This paper aims to further discussion on the underexplored relationship between public administration and public protest, and how public administration can further the aims of public protest movements or actively work to thwart them. I suggest that the Occupy movement, particularly in Oakland, CA, serves as an example where public administration thwarted a movement for social and economic justice. Looking at the Occupy movement through the lens of Foucault's later work, I propose that the Occupy movement can be framed as an instance of Cynical parrhesia, or frank speech, in which the safety of the speakers is at stake. This examination exposes the nature of public protest as bodily and risky, the potential for such movements to further social change, and the potential for public administrators to take up this speech aimed at those in power or to help in silencing its message through security regimes and even violence.