Co-worker just came back from lunch

[gratuitous]

She said one of the nearby downtown Portland office buildings (headquarters for a bank) has a rent-a-cop at the public entrance doors. She said he was very nice and held doors for folks going in and out. My first reaction was to just shake my head, but then a more lucid thought occurred to me:

I don't recall the banksters taking these precautions during the Tea Bagger demonstrations, and some of those nitwits were walking around armed.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Teabaggers didn't really constitute a threat to the banks, 99% do.

Not in the immediate, "stick em up" sense, but in the "this movement is a threat to all that we hold dear" sense.

So good, they should worry.

:P

:patriot:

[gratuitous]

3. The mayor's planning to clear the occupied parks this weekend

And there are a lot of rumors swirling about how much resistance the Occupiers are going to put up, whether they will be allowed back in, and so forth. There could be some trouble (and from what I've heard on the local media, there are not a few people spoiling to see a few hippie heads busted), but I'm guessing the squares will be cleared temporarily, and some of the Occupiers will return after the squares are cleaned up to the Health Department's satisfaction.

I hope when they do come back the Occupiers exercise more control over the coming and going of people in the camp. Thieves and vandals seem to be using the Occupation as cover for their crimes and the camp is taking on the aspect of a hideout.

[hack89]

2. The Tea Baggers didn't occupy downtown areas for days on end

where they could attract the kind of problems OWS is attracting.

I don't think the cop is there because of the OWS people - it is due to all the trouble makers on the periphery trying to see how they can take advantage of the OWS.

[Major Nikon]

4. That's because the teabaggers are the useful idiots of the 1%

No reason to fear your own puppets.