They arrested 30 Occupiers in Nashville last night, and the stage is being set for some arrests in Portland tomorrow night. The Portland crew says they're heading over to the Pearl District for a sleepover, and the city's mayor, on his way home from one of his baloney junkets abroad, says he won't allow that.
Although we hate to see people arrested, it might be a good thing for the protesters to realize that City Hall is not their friend. One of the reasons that their economic future is so grim is that the city is so far in hock that essential public services in town over the next several decades are going to be poor. There won't even be a government job in Portland for them to aspire to.
UPDATE, 8:52 a.m.: Meanwhile, here's an Occupy story that doesn't quite hang together.
Big can o fecal matter thrown this morning into the county courthouse main entrance. Smells great. Thanks Occupy. Thanks City for doing nothing about this.
In a former decade I worked at a small-town primary care and public health clinic. Once, a women showed up with her twin 10-year old sons, drunk as a skunk, staggering, slurring, and practically incoherent. When it quickly became clear she had driven her children to the clinic in her VW van in which they lived, I tried to dissuade her from driving away in the van. As she was getting the kids in the car, I took down her license plate number in the parking lot and called 911 on my cell.
I was told no action would be taken immediately. They would put the info in their system and try to let patrols know to be "on the lookout" for her.
Later in the day I contacted the sheriff. He said the woman was well known ("for years") to the police, but, alas, any arrest they may have made that day was "confidential" information.
If I had been calling about a disturbance at a bank, you can be sure there would have been eleven cop cars on scene, before I could finish my sentence.
And if they had ever done anything on behalf of those kids, it would most likely have resulted in them shuttling around in a series of temporary foster care homes, for YEARS, while the system attempted to nurture mom back into parenting mode. No chance, ever, of the system acting decisively to place such kids with adoptive parents ASAP. Kids living in a van with a drunken mom for "years", just don't seem to merit that kind of urgent help, but the mom can get more help than she could ever know what to do with. And you can be sure that the ranks of social workers are rewarded with the endless work involved in grandiose, doomed salvage operations on unfit parents, while interested community members are denied the opportunity to adopt and raise these kids. Only under extremely limited circumstances are kids summarily put up for adoption, and those kids are so damaged we can't even find parents for them.
Hey! It's Portlandia! Everyone here helps everyone else out. Want to ditch your kid so you can go kick it at the protest? Sure! No problem! Even the cops will take care of him.
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Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
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Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
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Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
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Miles run year to date: 21
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In 2003: 269
Comments (7)
San Diego too...
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/28/several-occupy-san-diego-protestors-arrested/
Posted by Gibby | October 28, 2011 8:21 AM
Big can o fecal matter thrown this morning into the county courthouse main entrance. Smells great. Thanks Occupy. Thanks City for doing nothing about this.
Posted by clerk09 | October 28, 2011 9:00 AM
In a former decade I worked at a small-town primary care and public health clinic. Once, a women showed up with her twin 10-year old sons, drunk as a skunk, staggering, slurring, and practically incoherent. When it quickly became clear she had driven her children to the clinic in her VW van in which they lived, I tried to dissuade her from driving away in the van. As she was getting the kids in the car, I took down her license plate number in the parking lot and called 911 on my cell.
I was told no action would be taken immediately. They would put the info in their system and try to let patrols know to be "on the lookout" for her.
Later in the day I contacted the sheriff. He said the woman was well known ("for years") to the police, but, alas, any arrest they may have made that day was "confidential" information.
If I had been calling about a disturbance at a bank, you can be sure there would have been eleven cop cars on scene, before I could finish my sentence.
And if they had ever done anything on behalf of those kids, it would most likely have resulted in them shuttling around in a series of temporary foster care homes, for YEARS, while the system attempted to nurture mom back into parenting mode. No chance, ever, of the system acting decisively to place such kids with adoptive parents ASAP. Kids living in a van with a drunken mom for "years", just don't seem to merit that kind of urgent help, but the mom can get more help than she could ever know what to do with. And you can be sure that the ranks of social workers are rewarded with the endless work involved in grandiose, doomed salvage operations on unfit parents, while interested community members are denied the opportunity to adopt and raise these kids. Only under extremely limited circumstances are kids summarily put up for adoption, and those kids are so damaged we can't even find parents for them.
Posted by gaye harris | October 28, 2011 9:54 AM
You know Sammy just threw down the gaunlet with Jamison Park. Who knows, he may actually start to enforce laws now.
Posted by Steve | October 28, 2011 9:55 AM
From Adams' statement:
We will not allow Occupy Portland to set up an alternative encampment at any other city park.
Does a sleepover constitute an encampment if there are no tents involved (as, I believe, the protesters' bulletin stated)?
Posted by Ex-bartender | October 28, 2011 11:55 AM
With regards to the update, may I link:
http://peaceburgh.ning.com/profile/HelenLevshin
The details line up. What a lady...
Posted by Brad | October 28, 2011 4:41 PM
Meanwhile...
Hey! It's Portlandia! Everyone here helps everyone else out. Want to ditch your kid so you can go kick it at the protest? Sure! No problem! Even the cops will take care of him.
Posted by Bean | October 29, 2011 7:43 AM