Declaration of Occupy Wall Street

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Journalists at the overnight raid of Occupy Wall Street's New York encampment were kept at a distance from covering it Tuesday, and several were arrested, handcuffed and hauled onto police buses along with hundreds of protesters.

At least half a dozen journalists were among those arrested in and around Zuccotti Park and at other protest sites in downtown Manhattan, according to demonstrators and other journalists who photographed and filmed their peers being taken into custody.

Reporter Karen Matthews and photographer Seth Wenig of The Associated Press in New York were detained for about four hours after they followed protesters through an opening in a chain-link fence into a separate park owned by a church. Matthew Lysiak of the Daily News of New York was also arrested, according to witnesses and the Daily News. The police, who arrested 22 people at the church-owned park, said the reporters and protesters were trespassing on private property.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the New York Police Department's policy of keeping the media back, saying it was intended to keep them out of harm's way.

Journalists detained at NYC Occupy protests - Yahoo! Finance



Riiiight. More like preventing them from photographing the bloodied faces of protesters after the police used batons and pepper spray on them.
 
jillio said:
Journalists at the overnight raid of Occupy Wall Street's New York encampment were kept at a distance from covering it Tuesday, and several were arrested, handcuffed and hauled onto police buses along with hundreds of protesters.

At least half a dozen journalists were among those arrested in and around Zuccotti Park and at other protest sites in downtown Manhattan, according to demonstrators and other journalists who photographed and filmed their peers being taken into custody.

Reporter Karen Matthews and photographer Seth Wenig of The Associated Press in New York were detained for about four hours after they followed protesters through an opening in a chain-link fence into a separate park owned by a church. Matthew Lysiak of the Daily News of New York was also arrested, according to witnesses and the Daily News. The police, who arrested 22 people at the church-owned park, said the reporters and protesters were trespassing on private property.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the New York Police Department's policy of keeping the media back, saying it was intended to keep them out of harm's way.

Journalists detained at NYC Occupy protests - Yahoo! Finance



Riiiight. More like preventing them from photographing the bloodied faces of protesters after the police used batons and pepper spray on them.
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Yep. Cops have something to hide if they won't allow reporters to see this.
 
MIAMI — Mo Tarafa stood before students at a small, outdoor concrete auditorium at Florida International University and called for volunteers to sit in the 10 chairs before her. Each chair, she said, represented 10 percent of the wealth in the United States and 10 percent of the population.

The students, mostly in their 20s and wearing jeans and T-shirts on a balmy fall Thursday afternoon in Miami, took their places. Then Tarafa asked nine of the students to squeeze together into five of the chairs. This, she said, was the distribution of wealth in 1996.

Next she asked nine students to fit into three of the chairs.

This, she said, is the distribution of wealth today.

"How are you all feeling right now?" she said.

"Uncomfortable," said one of the students piled up on one another.

The exercise was part of a teach-in that took place recently at FIU and dozens of other campuses across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. As the protests have grown to cities across the United States, they've also taken root at the nation's universities, where students have staged rallies and walk-outs from classes.

Story: Video spreads of UC Davis cops pepper spraying Occupy students
Video of a tense standoff Friday between police and Occupy demonstrators at the University of California, Davis, shows an officer using pepper spray on a group of protesters who appear to be sitting passively on the ground with their arms interlocked.

Occupy protests spread to colleges - US news - Life - msnbc.com

There is much more to read. I just declined to post it all here. Just click on the link.
 
Two University of California, Davis police officers involved in pepper spraying seated protesters are being placed on administrative leave as the chancellor of the school accelerates the investigation into the incident.

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi on Sunday said she has been inundated with reaction over the incident, in which an officer dispassionately fires pepper spray on a line of sitting demonstrators.

The protesters flinch and cover their faces but remain passive with their arms interlocked as onlookers shriek and scream out for the officer to stop.

Officers in pepper spray incident placed on leave - US news - Life - msnbc.com
 
A man threw an aluminum water bottle at a UC Berkeley student Thursday evening on campus, causing minor injuries to the victim’s face.

At about 5:09 p.m., the female student was approached by a man at “the northeast exterior of the Haas Pavilion,” according to a UCPD crime alert. The man asked the suspect if she was going to the protest on Sproul Plaza, and when the victim answered “no,” the suspect yelled at her.

“People like you are the reason that California is in debt,” he said, according to the crime alert.

The suspect then threw a full aluminum water bottle at the victim’s face. The victim then called UCPD and refused medical treatment for the bruise on her cheek. UCPD officers responded to the scene and checked the area, but could not locate the suspect.

The suspect was described as a white or Hispanic male in his early 20s, wearing a brown and green knit cap with earflaps and strings, a black coat and dark pants.
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Man throws aluminum water bottle at UC Berkeley student’s face - The Daily Californian

smh
 
A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel that promises guests can “unleash [their] inner Gordon Gekko,” The Post has learned.

The $700-per-night W Hotel Downtown last week hosted both Peter Dutro, one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee, and Brad Spitzer, a California-based analyst who not only secretly took part in protests during a week-long business trip but offered shelter to protesters in his swanky platinum-card room.
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Read more: Golden tents for some Occupiers - NYPOST.com

Sounds familiar....
 
jillio said:
He lies about something everytime he opens his mouth. Forget his sexual escapades that he blamed on" loving this country so much that he was working too hard and used poor judgement". Yeah, America is responsible for the fact that Newt preaches family values out of one side of his mouth and cheats on his wives out of the other. Take a good look at where his money has come from in the last several years. Look at the fact that he left government service under the cloud of ethics charges...the first Speaker of the House ever brought up on ethics charges.
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Wrong again. In fact Speaker Jim Wright was brought up on ethics charges....By Newt. But Wright resigned rather than face the music.

Newt did face the music and ended up settling on one violation. The IRS later cleared all organizations.

Many felt the Newt charges were revenge for the Wright charges.
 
Beowulf said:
Yeah, I know. I don't think it was intentional on TXgolfer's part, but still...Just rude.
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Weird, It was captioned by youtube when I posted it.... Wonder why they removed it. :hmm:
 
Gingrich Tries To Preempt Attacks As Poll Numbers Rise | Fox News


The ex-speaker seems to have found a favorite target, though, in the Occupy Wall Street protesters. He lobbed harsh words at the movement Saturday in Iowa, describing them as representative of an entitlement culture.

"Now, that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, go get a job right after you take a bath," Gingrich said.
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TXgolfer said:
Wrong again. In fact Speaker Jim Wright was brought up on ethics charges....By Newt. But Wright resigned rather than face the music.

Newt did face the music and ended up settling on one violation. The IRS later cleared all organizations.

Many felt the Newt charges were revenge for the Wright charges.
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84 charges. Right.

Gingrich is the only Speaker of the House to have been disciplined for ethics violations.
Newt Gingrich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 1988 Wright became the target of an inquiry by the House Ethics Committee.

In addition:

In 1989, controversy arose from media reports that Jim Wright's main aide, John Mack, had violently attacked Pamela Small sixteen years earlier. Small was attempting to replace blinds in a store Mack managed, and he took her to the storeroom where he then asked her to lie down. When she refused, he repeatedly hit her in the head with a hammer, stabbed her with a steak knife, and slashed her throat, before putting her body in his car and going to see a movie.[8][9]

Pamela Small survived the attack, and reported it to the police. John Mack plead guilty to malicious wounding "with the intent to maim, disfigure, disable and kill" and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. However, after repeated correspondence with Rep. Wright, whose daughter was married to his brother, Mack was paroled after serving less than 27 months and given a job working for Wright on Capitol Hill. Critics, including feminist activist Andrea Dworkin, alleged that Wright manipulated the legal system to get Mack off and, subsequently, protected him from media scrutiny.[10] The story later broke in 1989, when Pamela Small gave an interview about her ordeal with the Washington Post. Amid media criticism, John Mack resigned from his post

Jim Wright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Don't think I would have used him as an example.:cool2:
 
naisho said:
That's awful for the NY police image. Handcuffing a 40+ year old, 5 foot lady/housewife/woman who isn't hostile or resisting arrest, nor belligerent. Dang.
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She was resisting arrest, just barely. She got arrested for something, that's for sure. Cops doing their duties.
 
kokonut said:
She was resisting arrest, just barely. She got arrested for something, that's for sure. Cops doing their duties.
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Ah, I see. I didn't notice anything from the clip.
Dude, she could pass for my 2nd grade elementary teacher or something. :lol:
 
kokonut said:
She was resisting arrest, just barely. She got arrested for something, that's for sure. Cops doing their duties.
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which will be easily thrown out in court.

My friend had his charges thrown out. He was at RNC in NYC at that time before Obama became President.

laughable.
 
jillio said:
84 charges. Right.

Gingrich is the only Speaker of the House to have been disciplined for ethics violations.
Newt Gingrich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 1988 Wright became the target of an inquiry by the House Ethics Committee.

In addition:

In 1989, controversy arose from media reports that Jim Wright's main aide, John Mack, had violently attacked Pamela Small sixteen years earlier. Small was attempting to replace blinds in a store Mack managed, and he took her to the storeroom where he then asked her to lie down. When she refused, he repeatedly hit her in the head with a hammer, stabbed her with a steak knife, and slashed her throat, before putting her body in his car and going to see a movie.[8][9]

Pamela Small survived the attack, and reported it to the police. John Mack plead guilty to malicious wounding "with the intent to maim, disfigure, disable and kill" and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. However, after repeated correspondence with Rep. Wright, whose daughter was married to his brother, Mack was paroled after serving less than 27 months and given a job working for Wright on Capitol Hill. Critics, including feminist activist Andrea Dworkin, alleged that Wright manipulated the legal system to get Mack off and, subsequently, protected him from media scrutiny.[10] The story later broke in 1989, when Pamela Small gave an interview about her ordeal with the Washington Post. Amid media criticism, John Mack resigned from his post

Jim Wright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Don't think I would have used him as an example.:cool2:
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A) All but one charge against Newt was dropped.

B) Speaker Wright was charged before Newt and you said Newt was....

the first Speaker of the House ever brought up on ethics charges
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