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More Police Brutality ... Protesters Win (For Now) ... Own a Piece of History

Submitted by George Washington on 10/14/2011 13:43 -0400

There was more NYPD police brutality against peaceful protesters - but the protesters won a round ... and get to stay in the park (for now)

To celebrate (the getting to stay part, not the beating part) and be a part of history (and as an investment - these bad boys are only going to appreciate in value when he becomes mega-famous), buy one of our very own Wiliam Banzai's buttons direct from the artist.

6238828974 5389387b60 b Brilliant Protest Art

Banzai is too humble to toot his own horn, so I'm doing it for him.

Note: All proceeds from the sale of the buttons will go to a very worthy charit ... directly into his pocket, to buy tequil ... enable him to create even more works of genius.

Update 1: Police Punch Woman Protester In the Face

Update 2: Move On Tries to Take Over Occupy Wall Street Protests

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Sat, 10/15/2011 - 00:06 | 1776300 Fiat2Zero

Gold, Uranium, Farmland, and Al Queda.

Edit: forgot oil.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 18:43 | 1775597 buyingsterling

How about some respect, he's the President. Call him by the name he's earned: President Puke

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 18:06 | 1775506 nmewn

"For days, not weeks"

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 18:38 | 1775584 Pitchman

AFRICOM based in Germany just aint working out.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:01 | 1775796 AldousHuxley

WAR FOR OIL ....again....warm up the troops before the big one with Iran?

Uganda is a region that seems set to become the new frontier for oil and gas exploration.

The centerpiece of Uganda's nascent oil industry is the Lake Albert field that holds at least 2.5 billion barrels of oil. Some estimates go as high as 6 billion barrels.

But whatever the total, Lake Albert, lying in the center of Africa between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, is the biggest discovery in sub-Saharan Africa in two decades.

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Fri, 10/14/2011 - 19:29 | 1775725 nmewn

There's the thing right there...I have never agreed with being the worlds policeman. If they screw it up, they can fix it...or not.

Now I will expose myself to the slings & arrows of the commenters who usually read a GW omment section. Whatever...the reason we went to Afghaaaneeestahn is now over.

My mind was made up over a year ago when Marines were pinned down and dying for lack of air or artillery support. They had to call DC first.

It took hours...not minutes.

There is nothing worth our young mens lives for in these places now. It is time to come home.

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 22:19 | 1787588 Pitchman

I will not withdraw my respect, admiration, and devotion for those courageous men and women who sacrifice their being to a higher cause. As a patriot with the belief we must serve liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness for all mankind, I must also proclaim: Dying for a criminal regime is not courageous or heroic, it is a tragedy! – Inflection Point

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 22:01 | 1776055 TSA gropee

Good post,

Although I disagree on the U.S. being the world's policeman. If not us, then who? Although it is a travesty that there have been some serious alternative motives alongside the "just" causes.

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 07:40 | 1776638 nmewn

Don't mistake me. I believe in full force and fury when America is attacked.

These "community service" actions are not what our military is for.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 17:22 | 1775369 falak pema

they are getting arrested

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 17:13 | 1775339 Cman5000

When i was downtown today. I cut through the occupy Minneapolis protest i looked at a lot of signs no Ron Paul signs and no End the Fed. People are still holding onto the big government dream. I asked a lady any Ron Paul folks down here she said nope ... All the flyers that they were handing out nothing mentioned End the Fed or End the Wars looks like the support is coming from unions and the left they pushed out the Libertarians you guys lost me ...This movement will fail because it hangs onto a System that is Crumbling ... The System has to be torn down and rebuilt.

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 01:26 | 1776398 snowball777

"no Ron Paul signs and no End the Fed"

I guess you know what you have to do, then.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 19:11 | 1775635 Pitchman

That is the agenda of those responsible for all the problems. The problem is a criminal monetary system and the central banking cabal that controls it. They want the people push the government to take more draconian measures and thus give up more liberty and increase their power to control you.

_{"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." ~ Frederic Bastiat}

How can you ask a government that has already abdicated its constitutional duty to uphold the Rule Of Law to pass more laws and regulations? In a system where the political and regulatory apparatus is captured by a small group this process is used to further consolidate their ability to fleece the public. You might as well put yourselves on the auction block.

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” Steven Biko

WAKE UP! END THE FED

ONE HUMAN ONE VOTE

The Kids Art Alright. But Don't Get Fooled Again

"OccupyWallStreet's Young People are the tip of the spear in America's awakening. They are demonstrating what is our birth right. We The People must take up our Patriotic Duty and demand the restoration of The Rule of Law, Our Constitutional Democracy, Free Market Capitalism and First A Sovereign, Honest Monetary System. It is the only path to true and lasting change!... Wall Streets crimes and Washington's complicity make them legitimate targets... They are however, the minions for a larger more evil construct. That is a monetary system that demands constant growth of debt and war. And that criminal enterprise is controlled by the central banks THE FED and those behind them." - OccupyWallStreet: The Kids Are Alright!... but Don't Get Fooled Again - See our respons to OccupyWallStreet's First Public Statement.

Inflection Point

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 17:19 | 1775359 CompassionateFascist

Banksters and street socialists. Pigs at the trough, and wannabe pigs at the trough. GW & Banzai: find some new heroes. These all stink.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 17:17 | 1775351 Rynak

You haven't talked to anyone. You're just making shit up, as in your other posts.

"Track" is a bitch :-)

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:28 | 1775141 AnAnonymous

Made me laugh. The other day, some US citizens on this site boasted about distorting private rights in order to make that a car collision is exploited to the benefits of the car driver knocking down a passenger.

Hard for them, they have been beaten to the post by some US police officers who only managed to run a scooter through but still the hit target is the responsible.

Typical US citizen behaviour as US citizens are by nature bullies and bullies can not factor their own actions as aggression so they are always aggressed.

On a side note, always surprising that in their dear land of US freedom and US justice (elsewhere commonly known as injustice), US citizens have not yet learned their lesson that brushing a cop's uniform is an offense on authority.

Been a long time now, yet US citizens keep falling for the trick.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:45 | 1775222 roygbiv

Yeah, if you are going to taunt, at least make your message clear.

Like this: The superior chinese have designed a new kind of fighter plane that can suddenly land without wheels. Still working on the re-use part.

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 04:24 | 1776516 AnAnonymous

You know, I noticed something quite a long time ago: US citizens are often off target. Take a look at their air force bombing capacity. It is a lucky day when they strike on target. In regular days, they hit the marriage ceremony at some place instead of that bunker etc

So what have Chinese reference to do with the current story and taunting?

US citizens think that one has to be of a peculiar group to state facts.

So anytime they refer to Chinese, who is on target and who is off target?

The person telling that the US citizens nature is eternal and that their nature leads them to think that facts are determined by group membership or US citizens who think that this person has to be a Chinese to state facts on the US?

Rhetorical question: the US citizens nature is eternal and they prove it day after day through their actions.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 17:15 | 1775344 nmewn

ROTFL!!!...and far superior dockyards where they launch far superior luxury yachts!!!

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 05:15 | 1776549 TSA gropee

I'm on my 9th trip to China since last year and the 6th this year, so far. Been as far north as Tianjin, and as far south as Zhuhai and in God awful places like Taian, and Zhucheng, point is I kinda know China. The Chinese set the bar for the absurd, ridiculous and unsafe and I've got hundreds of pics and dozens of videos each seemingly setting the standard for the above three. Just when I think I've seen the extreme some other yoyo pushes it further. I've personally seen hundreds of wheelbarrow toting laborers moving mud (concrete) up an overpass that's being constructed and dumping into the support columns.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:33 | 1775176 whstlblwr

Isn't there way to block this fucking jibberish.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 17:18 | 1775356 akak

I encourage you to report the mindless trolling of AnonymousAsshole at abuse@zerohedge.com

This bastard long ago earned being banned.

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 04:34 | 1776524 AnAnonymous

On what ground? Good example of respect of freedom of speech.

Somehow, it is funny how US citizens can not control their nature. Other US human beings manage to achieve a kind of control over their nature.

US citizens can not control. They are like an incontinent, they can not help themselves.

Here we have US citizens who claim they support freedom of speech but the very second later, call for banning.

The group is all for US citizens. Stick with the group, speak like the group, behave like the group. Dont, well, you are free to exert your freedom of speech elsewhere.

And here's another point showing that US do not disagree with tyrany, they disagree with being tyrannized.

When they are treated the same way by their US superiors in the US society, this infringes on their unalienable rights.

When they treat others the same way, others have earned their punishement.

A key feature of the US citizens nature: they can not bear others behave like themselves.

They can not bear MSM monopolizing mass speech means. They can not bear free speech zones. But they do bear and encourage suppressing freedom of speech.

How funny, how US citizenish.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:29 | 1775133 cranky-old-geezer

@Georgesblog

I've made this same point before. Bankers way up in their XX story buildings look down on protesters in the street and just laugh. It's mere entertainment to them, while disrupting street-level businesses plus all the other negative things you mention.

And just as you said, the only thing bankers fear is people taking their loan business and deposits away from them.

I suspect most of those protesters have deposits in banks plus loans and credit cards with banks, maybe even a mortgage.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 17:08 | 1775322 Rynak

What matters is not if politicians or bankers are laughing.

What matters is something else - it is what you and your "friends" are trying so hard to prevent:

http://abstrusegoose.com/404

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:52 | 1775260 walküre

You're mistaken. These bankers live some place and they employ all sorts of people. How do they know whether or not their staff symphathizes with the movement? They don't. And yet they trust their staff for now and assume they can sleep well at nights. Sleep well banksters.

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 10:36 | 1776800 Schmoo

Sleep well banksters - and dream of Black Friday's

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 01:24 | 1776395 snowball777

" We park your cars, we wash your clothes, we guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us."

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 18:13 | 1775525 calltoaccount

Michael Hudson: “Wall Street Is A Crime Gang, A Criminal Organization.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBK4DsDsEMU&feature=player_embedded#!

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 18:50 | 1775618 buyingsterling

Worth watching, thanks.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:30 | 1775149 AnAnonymous

US citizens are mere entertainment for many around the world.

US citizens are so funny and this guy knocked down by the scooter, the US cops reaction and the following drama were that funny.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 18:13 | 1775524 PY-129-20

No, they are not. An overwhelming majority of people commenting on the Wall Street protest here in Germany support them and find them positive. And there are not few that would love to see some kind of protest here.

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 04:37 | 1776527 AnAnonymous

What are your data?

Surveys on how this movement is received in Germany? MSM reports?

This movement is hardly covered outside the US. Has it made only one front page, one breaking news in a European news outlet?

So where do your data come from? Personal acquaintances?

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 10:28 | 1776789 PY-129-20

"This movement is hardly covered outside the US"

What are you trying to prove? I live in Germany and the Media is full of reports, front page reports about the WST protests. For Der SPIEGEL it is even a top topic (they have a whole page about it):

SPIEGEL.DE

http://www.spiegel.de/thema/aufstand_gegen_die_finanzmacht_2011/

ZEIT.de

http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2011-10/wall-street-weltwe...
http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2011-10/wall-street-protest
http://www.zeit.de/2011/42/Banken-US-Reformen
http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2011-10/occupy-wall-street-raeumung
http://www.zeit.de/2011/42/Obama-Wahlkampf
http://www.zeit.de/2011/42/Umfrage
http://www.zeit.de/2011/41/Protest-New-York

And you can find much more.

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WELT.DE

and you can find more there.
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You can find also NEWS reports on Youtube from German TV about the Occupy protests in America as well as the European protests.

Spiegel.de : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azq2Da0n5CY
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And you can find much more about it. I did not look for a survey, but I read the comments section at Spiegel and ZEIT - and around 80-95 % of the people commenting there are positive about this movement. And many start to ask - why are we silent? We share a lot of the problems.
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Telegraph.co.uk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/search/?queryText=Occupy&Search=
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There is a lot of media reports here in Europe, not only in Germany. I don't know how other countries view this protest, but many people here in Germany, at least with their words, seem to support them. They may not know and share every detail, but they are united against the corporate greed, the endless bailouts and the distortions caused by the financial industry. Like in America, people have different solutions, different political and social backgrounds. But as a whole they agree on some basic ideas.

This is a summary of what I see here in Germany as a German reader of ZH. So I cannot agree with your opinion.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 22:45 | 1776141 pods

Get Rammstein as entertainment and I will swim over there!

Wir sind alle Menschen!

pods

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:08 | 1775811 AldousHuxley

Germans always up for a good soccer penalty acting skills.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:56 | 1775278 nmewn

Let me guess...AnAnonymous' derision of Americans is eternal...blah blah blah.

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 04:39 | 1776530 AnAnonymous

Oh no.

I am not eternal.

One could state that there will always be people to report about the eternal US citizen nature. Maybe.

Not granted. More and more US citizens around the world. US citizenism is advancing every day everwhere.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 21:59 | 1776048 akak

Sadly, there is no need to guess.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 21:54 | 1776040 New_Meat

nailing jello to the wall.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:47 | 1775248 roygbiv

I know, almost as good as Tiananmen square - what a yuck fest!

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 17:22 | 1775370 roygbiv

I can only surmise that some of you negative raters of my post, for whom I peon, didn't get my febrile attempt at a double entendre - "yuck" fest.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:24 | 1775839 AldousHuxley

Pay the sub 100 IQ brawns (soldiers cops thugs) to kill the other 100+ IQ brains (college students)

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/6/1/12438...

They actually built a replica of statue of liberty....when USA stood for such things

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/6/1/12438...

This is what protesters risk

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/6/1/12438...

This one Chinese guy has golden balls:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/6/1/12438...

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:23 | 1775119 AnAnonymous

Good way to monetize conflicts, selling badges... Never waste an opportunity to make money on the back of a poor sod.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 18:35 | 1775579 Pitchman

WB7 has used his talents to take it to the crooks and liars. What are you doing?

See: Congratulations: WilliamBanzai7 Now Seen In The Village Voice

For more shameful pomotion...

We must hack at the root of the problem

THE ROOT OF OUR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, MILITARISTIC WOW'S IS AN EVIL MONETARY SYSTEM. EVERYTHING ELSE IS A SYMPTOM OR AN ACTION THAT SUPPORTS IT. AT THE HEART OF THIS SYSTEM ARE THE CENTRAL BANKS (THE FED), THEIR DISHONEST MONETARY POLICIES AND THOSE WHO CONTROL IT. SUCH POLICIES, LAWS AND THE CAPTURE OF REGULATORS ARE FOR THEIR BENEFIT. AN ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE HAS NO PLACE IN IT.

INDEED, IF THE PEOPLE WERE ITS PRIMARY CONCERN, THE WORLD WOULD BE MORE FREE, LESS VIOLENT AND MORE PROSPEROUS; PROVIDING INDISPUTABLE PROOF OF MAN'S EVOLUTION BEYOND THAT OF TECHNICAL INNOVATION AND EMPTY SOPHISTICATION .

END THE FED!

See: todays ZH piece and more: Hi, It's Tim, I'm Stuck In Paris, And Need You To Send $500

Rape of The Republic

Our nation was founded on the principle that government's one legitimate function is the protection of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (private property). This principle is in peril. For those charged with protecting us have been captured by an evil monetary construct that drives their greed and lust for power.

See: RAPE OF THE REPUBLIC

The Kids Art Alright. But Don't Get Fooled Again

OccupyWallStreet's Young People are the tip of the spear in America's awakening. They are demonstrating what is our birth right. We The People must take up our Patriotic Duty and demand the restoration of The Rule of Law, Our Constitutional Democracy, Free Market Capitalism and an Honest Monetary System. It is the only path to true and lasting change!... Wall Streets crimes and Washington's complicity make them legitimate targets... They are however, the minions for a larger more evil construct. That is a monetary system that demands constant growth of debt and war. And that criminal enterprise is controlled by the central banks THE FED and those behind them.

From our post OccupyWallStreet: The Kids Are Alright! ...but Don't Get Fooled Again - See our respons to OccupyWallStreet's First Public Statement.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 18:34 | 1775576 buyingsterling

They do something to advance liberty. WTF do you do?

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 04:43 | 1776536 AnAnonymous

They do something to advance liberty. WTF do you do?
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Who? US citizens? But US citizens have never been about freedom. They have always been about tyranny and control of the power apparatus.

As US citizenism progresses, tyranny progresses.

US citizens do not care about freedom. They do not disagree with tyrany, they disagree with being tyrannized.

It is an ocean of differences.

US citizens do not want freedom to progress. They want their means to exert tyranny to strengthen.

That is what US citizens have been doing.

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:21 | 1775104 Earl of Chiswick

On which lapel does one wear this medal when entering into the US?

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 17:03 | 1775302 nmewn

The left ;-)

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 22:00 | 1776049 weinerdog43

Your tiny dick is leaking.

I forgot the :-)

More Police Brutality ... Protesters Win (For Now) ... Own a Piece of History

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