[livius]

The other thing that made me think he was an Occupy type was that he used the word “pigs” in his rants. Nobody has used that term for the cops since the 1970s - except OWS and its anarchist brethren. The group I saw in New York had some people yelling this at unfortunate NYPD officers who had drawn the miserable duty of watching them for the day, and a couple of the signs also bore messages about “the pigs.”

[GOPJ]

You're right, it's an old liberal term of hatred ... picked up by younger hippie wannabees. The other 'tell' is the longer it takes the press to jump on the guy and totally condemn him the more likely he's a liberal. The press doesn't want to accidentally go after one of their own..

[Springfield Reformer]

I have the same sense of the use of that term, but we now have FReepers defending the use of the term as well:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3086551/posts?page=9#9

So I don’t know. Are we simply infested with trolls who just talk that way because they’re lefties and that’s how they talk, or are we simply taking up the term on our own?

[butterdezillion]

OWS or Muslim. Those people use that terminology.

[1010RD]

Good call and I believe you’re right. That stuck out to me too. Calling cops “pigs” is Alinsky, lefty talk.