Three powerful photos from Occupy the Iowa Caucuses Thursday

[patrick t. cakes]

No fear

[laylah]

1. AWESOME! K&R!

[joshcryer]

2. Simply beautiful.

Did she get taken away?

The image of the double zip ties is very strong.

The cop seems rather peeved the camera is on him.

[patrick t. cakes]

4. Thats what I thought too

Amazing and beautiful. Zero fear. I love the way she looks at he cop in the last one

here's a link, she did get arrested

http://globegazette.com/news/iowa/protester-hopes-her-arrest-catches-president-s-attention/article_c1d8cb86-3299-11e1-9a80-001871e3ce6c.html

[JJW]

3. The Petro Industry

thanks your sacrifice for their CEO's profits. Children are always the greatest victims of war. End the criminal war profiteering.

[Starry Messenger]

5. k&r

[madrchsod]

6. great pictures of the young lady and....

a really lame excuse from the iowa democrats.

[Scuba]

7. What the Democratic Party did/didn't do....

from the article linked below (thanks to poster above for the link)...

...snip..

Iowa Democratic Party Executive Director Norm Sterzenbach said he sympathizes with some of the concerns of the occupiers, but he decided to call the police once the entrances were blocked.

“They were physically blocking the entrances, there were staff that could not leave,” Sterzenbach said. “Without us having the cops remove them, (the staff) would still be in there all night.”

Goodner said that wouldn’t have been necessary if Sterzenbach had just opened his offices. “They could have opened the doors, rolled out the welcoming mats and let us stay there while they got on the horn with the White House,” Goodner said.

“They could have called up the chain of command and gotten someone who does have the authority to address our demands on the phone, on a conference call on Skype, we could have had a real conversation.”


..snip..



Read more: http://globegazette.com/news/iowa/protester-hopes-her-arrest-catches-president-s-attention/article_c1d8cb86-3299-11e1-9a80-001871e3ce6c.html#ixzz1i1OybqA4

[JNelson6563]

21. lolz

See, sometimes the ignorance shines through and that needs to be remedied. Did these folks really think the local Dem office would just pick up the WH Batphone and put 'em through to the President? lolz

I admire what Occupy is trying to do, a shame so many of them have zero clue as to how anything works.

Julie

[Scuba]

22. They might have asked "how do we join and when is the next meeting...

... want to make sure Democratic Party candidates hold Democratic Party values and then that they get elected."

[IADEMO2004]

8. We all want the same thing

It's in the party platform. It is slow frustrating time consuming work pushing forward. We should work together.

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

[postulater]

10. I love Iowa!

[patrick t. cakes]

15. me too

will always be home

kick

[malthaussen]

11. Two different cops in the pix

... think the guy in the first pic called his boss because he couldn't deal with her?

-- Mal

[pinboy3niner]

12. "OMG, it's worse than we thought! Need backup! Hurry!"

[Magoo48]

19. Surprised he went into that situation without his robo gear on.

A brave young soul indeed. May all the children be brave; my generation has made bravery extremely necessary for today's children.

[seabeyond]

13. brings tears to my eyes. beauty... simply. nt

[Bucky]

14. Why aren't those cops spraying down that dangerous menace?

These civil rights have gone too far!

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. The LA Times article says she's 14 years old.

Way to go police. Keep radicalizing people to our side.

[getdown]

17. oh bloody hell

THANK YOU

[Left Coast2020]

18. What? No pepper spray?

Incredible.

[SpiralHawk]

20. Wow - so powerful

Thanks for posting.

[Huey P. Long]

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