Posted on 10/26/2011 6:22:30 AM PDT by Calif Conservative
Well, We Know Who The Felons Are - They Wear Badges
After four years of reporting on the various immoral, unethical and in many cases criminal acts perpetrated by people in our financial system and Congress, we now have our evidence at the bar.
This man was gassed for waving a flag. He was not alone.
Last night "OccupyOakland" was literally laid siege by the police. Firing rubber bullets and tear gas into a peaceful gathering, they committed hundreds of cases of felonious assault upon peaceful individuals. I'll lay odds that not one of the felons-in-blue will be indicted, prosecuted and imprisoned for their crimes.
I remind everyone that our Constitution guarantees you the right of free speech including the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
This does not, of course, include the right to riot, destroy property and commit assaults and batteries.
Well, unless you're the cops. Then it appears that you have the right to do all of those things, irrespective of the fact that the people were exercising their lawful First Amendment rights - and nothing more.
The police didn't stop with tear gas. They also detonated explosives within the crowd - an act that, taken by an ordinary person, would constitute the use of a bomb and be considered terrorism.
Yeah, I know, they call them "flash-bangs"; intended to stun and surprise. Let's call them what they are: They're explosives, otherwise known as a bomb, and legally known to the BATFE as a "Destructive Device" as they contain more than the lawful limit of powder for a common firecracker. They can (and do) cause personal injury when fired into a crowd. That injury is reasonably foreseeable when the device is delivered. This makes the act an intentional deployment of a destructive device with the intent to harm a person - a serious felony.
Of course such felonies are not prosecuted when the police commit them. Just like the apparent felony murder committed in Chicago by a Gang-Banger in Blue who fatally shot an unarmed man in the back after he had already been shot four other times and was lying prone on the grass.
This man, it appears, was executed in a scene reminiscent of the various murderous thugdoms that have been all-to-common throughout history. Now we have summary justice-by-gang here, and the gang is wearing blue uniforms and badges!
Police have a tough job, but that's not an excuse for felonious behavior. The job of the police is to Protect and Serve. Lately, it appears they serve themselves, including smuggling guns, slot machines and stolen cigarettes, shooting anyone who might happen to be a nuisance to their "right" to tromp on the people's necks whenever they so choose.
I've long asked the following question: What happens when the people determine that law enforcement agencies - or the government in general - are felons?
This is no longer a rhetorical question, and the answer should give all law-abiding citizens pause.
I don't care if you hail from the left or right, or what your particular view of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is. The fact of the matter is that we no longer have the foundational principle of this nation underlying our nation: The Rule of Law.
That's the difference between a Constitutional Republic and tyranny.
In a Constitutional Republic you do not have the rule of 100 jackbooted thugs wearing badges, discharging firearms (albeit - thus far - with rubber bullets) at people, tossing bombs into their midst and gassing them. You also don't have jackbooted thugs in blue shooting unarmed people in the back. Any rogue individual who attempts such a stunt goes straight to prison to rot along with the common mugger or murderer, because he or she is one and should an entire agency show up to commit these acts the immediate response is that the National Guard rises and arrests the entire agency, tossing all of them into the clink where they belong.
Today, however, this sort of abusive crap is exactly what we have in this nation and The Guard, who has sworn an oath to protect this land against all enemies, foreign and domestic, is nowhere to be found.
Those in California (along with those in both New York and Chicago) are discovering the hazards of their failure to demand that entire Constitution be strictly enforced in favor of the rights of the people.
Now you see the consequences of that failure America. You thought you were trading "a bit" of freedom for alleged security. What you were really doing is ceding your rights to a band of gang-banging felons-in-blue who have now demonstrated their clear intent to gas, bomb and even murder you.
Have you discerned the error of your ways yet?
We shall see.
Yes, Denninger is correct about the reality that our government is spending us into oblivion. That only proves that a broken clock is correct twice a day.
Denninger also dismisses the Tea Party in this fashion:
"To the Tea Party: Go Screw Yourself"
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2222649
Taking the side of the Soros-backed Occupy Wall Street mob should put the nail in the coffin of Denninger's discredit.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47009
It does not guarantee the right to squat for months in public parks, causing public disturbances and sanitation problems. Get a grip, Denninger - the Occupy Oakland perps were not evicted because of their political protest, just their living arrangements.
I, personally, enjoyed watching the police go after these fleabaggers. Next, Zuccotti Park!
They can go back and protest every day, they just can’t live there.
LOL
Har!
Oh, I saw it all on the news. And in NYC, we had the hardhats who beat up the hippies.
Isn’t it funny, two liberal cities, Atlanta and Oakland make the “Occupiers” comply with the law.
Here in the New York state capital of Albany, the Mayor, the Police Chief and the District Attorney are saying as long as the “Occupiers” are not being violent and abusive, they will not enforce the law that requires “out of the park by 11:00 PM”. This in spite of the fact that Governor Cuomo has reportedly told the mayor that he wanted the “Occupiers” to comply with the law. Incidentally, the “Occupiers” dislike Cuomo’s position that he would not raise taxes on people making over $1 millions.
Karl Denniger sounds like a complete jerk.
In focusing on the OWS part of this, it is easy to miss the larger point that we are living more and more in a police state.
I read the Market Ticker every day. I disagree with KD in his view that the Tea Party has sold out. However, what he has said about OWS is not so much an endorsement of the backers like Soros, but an encouragement to engage the people on the street. I think that’s a waste of time, as most of the protesters are there looking for a free lunch, sex, and a drum circle, but Denninger is still correct about the flaws of the financial sector and its collusion with big government.
If you look at the dictionary definition of a fascist economy then look at what we have, the difference is negligible. From FreddieMac and FannieMae to the Fed to appointment of Goldman-Sachs executive as Treasury Secretaries to the government bailout of unions via the take-over of GM, this is a fascist economy. We have not yet become a complete authoritarian police state like Nazi Germany or Italy under Il Duce, but that is the direction. It is time to stop it.
I only recall Denninger as a loopy birther who put out a video claiming Hussein’s birth certificate was fake (I think it was posted here endlessly). Otherwise, I’d never heard of him. If he supports these Occupy vermin, then my original impression of him as a nut is confirmed.
He is a left-libertarian who to my mind is correct about two central issues: the concentration of power in Washington and the ill economic effects of the collusion of the Federal government and giant international banking institutions at the expense of fiscal integrity and the rule of law. Sometimes, I enjoy his commentary because of those understandings.
But other than that, he tends to miss the bigger picture by ignoring or dismissing the philosophical requirements of maintaining a constitutional Republic. He's also a hothead who substitutes anger for intellect, but that's typical of the breed.
I’ve often agreed with Denninger that a dozens if not hundreds of financial felons deserve to be frog-marched off to jail. Some of the shady doings in high-finance are blatantly criminal, from derivatives to forged foreclosures.
But the Occupy movement is not the way to correct the problems. Sorry, Karl.
Enforcement of existing laws, by a Justice Department based in reality, is what we need.
By this guy’s logic, every football player that ever made a tackle is a felon for hitting people.
Perhaps Karl ought to go back and review the part about “anarchy” and how it is used by some to foment violence and destroy an existing order in order to impose a radical, oligarchic form of government - preferably run by themselves. The forces behind OWS intend precisely that outcome. He should not encourage them in any way.
His whole screed is pure nonsense because we have a demonstrated example of how thousands or hundreds of thousands can demonstrate and NOT break the law. It’s called the Tea Party. I did a bit of research the other day. I found only one example of Tea Party folks getting arrested, and that was for staging a sit-in in Nancy Pelosi’s office! My research covered the last two years!
The Tea Party has repeatedly held demonstrations/rallies and hasn’t been tear-gassed once! My left leaning boss argued that was because the Police sided with them.. I pointed out that this is the only time in my 55 year life that the Right has really demonstrated, and it was peacefully. He snarked back that we never had a reason too because WE were in power?????? (He was implying that by the fact that republicans held the Presidency for the majority of my life.. oh and Clinton wasn’t a liberal!)
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