Too impatient to wait until midnight, a group of Occupy anarchists rampaged through San Francisco’s Mission District late on the evening of Monday, April 30, as a preview of what they hope to continue in their May Day protests today:
Protesters trash Mission District businesses, cars
Broken glass littered several streets in San Francisco’s Mission District after protesters vandalized cars and buildings Monday night, including a police station.
The vandals were in a group that marched from Dolores Park shortly after 9 p.m., following a rally in advance of Tuesday’s planned Occupy general strike, police said. Traveling down 18th Street and onto Valencia Street, the black-clad, masked protesters smashed windows with crowbars and signs, threw paint on buildings and spray-painted anarchy symbols on the hoods of parked cars.
“All I heard was, ‘bang, bang, bang,’ and some dude had the valet sign, trying to break our window,” said Adam Koskoff, manager of the Locanda restaurant on Valencia. “I didn’t even see the crowd, and I ran outside and got egged.”
The vandals threw paint and eggs and smashed windows at more than 30 businesses, including Tartine Bakery at 18th and Guerrero streets and clothing store Weston Wear on Valencia.
Both luxury and everyday vehicles along Valencia and Guerrero streets were damaged. An Aston Martin had its windshield shattered, and brown paint covered the hood.
Pink and yellow paint marred the barricaded, cracked glass doors of the Mission police station at 17th and Valencia streets.
“It was like the station was under siege,” said an officer, who asked not to be named.
…Although the march sprang from a rally for an Occupy action, other Occupy protesters shunned its participants as outliers. Some business people, however, said Occupy bore responsibility for the damage.
“Occupy is saying it’s not them, but we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Occupy, now would we?” Michelle Horneff-Cohen, a real estate broker, said as she shivered next to the broken window of her workplace, Property Management Systems.
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If this is any indicator, today’s Occupy riots are shaping up to be very interesting.
Please note that all the direct and actual victims of #OWS violence and vandalism have been people who vote Democrat. ALL of them.
Ought to make for a good GOP campaign ad video, shouldn’t it?
…Please note that all the direct and actual victims of #OWS violence and vandalism have been people who vote Democrat. ALL of them….
Really? How do you know this? I live in SF and there are some, very few I’ll grant that, Republicans. Do I think most of these people have voted Democrat? Yes. Do I think ALL have? Umm, nope.
Oh and I’m sickened by this senseless violence and vandalism. I also think the local OWS group is being very disingenuous by claiming these black bloc dudes aren’t really part of OWS and just a bunch of outside agitators.
OK, back to arguing with a friend on FB on how the Tea Party and OWS are exactly alike. Or not. That’s his argument; I keep asking when the Tea Party has had a riot, and he keeps ignoring my question.
And what exactly were the police doing while their station was being vandalized? Cowering inside?
Interesting that this stuff doesn’t happen where people have the right, gumption and means to defend themselves. Panty-waist “anarchists” wouldn’t last long in West Texas.
And after a year of this nonsense I still don’t get what these clowns hope to achieve. Yeah, lets go strike and block roads and businesses. Lets piss off the very people whose support we need if we want to get anything done. What am I missing?
The general goal of the subversives is to increase the level of chaos in the society.
The occupiers are of course only a little part of the general plan.
Choking regulations are another part.
Increasing the number of poor people is another part.
Having the kids get out of high-school illiterate is another.
Rushing to comment that Police are stupid and/or “that could have been my son” is another.
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You get the point, the list is infinitely long.
The more chaos, the more strife, the more problems, the better for the subversives who need chaos to have their NON-ideas winning.
Confusion and fear are the main weapons of the subversives.
It starts with confusion, it moves towards scaring people.
And I forgot an important element: chaos is the Petri-dish where the subversives cultivate the most dangerous elements. See today’s example:
“Five people described as anarchists were arrested Monday in a Cleveland-area park for allegedly trying to blow up a bridge, sources tell Fox News.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/01/5-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-blow-up-ohio-bridge/#ixzz1tdoXcmoO
I’ll start to worry when the shopkeepers and the cops are out there bustin stuff up along with the commies, anarchists, and other freaks. Fortunately, we have a (more or less) free press, we have the Internet, the First Amendment is still (more or less) honored, and it’s not illegal to criticize the government. We have evidence that the stories written by the press and by independent investigators on blogs can influence what the government does. We are not helpless, we are not voiceless, and we don’t need to burn things down to get attention. So for now, the Occupiers and their idiot fellow travelers are just a sideshow.
The violence inherent in the Left. I wonder what Van Jones thinks of these folks and their tactics? After all, Dear Liar’s people kept an eye on him and brought him into the regime.
The press sure went out of their way to suggest that this wasn’t the authentic peace-loving occupy snotrags doing this.
And the press also goes far out of the way to avoid holding the Occupiers – the sea that the violent fish swim in – accountable for their lack of any statements or actions that might discourage those poor fish.
The press is wholly in the tank for the violence. It furnishes dramatic copy, and advances the Cause and the Narrative.
Isn’t the Mission District a very liberal area? Maybe the OWS people know the shopkeepers nor their customers will be armed, and if they were, the city would arrest them for trying to protect their livelihoods. You know, maybe that would be a way they could get police presence in the area: have someone call the cops and say a shopkeeper was harassing the protesters. They’d come out of the woodwork then.
And here in DC we are told that May Day/Occupy events “may cause afternoon delays.” Scary.
And here in Seattle, the very liberal Mayor has officially warned the citizens against possible damage by the violent fish in the Mayday mob – only to be publicly scolded by ‘protest leaders’ who would be shocked, shocked! by any violence arising from their peace-loving activities, and who would prefer that we blame ‘right-wing extremists’ for the damage.
Plausible deniability, thy name is held sacred by the Seattle Times.
Sorry, I should have put “Scary” in scare-quotes. Our #OWSers are pretty lame. A few are meeting at an auditorium at Georgetown U. Some others are converging at Malcolm X Park, where there’ll be games, activities, and fun “with an activist twist.” Then they’re supposed to march on the White House. I don’t know if Michelle and Barack will be handing out milk and cookies or not – the media are silent on the question.
So when I say “scary” I actually mean “Who the hell cares?”
Occupy, bringing Detroit to a city near you!
I have a question. What if it’s my neighborhood (I live in a large urban area) and some of these thugs come through? And start destroying or vandalizing my property? I am armed but what [i]can[/i] I do to stop the mayhem? I mean seriously. Without being arrested myself. Can I brandish my weapons to warn them off? Or do I get arrested for that? I’m pretty certain I can’t shoot or I’m in a world of hurt for the rest of my life. And the anarchists probably know that so brandishing the weapon becomes futile.
I’m not asking this rhetorically. I really am not sure what to do. And that embarrasses me. I’m a veteran and a man and my instincts would be to take decisive action to prevent wanton destruction of my property. But the current state of our laws and legal system have me paralyzed, so to speak.
What do you want?
Do you want to put an end to the violence, or avoid any conflict with the Legal System?
Keep in mind a Mob is something that provides Reasonable Apprehension (a legal standard for the use of lethal self defense in many localities) of Bodily Harm.
But then, there is always the S.S.S. solution.
I’d worry if we had a President who was friends with people like this, who spoke like them in terms of anti-capitalism, or who employed extreme Left Wing radicals like their leader Van Jones, or who worked hand-in-hand with a group like this to #Forward and retail the anti-American anti-West narrative…
Oh wait…
This is platinum grade PR for the Right if they’re smart enough to exploit it. These are Obama’s storm troopers. This bowel movement is directly tied to that heinous traitor. It should be hung around his neck like the catastrophic $16 trillion dollar millstone that it ….
#Destroy
– small group of street people in front of the Federal Reserve this morning. The professional agitators or rent-a-mob must be elsewhere and transit doing fine despite “general strike”. Music and conga-line of union guys in front of the Ferry Building. Expect the Chief and Mayor (who expelled them from City Hall yesterday — are you paying attention, Oakland?) discipline officers of Mission Station for not defending their precinct.
While I would never cheer for destruction of anything for a political victory it is nice to have reality on our side.
Oh I don’t know. Let the commies take a crap in their nests in San Francisco and Berkeley and Manhattan and Los Angeles. Let the race rioters destroy South Central and Detroit and Chicago and Philadelphia.
While I don’t like the destruction either, I can’t help but feel indifferent to what is happening in California. With the path that state has taken, it almost feels like they asked for it. How many of them supported the first Occupy movement? How many of them supported Obama? They got what they voted for – a community organizer in chief.
Please don’t forget that there’s some of us good guys out here too, though. My wife and I fought tooth and nail and walked precincts during the last election. To no avail (I’m halfway convinced that the Dems have figured out a way to fix the results in this goddammed state). I’m trying to convince her to move, but ultimately for now at least, this is where our jobs are and at our age in our ’50′s moving and getting new ones is not a decision made lightly.
That having been said I would be the first to say -
I apologize for taking out my frustrations on all golden staters. I love northern California but something happened to the state in the last three decades. New Jersey is following its lead. Not even Chris Christie can stop it. It’s hard not to just throw up your hands. At some point, you just stop caring.
That was me btw (as anonymous)- comment misfired somehow. To complete my thought: DO NOT BAIL OUT THIS STATE. THEY DESERVE WHATEVER THEY GET.
Only a couple windows were broken. Lets not make a mountain out of a mole hill. This article makes it sound like they broke 30 windows.
– a couple windows, Comical.
http://missionlocal.org/2012/05/neighbors-begin-fundraising-campaign-to-help-vandalized-businesses
Shoot back.