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Fucking commie propaganda!

chatnoir <wolfbat359a@mindspring.com>  wrote :

> http://www.squarestate.net/diary/1901/sarah-fong-on-kdvr-about-cost-of-oc
> cupydenver 
> 
> 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'!
> 
>