Posted on 01/30/2012 1:14:21 PM PST by Nachum
White House press secretary Jay Carney dodges when asked for the administration's response to the news that nearly 400 people at the Occupy Oakland encampment were arrested over the weekend.
"What is your reaction, is the administration concerned that some of these protesters are taking things too far?," a reporter asked during his Monday briefing.
"With regards to Oakland, that's obviously a local law enforcement matter," Carney said. "Here in Washington I would refer you for specifics to the U.S. National Park Services and U.S. Park Police. And our position has been and continues to be that we need to balance First Amendment concerns
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Can’t risk jeopardizing the hard-core leftist vote. 0bummer will need every vote he can scrape up.
OWS has done $2,000,000 worth of damage in Oakland. I wish it were $200,000,000 and growing in every inner city.
It’s a shame we can’t ship the “protestors” up to Alaska where they do something useful. Like teach timberwolves how to ‘fetch”...
It’s a shame we can’t ship the “protestors” up to Alaska where they do something useful. Like teach timberwolves how to ‘fetch”...
BS! You keep the nutbags, we don’t want any more of them up here!
OWS:Obama’s Willing Servants
To do that level of damage to an inner city, the said inner city would first have to be worth that amount.
;)
- Austin Powers
Yeah, but you see what happened in NYC?
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelyoussef/2012/01/15/mayor_bloomberg_read_history
They marched over the Brooklyn Bridge this weekend over this; I bet you didn’t see it on MSNBC.
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