The Occupy movement has a horrific record of violence. Occupy Wall Street  Exposed has counted a dozen deaths, including three murders; more than a dozen  rapes; more than 25 disgusting cases of indecent exposure, public defecation,  etc; more than 500 thefts; more than 6,800 arrests; and in excess of $12 million  in property damage. A sorry record by any standard.

But the would-be terrorist attack that was foiled on May Day, in which five  Cleveland Occupiers plotted to blow up a bridge, was something different–an act  of domestic terrorism. That gave Charles Cooke the idea of telephoning the  Southern Poverty Law Center, which maniacally keeps track of “right wing” groups  that threaten public safety, so see how their investigation of the Occupy  movement is coming:

In light of the May Day arrests of the Cuyahoga 5, the  Occupy Wall Street–affiliated group of men who planned to blow up a bridge in  Cleveland, Ohio, I called the Southern Poverty Law Center to find out of they  had any plans to start tracking the Occupy movement. The first person I spoke to  was so shocked by the question that she paused for a good 15 seconds before  promising to put me in touch with a representative. This she eventually did,  however, and after a game of cat-and-mouse — the person she’d found for me was  busy “hosting an international conference on right-wing extremism,” natch — we  managed to touch base and I to pose the question: “Do you have any plans to  start tracking Occupy Wall Street after a hate group tried to blow up a  bridge?”

“No, I don’t think so,” he said.

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HARRISON SCHULTZ, “OCCUPY” PARTICIPANT: We never left. We were just tired. I mean, anarchy isn’t easy. This is a lot of work. We had to hibernate for awhile, but today we are resurging. The energy is really good out in the streets.

The problem here is capitalism. That’s what needs to change. That’s what is failing all of these people. I personally don’t care about this election. I know other people are working on it.

But I am looking at far, far more radical alternatives than political alternatives. I would like to actually see a new form of politics entirely.

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HANNITY: So anarchy is not easy and more radical alternatives are being explored. Well, from the look of these new pictures from May Day, well, they seem to be pretty radical alternatives to me.

Now the protest quickly turned into a violent and dangerous scene of smashing store windows, attacking police, defacing bank and store fronts.

Joining me now to explain what the motives of this group really are, “Occupy Wall Street” organizer, Harrison Schultz. Thanks for being here.

HARRISON SCHULTZ, OCCUPY WALL STREET ORGANIZER: Thanks for having me, Sean.

HANNITY: Appreciate it.

SCHULTZ: Let me start by saying, thank you for letting a dirty hippie come in and explain his views — this is the way your news network is portraying us.

HANNITY: Did I say you are dirty, a hippie. Did I say any of that?

SCHULTZ: Yes, in August. You were making fun of my friends?

HANNITY: You mean the ones having sex in public, doing drugs and defecating on cars and those who are on other cities that were actually being violent breaking store windows, cursing out police and all of that? You mean those guys, those guys?

SCHULTZ: No, no, no. Those were the people that the NYPD was sending to the park to discredit us and make us look bad. And actually give your network –

HANNITY: So you are in Zuccotti Park.

SCHULTZ: I stopped hanging out –

HANNITY: “Yes” or “no.” Were you at the park?

SCHULTZ: Yes.

HANNITY: Why did they set up a special, protective rape-free zone tent because of the rapes that took place in Zuccotti Park.

SCHULTZ: The NYPD was sending rapists down to the park.

HANNITY: So the NYPD — do you have any evidence about this? I asked you a question — the “New York Times” said that the police sent rapists to rape women down there.

SCHULTZ: They sent alcoholics. They sent offenders. They sent people who were convicted of rapes.

HANNITY: Do you have any evidence to back it up –

SCHULTZ: I can give testimony. I didn’t bring my files with me, but you can check this out –

HANNITY: The New York Police Department brought rapists in and as a result women were raped so a special rape protective zone was set up?

SCHULTZ: You got to admit, it was a really cynical, really effective tactic on the part of the authorities. They knew that we wouldn’t turn people away because we like to help people, like Christians should — though most of us are not Christian. It exploited a lot of our values and turned it against us.

HANNITY: What about the violence that took place in other cities and the broken store windows and the sex in public and drug use in public and defecating on a police car, was that a police conspiracy too?

SCHULTZ: I don’t think there is anything particularly radical — that’s very cliche –

HANNITY: Things in public happen, rape in Zuccotti Park happens.

SCHULTZ: These things are not cool. These things are beyond –

HANNITY: Rape is not cool, OK?

SCHULTZ: Yes, it’s beyond not cool. It’s horrible, but I am trying to keep the conversation — let’s keep going –

HANNITY: I have a handbook here. Have you seen this?

SCHULTZ: No. I’ve never seen that.

HANNITY: In the back of this book, it has a link to a web site, bombs and shields. Ever been to that web site?

SCHULTZ: Never been to that site.

HANNITY: What is your problem with capitalism — how old are you?

SCHULTZ: I’m 29, sir. How old are you?

HANNITY: I’m 50. I look younger.

SCHULTZ: Yes, you do. You look good.

HANNITY: Thank you very much. I appreciate that coming from an “Occupy Wall Street” guy. Here’s — 29 years old, you have a job?

SCHULTZ: I did. I was laid off.

HANNITY: What was your job?

SCHULTZ: I was a business intelligence analyst before I was doing data analysis in advertise ago.

HANNITY: I don’t need your life story. How do you make money?

SCHULTZ: You looked me up. So you probably know this.

HANNITY: How do you make money today?

SCHULTZ: Right now, I am living off student loans.

HANNITY: Aren’t student loans meant for college?

SCHULTZ: Grad school.

HANNITY: Do you go to college?

SCHULTZ: I go to grad school.

HANNITY: OK, you go to grad school so that also provides money for housing. You have a place to live?

SCHULTZ: It’s all private loans. They give me the money and that covers my living expenses.

HANNITY: Who gives you the money?

SCHULTZ: Access Group, U.S. federal loans. I forget.

HANNITY: All right, I looked at definition that they have and what an anarchist is.

SCHULTZ: You keep changing the subject — I would like to keep talking about my problems with capitalism, personally. I would like to talk about my solutions, too.

HANNITY: You want to post your own show.

SCHULTZ: I would! That’s what the up on movement is about, it’s about getting people to host their own shows and stop listening to people like you. We don’t need you anymore. Your viewership is on the decline –

HANNITY: Actually, I hate to tell you something, but this channel has been number one for 12 years. Number one in this slot, over a decade. Obviously, you don’t — the “New York Times” is all you read, you don’t have good information.

SCHULTZ: No, no. I have never seen your show until today.

HANNITY: What do you know about me and my show and my thoughts on capitalism?

SCHULTZ: I don’t think really have any. I think you are leer to argue and create sensationalism.

HANNITY: Are you going to defend the rapes and you’re going to blame the police –

SCHULTZ: I am not defending. I am telling you where this is coming from.

HANNITY: You said the police department of New York City brought in rapists to blame up on people. You deny the violence -

SCHULTZ: They sent vagrants. They sent alcoholics –

HANNITY: You don’t work, you go to school. Fair enough.

SCHULTZ: I am broke.

HANNITY: What’s wrong with capitalism, what?!

SCHULTZ: Actually –

HANNITY: Tell us.

SCHULTZ: The fact that people are — the fact that unemployment is 8%, twice that, 16 percent.

HANNITY: That’s right.

SCHULTZ: For people within my age group and the opportunities are not there to pay off the debt that we have been –

HANNITY: Are you against big business?

SCHULTZ: No. Not necessarily.

HANNITY: Because I saw a lot of kids at Zuccotti Park –

SCHULTZ: I have worked for big business.

HANNITY: I saw a lot of Macs and computers and iPhones and stuff — here’s what I view as capitalism. You create goods or services that people want, need and desire, right? People choose to buy their computers, choose to buy their iPhone, choose to go to Starbucks. They choose to hire somebody, right, isn’t that capitalism?

SCHULTZ: You know what? “Occupy Wall Street” fits in with that model because people are consuming the content that we are producing. They’re consuming the things that we have to say about network.

HANNITY: So what’s wrong with capitalism as I described it.

SCHULTZ: Well, it is not working anymore.

HANNITY: Why is it not working?

SCHULTZ: I just told you. It is completely failing people such as myself. I just told you –

HANNITY: Well, maybe — how many days, hours, weeks did you spend there?

SCHULTZ: I couldn’t –

HANNITY: Well, maybe if you weren’t spending your time with the quote, “homeless people who were brought in by the police to rape people,” maybe you could have been out looking for a job?

SCHULTZ: Well, I am actually starting looking for a job now –

HANNITY: Now.

SCHULTZ: My funding –

HANNITY: Where does the funding come from, the school or the government?

SCHULTZ: Yes. It’s very complicated. I don’t fully understand it myself.

HANNITY: So it comes from the government and the school.

SCHULTZ: I guess so?

HANNITY: I guess so, you don’t even know. So people give you money to pay for your school. Where do you think it comes from?

SCHULTZ: They charge interest back on it.

HANNITY: You expect a loan for free? Should you have free school, free college?

SCHULTZ: People should have free education.

HANNITY: And free health care?

SCHULTZ: Absolutely.

HANNITY: And free dental care?

SCHULTZ: Yes, I could use some free dental care.

HANNITY: And if you have children and you need day care, should the government give you day care?

SCHULTZ: Yes?!

HANNITY: And the government should give you a house to live in? Should the government give you a house? Give you transportation to get to work?

SCHULTZ: Yes, basic necessities such as these things should not be given to us by the government. The government and corporations should get off our backs — so we can actually do those things?

HANNITY: Who is going to pay for your house, car, dental care, health care, education, who pays for that?

SCHULTZ: Nobody! It’s free.

HANNITY: Everything’s free.

SCHULTZ: We are getting to that point. That’s exactly where capitalism is heading seriously –

HANNITY: You don’t work. You get free money for school and you are complaining and whining –

SCHULTZ: Google is the most successful company. They give away their products for free, right? So people like us, we spend all of our time providing content on social networks, we work.

HANNITY: I have a suggestion for you –

SCHULTZ: My suggestion — I don’t need your suggestions.

HANNITY: I have a suggestion for you. You are 29 years old. Stop wasting your time at “Occupy Wall Street.” Here’s a novel concept, get up at 6:00 a.m., shovel some coffee down your throat.

Hit the pavement, find a job, get to work, stop whining, stop complaining, stop blaming and get your — out of bed and get to work. How does that sound?

SCHULTZ: Give me a job. I will go to work.

HANNITY: If you pound the pavement and stop hanging out at the park, you might find one.

SCHULTZ: I am online all day –

HANNITY: Go work as a cook, a dish washer, go work as a contractor. Go do something –

SCHULTZ: More menial. Would that make you happier?

HANNITY: Listen, I did it in my life and guess what?

SCHULTZ: I have done it too.

HANNITY: Go get a job. That job is beneath you?

SCHULTZ: Definitely.

HANNITY: Hanging out with rapists, drug addicts, people having sex in public is more fun.

SCHULTZ: It’s more dignity in that than it is hanging out in this show with you.

HANNITY: OK, listen, I’m glad to say goodbye. See you later.

As a result, the price we’re paying per-gallon for gasoline is steadily  climbing, and other countries are choosing to go where we won’t for oil. Thus  the oil Canada was going to sell us via Keystone will now go to China and oil up  near the Arctic will be going to Russia. And the company Russia has hired to do  the extraction is none other than Exxon Mobil.

Think about how backward things are under Obama—the largest oil company in  America is going to be drilling in waters around the Arctic where they expect to  find 85 billion barrels in recoverable oil. And instead of sending it to Texas  refineries, and thereafter to gas stations across America, the oil will be sent  to Russia and refined for their use.

By the way, if extracted at the rate of 1 million barrels a day, 85 billion  barrels of oil would last for 85,000 days.  85,000 days equals well over  200 years.

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“Last week, President Obama signed into law the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. This law permits Secret Service agents to designate any place they wish as a place where free speech,
association and petition of the government are prohibited. And it permits the Secret Service to make these determinations based on the content of speech.

Thus, federal agents whose work is to protect public officials and their friends may prohibit the speech and the gatherings of folks who disagree with those officials or permit the speech and the gatherings of those who would praise them, even though the First Amendment condemns content-based speech discrimination by the government. The new law also provides that anyone who gathers in a “restricted” area may be prosecuted. And because the statute does not require the government to prove intent, a person accidentally in a restricted area can be charged and prosecuted, as well.

Permitting people to express publicly their opinions to the president only at a time and in a place and manner such that he cannot hear them violates the First Amendment because it guarantees the right to useful speech; and unheard political speech is politically useless. The same may be said of the rights to associate and to petition. If peaceful public assembly and public expression of political demands on the government can be restricted to places where government officials cannot be confronted, then those rights, too, have been neutered.

Political speech is in the highest category of protected speech. This is not about drowning out the president in the Oval Office. This is about letting him know what we think of his work when he leaves the White House. This is speech intended to influence the political process.

This abominable legislation enjoyed overwhelming support from both political parties in Congress because the establishment loves power, fears dissent and hates inconvenience, and it doesn’t give a damn about the constitution. It passed the Senate by unanimous consent, and only three members of the House voted against it. And the president signed it in secret. It is more typical of contemporary China than America. It is more
George III than George Washington.

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I think I have posted on this before but I also think it needs as much publicity as possible. The above is an excerpt from an article by Judge Andrew Napolitano, who is a pretty smart cookie in legal matters — so what we read above should be pretty reliable.

Dear President Obama,

You don’t know my telephone number, but I hope your staff is busy trying to find it. Ever since you called Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh called her a slut, I figured I might be next.  You explained to reporters you called her because you were thinking of your two daughters, Malia and Sasha.  After all, you didn’t want them to think it was okay for men to treat them that way:

“One of the things I want them to do as they get older is engage in issues they care about, even ones I may not agree with them on,” you said.  “I want them to be able to speak their mind in a civil and thoughtful way. And I don’t want them attacked or called horrible names because they’re being good citizens.”

And I totally agree your kids should be able to speak their minds and engage the culture.  I look forward to seeing what good things Malia and Sasha end up doing with their lives.

But here’s why I’m a little surprised my phone hasn’t rung.  Your $1,000,000 donor Bill Maher has said reprehensible things about my family.  He’s made fun of my brother because of his Down’s Syndrome. He’s said I was “f—-d so hard a baby fell out.”  (In a classy move, he did this while his producers put up the cover of my book, which tells about the forgiveness and redemption I’ve found in God after my past – very public — mistakes.)

If Maher talked about Malia and Sasha that way, you’d return his dirty money and the Secret Service would probably have to restrain you.  After all, I’ve always felt you understood my plight more than most because your mom was a teenager.  That’s why you stood up for me when you were campaigning against Sen. McCain and my mom — you said vicious attacks on me should be off limits.

Yet I wonder if the Presidency has changed you.  Now that you’re in office, it seems you’re only willing to defend certain women.  You’re only willing to take a moral stand when you know your liberal supporters will stand behind you.

But…

What if you did something radical and wildly unpopular with your base and took a stand against the denigration of all women… even if they’re just single moms? Even if they’re Republicans?

I’m not expecting your SuperPAC to return the money.  You’re going to need every dime to hang on to your presidency.  I’m not even really expecting a call.  But would it be too much to expect a little consistency?  After all, you’re President of all Americans, not just the liberals.

By Daily Mail Reporter

A tweet encouraging the Occupy Wall Street movement to ‘kill’ police officers  during clashes in Zuccotti Park is being investigated.

The post, which was directed to a page on Ustream showing live footage of the  protests, was allegedly written under the Twitter handle ‘smackema1′ on Saturday  at 11.39pm.

It said: ‘we wont make a difference if we don’t kill a cop or 2′.

so where’s the outrage/ Where’s the cries for civility? Where’s the condemnation from Obama/Pelosi/Reid?

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Ed Schultz called Laura Ingraham a slut – the same name Rush Limbaugh used toward Ms. Fluke. He latter called Kristen Powers a “bimbo” for the offense of quoting him accurately in a New York Post column.

There is no campaign to get Schultz off the air.

Louis C.K., a comedian who has made nasty sexually-oriented comments about Sarah Palin, has just been invited to headline the Radio and TV Correspondents Association black-tie dinner in June. Not only is he receiving new gigs, there is no campaign to get him off the air.

Chris Matthews called Michelle Bachmann a “balloon head” and called Sarah Palin “profoundly stupid” and wondered aloud if she was even “capable of thinking.” Matthews’s sickening misogyny was made famous in 2008, when he obsessively tore down Hillary Clinton for standing between Barack Obama and the presidency, something that Matthews could not abide. Over the years he has referred to the former first lady, senator and presidential candidate and current secretary of state as a “she-devil,” “Nurse Ratched,” and “Madame Defarge.” Matthews has also called Clinton “witchy,” “anti-male,” and “uppity” and once claimed she won her Senate seat only because her “husband messed around.” He asked a guest if “being surrounded by women” makes “a case for commander in chief—or does it make a case against it?” At some point Matthews was shamed into sort of half apologizing toClinton, but then just picked up again with his sexist ramblings.

There is no campaign to get Matthews off the air.

Keith Olbermann has said that conservative commentator S.E. Cupp should have been aborted by her parents, apparently because he finds her having opinions offensive. He called Michelle Malkin a “mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick.” He found it newsworthy to discuss Carrie Prejean’s breasts on his MSNBC show. His solution for dealing with Hillary Clinton, who he thought should drop out of the presidential race, was to find “somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.” Olbermann now works for über-leftist and former Democratic vice president Al Gore at Current TV.

There is no campaign to get Olbermann off the air.

Left-wing darling Matt Taibbi wrote on his blog in 2009, “When I read [Malkin’s] stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth.” In a Rolling Stone article about Secretary of State Clinton, he referred to her “flabby arms.” When feminist writer Erica Jong criticized him for it, he responded by referring to Jong as an “800-year old sex novelist.” (Jong is almost 70, which apparently makes her an irrelevant human being.) In Taibbi’s profile of Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann he labeled her “batshit crazy.” (Oh, those “crazy” women with their hormones and all.)

But the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher who makes the rounds on television frequently, saying vile and disgusting things about conservatives and conservative women, in particular. Maher has called Palin a “dumb twat” and dropped the C-word in describing the formerAlaskagovernor. He called Palin and Congresswoman Bachmann “boobs” and “two bimbos.” He said of the former vice-presidential candidate, “She is not a mean girl. She is a crazy girl with mean ideas.” He recently made a joke about Rick Santorum’s wife using a vibrator. Imagine now the same joke during the 2008 primary with Michelle Obama’s name in it, and tell me that he would still have a job. Maher said of a woman who was harassed while breast-feeding at an Applebee’s, “Don’t show me your tits!” as though a woman feeding her child is trying to flash Maher. (Here’s a way to solve his problem: don’t stare at a strangers’ breasts). Then, his coup de grâce: “And by the way, there is a place where breasts and food do go together. It’s called Hooters!” He also gave $1 million to President Obama’s superPAC.No word yet on that refund!

There is no campaign to get Maher off the air.

…the list goes on and on.

Liberals love to say they “fight for women.” Yet have any of the screaming banchies of the left come ut to condemn or rise petitions to have anu of the above pulled off the air? Nope. That was left to Ann Coulter, who actually called Maher a misogynist to his face. At least someone said it.

This is not to suggest that liberals—or feminists—never complain about misogyny. Many feminist blogs now document attacks on women on the left and the right, including Jezebel, Shakesville, and the Women’sMediaCenter(which was cofounded by Steinem). But when it comes to high-profile campaigns to hold these men accountable—such as that waged against Limbaugh—the real fury seems reserved only for conservatives, while the men on the left get a wink and a nod as long as they are carrying water for the liberal cause. Because if Limbaugh’s outburst is part of the “war on women,” then what is the routine misogyny of liberal media men?

While I would rather have Rush not say what he did, and that we conservatives believe his words were out of line, we acknowledge his (and those on the left) right to free speech. Becasue we conservitives be;ieve that freedom of speech is a precious gift in this country, and we must honor it. While freedom of speech allows speech we may disagree with — or flat out detest — we must recognize its blessings in our society.

All opinions, Left and Right, must exist if we are to preserve the freedom we have. Fore one day the freedoms we take from others, will eventyally be taken from us and vice-versa.

But, but, it’s the republicans fault!…

The White House and Democratic leadership squeaked out a 56-42 vote on an amendment to the Senate’s highway bill, winning only because 60 votes were needed for passage.

President Barack Obama had personally lobbied Democrats with phone calls urging them to oppose the measure, as Republicans continue to push the pipeline as a job-creating project needed in these days of high gasoline prices.

So, who’s fault is it this time?

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The story was too good to be true.  A wealthy banker runs up a three-figure bill, only tips 1% (!), and writes a note to the server to “get a real job” as a parting insult.  CNN, Huffington Post, and other media outlets ran with the story of the arrogant banker and his miserly recompense to the help.  There was only one thing wrong — it really was too good to be true:

 

According to Huffington Post, CNN and several other news sites, a person claiming to be an employee of the “wealthy” banker took a photo of the receipt and posted it on a blog, “Future Ex-Banker”. The blogger paired the photo with their own caption:

“Mention the ’99 percent’ in my boss’ presence and feel his wrath. So proudly does he wear his 1 percent badge of honor that he tips exactly 1 percent every time he feels the server doesn’t sufficiently bow down to his Holiness. Oh, and he always makes sure to include a ‘tip’ of his own.” …

The post set off a hailstorm of online comments that touched on the 1% vs. 99% class warfare embodied by the Occupy movement.

HuffPo later posted a statement from the restaurant that said that the photo had been “altered and exaggerated.”  How exaggerated?  Well, according to the local CBS affiliate — who actually asked the restaurant about the bill — the meal was just over $30 instead of $133, the tip was 20% and not 1%, and the customer didn’t write any note to the server on the bill.  “Exaggerated” in this case serves as a synonym for “flat-out lie.”

Then again, without a lot of flat-out lies, where would the Occupy movement be?