Just one more edit.
Your country is being stolen from you. I hope you are getting ready to re-occupy it with your bodies and minds. Don’t plan on giant magical robots flying to your rescue.
But giant nightmarish drones flying to end your mortal life are not such an outlandish thing to plan for. Coming soon, to a newly designated theater of war near you.
Councilmember Larry Reid claimed that ‘It’s almost like we’re being held hostage,’ a strange thing to say while protesters were still in jail.
It was clear, at this point, that this is what they’d been trying to do all day, what they’d been planning to do earlier: arrest everybody and sort it out later. And it was only at this point that the “assault on City Hall” happened, maybe five blocks away. Once the 400 people who would be arrested that night had been informed that they were under arrest (which you could hear on the livestream as “Attention marchers: you have failed to disperse! You are now under arrest! Submit to the arrest” several minutes after the protesters had been chanting “Let us Disperse”), protesters who had escaped back to Oscar Grant Plaza “occupied” City Hall.
The fact that all of these ‘journalists’ repeat the same ridiculous crowd number, march times, etc isn’t just an indication of their tendency to downplay activist mobilization; its an index of their basic and fundamental worthlessness as news sources.
I took a copy of Shoup’s The High Cost of Free Parking out from the New York Occupy Wall Street library a week before Bloomberg raided and destroyed the library, so it looks like I’ll have the time to really dig into it in 2012.
In the wake of the Tea Party, the Occupy movement, and a dozen or more episodes of real rebellion on the streets, in the legislatures of cities and towns, and in state and federal courthouses, this presidential race now feels like a banal bureaucratic sideshow to the real event – the real event being a looming confrontation between huge masses of disaffected citizens on both sides of the aisle, and a corrupt and increasingly ideologically bankrupt political establishment, represented in large part by the two parties dominating this race.
“It concerns me a whole lot the kind of money that we spend on these kind of military, police state items when we don’t have enough money for our schools — enough money for health” (via In Iowa, occupiers picket a drone factory)
BART police, who were first on the scene, briefly interviewed the driver, decided he wasn’t drunk and let him go.
If people want me to apologize for writing about the dangers of our humongous policing apparatus they are going to wait a long time.
“Dude, stop yanking my fucking bridle. I am sad, OK? SAD. Maybe your stupid little kid ass never gets moody because you’re some tween warrior boy with sweet sleeveless leather shirts and stuff, but I do get sad. I’ve been listening to Dashboard Confessional and that one super bummer Springsteen album all day on my iPod and I just wanna sink into the mud and be sad, OK? Can’t I just be sad in mud??? Let goAUUAHHAGHAGAGAGGHHHHHHHHHH”
ARTEX YOU’RE SINKING!
