Friday, December 30, 2011

Occupy (Name Your City) Intends To March/Riot In rose Bowl Parade




From the Los Angeles Times: The Rose Parade has long been a magnet for protesters looking for global attention for their causes and grievances.Native Americans once threw a balloon filled with red paint onto the parade route to represent the spilling of Indian blood. AIDS activists interrupted the parade by staging a sit-in. One year, a Pasadena mayor wore a "Tournament of Racists" t-shirt to protest what he saw as the parade's lack of ethnic diversity.But this year, Tournament of Roses organizers and Pasadena police are gearing up for something different as Occupy protesters, fresh from their encampments across the country, plan to converge on Pasadena. Like activists in the past, they are hoping to widen their impact with an estimated domestic TV audience of 50 million people and about 700,000 people along the route.Occupy activists have been looking for a high-profile venue since their camps in Manhattan, Los Angeles and elsewhere were removed. Some see the Rose Parade as a logical next step. On Jan. 1, they will meet in Pasadena to prepare for the following day's parade, which is being held a day later because Jan. 1 falls on a Sunday."It's Occupy 2.0 and why not start on New Year's Day in Pasadena?" said Daniel Niwander, an activist with Occupy Pasadena. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-occupy-rose-parade-20111222,0,7810364.story
I have no problems with them marching at the end of the parade because the Rose Bowl has allowed other protest groups to participate at the end of the parade.
However, the Occupy movement has been quite violent, especially on the West coast. So, the Occupy group will have to be babysitted by the cops to make sure they don't interfere with the parade and the parade goers and waste more taxpayer money.
Maybe we should set an over/under on how many occupiers will be arrested during the parade. I say the number should be around 14.

h/t Grandpa John

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