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John Stossel On Occupy Protesters: ‘They Smell Bad…And Haven’t Committed Violence Really Yet’

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Oh those sneaky Libertarians. Because of their wacky ideals and whatnot, it’s so hard to peg exactly where they’ll be coming from. Take, for example, John Stossell’s appearance on Your World today. While he came on with a fake protest sign declaring his love of free speech, he disagreed that the Occupiers had a right to, well, occupy with tents. However, when Neil Cavuto presented him with a clip seeming to show the protesters as inciting violence, Stossell refused to take the bait, instead pointing out that the Occupiers hadn’t actually done anything violent yet.

The clip in question was one that had been all over the Conservative blogosphere today featuring an angry protester following the eviction saying that, while the NYPD had guns, they had bodies and making references to molotov cocktails. If anyone’s spent any time indulging in Conservative media in the past couple months, this is the latest of a series of stories held aloft to prove that, while the protesters are lazy, directionless slackers, they’re also, as Rush Limbaugh put it today, “lousy hippies, thieves, rapists, purse snatchers, and muggers.”

Stossell wouldn’t go for it though. He summed up his feelings for the movement thusly:

“I don’t like those people, they smell bad, but they haven’t committed violence really yet.”

Damn Libertarian. Agree with one side or the other, you stupid jerk!

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  • Anonymous

    skyfet.com , the most trusted news source by no one , reports :

     On Thursday, the 17th moon of November, Occupy protest guys are plan to shut down Subway !

     This will teach Wall Avenue joker/phonys when they can’t get their sub sandwichs and have no foods for there banker/crook selfs !

    Ahhhhh

  • Rufus Danegro

    Wow Johnny can you afford to blow the rapist meme out of the water on Fox news like that? Will they make you shave your mustache? I mean the way certain liars(michelle of course) have been parading around spreading falsehoods about OWS violence from murder to rape you would think you would be forced to toe the Breitbart meme of lies and slander. I guess that why you threw in the odor crack-you know you viewers at heart! By the way can you imagine the stench in the EIB studious-wow that place stinks of fat white conservatism, KY-jelly, sweatsocks and failure. I guess El Rushbo and Herb Cain will be marketing the new fragrance soon!
     

  • Rufus Danegro

    Awwwwww Rubber gloves wants a sandwich!

  • Anonymous

    Lies about their violence and rape?

    Yea, there has been none!

    LOL

    NY: 10/1/2011 — Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
    Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 — Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation
    Phoenix: 10/28/2011 — Flier at Occupy Phoenix Asks, “When Should You Shoot a Cop?”
    NY: 10/18/2011 — Thieves Preying on Fellow Protesters
    NY: 10/9/2011 — Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR
    NY: 10/7/2011 — Occupiers Rush Police … More
    Cleveland: 10/18/2011 — ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
    NY: 10/10/2011 — ‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street?
    Seattle: 10/18/2011 — Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested
    10/12/2011 — Iran Supports ‘Occupy Wall Street’
    Portland: 10/16/2011 –#OccupyPortland Protester Desecrates Memorial To U.S. War Dead
    Portland: 10/15/2011 — #OccupyPortland Protesters Sing “F*** The USA”
    Chicago: 10/17/2011 — COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago
    10/15/2011 — American Nazi Party Endorses Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Courage,‘ Tells Members to Support Protests and Fight ’Judeo-Capitalist Banksters’
    Boston: 10/14/2011 — Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents
    Boston: 10/11/2011 — Boston Police Arrest Over 100 from Occupy Boston
    New York: 10/11/2011 — “You Can Have Sex with Animals.”
    New York: 10/15/2011 — Harassing Police with Accusations of Phony Injuries
    New York: 10/9/2011 — ‘Occupy Wallstreet’ Protesters Steal from Local Businesses
    New York: 10/25/2011 — Three Men Threatened to Kill 24-Year-Old Occupy Wall Street Protester for Reporting Rape
    Baltimore: 10/18/2011 — #OccupyBaltimore Discourages Sexual Assault Victims from Contacting Police
    Portland: 10/27/2011 — Occupy Portland’s Attempt At Wealth Redistribution Ends In Theft
    Los Angeles: 10/14/2011 – Anti-Semitic Protester at Occupy Wall Street
    10/27/2011 — A Death Threat From an Occupy Wall Street Protester
    10/27/2011 – Anti-Semitic Tweet From Occupier or Sympathizer
    Boston: 10/20/2011 — Occupy Boston Doesn’t Want Police Involved in Rape
    New York: 10/5/2011: Anti-Semitic Occupier Screams About Jews, Israel
    New York: 10/4/2011 — Occupier Taunts Jewish Man
    Boston: 10/2011 — Occupiers Block Street
    New York: 10/2011 — Occupier Tries to Steal Police Officer’s Gun
    New York: 10/27/2011 — Occupiers Block Traffic, Get Arrested
    Oakland: 10/27/2011 — Occupiers Throw Garbage at Police
    Oakland: 10/19/2011 — Abusive #OccupyOakland Protesters Ban Media from Tent City
    Eugene, OR: 10/19/2011 — Occupiers Displace Farmers’ Market Threatening Hundreds of Jobs
    Portland, OR: 10/18/2011 — Capitalist Offering Jobs at Occupy Portland Finds Few Takers
    NY: 10/20/2011 — #OccupyWallStreet Threatens Businesses, Patrons
    NY: 10/14/2011 — Violence Breaks Out During #OccupyWallStreet March Toward Stock Exchange
    NY: 10/14/2011 — Protesters March On Wall Street, Scuffle With Cops
    Oakland: 10/19/2011 — #OccupyOakland Protesters Threaten Reporter
    Oakland: 10/26/2011 — Occupiers Scuffle with Police
    Oakland: 10/24/2011 — Protesters Storm, Vandalize, Shut Down Chase Bank
    Dayton, OH: 10/22/2011 — Protester: ‘F*ck The Military, F*ck Your Flag, And F*ck The Police’
    Chicago: 10/14/2011 — Protesters’ Message At #OccupyChicago Rally: ‘Destroy Israel’
    NY: 10/23/2011 — #OccupyWallStreet Supporter Rants Against Israel, Jews
    NY: 10/22/2011 — #Occupy Kid: ‘Burn Wall Street, Burn!’
    NY: 10/21/2011 — New Yorkers Fed Up With Noisy, Defecating Protesters
    Oakland: 10/21/2011 — Occupy Oakland Evicted After Reports Of Crime And Intimidation
    Oakland: 10/19/2011 — #OccupyOakland Out of Control: Rats, Graffiti, Vandalism, Sexual Harassment, Public Sex and Urination
    Chicago: 10/26/2011 — Occupiers Under Investigation by FBI for Links to Terrorism
    Cleveland: 10/29/2011 — Rape Reported at Occupy Cleveland
    Dallas: 10/24/2011 — Police Investigating Possible Sexual Assault Of Teen At Occupy Dallas
    Bloomington, IN: 10/26/2011 — Man Claims Occupy Bloomington Protesters Drugged, Handcuffed Him
    NY: 10/10/2011 — Sex, Drugs and Hiding from the Law at Wall Street Protests
    Glasgow: 10/26/2011 — Woman Gang-Raped
    Boston: 10/23/2011 — Occupy Boston Protesters Arrested For Dealing Heroin – With 6 Year-Old in Tent
    Portland: 10/16/2011 — Sex Offender Registers Occupy Portland Camp as Address
    Denver: 10/15/2011 — Occupy Denver Demonstrator Accused of Groping TV Photographer
    Lawrence, KS: 10/25/2011 — Sexual Assault Reported at Occupy Camp
    Minneapolis, MN: Bricks, Rocks, ‘Riot Supplies’ Discovered by Police
    Phoenix, AZ: 10/27/2011 — Neo-Nazis Patrol “Occupy Phoenix” With AR-15′s
    Chicago: 10/26/2011 — Occupy Chicago Invades City Hall
    10/26/2011 — ACORN, Occupy Email Talks About Assault on Banks
    10/26/2011 — OccupyWallStreet Strategy for Reports of Violence Against Cops
    Chicago: 10/26/2011 — Unrepentant Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers Wows Occupiers
    Chicago: 10/25/2011 — Ayers Coaches #OccupyChicago, Callsg for School ‘Occupations’
    10/26/2011/ — Occupy Protests Have Jewish Leaders Concerned
    Wash DC: 10/27/2011 — OccupyDC Leftists Provoke Police – Hang Flag on Top of DC Statue
    Albuquerque, NM: 10/26/2011 — Occupy Squatters Riot With Police
    San Diego: 10/25/2011 — Flag Used as Chew Toy by Occupier’s Dog
    Oakland: 10/25/2011 — Occupiers Throw Bottles at Police
    NY: 10/27/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Rush Limbaugh Is Bigger Threat Than Al-Qaeda
    10/27/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Launching First Nationwide General Strike in America Since 1946
    NY: 10/28/2011 — Fox 5 News Reporter Assaulted at OWS
    10/28/2001 — Total Occupy Arrests Made Thus Far: 2750
    Nashville: 10/28/2011 — 30 Arrests Made at Wall St. Protest
    NY: 10/20/2011 — Former Marine Tries to Taunt Police into Violence
    NY: 1023/2011 — Islamist Group Joins with Occupy Wall Street
    Los Angeles: 10/13/2011 — Roundup of Overt Occupy anti-Semitism
    NY: 10/12/2011 — There are No Anti-Semites at Occupy Wall Street. Except for This Guy
    Missoula, MT: 10/20/2011 — Drunk 11-Year-Old At Occupy Missoula, Adult Arrested
    Oakland: 10/28/2011 — Bounty Out On Police Officer?
    Manchester, NH: 10/28/2011 — Woman charged with pimping teen recruited at Occupy NH rally
    San Diego: 10/28/2011 — 40 Occupiers arrested
    Boston: 10/24/2011 — Occupy Boston Vandalism of Banks
    Boston: 10/25/2011 — Store Owner Suffers 4 Break Ins Since Occupy Boston Began
    Portland: 10/28/2011 — Portland Police: Buckets of Excrement Scattered Around #OccupyPortland Camp
    Seattle: 10/20/2011 — Two Possible Occupiers Charged With Assault
    Seattle: 10/18/2011 — Armed Felon Arrested at Occupy Seattle
    Seattle: 10/18/2011 — A Tent Fight and (At Least) One Arrest at Occupy Seattle
    Seattle: 10/17/2011 — Over 50 Cops Clear Westlake Occupation, Make Eight Arrests
    Seattle: 10/13/2011 — Cops Arrest Several Occupy Protesters
    Seattle: 10/13/2011 — Chanting Protesters Surround Police After Officers Arrest Two
    Denver: 10/29/2011 — Protesters Clash with Police at OWS Denver
    Austin: 10/13/2011 — Occupy Austin protesters arrested for blocking cleaning Crews
    Calgary, CN: 10/28/2011 — Occupiers do $40,000 in Property Damage
    Cincinnati, OH: 10/21/2011 — 23 Arrested, Remains of protests fill two dumpsters
    Sacramento: 10/19/2011 — 9 arrested in ‘Occupy Sacramento’ protest
    Sacramento: 10/13/2011 — Four More Occupy Sacramento Demonstrators Arrested
    Austin, TX: 10/22/2011 — Man Arrested After Knife Incident at Occupy Austin Camp
    Nashville: 10/29/2011 — Tenn. Protesters Arrested For 2nd Straight Night
    Austin, TX: 10/30/2011 — Austin Police arrest 38 Occupy Austin Protesters
    NY: 10/30/2011 — Woman Assaulted in Her tent
    Orlando, FL: 10/28/2011 — Occupy Orlando, police clash over use of downtown park
    Orlando, FL: 10/26/2011 — 2 Occupy Orlando protesters arrested for trespass
    Orlando, FL: 10/22/2011 — Police arrest 19 Orlando protesters on trespass charges
    Asheville, NC: 10/30/2011 — Occupiers Clash with Homeless in Asheville
    Nationwide: 10/27/2011 — Pro-Occupy Site claims 2511 Arrests Thus Far
    Fort Worth, TX: 10/16/2011 — Arrests at Occupy Fort Worth Protest
    NY: 10/29/2011 — Three Incidents of Anti-Semitism
    San Francisco: 10/29/2011 — Anti-Semitic, Folsom Street Fair Types & Che Guevara Lovin
    Oklahoma City: 10/30/2011 — Death of Street Poet at #OccupyOKC Treated as Homicide
    Baltimore: 10/31/2011 — Woman Claims She was Raped at #OccupyBaltimore
    Boston: 10/31/2001 — Alleged Heroin Dealer Joined Occupy Movement
    Ottawa: 10/31/2011 — #OccupyOttawa Violent & Sexual Assaults Not Reported to Police
    Santa Barbara, CA: 10/5/2011 — Occupiers Defy Police
    Santa Barbara, CA: 10/6/2011 — 8 Occupiers Arrested
    Denver, CO: 10/31/2011 — Occupiers Taunt Police, Knock Motorcycle Cop to Ground
    Dallas, TX: 10/24/2011 — 23 Occupy Dallas Protesters Arrested After Bank Demonstration
    Richmond, VA: 10/31/2011 — Arrests of Occupiers in Richmond
    Dallas, TX: 1v1/1/2011: Man Arrested for Child Sex assault at Occupy Dallas Camp
    NY: 11/1/2011 — Protesters Flock to STD-Test Clinics After Occupier ‘Free Love’
    Iowa: 11/1/2011 — Occupiers Intend to Disrupt Iowa Caucus
    NY: 11/1/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Costs Main Street Workers Their Jobs
    San Diego: 10/29/2011 — Businesswoman Closes Shop After Threats By Occupiers
    Palm Desert, CA: 11/1/2011 — Occupiers Arrested
    Tampa, FL: 10/24/2011 — Six Occupiers Arrested
    Tampa, FL: 10/27/2011 — Two More Arrested In Connection to Occupy Tampa Movement
    Tampa, FL: 10/29/2011 — Occupy Tampa Protesters Arrested After Scuffle With Police
    Oakland, CA: 11/3/2011 — Rallies Turn Violent
    Seattle, WA: 11/2/2011 — Cops, Protesters Clash
    Oakland, CA: 11/3/2011 — Protests Degenerate Into Chaos
    Tulsa, OK: 11/2/2011 — Occupiers Clash With Police
    Sacramento, CA: 11/2/2011 — Occupiers Smash County Vehicle Windows
    Philadelphia: 11/2/2011 — Occupiers Arrested
    Charlottesville, VA: 11/1/2011 — Underage Drinking at Occupy Charlottesville Site
    Portland: 11/2/2011 — Occupier Shoves Police Officer into Moving Bus
    Oakland: 11/2/2011 — Malkin’s Collection of Vandalism and Menacing Signs
    NYC: 11/3/2011 — Occupier Busted In Tent Grope, Suspected In Rape
    NYC: 11/4/2011 — 16 OWS Protesters Arrested at Goldman Sachs HQ
    Oakland, CA: 11-3-2011 — Occupy-Friendly Business Vandalized
    Asheville, NC: 11/3/2011 — 24 Occupiers Arrested
    Raleigh, NC: 10/28/2011 — Eight at Occupy Raleigh Arrested After Standoff
    NYC: 11/4/2011 — Deranged Homeless Man Goes on Violent Rampage In Zuccotti Park
    Dallas, TX: CPS Seizes Baby From ‘Occupy Dallas’ Site
    Wash DC: 11/4/2011 — Occupier Uses Child as Human Shield — Video
    Wash DC: 11/4/2011 — Occupiers Try to Storm Americans for Prosperity Event — Video
    Omaha, NE: 11/3/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
    Atlanta: 11/3/2011 — Protester Turns On Fellow Protester With Knife
    Los Angeles: 10/28/2011 — Drug Use and Property Damage
    Boston, MA: 11/4/2011 — 3 Charged With Dealing Crack; Occupy Boston ‘Deteriorating’
    Boston, MA: 11/4/2011 — Occupiers Storm Israeli Consulate; Anti-Israel Chants — Video
    Vancouver, CN: 11/5/2011 — Occupy Vancouver Death Dooms Protest Camp
    Fort Collins, CO: 11/4/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Setting Fire to Condo Complex … $10M Damage
    Chula Vista, CA: 11/6/2011 — Underage Girl Missing From Occupy Protests
    Los Angeles, CA: 11/5/2011 – Two Assaults Raise Concerns About Crime at Occupy L.A.
    Dallas, TX: 11/5/2011 — Eight Arrests at Dallas Bank Protest
    Olympia, WA: 11/5/2011 – Two Occupy Protesters Arrested
    Seattle, WA: 11/3/2011 — Occupiers Cost City $426,000; Most of it Police Overtime
    Olympia, WA: 11/2/2011 — 3 Occupiers Arrested for Suspected of Robbing Local Wine Merchant
    Worcester, MA: 11/6/2011 — 25 Occupiers Arrested
    Milwaukee, WI: 11/2/2011 — Photojournalist, Two others Arrested at Protest … Video
    Milwaukee, WI: 10/20/2011 — Police Confront Occupier –Video … Arrested
    Wash. DC: 11/5/2011 — Rampaging Occupiers Attack 78 Year-Old Woman — Video
    Rochester, NY: 11/3/2011 — 161 Occupiers Arrested at Park
    NYC: 11/5/2011 — Police Clash With Occupiers, 20 Arrested at Courthouse Protest
    NYC: 11/5/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Vandalizing McDonald’s; Wanted Free Food
    Asheville, NC: 11/5/2011 — Four Occupiers Arrested
    Honolulu, HI: 11/6/2011 — Police Arrest Half-Dozen Occupiers
    Waikiki, HI: 11/7/2011 — Two Dozen Occupiers Arrested
    Portland, OR: 11/7/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Threatening Restaurant Employees
    Portland, OR: 11/7/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Threatening Security Staff with Hammer
    Augusta, GA: 10/28/2011 — Occupier Arrested in Knife Threat
    Portland OR: 11/9/2011 — Police Suspect Occupiers in Molotov Cocktail Attack
    Sacramento, CA: 11/7/2011 — Homeless Clash With Occupy Protesters At Park
    New Orleans: 11/8/2011 — Man Dead for Two Days Found in Occupy Encampment
    San Diego: 11/7/2011 — Occupiers Splatter Vendor Food Carts with Blood, Urine
    Los Angeles: 11/7/2011 — Occupiers Shut Down Burger King — Video
    Atlanta, GA: 11/6/2011 — Occupiers Arrested After Attacking Police
    St. Louis, MO: 11/9/2011 — Occupiers Hack Into Mayor’s Website
    Oakland, CA: 11/8/2011 — “Dangerous” Occupiers Hurting Small Business Owners
    Vancouver, CN: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Bite Two Police Officers
    Wash DC: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Use Children to Block Traffic — Video
    Portland, OR: 11/9/2011 — Occupiers Threaten Citizen-Journalist – Video
    Wash DC: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Use Racial Taunts Against Black Security Guard — Video
    Eureka, CA: 11/9/2011 — Occupier Defecates in Bank – Video
    Wash DC: 11/5/2011 – Occupiers Menace Children, Female Reporter – Video
    Portland, OR: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Menace News Crew – Video
    NYC: 11/8/2011 — Occupier: ‘I Wouldn’t Give a F**k if 9/11 Happened 911 More Times’
    NYC: 11/8/2011 — Small Business Owner Threatened, Terrorized By Occupiers
    San Francisco, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupier Threatens Park Ranger
    Burlington, VT: 11/10/2011 — Veteran Shoots Self at Encampment
    Oakland, CA: 11/3/2011 — ‘Occupy Oakland’ Goes After Cop
    NYC: 11/10/2011 — EMT Assaulted at Occupy Wall Street
    San Diego, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupier Attacks Woman with Camera
    Berekely, CA: 11/10/2011 — 39 Occupiers Arrested
    Westwood, CA: 11/9/2011 — 11 Occupiers Arrested for Blocking Traffic
    Fresno, CA: 11/9/2011 — 40 Occupiers Arrested
    Toledo, OH: 11/1/2011 — 2 Occupiers Arrested
    Houston, TX: 11/9/2011 — 10 Occupiers Arrested
    NYC: 11/8/2011 — Hobbyist Photographer Describes Assault in Zuccotti Park
    Oakland, CA: 11/10/2011: Fatal Shooting Over Drugs
    Oakland: CA: 11/10/2011 — Protesters Attack News Crew Covering Fatal Shooting
    Pasadena, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Announce Plans to Disrupt Rose Bowl Parade
    Tampa, FL 11/10/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
    Portland, OR: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Billed for Police Car Vandalism
    Olympia, WA: 11/11/2011 — Occupiers Asked to Pack Up After Assault, Drug Arrests
    Denver, CO: 11/11/2011 — Occupiers Storm BlogCon 11 … One Arrest
    Salt Lake City, UT: 11/12/2011 — Protest Shut Down After Body Discovered In Tent
    San Francisco: 11/8/2011 — Shoplifting, Fights On The Rise Around Encampment
    San Francisco: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Accused of Ferry Building Thefts, Filth
    San Francisco: 11/10/2011 — Protester Busted For Gun Violation Arrested Again
    Mobile, AL: 11/9/2011 — 18 Occupy Protesters Arrested
    New Orleans: 11/11/2011 — Death at Campsite Attributed To Alcohol Abuse
    San Francisco: 11/12/2011 — Occupier Slashes Police Officer With Razor, Another Injured
    Portland: 11/13/2011 — Three Arrested with Mortars, Fireworks
    Chapel Hill, NC: 11/13/2011 — Eight Occupiers for Trespassing
    Norfolk, VA: Six Occupiers Arrested
    Philadelphia, PA: 11/13/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Rape
    Portland, OR: 10/27/2011 — Sexual Assault: ‘nobody should contact the police’ — Video
    NYC: 11/12/2011 — Occupiers Plan Mass Trespassing Campaign
    Oakland, CA: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Plan Mass Trespassing Campaign
    Salt Lake City, UT: 11/12/2011 — 19 Occupiers Arrested
    St. Louis, MO: 11/13/2011 — 27 Occupiers Arrested
    St. Louis, MO: 11/12/2011 — Occupier Arrested
    NYC: 11/13/2011 — Occupier Slugs Police Officer
    Oakland, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Withdraw Resolution to Remain Peaceful
    Portland, OR: 11/9/2011 — Occupier Requires Life-Saving CPR After Drug Overdose
    Portland, OR: 11/9/2011 — 4 Reports of Substance Abuse
    Olympia, WA: 11/12/2011: Growing Number of Drug, Violence Complaints
    Atlanta, GA: 11/10/2011 — TB Breaks Out at Occupy Home Base
    NYC: 11/13/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Costs Local Businesses $479,400
    Nationwide: 11/11/2011 — Occupy Death Toll Hits 7
    Seattle, WA: 11-14-2011 — Occupier Defecates on Public Sidewalk
    Hartford, CT: 10/16/2011 — Occupier Charged After Pulling Knife
    Dallas, TX: 11/14/2011 — 9-Month-Old Baby Removed From Camp Due to Health Concerns, Neglect
    Albuquerque, NM: 10/27/2011 — 2 Occupiers Arrested
    Albuquerque, NM: 10/26/2011 — More Than a Dozen Occupiers Arrested
    Albuquerque, NM: 10/22/2011 — Knife Attack at Occupy Camp
    Albuquerque, NM: 10/27/2011 — Police Forced to Remove Occupiers From Park Again, 37 Arrested
    Albuquerque, NM: 10/8/2011 — Occupier Arrested
    University of New Mexico: 11/8/2011 — Sordid Story of Lawlessness, Dozens of Arrests, Spitting on Walmart Customer
    Albuquerque, NM: 10/16/2011 — Occupier Cited for Blocking Traffic
    Portland, OR: 11/14/2011 — 51 Occupiers Arrested
    Portland, OR: 11/14/2011 — Occupiers Smash Bank Windows
    Albany, NY: 11/15/2011 — 20 Occupiers Arrested
    Near Salem, OR: 11/13/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested With Explosives
    Wash DC: 11/11/2011 — Occupy’ Mom ‘Won’t Stop’ Putting Protest Above Her Kids’ Safety
    NYC: 11/15/2011: — Hundreds of Occupiers Arrested, Chaos, Resisting Arrest, Object Thrown at Police
    Houston, TX: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Arrested
    Minnesota: 11/15/2011 — Occupy Minnesota Costs Taxpayers $10,000+ Each Day
    Austin, TX: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Accused of Masturbating in Front of 16 Year-old Girl
    San Francisco, CA: 11/15/2011 — Deadly Dog Disease Spreads at Occupy Camp
    Philadelphia, PA: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Assaulting Woman
    Philadelphia, PA: 11/15/2011 — Occupiers Vandalize Dilworth Plaza With Graffiti and Feces – Video

  • Anonymous

    You must have  a terribly empty feeling… in your skull?

  • http://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew The Morning Spew

    Don’t believe the hype, OWSers have created jobs!

    http://themorningspew.com/2011/11/16/occupied/

  • Ryan

    and the lsit of crimes that took place in those parks is much longer prior to the OWS protesters moving into the parks. You see having those parks full of people actually makes them less friendly to criminals not the other way around. In fact in every case there are fewer crimes reported in and around those parks now then there was prior to the occupation. Congrats on being a moron though.

  • unmutual

    What a load of nonsense.

  • Anonymous

    and the lsit of crimes that took place in those parks is much longer prior to the OWS protesters moving into the parks”

    LOL

    LOL

    Poor lib- I guess you can’t understand English- you are a moron-NYC and the other parks did not need police OT to handle the crimes in the parks before.

    Yes, I can remember daily nightly news broadcasts about all the violence in city parks before OWS started!

    Where you born a loser, too?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    This is comforting news for the potential morphology of the Occupy movement: that consistently wrong headed types like SP here and Loynent Stossel in the post itself come out against it.

    There are not just hundreds but thousands of incidents in the period since Europe emerged from the previous medieval period of feudalism in which populist protests or uprisings have taken place; uprisings get destroyed, but the historical pattern is that when the ruling class overreacts against populist protests those protests just grow and come back stronger at some later time; in contrast, when governance systems simply tolerate & adapt to such protests, then get subsumed into the prevailing culture. On that pattern, the overreaction of local governments to the Occupy movement protests are likely – not guaranteed by any means, but LIKELY – to end up finding themselves to have been helped, and helped most of all, by the elitist reactions of Bloomberg in NYC, and by the screwed up local divided governance reactions in Oakland and Portland in particular. Anyway, it’s not obvious and anyone who purports to be able to forecast the future here is full of it and just guessing.

    But here is some not-guessing: what the Occupy movements have succeeded in doing is in connecting hundreds of thousands to millions of mostly young adults to each other locally, and regionally and nationally, that amounts to capital resources, the sort of thing the new social media sites are forever going after, but in a far more focused and serious way. Those young adults will go home, some very few to jobs (most were and are unemployed), to school (a larger group, but government support for schooling is lower than it has been for decades) and otherwise into their communities, with time on their hands to proselytize and further organize, again locally, regionally and nationally. I really do not think the GOP has a sound reason to fear Occupy will take Obama or any Ds to relection or election in November 2012, because that misses the point about Occupy, that it’s based on a consensus belief that the SYSTEM has failed (not ‘is failing’ – ‘has failed’), so what I would expect is a movement towards organic groups which then LATER show up interested in exerting muscle in the traditional party systems. The TPers (Birchers and Birthers) already did that, to the limited degree they have done, with the GOP, and all they’ve done is weaken the GOP in certain ways, particularly in the presidential setting, so it’s almost guaranteed the Occupiers, once they moult, will go after the generally more vulnerable and populist D party. That will likely – now I’m into guessing about timing – start showing up in 2016, and the question will be how it grows and develops alongside the coming Hispanic emergence – whether the two grow organically alongside each other and in some complementary way, or in effective opposition, it’s too unknown to eve fix odds, even based on the history of social movements with population dynamics.

    What we DO know is that inevitably and increasingly, the elites will be isolated within neggreen authoritarians and reflexive religious extremists, and so will die out as those groups change and their leaders die out. The banks are going to die because the governments can no longer bail them out – ironic, given the bankster-government partnership of the last 150 years. The merchant pirates are going to go under attack, and the Kochies know this, so that will be incredibly bloody and costly in terms of lives, mostly at first in those pressuring them, but in the end the Kochies will go down.

    But the real action is going to take place among whatever the Occupiers turn into (militarism is not out of question, but in the end, as the SDS types learned, it’s futile, and the emergent Hispanic majority. The latter is a very interesting group, not comparable to the Mexican and South American compliant hordes, because their forefathers moved here with expectations and ambitions, but they are Catholic and have some very conservative tendencies, and how those affect the Hispanic vote as it grows to dominance is not predictable. 

    You think things are messy now – we’re just a bit into the second decade of the messiest century in the history of the species. This is going to be wild in ways none of us can anticipate.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Every single item on that list – drawn from a winger summary in the wingosphere for just this sort of purpose – is somewhere between a lot more nuanced than the lister suggests and an outright authoritarian meme lie. It’s there not to PROMOTE discussion but to shout it down, to drown it out. It ought to be flagged for removal.

  • Anonymous

    Your pompous , arrogant,pedantic and  pretentious tripe impresses no one. Your verbosity only highlights your inability to be succinct in your writing.

  • Anonymous

    Copy any of them into Google and see what you get. You get the article from where it was taken.

    man, you are too easy to rebuke  and your puerile comments are truly laughable.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Stossel, who’s usually always right, is wrong here. The protesters HAVE been violent and they’re deliberately trying to cover it up. Nobody doubts that they have the right to speak, but they do not have the right to be violent and they also do not have the right to infringe on the liberty of others.

  • Rufus Danegro

     Nice try Steven but all it shows is how truly desperate you have become!!!

    LOL

  • ASL3676

    Dear Stonepark,

       Get a life…..I think your overdosing on Fox News is creating a neurological disorder,,,,,

  • ASL3676

    Attn. Right Wingers:

       The 60′s are over….Calling demonstrators smelly went out with the term hippie…..What a shame you have no idea that the oligarchs are running the GOP and Fox News….

  • Anonymous

    It helps to read what you copy before you paste it.  A lot of that stuff isn’t even close to violence.  

  • Ryan

    Heres an idea. Go to a public urban park with a note pad. Jot down the time and place of every drug deal and hooker hire you see. Now go to an occupy protest with the same note pad and keep track of every crime you witness. I see more drug deals in one hour in any urban park then you have crimes in that entire list.

    The only difference is that the establishment is scared of the occupy movement, they’re not scared of a bunch of junkies. So they send the police in to protect the plutocracy.

  • Jason_in_Vegas

    You need a fucking life, son.

  • Jason_in_Vegas

    People have been arrested for raping people. Are you saying those women lied about being sexually assaulted by your hippy friends? I thought we just learned last week that women never lie about that kind of thing?

  • Anonymous

    He need a ass kickin

  • Bob

    I think that smell is coming from stuff that got stuck in Stossel’s stash when he had his head up Milton Friedman’s behind.

  • Bob

     Righwingers seem hell-bent on re-creating the Nixon years.

  • Anonymous

    We are all much more impressed with your homoerotic comments. 

  • Anonymous

    In my experience, people that say “son” on the internet are the ones that need a life. 

  • Anonymous

    Wow, you really are the most annoying person here on Mediaite. 

  • Anonymous

    I don’t like one fiber in Stossel’s body he’s a jerk.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You are correct Sir!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    John Stossell: One of the only few people on cable news who still thinks having a mustache is cool!!

  • One pissed off liberal

    No…your probably wrong dude….it is most likely from feces and urine on the street left by OWS crowd.

    Good theory though.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Point out the lie or falshood you described….or shut up.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Dude, when you’re looking to spin something negative into a false positive, your gonna have to work a little harder.

    You have to remember that this site has more than the garden variety, glassy-eyed, guilable liberals, that you are apparently used to selling this load of bullshit to.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Ahahahaa……I think I just broke my mouse wheel scrolling down on this one. 
     
    So…with that out of the way…Liberals…here is your opportunity to match this comprehensive list of news articles describing OWS crime with a Tea Party Equivalent.
     
    After all, according to Biden, Pelosi, and the legion of partisan hack “journalists” the tea party was a bunch of violent terrorists…..
     
    So your task should be easy to match this…right?

  • One pissed off liberal

    “Wow, you really are the most annoying person here on Mediaite.”

    TRANSLATION:  Wow…I have nothing to say that can even come close to refuting your point.  Therefore I find you annoying.

  • Anonymous

    Buck, you and Leedog are homosexuals.

  • Anonymous

    No, child- I’ll let you do that as I watch on TV as they watch them arrest the OWS criminals.

  • Anonymous

    That’s it? That’s all ya got?

    Now you would admit in hindsight that you made a complete fool out of yourself would ya not?

  • Anonymous

    Poor child- where did I say EVERYTHING was about violence?

  • Anonymous

    Yawn and snore- you are a natural soporific!

  • Anonymous

    Intellectual/hygenic slobs.  Murcuh  -  2011.

  • proud2teabagu

    If they stink smelly is the correct description of the vagrants.

  • zc9658764

    It is really bad where i live in Seattle. There is a video made this week of 0ne of the OWS people having a bowel movement on the side walk, he just walks away.Poor guy, how can he be expected to have any social skills or class.The big bad corporations took those away from him. My sister has to drop off her kids at a daycare that is next  to one of the OWS camps, the air is filled with the smell of POT, there is debris everywhere and you have to be careful or you will step on  one of many condoms or IV drug needles that litters the ground. The OWS protestors block roads and have altercations with the police.
    There is a interesting back lash to OWS, there are business owners in Seattle who are talking about closing their businesses or moving to another area.  My sister is closing her 2 businesses. She states it is not worth the hastle and she is not going to give her money, that she has worked her whole life to make, to a bunch of people who have no sense of accountability.
    We did a poll yesterday at work, who has the best class of people, Republicans or democrats? The Republicans won. The Tea Party was able to have their voice heard without doing drugs, getting arrested, having bowel movements on the side walk or a police car. There were no rapes, no crime, they cleaned up after themselves, thye didn’t have to stand around beating on drums, they had a mission statement that was understood and they were productive people who actually make a contribution to society. OWS wants everyone to Provide for them and they see themselves as victims.

  • Hankwaters

    Skyfet, What exactly will it teach the “wall street/phonys”? 

    btw…
    the plural of “phony” is “phonies”. 
    There, their and they’re are not the same.  You should have used “their” in this case. 
    The plural of self is not “selfs” it’s “selves”" 
    Go back to school.

  • Lex Lewis

    Well said and on the mark!

  • Anonymous

    FOX’s John Stossel is talking about jobs this week. He’s invited CEO’s to hold up the Republican BS line on job creators and regulation. Of course there wasn’t a manufacturer in the bunch. All the CEO’s were Chamber of Commerce darlings (*or connected friends & cronies of the Bush Crime Family) Every CEO exploits low wage workers to sell questionable products they buy from Asians.
    NOTE: (lead based toys, poisoned pet food, toxic toothpaste, toxic sheetrock, and low grade metal products such as screws, tools, bolts. That’s why so many crnes and bridges have been collapsing. Not to mention the patented properties in most of their products and technologies were stolen)
    CEO’s who took advantage of all the Republican Corporate Socialist Party subsidies, deregulation, expatriate clauses, tax breaks to f*** over the American worker.
    The 90’s Gingrich/Delay/Gramm Republican controlled Congress even insured venture capital of Industry that moved to Communist China. They passed the baton to Bush/Cheney who made regulation meaningless because they filled the regulatory agencies with industry lobbyists.  (right SEC & environmental protection?)    
    No educated skilled labor WHY? Conservatives insist a good education is only for those who can afford it. They’d rather subsidize billion dollar oil companies or big agriculture than make sure every American youth can get an Ivy League education. Instead the Conservative prefer a dumbed down American who actually believes the lying BS they spew.
    Ok let’s work with what the Republicans gave us on John StosseLoser. I found a Chinese propaganda mill that can reproduce Republican sponsored talking points at a fraction of the cost that FOX News and AM Radio Free Conservative charges. Also we found 10 Vietnamese that resemble John Stossel, had a whiny, condescending voice and will work for $4.25 a week. The US government will provide the tax dollars needed for rich guys to build a FOX news studio next to the toxic waste dump in Beijing and send the real John Stossel packing… He can be a greeter at WalMart which is better than his present position in Rupert Murdoch’s Ho stable… WHO NEEDS ‘EM!
     
    “I can’t wait for the revolution to start because the whores at FOX and CNN are going to get theirs…”  Charlie Stunats speaking to the Warriors
    gklbw at cyberbitchslap2.blogspot.com

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