Family Album Time! Photo Credit: Laughing at Liberals

Nothing says Fatherhood and Apple Pie as much as dangling your child from your arm while taunting the police to pepper spray you. (video from Laughing at Liberals below). This guy was encouraging the police to take a vacation while yelling in his child’s ear. “Help the population, take a vacation!”  He was on the front lines of the protest yesterday with his buddies who were yelling profanities at the cops to taunt them into using their batons and spray.
I can only imagine the family dynamics here:

” I need your help, son. I want you to be the eyes, ears, and voice of the Republic. Anakin, Anarchist, I’m appointing you to be my personal representative on the Jedi Black Bloc Council”

Years ago after riotous mobs pulled these same stunts in Portland, posters began appearing on the hipster neighborhood telephone poles. They read: “They pepper sprayed our children!” It was an effort to malign the cops for deploying pepper spray on the anarchists. Some idiot apparently brought his kid. Wow, we haven’t seen that one bef…oh, never mind.  I’ve never been able to substantiate the claim, but now you know why they bring their kids to these things. They need a cute victim.

Victims are in short supply since the designated Occupy Portland victim who actually had been saved by the cops from the mob didn’t work out so well.

Remember him? He was the guy-with-the-broken-back-now-he’s-in-a-wheel-chair-hurt-himself-as-a-cheer-leader-sleeping-on-the-ground-at-Occupy-Portland-smokes-dope-for-pain-came-to-a-riot-and-cops-saved-him- who didn’t go down so well as their poster child (check it out here). Now they’re trolling for a real child. What better way than to supply one of your own?

But now let’s go back a few weeks. Remember when the Occupiers took over Main Street? They used children as human shields then, too. I remember taking this photo from my car. The protesters had just called in support from protester central casting (unions) to puff up their numbers. The objective was to keep the street closed. I’ll never forget when a protester told me I’d better get moving because I was blocking traffic. It took Mayor Sam Adams one week to work up the courage to reopen it.