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Home Front: Culture Wars
Adbusters want to occupy Chicago for G8 meeting
2012-01-29
Adbusters, the radical, Vancouver-based anti-consumerist magazine, credited by many media outlets for launching the Occupy Wall Street protests, has put out an ad calling for 50,000 protestors to "Occupy" the G8 summit in May. And they are not calling for peaceful protest.
Fortunately, the Chicago cops have a large supply of baby blue helmets. And truncheons...
The Adbusters ad shows a picture of policemen beating up a defenseless protestor, and comes with the caption: "In the Tradition of the Chicago 8." The Chicago 8 were radicals who incited riots in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention. The "tradition" of the Chicago 8 included calling for displays of public fornication and attacking police.

According to the official statement of Adbusters (titled Tactical Briefing #25), "On May 1, 50,000 people from all over the world will flock to Chicago, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and #OCCUPYCHICAGO for a month. With a bit of luck, we'll pull off the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen."

The ad threatens to shut down the economy if their demands are not met: "And if they don't listen ... if they ignore us and put our demands on the back burner like they've done so many times before ... then, with Gandhian ferocity, we'll flashmob the streets, shut down stock exchanges, campuses, corporate headquarters and cities across the globe ... we'll make the price of doing business as usual too much to bear."
Bring. It. On.
So the same group that called for the Occupy Wall Street protests in the first place is now calling for protestors to shut down the entire economic system of a city if their demands are not met, in the tradition of people who brought us the 1968 Democratic convention riots.

The claim that the Occupy Movement is composed of peaceful protestors seeking constructive and meaningful change stopped being credible long ago.
Posted by:Steve White

#14  Works for me, tw. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara   2012-01-29 14:35  

#13  Perfect, tw!
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2012-01-29 14:29  

#12  Will Mayor Rahm Emanuel put up with nonsense? I seem to recall he put the teachers' union in its place shortly after taking office...

The tactic I've come up with is to open the doors to the protesters, then lock them in with the Democratic conventioneers, having turned off the power to the building until the blood stops flowing under the doors. This is perhaps why I am not involved in politics. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-01-29 14:26  

#11  "Physical meeting means 5-star restaurant dining opportunities on somebody else's dime."

Bingo.
Posted by: Barbara   2012-01-29 10:10  

#10  Important note: Several of the scenes of "police beating protesters" were choreographed propaganda events using actors from a Tucson production studio, Moveon.org, the formerly communist front organization the National Lawyers Guild, and Adbusters.

YouTube (Google) now refuses to post any video calling OWS into question, including one of a man pretending to have been run over by a policeman on a motorcycle, facial comparison at least a dozen actors from Tucson impersonating police or demonstrators being attacked, choreographed events with "directors" and professional camera crews, etc.

Paid for to a large extent by George Soros front organizations, and coordinated in the White House by radical friends of Obama.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-01-29 09:42  

#9  BJ, and with the tough (unconstitutional) anti-gun laws, its not like the Mayor can call upon the militia to help.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-01-29 08:39  

#8  Physical meeting means 5-star restaurant dining opportunities on somebody else's dime.
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-01-29 07:51  

#7  there is no good reason for a physical G8 meeting anyway; if they have biz they can teleconference

Physical meeting is a lot more secure from eavesdroppers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-01-29 07:19  

#6  Obumble's home town, home of the '68 donk convention, scheduled for May. Should be worth a couple of points in the general election. Where do I contribute?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2012-01-29 06:35  

#5  If I were the mayor of any other city with an infestation, I would be offering free one-way Greyhound fare and meal vouchers at 76 Truck Stops on the way to my 100 smelliest park denizens.
Posted by: Super Hose   2012-01-29 01:34  

#4  Which business interest of Soros gains from this? He is holding the checkbook for Adbusters amongst other organizations.
Posted by: OldSpook   2012-01-29 01:11  

#3  Todays CPD is not your Daddy's CPD. It is at least 2000 Officers understrength, there is no money for the proper equipment and Mutual Assistance from other departments, Batons are a no-no as is tear gas, the 'Training' has been 'watch a movie, your trained'. Meanwhile we have this nagging little issue called CRIME.
Genl Custer meet the Souix, Souix, Genl Custer.
Posted by: Bigfoot Jeter8554   2012-01-29 00:56  

#2  there is no good reason for a physical G8 meeting anyway; if they have biz they can teleconference
Posted by: Lord Garth   2012-01-29 00:19  

#1  It's still kind of cold here in May. They certainly wouldn't want to camp overnight.
Posted by: Water Modem   2012-01-29 00:16  

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