Homeland Security is closely monitoring the increase in squirrel anarchists in occupy movements across the country. Some have been seen taunting authority, as here.
The worse anarchist squirrels have been seen with signs reading “We’re rodents but we’re not rats!” and ‘Wall Street is just Nuts . . . and we know nuts!”
Police report that efforts to try to speak with the squirrels led to a staring contest with the tiny protesters who just munching on nuts while glaring defiantly at officers.
On a positive note, Judge Katherine Forrest ruled (at least temporarily) today in Hedges v. Obama that Mr. Squirrel cannot be indefinitely detained.
Great videos Elaine, Anon nurse and Nal! Thanks for the laugh Pete.
the squirrels have listening devices in their nuts.
lol, pete. lol.
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Court decided class action can go forward! A good day today…….. -shano
I needed a bit of good news. Thanks, shano. More “good days” to come, I hope.
dredd’s right
the squirrels have listening devices in their nuts.
Here is another victory anon nurse: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/16/new-york-stop-and-frisk-lawsuit
Court decided class action can go forward! A good day today……..
Elaine, thanks for the video.
Thanks for the link, shano.
The squirrels are the plants placed inside the movement by police, then paid for by the taxpayers, involuntarily of course.
Occupy needs to look at worker owned corporations in a big way.
They have this smug bravery because of this case: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/05/in_the_first_oc.php
The NYPD has arrested protesters and journalists thousands of times since Occupy Wall Street first began in September, but the case of Alexander Arbuckle was the first of them to actually go to trial.
Arbuckle was arrested while photographing a march early on January 1. As a contingent of a few dozen protesters turned off Sixth Avenue onto 13th street, heading east, the police following the march on foot and on scooters moved in, making several arrests.
Among those arrests was Arbuckle, charged with disorderly conduct for standing in the middle of the street blocking traffic, even after police had repeatedly told protesters to get out of the street. That’s the story told in the criminal complaint against Arbuckle, and it’s the story that the officer who arrested him told again under oath in court on Monday. The protesters, including Arbuckle, were in the street blocking traffic, Officer Elisheba Vera testified. The police, on the sidewalk, had to move in to make arrests to allow blocked traffic to move.
But there was a problem with the police account: it bore no resemblance to photographs and videos taken that night. Arbuckle’s own photographs from the evening place him squarely on the sidewalk. All the video from the NYPD’s Technical Research Assistance Unit, which follows the protesters with video-cameras (in almost certain violation of a federal consent decree), showed Arbuckle on the sidewalk.
And in an indication of the way new media are transforming the dynamics of street protest, a clip from the live-stream of journalist Tim Pool showed that not only was Arbuckle on the sidewalk, so were all the other protesters. The only thing blocking traffic on 13th Street that night was the police themselves…..
Elaine M,
Kudos. (Wish I’d spotted that one!)
Bring it on, DHS…
Apparently “poetasters’ is a word- my spell checker didn’t catch it; sb ‘protesters’. Yea, well them too! Ghodless communist poetasters- hit them with the sound cannot too. Better safe than sorry. 🙂
Those are “alleged” anarchist squirrels Professor; until one of them is tortured into confessing their political affiliation that is. I suspect that they are run-of-the-mil ghodless communists and hippie squirrels just looking for a handout.
Obviously DHS needs to step up its game regarding these ghodless communist squirrels as Chicago is doing with the poetasters in Chicago. There’s nothing like a brand new sound cannon to clear the trees…
“Chicago cops’ new weapons
As week-long protests against the NATO summit begin, city police may use a potentially dangerous sound cannon”
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/chicago_cops_new_weapon/singleton//
Miss the good old days when squirrels went water skiing instead of all this protesting. Maybe they need gas money.
Lol…
I hate squirrels. How can you taze a squirrel in order to make him comply?
They’re nothing but bushy-tailed rats. Always freeloading out of bird feeders.
Occupy this! The Saint Louis Cardinal Rally Squirells started their occupation of Busch Stadium about the time that the Cards started their run on the Wild Card ticket. They bumped it up in the playoffs when the lead off runner named Jerkoff ran across the bag next to the Cardinal player and got national attention. Some fans have been importing more squirrels to the gates of the stadium and letting them into the place at odd hours, so as to increase the population. There is another pack of squirrels on the grounds of the Saint Louis Arch nearby which is a National Park with the guys with the funny hats and all that. People leave the stadium on game days with bags of peanuts and feed the little boogers mercilessly.