Wednesday, November 16, 2011
- OWS: Use Molotov Cocktails At Macy's
This is making the rounds. It's a video of the OWS crowd calling for New York City and the Stock Exchange to be burned to the ground, and threatening to use Molotov cocktails on Macy's.
I'd just like to remind the people whose job it is to uphold the law (politicians and policemen both - but mostly politicians) that the minute someone throws that first rock, this is no longer a peaceful demonstration but a riot. Rioting is a criminal act that is not protected by the first amendment. And you have a responsibility to protect New York's law abiding citizens and their property from that sort of thing.
Maybe they don't mean it. They probably don't. Liberals are cowards after all. But an angry mob is an unpredictable thing. So if they do follow through on their threats, as a law abiding American who deserves to be protected from things like this, I'd be thrilled if the police responded with live ammunition.
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Found out a little tidbit of information:
When the cops rousted the OWS'ers at 1:00 A.M., the OWS'ers were informed they had something like 30 minutes to clear out their belongings. Whatever was left behind would go into the dump trucks.
Well, so many of them were so friggin wasted on drugs, they didn't exactly collect their stuff in an efficient manner. Cops entered the now empty tents to find them strewn with Iphones, Ipods, Ipads, Macbooks, etc. A whole bunch of cops and sanitation workers got to take home some really nice tech gear.
Today was nice. We were able to work in our office without the din of drums being pounded on all afternoon. Though I had to step over an OWS'ers stoned out of his gourde, unconscious in front of my building this morning.
The vibe I'm getting from the establishment in most of the places where these protests are occurring is that there is quite a bit of sympathy towards the OWS crowd from the city administrators. In NY's case I think Bloomberg is dropping the ball big time as the minute any ordinance is ignored by hundreds of people, the police needed to be moved in. Though I'm not familiar with Zuccotti Park my guess is that camping overnight is prohibited. There's probably regulations on noise too. Maybe not as downtown NYC is pretty noisy. Either way they dropped the ball on that and got an occupation.
Taser International manufactures a number of less-than-lethal devices that could've put that group down in about five seconds, which is the length of time it takes my X26 to discharge one trigger pull. We have the technology, not the will.
I'm a big believer is using incentives. Knowing the police with respond to rioting with copper clad bullets is a much better incentive to 'keep it peaceful' than the knowledge that they're going to use tear gas or some other non-lethal mechanism.
And just to reiterate, I'm all for leaving them alone to shout and scream and bang their drums or whatever. But the second it turns violent, I'm calling every politician whose ever gotten a campaign dollar from me and demanding that they be put down with force.
has anyone noticed the most out-spoken proponants of Occupy are either "far away" from the locations or just passing through?
Who was the "dandy" on CNBC this morning telling me how wonderful OWS is, whilst peering at us in designer eyewear and Hugo Boss ensembl?
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