Looks like shit is going off down at the DNC Convention, nothing bad yet
Submitted by Alphalop on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 9:50pm
but cops are there and tensions are obviously high.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCxmQsfhieY]
All the protesters are chanting we are not violent.
Edited to reflect that it is not on the floor but appears to be outside the convention.
Seems seem to be calming down again, but tensions are high.
This is gonna get even more tense tomorrow.
Edited again to add this link of the outside livestream.
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Cop riot in 3...2...1... n/t
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Apparently Anarchists rushed the barricade, they will blame it
on Sanders Delegates though.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Evidence that the barricade was rushed by Anarchists?
(Inquiring minds would love to know.)
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
None at all, other than while it was happening one of the people
that was coming out of the incident in a Sanders shirt that had gotten knocked aside by the cops said it was a group shouting anarchist slogans that had been there earlier trying to co-opt or ride along on the protest.
So no real evidence just some early reports from video feeds from the event. I don't recall which stream it was, maybe the TYT outdoor feed or one off of twitter.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Multo grazie for the fast response, Alpha!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Shouting Anarchist Slogans?!
Like:
?
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Obama just came out so I turned it off....
As gjohnsit said in his post below, I have never been more proud of Bernie supporters. "No more war."
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
The 2nd video is the outside one, so no obama. All those Fences
Trump wants to build a wall between us and Mexico, the DNC already has one between the voters and the convention...
So fucking typical of life under authoritarians.
Fences everywhere.
Better buy some stock in Chain link manufacturers...
It's only gonna get worse under a Clinton presidency.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I'd say, personality-wise,
I'd say, personality-wise, they'd more likely to go with barbed wire, probably electrified. Can't have the little people going off the treadmill track they're destined for.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
The gold standard of walls is Israel’s “security barrier” though
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=israel+wall&t=ffsb&iax=1&ia=images
It's all so vacuous.
platitude, cliche, platitude, cliche, sad story, joke about trump, and on..and on.. and on...
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Do you think too that Sanders looks sick?
I watch on C-SPAN and sometimes (very rarely) the camera moves over to him and I have the feeling he is unusually red faced and not at all looking well. May be it's my imagination. I can't imagine how it must be to sit there and have to listen through all of it.
https://www.euronews.com/live
I saw a video of Bernie
I saw a video of Bernie speaking to the WA delegates today. He projected energy when speaking and looked OK, although a tad tired, which is understandable.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
I suspect that he's soul-sick
I suspect that he's soul-sick.
Also, he may have had something set up which would require the delegates he avoided releasing when he avoided conceding to Hillary by moving for a suspension of rules to nominate Hillary.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I am the best qualified person ever to run for the
president of Yale. I spent 10 years in college getting my degrees including taking a large number of law classes, and I taught at colleges for umpteen years and spent a year teaching seventh and eighth graders in a Catholic school. That makes me the best qualified person ever for this office, so please send me the key to the Yale president's executive bathroom and clear the desk for me. (PS. I will bring my own computer and email system.)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
The crowd looks paranoid.
The pigs are probably watching em like hawks, just WAITING for a chance.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Obama is so full of shit.
Sorry, but that's all I got.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
And yet everybody is scared to say it...
Because at some point criticizing him became "racist".
Why are my enemies more able to say the truth than my supposed allies?
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Best Sticker on this guys shirt on the outside live feed EVER.
FCK
HRC
I gotta get me one of those....
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I want one too.
I have been having this really strong urge to say fuck hillary everywhere i go online. Sometimes I control it, sometimes not. But fuck hillary really says everything I want to say.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
for your amusement, my facebook post
Even Hercules could't do that.
Not without the aid of the Schuylkill River...
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Actually, prior to cleaning out the Augean stables
(look it up -- "12 Labors of Herakles" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#Fifth_Labour:_Augean_S...) Herakles apprenticed to the local plumbers' union, became competent in that trade, and when he had been trained, examined, and certified as a Master Plumber, went out and accomplished what the "Free Marketeers" in that part of Greece thought to be impossible --
Or hadn't you heard?
When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.
He pulled himself up by his bootstraps
with no help from the government?
On the feed they were chanting...
I love my country. I hate my government.
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
Joe Biden talks about the problems of college debt
When he's the guy who made it not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
These guys just don't quit.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
"We are not violent"?
"We are not violent"?
Here, I've got some more good slogans for them:
"We are harmless"
"We are impotent"
"Please dismiss us"
"No ratings here"
Serious question here: I keep hearing that the strength of nonviolent protest is the moral superiority, public awareness, and support protesters gain when they're brutally repressed.
If this is all part of the big strategy, then why do you worry about their "toys" and try to provoke only the mildest possible reaction from police? When is this outrageous brutality supposed to happen, especially considering that the police are wise to your strategy and trained to avoid public displays of brutality?
Did no one tell you that martyrdom needs martyrs?
I still marvel at how it took the Communist Party of China
just 28 years to go from talking reform as a few dozen academics in a Shanghai meeting hall, to taking over the whole country.
In the process, overcoming not just the corrupt Kuomintang government and local warlords, but Japanese invaders and the pro-Chiang Kai Shek efforts of the United States.
Ahh, the breezes
They just blew a cloud of smelly nouns and verbs in, on the tail end of the proceedings.
Yawn.....so witty. I call 'em the Cleanup Crew, though they clearly jumped the gun today. Did no one tell him that getting the last word only works if everyone else shuts up after you?
The DNC is ridiculous.
I don't care what the excuse is. There is no justification for silencing people like this.
Is this the new normal?
Helicopters overhead everywhere people gather? Cop phalanxes?
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I have a reflexive response to the "new norm," riverlover.
In my community of NYC we've been accosted by regular helicopter traffic, because imo, the 1% just don't want to have to deal with traffic like the lowly minions these sociopaths collectively shit on everyday while making "business deals" (Whats good for business is good for America, right? That's what they tell us!). They don't want to take a chance on having to see the destruction they've wrought, lest their conscience be miraculously challenged.
So I put my middle finger up defiantly, to police helicopters also. My gesture, I think, is more to rile up a public indignation I feel is missing in our communities at these raw displays of fear and intimidation on the one hand, and a dissatisfaction at the unnecessary noise (that drowns out conversation for a full 10 seconds sometimes, and brusquely inserts itself into our private mental space, to thousands and thousands at a time in NYC). It is also a show solidarity for common people who do not ride in helicopters. Perhaps they'll stop to think why this guy has had such a colorful reaction to it.
Fuck these people, as George Carlin would say. These authoritarian, power hungry and greedy bastards.
As for the cops I look at them as just regular joes who been subject to a degree of brainwashing. Since Occupy I've come to loathe them and their profession, as it becomes clear they are pawns for the powers that be, especially financial ones, and it is also evident that all basic policing is arbitrary. My cousins, who I don't keep in touch with much at all, are cops too.
My thing now when I see cops, especially after the horrific murders of too many black and brown folks and I'm at a protest, is to remind them to treat people with respect. "Because when you don't you're whole profession suffers." I've gone off on phalanxes of cops too. During the MillionsMarchNYC response to the Eric Garner non-indictment in which 30k or more people marched for hours throughout the city, I was taken over by emotion and the gravity of the situation. I began yelling at bunches of them, "where's the 'good cop' we keep hearing about? There is no good cop; not when you can all stand around while one of you strangles an unresisting man and no one intervenes! Stand up and do the right thing- or there is no good cop. Your whole profession suffers when you stand silent at this murder."
We can't let this kind of authoritarianism pervade. Take a public stand. Others will too.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
In case anyone needed confirmation of "seat filling"
Here's a video confession of someone that was paid to fill a seat.