Posted on 11/06/2011 10:17:02 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Even after the bandanna-wearing, rock-throwing, fire-starting fringe demonstrators took over a downtown Oakland building and blocked off a street late Wednesday, Mayor Jean Quan did not want police to intervene.
Instead, Quan asked that police hold off on any confrontation until daylight - or, barring that, send in negotiators to try to work out a peaceful resolution.
"She didn't want to incite the anarchists any more than they already were," said one source who was in the city's emergency operations center when Quan stunned the assembled staffers with her comments.
Finally, interim Police Chief Howard Jordan, with the backing of City Administrator Deanna Santana, made the call for police to take action. Both were in the emergency center with Quan.
The following day, at a press conference with Jordan and Santana, the mayor praised police for their handling of the situation, while a stone-faced chief and city administrator stood by her side.
Quan's command center call was the latest example of the mayor's resistance to using police force on demonstrators, a position that is being reinforced both by her closest advisers and her family.
In fact, eyewitnesses say Quan's husband was among the banner-wavers blockading the port in a nonviolent action earlier Wednesday.
Since the disastrous finale to Occupy Oakland's general strike, Quan has become more vocal about the nonstop protest movement's economic drain on the city. She now says the camp might have to move from City Hall.
Meanwhile, the tents remain.
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Mayor Jean Quan: The Pussyfication of America personified.
Maybe if she sends in some warm milk and cookies......
Is this happening in more places? If there's a coordinated effort, by previously supportive mayors, to evict the campers; that would indicate (to me, at least) that the leftist string-pullers have decided that the occupy protests have outlived their usefulness. Is the “Night of the Long Knives” coming for the OWS?
(by) LeonRussellFan
11:13 AM on November 6, 2011
I went to school with Dr. Floyd Huen (JQ's husband). He and his wife are committed Maoists. They WANT chaos and violence to rip apart this society. That is what they have ALWAYS been about. (For a little lesson in their philosophy, please read about the violent and murderous reign of Mao Zedong, particularly the years of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976 (or '79, depending upon which defining criteria one uses), which are the years that Jean and Floyd came of age (as did I).
So, what people need to realize is that while JQ definitely IS incompetent, and FAR less than stunningly intelligent (to put it kindly), underneath it all she IS a revolutionary of the Maoist stripe. Putting on a little lipstick and a suit does not alter the revolutionary underpinnings.
infact, the communists really should take their protest to the Wharf to have greater impact.....that'll show em.....
I’m done praying, god ain’t answering and we are on our own...isn’t it about time these bastard commies need to be dealt with in a permanent fashion?
Gee....now why am I NOT surprised.
God help us.
God helps those who help themselves.
Quan is a dunderhead, but so are the voters who put her in office.
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