This Picture Of Occupiers Cracks Me Up!

[saddlebum]

I know, that by some standards, I have a sick sense of humor. But the picture in this news article makes me laugh out loud. The protesters refused to cooperate with police, so this cop just nonchalantly walks over and HOSES them down with pepper spray. He looks like a pest control guy spraying the cockroaches. It's funny on several levels. This happened at UC Davis and of course people, (cockroaches), pitched a fit because they got sprayed. "Police brutality!!! The pigs sprayed me like they said they would if I didn't stop breaking the law......WAAAAAH!!!!"
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/police-pepper-spray-seated-occupy-protesters-at-uc-davis/

[srussell]

not nice

[billy_56081]

thanks for sharing. Is there a video with sound?

[billy_56081]

Why yes there is very funny, too bad they didn't use raid on these roaches.
 

[saddlebum]

I can't watch the video cause my connection is too broke. I just think it's funny how the cop seems so nonchalant and calm. Like he's painting park benches or something. Usually when the pepper spray comes out there is alot of comotion. Looking at that picture, it looks like the cop is giving a demonstration to a crowd of onlookers, on how to control pests. Why would anyone be stupid enough to just sit there and get hosed with pepper spray? What did they accomplish? What did their "red pepper martyrdom" secure for the good of mankind?.......Just funny on a few levels!! 

[lakota]

Oh no! How could this be? It appears the hallowed university called the cops to deal with a pestilence that it's own staff of socialist "educators" created.
 
I think the college should have been told "you created it and now you can deal with it"
 
On a side note this may be the smartest bunch of "occupiers" I have seen. They were said to be protesting rising tuition so they went right to the source of it rather than blame banks for their student loans...but I would be willing to bet they have been doing that too

[powderman]

SADDLEBUM. Thanks, made my day. Sounded like the crowd needed some too. POWDERMAN. 

[bilmac]

Protesting high tuition huh. That may be the only good lesson in economics they got at that school. That's how capitalism works, if the tuition at Davis is too high then go to a school that they can afford. If nobody goes to Davis their tuition will go down.

[Graybeard]

I see some of you folks have no more regard for the US Constitution than the obamination does.

Ya know it has that little pesky thing in there about peaceable assembly that sure is inconvenient if it's not a cause you support. Ya can't pick and chose when to apply the Constitution. Either you believe in it or you don't. So far it seems the posters to this thread DON'T.

Yet I've seen several of you call for gunowners gathering for such demonstrations and even toting guns when ya do it. I'm betting you'll feel a lot different if such a crowd got this treatment.

Your true colors are showing.

[lakota]

I have to disagree with you Graybeard. If you arent allowed to camp somewhere then you cant camp there. They were told they could "occupy" the area as long as they liked but the camps had to be dismantled they refused to do so and suffered the consequences.  If they felt so strongly about their cause then they should have organized shifts and not set up camp since they were told no camping was allowed.
 
Had this been a group of gun owners protesting that refused to dismantle a camp I would be willing to bet something more sinister than pepper spray would have been used to disperse them.

[ms]

I see some of you folks have no more regard for the US Constitution than the obamination does.

Ya know it has that little pesky thing in there about peaceable assembly that sure is inconvenient if it's not a cause you support. Ya can't pick and chose when to apply the Constitution. Either you believe in it or you don't. So far it seems the posters to this thread DON'T.

Yet I've seen several of you call for gunowners gathering for such demonstrations and even toting guns when ya do it. I'm betting you'll feel a lot different if such a crowd got this treatment.

Your true colors are showing.

+1

[Graybeard]

I see no tents or sleeping bags, just a bunch of folks sitting down in peaceful protest. You can make all the excuses you want but just cuz you don't like their cause is no reason to take away their Constitutional right to assemble and protest.

If they wanted camping ended they should have been pulling tents not spraying folks sitting on the ground.

[saddlebum]

They have the right to assemble, protest, and free speech. I don't think anyone is denying them that.
 
But they don't have the right to break the law. Whether it is assembling without permit, blocking traffic, tresspassing or otherwise endangering others or themselves. Not obeying the laws and defying police has it's consequences and in this case, it's pretty funny to me. Especially since they really accomplished very little if anything. Except to get hosed with pepper spray and hauled off to jail.
No one was seriously injured so my conscience is clear.
 
If I was to be treated this way because I defied law enforcement and broke laws, then I got what I deserved and would take it like a man and own it. I know!.....I've seen me do it!
 Thank goodness I finally grew up!
 
But I do appreciate your opinion GB and know where you are coming from. If someone hoses me off with pepper spray for being a doofus law breaker, I hope you get a good belly laugh out of it on me.

[lakota]

The pictures and video leave a lot to the imagination. The text says there were 28 tents set up. The people who were hosed looked like they were locked in a human chain and impedeing access by the police to dismantle the camp.
 
Look at this from another prospective-that of a student that just wants to go to school do the work and graduate without any political entanglements. Lets say they allowed the protestors to remain and camp. Now we have a large group of people peeing and crapping all over the place creating a public health hazard. What about the rights of the guy who just wants to go to class without walking through a human litter box?
 
They can peacefully assemble but they still have to follow the rules.

[Graybeard]

No I'll not laugh I'll take up for your Constitutional Rights.

Funny but I don't recall anything in the Constitution about needing a permit. In fact requiring one is an infringement of that right. It's not a right it's a priviledge if it can be restricted or taken from you so easily.

They are not on a street thus not blocking traffic. Dunno if trespassing or not as I'm not sure where they are. I believe it's a park open to the public tho so can't be tresspassing.

Nope sorry I can see no excuse for what we see in the photo. I hope you never find yourself in that position but hope also you one day realize how important it is to stand for the rights of others so they hopefully will stand with you for your rights. Otherwise we're all gonna lose them. The shame is so few can see what's really happening in this country.

It's why I support Ron Paul as he is the ONLY person running for the job who actually believes in the US Constitution and he believes in it unconditionally as I do.

[gr8ful]

no need for pepper spray!   Plain old soap and water is the best deterent for hippy pests.

[nw_hunter]

I know, that by some standards, I have a sick sense of humor. But the picture in this news article makes me laugh out loud. The protesters refused to cooperate with police, so this cop just nonchalantly walks over and HOSES them down with pepper spray. He looks like a pest control guy spraying the cockroaches. It's funny on several levels. This happened at UC Davis and of course people, (cockroaches), pitched a fit because they got sprayed. "Police brutality!!! The pigs sprayed me like they said they would if I didn't stop breaking the law......WAAAAAH!!!!"
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/police-pepper-spray-seated-occupy-protesters-at-uc-davis/

I guess we all look at humor differently.
I don't see anything funny about a (PEACE) Officer. Nonchalantly spraying our young sons and daughters (in your words....Cockroaches)with a harsh chemical.They didn't appear to resist, so why not just remove them without causing physical damage to them?

The U C Davis being an Agricultural school probably has a lot of Conservatives sending their children there. Could some of the protesters be Republican Cockroaches?

So! When it agrees with our views it's a protester! When it doesn't it's a ..............."Cockroach"

[saddlebum]

Last thing I want to do is argue with you GB. Especially since I agree with you.......BUT!!
 
Quote from article;
"UC Davis officials had said the group may occupy the quad for as long as it wants, but could not set up camp.
“It’s not safe for multiple reasons,” UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza said.
"Police reportedly gave the students a 3 p.m. Friday deadline to remove the 28 tents from campus and showed up at the appointed time when they did not comply."
 
They were blocking the police from tearing down the camp they were told to not set up in the first place. No one said they couldn't come back tomorrow. They just can't sleep and do what OWS protesters have been doing all over the country. UC Davis doesn't want rapes and such on their campus. There are constraints on everything we do in our lives. These were reasonable constraints from where I stand.
 
UC Davis has a responsibility for safety on their campus. It's their campus and property. If they were on our property, what would we do? There is debate about how the police handled it. Should they have pepper sprayed, manhandled into patty wagons, fire hosed, (like Kent State)? We know how that ended up. According to campus authorities, it was a public safety issue on private property. The protesters couldn't be happy with that and had to push the envelope and go against the law. They suffered the consequences. And it looks funny in the picture....To me anyway.
 
Please do not come to my support if I break the law intentionally. We are a nation of laws and if I break one or two, intentionally, and suffer the consequences, so be it. I shouldn't have intentionally broken the law and defied police to their face, in the first place. I wonder what kind of man I would be today if I hadn't been "spanked" in the past for my bad deeds?
If I suffer injustice at the hand of anyone, then I would greatly appreciate your support. And I know I would do likewise for you.

[saddlebum]

I know, that by some standards, I have a sick sense of humor. But the picture in this news article makes me laugh out loud. The protesters refused to cooperate with police, so this cop just nonchalantly walks over and HOSES them down with pepper spray. He looks like a pest control guy spraying the cockroaches. It's funny on several levels. This happened at UC Davis and of course people, (cockroaches), pitched a fit because they got sprayed. "Police brutality!!! The pigs sprayed me like they said they would if I didn't stop breaking the law......WAAAAAH!!!!"
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/police-pepper-spray-seated-occupy-protesters-at-uc-davis/

I guess we all look at humor differently.
I don't see anything funny about a (PEACE) Officer. Nonchalantly spraying our young sons and daughters (in your words....Cockroaches)with a harsh chemical.They didn't appear to resist, so why not just remove them without causing physical damage to them?

The U C Davis being an Agricultural school probably has a lot of Conservatives sending their children there. Could some of the protesters be Republican Cockroaches?

So! When it agrees with our views it's a protester! When it doesn't it's a ..............."Cockroach"

I know I'm not supposed to call names, but, really, you are such an over sensitive crybaby. And for your information smart guy, I agree with them that tuition is too high. I just don't agree with law breaking. Something some of you guys seem to have a hard time comprehending. It's easy to see that the Ron Paul,"anything goes", no matter the consequences, philosophy is going to try to take advantage of this now. It seems your statements about, "if you don't agree with it", can be applied to you too......maybe? 
 
Feel free to delete this post if you like. I have become impervious to the condesention from Paul supporters.

[Lost Farmboy]

I see some of you folks have no more regard for the US Constitution than the obamination does.

Ya know it has that little pesky thing in there about peaceable assembly that sure is inconvenient if it's not a cause you support. Ya can't pick and chose when to apply the Constitution. Either you believe in it or you don't. So far it seems the posters to this thread DON'T.

Yet I've seen several of you call for gunowners gathering for such demonstrations and even toting guns when ya do it. I'm betting you'll feel a lot different if such a crowd got this treatment.

Your true colors are showing.

+1

+2

[teamnelson]

It is possible to encroach liberty so tightly with ancillary law that it continues to be liberty in name only.

I just went through yards of red tape to keep my firearms in my home, on base where it is prohibited to all except a few dozen of us who live in senior officer housing. My sailors and marines have to keep theirs in a rental locker off base. In my home, each firearm must be individually trigger locked, within a locked hard case, and ammo locked separately. I can be inspected any time without warning to ensure compliance, and my privilege can be revoked. Do I have 2A liberty? I don't think so. But the ones who make the laws think so.

What about peaceable assembly? Permits, fees, designated areas, restrictions, requirements ... when does all of that negate liberty?

As GB said, you can't pick and choose who gets liberty, and I'd you claim they broke the law, ask yourself how many laws have been made to encroach liberties you value.

[saddlebum]

If they were camping on my property after I told them not to, I would call the police. If they resisted and the police pepper sprayed them, I wouldn't shed a tear for them. Guess that makes me a bad guy.
 
They were given their rights, but it wasn't enough. So how much is enough? Does public safety and protection of property have anything to do with the equation?
 
They only degraded their message and protest buy not abiding buy the law. Now they don't look as legitiment as they would have had they gone home for the night, or as someone else suggested, take shifts through the night. As if middle of the night protesting would make any difference. The whole idea is to get in trouble and go to jail to get more attention. There have been many reports of this strategy all over the country. Some want to earn their "go to jail" merit badge. They might have even received some acolades from the media if they had been an example of "peaceful protest", instead of resisting police. I doubt very many people would disagree that tuition is too high. But the message is lost in the story of police resistance.From what I've read elsewhere, most sympathize with their message, but not the way they delivered it buy resisting police. These kinds of protests didn't gain any respect in the '60s. Why do they think it will work now?
 
I still think getting hosed with pepper spray in the picture is funny. Guess that makes me a bad guy. Oh well! I can live with that.....................

[powderman]

They have the right to assemble, protest, and free speech. I don't think anyone is denying them that.
 
SADDLEBUM. Good posts Sir. But they don't have the right to break the law. Whether it is assembling without permit, blocking traffic, tresspassing or otherwise endangering others or themselves. Not obeying the laws and defying police has it's consequences and in this case, it's pretty funny to me. Especially since they really accomplished very little if anything. Except to get hosed with pepper spray and hauled off to jail.
No one was seriously injured so my conscience is clear.
 

 
Agreed Sir. When protest breaks the law and violates the rights of others to the sidewalks  or streets then they are in the wrong. POWDERMAN. 

[lakota]

I stand by my statements-
They were not told no protesting. They were told no camping. They were told to dismantle camp by 3:00PM they did not. Cops show up to dismantle camps and they lock ares in a circle. What were the cops supposed to do? Say "oh ok our bad" and leave? Whats a less dangerous way of dispersing a crowd than pepper spray?
Was there right to camp violated? I can see why the school didnt want them camping out there. Somehow I doubt these folks fall into the "Take only pictures and leave only footprints" or "Tread lightly" categories of campers

[powderman]

I stand by my statements-
They were not told no protesting. They were told no camping. They were told to dismantle camp by 3:00PM they did not. Cops show up to dismantle camps and they lock ares in a circle. What were the cops supposed to do? Say "oh ok our bad" and leave? Whats a less dangerous way of dispersing a crowd than pepper spray?
Was there right to camp violated? I can see why the school didnt want them camping out there. Somehow I doubt these folks fall into the "Take only pictures and leave only footprints" or "Tread lightly" categories of campers

 
YEP. POWDERMAN. 

[Graybeard]

OK guys I was able to watch the video that time. It wouldn't show for me earlier. I have to wonder if some of the folks posting have really watched it.

The photo doesn't show as much as the video but it also does NOT show any tents or sleeping bags. I'm not saying they weren't there but the video doesn't show either thus no polic removing such. Yes in the video I did see a circle of sitting protesters not so obvious in the photo.

Again tho I saw no resistance from those sprayed and they went peacefully when the officers lifted them away. I don't imagine they'd have done any differently had they not been sprayed first.

Everyone has to decide for themselves what's enough and what's too much. I suspect most if not all were students there and therefore had a right to be there. I still saw no evidence of camping or law breaking.

If it has gotten to the point in this country where a bit of vocal protesting and sitting down holding hands is illegal then freedom and liberty are already gone. No I don't agree they should be allowed to camp there or in any of the other protest sites where camping isn't the norm. But if it's open to the public or the group who is protesting as certainly a university is open to its students then by golly the Constitution says they have a right to protest. I saw no examples in the video of anything on the part of the protesters that was other than peaceful verbal protest.

If the cops keep up such crap as that then there is gonna be a shooting war in this country in the not so distant future. I think that's actually what those in power are hoping happens. I think tho they are gonna get more than they bargained for when it starts cuz they ain't gonna be able to stop it.

[guzzijohn]

Officer, please arrest thyself. Nothing but police brutality at work.

California Penal Code Section 12403.7 (a) (8 ) (g) Any person who uses tear gas or tear gas weapons except in self-defense is guilty of a public offense and is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for 16 months, or two or three years or in a county jail not to exceed one year or by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment, except that, if the use is against a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, engaged in the performance of his or her official duties and the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a peace officer, the offense is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for 16 months or two or three years or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment.[/font]

[ironglow]

  I will only repeat what I asked so many years ago when some silly "students" made a suicide run at Kent state in Ohio.  When the first person came to me bearing a sob story about the situation, I had just one question;
     " Were they told to HALT...and did they"?     If they were not ordered to HALT the NG was at fault ! If they were told to HALT and refused..then they bought their own farm.  These are the rules many military people their own age live with daily and emerge better people for it !
  My question to these seemingly spolied brats..  Were you given fair warning to unlink, get off the sidewalk and move on ?  Were you also warned that things would get tougher?  Were you warned about the pepper spray ?
   If they were warned3 times and still sat like a bump on a log...they begged for it !
 
  THe only surprising part is ..If tired old hound dog were getting sprayed with pepper spray like that, he would know enough to pick his carcase up and move it !  As youngsters, most of us were taught that ignoring the reasonable voice of authority, whether parents, teacher or other..brings consequences..
 
  However, these "flea baggers" got just what they wanted, they have recruited thousands of gullibles to their cause.

[powderman]

I agree with what IG said. Those people made their point, they should have dispersed when ordered to do so. When is the protest over?? Who decides?? Should there be a certain number of laws broken before they are enforced?? Aside from making fools of themselves and disrupting the lives of those around them, what did they accomplish?? Want to protest?? Fine, protest, make your point, go home, repeat as necessary as that is your right. You do NOT have the right to break the law and disrupt decent folks lives just because you feel like it. Why should decent folks have to walk out into the streets just because you feel like blocking the sidewalks?? Sorry guys, no sympathy from me. POWDERMAN. 

[yellowtail3]

This Picture Of Occupiers Cracks Me Up!

Does it? It does not make me laugh, or appeal to me. But then, I didn't like see Deputy Inspector Bologna (NYPD) saunter up to defenseless women corralled behind a police barrier and mace them in the face. And I didn't like seeing Kelly Thomas beat to death when he didn't kowtow quite quickly enough.
 

If the cops keep up such crap as that then there is gonna be a shooting war in this country in the not so distant future.

Well, many will support the police AS LONG AS THEY DON'T LIKE THE POLITICS OF THE PEOPLE GETTING ABUSED.
 

Officer, please arrest thyself. Nothing but police brutality at work.

Don't hold your breath, Guzzi...