From the mob stories about Black Friday shoppers it seems the police

[lunatica]

weren't dealing with quiet people linking arms and sitting down in civil disobedience. Funny how it's the citizens not involved in OWS who apparently have jobs that give them enough money to go shopping who are the ones who seem to have all the rage isn't it? Who are the nasty rioting mob now? I wonder how many enraged shoppers were rounded up and hauled off to jail today just because they were there. I wonder how many of them were deliberately and systematically pepper sprayed just because the police could do it. I wonder how much of their private property was confiscated and destroyed.

The irony is so thick you can cut it.

[tabatha]

1. I hope Al or Lawrence point this out on Monday.

[lunatica]

2. Black Friday has become a free for all where the police are really needed

But it's allowed because it means money for the big corporations.

[appleannie1]

3. I know people were camped on sidewalks in malls around Pgh. Cook stoves and all. None were told

their propane was a safety violation even though it was next to stores. They were blocking sidewalks all evening and night and no one told them to move. Go figure.

[maryellen99]

4. and the rw posters on newspaper and TV sites are blaming Obama for this

Because they claim the economy is so bad that its driving people to riot...If I remember weren't the riots over the cheap laptops and Cabbage Patch dolls under Republicans?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. They have bought stuff

that makes it ok

:sarcasm:

[lunatica]

6. It's the same story with the screaming gun-toting teabaggers too

A few of them actually attacked people like Rand Paul's campaign manager stomping on that woman's head and getting away with it, or the bunch that spit and screamed racial slurs on the Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat.

They get away with violence while the peaceful protesters who happen to be on the right side of being human get mass arrested, pushed around and pepper sprayed.