Occupy Oakland Occupiers Arrested For Mugging Critic

[jordan179]

Occupy Oakland has reached a new low of petty villainy.

From Seth Hemmelgarn in "Occupy Oakland protesters face robbery, hate crime charges," The Bay Area Reporter Online at http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67496

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[jordan179]

LOL, yes, that would have been amusing to watch. Of course, the actual Native American tribes who lived in New England didn't build igloos, they built timber and hide longhouses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_long_house

to shelter from the winter storms.

Not that the Boston Police Department would have let them build any such things in public spaces. But this strikes to the root of the flaw in the Occupiers' logic ...

... they are attempting an "occupation" of territory which they have not ever "conquered." Since the territory is actually controlled by municipalities of the United States of America, their "occupation" is on sufferance of those municipal authorities, and can be terminated whenever the Occupiers sufficiently annoy them. And the Occupiers are very annoying.

This failure of reasoning in turn stems from the Occupiers' deliberate self-blinding regarding military affairs. They have convinced themselves that "battle" is just a pointless brute slaughter and that military victory over a people does nothing to degrade the resistance of a people; consequently, they fail to see how the victorious battles for (say) Iraq enabled the US Army to meaningfully occupy Iraq and the lack of victorious battle for (say) Boston or Oakland prevents the Occupiers from meaningfully occupying Boston or Oakland.

This is a subset of the general rule that an error in information or reasoning in one matter, especially if unchecked by regular examination by means of logic against observatioanl evidence of one's own ideas for error can pollute one's store of information and lead to faulty conclusions in other mattters down the line. And the Occupiers, by and large, are people unused to questioning their own conclusions.

So they pay for it -- with failure.

[gothelittle]

"Of course, the actual Native American tribes who lived in New England didn't build igloos, they built timber and hide longhouses"

Oh I know, I live in Connecticut. Hence why I would have liked to watch them try. :D The whole point of an igloo is that it's nothing but snow, so the interior temperature never falls below 32F. Boston doesn't consistently snow enough to build an igloo, and the moment that snow melts and refreezes, it is no longer kept at 32F...

I think I've said this before, but if I started out in Boston and had to winter, I would immediately get OUT of Boston, well into the woods, where I could build a shelter out of branches and logs and hunt for my keep until winter let up.

I would also gladly sell that infamous $5,000 laptop for rifle, ammunition, axe, saw, rope... you get the idea.

But then again, I'm not a Boston Occupier. I'm a rural New Englander native. In the winter, my first order is survival, not protest.