This is the 1960′s and early 70′s all over again, isn’t it? Even the verbage is the same. “Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” Somebody is going to get killed in these Marxist protests. If it’s a communist protester, I personally don’t care and wouldn’t lose any sleep over it, but I fear it will be an innocent or a cop, and that I do care about. And when (if) that happens… look out, it will escalate in to something we’ve never seen before.
A crowd of roughly 400 Occupy Oakland protesters clashed with police Tuesday evening while trying to reclaim a campsite that they had been ousted from earlier in the day. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the crowd marched from the public library toward Frank Ogawa Plaza at about 5 p.m., vowing to confront police.
At one point, protesters threw paint at riot police officers’ faces and helmets while chanting, “This is why we call you pigs.” Read the rest
Their plan is to clog up the courts with mass arrests which puts a lot of pressure to run them through the system with virtually no punishment, and it must be done quickly according to our constitution.
There is an alternative. Charge them under existing terrorism laws via The Patriot Act, ship them to Gitmo, and they can be held indefinitely. The courts can then get to them when they get to them. With the threat of Gitmo looming, how much would you like to bet this Occupy Movement dies off very quickly? If I had any say so, that’s what I’d do.