Occupy Iowa activists are apparently irritated that politicians don’t seem to be taking their opinions seriously. And so they’re calling on their supporters to flood all 99 districts counties of Iowa during the upcoming caucuses.

No, not to participate – instead they’re planning to “shut down” the local headquarters of the presidential candidates.  Democracy: You’re doing it wrong.

Iowa activists are inviting caravans of protesters from across the country to help them “occupy” all the presidential campaign headquarters in Iowa – and to shut the offices down if they feel their message about corporate greed is not being heard.

“You go inside or if they won’t let you in, you shut ‘em down. You sit in front of their doors,” said Des Moines’ Frank Cordaro, who came up with the idea that Occupy Iowa’s “general assembly” approved at their 6 p.m. meeting tonight. …

“It could be inside, it could be outside — the idea is to basically take over until we get response to our satisfaction or we are forcibly removed,” said Fallon, a Des Moines Democrat and former state lawmaker. 

If Occupiers think that images of them protesting outside of Republican candidate headquarters will sway the conservative voting base, they’re living on another planet. GOP candidates will likely have no qualms about calling in the police if the protests get out of hand. But it will be interesting to see whether the Obama campaign headquarters tolerates it. About 100 protesters swarmed the president’s office in Des Moines a couple of weeks ago, and Obama staffers ended up filming the activists’ complaints and offering them coffee and donuts. Occupy Iowa sounds like it wants to be much more aggressive in its caucus protests, so we’ll see if the Obama campaign is able to keep up the friendliness in all 99 districts counties.