What would happen if 100s of Occupy Protesters

[Gore1FL]

calmly and pro actively turned themselves in for protesting all at one time at the surrounding police stations.

What are they going to do? Arrest people for turning themselves in for a non-crime?

Maybe it's a bad or stupid idea. I certainly haven't put much thought into it. The idea popped into my head and I thought it amusing of a concept enough to share.

[virgogal]

1. What would be the point of this? It makes no sense.

[Gore1FL]

4. It would be a protest of the police action.

And it would overwhelm those being used against the protesters

[virgogal]

13. Thanks.

[RZM]

2. They'd be turned away and nothing would come of it

It would be like showing up at McDonald's and saying you wanted chalupa.

[Gore1FL]

5. If each one took a minute... n/t

[valerief]

3. That would be admitting defeat. nt

[Gore1FL]

6. How so?

It would be protesting the police in a way they cannot sensibly respond to.

[valerief]

9. Why should people turn themselves to be arrested if they haven't committed a crime?

Turning themselves in would be admitting to an imaginary crime and an attempt to validate the police dept's illegal arrests.

[Lint Head]

7. One of the concepts of protest is to overrun the process of arresting. They cannot arrest everybody.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. The equivalent, which works

Is sitting down in hundreds or more and not signing anything and demanding jury trials.

[Rabblevox]

10. A much better option, IMO. /nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. They could walk in and admit having expressed their First Amendment rights.

That would work.

[RoccoR5955]

12. Why? When did taking advantage of your First Amendment Right become a crime?

Not a good idea, because they didn't repeal the First Amendment... YET!

[leveymg]

14. It's like that line in Alice's Restaurant about what to do at the Selective Service Office:

"And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

"And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar."

ready? . . . SING! . . .

"You can get anything you want
At Alice's Restaurant (excepting Alice),
You can get anything you want,
At Alice's Restaurant.
Just walk right in
It's around the back,
Just a half a mile
From the railroad track,
You can get anything you want
At Alice's Restaurant."

http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/alices.shtml