No Personal Responsibility for Occupy Minneapolis Pot-Smokers (Updated)

(UPDATED 8:54am)

Protesters Used as Guinea Pigs (David Hanners) 

A lawsuit has been filed by Occupy Minneapolis protesters against the Drug Recognition Evaluators program.  According to the Pioneer Press article: 

Officers approached protesters and asked them if they wanted to volunteer for the DRE program. Those who did were taken to a warehouse and given marijuana. Officers watched while they smoked it, the plaintiffs contend.

When the subjects were done, officers dropped them back at Peavey Plaza, next to the Hennepin County Government Center. 

The protesters who VOLUNTARILY went to smoke pot are now claiming that their constitutional rights were violated by the police officers because they were targeted while exercising their right to Freedom of Speech while camping on Peavey Plaza.  In fact, the attorney for the defendants contends that:

...there was no injury and that the protesters volunteered.

"They voluntarily got into police cars and left," Jason Hiveley told Noel. He said there was no proof the subjects were targeted because they were protesters.

He said that in some cases, subjects "volunteered more than once."

This is typical of the Occupy protesters: the very essence of the Occupy Movement was (is?) to remove personal responsibility from society, instead blaming corporations and the so-called rich for all of society's ills and basically begging the government to play "Daddy" to society.  These are the same people who decided that defecating on a police car was a good form of protest and caused millions of dollars of damage at their "encampments." 

Now people who voluntarily left with the police to go smoke weed are trying to blame the police for taking them to smoke weed? How has this case even made it to court in the first place?  

Our country is in deep trouble, and this story shows exactly why: until people decide to take personality responsibility for their own actions, we will continue down the road to destruction of our great country.

Video from the Occupy Minneapolis protest on October 8, 2011:

OccupyMN Movement is Spreading

According to this morning's Pioneer Press, OccupyMN is spreading to several other cities around the state including Rochester, Duluth, Alexandria, Bemidji and is coming soon to St. Paul.

The St. Paul occupiers are still working on the plans which may not include actually "occupying" the state Capital:

"There are those who want to camp out all winter," Jewett said. But he said, "Occupy is a consciousness. It's a new awakening. It's not all about a physical location."

Huh. Let me get this straight: According to all the other "Occupy" movements in the country, the point is to OCCUPY an area, preferably near a bank, and annoy the bankers so much that they'll finally agree to shut their doors, right?  So, if the Occupy St. Paul movement doesn't do this, if their idea is that "Occupy" is a "consciousness", shouldn't it be called "Consciousness" instead of "Occupy"?  Or are they hoping to occupy the consciousness of the public and the bankers? Or avoid having to share their food with the homeless people who flock to all the other Occupy locations? (Which, really, people? Isn't your movement about wealth redistribution and helping the poor? Why are you selfishly refusing to share your food with the poorest of the poor? Or is just that it is easier to yell about the top 1% and covet that money than to do what is right and share with the poor out of their own pockets.  Most of that money was either panhandled or "donated" anyway - not earned at all by the protesters.)

The Minnesota Occupy movement is concerned about the coming cold (Global Warming, where are you when the Kool Aid drinkers need you?), but have been distributing information with their plans for dealing with the cold, which includes occupying empty foreclosed-upon homes.  Yeah, that'll work. I'm sure the suburban cops (that is, if the Occupiers venture out of the sanctuary of RT Rybak's world) would LOVE to have a crack at evicting squatters from homes:  it would break up the monotony of their days usually spent stopping speeding moms as they fly between appointments, schools and hockey rinks.