Looks like the “Join us or else!” mentality is growing violent at Occupy Cal in Berkeley, where an (apparent) OWS protester assaulted a female student when she gave the wrong answer about going to the Occupation protest:
Man throws aluminum water bottle at UC Berkeley student’s face
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.
A few additional details not spelled out explicitly in the article:
• Thursday at 5pm was the moment at which the Occupy Cal rally was happening in Sproul Plaza, so the “protest” mentioned in the article was the Occupy protest.
• The incident happened just 200 yards from the site of the protest, within earshot.
• The suspect description matched the appearance of the typical OWS protester.
We can’t say for absolute sure that the assailant was an Occupier since he hasn’t been caught yet, but considering that he was a young white male wearing dark scruffy clothing yelling about debt in the immediate vicinity of the Occupation protest, I think it’d safe to jump to that conclusion.
Add this to the ever-growing rap sheet of crimes associated with the Occupy movement.
I like the logic. Not participating in a protest that requires massive police expenditures, will require expenses to repair damage, inhibits customers from small businesses thus reducing the tax take and generally disrupting taxable economic activity is why California is in debt.
Really, are people born this stupid or do they have to go to college to get this stupid?
Going to college makes you 1/2 stupid. After 7 years, I had to ease back into common sense mode.
Indoctrination is difficult to see past sometimes.
We all know when a liberal grows up, they usually become conservative in their manner.
Those who don’t are perpetually stupid.
I am sorry for the woman who was assaulted.
The US is full of angry people, and the current political climate increases this anger level dramatically. Time for us all to calm down, take a deep breath and focus on the grand scheme of things.
Afraid not. The grand scheme of things requires we get more angry because we are fighting a war against unreason and illogic going on all around us.
Example: I just saw a woman who is the head of the Women’s Media Center (they sow not, neither do they reap) on Fox News. Her take on the Suped-up Committee established to CUT government spending was that the Repubs should “compromise” [give in] and repeal “Bush tax cuts”. She regretted the fact that there aren’t more women in Congress because women know how to compromise [this position puts her in the sexist column and in the idiot column].
Exhibit A: Nancy Pelosi, The Great Compromiser.
Agreed. Time to be clear and resolute about our anger, which is in defense of America against a concerted and viciously subversive enemy. A proper attention to the “grand scheme of things” compels us to maintain our anger.
There’s an important distinction that you’re ignoring: whether people have a legitimate right to be angry, and furthermore, at whom. Let alone the absurdity of one of these “gimme” protesters complaining about Cali being in debt.
“The US is full of angry people, and the current political climate increases this anger level dramatically.”
Funny, how despite all the angry people in this country, all the violence is confined to the Left. Months and months of Tea Party protests = zero violence. Couple months of OWS protests = thousands of arrests and myriad instances of violence.
“Time for us all to calm down, take a deep breath and focus on the grand scheme of things.”
How about the Left (up to and including the enablers in the White House, Congress and the MSM) first apologize for years of slander against the Right and renounces any and all violence and violent rhetoric. Then we’ll talk about calming down.
This is right up there with the line about Israel v. Arabs…
If Arabs disarm there would be peace, if Israel disarms there will be genocide.
“Time for us all to calm down” false equivalency. The violence is all of the Left. They are the ones that need to calm down.
There was violence at Tea Party events. Perhaps you recall a T-shirt vendor who was assaulted by Union thugs?
Even at Tea Party events, the violence is caused by the left’s thugs.
“People like you are the reason that California is in debt”
I believe she is trying to get an education and then a job so she can pay her taxes to the wonderful state of California to support MORONS like him..
““People like you are the reason that California is in debt,” he said”
What a frickin’ idiot.
I find these kinds if incidents hard to believe without witnesses and other evidence. Too of this stuff is simply not true. 200 yards is hardly within earshot, especially if a lot of other people are in the area talking or chanting or what have you. How coincidental to describe a “typical” OWS protestor as the assailant. Just have my doubts about this.
The Berkeley police sent out a press release about this assault to all local media. Even I got it.
The incident happened, whether you choose to accept it or not. There is a police report about it, should you care to check.
I’ve been at that exact spot on campus many times, and yes, you can hear loud rallies going on in Sproul Plaza from there.
Your doubts are based on political bias, not reasonable judgment.
Don’t get the Zombie after ya… ya’ll gonna lose if you do!
“200 yards is hardly within earshot”
You weren’t in the military and you don’t play golf do you TMR? If you were and if you did, you would not make a silly statement like this.
How coincidental to describe a “typical” OWS protestor as the assailant. Just have my doubts about this.
From “We are the 99%” to “Wasn’t typical of us” to..”Wasn’t one of us.” Ninety-nine percent encompasses a wide variety of behaviors. Interesting.
I’m gonna go ahead and assume you didn’t bother with a similar level of doubt when Tea Partiers were raked over the coals for the alleged use of the N-word and for spitting on Democrat Congressmen during the Obamacare victory march, despite the total and complete lack of any evidence.
I have a feeling this is all going to come to a head at the Rose Parade. If the occupiers succeed in pulling off their planned stunt of swarming the parade live on national Television they are going to really piss off a lot of people.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Occupy-Movement-Sets-Sights-on-Rose-Parade-133659763.html
Plus, the Oakland Occupiers are trying to get ALL the California ports — including San Pedro and Long Beach — shut down on December 12:
Obama-Endorsed Occupy Movement Calls For Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown on 12-12
This (along with the Rose Parade and other planned actions) is what they call “escalation.”
Needless to say, I 100% guarantee that it will backfire. They never ever learn their lesson.
Shut down the Rose Parade? Shut down all the ports in CA? I certainly wish them all the best in their efforts.
Shutting down the Rose Parade will cause a major riot and police action and it will be on national TV. Not a good statement for these jerks, but certainly a statement of their beliefs.
As far as shutting down the ports, heh. Can’t wait to see the reaction of the longshoremen.
Hate to break the news to you but the Longshoremen (at least the Oakland branch) have joined forces with the Occupiers and will help to block the port. Happened before, and will likely happen again.
That means shipping will go elsewhere.
I’m sure the Ports of Houston, Corpus Christi and Brownsville would so LOVE more ships coming to them!
They got some real mutts around Seattle too. Here’s one very naughty boy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO7XFj2xVdM
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While Texas ports would be delighted to take away California ports business, that is not going to happen. California ports are on the Pacific coast and the Panama Canal is pretty much operating at max capacity these days.
However the Mexican port of Topolobambo, near Los Mochis has been upgraging their port facilities and containers can be offloaded there directly onto trains that will carry them into the US rail system.
It might be easier to calm all the anger in the US down if our own president weren’t right in the thick of it, conducting his nasty little class war,and strangling the US economy.
Obama defines “toxic spill” in action. Every move he makes brings us closer to the brink.
His actions speak even louder than his words. This man hates America with every fiber of his being.
The location is certainly within ear-shot of Lower Sproul Plaza (just up some steps). At the same time, the location is slightly off the beaten track, with quick lines of retreat having good cover along Strawberry Creek.
I am not advocating the death of anyone but if this movement doesn’t die on its own soon, some of these protesters are going to go too far and find themselves offed by the cops. When that happens, their childish movement will fracture between those who want to quit and those who are truly psychotic. There should be a betting pool on where it will happen first.
The 60′s protesters protested against “the Man”. The OWS provide cover for “the Man”, their incompetent corrupt cheer-leader-in-chief to preemptively smear the most likely Republican nominee and other Americans who refuse to pay the Man’s billionaire cronies with more taxes.
From my contacts in the Berkeley student body: most of the students, while un-happy about tuition increases, are not protesting – too busy studying. These kids are STEM majors so – no kidding.
I still do not see “racial” diversity in pix of the protesters reflecting the ethnic makeup of UCB. Less than half of the actual student body is white!!
I hope that the students at UC Berkeley are getting a really good dose of reality.
And the city of Oakland.
“People like you are the reason that California is in debt.” What?
These maggots are protesting Californian debt?
If they’re against public union pensions, overpaid state bureaucrats, tenured professors who don’t show up to teach, bloated entitlements, subsidized but failing schools, policies that drive business away, over regulation and perennially unbalanced budgets, I might have to rethink this occupy movement.
Nah…
What is the difference in principle that says “99%” have a right to the wealth of “1%” and the right of a floppy-eared knit cap knit-wit smashing the face of a non-conformist and the right of a bum copping a feel from some girl in a tent? Fundamentally, they’re all engaged in the initiation of force. Fundamentally, they’re all doing what they’re doing b/c “it just feels right”.
My sympathies to the young woman. I’d ensure it wasn’t a backwards “B” before investing too much though.
I suppose this means to walk about with an exposed non-concealed aluminum water bottle on campus will require a license to carry in the future?
– staying clear of this rally?
I call bullshit on this.
The smear campaign against ows is in full swing. Obviously, the ones in power are fearing losing it and they will stop at nothing to keep it. Launching baseless attacks on the Occupy Wall Street Movement has become commonplace.
Look champ, I don’t watch the news or read news papers. The only information I have on OWS is the videos they post of themselves, and the police reports detailing their exploits.
It is an exercise in futility; which is welcomed by the WH in order to deflect attention away from their utter incompetence and shameless corruption.
Mirela,
This is inconsequential in comparison to the crimes that have already been reported. Do you really think that a crowd which includes people who are more-than-willing to break windows, slash cops with boxcutters, rape young women and steal from other members of the group doesn’t include someone who can throw a water bottle at a woman who defies him? You really think that everyone involved is a paragon of virtue? Have you not been paying attention?
When Biden openly commends the unions for “firing the first shot”, what should we expect? The “new tone” was only useful for smearing the TP for a brief season. But the media gives them cover at each turn.
wow interesting site, ive never seen such a dense collection of idiots anywhere
Anonymous you must be bored and stupid
– about the Occupiers!
It happened the second you showed up.
Obama, as a community organizer, has been using tactics from Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. He went from organizing in Chicago to getting elected and organizing our whole country. One of Alinsky’s rules is to stir up dissatisfaction and discontent. Alinsky wrote, The organizer ‘must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . Anyone who researches Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals can easily identify which tactic Obama is using. Alinsky was a Marxist and Obama is using his radical rules.
“People like you are the reason that California is in debt,”
If he thinks that he deserves a refund on his tuition.
I’m guessing that like most of the protesters, he is not a student and is just there “for the party”. What if they threw a riot and no one came?
Grrrr….Drudge stole my “Berkeley woman assaulted for NOT joining protest” headline, but skipped linking to this post and instead linked directly to the Daily Dal article I cited. What’s especially frustrating is that I knew about the assault a full day before it was in the Daily Cal, and I had to WAIT until a newspaper published it so I could have a “source link.”
The limitations of blogging.
– The Drudge Manifesto, you should have just proceeded with your scoop.
Nothing at all wrong with being angry. Considering what Obama has done to this country we should all be angry. The key is what is done with that anger. OWS directs their anger into violence. The Tea Party directs theirs into winning elections.