After the Albany Police finally broke up the Occupy Albany protests last week, one of the protestors posted a "wanted poster" of the Albany officer who pepper sprayed the crowd after they attacked him and his horse. That protestor is Bradley Russell, a professor at the College of
Saint Rose, who is a supporter of radical left-wingers like Cornell West. Below is a link to the text of a statement from someone claiming to be Mr. Russell posted in the Times Union.
Click here to read his letter
Here is a video of Mr. Russell claiming that he isn't endorsing any violence against the officer. He just wants some of his friends to go to his house and bang on their love-drums.
In case anyone is wondering what Bradley Russell does when he is not sleeping in a tent on public land, his Linkedin page says that he is currently teaching our children at the College of Saint Rose. He has a Ph.D in Anthropology/Archeology, but apparently no education in our Constitution or the laws of the city of Albany.
When the Albany Police department were finally ordered to break up the illegal encampment at Kiernan park by the Occupy Albany protestors, the were met with verbal assaults, defiance, and eventually, phisical violence before the responded with pepper spray
and arrests. The video below shows the events directly prior to, and after the officer on the horse had to pepper spray the protesters, after they attacked him and his horse. The officer used the pepper spray to protect himself and his horse.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to be the darling movement of the the big-government liberals of America, politicians are starting to suffer the consequences of the actions of the movement. Last week in Oakland, CA, riots broke out after police decided to enforce the law and told the protestors that they needed to leave the park. Some of the protestors, believing that the right to assemble has no limits, started throwing M-80 firewrorks, bottles, and other weapons at the police. The police responding with tear gas and bean bag rounds, forcing protestors to flee. One protestor, who happened to be an Iraq war vet, was allegedly struck in the head by a tear gas cannister, and was rushed to the hospital. He was upgraded from critical condition to serious condition according to the latest information that I have.
The below video is just one snapshot of the violence in Oakland. This violence will continue to grow if these people are allowed to illegally assemble, and plan attacks against the poeple of America. Not all of these people are for rioting, but enough of them are, and all it takes is one person with a Molatov cocktail, or a home-made pipe bomb, and this will escalate into what the extremists want. It is the duty of every Mayor and police chief to enforce the law, and right now, they are letting these people gather, and plot, at these locations.
In response to the Oakland riots, mayor jean Quan released the following video after protestors shouted her down, denying her of the very rights that they claim to be fighting for. In the video, she actually apologizes to the protestors turned rioters, for the actions of the police department, who were enforcing the law and protecting themselves from attacks by the rioters. Mayor Quan has caved in to the political pressure of the radical left-wing that controls the city of Oakland. I pray that as a result of her capitulation that this does not lead to more injuries, or deaths, as a result of the actions of the protestors.
To demostrate the ignorance of most of the protestors in the movement, businessman Peter Schiff, who happens to be a member of the evil 1%, showed up at the NY OWS movement carrying a sign that read "I am the 1%, let's talk."
The video below illustrates the fact that most of these people have no idea about how capitalism works, they have no knowledge of our laws and regulations, and they are very selective about which facts they believe. My hat goes off to Mr. Schiff. He did an excellent job of exposing these protestors for what they really are: ignorant, socialist, entitlits, who believe in mob rule and have no idea about how our Republic is supposed to function.
These protests have been allowed to carry on for far too long. You have a bunch of young, angry, people who are upset about the whole system, and have nothing to do all day at these protests, but carry signs and shout out slogans. How long will it take until someone at one of these protests decides to take it to the next level because the media is becoming bored with them. Who will be to blame when it does escalate. The Protestors, turned rioters? The police for not enforcing the law? Or will it be the fault of the Mayor's and city councils around the country who continue to allow these people to break the law? I hope that day doesn't come, but if these protests are allowed ot continue much longer, I fear that it will escalate to the next level.