Occupy Wall Street Fail

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Not that I want to get tazared but if you wore a shirt with fine metallic wires in it and a tazar punctured it would the current go through the wires or the human body?
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Electricity will go to ground so it will go through unless you were laying on the ground
 
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The cops need an earth ground? I don't think so, the current flows is dart to dart.

Tazar by Harrp that's a scary thought
 
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Three Occupy Oakland protesters charged with hate crimes



Three Occupy Oakland protesters accused of surrounding and taunting a woman before stealing her wallet were charged on Friday with robbery and hate crimes, authorities said.

Michael Davis, 32, Nneka Crawford, 23, and Randolph Wilkins, 24, confronted the woman on the streets of Oakland in February after she told them not to riot in her neighborhood, the Oakland Police said in a written release.

"She was surrounded by three protestors and battered as they yelled vulgar epithets regarding their perception of her sexual orientation," Oakland Police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said.

The female victim was not identified except as a 20-year resident of the neighborhood.

"Her wallet was taken during the crime," Watson said. "The victim broke away from the group and called police, who were able to arrest one suspect near the scene."

Watson said the other two suspects were arrested at a February 29 Occupy Oakland protest.

Each was charged by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office with felony counts of robbery and hate crimes, Watson said.
An Occupy Oakland organizer could not be reached for comment on Friday evening.

A rallying cry of the movement has been that 1 percent of the population has too much of the nation's wealth and the remaining 99 percent is disadvantaged.

It has lost momentum in recent months after police cleared encampments in New York, Oakland and other major cities.




Three Occupy Oakland protesters charged with hate crimes | Reuters

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Ron in Regina

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Locutus said:
A rallying cry of the movement has been that 1 percent of the population has too much of the nation's wealth and the remaining 99 percent is disadvantaged.

It has lost momentum in recent months after police cleared encampments in New York, Oakland and other major cities.
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I thought (assumed, I guess) the loss of momentum was due to winter. :roll:
 
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The Feds haven't been holding back. A recent law was passed that made congregating in a place where an Govt official was at or even passing by was enough to get you arrested for about one full year, lol. I kid you not, didn't think of marking it somehow. I could have this mistaken but if that is for politician then OWS would then target manufacturing companies, all banks are private.

The part that got me is you didn't have to be informed such a person was in the area prior to being in breach of the new law.
 
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[SIZE=+7]Occupy Wall Street in NYC going broke

[/SIZE] NEW YORK (AP) -- Occupy Wall Street in New York City could run out of cash in a matter of weeks.
A finance report shows the group that galvanized the nationwide movement against economic inequality six months ago had about $45,000 left in its main account. That's for the week of March 2. Weekly donations plummeted to about $1,600.
The report on the group's General Assembly website says at "the current rate of expenditure" the occupiers will be "out of money in THREE WEEKS."


There was no immediate response to a request for comment emailed to Occupy on Friday night. But a former member of the group's accounting arm cautions that the report doesn't tell the full story.


Pete Dutro says occupiers continue to organize, launch projects and plan for protests in the spring.


News from The Associated Press


Like maybe they can do a telethon with soft focus candles and the glee kids singin' and lottsa celebrities and stuff, man.
 
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Occupy Protester Arrested For Allegedly Assaulting NYPD Officer With Metal Pipe



According to police, the two men who were arrested in front of the Sixth Street Community Center last night allegedly assaulted an NYPD sergeant with a metal pipe in front of the Starbucks on Astor Place. One of the men, 41-year-old Alexander Penley, is an attorney and has been an Occupy Wall Street organizer since the movement began in the fall.

Penley, along with 30-year-old Nicholas Thommen, were arrested around 10 p.m. after what witnesses described as a violent scuffle between the two men and police officers, and are charged with a litany of offenses, including assaulting a police officer, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest, and inciting a riot.

Penley has been quoted in stories about Occupy Wall Street in The Guardian and USA Today, and appeared on the local Manhattan television show Let Them Talk in October.





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Occupy Protester Arrested For Allegedly Assaulting NYPD Officer With Metal Pipe: Gothamist
 
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If even 5% of the US Canada population fully supported this "movement" the active protestors would often number in the hundreds of thousands in major cities. They are a delight to the left but no more than the odd mosquito bite at a jobsite to the majority and should be treated as such with DEET.
In viewing one in Victoria i saw only the usual suspects, as yet non productive idealist kids, old hippies, a few academics, numerous street hustlers/druggies and the odd union organizer trying to blend in.
Sadly, the few valid points made are disenfranchised by the stink of "rabble".
 
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skookumchuck said:
If even 5% of the US Canada population fully supported this "movement" the active protestors would often number in the hundreds of thousands in major cities. They are a delight to the left but no more than the odd mosquito bite at a jobsite to the majority and should be treated as such with DEET.
In viewing one in Victoria i saw only the usual suspects, as yet non productive idealist kids, old hippies, a few academics, numerous street hustlers/druggies and the odd union organizer trying to blend in.
Sadly, the few valid points made are disenfranchised by the stink of "rabble".
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The whole exercise is poorly thought out. "Have nots" against the "Haves" and yet 99% of them support the rich crooks. If you really want to fight them quit patronizing them, quit carrying credit card debt at 19%, quit using "payday" loan sharks, quit eating at Big Macs. Who has sympathy for people who stand around whining but don't have a job and won't look for one?
 
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skookumchuck said:
If even 5% of the US Canada population fully supported this "movement" the active protestors would often number in the hundreds of thousands in major cities. They are a delight to the left but no more than the odd mosquito bite at a jobsite to the majority and should be treated as such with DEET.
In viewing one in Victoria i saw only the usual suspects, as yet non productive idealist kids, old hippies, a few academics, numerous street hustlers/druggies and the odd union organizer trying to blend in.
Sadly, the few valid points made are disenfranchised by the stink of "rabble".
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