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Re: Sarah Fong on KDVR About "Cost of #OccupyDenver"

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From: Alonzo D. Emmerich
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:32
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On 11/25/2011 01:34 PM, Lord Valve wrote:
> chatnoir wrote:
>
>> http://www.squarestate.net/diary/1901/sarah-fong-on-kdvr-about-cost-of-occupydenver
>>
>> 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.
>
> Get a fuckin' life, jeez...
>
>> 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.
>
> It costs what it costs -
>
> In grafitti removal, cleanup of shit/piss/whatever from the
> sidewalks, litter pickup, property damage, police overtime,
> you name it.  If you scumbags weren't there, these costs
> would *not* be incurred. Period.
>
>> 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.
>
> If a pile of shit needs to be scraped up, that's what it needs.<shrug>
>
>> 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.
>
> People who break the law get ticketed.
>
> Don't break the law, you won't be ticketed.
> Fucking ROCKET SCIENCE, eh?
>
>> [I] note(s) that people camp out on
>> sidewalks for events like Snagrab (sic) and the police don't take
>> action against them.
>
> That's because they don't piss and shit all over the place.
>
> Nor do they beat drums, accost passersby, panhandle,
> make noise all night, throw things at police cars, smoke
> dope, shoot smack, smoke crack, etc.
>
>> 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.
>
> My, aren't we well-informed.
>
> Gart Brothers hasn't existed for several years.  The
> "Sports Castle" is owned by Sports Authority.
>
>> Every time it happens, a bunch of honkies from the
>> burbs
>
> As opposed to, what - niggers from the hood?
>
> Beaners from the bario? I thought you assholes
> were down on racism...or is that just part of the
> costume you don when "fighting the power?"
> Or perhaps it's acceptable when directed at
> white people.  Is that it?
>
>> 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 *paid* for their gear.  Nobody gave it to them.
>
> They worked their asses off for it. They're looking to
> get more - which they will pay for with money they
> *worked* for.  Deal with it, asswipe.
>
>> They never get their tents stomped in or pepper sprayed for feeding
>> people.
>
> Damn, I wonder why.
>
> Didn't I address this already?  I believe I said:
>
> "That's because they don't piss and shit all over the place.
> Nor do they beat drums, accost passersby, panhandle,
> make noise all night, throw things at police cars, smoke
> dope, shoot smack, smoke crack, etc."
>
> I reckon that covers it, eh?
>
>> 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.
>
> Horse-shit.
>
> You *smell*. Your presence is offensive.  You destroy property
> and commit crimes. You spray grafitti on monuments and public
> edifices. Assaults, rape, murder, drug use, kidnapping, theft -
> all of these have occurred in various "occupy" infestations
> around the country.  You're a fuckin' *crime wave*, a menace,
> and a public nuisance.  Normal, gainfully employed citizens -
> many of whom feed their families as employees of the very
> corporations you claim to detest - would like to see you
> incarcerated.
>
>> 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!
>
> Yes!
>
> The employess of Sports Authority will make extra
> money during the sale; people who patronize the
> store will save money and obtain goods which
> they desire.  Denver (and environs) will prosper
> as a result of extra sales tax revenues generated
> by the sale.  Truckers who bring the goods in will
> earn more money from working overtime. Everybody
> wins.
>
>> Protests Against Unaccountable Power (Occupy Denver) = doubleplus
>> ungood :(
>
> You're not protesters.  You're thugs, criminals, deadbeats and no-accounts.
>
> Bathe. Get a job.  Or get outta fucking town, all the same to me.
>
>> 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.
>
> Ah, racism.
>
> Are we talking anti-honky racism, or is this one of
> those other types, the kind you of which you don't
> approve?  You've already marked *yourself* as
> a racist with your own words.
>
>> ...but I know you've heard all this stuff before so go git some
>> stuffin'! Happy Thanksgivin'!
>
> No.
>
> You *hate* Thanksgiving, or any other uniquely American
> holiday.  Fuck you and the code you oozed in on.
>
>
> Got guns?
>
> Lord Valve
> American - so far
>
>
>
>
You are a great American.
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From: "Alonzo D. Emmerich" <hal@in.valid>
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Subject: Re: Sarah Fong on KDVR About "Cost of #OccupyDenver"
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