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VIDEO: Occupy protest turns violent outside Washington Convention Center
The Daily Caller ^ | 11/05/2011 | Michelle Fields

Posted on 11/05/2011 8:01:08 AM PDT by martosko

Occupy DC protesters tried to force entry into the Washington Convention Center on Friday, where Americans for Prosperity is hosting their “Defending the American Dream Summit.” The protesters also formed roadblocks, surrounding the convention center and only allowing non-luxury cars to pass.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: koch; occupydc; ows; police; protest
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To: gibsosa
"Standing back with our mouths agape"?

You'd better cut that out right now!

Us Rednecks are likely to have our hands full just protecting our own turf.

41 posted on 11/05/2011 9:20:33 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
No. The worst part is that U.S. citizens have become a nation of sheep. I don’t live in the U.S. so blame it on yourselves. As an American citizen, I took to the streets many times against Noriega. Over a hundred million conservatives who are to chicken to control a handful of crooks. You deserve what you get…a dictator nation. Do I sound angry and disappointed with the U.S.? You bet.

You obviously have no clue about the heart of America ...

42 posted on 11/05/2011 9:21:08 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

;) as a fellow redneck, I will be right beside you!


43 posted on 11/05/2011 9:25:13 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Yup, you also have to "know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em...

Worse part of the situation that guy was in is he had a child in his arms, a wife, and himself to protect against an angry mob.

No doubt he was letting his wife know in no uncertain terms it was time to "fold 'em".

44 posted on 11/05/2011 9:26:18 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

At the rate we are going, we will be there.


45 posted on 11/05/2011 9:28:30 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: gibsosa
How many times have you heard "it can't happen here, we don't need to be armed, the police will protect us"?

I've been all over the place in little wooden boats and swum with gators and sharks but big cities scare the crap out of me. The real world can be dangerous but it's never insane!

46 posted on 11/05/2011 9:38:00 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

“.. if any of them was smart enough to tie a noose... they’d be looking for someone to hang”.

I am afraid you have written what I fear. It is only a matter of time when a drunken, rage filled mob is going to grab an innocent person or maybe a group of them. I don’t believe they will discriminate either.. a woman, a child, an elderly man. Doesn’t matter to them. What is alarming to me as well is the fact that these video clips aren’t being shown in the media. The rage is being allowed to bubble away and intensify. In fact, I believe this plan has been thought out very carefully beforehand and orchestrated to create the type of situation you describe.


47 posted on 11/05/2011 9:46:44 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: martosko

MUST WATCH VIDEO!!!

And read the comments too. The Occupukes are revealing what they are - rabid mad dogs.


48 posted on 11/05/2011 9:48:36 AM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: NewinTexsas

By the way....I read here on FR a few months ago U.S. private citizens own more firearms than the three largest military organizations in the world.

No. I did not save the article unfortunately.

Too bad there are too many sheep and chickens.


49 posted on 11/05/2011 9:52:57 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer) (")
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To: NewinTexsas; Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

I have lived in Middle America for 68 years. It has changed.
Craig/Gatun is right: America has become a nation of sheep who elect the obvious dictator and then cry because he is not dictatorial enough. They elected a benevolent tyrant and are now angry because he has admitted there are Constitutional restraints on his tyranny. So, now they want to remove those restraints. They also want him to be overtly partisan in his so-called benevolence.

I was in the Pacific in 2000. At every Customs checkpoint, we were teased by the officials: “Who is your President?”, as they laughed. I spent every November between 1987 and 1998 in the Caribbean and met many Europeans. They all loved Clinton, only a few understood what the changes they wished in American foreign policy would really mean for them. By 1998, the attitudes against Americans and Europeans were hardening even in the tourism-dependent and foreign aid-dependent Netherlands Antilles. And the US/EU tourists? They were mostly unaware of the situation, but if you spoke with them, they were also mostly anti-republican (small *r*) and pro-socialist democracy.

I am sorry, in more ways than one, but Middle America will take the path of least resistance, keep its collective head down and stifle any overt criticism of the regime in power, unless it is Republican or Conservative. Whatever they may believe in private, people evince the conviction that they cannot win against the Left. Where I live, every family has a public service or teacher union member. Most back them. Where they don’t, it is shattering the families, as the union members cannot be reasoned with and hold their personal gain above their familial connections.

Personally, I am not only angry and disappointed, I am quite anxious for the future, here. The heart of America is faint and becoming fainter. Yes, when surrounded by like-minded people, these conservatives are angry, but most of them are self-employed or professionals who are being closely watched by the institutions for which they work and they have learned to shut up, in self-protection. More and more openly leftist people have moved here and inserted themselves into the daily running of our counties, townships and villages. And the conservatives? We do not run for office, not even school board, because we have learned that to do so will impact our businesses, our children and our social networks to our detriment.


50 posted on 11/05/2011 9:56:22 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: momtothree
I believe that as a Freeper it is my duty to spread the information we have as far as possible.

The MSM is the voice of Marxism, they aren't going to rock the Marxist boat.

51 posted on 11/05/2011 9:56:31 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: martosko
President effing Dumba$$, you don't support FDR's prayer at the WW2 Memorial but you DO support this BS.

There are not enough vile words in the English lexicon to describe your disgusting leadership of this great country.

52 posted on 11/05/2011 9:58:33 AM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et. al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: sauropod

watch


53 posted on 11/05/2011 9:58:53 AM PDT by sauropod (William Kristol does NOT choose my presidential candidate!)
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To: reformedliberal

Yep, I lost count of the people who said they wouldn’t get active because it might offend their clients or customers.


54 posted on 11/05/2011 10:00:10 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: reformedliberal
Where do you live?
55 posted on 11/05/2011 10:01:03 AM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et. al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: martosko

Bunch of punks. They have no idea the wrath that will come their way.


56 posted on 11/05/2011 10:02:13 AM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Growing up in a city, now living in a small town in the midwest, I hear you loud and clear.


57 posted on 11/05/2011 10:06:59 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: reformedliberal
The heart of America is faint and becoming fainter. Yes, when surrounded by like-minded people, these conservatives are angry, but most of them are self-employed or professionals who are being closely watched by the institutions for which they work and they have learned to shut up, in self-protection.

Used to be afraid. Now it is open talk at the water cooler, in the cubes and in the halls.

58 posted on 11/05/2011 10:08:20 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: martosko

I wish these animals would pull something like this in my neighborhood. We are CCW here. Getting bumped by a car would be the least of their worries. If one these idiots so much as laid one finger on me or started attacking my car while I was trying to pass through the guns would be out.


59 posted on 11/05/2011 10:11:26 AM PDT by kt56 (Molon Labe)
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To: Awgie
I can't believe what my eyes and ears are telling me. These people don't have enough sense to not stand in the street in front of moving vehicles...and it is somehow some one Else's fault when they get hit!

I wish the cop would have arrested the two people that gun run over, and charged them with J-Walking.

60 posted on 11/05/2011 10:11:35 AM PDT by Go Gordon
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