[Haiku Guy]

MEGAN MCARDLE - Megan McArdle is a senior editor for The Atlantic who writes about business and economics. She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and the Economist has somehow managed to parlay an unerring ability to be always wrong about everything into a lucrative career that requires no manual labor.

[Haiku Guy]

Click through to the article, to see how our keen observer of the scene, Megan McArdle, manages to discern microscopic differences in the level of violence and lawlessness at Tea Party and OWS rallies...

[Haiku Guy]

One of McArdle's many errors is that she assumes that the violent protesters in Oakland are carbon-copies of the milquetoast just-wanna-get-high idiots protesting in Lower Manhattan. Oakland radicals have a long history of attempting to foment violent revolution. The Oakland protest was more confrontational and violent from the git-go.

Maybe if she wrote for The Pacific instead of The Atlantic, she would be more hip to the Oakland scene...

[Haiku Guy]

As I said to the tea partiers who carried guns to protests: this sort of thing should stop. Not because you don't have a right to it, but because it frightens people. And large political protests should strive to avoid things that make others afraid for their physical safety, even if you know in your heart that you mean no harm. Whoever organized this should have known better.

One Protester. One damn protester parading around with his rifle, being shunned by all. We're still talking about this one moron a-year-and-a-half later.

Meanwhile, armed thugs burn down half of Oakland, and Megan McArdle strains to admit that they might be a teensy-weensy little bit more violent than the Tea Party protesters, who harmed absolutely nobody, and cleaned up the parks as they left.

[expat1000]

I figured the cops should leave them alone until the protests dispersed naturally.

But they don't disperse 'naturally'. And these won't, unless it is due to the weather. The 'protesters' will force a confrontation and the 'protest' will end in violence. That is what they want, some point will be proved in their own minds that way, and they will get it.

[Haiku Guy]

I don't want to minimize the things that have been done to protesters--I think the police should have exercised far more restraint, and if it's true that a man deliberately ran his car into jaywalking protesters yesterday, he deserves to be in jail. But that's not an excuse for rioting.

"Jaywalking protesters"?!?

An armed mob surrounding your car in the street, preventing you from moving, banging on the hood and doors and throwing paint on the windshield? Is that what we call "jaywalking" these days?

One of my pet peeves about the Dispicable Left is that they never miss an opportunity to accuse others of wrongdoing while simultaneously minimizing their own crimes.

Here a crowd swarms a car, harrasses the man and woman inside, throws paint on it and bangs on the the hood and windows, just because the couple happen to be driving a Mercedes down the wrong street at the wrong time. Then when the driver tries to move out of the way, some hippie stands in front of his bumper to block him, and gets nudged. Then the crowd pulls the driver and the woman out of the car to do God knows what, and they have to be rescued by riot police.

This is what is known as "jaywalking" in The Atlantic...

[SECURE AMERICA]

basically supportive of their right to protest

They have a right to protest. Not to be dirtbags and trash the parks and not to be vandals and spray paint slogans on buildings and not to be criminal and rape and steal and sell drugs.
Their actions drown out their protest...............

[IrishPennant]

Watch for this more and more...the bottom is coming up and there will be calls for the TOP TO COME DOWN.

"I was okay with this until there was violence. Please, Government, do something...anything to make it stop".

Queue the theme from Jaws.

[EEGator]

“What’s the matter with Oakland?”

MC Hammer.

[kcvl]

[mazda77]

Shouldn't the title read;

"What Isn't The Matter With Oakland?"

[Vaquero]

Taze ‘em all...Bro.

[Carry_Okie]

The mayor of Oakland, Jean Quan, is certainly complicit for having amplified this event, in my view, intentionally. First she tolerated the "Occupation." Then she supplied the necessary "police brutality" to magnify the grievances. Then she allowed City of Oakland employees time off work to enlarge the protest!

One wonders who is supplying her with the formula. More concerning is the motive and ultimate intent of her apparent handlers. We don't have a race riot yet, but it isn't unlikely they'll get around to tossing the ol' blacks v. Mexicans thing into the brew. 'La Raza, gotta toss in La Raza and we'll get LA into the act.' Then what? Turn it against the burbs? It's a bit late to light the hills on fire, but there's no place to run for those folks.

[Texas Eagle]

What's the matter with Oakland?

Liberalism. Oakland's last Mayor was California's current Governor, Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown and has been dominated by Liberal polluticians and "civic leaders" for decades.

[ALPAPilot]

What’s The Matter With Oakland?

Liberalism

[GeronL]

Megan Mcaddled.... these folks are not frustrated with “the system”, they LOVE the system, its freedom, decency and capitalism they are protesting against. Inventing new forms of STD’s while they are at it.

[RavenATB]

lex parsimoniae

[Nifster]

Megan Mccardle-— stupid liberal-—ah but I repeat myself

[Doogle]

..start with the Mayor and it goes down hill from there

[theDentist]

The fish rots from the head down.

[BitWielder1]

It's amazing how they give legitimacy to the OWS mob even though their 'issues' are all over the place and only by random happen to intersect with some of the TEA party concerns, and even then for completely different reasons.