So what about this Flea Bagger party in New York. They have "occupied" a park for several weeks...no permits, no porta potties, serving food, sleeping out on the property, littering, selling drugs etc, etc., etc.
Remember those stories from the past year...no prayer groups in private homes, lemonade stand across the country busted for selling ...lemonade. No permits was the reason. Public safety was the cry. Save the wimmens & chillern. Yet....we have this spectacle in New York.
So, what's up?
Leave it to Uncle Rush to sort it out...
RUSH: You said you put together events. In San Francisco you're
talking about?
CALLER: San Francisco, but I've kind of had the luxury of going all
over and putting events on. San Francisco is one of the worst as far as
--
RUSH: What kind of events, if I may probe, what kind of events?
CALLER: Oh, it ranges, races like half marathons, lobster festivals,
mostly sports, but music shows.
RUSH: Okay. So you're wondering where are all the similar permits that
this bunch has to have for New York City and Washington and Seattle, wherever
they are.
CALLER: Right. And I've even had events shut down because of,
you know, they said, oh, I was missing a permit, a permit wasn't done
correctly. I mean I've had the riot police and police show up and completely
shut the event down because, for example, like I was over what the fire marshal
allowed me to have as far as attendance.
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RUSH: Well, let me fill you in on the answer to your question, at least
as it relates to the Zuccotti Park in New York. This is from the Business
Insider, and this is the real reason why they weren't kicked out last
Friday. If you recall, they were supposed to be kicked out just so the
park could be cleaned and then they would be allowed back in, but they thought
it would be the first step of a permanent evacuation, they refused to go, and
everybody involved backed down. Now, here's the thing.
"Coming on the heels of the Solyndra debacle, the Obama administration
has just approved a $168.9 million loan guarantee for the Granite Reliable wind
farm project owned by Brookfield Asset Management (BAM). Among its many
holdings BAM owns Brookfield Renewable Power, which owns the Granite Reliable
and it also owns Brookfield Office Properties, whose holdings include the now
famous Zuccotti Park. The Department of Energy finalized the loan
guarantee less than a week after Occupy Wall Street protesters took to Zuccotti
Park."
So it looks like the people at Brookfield Asset Management, in exchange for
letting their park be used by the protesters, got a $168 million loan guarantee
from the regime. But it doesn't stop there. "The Granite
Reliable Power Project under construction in Coos Bay, New Hampshire is the
state's largest wind farm and the New Hampshire Union Leader questions why
Brookfield would need federal subsidies at all, particularly following the
bankruptcy of Solyndra," and why is GE getting subsidies when they don't
need the money? "Mayor Bloomberg's announcement
Monday that
protesters could remain as long as they liked, also raised a few eyebrows and
it turns out he has a personal connection to Brookfield as well. The mayor's
longtime domestic partner Diana Taylor is on the Board of Directors at
Brookfield Properties along with John E. Zuccotti himself."
So you wonder why they don't need permits? They don't need permits
because the mayor's compromised, the girlfriend's compromised, Obama's compromised,
in the middle of all this is a $170 million loan guarantee to Zuccotti's
Granite Reliable wind farm project. And the price for that is letting
them use Zuccotti Park. Does that answer your question?
CALLER: Yeah. It does. That's the way the game is played.
RUSH: See, that's the kind of connection you need.
CALLER: (laughing) Yeah.
RUSH: If you had connections like that, you wouldn't need to get
permit after permit after permit after permit.
CALLER: I could just have whatever event I want wherever I want it.
RUSH: Well, everybody else would have to go through the permit
process for their events like you. This bunch, there aren't any
Port-A-Potties, are there? They weren't for a while. The place is a
pigsty. Anyway, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that's
(interruption) No, it's not unbelievable at all. It's totally
believable. Everything is fixed. Everything is rigged. Tell
me, why does General Motors, with that market cap, have to get $170 million in
loan guarantees from the Obama regime for its wind turbines? The game's
rigged. The game is totally rigged. And people think big business
is in the back pockets of the Republicans. Nothing could be further from
the truth. Big business is in the back pocket of whoever happens to run
Washington that day, because that's what it takes.
Crony Capitalism ... there's your short answer.
