Riot Police Guard Against Anti-Billionaire Protesters in Rancho Mirage. (25 arrested)

[Tx4obama]

Source: C & L

This is live video sent back from the Quarantine the Kochs rally in Rancho Mirage about an hour and a half ago. John Amato is on the scene and has called me a couple of times with updates. There are about 1500 people or so there, peacefully protesting the convocation of billionaires at the Rancho Las Palmas resort. The purpose of the meeting is to figure out how to impeach Obama and take over our government in order to preserve their wealth, justice, and liberty at the expense of ours. Glenn Beck was the keynote speaker last night, and Eric Cantor was also on the guest list. (Full list here (PDF))

Remarkably, there are scores of riot police guarding the driveways into the resort. The last report I've seen says 25 people have been arrested.

Read more: http://gocl.me/hatdyb

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Note: VIDEO, photo, and PDF list can been seen by clicking on the link up above in the OP

Edited to fix link.

[L. Coyote]

1. Thanks for posting.

[liberalmike27]

45. Gangs of New York, Boss Tweed says

One great thing about the poor is, when they riot you can hire half of them to keep the other half in line.

I wonder if the police and army for that matter, understand that they are the poor too, they are socialist workers hired by the government, to suppress these demonstrations against tyrants like Koch.

That is the amazing thing about all of this. It is a bizarro situation, where the tyrants have managed to hire and fund the Tea Party republicans, to portray the ordianry working people somehow as being tyrants, when the true tyrants are those living behind the gates in wealthy communties, that hire security to keep the angry, disinfranchised rabble away from their door.

[bobburgster]

50. It is amazing!

In many cases those you say are "....hired to portray the ordinary working people..." are in actuality, truly poor working people who have been mislead....to say the least.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Thanks so much for this report! nt

[barbtries]

3. so.

they got the riot police out and arrested peaceful protesters. wtf. it's so discouraging!

[Matilda]

4. Reminiscent of the meetings of the political/media elite in 1962-3.

Then it was how to get rid of Kennedy. They began by canvassing the possibility of a coup.

How long before they move from "impeachment" to "assassination"?

[glinda]

15. bingo

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[EnviroBat]

33. This little "event" should have looked like Egypt.

These rich pricks are taking over everything. It's time we put a stop to them.

[RegieRocker]

52. In Eygypt the percentage of protesters getting arrested is much

lower than here in the supposed free U S A . So many greedy liars and delusional people.

[Moostache]

43. How much fucking MORE do they want?!?!?!?!

I have news for these cocksuckers like the Kochs - WATCH YOUR TV AND PAY ATTENTION TO EGYPT!!!

There is a limit to the amount of bullshit that can be covered and hidden and how much greed and inhuman activity will be allowed to pass unabated. When that limit is reached, when enough people have nothing left to lose, then all of them - the entire seedy ensemble - had better start setting up their "Flee-dom plans".

When this shit storm goes down, they are going with it, straight into the toilet of historical irrelevance - and NO amount of money or illusory "control" is going to save them at that point. I'm sure that 14 days ago, Mubarak was feeling like one of the masters of the universe in his own little way...they may want to give him a call and see how its working out for him and his family now!

[shanti]

64. they want it ALL

make no mistake about that. and they aren't worrying about what's going on in egypt, because the camps are already here and prepared for any insurrection.

[whathehell]

69. Can you give me a link to this?

I was an older child when Kennedy was in office and, as I remember, the media loved him.

[Matilda]

71. I recently read about it in David Talbot's book "Brothers",

about Jack and Bobby Kennedy's working relationship, as distinct from their personal one.

The plotting it referred to was organised by a man named William Pawley, a very wealthy tycoon, who had been an Ambassador for the U.S., and had ties to the CIA. Hated Castro, and by extension, Kennedy, for not invading Cuba to remove him. He was a hardliner who had the money and power to carry out his wildest plans against Kennedy.

A co-conspirator was Henry Luce, head of the Time-Life media empire, who also hated Kennedy for his policy towards Cuba, although he'd been friendly with old Joe Kennedy.

These two, with others of like mind, concocted some wild schemes to bring Kennedy down, and they mind me so much of what I'm reading now about the Koch brothers.

[whathehell]

72. Thanks so much for that information...

I will definitely check it all out.

Thanks.:hi:

[Tx4obama]

5. Article at HuffPo says...

LA QUINTA, Calif. — Authorities in California say 25 protesters have been arrested for trespassing outside a strategy session of conservative political donors at a Palm Springs-area resort.

Riverside County Deputy Melissa Nieburger (NEE'-bur-gur) said Sunday that the protesters were being booked at Indio Jail and released.

Hundreds of people participated in the mostly peaceful demonstration that had been arranged with authorities, but some protesters crossed the street to the Rancho Las Palmas Resort.

Deputies in riot gear arrested them without incident when they refused to leave the area.

SNIP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/30/koch-brothers-protest-25-_n_816085.html

[meow2u3]

32. The cops should have arrested the Koch brothers and co.

instead of the protesters outside the strategy session coup plot. Then they should confiscate frozen all their assets; that ought to reduce the deficit. Next, the cops should arrest teabaggers for being such dirty Koch suckers.

:evilgrin::evilgrin::D :rofl:

[KansDem]

47. "Koch suckers"

Defined as anyone (i.e. Tea Bagger) who is bamboozled by the Koch Bros.

[Proletariatprincess]

6. I am encouraged by this news.....

I wonder if it will make the MSM. Probably not unless something terrible happens.
Time for us peasants to sharpen our pitch forks and light out torches.....past time, in fact.

[timefortherevolution]

7. I salute all those who are there! Wish I could have been.

Now we need only 295 million more americans doing the same thing.

[KoKo]

8. K&R! Good stuff and good people who did this protest..

:yourock:

[handmade34]

9. rec

[TatonkaJames]

10. I thought they always met at Bohemian Grove ?

Or is this an off year meeting ? :yoiks:

[Tx4obama]

12. I think they are are all different separate groups

Different folks
1) Bohemian Grove: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_grove
2) Bilderberg Group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group
3) Koch Brothers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Family_Foundations

[glinda]

17. Thanks for outlining that and for links!

[russspeakeasy]

11. It is a small beginning, but a beginning.

[luv_mykatz]

13. K &R

[dotymed]

14. They should be

arresting the thieves at the convocation of billionaires, yes this is a good start. I hope it reaches Egyptian proportions...we need it bad.

[alp227]

16. Great! protesting the rich isn't just for Egyptians! n/t

[lutherj]

18. If your existence requires constant police protection are you human?

Does that make us all trespassers on a rich man's world? Or are these people with their egos inflated by massive symbolic value simply psychotic? Should we cede the planet to these people? What value do they represent? Are they human? Do you feel like you share a common humanity with them? Do you want to live in their solipsistic version of the universe? Why?

[Raine]

23. Totally on point

you sum it up exactly.

[Enthusiast]

39. Excellent points.

They have no value. They represent the worst group of human beings since the Third Reich.

I don't think we need to cede the planet to these people, they already have plans in the works to take it.

They plan to cut every tree, mine every mineral, steal every drop of water, drill for every drop of oil on public land, all the while preventing the adoption of alternative energy technology. Their plan is to use the largess from this theft to consolidate and strengthen their gains into a thousand year Reich. And just as they have co-opted the entire media they will succeed in this endeavor unless someone steps up to stop them. And I don't know what it would take to stop this fucking insanity.

[socialist_n_TN]

46. What was that GB Shaw quote I read on here........

this weekend? Something like the probelem with the poor is poverty; the problem with the rich is uselessness. Also something about not getting bogged down in social issues. I can't remember it exactly, but it was a good quote and something we should ALL remember and use.

[Raksha]

53. Yes it does--from their POV anyway.

Re "Does that make us all trespassers on a rich man's world?"

We're either slaves or trespassers. If we can somehow be useful to them, they will tolerate our existence for as long as we are useful, and after that we're off to the dumpster. If not, we're just trespassers--simply an inconvenience.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. Local media coverage of the protest

The Desert Sun (newspaper)

KESQ-TV News (pretty good story)

L.A. Times

[LongTomH]

54. +10

The KESQ-TV story was excellent! Apparently there are still a few TV stations that have not fired all their investigative reporters yet.

[deacon]

20. A must K + R. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

22. "Save our Beloved Billionaires." - RepubliWankers (R)

"We luvs us our billionaire payola masters. Whine."

- RepubliWankers (R)

[rasputin1952]

24. Basically, wealthy traitors get police protection from citizens

with serious concerns about how democracy is being ground into dust beneath the feet of the well heeled. The oligarchy is protected, the citizen is oppressed...we are not far from true class warfare.

These people feasting on pheasant, worried that the peasants might get an extra pigeon to carry them through the day. Millions unemployed, and these clowns make money by manipulating money markets, or people like Beck, a man with the IQ of a spoon, making millions telling those that will listen that everyone but they are Communists, nazi's or subversives, simply because they have a difficult time working for a pittance.

Day by day, we are coming closer to a "Storm the Bastille" moment. I do not condone violence, but I can see us moving in that direction as the gap widens and the ultra-wealthy try even harder to crush the working citizen.

[indimuse]

25. Right on!

Great post Tx4obama! KNR! ;)

[fasttense]

26. They got arrested by cops in riot gear because they crossed the street.

I guess they got too close to the billionaire boys. Now we can get arrested for daring to get near a billionaire.

Does the Corporate aristocracy have a restraining order out on the poor and middle class? I guess we can't be any closer than 1,000 feet or we get arrested for doing nothing illegal.



Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations... evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.

[Jackpine Radical]

37. Why did the protestor cross the road?

In order to get arrested.

[cyberpj]

49. Because they thought they were in a free goddamn country. n/t

[sulphurdunn]

27. These arrogant damn fools

have laid their strategy out for us. It's nothing new but it is interesting. Thank you Mr. Koch.

[fasttense]

28. The Waltons are on the list.

The Waltons who own Wal-Mart.

So, they will take your money but arrest you if you get too close to them.

[glinda]

51. That is so totally not surprising.

[ejpoeta]

29. when i first read this i thought it was probably some joke. someone

and their wishful thinking. but the fact that it is true is both hopeful and disheartening. hopeful that people are paying attention and protesting. disheartening that the rich can blatantly have a meeting to try to get rid of obama.

[peekaloo]

30. Thanks. The small article in my local paper just described the

gathering as a conservative fundraiser with no mention of those attending.

[orbitalman]

31. The Kochs, et al, don't just want all they have already, they want MORE.

They must be removed from our society. They do not represent the general 'good' of the people.

[peacetalksforall]

34. I can't get the video above or the one at Huff Post to play. I went to

youtube and clicked on a title about 'protesters against' and got a pro-Koch video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lXX8L-9cmc

"Rally against Koch Brothers in Rancho Mirage"

[peacetalksforall]

35. I can't get the video above or the one at Huff Post to play. I went to

youtube and clicked on a title about 'protesters against' and got a pro-Koch video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lXX8L-9cmc

"Rally against Koch Brothers in Rancho Mirage"

[peacetalksforall]

36. I can't get the video above or the one at Huff Post to play. I went to

youtube and clicked on a title about 'protesters against' and got a pro-Koch video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lXX8L-9cmc

"Rally against Koch Brothers in Rancho Mirage"

[Kingofalldems]

38. K and R for the Teabaggers

Complete idiots.

[aquart]

40. So this meeting is to subvert the elected government of the United States?

[Democat]

41. Because of these arrests, millions of people will find out about the Koch brothers

The media will run stories about the arrests, which will expose more people to the Koch empire.

[BobbyBoring]

56. What media

You mean the lame stream libural media? It may get a shot or 2 on MSNBC but besides that, I doubt we hear a word~

[rbixby]

58. I don't think it would get much coverage

Unless an organized group of protesters broke through the police lines and got into the building and actually disrupted the meeting. Its definitely not something I'd recommend for those who prefer not to be clubbed, gassed, and tasered by the police though.

[midnight armadillo]

73. Ha ha ha

That's a good one. Now, if a protester got into the meeting and disrupted it...well then news of a terrorist arrest at a billionaire's meeting would be all over the media.

[Atypical Liberal]

42. This is in California for those who didn't know.

I had never heard of Rancho Mirage and didn't know it was in the United States.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Rancho+Mirage&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.732051,92.373047&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rancho+Mirage,+Riverside,+California&ll=32.175612,-111.928711&spn=10.905982,23.093262&z=6

[Can of Whoop-ass]

44. The Kocks are figgering

how many of their coal mines are under-employed right now.

[cyberpj]

48. No video or pdf list are available when I went there. n/t.

[Tx4obama]

65. I just went to C&L and everything's still there - direct links to both below

PDF file: http://www.southernstudies.org/secretkochmeeting.pdf

Video: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12358580

[Tsiyu]

55. Beck was their keynote speaker?

What a choice, if they want to look like absolute fools...

Did he finally chainsaw the bunny for them?

K & R

Wish I was there....

[pam4water]

57. Ack C&L has ads now :(

[RedCloud]

59. Make it a little hot for 'em!

[goforit]

60. Wow..... That list of names is amazing. They can't hide anymore.

[benld74]

61. All this time I thought it was the Coke Brothers! Considering how paranoid they are acting!!!

[Peregrine Took]

62. Jackass on Chicago talk radio pretended to get upset due to a caller saying

"Kotch" brothers instead of "Coke" brothers.

The ass wasn't able to refute the caller about the deeds of the Koch's so instead he hung his whole argument on the mis-pronunciation like "oh this caller is sooooo stupid he can't even PRONOUNCE their name." Like that makes any damn difference.

That's one of the asinine tricks of the wingnut host if they have an intelligent caller. Either talk real loud over them, find one insignificant thing to "red herring" the conversation or (and this is something almost all of them do) keep saying the caller's name over and over while they are trying to talk, i.e. "KEVIN! KEVIN!! KEVIN!" innumerable times to talk over the caller's speech.

I hate talk radio. Even ours I'm not so crazy about. I would rather have a host and guests - most callers are unprepared and don't present their case very well or else they are screaming crazies.

[Cheap_Trick]

63. Enemies of democracy all.

We should take off and nuke the site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

[ErikJ]

66. KOCH-TOPUS EVIL EMPIRE vs PAPANTONIO

If ever there was an Evil Empire or a Dr. Evil it would be the Koch Brothers.

Sadly it seems that the only progressive commentatotr that talks about them in the MS media is Papantonio.
Thank god for Papantonio.

[catzies]

67. Saw most of the gathering, the copters, the activists, good turnout!

I was in the mall/shopping cneter where they mobilized, right before the closed the street.
Didn't see the riot cops though.

[Tx4obama]

68. Photo of the riot cops

[Tx4obama]

70. Cenk Uygur on MSNBC is fixin' to do a segment on this after commercial. n/t