Occupy Thanksgiving: A Message of Hope, Redemption, and Dada

[DRisLegend200919]

thanksgiving is the day when the baptist pilgrims ate with the tribal indians and they shared their cultures and stuffed their faces with turkey lol

[myzteron]

rofl i spat my coffee.

[Goohuman]

Think you got your metaphors mixed up a bit. No food for the feast, but still each individually thankful to God, and a cop using pepper spray on protesters against rich people.

[whatnowgop]

@blendn61

Me too. There is no room for Nazi azzholes like you in any country unless you go into hiding in Brazil. Drop us a line when you get there.

[whatnowgop]

@blendn61

Me too. There s no room for Nazi azzholes in any country unless you escape to Brazil.

[EasyEight88]

Golly, Daddy! Follow, surround and block police from exiting the area to their squad car with an arrestee, refuse multiple lawful orders to move out of the way...and get tear gassed. Boo, hoo!

[brownie1341]

I love this meme. Needs more hippie beatdown.

[Somespatanwarrior]

don't worry pepper spray is a food product essentially!

[whatnowgop]

@Somespatanwarrior

Yea, military grade food products. Sort of like C-rats that gave you the shits for two day.

[MRSketch09]

That was pretty damn funny.

[Darkwizzrobe]

Andre Marrou 2012

[KampfgruppePeiper]

00:24 the girl looks like she's putting a ribbon around a penis.

Am I the only one to think this?

[pakraduni10]

@KampfgruppePeiper hahahahahahahahah 

[ranman1213]

This video is hilarious to me. Every time I watch it I can't stop laughing. In the words of Mel Brooks, "Could be worse, could be raining." and then it does..cats and dogs!

[WordAndReason]

It seems that the ability to think critically and act reasonably has indeed given way to notions of every person for themselves. Dog eat dog and survival of the fittest. Facts and truth be damned, just kill the bastards and let God sort 'em out. Civility is a complete and utter joke. Especially when we disagree. (This is not an indictment of you personally, per say) but a fairly common interpretation of those who simply don't give a damn. Don't feed this shit.

[lisahenkes]

What has it all come down to? I think there are only 2 choices that we need to be discussing: Do we acknoledge that a few uber-rich control the country/world and just pray and get over it, or, do we call on the militias and join them in taking back our country from the criminals in charge? Sorry, but I don't see any other choices. Personally, I choose prayer, because I'm realistic and don't own a gun. Please make your own choice, and let's get on with it.

[nickatnoon611]

@lisahenkes PRAYER?!? STFU PUSSY, and CONtinue to be a fucking bitch/SLAVE!!! The CONtrollers use RELIGION to NEUTER POS/pussies LIKE YOU. STFU, and move aside as REAL MEN ANNIHILATE these FUCKING REPTILES!!! AND THEY ARE REPTILES!

[thegrandwaz00]

@nickatnoon611 You are a tool spreading anger

[nickatnoon611]

@thegrandwaz00 U R MIND-FUCKED BY RELIGION! Now Ben Dover and turn the other cheek, b/c I need some relief....PUSSY!!

[newperve]

Pepper spray as condiment, it tastes like freedom!

[RadioFlyffer]

It would appear that the Communists wish to just jump right to their end game...trying to get us to believe that this form of Capitalism is what the founding fathers had in mind when they imparted their wisdom to us. They lie, of course.

The Founders specifically warned us about the establishment of private banks, and the corporations that would grow up around them.

If we were to nationalize the entire banking industry the people in this country would be 10,000x richer then they are now!

[TigerRocket]

This video made me laugh till I cried

[TigerRocket]

People can argue the 'left-right-center' political minutia all they want (an absolute right) but those students were neither violent toward others nor destructive of any property in their disobedience. Even if it were to take an hour, those cops could have engaged their force of physical strength to break the 'chain' and carry each limp protester off. It's not like this hasn't been done before. That 'show' of violent weapon force was about propaganda for others minds, not an unavoidable need.

[KampfgruppePeiper]

Golly, this video really made a point

[AlexFate101]

lol

[Lacocacolaman]

Hey does anyone know the name of that thanksgiving girl at the end? I love it I want to get a copy of that pic

[regenerati]

officer Pike gets around!

[Hateranuja]

22 cops watched this

[AgamemnonJBanhammer]

Hello peeps.

We all realise that the guys with the pepper spray at the UC Davis incident weren't real cops but rather "rent-a-cops" employed by UC Davis, no?

So what you have here is, in fact, employees of a liberal institution pepper-spraying a bunch of liberal customers.

Facts are fun, eh?

[whytesapph]

LOVE IT!!!!!

[bigmagumba]

@BH206L3 ... a lesson to learn ... when the Police tell you to move ... YOU MOVE!

(Duh!)

[ddvs2012]

@bigmagumba Why? Because he'll beat me with a stick? Yea you know what its 2011 not 1930 get with the program

[BrainDeadRepublican]

Got Pepper?

[Bristecom]

Don't worry, Obama will supply us with some government turkey. Yeah...

[sonnybrown]

lol, what? Did not expect that from Reason TV.

[DackIsBack]

ROFL

[BH206L3]

They were lucky at UC davis that all they did was use some pepper spray, This is nothing but a bunch of fools who when it to debt for basket weaving degrees and want some body else to pay the bill, if they get let off the hook for the loans the protests will stop, If it was up to me, they would have two choices a chain gang for four years or the Marines and combat in Afghanistan.

[dtfullertonrocks]

@BH206L3 Wish it was up to you, bra, or sis. Cuz then I'd no problem with you bleeding incessantly from you ass-holewhen a rolled-up copy of the Bill of Rights was shoved up your rectum. You dumb fucker.

[BH206L3]

@dtfullertonrocks Well since you use four letter words you already lost the argument. If I was young enough yea I go, I would even go as a contractor flying King Airs right now. I spent time in Rhodesia, I bet you don't even know where that is.

[llamalord111]

@BH206L3 No, no, and hell no. Whether you agree with what those idiots are protesting is no reason to treat them like animals. They have the right to peaceably assemble and to speak their minds. In response to law abiding citizens making use of their rights police brutalized and mistreated them. No man's rights are safe if any other's are infringed upon.

[Huboons]

@llamalord111 "No man's rights are safe if any other's are infringed upon" Just what the fuck do you think these collectivist imbeciles want? They want to steal from you. Instead of a gun their weapon is government. You need to wake the fuck up and stop with your naive bullshit. If your message is I owe you something and you're going to take it by force (i.e. government) then I have bullets for that message.

[llamalord111]

@Huboons The problem is they have the right to speak their minds, they have the right to assemble together and make their voices heard. Do I agree with them? FUCK NO! But to abuse them and mistreat them is not the way to solve the problem. Furthermore, it sets bad precedent, if police can pepper spray students begging for bailouts, what's to stop police from pepper spraying those protesting increased taxes? Fight these protesters with your 1st amendment before resorting to the 2nd.

[TheLIGHTinMYwindow]

@llamalord111 Students are not BEGGING For bailouts, they are fighting for freedom. College tuition has increased roughly 600% in the last few years, while corporations lobby for political influence with the money that they save by NOT PAYING TAXES. They don't pay taxes because they have so much money to LOBBY...... Money in POLITICS, creates an uneven playing field. The game is rigged, or haven't you noticed?

[Huboons]

@TheLIGHTinMYwindow "Students are not BEGGING For bailouts" correct, they are begging for central planning. They want to use government as a weapon to force their collectivist morality on others. "Money in POLITICS, creates an uneven playing field" Yes, some people are productive, have more wealth and have more of a say in how things are run. As it should be. I find it hilarious that these wastes of space think that they should have the same power as someone like Bill Gates.

[Huboons]

@llamalord111 "Do I agree with them?" - How could you agree with them? You don't even understand what their goal is.  "Give us your wealth" is not a message its a threat. There is no difference between these people and an armed robber. NONE. "what's to stop police from pepper spraying those protesting increased taxes?" - Nothing, people who are protesting taxes do so by not paying, not by making public threats.

[WordAndReason]

@Huboons Too simplistic, Hub. Many are well aware of what happened in 2007-08. Most American's are already on the hook for future payment of the deficit created by the banks/financial corps that didn't seem to shy about socialism in their zeal to take the welfare we paid them called a "stimulus." MF Global recently "misplaced" more than 1 billion dollars of other people's money. I'm not convinced the collectivist principle is the exclusive domain of protesters. Both parties seem to like it too.

[WordAndReason]

@Huboons None of those protesting were responsible for knowingly selling bad assets and gambling with others money in the guise of hedge fund "investments". A shell game if there ever was one. Yet those that did this received billions in bonuses and replenished accounts to "stimulate growth and job creation". Seems to me things are more complex and involved than just some failed ideology. Divide and conquer only works when the line of division is correctly laid.

[Huboons]

@WordAndReason Your post is a non-sequitur, and the content it does have shows you fail one of several tests for you to talk to me.

[WordAndReason]

@Huboons And again, this generation of young are in f a c t responsible for the cleanup of the mess created by their elder brethren. Not sure why this doesn't warrant specific addressing. Is this a ludicrous fabrication?

[nickatnoon611]

@Huboons GOOD FOR YOU BRO!!!! TOO MANY IDIOTS, TOO LITTLE TIME, AND BULLETS!

[HonkyKong89]

@Huboons 10-4

[HonkyKong89]

10-4

[trime1851]

WOOOF!



[vonGleichenT]

hahaha

[theapollomoonlanding]

Dislike

[Schlange556]

Hehehe...awesome. 

[ZombiedustXXX]

If my dinner table is gonna be pepper sprayed, I would hope the gov't. would wait until taco night.

[KenMacMillan]

If you measure unemployment the way they do in Australia we're at 16% & if you measure it the way we did during the great depression we're at 23%. Don't let them fool you, we're in the beginning of our second great depression.

[mikemat3307]

Pilgrim Girl vs Lobster Girl!

[rockinandout]

What the hell the police officer clearly warned them in the new videos that are coming out and the protestors clearly consented. If your gonna protest on private property you have to be willing to face the consciences and not cry about it otherwise dont bother.

[erichaynes88]

For those among you that saw nothing wrong with what that police officer did, consider that perhaps you have been living in a police state too long, and perhaps you have lost some perspective.

[richardcadbury]

Pepper spraying a violent mob is called the rule of law, and it is a vital part of a free country. Reason is slowly going hippy.

[mrmarkkitchens]

@richardcadbury Which violent mob are you talking about? The ones at UC Davis that were sitting on the ground and had their arms linked together?

[richardcadbury]

@mrmarkkitchens They were also illegally occupying private property, and resisting an order from a court to leave. Their presence was intrinsically violent. They were initiating force against the owners. Just coz they weren't throwing their fists around doesn't make them peaceful.

[mrmarkkitchens]

@richardcadbury I don't dispute that they were illegally occupying private property (well, technically public property unless I am incorrect in my assumption that UC Davis is a CA state school), but disagree that "Their presence was intrinsically violent." I fear the precedent if the police can "soften people up" to move them or place them under arrest. What's next, nightsticks up side the head or being shot because you don't help the police with your arrest?

[takerdust]

@richardcadbury True, but the officer could of used more tact. Have couple of officers state their intentions, then 2-3 of them carry a protestor, then if the protestor gets violent, you taze/pepper spray to prevent a more violent escalation.

[richardcadbury]

@takerdust They were told they would be sprayed, and had the option of moving to totally avoid it, and one of them replied "that's fine". They all could have moved at any time, but by breaking the law they volunteered for a spaying, because they wanted to look like martyrs.

[takerdust]

@richardcadbury just because they are stupid kids doesn't mean that officer had to respond like that.

I notice people do like to criticize cops, and say they are more militaristic and violent then they used to, but tend to forget police in the past used to beat up suspects A LOT more with their batons, or drive to a secluded spot and beat the hell out of someone, and cops never faced any discipline.

I just like to put things in perspective.

[daPlumber702]

@takerdust During the civil rights protests they used police dogs without apprehension and used fire hoses to disperse crowds. Batons breaking jaws, arms, legs, ribs were the second wave, and then came guns. No tazers, no pepper spray, no rubber bullets... Yeah, the kids at the college the other day were pretty freakin lucky imo.

[WordAndReason]

@daPlumber702 Different kinds of weapons used have zero to do with the fact that in both instances (civil rights and the current protests) n o n e of the parties involved engaged in initiating violence against others or destroyed any property (clear examples of the need for force). Disobeying an order to move is simply not the same as violent assault or outright destruction of others property. The disobedience displayed posed no imminent danger of any kind.

[daPlumber702]

@WordAndReason You apparently haven't kept up on what the occupy people have done to areas around the country. Defecating wherever they please, a multitude of needles found in new york. The kids in question in California were camped out on the school grounds disrupting the rest (most of) the student body that just wanted to go to school and get their money's worth. They were not clean and friendly, they were rude and filthy, just as the rest have been.

[daPlumber702]

@WordAndReason look around, you'll find a video from this incident, wherein the crowd around the police chant "we are giving you a moment of peace" "leave now" never mind the fact that you really don't tell the police what to do, no matter how I feel about that, they were implying rather heavily that the moment of peace would be followed by violence, that is a threat and when you threaten a police officer with a crowd at your back you should be prepared for them to protect themselves.

[WordAndReason]

@daPlumber702 As to your point about an inferred threat, the fact that no other action was taken and no call was made for backup (threats are in fact arrest worthy) one is left with the impression that your opinion on the matter is just that.

[daPlumber702]

@WordAndReason If they honestly had balls and were fighting for some moral high ground, they would have stood there without chanting threats, taken whatever the police dished out and not moved... they also would have cleaned up after themselves and would have performed their demonstration somewhere that wasn't violating other people's rights. In other words they should have used their brains, unfortunately if the videos around youtube are any indication they don't have one.

[WordAndReason]

@daPlumber702 YouTube is hardly the first source for understanding complex issues. But you have got to admit, that is one goddam funny video, and a good goddam point.

[Huboons]

@WordAndReason When your message is "give us your wealth or we will become violent" the very message warrants a violent response.

[WordAndReason]

@Huboons Preemptive force is the new method of asserting opinion as fact before any fact. "I thought he was gonna hit me so I shot 'em". Yeah....that's not asking for trouble.

[DRisLegend200919]

@Huboons i think occupy is very mis guided and distorted MLK 's peaceful marches back in his day

[freesk8]

@richardcadbury And martyrs they are. Their willingness to accept pepper spray is pointing out to regular people that we live in a police state. I applaud their bravery.

[daPlumber702]

@freesk8 Their bravery? More like their stupidity. They broke the rule of the campus, were told to stop by the law, and they started chanting that they would get violent if the police didn't leave. Then after being pepper sprayed (something they had to have known would happen and at least it wasn't a fire hose) they cried like a bunch of babies that had just been refused a toy at toys R Us. how is ANY of that brave whatsoever?

[wtf0804]

This is retarded.

[karozans]

I would like to give Thanks to the Federal Government for making this country such a wonderful and free place.....PPPPPPPFPFFFFFFF HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Oh crap, I can't even say that with a straight face.

[dyingangelo]

haha didnt expect that

[tuoempeerc]

A little unexpected for a ReasonTV video.

[fearzbeazt555]

Lol

[Loathomar]

"In a time of ... the release of Twilight: Breaking Dawn, is there anything left to be thankful for?" LOL

[MrWatchdawg77]

The students deserved to be pepper sprayed! Get informed!

/watch?v=4EgxgBlmv5A

The students encircled the cops after they made an arrest and demanded his release!

[karozans]

@MrWatchdawg77

I concur.

Trespassing is not free speech.

[sheepOG]

Ah, the plucked turkey that people call the Constitution. Delicious.

[mattandpatti222]

Stupid! Thanksgiving is about pagan corn festivals and killing off the Indians!

[jtbpnw]

LMFAO!

That was funny as hell!

[TheMarksmenCat]

rawful

[free4777]

OCCUPY FORECLOSURES!!!

[Obamaphiliac]

People should start using the word "golly" again

[HazelCoffeeNut]

@Obamaphiliac Golly, your right !

[DackIsBack]

@Obamaphiliac Cenk Ugar does...

"Golly Gee Wilikers" - Cenk.

Lulz.

[FOCKSCABLENEWS]

@Obamaphiliac Gee..... you're right Obamaphiliac!

[bisek]

seasoning provided by the State.

[carcabe]

We used to be an appreciation based society. Over the past few decades we have morphed into a whiny-ass pity and complaining society with people demanding that they be taken care of.

[KingGoomba19]

@carcabe That's the problem, capitalism fails when the average citizen doesn't want to strive for a particular goal, whether a new job, new car, new stereo, new brand of cleaning detergent, we are all content with our very basic lives. If you look at places like Sweden, Finland, Norway etc...The people never say "I could be better off" or "This is my dream", it's "I've got everything I need for the rest 20-30 years of my life". With that attitude why work hard at all?

[Loathomar]

@carcabe We also used to be a society where the income levels of all people where ever increasing fast then inflation, so that people could honestly believe that the future would be better, but it a time where the low half of Americans having seen a increase in pay in over 30 years. Maybe the people just realize the game in ridge for the rich, who get all the gain and little of the loses? The poor gain nearly nothing in wages in the good times then take the largest loses in the bad.

[EliteKiller07]

@Loathomar

The problem is people that say the same thing as you believe the solution is taxing the rich, when in reality it all boils down to our fiat currency and rampant inflation that allows the bankers and corporations at the top to have access to money printed at the FED.

[Loathomar]

@EliteKiller07 The problem is people look for the easiest solution to a problem. As the problem of the rich getting richer while the poor stay the same or even get poorer has the easiest solution of taxing the rich even though that is likely not the best solution. I would suggest that those who recognize the problem but feel they have a much better solution most vocalize their ideas and convince those who see only the easiest solution that there is a better way and explain why.

[Loathomar]

What I would like is to see a income distribution more like that of Germany though I would settle for half way between Germany and the US. So, the first thing I would say we should do is look at countries like Germany or Sweden or Austria and ask, what are they doing right? What can we take from their system that is work far better for more people then our system, to improve our system? This would seem a reasonable approach.

[TheEthanwashere]

@carcabe I miss the days when kids worked in factories, fucking spoiled brats.

[TheLIGHTinMYwindow]

@carcabe what I don't understand is how people like you can be so blind. Do you block out all reason when you read what's going on, or do you not read? #1: The banks committed horrendous atrocities on the WORLD, they stole from YOU, they crashed the GLOBAL economy, then they decided YOU should pay for it. #2: Because the monopolies don't pay taxes they have huge amounts of disposable income to influence politics in ways that create flowing income streams for themselves, and reduce YOUR FREEDOM.

[WordAndReason]

@carcabe A beautiful bit of sophistry which goes to great length to avoid the facts about what happened to this nations economy and how it specifically came about. That generation of students in UC Davis and others will in fact be the generation to take on the bulk of work in paying off this wonderful debt in the deficit. But let's not get bogged down in a full and clear understanding of facts. Let's just stick to partisan rhetoric and self satisfaction in our false reasoning.

[DgurlSunshine]

thank you <3 OCCUPY THE WORLD....REVOLUTION OF TRUTH

[Obamaphiliac]

want some pepper on your food rations?

[SeppLainer]

LOL

[TenseAlcyoneus]

ROFLMAO! On. The. Floor.

[REWHBLCAIN]

LMFAO

[REWHBLCAIN]

LMFAO

[Vitaminous]

Hahaha, good one.

Here's my take on the incident:

/watch?v=6_rvS2CUQgM

[H1TMANactual]

LOL

[desigu]

HA HA HA HA. Awesome.