Oregon Police Fear 'Occupy' Protesters Arming Themselves for Looming Confrontation

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    Oregon Police Fear 'Occupy' Protesters Arming Themselves for Looming Confrontation

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/1...es-for-looming/?test=latestnews#ixzz1dVKe2CVm


    Portland police believe that some protesters inside the Occupy Portland encampments are building shields and makeshift weapons -- including nails hammered into wood --
    in preparation for when authorities attempt to clear the parks this weekend, police said Friday.

    Occupy Portland organizers have repeatedly said the movement is nonviolent and have appealed to demonstrators to resist peacefully when the camps close at midnight on Saturday. They planned public marches and a potluck dinner before the deadline and hoped the public would take part.


    But police said as many as 150 anarchists may come to Portland to take part in a possible clash with officers.


    "If there are anarchists, if there are weapons, if there is an intention to engage in violence and confrontation, that obviously raises our concerns," Portland police Lt. Robert King said. "But I know we'll be able work through that and manage that, because we want to protect everyone there, especially the peaceful protester."


    Mayor Sam Adams has ordered the camp shut down, citing unhealthy conditions and the encampment's attraction of drug users and thieves.

    Protest organizers responded angrily to the police warning on Friday, saying in a statement that the police are trying to "defame" the movement by attributing the actions of individuals to the movement as a whole.

    "Anyone that is engaging in violent resistance is doing so in direct contradiction to the values outlined by the Portland General Assembly" -- the movement's democratic governing body -- "and in doing so is by definition not representing Occupy Portland," the statement said.

    About 10 demonstrators from Seattle had volunteered to come to Portland on Saturday to "stand in peaceful solidarity," the statement said, but organizers are not calling in a mass influx of out-of-state demonstrators or anarchists.

    Some people left the encampment on Friday, while others vowed to stay unless taken away in handcuffs.

    The camp population was noticeably thinner as demonstrators cleaned up portions of the park. Some were seen carting away books from the library and dumping articles into trash containers.

    A handful of people worked on dismantling an intricate kitchen, saying they'll store donated equipment until the movement can regroup. They're appealing to the public to cook food at home and bring it to demonstrators.

    "Food is not going to stop unless we're forced to stop," said Marla Baskin, a demonstrator who has helped to organize food service.

    Baskin said she hoped police would be able to arrest nonviolent demonstrators without force, even if radical elements try to provoke a confrontation.

    Some demonstrators said they hope the camp may be re-established elsewhere or splintered into several smaller camps to continue the movement, but protest spokesman Jordan LeDoux said in an email "nothing concrete has been decided."

    Demonstrators planned marches originating in various locations around Portland on Saturday, ending at the encampments around 5 p.m., followed by a potluck for the public to "celebrate freedom of speech, and support for those who will be arrested," LeDoux said.

    The Portland encampment went up Oct. 6 after a march in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Protesters were sheltered by donated tents, fed by donated food and cared for by volunteer doctors and nurses. But it became a magnet for people not originally part of the movement. Sanitary conditions worsened. Businesses complained of theft.

    City officials' patience began growing thin when activists sought to occupy another park on Oct. 30. Police dragged away 27 of the activists when they refused to leave.

    Protesters marched over two bridges on Nov. 2, but declined to inform police about the march route. That forced officers on bicycles, motorcycles and in squad cars to follow and block traffic for more than an hour. An officer was pushed into a moving bus sometime near the end of the march, police said. He received just minor injuries.

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/1...es-for-looming/?test=latestnews#ixzz1dVKpYsdI

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/1...rming-themselves-for-looming/?test=latestnews

    This has all the hallmarks of the Left's professional rent-a-mob's violent tactics. They live for this stuff.


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  2. Beevee

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    Let the propaganda begin.
     
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    Really..who cares ?

    Oregon has like 3-5 conservatives living there at any given time.
    Let them destroy their own drug welfare state.
    Afghanistan does it..and they get new roads and bridges..and new schools.

    The conservatives living there should be packing up and heading east...
     
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    An armed public is an informed public.
     
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    Thye solution to this is simple: instead of police, the mob should be removed by National Guard troops. If attacked, they should simply respond with machine gun and grenade launcher fire, flamethrowers, and cannister shot from M60 tanks.
     
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    Grenades work very well for large mobs of idiots.
     
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    Oh dear, what's this? War mongering "right" leaner's turning on their fellow countrymen, calling for them to be killed and massacre to be committed against them, then the very same war mongering "right" leaner's saying Muslims in the Middle-East deserve to be killed because of minority extremists brutal behaviour towards their own people and towards non Muslims in the region.

    So.. let me get this "right", you support people being slaughtered because they're deemed barbaric, and then you yourselves also support barbaric conduct towards your own populace? By this logic, does this mean you, yourselves deserve to be bombed out of existence too?
     
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    If the mob turns violent they will undo their "scattered goals".
     
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    Nah........ we've got rubber bullets and bean bag shot guns now and they leave a brutal mark.. Former bad-asses are reduced to writhing in pain weenies crying for mommy ready to be hauled away.

    No there won't be anymore martyrs but a whole lot of attitudes will be adjusted.
     
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    Huh, it says right there in your article that the suspected group is a group of anarchists who would come for the showdown, and not the OWS movement itself. In fact, they released this statement.


    So your title is very misleading, and so is the skew you chose to present.




    If this goes badly, which it very well may, it will be the downfall of Sam Adams.
     
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    There is no "OWS" movement anymore. The people who started out with good intentions have become nothing but stooges for every radical group in America.

    Violence is inevitable.
     
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    Hmmm...... I wonder if the cops get hazardous duty pay if they have to go into the Portland occupy to clean it out due to the Lice infestation?

    Seems like they would need haz mat suits to avoid contamination.........
     
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    Didn't many Tea Party protesters arm themselves with assault weapons?
     
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    Just torch the entire area. That's all that the can really do to de-contaminate it.
     
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    Nah, mostly lawn chairs.

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    Huh? That doesn't even make sense, and I'm pro-CCW.

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    Not many based on the press-hyped pictures that I saw. A few brought semi-auto rifles, not true assault rifles as suggested by the media, to the rallys that ended on the same day or weekend and did not turn violent. This is the difference between the Tea Party and the OWS movement.

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    Exactly! This will also raise our collective IQ especially if done at all occupy movements. You see, this occupy party is the cancer of this nation. Without them, we wouldn't knwo where the cancer is, but when they concentrate into the cities we can eliminate them and profit.
     
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    Bring in the National guard with a Bradley and a Humvee with a .50 Cal. Let 'em start shooting then.
     
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    That, and most Tea Partiers actually work for a living.
     
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    Nah man, why is everyone wanting the State to use deadly force against these people? They may be ideologically screwed up and anti-american scumbags but we do have some nasty non-lethal weaponry developed for Iraq. Like the Heat Ray mounted on a humvee!

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    Doesn't that look like much more fun to use?? Imagine those anarchists screaming in pain and running away without firing a shot.

    First degree burns will hopefully sterilize the lice from their bodies as well.
     
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    Brilliant solutions here guys. Really thought out. Shooting at protesters, and using grenades on American citizens,what a good strategy. I wonder why the police chief didn't go with it?
     
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    If the protesters start shooting, why wouldn't the Guard shoot back?
     
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    Odd, where was there any indication that protesters were going to start shooting?
     

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