You didn't read closely enough:

"as well as cars and parts from Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Hyundai."

I'm sure the union members had no problem with this as it helps out their AFL-CIO brethren. Since the unions are one of the only actual organized supporters of the OWS crowd, that may be why and how they picked the place to start.

You're not giving them nearly enough credit. Name a successful one which didn't have people lined up against the wall and shot (or whatever the technology allowed).

They're Marxists with a few anarchists thrown into the mix. This is an unsurprising development.

Stop telling us they are "anti Capitalist" and start saying what they are and have always been.

This is going to bs very harmful to Democrats next year. But if the GOP caves, and so far they have shown exceptional willingness to do so, I think you'll see a third party candidate next fall and Obama wins with 42% of the popular vote. That the GOP is not proclaiming this a fundamentalist Marxist movement, and tying it to Obama and the Democrats, is appallingly stupid.

It was a real missed opportunity in Oakland. If they had told the longshoremen to go home WITHOUT PAY until such time as the port could reopen, within about 15 minutes there would have been an open port and hospital ERs filled with hippies.

WASHINGTON — Four Georgia men in their 60s and 70s were arrested Tuesday, accused of being members of a right-wing militia group that plotted to attack federal office buildings and to disperse a deadly biological poison in Atlanta.

Their alleged plot was revealed to the FBI by a confidential informant last spring, and members of the group have been meeting since May with someone they thought was a black-market weapons dealer but who turned out to be an undercover federal agent, according to court documents.

No attacks were ever attempted. Federal officials say the men were disrupted before they could act on the plot.

The documents say the men, Frederick Thomas, 73, of Cleveland, Ga.; Dan Roberts, 67, Ray Adams, 65, and Samuel Crump, 68, all of Toccoa, called themselves "the covert group" and began in March to talk about staging attacks against federal targets including the IRS.

A confidential informant secretly recorded some of the meetings for the FBI.

"I'd say the first ones that need to die is the ones in the government buildings," Adams was overheard saying in an April 16 meeting, according to the FBI.

"When it comes down to it, I can kill somebody," he allegedly said.

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its easy to pick out some fringe elements of a movement and ascribe it to the broader cause. I can do this all day. Show me examples of violence from the left and I will deplore it and in turn I will show you violence from the right. I expect you would deplore it as well. Right? right?

I think "Slide" is a female troll, not male. There's something distinctively feminine in her prose.

What movement are these guys associated with? The Tea Party? The article mentions no such association. The only association is merely rhetorical through labeling them "right-wing", i.e. the usual attempt to create a phony association between conservatives and political violence. The link between OWS Oakland and violence is a lot more than a strained attempt by detractors to associate them, somehow, in some way, with violence. It IS OWS Oakland.

The problem is this. The rioters in Oakland aren't fringe elements. They are the core of OWS, and the public has figured this out.

The real attack on the economy comes from Republican politicians and the do nothing Congress they created, which refuses to do anything about the economic crisis they created when they refused to adequately regulate financial markets. First they fail to regulate Wall Street. Then they bail out Wall Street. Then they insist that Main Street is on its own. Apparently, the harsher side of capitalism is only good for Main Street, but not Wall Street.

And don't tell me about the 15 poisonous partisan bills passed by the Republican House. First of all, none of those address the immediate economic crisis. Second of all, due to their completely partisan nature, they are not serious proposals. No credit where it is not due. The same can be said for the farce that is the House "budget."

Obviously, any violence or vandalism is regrettable. But to act as though these isolated incidents are completely representative of the Occupy Wall Street movement is nothing more than propaganda more or less equivalent to the attempt to identify all Tea Party protestors as racists due to a few in the crowd. I fully expect fundamentally dishonest partisans, like Michelle Malkin, to distort the facts. That is how they make their living, instead of being actual productive members of society.