Someone was attacked by a hammer wielding justice warrior when he tried to stop them from breaking windows and looting( no link-local nooz )


59 posted on 12/08/2014 8:23:29 PM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S./CDC=Contagion Distribution Center)
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To: tcrlaf

a bunch of rich white kids try to get in on the act days after the announcement. I guess they waited until Monday because they didn’t want to mess up their weekend.


60 posted on 12/08/2014 10:39:17 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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