Who Writes Signs They Can’t Read: May Day Protestors Cannot Explain Their Signs or Their Cause

Seriously, why would you do this? Or did they even write their own signs?

I wonder, what’s the going rate for “rent a robot” in Chicago?

Big Government, a Brietbart site:

Yesterday at Chicago’s Union Park for the May Day march, I found group of protesters from the Asociación de Vendedores Ambulantes (Street Vendors Association) holding signs from the Chicago Community and Workers’ Rights.

I asked one protester what her sign meant, and she said, “I don’t know.” She told me she didn’t speak English, but there was another girl (who I have seen around many Chicago protests) there who spoke Spanish, so I asked her to ask the woman in Spanish what her sign meant. Sadly the woman holding the sign still did not have an answer. After questioning another protester who also did not know why she was there, I asked if they were being paid to be at the protest. It was then that the translator told me “you don’t need to do that,” and a man came over to explain the different signs and shirts of the protesters.

I proceeded to ask all the members of this group if any of them knew what there signs said and why they were there and not one of them could answer the questions, even when language wasn’t a barrier.

Isn’t it interesting that these protesters, who are supposed to be street vendors, found it more valuable to spend their time holding picket signs at a protest that they knew nothing about, rather than roll in their pushcarts in to sell popsicles and tamales to a couple thousand people at the march? It doesn’t quite add up to me, but what I do know? Maybe they had the day off…

The Asociación de Vendedores Ambulantes (Street Vendors Association or AVA) was formed in 1992, after city inspectors cracked down on street vendors and presumably threw out their food and poured bleach on it. According to the group’s website, “Today, with new hopes, strength, and expectations, Chicago street vendors have come together once more. AVA’s goal is to unite in solidarity in order to create a world in which street vendors work under reasonable regulations and are allowed to live with dignity.”

In other words, rather than take an advantage of day when these “street vendors” could have probably made exponentially more money than a typical day, they decided with no incentive of pay, it was better to push their carts aside to make sure that when they do go to work, they are working under “fair conditions,” and live in “dignity.”

How dignified … And you thought AstroTurf was so haughty.

Do they even know what May Day was? I will give them a clue, it’s COMMIE DAY. Not for free people, just stupid people and clueless drones.

Support For Your Local COMMUNIST Thug Dwindles, Even In Batty Bay Area

As Occupy gets under way after several months of hiatus, the public is finding even less to like about the group. A poll commisioned by CBS San Francisco found support for the group dwindling, and more than 2/3 of those polled felt the police response was either appropriate or not harsh enough.

Who wants to be a COMMUNIST. Can we rent you even for a day? Just for Commie Day, please.

May Day violence in Oakland resulted in 25 arrests after businesses were vandalized and threatened by anarchist protesters associated with the Occupy movement. One individual was arrested for felony assault on a police officer, and two more were arrested for felony arson.

If they still harrass and bust up your place, might I suggest you use the Rodney King fix, take to the rooftops with your shotguns. Apparently they still know what riot guns are for.

Downtown business owners described an ugly scene where protesters threatened to disrupt shops which dared to stay open on the day of the so-called “general strike”:

Earlier on Tuesday, about 40 Occupy protesters swarmed into Bittersweet Cafe, also on Broadway near 14th. “It was scary,” co-owner Diana Meckfessel said. “They came in, ripped up stuff, grabbed chairs and said ‘We’re shutting you down; you’re not supposed to be open today.’”

This thuggish behavior was described on the Occupy Oakland website as “flying pickets to shut down Uptown & Downtown Business Associations.”

There was a similar scene in San Francisco where Occupy marchers damaged numerous businesses and as many as 17 cars in a rampage through the Mission district. Mayor Ed Lee toured the damage Wednesday and estimated that Occupiers had done hundreds of thousands in damage. He summed up his reaction as one of disgust: “The people who hide themselves behind Occupy and then do that kind of damage are really – it’s disgusting to see that.”

Home Grown Terrorist Attacks: Banks Get White Powder Envelopes, but Tests Show They’re Non-Toxic

Envelopes containing suspicious powder were sent through the mail to at least seven locations in Manhattan, primarily Wells Forgo banks, police officials said.

“This is a reminder that you are not in control,” said a message that arrived with the envelopes. “Just in case you needed some incentive to stop working we have a little surprise for you. Think fast you have seconds.”

Several samples tested negative — evidently containing corn starch, police said. Later, all the powder samples were determined to be non-toxic, The Associated Press reported.

The receipt of the white powder prompted evacuations at bank branches, police told the AP, but caused no injuries.

Police initially suggested the suspicious envelopes could have been mailed by militants from within the Occupy Wall Street movement, but a spokesman for Occupy Wall Street denied any connection to the mailings, saying the NYPD was making a false assumption.

Labor, immigration and Occupy Wall Street activists were planning public protests for “May Day”  public protests for “May Day,” May 1 — Other wise known as Commie Day.

The police believed San Francisco-based Wells Fargo might have been targeted for white powder mailings because about half of a key dozen Occupy Wall Street members have backgrounds in Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley, and similar incidents occurred in California earlier this week, police sources said.

In the New York cases, the envelopes mainly appear to have reached low-level workers at the bank branches.

“Apparently, the message was aimed at the mail room workers among the ’99 percent,’” New York police spokesman Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told ABC News.

The envelopes, believed intended for May Day delivery, evidently arrived at the banks early, according to police.

“They underestimated the efficiency of the U.S. Postal Service,” one official said.

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