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Luminous Animal

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

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 10:37 PM

Jan 2012

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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The problem isn't that they burned it, its that they STOLE it! [View all] renie408 Jan 2012 OP

Stealing a flag and burning it is not on the same level as the atrosities rhett o rick Jan 2012 #1

Because OWS was wrong. TheWraith Jan 2012 #2

I'm willing to bet unionworks Jan 2012 #8

Your line about OWS is wrong is equally getting old. You seem ok when rhett o rick Jan 2012 #13

Occupy is dead 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #34

And yet you seem to ignore everything wrong that Obama does just fine slay Jan 2012 #55

Because I am an agent provocateur...duh. renie408 Jan 2012 #7

It has nothing to do with me. Explain if you will, how a Democrat can disparage OWS? rhett o rick Jan 2012 #10

I am not disparaging OWS. I am disparaging the acts of a few people involved in the OWS movement. renie408 Jan 2012 #21

It doesnt sound like you understood my post. I did not condone the behavior. I stated rhett o rick Jan 2012 #22

Ok, there we can agree. renie408 Jan 2012 #27

What I am trying to preach is to maintain perspective. The Corp-Media rhett o rick Jan 2012 #31

You know what is REALLY funny? renie408 Jan 2012 #32

I agree. Life Long Dem Jan 2012 #45

I condone it! 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #35

Thank you. It is responses like these that can only make my point for me. renie408 Jan 2012 #38

That's what I've been saying - protestors or infiltrators is one issue. Theft and destruction,... HopeHoops Jan 2012 #3

the problem is unionworks Jan 2012 #4

OMG 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #36

Yep. The cops at City Hall stood by and did NOTHING. Meanwhile their fellow officers... Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #51

Is that the problem? Was anything else stolen? morningfog Jan 2012 #5

They didn't "steal" anything MattBaggins Jan 2012 #6

A 100 year old scale model unionworks Jan 2012 #9

+1! Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #52

But Big Corporations Busting Into American Lives And STEALING EVERYTHING Is Ok? HangOnKids Jan 2012 #11

So anything they do is OK because there are corporations that do WORSE? renie408 Jan 2012 #17

Just curious: How do you steal something your tax dollars pay for? justiceischeap Jan 2012 #12

If theirs were the ONLY tax dollars spent, you might have a point. renie408 Jan 2012 #15

Sure that line of 'logic' works, you just don't accept it justiceischeap Jan 2012 #19

No, actually I don't know enough about that to speculate or say that you are wrong in renie408 Jan 2012 #23

They only burned 99% of it. morningfog Jan 2012 #24

Finally someone says what I've been thinking! Thank You! SammyWinstonJack Jan 2012 #18

Cool, I can take police cars now! jberryhill Jan 2012 #28

Oh, man...maybe I can get behind that 'logic'. Can you imagine how much faster renie408 Jan 2012 #30

go for it 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #41

And their guns! pintobean Jan 2012 #56

Actually, I was hoping a German Shepherd jberryhill Feb 2012 #60

So if a bunch of tea partiers break into an army base and take a tank onenote Jan 2012 #49

Obama memorabilia equals American flag? Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #14

Yes. Obviously they are exactly equivalent and that was the precise point I was trying to make. renie408 Jan 2012 #16

The DNC is not supported by public funding. Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #20

So, the KKK can destroy stuff in the MLK memorial because they are taxpayers and it was renie408 Jan 2012 #25

Female prisoners in Saturday's arrests were made to pee in front of male OPD Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #33

In the list of logical argument fallacies, this would be renie408 Jan 2012 #37

Your priorities are now out here for everyone to see. Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #39

And so are your evasive and inflammatory debate tactics. renie408 Jan 2012 #43

lolololol Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #44

The police are an organized gang with orders to brutalize, humiliate, violently attack, and arrest.. Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #50

The only problem I have with it is that... Kalidurga Jan 2012 #26

I can agree with this also. renie408 Jan 2012 #29

No, the problem is that this ridiculous non-issue is dominating the discussion sibelian Jan 2012 #40

And the near unanimous disregard for the 100s of PEACEFUL protesters who were arrested. Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #48

Just prior to this stupid flag incident Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2012 #42

There were far more that 400. 400 is the number of PEACEFUL protesters who were kettled & arrested. Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #47

+1 slay Jan 2012 #54

Fuck it if I am going to smear thousands with the actions of a few. Yes. It was wrong. Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #46

The way things are going - stealing a flag compared to fighting against a dismal future slay Jan 2012 #53

can you prove that it was stolen? donheld Feb 2012 #57

Expensive flag. Guys wearing army boots. No long hair. 90s clothes. No one arrested. sudopod Feb 2012 #58

But somebody told me that somebody said, they knew him. EFerrari Feb 2012 #61

This thread deserves to be trashed for comparing Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Klan.nt EFerrari Feb 2012 #59