Occupy Potemkin
If you were so unfortunate as to have to conduct business at Los Angeles City Hall these days, you would notice as you approached the building that the north and south lawns are adorned with an array of camping tents, these erected to house the hardy band known as Occupy Los Angeles. There is nary a square foot of open space between the tents, giving the impression of a great many occupiers. That impression is false.
LAPD officers recently took an informal census of the encampment, conducting it late at night at an hour when the occupiers were presumably asleep and dreaming of all the free things they hope to extract from the labors of their fellow citizens. And who would have thought it, but about half of those tents were, well, unoccupied. So now we know that Occupy Los Angeles is even more of a farce (if that’s possible) than we knew it to be before.
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Re: Occupy Potemkin
Well that figures. At least when we erected a "tent city" in the mideast, we would, you know, actually live in the stupid things. Otherwise it would have been a ghost city. Does this mean that instead of calling it "Occupy Los Angeles," we can name it "Haunt Los Angeles" instead?
May '10
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So now we can start a new movement: Un-occupy Wall Street, and Los Angeles and...
I live in Oakland and since "Occupy Oakland" got under way I haven't been within five miles of its campsite, Frank Ogawa Plaza. I have made a point to shop at the Whole Foods that was besieged by the mob last week, and I have written Mayor Quan and various city council members to let them know of my disapproval of their choices made in the face of this mob (fat lot of good it'll do in appealing to these leftist true believers I know but, it's real free speech, not thuggery posing as free speech).
If I were the mayor I'd have cleared the plaza after the first tent went up. Failing that, I'd have called out the National Guard and shut the campers down and endured the criticisms of the bien pensants who shed tears over alleged "police brutality" on the grounds that the rest of Oakland's citizens have rights to public places and safety, too. And anyone wearing a mask over his face during a demonstration would be doing 90 days this very minute.
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I happened to run into Occupy DC last night and so wished I had a thermal imaging camera to see if there were any bodies in the tents.
Jul '10
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The police in London used thermal imagers to find out the same thing, if memory serves. In the U.S. you would need a warrant to thermal scan a dwelling.
Interestingly, many states in the South have laws on the books against demonstrating in masks. They were enacted as anti-Klan measures. That they might now be used against Black Bloc types is a thing of beauty.