Marcel Honore: "Show of Force or Overkill?" @ The Desert Times

A Taste of the North African Uprisings Came to Palm Springs last Weekend

Main $tream Media Snarks for Koch Whore Libertarian Convention?

Could it be that the Palm Springs area communities are upset over the Koch's philandering philanthropy for "free market" libertarian madness? Has the nation's largest news publications suddenly acquired an interest as to the lower classes anger?

Why would Claire O'Connor writes something like that at Forbes Magazine in her column "Filthy Rich", she captured the snobbish nuances the Koch "delegates" displayed about the ruckus going on outside the deluxe resort the Kansas Koch billionaires rented for the weekend fund-raising convention.

Ms. O'Connor missed that local elected officials in the Palm Springs area are equally pissed at the cost of protecting the assembled rich filth, sorry Claire!

And while the filthy rich start up the gossip media machines snarking as Wall Street Journal's Collin Levy did with, "Another Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" who seem to be expressing a particular recent and growing ruling class insecurity.

Now apparently there is a vast left-wing conspiracy, openly against the reactionary elitist clubs of snobbery.

Meanwhile back at Rancho Mirage and the aftermath of the Koch whore convention ....

Between riot-gear clad Rancho Mirage police happily sucking up local tax dollars, the Koch's booking the whole Rancho Los Palmas Hotel & Resort for three days expelling other paying customers, taking over the air space above the place (the better to prevent the Greenpeace airship from floating their "Koch Dirty Money" message overhead) while the ultra-capitalist "delegates" arrogantly smart phone images of the Great Unwashed crowd of protesters outside the resort perimeter to their tittering associates back home.

The reporting does sound a bit, how shall I say politely? Nervously startled.

Throughout all their writings, phone video shots, text messaging and twittering one gets the sense that the rich filth (yes, and their reporters) are a bit worried, as if some wild forces might be escaping from the demographic cages of Obama America.

Robert Franks, also at the Wall Street Journal ended his most recent "Rage Against the Billionaires" with, "Do you think we will see more billionaire backlash protests?"

As I said on last night's Radio Free Kansas, "a little bit of Egypt came to Palm Springs last weekend."

And I was not aware of the funny quote below from a local elected official last night, I do so swear from my snowbound impoverished Ten Acres of Kansas.

Yes, apparently even the Palm Spring locals are rumbling, check out this excerpt from Marcel Honore writing from the local newspaper "The Desert Sun":

... At least three deputies could be seen with guns on the resort's roof — guns police later said were non-lethal and used for crowd-control purposes.

“I felt like I was in Egypt,” said protester and Palm Springs Councilwoman Ginny Foat, referring to the ongoing unrest in the Middle East.

“It was a major overkill. We certainly didn't need it. It was a very calm, peaceful kind of thing,” said Foat, adding she plans to send a formal complaint to Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff Jr. ...

Read the Article.