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Title: Activist Leading Occupy the Rose Parade is Convicted Thief, 9-11 Truther, & Former Democrat Assembly Politician
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Big Government
URL Source: http://biggovernment.com/cjohnson/2 ... sembly-politician/#more-396924
Published: Dec 31, 2011
Author: Charles C. Johnson
Post Date: 2011-12-31 19:09:38 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Obama-doma-ding-dong, kooks, Democrats, occutards, moonbats
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For college football fans, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA is sacred ground. “The Granddady” of the college football tournament games, it has been played every year since 1902. The accompanying parade, the Rose Parade, predates the game, dating way back to 1890. It’s a tradition that normally goes off without a hitch–that is, until this year, when “Occupy the Rose Parade” has decided to disrupt the festivities. Led by Peter Thottam, who we will return to in a moment, the Occupy the Rose Parade activists will follow the long parade with their own demonstration. It won’t be the first time that Thottam has tried to disrupt the parade. In 2008, he–along with supporters from the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center–worked with Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, and Iraq Veterans Against the War to try to make a statement about impeaching Bush and Cheney. But this year, Thottam obtained approval for a protest to follow the parade. At the parade’s conclusion, his group plans to pilot an “Octupy Octupus,” a puppet made from recycled plastic bags and bamboo that takes 40 people to operate. The organizers say that the puppet symbolizes Wall Street’s tentacles, strangling American politics. To prepare for the Occupiers, who will include... Click for Full Text!
Peter Thottam, right
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