Caution for bad language in this video, in which we see Occupy Oakland burning a flag while singing an obscene parody of "God Bless America." And singing it very BADLYRead more... )

The arrests of three Occupy Oakland protestors for mugging a critic is but the most recent failure of the Occupier movement. Time and time again the Occupiers have demonstrated boasting of their invincible numbers and widespread support, only to be swept aside whenever local municipalities have chosen to act, and treated as criminals when they ( Read more... )

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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Occupy Oakland attepted to occupy the Oakland Convention Center, with grandiose plans of turning it into some sort of political-social headquarters. The Oakland Police Force disabused them of these delusions, arresting some 300 of them. Interestingly, the Occupiers are becoming more violent.

Occupy Oakland organizers had earlier vowed to take ( Read more... )

I was watching video of the protests (!!) against Black Friday (?!!) and I could not but help observing how fundamentally non-serious and poorly-coordinated the protestors were. There were several instances where I was surprised that the mobs of shoppers didn't just walk right over the very small groups of Occupiers who were blocking the entrances ( Read more... )

Yesterday the Occupy San Francisco Movement attempted to block shoppers from going to sales on Black Friday. This worked about as well as one would expect -- the naivete they demonstrated in trying to prevent Black Friday sales from happening is hilarious in and of itself. But they did manage to get Union Square, and by extension the upscale ( Read more... )

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, ( Read more... )

In Ursula K. Le Guin's famous novel The Dispossessed (1974), we see (perhaps intentionally, perhaps unintentionally) one flaw with anarchosocialism -- it handles logistical issues poorly, due to its refusal to engage in trading in the market to establish the relative values of resources. (Here's my old and perhaps unreasonably-hostile review of ( Read more... )

From http://melvin-udall.livejournal.com/1336190.html?view=8072318#t8072318 referencing Candace M. Giove, "Post Reporter Spends an 'In Tents' Night Amid Anarchy in Zucotti Park"Read more... )