FFS 19 November 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, California / Pacific Coast, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Occupy Wall Street, WAR!.trackback
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6/23: Lieutenant John Pike walks up and down the line spraying students in the face [Image: Wayne Tilcock, The Davis Enterprise - from a gallery at BI]
So, does Lt John Pike feel bigger and better now that he has marked his territory?
FFS.
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I lifted this from a link Madman provided in the last thread..just the arrangement of the Mic Check is much more expressive of how it went down than the version I first read:
[T]he attack on the students is provoked by nothing except their refusal to obey police orders. The usual chaos ensues for a few minutes. Victims shriek in pain, while some in the crowd frantically search for water. Several of the protesters are cuffed and dragged away, rather than receiving the medical attention they need. It is outrageous. It is unforgivable. And then something amazing happens.
The remaining students, who far outnumber the contingent of police, slowly start to encircle the officers while chanting “Shame on you!” The chants get louder and more menacing as the crowd gets closer, herding the police into a defensive huddle. Officers raise their weapons toward the crowd, warning them to back off, but at this distance and in these numbers, their riot gear would offer them little protection should crowd suddenly charge. Sensing their advantage, the students change their chant to the more defiant “Whose university? Our university!” Tensions rise. One twitchy trigger finger and anything could happen. Then a lone voice initiates the familiar call and response of the human mic:
Voice: “Mic check!”
Crowd: “Mic check!”Voice: “We are willing…”
Crowd: “We are willing…”Voice: “To give you a brief moment…”
Crowd: “To give you a brief moment…”Voice: “Of peace…”
Crowd: “Of peace…”Voice: “In order to take your weapons…”
Crowd: “In order to take your weapons…”Voice: “And your friends…”
Crowd: “And your friends…”Voice: “And go.”
Crowd: “And go.”Voice: “Please do not return…”
Crowd: “Please do not return…”Voice: “We are giving you a moment of peace.”
Crowd: “We are giving you a moment of peace.”The crowd then starts chanting “You can go! You can go!”, and after a few moments the police turn their backs to the crowd and do exactly that, wisely taking advantage of the offered truce, and eliciting cheers and applause from the crowd. . . . .
Police Evicted from Occupy UC Davis after Pepper Spraying Peaceful Protesters
Welp, that’s that, … everyone in Cali and beyond saw Jerry, the Dem, Jesuit Brown, who, as Governor of Cali, is also officially the president of the Board of Regents of the University of California ‘system,’ condemning that brutal UC Davis incident, as the First [Tweeting] Dog, Sutter, and Mama/Consort Anna [Jack in the Box] Gust, stood firmly by our CA PAPA.
No? …. yeah, didn’t think so ….. NOT
(I’m sure Jerry and Consort have been even far more involved than Quan was regarding Oakland, in the oppression on Occupy across the state.)
in other lurvely, Golden Showers Cali noooze, which I’m sure all those Cali Jesuits are absolutely beaming about:
yes, …. that Californiality website, is pretty creepy; …. though, I’ll admit, I did find this there:
Some local N17 pics and commentary.
wow, that shot in the bottom left corner …so many of the riot cops remind me of hideous, EMPTY BOTS…….
TBH, since the Bush protests I make a point of not looking at them directly. That shit they wear is so calculated to make people panic. It really is meant to invoke something “bigger than life” that is not in actuality alive.
I’ll get out of their way when they tell me to, but I won’t look at their faces. There be dragons, as the cliche’ goes. :/
Yeah, and they’ve honed it to a fine art, probably had dozens of conferences with muckety mucks in the APA. The one thing I like about eye contact though, is looking at those who clearly know they are engaging in somethingwrong, I’m remembering a woman cop who looked like she might soon break into tears, and wouldn’t return my look.
I’ve Never Prayed Before In My Life, But I’m Absolutely Desperate
heh
that mic check thing at UC Davis is pretty amazing.
Britain’s Occupy movement picks up steam
I hope I catch sight of Vivienne Westwood… she occupies such a unique corner, all her own..
Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi
That’s just the heart of the letter, there’s a lot more.
I read that one of the pepper sprayed at Davis was hosptialised for chemical burns… Not only the chancellor but the head of police at UC Davis (a woman named Scopazzi, I Think) should be gotten rid of.
they should be in jail, and I hope those kids file suits against them personally.
this town has an incredible amount of lawyers, and the university has a respectable law school. there will be suits.
I hope not just against the school, and against the police force, but against them personally. I want that Lt. ruined. Take his house, take his car, take his fucking pension.
I got the name of the woman pol chief wrong it is
Scupizziugh NO it’s SpicuzzaWhat an awkward name.
Even Forbes has a piece up saying, this is not how you make a protest, which even they point out was not in anyway violent, this is NOT how you make it go away. Laughing at the UC Davis cops and authorities…
these bureaucratic hacks always love to blather about “putting UCD on the map” and “building a world-class institution,” (implying that it wasn’t already so before they arrived), but katehi has certainly brought the university all sorts of global attention this week.
that’s why she’ll be forced to resign, is my bet. bad image, pissed-off alumni and parents, and corporate donors who don’t want to be tarred by association.
my guess is she’ll be given a golden parachute in not too long. the campus will not quiet down until she’s gone, except perhaps for a brief lull around christmas break.
One of the disgusting things about the UC System, at least at the UC level and I would suppose certain of the Cal State campuses, they have made no secret they want, prefer too often, the higher paying out of state or even foreign students. Recruit and reduce space for Californians. Such fucking bullshit, imo. What a mistake.
Good luck with that with this high profile, being shown all over the world GOON tactics.. ESP as getting thru the damned schools is getting harder, in terms of picking up enough classes each session (or so I hear).
Over 105,000 Signatures Gathered in 4 Days! + Photos from today’s Madison Recall Rally
The total needed for recall is about 540,000 within 60 days.
How terrific!!
I figured that the minimum threshold would be easily reached, but this quickly … they could have enough signatures in half the time needed. Hell, maybe faster.
I hope they just keep on collecting signatures. Send in a million, if they can.
I’ll keep you posted as news comes out here.
Posts today at http://occupywallst.org/
West Coast Port Shut down…my old dream! A couple times I thought we might see t, once early in the Bush years, a WC Anti War labor move…
Who knows, it might happen.
AND I just heard that the Oakland Occupy as ”taken” the space at 19th and Telegraph, which they ad announced they would do… it is a fenced off unused (a small part is used.. I forget for what, a stray memorial maybe) but most of it is just haphazard grassy open area behind chain link. It is surrounded by about 8 blocks, 2 along each side, a mix of residential and business.
We shall see…
With the fucking wars spreading now into Kenya (as if much of Africa is not proxy wars for years) SOMETHING has to give. It has to…. Increased mil in the Asia Pacific… telling Australians we are just beefing up their bases, wha bllshite. We are declaring the mil junta in Myanmar as opening to democracy. MORE bllshite.
so chancellor katehi and the police chief held a secret unannounced press conference today where they made lame rationalizations for why they had to pepper spray students in the face for “safety,” excluding students from the audience, but students found out and surrounded the building, linked arms, and chanted for like 3 hours with the chancellor stuck inside. the crowd, a thousand strong, repeatedly said via the mike check that they were peaceful and would allow the chancellor to leave the building, but she stayed inside and called the cops. the cops at some point balked at clearing the crowd (understandable given how the last such act ended for them), and after some discussion, the students rearranged themselves to make two long human chains, making a pathway from the door to the street.
finally, the students decided to sit down, in complete silence, to let the chancellor walk to her lexus. this is the footage of that walk of shame:
unreal, the level of peaceful discipline these kids have.
It is just fabulous!
and after some discussion, the students rearranged themselves
And showed who was really in charge.
That sounds so beautiful!
Punk the 1%: UK Uncut pranks Revenue & Customs boss Dave Hartnett
Tampa Police Roll Out A TANK To Deal With A Few Dozen Protesters
I saw that tank. All of these depts went crazy with post 9/11 money… and then ramped up Homeland Sec money and then anti -violent protest money. Anti terror money… anti immigration fderal money…Federal Cooperation Money…
on and on.
BULLSHIT they don’t have money. They do.
a pair of money-grubbing scumbags …
Russell Simmons Defends Jay-Z’s ‘Occupy All Streets’ T-Shirts
Been poking around on and off today, looking for blog or ‘mainstream media’ traces of Governor Brown’s ‘response’ to both the UC Davis incident, and the Occupy movement in Califonia in general, which I’m sure he’s done plenty of behind closed doors, if not just as the official president of the regents of the UC system (who canceled their last meeting due to the disdain they’ve earned from Occupy Cal).
Of course if it were a rethuglican governor with so many instances of militarized riot police brutalizing citizens and college students across their state, there would likely be some ‘press’ on it, but the only thing I came up with as to Jerry, is that he left today:
Not to worry, the Lieutenant Governor, Gavster, will be acting in his stead, and if anything comes up, like a major oil spill for instance, of course, ….he’ll disappear on his own, unannounced Vacation, (it’s a Cali thing.)
Jerry is very adept at this sort of thing.
He often glosses over things… and frankly, I doubt he has gone to a single Regent’s meeting. That’w what boychick Gavin is for.
What a pair.
Madison recall rally draws thousands
pic of big crowd at the link
Organizers have said their goal is 600,000 to 700,000 signatures
MORE…. MORE!!
Keep going… they have two full months…
Lieutenant John Pike
530-752-3989
japikeiii@ucdavis.edu
Address: 4005 Cowell Blvd, Apt 616.
Davis, CA 95618-6017.
Skype: japike3
Cell: 530-979-0184
2010 Pay
Base pay: $116,454.00, Overtime: $0.00, Other:$0.00
Total pay: $110,243.12
he makes too much.
being a thug pays pretty well
geesh… don’t make me laugh TOO hard now
Greek born btw. Engineer.
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_P.B._Katehi
Fortunately there is also this, so the whole thing isnot shit and shinola…
Sprayed it down their throats? No wonder some were spitting up blood. It ruptured membranes.
Drag the bitch off. Return her t the Greeks. Or snicker, give her to the Musuem of Tolerance (such bullshite)
Apparently she has a Facebook page. I bet its a hoot.
Linda P.B. Katehi | Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linda-PB-Katehi/147754228574654 Cached
Want to like this page? To interact with Linda P.B. Katehi you need to sign up for Facebook first. Sign Up. It’s free and anyone can join. Already a member? …
Health Hazards of Pepper Spray
One thing I do enjoy at times about the wikipedia, is perusing historic pages. Near the bottom of the page:
1. I had to ‘update’ that link to the historic page (which is quoted from below), since, on the current University of Illinois clout scandal page, the following historic reference to her has been deleted:
The SF Chronicle on the subject:
Leland’s got time (did not win for mayor!), he l o v e s the TV camera…. he should get busy.
Dump the lousy bitch.
Of course, Anonymous and The Underground
only goes so far in the reporting tho…
That’s why every capitalist pig needs LinkedIn:
Reach out and Touch Someone….
I think he is being called “Fascist Pig Fucker”…. quite a bit. Be interesting to see where this all ends up.
This may not be news (I fall behind…), but I am just catching that a FOIA has been filed to find out what, who, why, etc., on the 18 mayors and whomever else (Lobbyists? Justice? Homeland Securitat? Etc. ) who colluded on a joint take down of Occupies.
Considering that the words “frozen zone” keep popping up, I’m guessing homeland security, which would be Napolitanto.
1:26am
Cops are moving in on the Justin Herman Plaza site here in SF….
(I am listening overnight to the weekend woman at KGO talk radio…. sounds like she will be spending most of the night on Occupy….
http://www.kgoam810.com/default.asp )
News Update: “Several hundred cops” lined up with barricades..
Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student
There’s a lot more about what led up to the attack, and LOTS of pics. Worth checking out.
I’m impressed over and over again by how well-informed a lot of the people active in this movement are.
our history dept. is going to interview all of the students who had been sprayed, and publish it in a journal. i’ll let you know after it’s done.
oh thanks for that!
Another video about walk of shame.
I am hoping she leaves. Pushed, jumps, whatevr.
she looked scared to death at the end. good.
police are trained to be abusive:
ugh… I think it is actually identified qs a “pain + compliance” tool.
There is a horrible precedence here in Cali…. a protest that was a sit-in (iirc) in a state senator’s office, up in Humboldt, against logging practices. In that incident, the pepper spray was directly swabbed into te eyes of the protesters, not sprayed at a distance.
The court upheld the practice.
IF ONLY people could figure out we are overlorded by Tsars and Tsarinas. No matter the administration, no matter the color of the skin of the elected.
The Atlanic has a long piece on the history on the development of the current form of
policingmilitarized control of the citizenry.Unlike the author of the piece, I refuse to feel bad for police like the good abusive Lt. People CHOOSE to become that sort of cog in the societal machine, and one can tell from his body language that he ENJOYED the theatricality of torturing those students. HE LIKED IT.
oh the whole idea of feeling bad for Pike (or the Chancellor) is such a crock of shit. What propaganda.
Thanks for the link.
oh for fuck’s sake. No every thing Baldwin said was minted by god. By a long shot. What horsehit.
I am sorry, that is just reprehensible. You can be sorry or sad that a nation is so brutalised, but what bullshite to hold in greater sympathy the torturer above the tortured.
pissed me off.
Jimmy had far too much sympathy for the plantation owner. And the hired overseer. Maybe aside from the itinerant homosexual street life in Paris (and Istanbul), he felt better away from the classic, historic American white protagonist. Thw white owner class and their henchmen.
FFS.
And it is a short article, the author, Madrigal, hangs the ntire fucking thing off Baldwin (he really does, leading off iwth thatmess) and the other source he relies on, Gillham…
The sheer unblinking and unquestioning acceptance, adoration even, of that term, under that other spelling, Czar, as used by the Demoratic Obombster Admin, and Demoratic, underling Governors, et al … (seemed like every day early on, there was yet another Czar!!!!!!!! Appointment!!!!! ™ being announced, with no one, certainly none on the major blaaaawgs, condemning that concept.), was mind boggling, and a dead giveaway that nothing was going to change from the Monstrous Cheney/Bush reign, and would in fact get exponentially WORSE, …as it certainly has.
oh that all started under I forget who now. Some admin before Poor Slob and the Consort-with-Arms had czars running all over the place. I esp remember “drug czar”. Maybe it was Reagan. Slob so loves him.
I think finally the Slobster admin did shut up about their czars. The last one I remember was Rattner. Wasn’t he Car Czar or some such silliness… That didn’t go too well.
Yeah, the term has been around for awhile, but I don’t remember hearing it quite so ironically ( given the prior devastation of the Cheney/Bush) frequently, or loudly. Nor do I remember it so frequently used in mainstream print nooz headlines, with no irony, whatsoever, involved.
The last Czar appointment I recollect, was this one, by that fleck of SHIT, Empire of California [Tsar] Governor, Jerry Brown, on August 18th, 2011; it made me sick to my stomach, even though I wasn’t shocked:
(People loudly condemned that NASTY SHITBAG, Reagan , for his linguistics. The irony of it’s use (and stunning acceptance by libewals), by the DemoRat Obombster Admin, Tsar Brown, et al, … is unmatched, in my mind.)
oh Democrats FUSSED at Reagan. They barely opposed him. They used him for retail election purposes…. And now they meekly kowtow to the overriding luv for him.
And sure Slob loves him. He likes the R, Winger, conservative, white male. Maybe a slice or two of Jimmy Baldwin in him.
oopsy, ….’link:’
Former JPMorgan Banker: Exploiting Consumers Is ‘The Purpose Of The Banking Organization’
well, the Banksters and their minions have long since moved in on the credit unions, ~ what – …top laden with political hacks and union fixers , so many are already there…and not saying that MYM to credit unions isn’t a good idea, – it is – depends on the credit union obviously, people are getting hip, the great thing being the awakening once again to the glories of the Boycott, the economic sanction we all hold, however small when isolated if we’d only use it en masse – -
and I’d concede there is the possibility for activist targeting within CU’s… namely ,proxy wars for votes to lay seige to their boards, those charters, and , most importantly to the Banksters, their strawmen CU operatives and their put-out zombies looking for refuge and the last nicke to loot: those credit union investment pools. …but the Banksters lawyers and fixers , long seasoned in mergers and aquisition, hostile takeovers, have also stacked the deck with typical corporate countermeasures there too,
So what to do I say while calibrating a metal lathe….
I see this as a quick stop. Truth is, everything’s broke.
* Except, that is…. the will to resist.
And we know the PTB has their end covered.
Leaving only a matter of which camp one joins..
At the outset, seems to me,
measures clearing the civil opprobrium bar, like MYM , civil disobedience are essential lest a movement survive when first laid upon the curb…
But, navigating by sight now, and from the lay of the bloody land, the way this whole long bad trip looks to be going, I increasingly tend to think of them, like any of a handful of familiar installations along the road, like any rest stop or piss break while gunrunning….
Police Chief Who Oversaw 1999 WTO Crackdown Says Paramilitary Policing Is a Disaster
Seattle has been unnecessarily mocked and laughed at for 12 years. Once early in the ’00s, I landed while searching, for whatever, on some of the tactical and strategic crowd protest stuff that organisers of the WTO in 99 had up online. It was very very smart. I esp loved the use of what were called “Fluffies”…. people dressed in unusual colors or make up or things that glittered or glowed… they were dispatched to often skate into the middle of “problems” that were developing, either with agitprop agents provocateurs or just problems.
I lvoed it.
I think a lot of the people working now learned a lot from that event.
And while the cops were engaging the Bright Shiny Fluffies,
Black Bloc and ELF were slipping into VIP perimeters with WTO Ministerial ID….
New
LINK
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