Thom Hartmann: Occupy the Kochs - How does OWS deal with renegades in it's midst?

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Run time: 09:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JANQ85Etc   Posted on YouTube: November 08, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 136   Posted on DU: November 08, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 632

 
Adele Stan, Alternet & Ethan Rome, Health Care For America Now join Thom Hartmann. The Koch brothers got occupied over the weekend. As the Kochs hosted their annual Americans for Prosperity convention on Friday night - hundreds of Occupy D.C. demonstrators marched to the event to join in as well. So while the Tea Party crowd was wooed by the likes of Herman Cain, Mitt Romney and GOP TV talking heads inside the Washington, DC convention center, roughly 500 American patriots peacefully assembled outside the convention to demonstrate against the Koch brothers. Occasionally, the convention was interrupted by 99-percenters who managed to sneak in. But as is usual with the Occupy movement - it didn’t take long before there was a violent backlash against the patriotic occupiers. According to reports - a silver Lexus drove right into the crowd of demonstrators running over two people - and then running over a third as it tried to flee. D.C. police officers stopped the vehicle - but let the driver go shortly after with no criminal charges. Instead, police ended up arresting members of Occupy D.C. who took to the streets outraged that the hit and run driver was let free. Run a patriot over - you're free to go. Protest letting hit and run drivers walk - you're going to jail. But aside from that incident - there were other questions raised regarding the tactics behind the Occupy the Kochs demonstration - and just how non-violent it really was.

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