Cop Injured In OWS Clash
Must Watch: Brutal Jon Stewart Piece Rips Class Divisions, Elitist Condescension Within OWS

A laceration to the hand. I'm guessing this was due to cops shutting down Zucotti -- no one in or out -- because the guy doing this Livestream said there were two arrests during the park shut-down.

There are no riots that I can see in the feed, though. I put the feed back up (after shutting it down, because it was boring) looking for breaking riot footage, and instead got the videographer saying he was going to take a break and get a smoothie.

So, if he's getting a smoothie, there aren't any riots. Only, as JammieWF would say, mostly peaceful sporadic assaults.

Related: Via RD, who says this is brutal, a reporter from Jon Stewart reports on the hypocrisy of class divisions in the OWS movement.

The reporter asks an upper-crust "economically downtrodden" protester about "those shiftless hoboes from BumTown."

I missed this, but commenters spotted a rather interesting word-parsing non-distinction: A guy who condemns private property refuses to allow "those shiftless hobos down in Bum-Town" use his iPad, because that's personal property.

See, he's against private property. Completely different!

But they are different, the way he means them:

"Private property" = "Your stuff" = he gets to use

"Personal property" = "his stuff" = you *don't* get to use

See? It does make sense, in a three-year-old's "because it's mine/because I want it" fashion.

posted by Ace at 02:35 PM

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