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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:07 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

The problem isn't that they burned it, its that they STOLE it!

There are people here who seem to want to just gloss right over the origin of the flag that got burned this past weekend in Oakland; it was stolen during an act of trespass and vandalism. I don't think anybody on this forum in this day and age really has THAT much of a problem with the fact that people have the right to burn the flag as a form of self expression. They might not think it was an exactly BRILLIANT thing to do in this instance, but they get that you have the right to burn a flag...AS LONG AS IT IS YOURS. You don't have the right to go and steal your neighbor's flag and burn it. Or break into an unused house in your neighborhood to hang out there. Or to head over to somebody's house that you don't like and tear their stuff up. See, those things you DON'T have a Constitutionally protected right to do.

And if you support the OWS actions of this past weekend, would you also support the Tea Party if they did something similar? If the Tea Party comes to Charlotte this summer and takes over an abandoned building downtown, then breaks into DNC headquarters and steals some Obama memorabilia, knocks things over and breaks them up in the process, then burns said memorabilia...are we all OK with that because they are just passionately trying to get their message across? Cause they believe in what they believe in just as thoroughly as we believe in what we believe in.

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Reply The problem isn't that they burned it, its that they STOLE it! (Original post)
 renie408 Jan 2012 OP
LineReply Stealing a flag and burning it is not on the same level as the atrosities
rhett o rick Jan 2012 #1
LineLineReply Because OWS was wrong.
 TheWraith Jan 2012 #2
LineLineLineReply I'm willing to bet
 unionworks Jan 2012 #8
LineLineLineReply Your line about OWS is wrong is equally getting old. You seem ok when
 rhett o rick Jan 2012 #13
LineLineLineReply Occupy is dead
 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #34
LineLineLineNew Reply And yet you seem to ignore everything wrong that Obama does just fine
 slay Jan 2012 #55
LineLineReply Because I am an agent provocateur...duh.
renie408 Jan 2012 #7
LineLineLineReply It has nothing to do with me. Explain if you will, how a Democrat can disparage OWS?
 rhett o rick Jan 2012 #10
LineLineLineLineReply I am not disparaging OWS. I am disparaging the acts of a few people involved in the OWS movement.
 renie408 Jan 2012 #21
LineLineLineLineLineReply It doesnt sound like you understood my post. I did not condone the behavior. I stated
 rhett o rick Jan 2012 #22
LineLineLineLineLineLineReply Ok, there we can agree.
renie408 Jan 2012 #27
LineLineLineLineLineLineLineReply What I am trying to preach is to maintain perspective. The Corp-Media
 rhett o rick Jan 2012 #31
LineLineLineLineLineLineLineLineReply You know what is REALLY funny?
 renie408 Jan 2012 #32
LineLineLineLineLineLineLineLineLineReply I agree.
 Life Long Dem Jan 2012 #45
LineLineLineLineLineLineLineReply I condone it!
 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #35
LineLineLineLineLineLineLineLineReply Thank you. It is responses like these that can only make my point for me.
renie408 Jan 2012 #38
LineReply That's what I've been saying - protestors or infiltrators is one issue. Theft and destruction,...
 HopeHoops Jan 2012 #3
LineReply the problem is
 unionworks Jan 2012 #4
LineLineReply OMG
2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #36
LineLineReply Yep. The cops at City Hall stood by and did NOTHING. Meanwhile their fellow officers...
 Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #51
LineReply Is that the problem? Was anything else stolen?
morningfog Jan 2012 #5
LineReply They didn't "steal" anything
 MattBaggins Jan 2012 #6
LineReply A 100 year old scale model
 unionworks Jan 2012 #9
LineLineNew Reply +1!
 Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #52
LineReply But Big Corporations Busting Into American Lives And STEALING EVERYTHING Is Ok?
 HangOnKids Jan 2012 #11
LineLineReply So anything they do is OK because there are corporations that do WORSE?
renie408 Jan 2012 #17
LineReply Just curious: How do you steal something your tax dollars pay for?
 justiceischeap Jan 2012 #12
LineLineReply If theirs were the ONLY tax dollars spent, you might have a point.
renie408 Jan 2012 #15
LineLineLineReply Sure that line of 'logic' works, you just don't accept it
 justiceischeap Jan 2012 #19
LineLineLineLineReply No, actually I don't know enough about that to speculate or say that you are wrong in
 renie408 Jan 2012 #23
LineLineLineReply They only burned 99% of it.
 morningfog Jan 2012 #24
LineLineReply Finally someone says what I've been thinking! Thank You!
 SammyWinstonJack Jan 2012 #18
LineLineReply Cool, I can take police cars now!
 jberryhill Jan 2012 #28
LineLineLineReply Oh, man...maybe I can get behind that 'logic'. Can you imagine how much faster
 renie408 Jan 2012 #30
LineLineLineReply go for it
 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #41
LineLineLineNew Reply And their guns!
 pintobean Jan 2012 #56
LineLineLineLineNew Reply Actually, I was hoping a German Shepherd
jberryhill Feb 2012 #60
LineLineReply So if a bunch of tea partiers break into an army base and take a tank
 onenote Jan 2012 #49
LineReply Obama memorabilia equals American flag?
Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #14
LineLineReply Yes. Obviously they are exactly equivalent and that was the precise point I was trying to make.
renie408 Jan 2012 #16
LineLineLineReply The DNC is not supported by public funding.
Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #20
LineLineLineLineReply So, the KKK can destroy stuff in the MLK memorial because they are taxpayers and it was
renie408 Jan 2012 #25
LineLineLineLineLineReply Female prisoners in Saturday's arrests were made to pee in front of male OPD
 Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #33
LineLineLineLineLineLineReply In the list of logical argument fallacies, this would be
renie408 Jan 2012 #37
LineLineLineLineLineLineLineReply Your priorities are now out here for everyone to see.
Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #39
LineLineLineLineLineLineLineLineReply And so are your evasive and inflammatory debate tactics.
renie408 Jan 2012 #43
LineLineLineLineLineLineLineLineLineReply lolololol
 Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #44
LineLineLineLineLineLineLineReply The police are an organized gang with orders to brutalize, humiliate, violently attack, and arrest..
 Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #50
LineReply The only problem I have with it is that...
 Kalidurga Jan 2012 #26
LineLineReply I can agree with this also.
 renie408 Jan 2012 #29
LineReply No, the problem is that this ridiculous non-issue is dominating the discussion
 sibelian Jan 2012 #40
LineLineReply And the near unanimous disregard for the 100s of PEACEFUL protesters who were arrested.
 Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #48
LineReply Just prior to this stupid flag incident
 Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2012 #42
LineLineReply There were far more that 400. 400 is the number of PEACEFUL protesters who were kettled & arrested.
 Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #47
LineLineLineNew Reply +1
 slay Jan 2012 #54
LineReply Fuck it if I am going to smear thousands with the actions of a few. Yes. It was wrong.
Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #46
LineNew Reply The way things are going - stealing a flag compared to fighting against a dismal future
 slay Jan 2012 #53
LineNew Reply can you prove that it was stolen?
 donheld Feb 2012 #57
LineNew Reply Expensive flag. Guys wearing army boots. No long hair. 90s clothes. No one arrested.
 sudopod Feb 2012 #58
LineLineNew Reply But somebody told me that somebody said, they knew him.
 EFerrari Feb 2012 #61
LineNew Reply This thread deserves to be trashed for comparing Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Klan.nt
 EFerrari Feb 2012 #59

Response to renie408 (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:21 PM

rhett o rick (55,981 posts)

1. Stealing a flag and burning it is not on the same level as the atrosities

 

committed by the oligarchs' police. Try to maintain perspective. Also, those that stole the flag are most likely a fringe group not supported by the majority of OWS.

Why would a Democrat side with Fauxed-Up News to disparage OWS? What could be the objective?

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:23 PM

TheWraith (24,331 posts)

2. Because OWS was wrong.

It's not cool to ignoring it when someone does things which are utterly unacceptable, just because you want to justify it.

And your "But the police are evil fascists!" line is getting VERY old.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:34 PM

unionworks (3,574 posts)

8. I'm willing to bet

 

That the federal Judge in charge of the ongoing investigation of abuses by OPD is going to think the continued use of excessive force and abuse of detained protesters is getting old as well, when he puts OPD under federal control.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:46 PM

rhett o rick (55,981 posts)

13. Your line about OWS is wrong is equally getting old. You seem ok when

 

the oligarchs' police do thing "utterly unacceptable" like jabbing people in the spleen or liver, or spraying pepper spray in their face, or letting them sit with their hands cuffed, cutting off circulation, until they shit themselves on a bus or in a cell. You seem to accept that its ok for the police to shoot someone point blank in the head with a gas canister and then shoot at those trying to help him.

I understand that Fauxed-Up News vilifies OWS but why Democrats?

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:05 PM

2pooped2pop (5,420 posts)

34. Occupy is dead

 

lol. Let the damned flag go Wraith. It's a fucking piece of material. It's not the worse thing in the world.

Frodo is almost at your backdoor. You better turn your watchful eye to something really important like Middle Earth.

It's so wrong, but but they burned a flag. ANd they stole it. waaaaahhhhh!

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:49 PM

slay (7,670 posts)

55. And yet you seem to ignore everything wrong that Obama does just fine

 

you know - like signing a bill allowing for the indefinite detention of Americans without the right to a trial or a lawyer. You seem to overlook that pretty easily. or his signing the extension of the tax cuts for the top 1%. No problem there right?

*on edit - i guess maybe these things look petty and inconsequential to you compared with 1 stolen flag right?

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:31 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

7. Because I am an agent provocateur...duh.

I mean, anybody that disagrees with you CAN'T be a REAL Democrat, right?

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:40 PM

rhett o rick (55,981 posts)

10. It has nothing to do with me. Explain if you will, how a Democrat can disparage OWS?

 

I understand that one may not agree, but those getting brutalized for the good of the People dont deserve vilification. I understand it from the right, but not from Democrats.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:59 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

21. I am not disparaging OWS. I am disparaging the acts of a few people involved in the OWS movement.

There is a difference. OWS isn't a single entity. It is a lot of people all over the place doing different things. Are you saying that ANYTHING ANYONE involved in the OWS movement does is OK? Does that really make sense?

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:02 PM

rhett o rick (55,981 posts)

22. It doesnt sound like you understood my post. I did not condone the behavior. I stated

 

that keeping in perspective the flag burning was nothing compared to shooting someone in the head with a gas canister. I ask for perspective. But some here look for any reason to disparage OWS. I question their motives.

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Response to rhett o rick (Reply #22)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:20 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

27. Ok, there we can agree.

I didn't understand the tone of your post. Yes, I think the police response is over the top in some cities and Oakland has been a repeat offender in that regard. I guess that is what bugs me about this. As long as OWS protesters kept things civil and legal, the police looked SO bad in their response. That also makes me wonder if possibly the police WERE involved in what happened. But that just feels so convoluted and conspiracy theorish. Mainly I feel like it doesn't do anybody any good to say that any kind of stealing or vandalism is OK just because it is stealing and vandalism for the cause you believe in (not YOU 'you').

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:35 PM

rhett o rick (55,981 posts)

31. What I am trying to preach is to maintain perspective. The Corp-Media

 

takes the slightest infraction by anyone remotely associated with OWS and tries to paint a picture of violent protestors. Yes some protestors destroyed some construction equipment, but they were on their own and their actions were not sanctioned by the main OWS movement. The fact is that some police have been caught infiltrating and trying to start violence. The oligarchical overlords want us to be violent so they can justify their brutality. Those that stole and burned the flag were not acting as representatives of OWS. There are violent groups that try to coopt OWS, like the Black Bloc. Please read "Occupy: Scenes from Occupied America".

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Response to rhett o rick (Reply #31)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:50 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

32. You know what is REALLY funny?

We are on the same page completely for most of that. I am frustrated because the MSM DOES try to make the OWS protesters out to be something they aren't and here goes some jerks in Oakland feeding that perception. The thing is, whether they were the police or not, the right response is to say that they were an isolated few. Not to say that what they did was OK for spurious reasons like 'hey, dude, they owned that flag cause they pay taxes' or 'well, what they did was way better than what the police do, so it's ok'.

The son of one of my oldest friends is involved with Occupy Charlotte, BTW, and I tried to encourage my son to go up to Charlotte to join him. He didn't want to miss school, though. I really DO support the Occupy movement...promise!!

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Response to renie408 (Reply #32)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:00 PM

Life Long Dem (8,582 posts)

45. I agree.

 

Once they agree to a wrong (trespassing was wrong) and move on, they can move onto dealing with the infiltration. Oakland has always been a location where there has been some suspicion of an infiltration due to violence. OWS in NYC and OWS was always peaceful until Oakland.

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Response to renie408 (Reply #27)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:07 PM

2pooped2pop (5,420 posts)

35. I condone it!

 

Fuck the whiners. Ok normally I wouldn't really condone it, but the people making such an issue of it are really really over the top. WIth all the shit going on in this world, the flag stealing and burning is not on my top list of concerns.

Occupy is the only thing I see working to save this country. I have questioned a tactic here or there but have always been shown that it is ok, they got this. So I will give them great leeway in these minor things. I think it was provacatuers but if it was an occupier, then so be it. I don't care. My support is strong.

Wall Street and the govt has been wiping their ass with that flag for quite some time. If you want to get upset, work on that.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:12 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

38. Thank you. It is responses like these that can only make my point for me.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:25 PM

HopeHoops (47,675 posts)

3. That's what I've been saying - protestors or infiltrators is one issue. Theft and destruction,...

 

...that's another. Whoever stole it and burned it should face charges. Curiously, the cop (or maybe two) didn't even try to arrest the masked people. I think it was staged. Even if I'm wrong, whoever did it should be charged for theft and destruction of property - but that's the only thing illegal that occurred.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:27 PM

unionworks (3,574 posts)

4. the problem is

 

...not one person has been arrested for burning it or vandalizing,even though they HAD THE TIME TO STAND THERE AND POSE FOR PICTURES WHILE DOING THIS IN A BUILDING FULL OF COPS. (Moments later a photo was taken of a cop stamping out the flag). And there never will be any arrests for it. Because the City has to protect their interest in the organized crime syndicate known as the OPD.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:08 PM

2pooped2pop (5,420 posts)

36. OMG

 

again I must applaud your answer.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:37 PM

Luminous Animal (27,310 posts)

51. Yep. The cops at City Hall stood by and did NOTHING. Meanwhile their fellow officers...

were busy brutalizing and kettling and arresting PEACEFUL protesters.

Meanwhile, people inside the YMCA witnessed some of those PEACEFUL protesters being pushed up against the building wall by the cops and violently jabbed with clubs. The people inside the YMCA opened up the doors to provide sanctuary to the protesters.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:30 PM

morningfog (18,115 posts)

5. Is that the problem? Was anything else stolen?

 

Is that really an issue?

That it was stolen and was government property makes it an even more significant act of speech.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:30 PM

MattBaggins (7,872 posts)

6. They didn't "steal" anything

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:38 PM

unionworks (3,574 posts)

9. A 100 year old scale model

 

...of the city hall inside a glass casegot tippedover on its side.Kind of symbolic of what has happened with Quan as Mayor, I'd say!

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:38 PM

Luminous Animal (27,310 posts)

52. +1!

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:43 PM

HangOnKids (4,291 posts)

11. But Big Corporations Busting Into American Lives And STEALING EVERYTHING Is Ok?

 

Bye now.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:54 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

17. So anything they do is OK because there are corporations that do WORSE?


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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:45 PM

justiceischeap (14,040 posts)

12. Just curious: How do you steal something your tax dollars pay for?



Just saying...

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:51 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

15. If theirs were the ONLY tax dollars spent, you might have a point.

I am sorry, that line of 'logic' just doesn't work. If you purchased something collectively with your neighbors, but then decided to destroy it without their consent, you would face legal issues.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:55 PM

justiceischeap (14,040 posts)

19. Sure that line of 'logic' works, you just don't accept it

But that's okay, this is America and you don't have to accept it. I find it fascinating, as others have pointed out, that they were surrounded by cops, yet not one police officer stepped up to stop the 'theft' or the 'vandalism' of the alleged stolen property. Nor, as far as we are aware, were any of those burning the flag arrested. My line of 'logic' on that subject works too.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:07 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

23. No, actually I don't know enough about that to speculate or say that you are wrong in

your suspicions. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody did do this to discredit OWS. I think it is a long shot, but not out of the realm of possibility.

But your first comment about the flag being theirs because it was bought with tax dollars doesn't pass any kind of smell test. National Parks belong to everyone because they are supported with tax dollars...if someone wants to tear up or trash a national monument, should they have the right to just because they pay taxes?

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:07 PM

morningfog (18,115 posts)

24. They only burned 99% of it.

 

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:55 PM

SammyWinstonJack (44,099 posts)

18. Finally someone says what I've been thinking! Thank You!

Wonder if you will get an honest answer to that?

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:22 PM

jberryhill (62,444 posts)

28. Cool, I can take police cars now!

 

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:25 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

30. Oh, man...maybe I can get behind that 'logic'. Can you imagine how much faster

your commute would be if you could do it in a police car??

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:16 PM

2pooped2pop (5,420 posts)

41. go for it

 

since you are not a provacatuer, you will be caught and go to prison. It's your choice though.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:59 PM

pintobean (18,101 posts)

56. And their guns!

 

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Wed Feb 1, 2012, 02:07 AM

jberryhill (62,444 posts)

60. Actually, I was hoping a German Shepherd

 

Would be in the back seat. I like dogs.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:30 PM

onenote (40,029 posts)

49. So if a bunch of tea partiers break into an army base and take a tank

do you think that they haven't stolen something?

If I grab someone elses food stamps, have I not stolen something.

Just saying...

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:50 PM

Star Member Starry Messenger (32,336 posts)

14. Obama memorabilia equals American flag?

Oh. My.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:52 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

16. Yes. Obviously they are exactly equivalent and that was the precise point I was trying to make.

Really?

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:58 PM

Star Member Starry Messenger (32,336 posts)

20. The DNC is not supported by public funding.

City Hall in Oakland is. Obama memorabilia is not the American flag, and your analogy is not equivalent.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:11 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

25. So, the KKK can destroy stuff in the MLK memorial because they are taxpayers and it was

paid for with taxpayer money? And I bet they really, really don't like Martin Luther King and feel really passionately about that.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:05 PM

Star Member Starry Messenger (32,336 posts)

33. Female prisoners in Saturday's arrests were made to pee in front of male OPD

In pregnancy tests. Let me know when you are outraged over something like that, which actually happened. Not your bs "examples" which haven't. Let me know when you've started an OP for the woman the Oakland PD put in the hospital from beating her until her kidneys made her pee blood.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:10 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

37. In the list of logical argument fallacies, this would be

deflection.

Yes, I do find that outrageous. I think it is wrong for the police to beat anybody. Making women prisoners urinate in front of male guards sounds like a lawsuit to me. But just because the police are wrong doesn't mean that everything done in the name of OWS is right.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:14 PM

Star Member Starry Messenger (32,336 posts)

39. Your priorities are now out here for everyone to see.

FLAG greater than human dignity.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:33 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

43. And so are your evasive and inflammatory debate tactics.

Where, exactly, did I say that the FLAG was more important to me than human dignity? Just because I can hold two ideas simultaneously does not mean that either are negated.

And just because you can't doesn't mean that you have any moral high ground.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:43 PM

Star Member Starry Messenger (32,336 posts)

44. lolololol

You started this POS thread about some minor issue having to do with Occupy Oakland. Well, renie I lived in Oakland for 15 years and the opinions of outsiders about how "awful" everyone is there haven't solved poverty, exploitation, racism or police brutality. Did you start any OPs when Oscar Grant got murdered by Bart PD? Maybe you would have told us all that this issue wasn't about him getting shot, it was about being "disorderly on the train".

Your posts are out here for all to see. You starting a thread about some minor misdeed when the actions that led up to it are so much more egregious are on you.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:31 PM

Luminous Animal (27,310 posts)

50. The police are an organized gang with orders to brutalize, humiliate, violently attack, and arrest..

those exercising their 1st Amendment rights. Thousands marched on Saturday... a couple of dozen acted like idiots... 400 PEACEFUL protesters were arrested. Your outrage is misdirected and misdirecting.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:17 PM

Kalidurga (14,177 posts)

26. The only problem I have with it is that...

in some people's eyes it looks bad. It looks like OWS is a lawless group and isn't as anti-violence as they say they are. But, in the scheme of things it's not that big a deal. No one was hurt or killed, lost their livelihood, or got evicted from their home due to this activity. Can't say that goes so much for the activities of the 1% that if not outright illegal, do walk up to that line and get real cozy with it.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:24 PM

renie408 (9,854 posts)

29. I can agree with this also.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:16 PM

sibelian (7,804 posts)

40. No, the problem is that this ridiculous non-issue is dominating the discussion


instead of the real political targets of OWS.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:27 PM

Luminous Animal (27,310 posts)

48. And the near unanimous disregard for the 100s of PEACEFUL protesters who were arrested.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:29 PM

Joe Shlabotnik (5,604 posts)

42. Just prior to this stupid flag incident

400+ peaceful citizens had their safety threatened by teargas, rubber bullets, and concussion grenades, and their then freedom stolen by the OPD. This flame baiting faux outrage about a flag, is getting tiresome.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:26 PM

Luminous Animal (27,310 posts)

47. There were far more that 400. 400 is the number of PEACEFUL protesters who were kettled & arrested.

It is a damn shame that DU is all lit up over the actions of a few assholes but generally mute over those who were kettled.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:45 PM

slay (7,670 posts)

54. +1

 

i know - gives me very little hope for the future i'm afraid.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:23 PM

Luminous Animal (27,310 posts)

46. Fuck it if I am going to smear thousands with the actions of a few. Yes. It was wrong.

And yes, I do support OWS. I do not support stealing the flag, but of all the things going on in this world (murder of innocents by drones, anyone), this is way way down on my list.

I do support OWS taking over unused property. I do support OWS walking into City Hall, which belongs to the people and which is what they did. City Hall is not private property.

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:43 PM

slay (7,670 posts)

53. The way things are going - stealing a flag compared to fighting against a dismal future

 

stealing the flag - while wrong - misses the point entirely. oh no a flag was stolen it's the end of the world!!1!

#OWS is fighting for the future - and NO political party will help them or wants anything to do with them.

if a flag gets stolen or a model broken - boo fucking hoo. this is about the future people - and will there be one other than fascist corporate rule. wake up - cause things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. stealing a flag vs massive income inequality which nobody in power will help us with. Hrmmm which am I mad about...


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Wed Feb 1, 2012, 01:29 AM

donheld (21,287 posts)

57. can you prove that it was stolen?

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Wed Feb 1, 2012, 01:53 AM

sudopod (5,019 posts)

58. Expensive flag. Guys wearing army boots. No long hair. 90s clothes. No one arrested.

Totally legit

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Wed Feb 1, 2012, 02:15 AM

EFerrari (163,986 posts)

61. But somebody told me that somebody said, they knew him.

lol

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Wed Feb 1, 2012, 01:58 AM

EFerrari (163,986 posts)

59. This thread deserves to be trashed for comparing Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Klan.nt

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