ICYMI, Female protester has miscarriage after being kicked and sprayed by police:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/22/pregnant-seattle-protester-miscarries-after-being-kicked-pepper-sprayed/

This one might actually be a laudable use of pepper spray. The others, not so much.

Lt. Pike’s fiendish adventures are awesome! Nothing like a little art to show the situation.

Yup. If she can get her docs to state on the record that the kicks to the womb and the pepper spray did it, there will be hell to pay for the Seattle PD.

Obviously that was during the National Anthem!

OoooHhh, say can we see!

You betcha!

Oh, dear. She says that she’s trying to get lawyers. May she succeed, and may they be competent.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv1wltpx501qala51o1_500.jpg Another one I spotted whilst browsing Tumblr

Too good, Kevin. Just too fucking good. )

These pictures make the point better than any words could. And he deserves every bit of bad publicity.

What’s to discuss? The pictures are worth a thousand words. Each. Good one, Kevin.

Bless you dude , we’ll win and put the Goons back in their cages.

I am laughing myself sick. LOLOLOL!

And the advert at the right is for spray valves…*spew*!!!!

USA!!! USA!!!

The WH should change the presidential seal to the Statue of Liberty Repression image.

Assholes.

I’ve got AdBlock so I don’t see any ads.

Thanks, Kevin.

SD, I’m so truly sorry! Just see it through my eyes and laugh. Oh, my side hurts!

I know this will sound overblown, but these pictures show why the MOTU’s have reached their high-water mark and will be forced to roll back – a lot.

They (the MOTUs) are confident that having ownership of nearly all the media outlets through 5 conglomerates give them total control over the message that Americans get.

But most of the people aren’t that stupid – they know when they are being lied to, even if they are denied the specific information to identify any individual lie.

These images show truth – and it jumps off the page at you. And it has more power than hours and hours of Hannity and Limbaugh

Note that most of the recent fatalities in Cairo were due to asphyxiation from tear gas made in the good ole US of A.

Wish the diner was open and we all were there! Lol what fun cutting and pasting!

The Abbey Road image made me laugh out loud, but the Statue of Repression sobered me up right quick.

That is sobering.

The Abbey Road picture is a very sad commentary on what has happened to our society since the assassination of John Lennon. Imagine is the greatest song ever written and the world John envisioned WILL come to be, no matter how many Pikes we have to deal with.

The US has outsourced all manufacturing except the production of lethal weapons.

I’d like to see one of Lt. Pike spraying into one of Cain’s ears, and it coming out the other one …

NOOZ FLASH!
Let’s find out who did THIS:
Pregnant Occupy Seattle Protester Has Miscarriage After Being Pepper-Sprayed by Police
And punched in stomach.

Forbes is the only NOOZ outlet carrying it…..surprise, surprise!
I heard it on the Hartmann program, a caller form Seattle called it in.
So….where are the anti-chocie people. Or would they thin she got what she deserved and prosecute her for being at the protest and losing her baby?

Here’s my preference.

Pretty much, it is true. I’m sorry to be so silly. Sometimes I just have to laugh or I’m going to cry.

Tear gas, rubber bullets (via shotgun, hence the shotgun shells) and live rifle ammunition with many through and through wounds.

And forming a mushroom cloud on the other side….

Madness

Crooks & Liars report on it this AM…

Apparently the tear gas is manufactered by Combined Systems Incorporated of Jamestown, Pennyslvania.http://news.salon.com/2011/11/20/egypt_uses_u_s_teargas_on_pro_democracy_crowds/singleton/

andhttp://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Protest-Held-at-Mercer-County-Plant-Over-Tear-Gas/FT3eVYLOu0uC1zKZoa3XHg.cspx

The “shit” comes home, because it is “made” here.

So, it turns out that America does have base manufacturing.

DW

48 years ago today. November 22, 1963. R.I.P. John F. Kennedy.

Also on Dependable Renegade

That is simply not true.

Second link, again:http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Protest-Held-at-Mercer-County-Plant-Over-Tear-Gas/FT3eVYLOu0uC1zKZoa3XHg.cspx

Don’t apologize for being “silly.” Retaining our ability to laugh is the only thing that will keep us sane. Seriously.

Second that!!!

DW

Well, the Lt. Pike photoshops did wonders for my mental health

Well, almost.

Thank you ghost,
It is almost the exact same time frame 48 years later here in the midwest that the bulletins were coming across the wire.
We went to a Kennedy exhibit in Dubuque, Iowa on Sunday. It was awesome the amount of material this man F. Nicholas Ciacelli has collected over the years. There were 400 pieces of memorabilia on display out of his collection of 20,000.

oldnslow, I do remember your talking about your work. Jane sure had a tough time finding made in USA articles for Occupy Supply, though. We do have some manufacturing left, of course, but so much has been sent overseas.

I certainly hope to be around when that trend reverses abruptly.

I remember that day all to well….. After all we shared the same B-Day and I am from Boston.. The only day when the cops didn’t arrest someone in Southie that day a record never to be broken again… JFK was loved in Southie as were all the Kennedy’s.

I was 12 when it happened. The memory if it still bites me.

“I was worried about it, but I didn’t know it would be this bad. I didn’t know that a cop would murder a baby that’s not born yet. I am trying to get lawyers.” Fox said.

a baby that’s not born yet?

I was spray painting the forward pump room on USS MORTON and didn’t find out about it until later that day when I crawled out of the space, loopy, and wondering where everybody’d gone.

“But most of the people aren’t that stupid – they know when they are being lied to, even if they are denied the specific information to identify any individual lie.”

I think most people are not bothering to research beyond the mass-media talking points. I think most people are not stupid, but they are ignorant in the strict sense of the word “ignorant”. They just don’t know what’s going on. This will achieve the same effect as having a population of stupid people.

Not everybody has the education credentials you have or are as articulate.

Do you remember exactly where you where when you news hit ?

The Dallas CIA station chief is fuzzy where he was when he knew first knew Kennedy was offed.

Then he became President .

Wasn’t trying to pick on ghost. But, while domestic manufacturing has been gutted and left for dead by giant multinationals, thousands of small and mid-sized shop are holding their own.

JFK was loved all over the world, the same as was the other John mentioned upthread. That is why they both had to be removed. They both got in the way of somebody’s agenda.

Teacher announced it in my classroom.

As did the idea of pepper spray exiting Cain’s far ear for mine lol.

That is a rhetorical question. Almost everyone alive at the time knew precisely where they were the moment they learned the news.

It’s good to be reminded of that. I find it all too easy to use hyperbole. And those are the “true” small businesses, the ones that we do need to support.

Hey alan1tx go put your head and comments back where it belongs.. You know where the sun doesn’t shine, your kind of crap is unwarranted and plain ass cruel typical of you though!

Oh good. I’m always happy to oblige. I’m a helpful snake, not a harmful snake. (old family saying)

I understand.
I was a senior in h.s. the day of his inauguration. I skipped school to watch the whole thing. Sadly, two and a half years later, I skipped my low paying job at the time to watch the four days of TV coverage of his death.
It was such a promising time in between his inauguration and his death…

Hmmmm, calling Lt. Pike….!

Same here. The wise guy in the class was the first to respond with the question, “Who’s going to take care of Caroline?”

Yes, the distraught mother of a miscarried fetus should be immediately taken to task for her semantic imprecision. Glad we have you to stand up for what’s right.

Then no doubt you caught Nixon’s protege Jack Ruby plug Lee Harvey in real time. Correct?

Hard to understand what motivates people, isn’t it?

Just your basic authoritarian.

yuup!!

Poppy Bush was probably delivering the check to Jack Ruby.

We all remember what we were doing at that exact moment in time, don’t we. It is still a sad memory.

I did. Sitting in the TV lounge of the Seven Seas Locker Club in San Diego.

More like Sam Giancana.

Yup. It was hard to believe, happening right there on tv and it was REAL.

This is pretty funny.

I remember the evening of Kennedy’s death. I was sitting in the garage, on my saddle, which was slung over something, I don’t remember what. I was sure the world was going to end because my mom was wrenched with tears.

Were you shrewd enough at the time to realize that the fix was in? I wasn’t, but I learned later that others my age knew it.

My parents were just as upset as I was. Dad was sitting right beside me when Ruby did his dirty deed.

Oh, sure, I was 20 years old and was so smart I spent 3 years in VN a few years later.

Maybe, I have no inside knowledge. BUT, did you ever notice that Poppy Bush and Sam Giancana were never seen in the same place at the same time? Just sayin . . . This is not my natural turf.

ghost,
You really got us started on this topic and I thank you very much!!!
The memories just keep flooding back…

Does anyone else remember Oswald saying to Ruby “Jack you SOB’.

his words are scrubbed from the news clip.

Kevin,

I find this entire “internet meme” fascinating, and the way that not only different people are remixing cultural icons but also re-deploying them like you do here. Michael Shaw at BNN has some interesting remarks about these “culturally sacred” images noting,

“Different images are surely saying particular things, but what they are all saying, at the meta-level, is: after witnessing such a profound betrayal of trust perpetrated by the State, as mentor and guardian, on the kids in their trust, we have further lost innocence and the lens we were using up until last week to view our culture through suddenly isn’t so clear anymore.”

And that’s precisely how I read some of the more off beat remixes, like the Star Wars scene above. But most of the images, whether historical photographs, civic art or popular culture seem to tie together our collective memories of social justice struggles much like what you’ve presented here. This is also what democracy looks like!

More likely it was E. Howard who delivered the guns and cash.

Resulted from a plot to invade Cuba after the B of P fiasco. Mob wanted to get back into Cuba. Kill JFK, blame it on Castro and invade Cuba. Plot fell apart but since the hit was already set up Giancana said go for it.

Oswald had ties to the Mob and was also an informant.

Just saying, there’s laws against that.

Fetal Homicide Law

Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 9A.32.060 declares that a person is guilty of manslaughter in the first degree when he intentionally and unlawfully kills an unborn quick child by inflicting any injury upon the mother of such child.

Operative word – intentionally

If the accounts are correct, Ruby and Oswald were together with the Cubans in the Dallas motel on Thursday evening. Everyone in the room know that Lee Harvey would be the patsy, except one person of course.

I’m afraid you’re right. I’ve got friends who are still willfully ignorant inside their MSM-”informed” bubbles. And they’d self-identify as liberals.

Thanksgiving is going to be hell-a interesting…

Isn’t there a law against police performing abortions without a license? Paging Pat Robertson. If this turns out to be the case, Seattle is going to be on the hook for a huge lawsuit.

Just signed FDL’s petition for the DOJ to investigate. My added comment was; some of these (asshole) cops need to be jailed and heavily fined for assault on peaceful demonstrators – yeah, I know, wishful thinking, like that’s gonna happen.

Plus, she’s actually using the meme and framing that fundy-gelicals like to use. Basically using their emotional appeal to her advantage.

But in answer to someone else’s rhetorical question, the RWAs would definitely prefer to blame/prosecute her for putting her fetus in danger by protesting. See: Mississippi’s “Personhood” initiative.

Really don’t want to get too deep in the weeds on this, I hate when there are not enough facts available to prove or disprove a conclusion, but I’ve always doubted that Oswald had the skill to be the shooter, or was the only shooter. And have always hated the “magic bullet” theory. You think Oswald was the actual and/or sole shooter?

Sorta like if you don’t know who the mark is at a poker table, get up.

Blame/prosecute/punish. It seems to be innate with them.

Defining features of Authoritarians, no?

Hey OmAli good afternoon to ya. Missed you this morning at the make believe swim.

Yep.

Hey backatcha, popeye. I missed you guys, too. I was up to my elbows in potting mix

Did you forget the snark tag DW. *g* Just kidding.

And alive.

They got in the way of the “corporate interest’s,” profit.

Oswald had been a Marine. Not many around are better marksmen. Rifle not the best but serviceable in the right hands.

I wasn’t there long had to go shopping and get my daughter ready for school. My wife has been sick the past couple of days.

They got in the way of Meyer Lansky, who controlled all of the gambling interests in Cuba. Lansky always said the only game you’re ever gonna beat the house at was blackjack.

I’ve got to go get busy with some cooking. Son and very sig other coming tomorrow and then the big crazy meal Thursday….

If I miss some of you in the next couple, I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving. We really do have so much to be thankful for, and I count all of you way up on my list.

your

ohmmmm

A group of us had just come into the gym after showering to wait for the bell and heard it announced over the PA system. I was in 10th grade.

saw that on the way out. On the mend, I hope??

They had a special on Nat Geo. (I think) showing all the proof that it was one shooter and how the bullet passed through to John Connelly. Made a convincing case but who knows.

Have a great Thanksgiving OmAli be safe. *g*

She is getting there. Thanks.

Hmmmm…I’d say, small glass of eggnog, med. shot of Black Jack *g*

((popyey))

bye!

Have a great day all and a Happy Thanksgiving. Going to go get my daughter from school.

There is enough documentation around to pretty much put it together. There was a guy on WMNF this morning who’s written a book about Kennedy. Have to go to the archives later and dig his name and the title up. Most of the really good documentation won’t be open for another 30-40 years, just to make sure all concerned and dead and buried.

JFK versus U.S. Steel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_0tRVYs-Rw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Steel

(?)

I just sent in a resume to an ammunition manufacturer, cuz the cabinetmaking business is so slow….

It figures. If you find the book let me know. I will put it on my list. *g*

Sure???? Real “Democracy” “Most of the really good documentation won’t be open for another 30-40 years, just to make sure all concerned and dead and buried.”

A conspiracy, buried……..

My mistake, book is not about Kennedy. Book is Bobby and J Edgar by Burton Hersh and contains a section about the assassination. Most time on this morning’s show spent on this topic.

I was a pretty damn good shot myself in those days, but I could never have made two hits under those circumstances. Of course, maybe if I had some “magic bullets” . . .

I was in Washington, waiting for the taxi to take me to National to fly out to Austin, where I was going to finally meet the President at Johnson’s ranch, or so they told me at the Peace Corps.

Wishing a great holiday to you and yours as well, sweet Omgirl, and echoing your thankfulness for all the good friends here.

Happy Thanksgiving Om,
Have a great weekend with the family.

I was a 20-year-old newlywed, working in a garden/hardware store. One of the clerks was an old (to my young eyes, perhaps actually in his 60s) and he began weeping at the news. My husband and I sat in front of the teevee for four days and cried our eyes out.

IIRC it has been duplicated. The thing is there’s a big difference in making the shots for real and trying to make them against a clock. Real time would usually, repeat usually, be a little less pressured.

msmolly,
So many memories for all of us, for me, it was promises destroyed.
Take care and have a great Thanksgiving

Thanks, you too — and everyone. I’ve got a pumpkin cheesecake in the oven and another batch of cookies to make. Son and DIL are hosting dinner, but not until Friday, since my son’s three are with their mother on Thursday.

So many memories indeed. We could have a PUAC about our “I will never forget where I was when I heard…” moments, couldn’t we?

Not sure I’m understanding you correctly there. Wouldn’t you expect more pressure when actually aiming at a President’s head? BTW, I’ve seen the demo you reference, I think. But it still doesn’t explain the “magic bullet” pathway. I guess you’d have to be Arlen Spector to understand that./s

There are so many important historical situations and events that we will never know the truth about. Not for sure. Very unsettling to know that, isn’t it?

Left Out ST.TERESA!

That is hysterical!!

Thank God you’re slow, mine STOPPED after 28 straight years without a vacation save 1 week in D world.

This is truly scary.

One supplier used to have a $ 3000 yearly limit or they didn’t want your business now they call to ask if I need a $20 bottle of glue. Not good.

Obviously if Washington State had “Personhood” legislation, she’d be criminally liable.

Happy Thanksgiving MM the best to your family. Stay safe.

“Pregnant Occupy Seattle Protester Has Miscarriage After Being Pepper-Sprayed by Police
And punched in stomach.

Forbes is the only NOOZ outlet carrying it”

No, it’s not the only news outlet carrying it. Actually, it’s day-old news – I read it yesterday on a Seattle news site. Do your research.

The Twolf touch. I’m waiting for the MC Escher version.

Very good insight. Yes, I agree.

These images are most powerful if you place Lt. Pike in images of people, who overcame oppression to bring great justice or reform to society. Icons whom, for example, Howard Zinn might have spoken about in lectures—If you take this authoritarian character and place him in the scene, you are showing what the state can do to repress people. But the reaction is not to be sad that Lt. Pike has shown up. The reaction is to laugh because we all know Lt. Pike cannot stop the people. Repressing people will only galvanize people. So, we think of Lt. Pike as a dopey tool of the State, who is both a gift to the movement and an example of how the State fears the people.

Kevin…that’s an incredible post… It gave me huge chuckles along with angst.

Great Job you’ve done. I hope this goes viral!

Seattle Police have always been ugly pigs. Always.

Made my day, Kevin.

bingo!

see “Pepper spray Meteor” by driftglass
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/per-user-request.html

driftglass did it at the request of commenter on http://my.firedoglake.com/cranestation/2011/11/22/lt-john-pepper-pike-vs-mt-rushmore-and-more/#comments

Freakin’ best post evah, I think. Awesome. Totally freakin’ awesome.