Of course the commands are coming from Emanuel and even from Obama. But don’t give these police jerks a pass. The cop, not Rahm Emanuel, with gun drawn, screamed “Fucking hands” at the live streamers in their car. These coward cops think this shit is a movie and they are the heroes.

Shouldn’t there be, or is there, some online site with constant postings and updates by Legal teams about this and all other nefarious and questionable acts taken by police against citizen journalists/live streamers and other journalists in Chicago?

That’s not Jon Favreau the actor/director. That would be Jon Favreau the speechwriter — this guy at the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau_%28speechwriter%29

But we have put some much effort into making war, we don’t know how to make peace.

That is part of the theme of the documentary film The Crisis of Civilization
http://crisisofcivilization.com/

This is a wonderful victory. Thank you to all who helped to make it happen. But, I want to see that entire strip search Supreme Court ruling catch as much flak and be immediately rescinded. Not years from now, after untold damage has been done, but right the hell now or as soon as is humanely possible it should be knocked down. I think a starting point would be to name/expose as many of the actual, specific people who are responsible for it as we can dig up. And, for sure, that includes Obama first and foremost.

…and worked to organize and call attention to issues in the community.

As you wrote, there is no doubt that some of the comments came from, what I’ll call, the usual suspects: trolls, disgruntled conservatives who are threatened by anything that seems foreign to their worldview, and even Cass Sunstein type agents who are paid to muck up comments boards such as the one noted in your Post. That partial sentence, though, that I quoted is the argument I often use in reply to people who gripe and make stuff up about Occupy. Occupy is, all of the time, working to bring about a better world. Even those who think they don’t agree with some of what Occupy is about should be able to see that much. I suspect that a good many of the people who post comments similar to the ones that you quoted can’t say the same about themselves.

I read the first dozen or so letters following the story at WAPO. I find it hard to believe that there are legitimately that many ordinary citizens who have the absurd opinion expressed in way too many of those letters that “B Hussein Obama” and Soros were/are responsible for funding and backing the ‘occupation’ of the park. There must be an undercurrent of ‘Bots’ and the like who are affiliated with ALEC and the like who are constantly and prolifically tossing in these idiotically written and published letters and other ‘voices of the people’ whines and outrages. That’s all the more reason to push WAPO to release more of the email exchanges.

1. US military has been using drones against US citizens since 2005.

Would you please provide a link to that information?

Hey, Shooter242. Maybe this might be a clue into how if Occupy Oakland were allowed to use the building as a community convention center, the city of Oakland might benefit. Also, notice the desire to cover this good news up.

The most interesting email from KTVU’s report was from Oakland Police Chief Jordan informing Mayor Quan’s office that crime had actually gone down 19 percent in the last week of October.

“Not sure how you want to share this good news. It may be counter to our statement that the Occupy movement is negatively impacting crime in Oakland.” The statistic didn’t deter the Oakland Police Officer’s Association from perpetuating the perception that the camp was “pulling officers away from crime-plagued neighborhoods.”

http://the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=27357

@fatster:
That’s very encouraging news. I’d show more enthusiasm than that, but I need to hold my enthusiasm until I seen a sustained effort to reign in the brutal, deceitful, unprofessional antics of the Oakland Police Force and whomever it is that they are acting on behalf of.

Representatives from departments and agencies were at the hearing to testify, but no members of Occupy DC were present to defend themselves against the charges being made against them during the committee hearing.

Does anyone know why there were no Occupy DC representatives at the hearing?

The rule below does not say that the ballot will be voided. It says only that your write-in candidate will not be counted. The remainder of the ballot will be counted, not voided.

So, in answer to your question: If I didn’t want to vote for either the R or the D, but still wanted to vote, then I would vote. In actuality if there were five votes for Rosanne, 9 votes for Mickey Mouse, and 2 votes for Me, that wouldn’t go a long way toward making a statement against the R and the D candidates. Just not voting for either the R or D candidate, though, does make a statement whether or not one is allowed to officially vote for a write-in candidate.

Are write-in votes counted for every name that is written in?

No. If a candidate is on the ballot for an office, write-in votes are counted only for the candidates who have filed a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate with the proper election authority.

Do you have a link to the void/write-in ballot rule from Missouri?

I’d like to read or here an explanation for the second arrest in the video where “Chris” was arrested; the guy back-peddling away from the cops who were telling him to move back behind the line. As can be seen in the video he eventually turned around away from the cops and then even more rapidly headed for the arbitrary, unidentified line, only to be run down and arrested by the police for doing exactly what they had been telling him to do.

The link below is his twitter handle. Apparently his name is Adam Katz.

http://twitter.com/geekeasy