Riot Police Guard Against Anti-Billionaire Protesters in Rancho Mirage. John Amato is on the scene
This is live video sent back from the Quarantine the Kochs rally in Rancho Mirage about an hour and a half ago. John Amato is on the scene and has called me a couple of times with updates. There are about 1500 people or so there, peacefully protesting the convocation of billionaires at the Rancho Las Palmas resort. The purpose of the meeting is to figure out how to impeach Obama and take over our government in order to preserve their wealth, justice, and liberty at the expense of ours. Glenn Beck was the keynote speaker last night, and Eric Cantor was also on the guest list. (Full list here (PDF))
Remarkably, there are scores of riot police guarding the driveways into the resort. The last report I've seen says 25 people have been arrested. Here's a shot posted earlier today:
At the end of that video you'll see more of them, even.
Andrew Breitbart has evidently caught the fever. It’s been reported that he’s hanging out with the protesters. Too lazy to walk, he’s sporting shorts and rollerblades. Be afraid. In his usual less-than-forthright manner, he claims “internal emails from organizers necessitate riot police.” Mmmhmmm.
John will be writing up a much longer and more interesting post than this one, I'm sure. But for now, I thought it important that we see the exercise of OUR right to free speech and assembly, too.
I have more photos and links on my liveblog. Nancy Goldstein is covering it for TheNation here, the local CBS station has a nice article here, and you can follow the Twitter hashtag #UncloakKoch. The organizers of the rally are Common Cause, TheOther98.com, and California Nurse's Association.
Here's David Dayen's report. His twitter stream was one of the best for real time updates.
Anybody who recognizes BreitTard should immediately punch him in the nutsack. Or "his acorns", if you will.
As much as that would be a wonderful sight (if he had any), we shouldn't be advocating violence. *evil grin*
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It wouldn't surprise me to find out he's hired actors to try and get some soundbites useful in his next heavily-edited video production.
What we need to do is warn everyone that anything they say will be taken out of context anbd used in a smear campaign.
Sorry I am not there . Would certainly be worth going to jail for .
But would anyone in their right mind want their hand or any other part of their body going near there....
What's happening here , the war on the middle class and poor , is also going on in England for one , it is an organized conspiracy by the multinational corporations , the very wealthy ( and powerful ) and the neoconservatives / conservatives both here and abroad . The New World Order . Interesting that Rove was recently reported to have been in England advising their ( ultra ? ) conservative party . WTF can we do to stop them ? Nothing as far as I can tell , we are absolutely powerless in reality .
The only choice we as the public have is to control our meager dollars, stop trying to by everything you want and by just what you need. Realize a car is just a means of transportation, a house is a place to live, cooking your own food is healthier them eating out, save your money and buy with cash instead of using a CC where it is likely you will pay more for the same item. There is more but maybe I have said enough for now.”
fine. A great day to protest. I wonder what those twenty-five people did to warrant an arrest?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Showed up at a rich persons convention to make them richer and the poor poorer. How much money did the Koch's pay for the security? Wait, nothing, they already own the cops.
We need an Egypt or Tunisia in this country. You want change, an all out revolution is the only answer. We watched the news out of Egypt over the weekend and what was the theme? Corruptions and the have nots. That is America. The only answer is to take to the streets at Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bank of America, JP Morgan. We watch Egypt and support the protesters but the funny thing is, we are Egypt. They just have balls to do it. We have the media to convince us that all is good. Take back the country people from the Koch's.
is intended to be a factual statement
to foment 'revolution' - except typing on your computer in your basement???
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Ah, sweet slacktivism...
and don't forget pessimism.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
There is such a thing as pessimism based on reality ..
It always starts the same way. People talk and share ideas and find out the the majority agree with each other and and disagree with the rich and powerful controlled mass media.
The rich and powerful then launch a multi pronged campaign against any that look to promote 'peaceful protest', protest that might reduce the psychopathic lust for power of the rich and greedy, first they are attacked in mass media and labelled as terrorists, lazy, enemies of everything and, then they are attacked by the police be it local, state or federal under false charges driven by corrupt politicians and of course propaganda floods every media channel especially the do nothing, don't talk about it, you can't win, you have no power and of course a stream of insults.
So talk, write, read and do it again and again and again. Don't ever stop, it all starts with shared words and ideas, they feed action, to grow dissent and when done properly they drive powerful peaceful protests that force change by stopping the state and the rich and powerful in their tracks.
You don't ever ask permission to protest, the single most important goal of a protest is stop the economic functioning of the region under protest. No traffic, no buying, no selling, no deal making, greed stopped dead in it's tracks until they are forced to listen to the people.
The rich and greedy will kill to retain power, that's a given, as they are more than willing to kill to gain wealth to feed that power, blowing up mines, oil rigs as flaming wrecks, contaminated foods, fraudulent pretend health insurance, pharmaceutical toxins etc etc etc.
Peace and crippling economic function are the goal of the protester, any excuse for violence will allow the rich and greedy to commit acts of extreme violence and mass murder via their guard dogs, 'corrupt officials and riot police'.
There is also tomorrow to protest again. I hope everyone gets a good night's sleep and protests just as hard and peacefully tomorrow!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Always love these gas-bags spouting about Socialism and then using tax-payer funded police to protect their asses.
Why aren't the teabaggers right in there with the protesters? OK, dumb question, but you know what I mean.
And I mean the one's that like to show up at Obama rallies armed to the teeth. Where are they?
/snark
quell ... *crickets*
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
They were, wearing taxpayer-supplied uniforms and totting socialized gubmint firearms, tasers, pepper gas, batons and probably silk g-strings... The only way you'd get the snuggie-clad Hoverround Sturmabteilung there was to tell them Clarence Thomas was fucking a white woman up in there... and they all worshiped a cross-dressing, butch, Rooski immigrant woman, freeloading Hollywood JOO named Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum!!! All you'd hear above the munching, slurping and gurgling bellies would be pump gun chambering mag shells...
Bloody hippies. It's getting so billionaires can't even work out ways to rape the ever-loving shit out of the world in peace anymore.
The problem with hippies ... is that they are more likely to sit down and veg-out to some good music, instead of smashing store-front windows and over-turning police cruisers -- that's why the government has to step in with their undercover agent provocateurs for the violent, made for the MSM TeeVee propaganda machine. Keep the fear alive!
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
wailing on the vuvuzela?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
LOL...Quite an event down there, though. I so wanted to be there, and just couldn't find a way to get to it. Glad he went.
My license is still good, but my boss was supposed to rent me a truck yesterday. Don't know how I'm supposed to get from Long Beach to El Cajon tomorrow to start our new job. Oh well, I'd have probably been one of the first arrested in the desert anyway...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Very good except the Koch brothers are just small potatoes....
I hope Amato decides to "go big time"and protest at the Bohemian Grove next!!!
Maybe we could get John to go cover the next Bilderberg group meeting?
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
...why not with an uber-secret planning meeting where our House Majority Leader is in attendance along with the ever-whacko Glenn Beck?
keep it up!
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
When, exactly, is the Bohemian Grove soiree?
I could possibly be *up* for that ... ;^)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
July
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
It's an all-male group, originating with Yale University, but now presumably all Ivy-Towers, and has musicians, artists, business men and government officials in attendance supposedly casting nefarious plots, along the lines of the Rosicrucian and other similar lines.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
It sounds like one of those sordid "policeman's right ball" kind of soirees -- just the sort that would be a real hoot to crash, especially with video cameras rolling. I can't wait ... ;^)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glpcn2PBDu0
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Amazing how many have govt meetings in the US around the time of the BG forest bash.
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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
John's directing traffic?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Anyone else?
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
It took me a couple of tries but it does work.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
i just see a blank window
enorceht
Me too.
While it worked it showed some very poor quality and choppy video of people waving signs and chanting something unclear while some dude in the background honked on a vuvuzela. Whoever invented that damn thing should be consigned to one of the lower circles of hell.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
where did that chant come from?
i think i read somewhere that the head of the GOP- rush limbaugh- is there.
I just saw him on the Golf Channel today - trying to learn how to swing a golf club... Hard to do with a gut like he has.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
i don't know when it was first used, i first heard it at protests against police brutality in the early 90's
enorceht
it came from "Know Jesus, Know Peace"
the liberals just kinda reworded it.
it pisses off the fundies where i live, teehee
bush would have chanted on the treadmill
or pray for
People all over the world are rising against the puppets of corporations, the worlds leaders..It's a class war.. they want us to "EAT CAKE"People are fighting against record profits,with no jobs and no houses..
Not here though , here half the country are complete dumb fucks supporting the very wrong side , the very ones that they should be dead set against !
Thank you all for standing up and exposing the Fox/Murdoch/Koch/BirchSociety/Limbaugh/Beck/International Business pirate convention! I wonder if Andy Williams will sings a couple of racist ditties? This is such a scam and the goon Fox Viewers and gullible Tea Party followers need to know that they are being so manipulated by a group of people MORE shallow and greedy than Ayn Rand!!!!! They are planning a new gilded age, ruled by fear and hate! Expose the tea/Koch/Birch society for the sake of our Country and our children.
1500 protesters? Awesome.
I can't wait to see the news reports in the MSM. Being about 15 times the number at the usual tea bagger protest, it will probably be the lead story.
I'll start holding my breath riiiiiiight now...
(Thanks to C&L for bringing this little confab to light).
You turning blue yet? Better take a deep breath.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-E7ZaFCEDQ
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Given how long it took them to actually blurt any reporting about Egypt (please note I did not say "credible reporting), I think we can safely assume they'll overlook this too.
Which is why we need to have many, many more of them. Bigger ones. Louder ones. Every week, a new place. Heck, every DAY, even.
I kind of hope you're right Karoli. The alternative is that this will be the Big Story of the Day tomorrow on FOX "news" - used to foment rage about the 'far left' and the threat they pose to democracy. The playbook they use over there is not dissimilar from one that worked (after a fashion) back in the 1930s. If I was any more specific I'd risk invoking Godwin's Law. ;-)
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
Ya, but hopefully it will be a losing battle for them this time around.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Anybody celebrating their god-given 2nd Amendment rights to pack $2,500 bull-pup assault rifles? You know, there's an awful lot of snakes and lizards out there squirming around in the desert after all... Maybe an xm25 grenade launcher or something Jeffersonian like that? I've a pretty un-funny feeling peaceful protest is going to consist of taxpayer-armed Oath Takers tasing and macing us to the ground where Jesus will send the wetbrain crank-haid goobers to kick in our bloated, dope-addled grey heads...Yeah, maybe CNN will save us? Sure!
I wish i could be there. i hope all that can be there, and can be at future peaceful protests do attend.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uujors3Zx-I
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I went and it was great to be around so many good people. There were 3,000 people there. The police arrested 25 people, but not for violence. Here's a video I shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4YPMsVpvIo
about so many people getting together to protest and how this will be covered by the MSM with over 3,000 people there. I mean, they gave massive coverage for a couple hundred teabaggers at their rallys, this ought to be broadcast internationally don't you think?
At home? Not so much.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Did anyone see Anderson Cooper in the crowd? He'll be sure to do wall to wall coverage of this development. He is always doing human interest stories from all over the "Land of the Free" so he will be all over this like white on rice! We're counting on you Cooper! Don't let us down! 8()
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
..."like white on rice" when referring to Anderson Cooper. heh heh.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
are the teabaggers going to realize they are being used like discount tampons.............I guess not 'till we are too.
And the desert is clear of snakes and lizards, no need for assault rifles all the vermin are safely ensconced behind taxpayer security............oop's so sorry, did I just intimate that snakes and lizards are vermin........such vitriol !!
The first casualty of republicanism is the truth.
Party politics are not only undemocratic, they are antidemocratic.
The baggers don't think they scream and get hopped up on propaganda (fear and hate highs). It's about good old boys first, Party first, Birch Society first, Fox non news first. They are Birch/tea/goons! This is refreshing and it's real people standing up against corrupt people like the Koch bros, Murdoch, Beck, Limbaugh and the whole nest of vipers! (Who don't care about America, they care about money and profit.) Surprised sister high priestess $arah wasn't there!
I'm sort of looking forward to standing in front of these bloated vermin; rather than doing all their work for them while they run their mouths from the office, downloading kiddie-porn and hate e-mails... their culture simply offends me! My Jesus was a wimpy little rabbi who quoted Lao Tsu? My America whupped these fish-eyed syphilitic 'sechesh bitches right down the road at Gettysburg... Didn't our parents WHUP these silly Nazi's asses once already? We really gotta start all over again? Damn! Git a klu moran...
Those fat fucking "riot police" look like the only thing they have guarded in the past five years is their quarter pounders with bacon. How would these jokers hold up in Egypt?
Apparently they would be doing the looting. The cops become agent provocateurs. It happens here too. Look for it.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Six ! policemen stayed in central New Orleans after Katrina struck.
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Thanks Captain
that there are people willing to actually go out & protest...especially againts the Koch brothers & their billionaire buddies, who will never believe that they are not totally entitled to 'rule America'.
However...the numbers are small. There have been much larger protests (i.e. immigration reform) & nothing has changed.
Face it...unless the teevees & the lights & the power go out & the cell phone grids shut down & the internet is halted...the majority of Americans (excluding of course the delusional tea-partiers) are not going to leave the comfort of their homes to protest anything.
The amount of corruption & lies that has been given a 'free pass' in the last few years in America is astounding. Why would that change now?
That's why the answer is to quietly move our money out of the banks, and into credit unions - organize boycotts - and every single person with an e-mail account should protest by sending e-mails to local representatives, federal representatives, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, media outlets, Bank of America, newspapers, JP Morgan, the republicans, the democrats, ATT, and every other corporation that is screwing us over.
Not that peaceful protest won't help. Even small assemblies can have a big impact, if they are continuous and strategically placed.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
that to take back the money is going to hurt them where it counts. I also agree that people should be hounding corporations & their gov't representatives as much as they can, with phone calls & emails & snail mail.
Problem is, most people are busy & preoccupied with their busy lives & unless something interrupts that routine in a big way, they are just not going to bother.
People are struggling to make ends meet, so they shop at Walmart, even though they may not agree with the process that allows the company to offer such low prices. They may hate Walmart & hate oil companies...but they need to feed & clothe their families & they need to drive to their jobs...so they can't just give that up to make a point.
The fat cats 'have theirs' & don't give a hoot; those people who 'get it' are too busy trying to keep their lives & their families going; and those who voted for the politicians that 'give the fat cats everything they want' are too stupid to understand that they're being taken for a big ride.
I'm just not feeling too optimistic.
Ya, i know what you mean. Those are the problems all right.
So, does that mean we have another 30 years of this to look forward to, followed by a massive upset and overthrow of a Birch-Bagger-wing-nut government? 8()
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
there will be more sane & responsible people willing to run for public office (people like Alan Grayson & Anthony Weiner)...and people will realize they need to get out & vote those sane & responsible candidates into office to offset the wingnuts & the egomaniacs who are currently creeping into the system.
Better yet keep it under your mattress , invest in various precious metals .
Tell everyone about this- stand up against the international business pirates and Birch/tea society haters! Their agenda is power and profit, they don't care about our Country. They just get a bunch of bigoted goons (on fox non news, etc) to follow them by spreading lies, fear and hate! Stand up and inform! Those people are my American heros!
So far nothing on this from cable news - CNN. Of coarse they have an excuse for the moment. Will be very interesting to see if they are as interested in protests by progressives in the "home land" as they are in protests by progressives in Egypt...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Still nothing on the news. Did everyone stay away today?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Here's some video of the rally today. It was a very peaceful event. 3,000 attended.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4YPMsVpvIo
The Greedy Bloodsuckers gather ....
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The rally was very good. 3,000 attended. I'm disappointed that there's no news coverage especially since I was interviewed by Channel 2 news in LA and Channel's 2 and 6 in Palm Springs and 2 other stations.
Here's my video, please share this with everyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4YPMsVpvIo
The financiers and backers of the new American fascist party once known as the Republican party .
They make a good case to bring back the 90 % tax rate on the super rich , besides being obscene they simply have too much power via that wealth . No one actually earns ( or deserves ) that kind of money and no one should be allowed to accumulate and keep that much $ , what happens is what we are seeing today .
did a drive by and thought it was a rally backing the Koch brothers and estimated the crowd at 3,000,000 people.
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20110128_Greenpeace_Delivers_Message_to_Koch_H264.mov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVC4FKb8T0
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Unless the supreme court justices repeal their vote that allows companies to spend money on political campaigns.
Every time the United States is called a democracy you are wrong.
We live in a fascist society in America now thanks to just a few supreme court justices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.
They advocate the creation of a single-party state.
They oppose liberalism.
Italian Fascism and most other fascist movements promote a corporatist economy whereby, in theory, representatives of capital and labour interest groups work together within sectoral corporations to create both harmonious labour relations and maximization of production that would serve the national interest.
1500 protesters showing up at the Koch rally really surprised me,but, I also think this protest may be the sign of things to come in the US because folks( what's left of the working class) are reaching their breaking points! The American people are SICK & TIRED of our govenment fighting and bickering over BULLSHIT while our once very prosperous middle class rapidly spirals down the drain and NONE of our elected mutha-fuckers has ANY regard for the very folks who made the middle class thrive. Also folks are also understanding that our votes mean absolutely NOTHING but we will continue to vote,but, we also have to hit D.C. When the nicer weather shows up and we need to make a HUGE presence if/when there are any protests and if there are, I hope that these protests bring out as many or more protesters than during the Vietnam war.
Very very true. And the money that these sick shit heads can throw at a campaign will mean nothing because if people don't have food or housing or their life is getting worse and the reason is because of Boneher and McTurtlehead and their cronies (the rest of the Republican congress) and the people who pay them (The Koch brothers etc), the millions of $$$ they throw at Tee Vee commercials will do them no good whatsoever. Just wait because these filthy rich jokers don't get it.
We've got to amend the constitution to wipe out Citizens United and then storm Wall St. and scare the hell out of the plutocrats that own this country.
FTFY, "angryspittle". ;^)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
to see how they like being deployed to preserve to power and privileges of the rich when that power and those privileges exists only through systematic victimization of everybody, cops included, except the rich. When it's all said and done, how does it feel to be deployed against the best interests and well-being of their friends, family and neighbors?
The take away from this post is that this is only a hint of what will happen if things get to the point of where these right wing filthy rich assholes get their way. There were only about 1500 people there when they were only having a get-together with some beer and peanuts. What will happen when these turds try to tell the country, the little people, that the little people are going to get less from Social Security and that they are just lazy scum anyway. This is cute little sleep-over compared to the shit that will hit the fan at that time.
This isn't the first one of these billionaire affairs that Beck has attended; we've documented another. Sooner or later, some of this loyal supporters are going to realize that he's not on their side. That's the theory. In reality, he is an extremely persuasive con man. His tears and his acting so concerned about the country has transformed what is in most people who follow someone fanhood into love and commitment. Aside from his obvious and not-so-obvious lies and hypocrisies, Beck puts on the greatest show on TV. On multiple levels Beck is a charlatan.
I'm sure he'll be describing the "violent" protests at this event later today.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
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