Police departments do what the mayors tell them to do. They don't act on their own (Reply #59)

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Mon Feb 6, 2012, 01:47 PM

Stinky The Clown (59,460 posts)

59. Police departments do what the mayors tell them to do. They don't act on their own

Some writes the order to the police.

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73 replies	Author	Time	Post
Does this piss you off? I think it should. It is fast becoming a scene in every major US city [View all]	Stinky The Clown	Feb 2012	OP
look at it this way...	jorno67	Feb 2012	#1
+100! LOL!!!	Zalatix	Feb 2012	#15
It's probably an OSHA requirement in that situation.	onehandle	Feb 2012	#2
Well, assuming there was trash. But as most eyewitnesses have said, the occupiers take care	sabrina 1	Feb 2012	#16
I've never seen garbage collectors dressed like that ...	surrealAmerican	Feb 2012	#18
Ding ding ding we have a winner	Doremus	Feb 2012	#39
Obviously, Occupy has WMD.	EFerrari	Feb 2012	#44
I don't see my regular trash guys wear them.	hobbit709	Feb 2012	#52
Keep in mind that Chicago 68 was thanks to Bill Daley..	Fumesucker	Feb 2012	#3
Consider what they will do to repress this movement if and when it continues to grow.	Warren Stupidity	Feb 2012	#4
Which I think it will when the weather starts to break	GOTV	Feb 2012	#61
While this propaganda is likely effective in the heartland	Warpy	Feb 2012	#5
Then go white.	Life Long Dem	Feb 2012	#6
Something like this, perhaps?	-..__...	Feb 2012	#7
Indeed.	Jackpine Radical	Feb 2012	#8
Lol!	sabrina 1	Feb 2012	#17
Why yes	obliviously	Feb 2012	#20
They would hav eto strip people to remove the sleeping bag...	annabanana	Feb 2012	#11
Sleeping Bag Coats: Makeshift Wearable Homeless Shelters	Doremus	Feb 2012	#40
They'll arrest anyone wearing one for impersonating a sleeping instrument	lunatica	Feb 2012	#50
Change Occupy tactics, keep shifting targets, Make Occupy flexible.	WHEN CRABS ROAR	Feb 2012	#9
They are doing that. As I pointed out earlier, they never expected to be stationary as long as they	sabrina 1	Feb 2012	#10
This is an important point.	limpyhobbler	Feb 2012	#42
Don't buy into the "health hazard" lies.	snot	Feb 2012	#12
Um . . . . .	Stinky The Clown	Feb 2012	#13
Sorry; that should have been addressed to others, not you.	snot	Feb 2012	#73
If the question is, who would want the most expensive response to Occupy, then the answer is ...	T S Justly	Feb 2012	#14
In a sense, you can blame Clinton.	Robb	Feb 2012	#19
if you had this job and didnt wear a tyvek suit ("hazmat" is a bit over the top), you'd be foolish	pasto76	Feb 2012	#21
piss is sterile. It is less likely to harm you than the local water.	provis99	Feb 2012	#23
Piss starts sterile	jeff47	Feb 2012	#36
neither does water.	provis99	Feb 2012	#38
Difference is pure water won't help stuff grow as well	jeff47	Feb 2012	#45
I don't think the water in nature is distilled.	provis99	Feb 2012	#69
Water in nature isn't sterilized.	jeff47	Feb 2012	#70
so you're agreeing with me. good.	provis99	Feb 2012	#72
Hmmmmm	hootinholler	Feb 2012	#29
"...it's no big deal!"	Warren DeMontague	Feb 2012	#62
I guess not	hootinholler	Feb 2012	#67
Just so you know, those are not hazmat suits	OffWithTheirHeads	Feb 2012	#22
In DC	SickOfTheOnePct	Feb 2012	#24
Rats? In MacPherson square?	hootinholler	Feb 2012	#30
Don't know what your problem is	SickOfTheOnePct	Feb 2012	#48
The Park Police have been very friendly to them from the beginning and consistently said	sabrina 1	Feb 2012	#35
Rats in DC? Really? Heh.	TBF	Feb 2012	#37
Nothing new historically.	JohnnyRingo	Feb 2012	#25
Can't occupy make it's point without making a tent city out of every public site they take over?	rustydog	Feb 2012	#26
Well they broke the law	nadinbrzezinski	Feb 2012	#27
and somebody threw a brick...	KG	Feb 2012	#31
These ows encampments fed homeless people, gave them tents and provided a	SammyWinstonJack	Feb 2012	#28
Why should it surprise you that it is Democratic mayors?	MadHound	Feb 2012	#32
What about the mess after Superbowel? (Yes.. I know.. spelling) nt	Bigmack	Feb 2012	#33
The clamps continue to tighten	HCE SuiGeneris	Feb 2012	#34
City politics is different than federal/state politics.	Saving Hawaii	Feb 2012	#41
+1	ellisonz	Feb 2012	#71
Meanwhile, Wall Street crimes are ignored.	donheld	Feb 2012	#43
k&r	Starry Messenger	Feb 2012	#46
Bonus Army Camp Destroyed In D.C.	Hissyspit	Feb 2012	#47
snowmobile suits	Pharaoh	Feb 2012	#49
Yes it does	madokie	Feb 2012	#51
D.C. just looks democratic, it's conservative and oppressive	just1voice	Feb 2012	#53
Hear, hear!	chervilant	Feb 2012	#54
America	Madmiddle	Feb 2012	#55
Police departments do what the mayors tell them to do. They don't act on their own	Stinky The Clown	Feb 2012	#59
Disgusting propaganda.	woo me with science	Feb 2012	#56
The real "germs" they are afraid of are ideas.	hay rick	Feb 2012	#58
Perfectly said. nt	woo me with science	Feb 2012	#68
My guess is that the PTB want everyone getting used to the hazmat suits.	icymist	Feb 2012	#57
That is right out of 1984.	Gregorian	Feb 2012	#60
A Democratic President Did This	zorahopkins	Feb 2012	#63
In the case of ODC, it's Darrell Issa	WhoIsNumberNone	Feb 2012	#64
The Park Police Report To The President	zorahopkins	Feb 2012	#65
Hmmph	Stinky The Clown	Feb 2012	#66

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