occupy wall street is being used as an epithet. that s one level in which occupy wall street is playing out in electoral politics. the other political place, though, occupy wall street is playing out is in the streets. all day, every day. these are not marches or individual contained demonstrations. the idea of the occupy protests is that people stay. that s the occupy part of it, right? you don t go anywhere. like hoovervilles. these are supposed to be semipermanent living reminders of what s wrong with the economy and the political system. the permanence is part of the pressure. city officials around the nation frankly are not handling this well at all. across the country this weekend, six different cities shut down six different occupy protest camps including burlington, vermont, also st. louis, where there were 27 arrests. portland, oregon, 50 arrests last night. salt lake city, 19 arrested. denver, 17 people were arrested. in a denver arrest, talk to a border collie mix, named she
occupy wall street is being used as an epithet. that s one level in which occupy wall street is playing out in electoral politics. the other political place, though, occupy wall street is playing out is in the streets. all day, every day. these are not marches or individual contained demonstrations. the idea of the occupy protests is that people stay. that s the occupy part of it, right? you don t go anywhere. like hoovervilles. these are supposed to be semipermanent living reminders of what s wrong with the economy and the political system. the permanence is part of the pressure. city officials around the nation frankly are not handling this well at all. across the country this weekend, six different cities shut down six different occupy protest camps including burlington, vermont, also st. louis, where there were 27 arrests. portland, oregon, 50 arrests last night. salt lake city, 19 arrested. denver, 17 people were arrested. in a denver arrest, talk to a border collie mix, named she
border collie mix, named shelby, elected the leader of occupy denver last week because as one occupier put it, shelby has more human traits than any corporation. she can bleed, she can breed and show emotion. there were a lot of arrests at occupy oakland. before dawn this morning, hundreds of blipolice officers armed with batons entered the site and arrested people and took down tents. jean quan who ordered the park to be cleared toured the site. this raid was far less confrontational than on october 25th. police saw a mass revulsion at their tactics. there were a number of injuries including the serious wounding of an iraq war veteran, a marine named scott olson, whose skull was fractured by a blunt object, allegedly by a projectile fired by police officers. scott olson was released from
american unilateralism and we need to be tough on iran and be friends with israel. without a lot of specifics about what exactly they would do differently than what has been done. i mean, the basic idea here is that you don t win elections on foreign policy. very few people go to the polls and say, oh, i m going to vote for candidate x because of his position on libya. it s what we call the commander in chief test. if you can t perform the basic function of the president which is to lead the nation s military and foreign policy which is an executive function, then you can t be president. i think that s what we re seeing now is that candidates like herman cain just don t have the credibility or the knowledge to meet that test. that s a real problem. josh rogin, staff writer for foreign policy magazine and author of the blog the cable. thank you for time. appreciate it. thank you. the latest hero in the occupy movement is shelby, a border collie mix. her story and much more o
and american individuality and american unilateralism and we need to be tough on iran and be friends with israel. without a lot of specifics about what exactly they would do differently than what has been done. i mean, the basic idea here is that you don t win elections on foreign policy. very few people go to the polls and say, oh, i m going to vote for candidate x because of his position on libya. it s what we call the commander in chief test. if you can t perform the basic function of the president which is to lead the nation s military and foreign policy which is an executive function, then you can t be president. i think that s what we re seeing now is that candidates like herman cain just don t have the credibility or the knowledge to meet that test. that s a real problem. josh rogin, staff writer for foreign policy magazine and author of the blog the cable. thank you for time. appreciate it. thank you. the latest hero in the occupy movement is shelby, a border collie