Its a logical next step for them
Posted on 12/29/2011 8:36:45 AM PST by Kaslin
A segment of Occupy Wall Street protesters applied for a permit to be in the annual Rose Parade on January 2nd. They should be applauded for their application -- it was an uncharacteristic submission to hierarchy. But the people who really deserve applause is the parade officials who rejected their application.
But now the Occupiers, who never take no for an answer, plan to follow behind the police cars that conclude the parade. Officials are aware of this, and an article by Penny Starr of CNS News said:
“They will be allowed, just like any other spectator or any other demonstrator, to fall in at the completion of the parade behind our four police cars that trail the parade,” Riddle [Lt. of the Pasadena Police Department] said. “That doesn’t give them placing, that doesn’t give them a permit – no permit is needed as long as they don’t infringe on other individuals that every year gather in the street and walk.”
The Occupiers plan to make a "human float" -- whatever form that ends up taking, it should be an interesting spectacle.
Unsurprisingly, the Tea Party outclassed the Occupiers in their response. Starr's article states:
But Michael Alexander, president and co-founder of the Tea Party Pasadena Patriots and its political action committee, TEAPAC, said he doesn’t think the protestors will have much impact and described the Occupy efforts as a “movement in decline.”
Alexander said his group debated whether to stage a counter-demonstration but it was decided that it was wrong to “politicize” the beloved parade.
“America is entitled to one day without politics, whether it’s the Tea Party, the Democrats, the Republicans or the Occupy people,” Alexander said. “The Rose Parade is our parade and we deeply resent any effort to politicize it.”
“The real demonstration is going to be at the polls in November and at every other election in between,” Alexander said. “That’s where this battle will be fought -- not in petty street theater.”
Written by Mary Crookston
I read where the Rose Parade organizer said they can’t do it:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tournament-roses-occupiers-you-cant-march-our-parade
Leftists/Communists/Socialists politicize everything. It is their religion - a reason for them to live their miserable lives.
Obama’s kids attacking whatever is good about America wonder how that will work out for him?
Tasers, night sticks, and high-pressure water cannons.
Let’s really see how brave the leftists are.
Bring the popcorn, this should be interesting. My suspicion is there will be a good dose of lump therapy meted out.
I hope these “occupiers” disrupt, aggivate, and generally piss off everyone everyday right up to the election...this turd is right in the middle of obamas plate...it’s his and he owns it.
The Occupiers plan to make a “human float””
Shouldn’t it read “human flotsam”?
Great optics for our side. These fools attacking an American staple.
Great optics for our side. These fools attacking an American staple.
I used to live in Pasadena and I’ve been to the parade a few times.
Everybody at the parade knows that the people who come right after the last police cars are the weirdos.
This won’t help Occupy a bit. Usually it is the “repent now— the world is ending” people on bicycles. So this year, it will be the Occupy people. The audience is overwhelmingly families. They will not be interested in Occupy, or will think it’s funny/pathetic.
The Doo Da parade would be a better choice for this group.
Well it >is< Kaliphornia so maybe they’ll have a float of some kind? Either that I think they’ll be doing some flash mob scenes.
Its a logical next step for them
The organizers need to have a really large sound system loaded with the Star Spangled Banner.
When these idiots start one of their “Mic checks”, drown ‘em out.
Considering the cavalier attitude the OWSies have taken about human waste recently, I really don’t want to contemplate what they mean by “human float.”
Where are the Hells Angels when you need tham?
“OCCUPIERS” = the gift that keeps on giving !
#occupy pepper spray.
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