Occupy Oakland: Litigators Flocking To The Bay Area?

  

   The City of Oakland will have some demons to purge in the next coming weeks, in form of politicians and officials who were directly responsible for unleashing the terrorist attack against citizens of the public who were doing nothing more than participating in peaceful demonstration. And weeks, it will be ~ this won't take more than a month or two. The citizens of Oakland will be swift.

                                                Mayor Jean Quan telling it like it is: the 99% cannot Occupy Oakland -
                                                                it belongs to the 1%!




   Oakland Police wreaked havoc on the ground, as tear gas canisters, wooden dowels, rubber bullets and concussion grenades filled the entire five mile radius of Occupy Oakland with colored smoke, causing all visibility and flashes to bring alive a surreal war movie - except that you find yourself in it, wondering if the Police attack could spark a stampede, that one can lose a life in. It's a very grave concern when you are that someone in the street with unfreildly, no - unsensible  - police firing upon you and your comrades. To think that my life could end tonight in Oakland by trampling is not a comforting thought.

                                                            Instead of burning millions of dollars making life more difficult, why not provide 
                                                            generators so our disabled may not be stranded in the middle of tear gas?



   As was widely reported, Ex-Marine Scott Olson was caught with one of these unassuming 'non-lethel' projectiles. Whether it be a cannister or a fragmented rubber bullet, we live in a world where people are held accountable for their actions. If there was actual civil unrest, the Govorner has the right to call in the National Guard. Whether even the Governor has the right to call for non-lethal means in this situation is still debatable. But a mere City Mayor should not be entrusted with authority to authorize such tactics, and by doing so, has opened the city up to litigation.

                                                                   Disperse! Good, that'll learn 'em. Them 99 percenters won't be back.




   Yes, people are going to sue you, Oakland, and you are going to pay for it. Unfortunately, it will be the taxpayers who are going to incur this debt, and in the end, those taxpayers will be the same 99% who were attacked in the first place. The Oakland City Council could begin to staunch the wounds by formally censoring Mayor Jean Quan and interim Police Chief Howard Jordan. After that, if I were a Council member, I would introduce a measure that would release the city of any responsibility of actions for it's elected officials in the future, and make a proclamation to abolish the authority within it's elected officials to permit the use of any tactics that may unduly harm the public, leaving this right and responsibility to the discretion of the Governor.

With a few more of these kind of ideas in the same direction, Oakland may begin to purge itself of evil, yet.

14:00 2011/10/27 ~ Oakland, California