Posted on 07/08/2010 8:45:53 PM PDT by Kartographer
Live feed from KRON Oakland Ca.
Red Dellums is rambling, rambling, rambling :”Global War, Global Warming, Global blah blah blah”
In other words Global BU!! $h!T ;-)
How culturally insensitive of you! They're not looting, they merely in the act of finding items.
I was watching the live feed and the police spokesman was saying it is out-of-town “anarchists” trying to create an event. Sure enough, as I watch them sit down the guys they arrest, they are mostly white guys. This is not the spontaneous Rodney King thing from what I am seeing.
They’d b just spread’n da bling!
50 anarchists can cause a lot of chaos
The white liberal punks on dope had better hope it doesn’t blow up too bad.
Some of those black people they’re so down with right now will turn on them in a hurry if they’re whipped into a honky hating frenzy.
Idiots.
Worked for Clorox @ 12th and Broadway for 16 years. Always been like a microcosm of everything that is wrong with Oakland. A very nice, even pretty new City Center right next to a classic, statuesque City Hall and park, planted right in the middle of a seriously economically depressed area.
Then 9-11 happened and the presence of the Federal buildings on Clay St. become a major law enforcement focus. (The Oakland Fed building is the “capitol” for FEMA region IX which serves the US SW and the Pacific regions. Check it: http://www.fema.gov/about/contact/regionix.shtm). After that, the CHP, State police and every local police department in the region got tons of money, ex-military MP types and training. And believe you me, they are all itchin’ for a fight.
Nice, respectable, white, educated folks like myself came in from the suburbs to run their businesses and government. The locals were never trained to do the jobs we were imported to do, and thus, were relegated to working the surrounding restaurants and utilities. The locals looked upon us with envy and distain, and we did our best to ignore them.
Simple, Black vs. everyone else (including “mixed”, as they call themselves). I carried a big folding knife with me everyday.
Ron Dellums is a racist, activist, communist idiot. He’s rattling on about Global Warming now. Jerry Brown was invisible.
There will never be a solution to this situation until big companies like Clorox, APL, and all of the other ones move out of City Center. Then the natives can take over and run it into the ground permanently. We will all be able to ignore Oakland once and for all at that point.
Reminds me of Clint Eastwood in his latest movie where he pulls his pistol on the black thugs to leave his Asian friend alone, and tells the white boy to “cut out that “bro crap” They don’t want to be your “bro”. And turn your cap on forwards - you look like an idiot.” (Or something to that effect.)
Yep, that’s good ol ‘Red Dellums’. Younger Freepers were spared the years that Red was a Congression Representative from the East Bay area of CA.
But don’t worry kids - you can direct extrapolate from what you hear today backwards in time and get a pretty good idea of what ol’ Red sounded like in Congress. He was just as loony (or stoned) then as now.
When Oakland elected Dellums, I reckoned that there would be riots on a pretty regular basis, simply because Dellums can’t walk back his idiotic statements of yore, when he could shoot his mouth off because he had the luxury of being in Congress and not in charge of a city/town/county. Now that he’s the leader of the city and is supposed to be on the same side as the police, he’s trapped between his past rhetoric and the requirements of his job, which includes NOT inciting riots.
The pity of it is that Oakland used to be a economically solid community. Now, I can’t help but think that every one of the incidents will chase more and more business out of the city, hastening the decline of the city.
I grew up here.
Oakland decades ago had a wonderful city center that, while not as "glamorous" as that of San Francisco, was still filled with nice stores and movie theaters. People still dressed up when they went downtown. Lake Merritt was a peaceful recreational area.
Now it's a ghost town. Even on a non-riot day, people clear out of there FAST as soon as the clock strikes five. There are many empty storefronts. On a weekend the city streets are like cold, dark canyons.
Ron Dellums is a self serving thief of the people of Oakland.
While following the story from KRON/4's live feed, I checked out a Google Map of central Oakland. There's a Unitarian Church, U.S. Labor Relations Board, the Golden Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant, Diving Swallow Tattoo Shop and the Oakland Leased Housing Department. Looks like it pretty well fits the stereotype of a declining liberal town.
The architecture of city is just amazing.
If they could clean up the city center, that could be part of the attraction.
Just amazing detail and beautiful.
14th and Broadway the police report they have people on top of a building.
Probably the bank building the anarchists busted into. Don’t think they are after money, as it’s not where they can get to it.
800 protestors, reduced to 400-300 by police.
Police estimated 50 known/identified anarchists.
250 OPD in the area (cops).
People on top of the building are using binoculars and radios.
???
Anarchist coordinators (although that’s a contradiction in terms)
“And get your fake paddy ass home!”
LOL!
The same anarchist road show that beat up that asst. to Jindal in NO a couple months ago?
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