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Sarah Fong on KDVR About "Cost of #OccupyDenver"
by: Fong
Thu Nov 24, 2011 at 01:31:09 AM MST

God, I love writing titles like that. I'm so excited to get to write
about ME.


I hate interviews on camera so there wasn't much salvageable from what
I said during my taped interview with KDVR FOX 31 about the recent
figures released regarding the overall national cost to crackdown on
the Occupy Wall Street message.

First off, to say "cost of Occupy x" is total propaganda. How that
equation could ever be made in the first place is more proof that the
corporate-owned media (and all the drones who identify with it to the
cold, bitter end), slide in assumptions that most people don't notice
and deeply inform them. Not many people are going to have the critical
thinking skills required to recognize that it's not the cost of Occupy
X, it's the cost of the state crushing Occupy X. BIG DIFFERENCE.

So I was kinda sorta quoted as saying:

Fong :: Sarah Fong on KDVR About "Cost of #OccupyDenver"
...most of those costs are unnecessary. [I] say(s) law enforcement
chooses to beef up staff at peaceful protests and to make arrests and
hand out tickets unnecessarily. [I] note(s) that people camp out on
sidewalks for events like Snagrab (sic) and the police don't take
action against them.
And since that's really not the entire message I gave, I'll elaborate
further for all of you so eager to lap up my insights.

So for those six people who don't know what SNIAGRAB is, it's an
annual Gart Bros sale extravaganza that gets its name from bargains
spelled backwards. Every time it happens, a bunch of honkies from the
burbs drag out their overpriced camping gear  and fire up the
overpriced camping grill next to their overpriced tents pitched on the
sidewalk by Garts in downtown Denver and wait for the store to open so
they can be the first to chow down at the winter sports gear bargains
trough.

They never get their tents stomped in or pepper sprayed for feeding
people.

The coordinated attacks by various municipalities, including Denver's
Mayor Hancock obviously stem from the an issue with the content of the
message, not from a concern about public safety or public property.

Because if the state cared about that sort of shit, they've got MUCH
BIGGER priorities.*

The message from on high is this:

Commerce (SNIAGRAB) = good!
Protests Against Unaccountable Power (Occupy Denver) = doubleplus
ungood :(

And I also must take this opportunity to say my favorite line from the
interview that was omitted by FOX:


Anyone who blames Occupy Denver or Occupy Wall Street for the costs of
the state coming in to crush speech has a deeply colonized mind.
* link is intended as a small sampling of widespread ecological damage
perpetrated by industry and geographically speaking, it is also
environmental racism.

...but I know you've heard all this stuff before so go git some
stuffin'! Happy Thanksgivin'!