Occupiers Punish Oakland For Evicting Them By Occupying UC-Berkeley
Not a lot of time to post, because of my new job, but ... ROFLMAO about this one ...
"Berkeley Protestors Defy Authorities, Pitch Tents," from MSNBC
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45319327/ns/us_news-life/
Protesters at the University of California, Berkeley, pitched tents Tuesday night in defiance of campus officials a week after police removed a nascent anti-Wall Street encampment.
What the leading sentence carefully avoids mentioning, because it would make the Occupiers look too silly and it is not the intent of the mainstream media to make the Occupiers look silly, is that the encampment which was removed was on the lawn of Oakland's City Hall. The new encampment is in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza. In other words, the protestors are boldly defying the City of Oakland for having the temerity to evict them by setting up an encampment in an entirely different city, and not even on the property of that city, but rather on a California state university campus.
For extra humor value
Organizers from student, faculty and labor groups had called for a daylong campus strike featuring teach-ins, public readings, workshops and marches in response to the arrest of 39 people last week.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has launched an investigation into allegations that campus police used excessive force. He said videos of the protests were disturbing, and he plans to grant amnesty to all students who were arrested and cited for attempting to block police from removing the tents.
So, in other words, the campus supports the Occupiers in their Occupation of UC Berkeley, and is punishing its own students (by depriving them of part of the education for which they have paid) in order to teach the City of Oakland a lesson. Um, yeah, Chancellor Brigeneau, we'll see how that goes. I'm sure Oakland Mayor Jean Quan will be very impressed by your decisive action.
It also came hours after nerves on the campus famed for its 1960s student activism were jarred by an afternoon shooting in a computer lab that police said appeared unrelated to the rallies in Sproul Plaza, about half a mile away.
Well of course it's "unrelated." Why, when I used to go to computer lab, I always came armed, and if the cops showed up at the lab, I pulled my piece on them. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't anyone? I'm sure that the simultaneous presence on campus of over three thousand anarchists had absolutely nothing to do with this incident!
Anyway, we'll see how this develops. I suspect that after the theft, vandalism, riots, beatings, rapes and possible murders start, the Occupiers will lose their charm from the POV of UC-Berkeley and the campus business district at the north end of College Avenue in general, and Chancellor Brigeneau, who probably assumes that he made a safe bet by supporting the protests, may find both himself and his decisions just a wee bit less popular.
Meanwhile, I'm working in downtown Berkeley tonight -- though, thankfully, near Shattuck and University rather than College and Bancroft. Maybe I'll see something amusing -- I certainly don't feel intimidated by these cowardly and inept fools.
"Berkeley Protestors Defy Authorities, Pitch Tents," from MSNBC
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45319327/ns/us_news-life/
Protesters at the University of California, Berkeley, pitched tents Tuesday night in defiance of campus officials a week after police removed a nascent anti-Wall Street encampment.
What the leading sentence carefully avoids mentioning, because it would make the Occupiers look too silly and it is not the intent of the mainstream media to make the Occupiers look silly, is that the encampment which was removed was on the lawn of Oakland's City Hall. The new encampment is in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza. In other words, the protestors are boldly defying the City of Oakland for having the temerity to evict them by setting up an encampment in an entirely different city, and not even on the property of that city, but rather on a California state university campus.
For extra humor value
Organizers from student, faculty and labor groups had called for a daylong campus strike featuring teach-ins, public readings, workshops and marches in response to the arrest of 39 people last week.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has launched an investigation into allegations that campus police used excessive force. He said videos of the protests were disturbing, and he plans to grant amnesty to all students who were arrested and cited for attempting to block police from removing the tents.
So, in other words, the campus supports the Occupiers in their Occupation of UC Berkeley, and is punishing its own students (by depriving them of part of the education for which they have paid) in order to teach the City of Oakland a lesson. Um, yeah, Chancellor Brigeneau, we'll see how that goes. I'm sure Oakland Mayor Jean Quan will be very impressed by your decisive action.
It also came hours after nerves on the campus famed for its 1960s student activism were jarred by an afternoon shooting in a computer lab that police said appeared unrelated to the rallies in Sproul Plaza, about half a mile away.
Well of course it's "unrelated." Why, when I used to go to computer lab, I always came armed, and if the cops showed up at the lab, I pulled my piece on them. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't anyone? I'm sure that the simultaneous presence on campus of over three thousand anarchists had absolutely nothing to do with this incident!
Anyway, we'll see how this develops. I suspect that after the theft, vandalism, riots, beatings, rapes and possible murders start, the Occupiers will lose their charm from the POV of UC-Berkeley and the campus business district at the north end of College Avenue in general, and Chancellor Brigeneau, who probably assumes that he made a safe bet by supporting the protests, may find both himself and his decisions just a wee bit less popular.
Meanwhile, I'm working in downtown Berkeley tonight -- though, thankfully, near Shattuck and University rather than College and Bancroft. Maybe I'll see something amusing -- I certainly don't feel intimidated by these cowardly and inept fools.