This week’s Obamaville death toll hits 4.
James Taranto
The Wall Street Journal
11/11/2011
Of all the Obamavilles in all the towns in all the world, the one in Oakland, Calif., seems to be the most violent. Last week Oakland Obamavillians called a “general strike” to express their rage over an earlier incident in which the founder of IHateTheMarineCorps.com was accidentally injured when police fired nonlethal rounds after Obamavillians ignored orders to disperse.
As we noted Monday, even the New York Times editorial page was forced to acknowledge that the so-called strike had turned violent–though in typical form, the Times exonerated “members of the main body” of Obamavillians. Yesterday, as CBS News reports, Oakland’s Obamaville saw its first fatality, possibly the first homicide in the eight-week history of Obamaville:
A man has died after being shot just outside the Oakland encampment that anti-Wall Street protesters have occupied for the last month.
Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan says the victim was pronounced dead at a local hospital Thursday evening, less than two hours after two groups of men got into a fight near the Occupy Oakland camp on a plaza near City Hall.
Jordan says no suspects have been identified. He asked members of the public participating in the protest who may have taken photographs or video that captured the shooting to contact authorities.
The chief says investigators do not yet know if the men in the fight were associated with Occupy Oakland. But protest organizers say they weren’t.
When we tweeted about this last night, we received angry and sometimes vulgar responses from lefty twitters. One distinction that they make is that this happened “near,” rather than “at,” the Obamaville encampment. Funny how the Tea Party never had to fuss over prepositions in such a way…
…The disconnect between the liberal media’s cheerleading and Obamavilles’ descent into disease, disorder and destruction is as striking as was the disconnect between the media’s slanders against the Tea Party and that movement’s actual peaceful and civic-minded nature.
The complete article is at The Wall Street Journal.
H/T Gay Patriot where B. Daniel Blatt wrote about the Occupy Denver invasion of FreedomWorks BlogCon 2011.
HotAir’s Ed Morrissey and Tina Korbe are also attending BlogCon. They’ve posted videos and links that tell this afternoon’s story from Denver.
Ace from Ace of Spades HQ is in Denver, too:
…They are protesting because they suck at life. Their lives suck. They are doomed to suck.
But, the thing is, in any system or society, they would be on the bottom. In the socialist paradise they dream of, they’d be the drudges with the four-to-an-apartment situations.
They seem to think that if they change the way society values things, then they’ll rise to the top. But they wouldn’t. Because in any system, including socialism, you still have to do something to earn that top spot on the socialist gravy train.
The problems that beset them in a less-socialist system — lack of discipline, lack of skills, lack of hygiene, lack of not sucking, etc. — would still hamper them in the socialist paradise they clamor for…
…I pity them. What they are angry at is, ultimately, the universe itself for giving them life but not giving them ability.
Read all of these links. What a day we missed!
Update: Great Pics of Occupy Denver’s Failed Invasion at Weasel Zippers
