Police action against Occupy LA tonight

KFI 640 AM | 11/29/11 | nully

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KFI is reporting 500-800 LAPD staging/boarding buses in full riot gear at Dodge Stadium.

Darling son reports seeing a bunch of white buses that looked like they had helmeted figures in them in San Jose.

Co-ordinated assaults?

[BunnySlippers]

The LAPD showing off their bright and shiny new equipment!

[DoughtyOne]

Occupantloads in L.A., the Boom Gets Lowered
Well Perhaps More Accurately... Evaporates

(this is going to be tongue in check in parts, and I'll let you figure out which parts)

I don't know about you folks, but when I go to a baseball game, I love to see the tripple-play, the grand-slam, the leap into the stands to catch the ball.

When I watch a football game, I want to see the long bomb.  I want to see a guy knocked off his feet.  I want to see the quarterback sacked.  I want to see the goal line stand.

When I watch basketball, I want to see the three point play.  I want to see a guy pass the key turning this way and that to underhand the ball into the hoop, with the opposition looking on wishing they had that kind of tallent.  Even the opposition should be able to recognize talent, when there is talent, or something to respect going on.

And folks, last but not least, when I see the police have to put on the riot gear, stage 1000 officers, bus them in with upwards of 27 buses, bring in the cherry picking equipment, and risk their safety, I want to see some lumps and scratches on some lugheads.  Hell, break a bone or two.

I'm not looking for anyone to get seriously injured, but by deciding to participate in certain endeavors, people sign on for the rewards and the down-side.  It comes with the territory.

Last night the L.A.P.D. put an end to two months of occupation, just outside police headquarters.  City codes do not allow overnight sleeping in the park.  This park has not been a tent city.  That's not to say that nobody every sleeps there, because I believe some people do on a limited basis.  They soon move on and sleep somewhere else.  There is a kind of respect for the rules and the needs of the less fortunate, that leads both the homeless and the police to bend and yet be respectful of the law.

These two months of occupation saw no respect for the law.  It was from the start an unlawful assembly.  It became a tent city and a blight to the city.  It was in effect an insult to the homeless, who would never have been allowed to do what the self-appointed vocal moralists were determined to say.

Lest someone get the wrong idea, I believe in protesting while paying respect to local laws and codes.  I believe in paying respect to the ground the protest is held on by keeping the place clean and sanitary.  I believe in paying respect to the ground by not destroying it's plants or grass.  I believe in being respectful to police officers who have families to go home to, and are there both to make sure we are safe, as well as make sure we treat others in a respectful manner.

Are these the rules the protesting occupiers of the park the L.A.P.D. had to clear last night lived by?  No.  At one point a spokesperson for these people, trashed those who were upset the grass in the park had been trampled to the point only the dirt was left.  In a flippant manner, this person explained that there was a water shortange in Southern California (which there no longer is), and stated that watering the grass in any park was wrong.  There you have it, more reasoned logic from the morally vacant.

There was a delay, but somewhere around 800 to 1000 officers did show up to remove the occupiers.  Not before the chief of police delivering a solumn toned wish that this could all take place without violence.  Not before the occupiers had stated on camera that they weren't non-violent people, and if any violence was perpetrated by their group, it wasn't people that were part of their group.  Not before the occupiers stated on camera that if any violence errupted, it would be the police who instigated it.  Not before the television stations in the region reminded folks that literally thousands of little phone video cameras were keeping the police on the straight and narrow...

Nevermind that these occupiers had months to protest and leave.  Nevermind that they had been asked to leave.  Nevermind that ultimatums had been delivered to days ago to no avail.  Nevermind that a thousand officers and equipment were pulled off other activities, to address them.  Nevermind that somewhere in the neighborhood of six to eight thousand man hours of compensation had been expended to address them.  Nevermind that equipment costs had been expended.  These protesters were convinced, they wre in the right.  The local media was convinced they deserved respect.  The police themselves were terrified some violence might break out.  A whining police chief himself almost in tears assured us of this.

The occupiers were removed.  Not a hair was caused to go out of place during the process.  No bruses.  No stubbed toes.  The now long gone blades of grass were the only injuries.  And a sigh of relief has gone up, now that the little Leftist anarchists have been jettisoned.  200 people were quietly, and more importantly, respectfullly arrested.  I now have to tell you, I use that word with some real intrepidation.

It is our collective logic, reasonable reaction to unlawful behavior, respect for the law, respect for our police officers, and our concept of civilized deportment, that was actually arrested.  It will remain behind bars far longer than the anarchists.  While they move on to another place to occupy within the city, our perceptions of what took place, will remain behind bars for years to come.

I do hope these little darlings will get a soft sentence from a judge with enough sensitivity to treat them with respect.

Sadly, the sentence the average citizen and police officer are given, won't be given by anyone with enough sensitivity to their needs.

We will repeat this in short order.  In fact, tents have already sprung up on a church's property, just a block or two from the park.  And the vast majority of the public will again be insulted by the occupiers and their enablers.  And so goes a society that was just years ago, the pincile of civilization.

Today it is on life-support.  I will admit to pondering whether it will survive another decade or two or not.  Not like this it won't.

[Monorprise]

Liberals thieves vs wannabe liberal thieves but currently lazy bums.

Many of our big city’s truly are cesspools