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Occupy protesters picking on wrong targets
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/18/11 | Willie Brown

Posted on 12/18/2011 7:30:40 AM PST by SmithL

If the Occupy people really want to make a point about the 1 percent, then lay off Oakland and go for the real money down in Silicon Valley.

The folks who work on the docks in Oakland or drive the trucks in and out of the port are all part of the 99 percent. They take our goods from all over the state and export them.

The only thing those cats down at Apple are exporting are our jobs. Then they have the nerve to ask for tax breaks, and Washington obliges.

Shutting down the port may look good on TV, but you are hurting the very people Occupy is supposed to be fighting for: the hourly worker trying to make his mortgage, the independent trucker trying to create his own business.

About the only people making money off this whole scene are the cops, who wind up being paid overtime to babysit the party.

If Occupy wants to make a real statement, it ought to pick on a real target.

But then, it might prove a bit embarrassing. From what I've seen, half those Occu-cats have iPhones and iPads.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: occupy; willieworld

1 posted on 12/18/2011 7:30:43 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

No! If they want the right “targets” they need to sit outside the Democrat politicians’ offices. Those are the people who have pushed to make them lazy parasites who think they are entitled to everything in life.


2 posted on 12/18/2011 7:35:42 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: Proud2BeRight

“...parasites who think they are entitled to everything in life.”

Everything including their double standards.


3 posted on 12/18/2011 7:45:52 AM PST by equaviator ( "There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: SmithL

The real targets are easy to find - all they need to do is look in a mirror and they will see the root of all their problems.


4 posted on 12/18/2011 7:51:54 AM PST by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: SmithL

Where I live, the idiots picketed the local Target. The store just opened this year in a very distressed neighborhood. Business had dried up and unemployment has been particularly rampant. But since the store opened, people have jobs and other businesses have opened or plan to open. Things are looking up in that community and these dopes are trying to wreck it.

I don’t understand why these twits are being allowed to destroy lives. Freedom of speech, my arse. These are Communist sponsored terrorists and they should be prosecuted as such.


5 posted on 12/18/2011 7:52:41 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: SmithL

The fleabaggers have been at this for quite a while now. They still can’t seem to orient on a correct target or figure out what they are trying to do. They are totally clueless.


6 posted on 12/18/2011 7:53:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop BIG Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: SmithL

LOL

Willie is just one cool dude.

How embarrasing to have one of the smartest men in politics, on the left, leave OWStards with this zinger as the epilogue to his point:
“half those Occu-cats have iPhones and iPads”


7 posted on 12/18/2011 7:56:22 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SmithL

For those who don’t know, Willie Brown is a career Democrat politician who somehow became part of the one percent (in spades). He wears the finest clothes and lives in the best part of San Francisco.

He may be afraid the occupoopers will end up on his front doorstep, so he directs them down to silicon Valley instead.


8 posted on 12/18/2011 8:03:57 AM PST by BigBobber
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To: SmithL

This, from his column WILLIE’S WORLD. We know who’s getting the next pullitzer prize.


9 posted on 12/18/2011 8:15:35 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BigBobber
For those who don’t know, Willie Brown is a career Democrat politician who somehow became part of the one percent (in spades). He wears the finest clothes and lives in the best part of San Francisco.

When Willie Brown was in the CA legislature, he was once labeled the most powerful man in the state.

Mark

10 posted on 12/18/2011 8:40:48 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: SmithL
Same sh*t different verse. Still class warfare.
11 posted on 12/18/2011 9:00:49 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: SmithL
Same sh*t different verse. Still class warfare.
12 posted on 12/18/2011 9:00:56 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: FlingWingFlyer
They are mere leftwing zombies. They will go wherever they are herded.
13 posted on 12/18/2011 9:02:30 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: SmithL
The only thing those cats down at Apple are exporting are our jobs. Then they have the nerve to ask for tax breaks, and Washington obliges.

Shutting down the port may look good on TV, but you are hurting the very people Occupy is supposed to be fighting for: the hourly worker trying to make his mortgage, the independent trucker trying to create his own business.

Cats? I think Villie longs for the days of even more Democrat vote fraud than goes on now. I'm willing to bet that 100% of the vote fraudsters convicted in the past ten years have been Democrat.

I don't think there are too many longshoremen that are not in the 1%.

14 posted on 12/18/2011 10:27:45 AM PST by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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To: SmithL
Remember when 0bama said he wanted to form a "civilian army"?

This is it!

Useful idiots that will be used to disrupt the GOP Convention and the 2012 Presidential elections.

(mark my words!)(12/18/11)

15 posted on 12/18/2011 10:31:07 AM PST by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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