Comments on: Occuidiots

By: Carlo

Carlo — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:02:19 +0000

You know Tim, I don’t know what your issue is with the Occupy movement, but your stories on them and others lately are coming off prejudicial (like you have some ax to grind). It’s seriously turning me off to your posts.

I also believe the Occupy movement is important you’re reporting of them has been seriously sloppy. Like when you said you

For example, I can think of very relevant reasons for protesting Wells Fargo, housing foreclosures being just one of them, but also for the recent Justice Department investigation that found that Wells Fargo mortgage brokers charged higher fees and rates to more than 30,000 minority borrowers across the country than they had borrowers who posed the same credit risk.

And as you quoted from your source, “An offshoot of Occupy Oakland…” That’s similar to saying a fringe group (which practically every protesting group has) was responsible for the vandalisms.

So your insinuations that the entire Occupy movement is to blame for the vandalisms which you do with your repeated “they insist” or “they are” statements and your biased and insufficient coverage of the movement is what I’m finding to really be stupid.

By: J R

J R — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:19:02 +0000

Tim – if you’re moving here willingly, then don’t bitch about the place.

By: mikeksf

mikeksf — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:25:39 +0000

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the San Francisco Bay Guardian have both done articles about an extreme right wing group whose tactic is to infiltrates leftist demonstrations and create chaos with racists, homophobic anti-immigrant actions. They are from an Eastern European/ Slavic church in the Sacramento area. A few years ago they attempted to take over the Student Council at one of the community colleges. The church provided the “Sodomy is Sin” crowd at the Prop 8 trials. Unfortunately, I don’t have the dates of the articles (they were both just a couple years ago), the names of the church, or the names of the participants, but this would definetly
fit their tactics

By: Lucrece

Lucrece — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:44:16 +0000

Just to make it clear, I support the broader Occupy movement. A few fringe freaks are irrelevant to the message of impending oligarchy in this country.

By: Lucrece

Lucrece — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:43:05 +0000

I don’t think so, Regan. In Massachusetts I met my fair share of “queer activists” (read: socially resentful genderqueer outcasts) and they fit these actions perfectly. One of them was a devout Gandhi follower that refused to believe Gandhi was prejudiced and had associates who destroyed Hindu temples depicting same sex acts by the divine. They’re all about narratives and icons.

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:39:24 +0000

As I recall, the Boston Tea Party was actually white men, disguising themselves as Native Americans so that the Indians would be blamed for the riot.

My cynical mind thinks the queer tagging was perhaps someone wanting gay folks to get the blame?

After all, aren’t gays blamed for everything bad that happens or the bad behavior of het people all the time?

Just sayin’!

By: tim

tim — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:01:48 +0000

And I’m willingly moving to that state in a few days. *sigh*