Damn dirty hippies

well this is not a shock. In order to secure the new police state, the sheeple need to be taught compliance and submission.

Don't want to be zapped by radiation, that's a groping.

Don't want to be groped, that's a jailing.

Protest the gooberment for too long, that's a beating.

People called for these organisations to be set up and strip them of their liberties. Actively stood up and shouted that they wanted to be relieved of their rights as afforded them in the constitution. People will still not understand, and will cheer this crackdown on the OWS simply because they don't agree with the message of the OWS people.

Nutbars claim they hate a big central government (when it's run by a democrat), but cheer it on when it's jackbooting it's way through a throng of people they have been instructed to view with disdain.

Look at the big picture, because every power people clamour for the government to have to take down people they don't like will inevitably be used against them or their children. That more people don't see this fills me with sadness. I only have to look at the EU to see the same thing happening. They are using the financial crisis as an excuse to expedite political union and are getting very aggressive toward those that don't want it, and stoop to outright lies and propaganda to mislead the public.

I don't like the direction the world is taking.

It's not news, it's Napolitano!

Well gosh, that's exactly what happened. Good to know the FBI and DHS are "always there to help a brother out." (This is their motto, in Latin.)

Not to be nitpicky, but isn't that actually English?

I'm sure all those conservatives who were so upset with all the new airport measures by Homeland Security will be equally outraged by this... right? Right?

Relatively Obscure: Well gosh, that's exactly what happened. Good to know the FBI and DHS are "always there to help a brother out." (This is their motto, in Latin.)

Not to be nitpicky, but isn't that actually English?

Nah, THAT"S American!

Please just leave them alone. I don't want to have to see something like this on the nightly news.

Uh, yeah. How else do you expect the cops managed to attack the protests in coordination around the country? Or get the authority to close NYC airspace?

DHS calls tea party a domestic threat: SOCIALIST BROWNSHIRT THUGS!!!! KENYAN USURPER MUSLIN IN CHIEF!!!!!
DHS orchestrates breakup of OWS protests: BUST THERE HIPPIE HEADS!!!!!

GAT_00: Uh, yeah. How else do you expect the cops managed to attack the protests in coordination around the country? Or get the authority to close NYC airspace?

The NYPD doesn't need help from outside to close NYC airspace. They have a tremendous amount of authority.

Scary as it is, Weaver95 looks more and more spot on every day. I liked the time we could laugh and call him a paranoid nut.

EnviroDude: well this is not a shock. In order to secure the new police state, the sheeple need to be taught compliance and submission.

Don't want to be zapped by radiation, that's a groping.

Don't want to be groped, that's a jailing.

Protest the gooberment for too long, that's a beating.

How long before they confiscate everything made of tin?

You mean a federal agency helped coordinate between local agencies? This is no longer the America I grew up in!

serial_crusher: You mean a federal agency helped coordinate between local agencies?

Why do the local agencies need to "coordinate" anything?

doublesecretprobation: DHS calls tea party a domestic threat: SOCIALIST BROWNSHIRT THUGS!!!! KENYAN USURPER MUSLIN IN CHIEF!!!!!
DHS orchestrates breakup of OWS protests: BUST THERE HIPPIE HEADS!!!!!

We have met the enemy and he is the American people.


So it goes.

Much like Rick Parry I have 3 departments I would like to abolish. The DEA, The DHS and.....oh um.....I forget. Vote sammyk!

On a serious note this reminds me of the Nixon and Reagan adminitrations abuses of the CIA. If history repeats itself it will take a decade or more to put a leash on DHS like they fianlly did to the CIA in 1991Link (new window)

It is simply unacceptable to have any government agency willingly acting as an adversary to any political movement. The actions of the CIA were wrong during the anti-war movement and the DHS is dead wrong for putting any time or effort against #OWS. No matter how you feel about #OWS they are American citizens expressing 1st amendment rights.

EnviroDude today:

EnviroDude: well this is not a shock. In order to secure the new police state, the sheeple need to be taught compliance and submission.

Don't want to be zapped by radiation, that's a groping.

Don't want to be groped, that's a jailing.

Protest the gooberment for too long, that's a beating.

EnviroDude a week and a half ago:

EnviroDude
My only question is: What left leaning farker here doesn't think the White House is behind the OWS movement?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Yeah, I know he's a troll, but at least some trolls do it with some consistency. This is just weak.

Constitution? Meh. I like to see 40 yahoo's with off-the-chart testosterone levels and 6 bomb dogs in full battle gear standing around my train station once a month doing nothing but showing off their 'toys'.

Safe with Homeland Security for the win! You have no idea how dangerous those suburban train stations are.


/not really

RexTalionis: EnviroDude today:

EnviroDude: well this is not a shock. In order to secure the new police state, the sheeple need to be taught compliance and submission.

Don't want to be zapped by radiation, that's a groping.

Don't want to be groped, that's a jailing.

Protest the gooberment for too long, that's a beating.

EnviroDude a week and a half ago:

EnviroDude
My only question is: What left leaning farker here doesn't think the White House is behind the OWS movement?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Yeah, I know he's a troll, but at least some trolls do it with some consistency. This is just weak.

Do you remember what Van Jones was saying this past summer? Watch out, USA, your day is coming. (new window)

Do you think that Van Jones would talk about the OWS movement without the approval of the Obama white house?

Does this mean that the DHS wouldn't use this as an opportunity to bust some heads?

After all, if you don't submit, citizen, you will be punished.

/I do appreciate that you are quoting me accurately.

Bubububut BUSH!!!

/no, seriously

....However, it's not like Obama, the head of the executive department, couldn't have issued an executive order saying, "You know guys, we really shouldn't be busting in the skulls of what amounts to nothing more than a bunch of dirty hippies..."

Djkb: Obvious tag on vacation?

Obvious tag had its skull bashed in and thrown into the county lockup.

#occupyguantanamobay

xanadian: Obvious tag had its skull bashed in and thrown into the county lockup. Tombs.

/Have my skull bashed in? I would prefer not to, but freedom isn't free.

Ennuipoet: So it goes.

coco ebert: I'm sure all those conservatives who were so upset with all the new airport measures by Homeland Security will be equally outraged by this... right? Right?

Personally, I'd have been fine if Homeland Security would let these hippies take large bottles of shampoo into Zucotti park.

vudukungfu: To all you Bush appologists out there.
THIS is what fascism is.
You make people afraid.
You make a government intervention in citizens' rights.
You take away their freedom.

Fascism at its finest. DHS.

I wish we could go back to teh glory days of Bush's FEMA camps.

coco ebert: I'm sure all those conservatives who were so upset with all the new airport measures by Homeland Security will be equally outraged by this... right? Right?

I thought the stereotypical conservative response to TSA was that it was a necessary burden to protect our freedom or whatever.

Though, I'm one of the conservatives who thinks TSA is a ridiculous waste of money (I just didn't realize there were that many of us). To make the same decision about OWS crackdowns, I'd have to see a good breakdown of how much the crackdown costs, and how much money the cities involved were wasting to accommodate the protestors.

I don't think enforcing existing laws against illegal overnight camping is a violation of anybody's constitutional rights though, if that's what you mean. Also don't think the same about checking people for contraband at an airport.

nekom: How long before they confiscate everything made of tin?

They should really think about confiscating all the pewter and steel before worrying about the tin.

kronicfeld: serial_crusher: You mean a federal agency helped coordinate between local agencies?

Why do the local agencies need to "coordinate" anything?

I was going for more of a "back in my day, federal and local agencies didn't cooperate" thing.

It's a good question to ask though. It's not like you really need some coordinated attack if your goal is just to get the hippies to stop camping in your park. Maybe the cities involved just thought they'd look less like "the bad guy" if everybody else was doing it? Or, fear that protesters could use 1 city as an example to rally more support and ultimately create a more unruly crowd when it came time to evict them (i.e. Oakland)?

I'm still trying to figure out what OWS has done for the nation.

serial_crusher: It's a good question to ask though. It's not like you really need some coordinated attack if your goal is just to get the hippies to stop camping in your park. Maybe the cities involved just thought they'd look less like "the bad guy" if everybody else was doing it? Or, fear that protesters could use 1 city as an example to rally more support and ultimately create a more unruly crowd when it came time to evict them (i.e. Oakland)?

Or, maybe they used it as a training exercise to see how well they'd actually be able to coordinate a nationwide response.

Dr.Knockboots: I'm still trying to figure out what OWS has done for the nation.

About as much as the TSA, at a hell of a cheaper cost.

vudukungfu: To all you Bush appologists out there.
THIS is what fascism is.
You make people afraid.
You make a government intervention in citizens' rights.
You take away their freedom.

Fascism at its finest. DHS.

Huh? Who's running the show?

damageddude: I would prefer not to, but freedom isn't free.

This is true...

North Korea is looking better all the time.