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Posted on 01/31/2012 3:47:07 PM PST by SmithL
“The Bay Area Occupy Movement has got to stop using Oakland as their playground,” said Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, speaking at a press conference Saturday evening after a day of demonstrations called by Occupy Oakland that saw approximately 400 arrests, multiple injuries and numerous confrontations with police. She ticked off the damage that had been done when a group of protesters broke into City Hall, overturning a scale model of the building, vandalizing a children's art exhibit, and burning an American flag. The next day in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, she returned to her talking point: "It's like a tantrum . . .They're treating us like a playground."
For the first time since October, when the Oakland police violently evicted the occupation from Frank Ogawa Plaza after renaming it in honor of Oscar Grant, Mayor Quan, her protesting days behind her, looked genuinely comfortable in the role of champion of law and order. It was as if by trashing City Hall, Occupy had done her a favor. She was the adult, genuinely concerned with the well-being of the city. We were children, playing childish games oblivious to the serious real-world consequences of our actions.
Occupy’s response to the mayor’s scolding was predictable. On KPFA the next day, Marie, speaking as a representative of the movement was unapologetic. “The war in the streets is a visible manifestation of the invisible war on the poor . . . the violence of the capitalist system.” In a statement put out by the Occupy Oakland media committee, Cathy Jones, an attorney with the Naional Lawyers Guild is quoted as saying: “Never have I felt so helpless and enraged as I do tonight. These kids are heroes, and the rest of the country needs to open its collective eyes and grab what remains of its civil rights, because they are evaporating, quickly.” She agrees with Mayor Quan those of us who were in the forefront can go in with the police were "kids," but for her they are “heroic.” For Mayor Quan they're just bratty.
Power always represents itself as adult, rationale and in control. The socially sanctioned definition of what it is to be adult includes the ability to be compliant with the self-repression required of an obedient and productive member of society. Since those of us in opposition have no desire to be obedient and less to be productive cogs in the machine, it's no wonder we fall into the role of defiant children. If that is what it is to be adult, no wonder we fall into the role of defiant children. . . .
Phoeey. Bring out the bean bag guns. Charge them at the emergency room for treated injuries. Heroes. Bullfeathers!
And what exactly did these people think was going to happen? That the protesters were going to behave like little angles? Are they really that freakin' stupid that they are surprised by any of this?
Red diaper doper babies ponder their existence.
That’s an insult to children.
Just wait until Commiecare™ kicks in.
J.D., New College of California School of Law (1987) M.A., History, Yale (1962) B.A., History, Swarthmore (1961)
another old white liberal from privilege...
Fifty years ago the author’s children would have had him in the “home” by now, not out influencing skulls fulla mush with his crackpottery.
So the NLG lawyer says: “These kids are heroes”!?
Even this 15 year old?
#Occupy Protester Strangles Parents – Stuffs Their Bodies in the Back of the PT Cruiser:
“Co-workers said Poff and Kamin were having some arguments with their son, some of it having to do with him spending too much time in the Occupy Oakland encampment, but nothing that sounded beyond the scope of typical teenage rebelliousness”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2840315/posts?page=20#20
Nuts who equate all self control with “repression.” Never realizing the simple fact that sometimes you have to say no to something in order to say yes to something else. Then whining and wailing about how they, as “progressives,” never seem to actually progress to a more pleasant state of affairs.
Fickle is as fickle does.
We need a new movement... forget Occupy, lets start the Barricade Oakland movement!! Lets start putting up a high wall around it and SF
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