Oakland Mayor Admits Cities Coordinated Crackdown on Occupy Movement

[flamingdem]

http://capitoilette.com/2011/11/15/oakland-mayor-jean-quan-admits-cities-coordinated-crackdown-on-occupy-movement/



Embattled Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, speaking in an interview with the BBC (excerpted on The Takeaway radio program–audio of Quan starts at the 5:30 mark), casually mentioned that she was on a conference call with leaders of 18 US cities shortly before a wave of raids broke up Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country. “I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation. . . .”

Mayor Quan then rambles about how she “spoke with protestors in my city” who professed an interest in “separating from anarchists,” implying that her police action was helping this somehow.

Interestingly, Quan then essentially advocates that occupiers move to private spaces, and specifically cites Zuccotti Park as an example:

In New York City, it’s interesting that the Wall Street movement is actually on a private park, so they’re not, again, in the public domain, and they’re not infringing on the public’s right to use a public park.

[baldguy]

1. Can anyone say "RICO"?

[pscot]

11. No one in Eric Holder's "Justice" department

[hootinholler]

18. ++

[leveymg]

24. There seems to have been a series of such conference calls. Here's an earlier mention by LA Mayor

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/07/142102081/occupy-presents-big-problems-for-big-city-mayors

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, has said he supports protesters’ right to assemble but that they can’t camp outside City Hall indefinitely. He led a recent conference call with seven other mayors to discuss how to handle the Occupy movement and, among other things, the impact on transportation, city services and costs.

[Vincardog]

2. How the F does the public using public areas to vent their grievances = "infringing on the public’s

right to use a public park."? Or is The Public only the 1%?

[Huey P. Long]

3. WTF? "they’re not infringing on the public’s right to use a public park."

Um, the OWSers ARE the public!

[Fumesucker]

5. Dirty fucking hippies are by definition not part of the public... n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. Good point. In any war, the aggressor must demonize the victim, make them

somehow into something you would enjoy seeing destroyed.

[Fumesucker]

4. Oh what a tangled web we weave..

It takes a really good memory to be a good liar, I don't think Ms Quan has what it takes.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. She's blowing off the latest decision by a judge in NYC

that guarantees the right of protestors to continue using Zuccotti Park. Besides, NYC is kinda outside her jurisdiction, dontcha think?

[flamingdem]

7. I have to wonder if that is a clown's horn she's holding in her hand

in the photo!?

:silly:

[Tesha]

8. Perhaps some Attorneys General should be discussing whether this action constituted an illegal...

...conspiracy to deprive thousands of persons of
their Constitutional rights?

Tesha

[xiamiam]

17. I hope so..nt

[redqueen]

9. As if it isn't blindingly obvious.

They're just pouring gasoline on a fire.

[Botany]

10. Department of no shit Sherlock

same playbook everyplace ..... drugs, crime, clean up, public access of the space, community needs, and ..... :puke:

"They" know if we are able to occupy over the winter months it will show real staying power so the top 1% put the word out.

[SidDithers]

12. Surely Obama was somehow the evil mastermind behind it all...nt

Sid

[dionysus]

15. michael moore beat you to the punch on that Sid...

;)

[Ganja Ninja]

16. Yes clearly his FBI and Justice Department played no roll.

Anybody who would think that would have to be some kind of crazy left wing loon. All these mayors across the country must have banned together on their own with no contact with the feds of any kind.
:eyes:

[TBF]

23. + a million ...

nt

[saras]

13. That's a curious perspective...

"In New York City, it’s interesting that the Wall Street movement is actually on a private park, so they’re not, again, in the public domain, and they’re not infringing on the public’s right to use a public park."

So they're on private property, completely at the mercy of a property owner.

And they're NOT "the public" and they DON'T have "the public's right to use a public park".

I got it.

[RandySF]

14. Coordinated does not describe Jean Quan.

[Dawson Leery]

19. Recall her!

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Bastards all.

[mwrguy]

21. Maybe some day we can elect a Democrat as mayor of Oakland

A real Democrat, that is.

[Matariki]

22. She doesn't seem particularly bright.

Or at least unable to stand up to any external pressure (excluding public pressure, of course).

[lovuian]

26. She has no remorse and she looks very proud of herself

She is a New World Order flunkie
using the FEMA play book

If its ok with other mayors its ok with me

that mentality caused France's police to round up the Jews in Paris to be taken to Auschwitz

the French Police did it with zealousness
we know what happened to the thousands sent there and arrested

It is people like her that starts revolutions