Operation Occupy Wall Street

Scuzz · 2011-11-22T10:10:41.000Z

Oh look, corpses and arrests under terrorism laws.

I have read numerous times that the cops violence is somehow “good” for the occupy groups public relations wise. Death could only be better huh.

Given these are campus cops, prove this.

I would bet you that they have taken one day training courses in order to satisfy the insurance companies. ;)

Scuzz · 2011-11-22T10:13:48.000Z

Originally Posted by Valentine
Again, not a direct correlation, but EVERY movement (except the Tea Baggers) has the authorities telling them to stop.

Remember to cue up the “crazy Tea Baggers with guns” line.

Dawn_Falcon · 2011-11-22T10:13:57.000Z

Scuzz:

Death could only be better huh.

Funnily enough, I’m not casual about people getting killed.

I would bet you that they have taken one day training courses in order to satisfy the insurance companies. ;)

Actual training.

Jason_McCullough · 2011-11-22T10:15:05.000Z

Andy Bates:

Really? People were tarred and feathered and blown up during the Boston Tea Party? Please continue! I must have missed that history lesson.

I didn’t say people were blown up; read more carefully. They destroyed nearly a million pounds in today’s money. The document image under Standoff in Boston is from the “Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering.” The Sons of Liberty were behind the Tea Party; they followed up by tarring and feather a customs official four weeks later. The same group burned a ship in 1772. This describes a variety of tar and feather incidents in that time period.

The leadup to the US revolution wasn’t a dinner party.

Andy_Bates · 2011-11-22T10:48:32.000Z

madkevin:

So, why did they choose the name “Tea Party” again?

No, you had it right the first time: They chose the name “Tea Party” to call attention to a brutal, violent event in our nation’s history, and thus scare the police off from possibly acting against them out of fear. Also, to further cement fear in the police, the Tea Party applies for permits whenever they gather, and makes sure to clean up afterwards. Nothing scares the police more than following proper procedure.

Andy_Bates · 2011-11-22T10:51:26.000Z

Dawn Falcon:

Funnily enough, I’m not casual about people getting killed.

Oh, right.

Dawn Falcon:

I suspect the tipping point will be, sadly enough, a baby being killed by the police.

Andy_Bates · 2011-11-22T10:54:47.000Z

Jason McCullough:

The Sons of Liberty were behind the Tea Party; they followed up by tarring and feather a customs official four weeks later.

And if the modern Tea Party had called themselves “Sons of Liberty,” that would be relevant to this discussion.

madkevin · 2011-11-22T10:54:58.000Z

Andy Bates:

No, you had it right the first time: They chose the name “Tea Party” to call attention to a brutal, violent event in our nation’s history, and thus scare the police off from possibly acting against them out of fear. Also, to further cement fear in the police, the Tea Party applies for permits whenever they gather, and makes sure to clean up afterwards. Nothing scares the police more than following proper procedure.

Good, I’m glad we finally came to consensus. You were really getting out there for a while.

madkevin · 2011-11-22T10:56:38.000Z

Andy Bates:

And if the modern Tea Party had called themselves “Sons of Liberty,” that would be relevant to this discussion.

Here’s an Andy post from that alternate universe: “So, what, you believe the police think all those people are sons? What about the women?”

Dawn_Falcon · 2011-11-22T11:04:39.000Z

Andy Bates:

Oh, right.

SADLY ENOUGH, you poor excuse for a human being. And yes, thanks for highlighting the fact you’re quite casual about violence and death.

madkevin · 2011-11-22T11:07:08.000Z

Oh, good. I was worried this thread wasn’t dumb enough.

Andy_Bates · 2011-11-22T11:17:07.000Z

madkevin:

Here’s an Andy post from that alternate universe: “So, what, you believe the police think all those people are sons? What about the women?”

Thanks, but instead of making up alternate-universe posts, you should focus on your ridiculous posts in this universe, like claiming that a name makes a group violent.

Dawn Falcon:

SADLY ENOUGH, you poor excuse for a human being. And yes, thanks for highlighting the fact you’re quite casual about violence and death.

I know, you’re very sad about the hypothetical deaths of future babies that you decided to bring up for no reason.

Dawn_Falcon · 2011-11-22T11:17:47.000Z

madkevin:

Oh, good. I was worried this thread wasn’t dumb enough.

Oh yes, please do praise violence and death, your gods, more.

Andy Bates - Excuses and shifting goalposts on your part again I see. Keep up the good work in promoting said twin gods!

madkevin · 2011-11-22T11:18:27.000Z

Andy Bates:

Thanks, but instead of making up alternate-universe posts, you should focus on your ridiculous posts in this universe, like claiming that a name makes a group violent.

Or I could hold my breath waiting for you to answer a simple question about why the Tea Party chose their name, and die.

madkevin · 2011-11-22T11:19:04.000Z

Dawn Falcon:

Oh yes, please do praise violence and death, your gods, more.

Crom laughs from his mountain.

Andy_Bates · 2011-11-22T11:24:27.000Z

madkevin:

Or I could hold my breath waiting for you to answer a simple question about why the Tea Party chose their name, and die.

Please do.

Edit: Oh no! Was I being casual about death again??

Jason_McCullough · 2011-11-22T11:45:29.000Z

"Jason McCullough:

“Sure, they blew up a lot of property and tar and feathered people, but that wasn’t illegal. Somehow.”

Andy Bates:

Really? People were tarred and feathered and blown up during the Boston Tea Party? Please continue! I must have missed that history lesson.

"Jason McCullough:

Details about Boston Tea Party property destruction and violence, some of it by the group “Sons of Liberty”, which basically was the Boston Tea Party.

Andy Bates:

And if the modern Tea Party had called themselves “Sons of Liberty,” that would be relevant to this discussion.

thrasymedes · 2011-11-22T11:49:00.000Z

Well, you fed the troll, what did you expect?

John_Many_Jars · 2011-11-22T11:52:27.000Z

If you guys had only listened to me and filled P&R with boner jokes, the forum would never have entered this new Dark Age.

Andy_Bates · 2011-11-22T11:52:41.000Z

Jason McCullough:

<head explodes>

You say that the “Sons of Liberty” group “was basically the Boston Tea Party,” but the Boston Tea Party was an event, not a group. The modern Tea Party named themselves after that event, not after the group that tarred and feathered people. And that’s all tangential anyway, because naming yourself after someone violent doesn’t make you violent, any more than naming yourself Muhammad makes you a boxer.