Last Sunday OccupySF embarked on a long-planned action: To seize and occupy a building belonging to the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco and turn it into an anarchist commune that would serve as the Occupy movement’s local headquarters. The Fund47 blog was on the scene and filed this unique report with an insider’s view of how it all went down:
San Francisco Police Escorts Occupy to ‘Liberation’ of Archdiocese Property, Then Withdraws
Here’s OccupySF’s press release about the action, revealing their intention to squat in the building permanently:
This action on Sunday is not a temporary protest, but a permanent occupation intended to establish a social center. We will transform this vacant building into a productive and vibrant space, just as we did in the plaza occupation, and we wish others to take similar actions and more.
Wealth inequality is increasing, the environment is being destroyed, the police state and drug war are devastating our communities and social movements, while our foreign wars enrich the 1% at the expense of our troops and innocent civilians. In San Francisco alone, thousands sleep on the street while thousands of houses and apartments lay empty. From Chapel Hill to Seattle, from New York to Oakland, people are rising up to directly change the social and economic system by liberating vacant buildings and reclaiming them for the people.
We are taking this action to bring immediate relief and housing to homeless youth in our community, and to provide a space for assembling, sharing food and healing for all people.
(Left out of their pitiful, adolescent sloganeering is the unfortunate fact that the vast majority of homeless street people in San Francisco have severe psychological or drug-addiction problems and have resisted repeated attempts to house them; many are homeless by choice.)
Housing is a right; free health care is a right; everything is a right in this gimme-gimme 21st century Obama world.
Some of the protesters had shoulder bags glorifying Chairman Mao…
…while others had shoulder bags glorifying President Obama.
Mao, Obama — it’s all good.
Eventually the protesters arrived at their secret destination, a vacant building at 888 Turk Street owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, which the Occupiers immediately dubbed the “SF Commune.”
“Larry in SF,” the author of Fund47′s excellent photo essay, goes into great detail speculating as to why the San Francisco Police at first escorted the unpermitted march, facilitating their illegal blockage of street traffic, and then backed off and allowed the protesters to seize the unprotected building.
This is truly a mental disease. It’s malignant narcissism at it’s most glaring.
They seize someone else’s property then call it theirs and say it’s not to be taken away from them.
Absolutely deranged.
No OccupyMosque, kiddos ?
A rampant sense of entitlement (housing is a right) and destruction of private property – this isn’t going to end well.
Mamas, don’t let you kids grow to be liberals.
I see an Obama campaign ad featuring Michelle has popped up on this PJMedia page; was the placement keyword they bought “occupy” by any chance?
When their campaign expenditure reports are made public, this question may be answered. Any other potentially embarassing keyword buys out there just waiting for some enterprising reporter to dig up and expose?
Parasites,all.
“We’re like…offering free food and stuff…”
-Really? So where do you get the food?
“Uh…from the store I guess.”
-Yeah but people need to grow, create, and process that food for you to have it.
“Uhhhhh…um…peace and love, dude.”
I bet that were the Italia Mafia still around there would be no attacks on the
Catholic Church. The protesters will not occupy any Moslem institutions. Fear
of consequences. They are cowards, moral, ethical and mostly physical.
A fat guy with a lisp? Are you kidding me?
“Marcher Julia Cheng, 25, of Chicago settled into a spot inside the building, setting up a sleeping bag and hanging a sign reading “Home Sweet Home…”This is like the Second French Revolution all over again.”
Excellent! Get cracking, kids, times a’ wasting…
(memo to self: this time limit ambitions; do not invade Russia, avoid Spain….)
If she weren’t so ignorant of history, she should be concerned about her comparison. During the first French Revolution, an estimated 16,000 to 40,000 people lost their heads to the passions of the mob. Many of those heads belonged to the revolutionaries themselves.
“The Second French Revolution all over again?” Is she referring to the July Revolution of 1830, which removed the Bourbons from power and established a constitutional monarchy under the House of Orleans? Cool! Who does she want to be King of America?
Or maybe she’s talking about the Paris Commune. I hope not for her sake. That didn’t turn out too well for the revolutionaries.
I wouldn’t be too hard on Miss Cheng. With France’s tumultuous nineteenth-century history, it’s mighty easy to get confused. A little wiki-ing about on France’s (four?) revolutions gives one renewed respect for the founders and the constitution they bequeathed us.
And I’d do the older chick in a heartbeat. Anyone these days who can make it into their forties without turning into a dumpling is worthy of some respect. She looks like a yoga instructor in her day job.
Well, maybe, except for that ratty hair. I’d be afraid of getting lice.
No thanks – when it comes to crabs, I prefer Dungeness…
– Mayor, strong Police Chief: no nonsense.
“This is like the Second French Revolution all over again.”
Refresh my memory, please. When was the first Second French Revolution?
There was a Revolution of 1830, or July Revolution.
There was the Revolution of 1848 (which saw revolution all over Europe).
But I’m guessing the Little Miss is referring to the Paris Commune of 1871. Coming on the heels of the disastrous Franco-Prussian War. When the Germans withdrew their seige, the populace, angry with their leadership, drove them out of the city and established their own government which incorporated a progressive, secular, social democracy that included a good deal of hippie-type decrees and committees (not all of them bad or hopelessly idealistic) but which lasted barely two months before being ruthlessly put down by resurgent government forces.
In the 1960s I enrolled for a summer session at Georgetown. My friends lived in a townhouse on M-street and threw some pretty rowdy parties. The neighbors knew what to do. They didn’t waste their time calling the cops, they called the Office of the Prefect. Within minutes a Chevy station wagon would pull up and six big Jesuits would get out. Guys jumped out second floor windows to get away. No Miranda rights; you’d get slammed into the wall.
Maybe SF needs a dozen Jesuits. It sure worked in DC.
Sorry, but that reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDnE-5lD7w8
I went to a Jesuit high school. I know exactly what you mean.
Q What’s the difference between a Jesuit teacher and a marine drill instructor?
A Not much..
– the Chief of the SFPD attended the Jesuit’s St. Ignatius High School.
The Occupy dancing girls in the video are interesting from a socio-sexual standpoint.
The one on the left is one of those pathetic older chicks who might have been cute back in 1978 or 1983, but are now getting to the age where the wrinkles can no longer be denied, so they desperately try to recapture their youth by hanging out with a clique of “nonjudgmental” younger people whose absence of criticism she can fool herself into perceiving as a compliment.
The one on the right has a nice rack but that’s about it; at best a “6″ on the men’s brutal 1-10 scale, she too has unconsciously sought out a social setting filled with losers in which there are no 6.5s or above, so that she can elevate her standing from being an “average” girl to suddenly being the comparatively “hot chick” within her small pond.
But then at the very end, when she concludes her erotic dance with a declaration of “REVOLUTION!”, she reveals what a moron she truly is. She falls from a “6″ to a “3″ in an instant.
My favorite part of the video is at 2:59 when the videographer Occupy dude can’t restrain himself from essentially saying “Yeah, shake that booty baby,” totally undermining the nonsexist/political/egalitarian intended statement of the dance.
Brutal truth! lol
This is just another example of hippie fantasy camp for social misfits. This isn’t a means to an end but rather the end itself: to boost their “street cred” as flower power “revolutionaries” so that they can feel better about themselves. This also allows them to mentally shift the blame for whatever’s not working in their own lives. It’s not really their problem, it’s society’s problem. It’s hysterical and tragically pathetic at the same time.
There’s a story here http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Draculya about how Vlad Tepes addressed a problem with much less annoying social parasites.
If these morons actually occupied this building, would the City then come in and demand that they bring it up to code? Put elevators in for the disabled? Bring the bathrooms up to code and handicapped accessible? Demand that the electrical and plumbing be up to code? Then require ramps, handicapped parking, and complete wheel chair access to the facilities?
Building codes are only for the 1% ! The 99% don’t have to obey your fascist laws!
those codes are only used to extort business/property owners; as the occupiers have little money it would be a waste of time for the slip and fall parasites to go after them
the problem…well, one of the problems anyway…is that they are ‘arrested’ and then released within the hour so it’s all just a funny game to them. surely, they could be charged and held for a week or two…and, preferably taken out to the santa rita jail in dublin, ca as many others are for various offenses. if they had to find their way back to san fran from there (easier said than done since the jail is not near public transportation) they might have a different attitude toward engaging in illegal activities.
I think we should bring the Singaporean practice of caning to America for these sorts of crimes.
As a soldier, and OIF vet, these morons need to leave me out of ALL proclamations. To be truthful, I’d rather help any Iraqi or Afghani get back on his feet and establish a meaningful life for him and his family than help a single one of the Leftards advance one single items on their agenda.
“Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know;
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two–
Something noble and wise and good,
Done by merely wishing we could.
We’ve forgotten, but–never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!”
- from Road Song of the Bandar Log, by Rudyard Kipling
Centuries of anti-Catholic “thought” will eventually make Catholics into Zeks. The commissars are here already.
If you wonder why the dancing girls are in the video, they are trying to tell the target audience, “Look! Aren’t they pretty! Wouldn’t you like to meet them? Come on! Join our Cult of Stupid! We have drugged up vaginas!”, coupled with, “We’re just innocent people playing innocently! And the mean mean cops forced us out of the playground! Bad Cops! Bad! Pity us!”
There ought to be a law against having sex with hardcore liberals like there are laws against having sex with children, and for the same reason. They aren’t adult enough to have any clue what’s going on, and it’s just going to cause more psychological damage as they get older.
The “do do” chorus reminds me a bit of the Kids In The Hall sketch where the zombies say “Do di do di do di dooo” with each block of steps while the couple runs whimpering away like a novice horror film.
Also, sharing economies only work at Burning Man because everyone stockpiles stuff to trade or sets out to be self-sufficient because it’s a desert and even hippies know you can’t make anything in a desert from scratch unless you’re a musician or a sex worker. Once the stockpiles are gone, wandering around offering blows for ho-hos isn’t going to feed you.
– a cult’s flirty-fishing. Anything for the cult or the Cause.
Yes, the dancing girls are EXACTLY like “flirty-fishing,” which is how cults in the ’70s and ’80s lured in new members: paraded around the teenage/attractive cult members, to lure in potential prospects with promises of amoral sex, and then once they’re in the “honey trap, you zap ‘em with the indoctrination.
The lefties had been using this technique since the anti-war protests of the ’60s, foregrounding the free-and-easy college girls in the movement to lure in young dudes. Prior to that, leftism consisted of burly union members, inscrutable foreigners, and absent-minded academics — hardly appealing to new members.
They think they’re being clever by putting the girls in there, but America woke up to that game a long time ago. Also, the inherent sexism of their blatant abuse of these females’ sexuality would be condemned as despicable if done by anyone but themselves.
And lastly, in the modern world, you don’t need to hang out with socialists and anarchists to find a girl who will “put out” before marriage. All these girls are doing is not advertising their availability, but rather advertising, though their behavior, social setting and clothing how many venereal diseases they are likely carrying. If I were a man looking at these girls and assessing whether they’re worth pursuing, I’d become nauseated at the thought of lord-knows what kind of creepy-crawlies between their legs, picked up from their fellow scungeball anarchists.
Yes, the dancing girls are EXACTLY like “flirty-fishing,” which is how cults in the ’70s and ’80s lured in new members: paraded around the teenage/attractive cult members, to lure in potential prospects with promises of amoral sex, and then once they’re in the “honey trap, you zap ‘em with the indoctrination.
It was also one of Manson’s successful techniques to build “The Family.” It’s how he managed to bamboozle a sap like Dennis Wilson, too, which in turn helped recruit more girls. They then recruited the murderous services of Tex Watson and Bobby Beausoleil…
– Frank in one of the photos.
I’m tired of trying to think of something clever, useful, or just banal to say. Life is short. These overgrown toddlers weren’t raised right. I want their damned heads caved in with a billy, and I want their parents whipped.
I once lived in San Francisco. I’ve never seen people work so hard to have their rights forcibly taken from them. They think Communism is a utopian paradise. So much so that in the 1970′s a group of idealistic communists from the People’s Temple followed their leader Jim Jones to Guyana where he stole their money, property, belongings and children before murdering them. Most people are not aware of this, but Jones was NOT some fringe figure that no one had ever heard of who started a kooky left wing church.
Jim Jones was a well-respected politican at the pinnacle of San Francisco society. He was appointed by Mayor Moscone as the Chairman of the the SF Housing Authority Commission. He socialized and was praised by people like Rosalynn Carter, Walter Mondale, Angela Davis, Harvey Milk, Jerry Brown – and all the while he was defrauding the city and running a prostitution ring composed of young wards of the state, at risk youth that he exploited and turned a profit on until he found bigger fish. The money to build Jonestown in Guyana came from the SF treasury. Why do I tell you this? Here’s why: Jones once said of his little commune “I believe that we are the purest Communists there are.” His members agreed. And when they all died over there in the jungle the historical revisionists of San Francisco jumped on his story and erased all connections to communism, politics and the important political figures who loved him and so financed him. And that, my friends, is San Francisco. Not much has changed.
Jello no longer lives in SF? Not a property owner?
– those who supported Jones, spoke at his Temple, accepted his ballot-box stuffing are still running and ruining California. No pol ever paid the price.
I’ve got photos of Rosalynn Carter with Jim Jones, in case anyone’s interested.
He actually dined with Jimmy Carter at the head table at the ’76 Democratic National Convention. That’s how big a deal Jim Jones was in the Democratic machine.
His entire cult was, by his own admission, an attempt to sneak communist practice into the black community through the guise of religion. After Jonestown, Jones’ will left all of the Church’s assets to (can you guess?) the Soviet Union.
– photos and articles of the rest of local Machine pols when they were sucking up to him. Would it republish them now?
JJ’s last words:
“Oh, mother, mother! I am the Marxist-Leninist Jesus Christ!!”
THE Jello Biafra?
If so, please tell Robert Jr is next.
RTS
THE Jello Biafra?
If so, please tell me
Robert Jr is next.
RTS
I see what you did there
(with the name)
Quit hogging all the peoples food fat boy.