Holy shit, paper spray!!! RUN!!!

The Seattle Police Department and plainclothes security Chase flunkies are powerless against the Silver Liberation Army. I'm CRUSHING your bank! I'm CRUSHING your bank! Buy an ounce of silver, buy a pound if you like. Pass it along.

What if people with carry permits showed up on the sidewalk in front of the bank to exercise their second amendment rights?

Funnier and more apt illustration of typical Silver Liberation Army member

Non Sequitur: Unrealized revenue from tax apple does not equate with insufficent funds for expenditure orange.

Normally I'd agree with you, but there was this thing that happened in Tucson last month...maybe you heard about it? Now, you know and I know that this protest had its heart in the right place, and Chase deserves to catch shit for their money-grubbing assholery. But no police or security body, faced with even a hint of potential violence (and yes, "sneak attack" qualifies) can take chances in the current political environment. Which sucks. But there it is.

And the WTO protests turned violent because of the non-progressive anarchists of the type that tried to disrupt that SPD forum last week and threw a tantrum when John T. Williams' brother asked them to leave.

...and the police obviously sent out the a-team on this one. Wow that looks like the special olympics of bike cops.

Thanks, Goldy, I needed a good laugh.

The caption under the picture should read "...in defense of corporatism." There is a huge difference between capitalism (where you can open your own business, if you like) and corporatism (where the government protects the biggest companies from competition in exchange for campaign money).

Confusing corporatism with capitalism is no different from confusing socialism with communism. And it's why you see similar equations from reflexive ideologues on the right and the left.

Media attention or inattention aside, the main thing is that there's a bill working its way through the State House to end the tax breaks and shore up Basic Health.

I am sorry CAN didn't get a chance to engage in "an informed dialectic" with the branch staff. Chase usually loads its branches with inexperienced young workers grateful for any job, so the dialectic might have been educational for CAN as well as the staff.

Uh, Goldy, Ms. Guthrie might have been referring to more than one incident in Olympia. In 2008, some banks had bricks and stones thrown at their windows (it was hardly a 'riot,' more like a 'tantrum'), or another one in 2000, which was more of a rave/party in the middle of a busy intersection. Both of these are easily in the memory of various officials, and quickly called upon to demonstrate the disgusting lack of respect the Youth of Today show towards their elders.

Of course, I'm just guessing here on what she *really* meant. You could have asked her.

@10 Um, actually Corporatism means something very different. Corporatism generally means the government recognizes official representatives from various spheres of civil society, e.g. Industry, Labor or Agricultural interests.

Germany is one of the clearer examples of a governmental system that incorporates Corporatism. In Germany, the government will mediate between official representatives of Industry and Labor, in a tripartite system of representation. Corporatism is generally seen in societies with deep divisions as the negotiations and various representative structures promote buy-in by the various groups involved in the decision-making.

Corporatism has a very specific meaning, and it does not mean mere rule by incorporated business entities.

@14 Yes, Germany is very different from the USA. Labor representatives are directly involved in corporate governance. Imagine the different responses of human nature when everyone is a stakeholder instead of an adversary.

Goldy, to answer your question: "Passionate advocates" includes the teabaggers. If you are left of them the same rules of getting noticed apply. Take a page from their street theater playbook instead of solely relying on the reasonableness of your arguments. In other words get noticed first then make your case.

@14 "Corporatism generally means...", "Corporatism has a very specific meaning..."

Hate to burst your bubble, but there's certainly more ways to define corporatism than the way you have and Germany is not the first example I'd bring up when talking about corporatism in the United States. As @15 pointed out, labor has more than a vestigial role in their effective constituency. American labor clearly does not.

Can we get this man a better camera? Or a phone with a better camera?

At least the cops didn't shoot or beat up anyone.

care bear @17,

Yes, by all means. My iPhone 3G is out of contract, so if you'd like to step in and buy me an iPhone 4 with its much improved camera, I would gladly upgrade.

Iwas part of this Havoc lol the author is a little snickity I wish everyone would wake up and smell the coffee and not the Tea People now days are letting the government do what it wants along with banks who are mostly owned by China and other foreign countries who are now forclosing on our land and we are Blind

Chase and BofA are eeeeeeevil. I just got rid of them two weeks ago. Money sucking maggots.