Improvised Explosive Devices for Social Justice
According to Marion County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Don Thomson, the men claimed to be Occupy Portland protesters who spent the night at Saturday night’s protest. They admitted they brought the items in preparation for a confrontation with police.
According to Thomson, the mortars were inside glass jars. The three men told the deputy they knew if the mortars were lit the jars would explode and send glass shrapnel flying into the air, injuring anyone nearby.
Irony Part 2
If you’re going to come here and get our food, bedding and clothing, have books and medical supplies for no charge, they need to give back. There’s a lot of takers here and they feel entitled.
Lauren Digioia, 26, #ows sanitation committee member
Don’t you see it was a political statement? Your girlfriend’s feet represent the 1% and he was just trying get his due. Share the wealth, jerk!
Growing up, they were told they needed a college education as a ticket to a productive life. Now they find themselves deeply in debt, their employment prospects limited in the Obama economy. So they’re lashing out at the banks that hold their debt and at the corporations that have made a college degree into a license to hunt for a job.
Their anger is understandable but misplaced. The banks were merely doing what banks do; if they had refused to make student loans, these youngsters would have been just as upset. As for the corporations, the reason they demand college degrees, as we wrote in 2007, is that the government forbids them to screen applicants directly for basic intelligence under a doctrine of antidiscrimination law known as “disparate impact” that the U.S. Supreme Court established in the 1971 case Griggs v. Duke Power Co.:
Happy Guy Fawkes Day Revolutionaries!
On this day we celebrate Guy Fawkes, who attempted to murder King James in order to expand Catholic dominion and bring the world under a theocracy ruled by the Pope.
An interesting thing happened at a comedy club last night when the local warm up guy mentioned Occupy Portland. How did the crowd from an uber-left leaning city respond?
With enthusiastic cheers?
No.
With loud boos?
Nope.
It’s best described as a full room groan of utter annoyance.
Why should we deny the people of Iraq the brilliance and wisdom of our movement? Racist!!!
Man, haven’t the Irish suffered enough?!?
But I thought this whole thing coalesced organically!
