Booted Out: Blaze Reporter Gives First Hand Account of Occupy Wall Street Eviction
- Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:33am by
Buck Sexton
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NYPD officers swooped down on Occupy Wall Street shortly after midnight to evict the protestors from their Zuccotti Park campground, kicking off a series of arrests and leaving the movement in disarray.
Police arrested just under 200 protesters (according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg), including some who chained themselves together inside the Occupiers’ kitchen tent.
I arrived on the scene shortly after the first wave of arrests took place in the park. The remaining protestors swarmed the police barricades that had been set up to prevent anyone from getting within a city block of the Zuccotti Park site.
(UPDATE: Judge halts eviction order and new rules — occupiers to return)
(Related: Top 5 videos from the eviction)
The Occupiers gathered around me were furious and confused. Early attempts to get a consensus on next steps were drowned out by verbal abuse directed at the police.
Some of the organizers announced that all Occupiers should break up into small groups to avoid the police informants they claimed were in the crowd. The group nearest to me discussed linking arms and walking directly through a police phalanx, but others backed off at the thought of intentional mass arrest.
The next two hours, Occupiers played a cat-and-mouse game with police in full riot gear, trying to make their way back into Zuccotti Park. When it became clear that the human microphone technique would not be able to outwit trained officers with surveillance helicopters on site, a stalemate ensued.
But that uneasy calm ended around 3:00 in the morning when violence broke on one of the barricaded street corners.
Some video I took from one of those corners is below (Content Warning for Language):
Before the raid started, police passed out leaflets that the park would be “cleared and restored” before the morning, according to the New York Times. Officers set up a battery of flood lights before they moved on the Occupy site and began to confiscate and discard property left behind.
A police Captain reportedly announced that “The city has determined that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park poses an increasing health and fire safety hazard.” Protestors responded by gathering in the kitchen area of Zuccotti and chanting “No retreat, no surrender,” “This is our home” and “Barricade!”
The move may have been in response to the Occupiers’ threats to shut down Wall Street and the New York City subway on Thursday to commemorate two months of successful occupation.
Looks like the Occupiers may have to put their celebration on hold.
As for what’s next, the Mayor’s office tweeted out that the protestors must leave the park but will be allowed to return after it has been cleared– without any tents or sleeping bags.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement Tuesday that the evacuation was conducted in the middle of the night “to reduce the risk of confrontation in the park, and to minimize disruption to the surrounding neighborhood.”
He said after the cleaning, protesters would be allowed to return but “must follow all park rules.”
“The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day,” Bloomberg said. “Ever since the occupation began, that law has not been complied with, as the park has been taken over by protesters, making it unavailable to anyone else.”
If the city enforces park rules against structures and overnight sleeping, it would eliminate Zuccotti Park as a home base for the Occupiers. That means the Occupiers will have to find a new home, or disperse for the winter.
But at this point, the City of New York has regained the initiative its battle with Occupy Wall Street.
The Associated Press Contributed to this report. This piece has been updated.
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Comments (216)
Lost In Space
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:17amWell, isnt that special,now they can run home to mommy and daddys house. And i appreciate the reference to roaches being self employed in the pest control industry. Now some well placed insecticide with a growth regulator to sterilize the females so they cant reproduce.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:42amSorry Buck but YOUR video was a fail.. Why you even bothered to show it is beyond me.. On the eviction ? hehehehehe hehehe hahaha LMFAO !!!!!!
Locked
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:53amAnyone notice that when Buck says “he arrived,” he was actually nowhere near the actual park? I disagree with the OWS movement, but when there’s a media blackout and midnight raids on American citizens, I get more worried that some of the protesters are actually right…
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:58amThis seems to be a nation-wide thing. A lot of cities are throwing out occupiers. At last!
Report Post »100 Million Patriots Standing
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:00amBloomberg’s decision was calculated strategically to give cover for all the players;
The OWS gang gets to live comfortably inside during the winter, still planning to come back and start anew in the spring…since they were forced to leave – they get to ‘save face’.
Bloomberg looks tough at last – but only took the steps to ensure that he appeared to do something about the situation while providing the OWS people a respectable way to go indoors during the cold weather. This is just a win-win intermission.
2012 will be the main event.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:01amHey Locked
How to take a solid stand. Maybe you should hustle down to Zucotti Park and stand with your new buds.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:17am@Poor
Their usefulness to the progressives was waning, and public opinion of them was reaching lows you associate with, say, cockroaches. They are being evacuated, simultaneously, much in the same way they showed up simultaneously. This is a tightly organized top down dictated event, even if the rank and file don’t realize it (alas, intelligence and independent thinking is lacking amongst most of them). Three guesses at who is at the “top”, and the first two don’t count.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:21am@13th imam
The park is still closed and I’m 1000 miles away. Again, notice that Buck takes pictures of the park after it was cleared; like all media, they were kept a block and a half away during the eviction itself. Media blackout + riot police = your idea of freedom? Might want to head to the ME; your name makes me think you’d fit riiiiiiight in.
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:26amThe end of the park Poopers. “ NYPD Occupy Billy Clubs ”
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:31amThis isn’t over, this is exacerbated and escalated.
This is going to end up looking like Greece. Mark my words.
NOBODY likes cops anymore, except other cops, their friends and family members, a few old folks who retain an outdated image of the public servants, and those living in a self-segregated false sense of security. That’s such a small minority, and I don’t think you folks realize it.
This is a Police State that is scared to death of being overthrown by the sheer number of people.
That‘s why they’re trying to suppress and depopulate us.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:52amNah nah nah nah…
Nah nah nah nah…
Hey, hey, hey!
Goodbye!
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 9:44ammidnight raids prevent people who do business and work in the area from being collateral damage.Love progressive trolls, they try to pretend they are conservative, then last sentence has an extreme progressive view.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 10:33amIts about time the government stopped acting like they were dealing with children throwing a temper tantrum. It seems they learned they could not recreate their failed miniture society without some issues. These issues have already been worked out for them in the greatest republic that ever will be. America with all its warts managed to hold at bay and even conquer most communicable diseases, we managed to raise the living standard for most people in this country all while the rich got richer. We managed to police our cities, counties, states and federal government to try and make this country where a free citizen could go freely without fear from bandits and even the government itself so they could pursue a life or liberty and happiness. If they want to keep atleast these small achievements they have got to get out of the wagon and start pushing instead of rising along for free.
Report Post »SeanW
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 11:10amThose who surrender their liberty in the name of security deserve neither.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 11:16amTypical LOCKED…myopic and peurile. Did you ever think that NYPD deliberately went in without a heavy media presence and at an unusual hour because the last time this was tried the unions bused in a few thousand brownshirts to make the situation more volatile? The stinky OWSers are begging for confrontations to film and manipulate. Why give your enemy what he wants?
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 11:21amMidnight raids are cowardly.
Do it in the light of day so the people can see, you slithering reptiles.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 11:27amTypical Avenger; sees liberals and sees red. Er, brown. Freedom of the press? I know you don’t like that it can cut both ways, but it never stops amazing me that you’re fine for stripping freedoms just because you hate the people on the receiving ends. It’s this hypocritical view that makes me disagree with so many people on this board; we see the same ends, but I find that the means (if they require things like midnight raids, media blackouts, and violence) are too extreme.
OWS-NY should have been disassembled weeks ago. The police should have approached, said “All of you are under arrest for trespassing if you do not leave now,” and hauled them out in cuffs for the cameras. Show the people that the NYPD are ones on the right side of the law and will uphold it.
Instead we get a response that you’d see in a third-world country. The end goal was good, but the way they did it was not.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 12:01pmYes..LOCKED..“should have”…blah blah. Being the liberal buffoon you are, “should have” is not part of the reality today. The reality is Bloomberg played footsies with the stinky OWSers for as long as he could (like a good democrat) and now his city is facing fiscal and health costs because of it. Business is hurting in a city already strapped for revenue. When previous announcements were made that the area would be cleared, the unions (god bless their little red t-shirts, right LOCKED?) bused in a few thousand thugs to make a more hostile environment. Seeing the way Quan handled things in Oakland, Bloomberg wasn‘t going to continue on the path he’d chosen. He also has the best riot control police in the world in his city. So at an unusual hour the police go in, exploiting an element of surprise, thus robbing the unions of their usual weapon and keeping the complicit media on the backfoot because let’s be honest…the OWSers want a confrontation they can manipulate for public sympathy and the media has proven to be a very cooperative element. No freedoms were breached LOCKED…stop pouting. We are a nation of laws and laws must be upheld. Health and privacy issues affect ALL New Yorkers. You don’t waive them to play footsies with anarchists, leftists and idiots that your party believes are an anwser to the tea parties..eventually reality has to be addressed. So just keep your “should have’s” LOCKED…it’s reality that matters.
Report Post »Randy
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 12:07pmSo I got my Vasectomy for nothing?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 1:11pmAnd as usual, Avengerk goes on a senseless tirade and says the exact same thing: US citizens should be stripped of rights and freedoms, as long as they disagree with his views.
You apparently disagree with the idea that they should be arrested for breaking specific laws, rather than raided in the middle of the night while the media (including theblaze) is held back and can’t record. That right there shows me where you stand: full-on totalitarian. I disagree with you, but then again, I’m a conservative; I don’t mind you having the freedom to hate freedom.
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 1:45pmV-MAN
there you go again tooting your troll horn with your panties in a wad… lol let’s see how this works again… ok
Report Post »mike check mike check
V troll man V troll man
has his panties has his panties
in a wad in a wad lol ha ha ha lol I think I can get the hang of this…. lol
TheVoice1
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 1:51pmV-MAN MACE
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 11:21am
Midnight raids are cowardly.
Do it in the light of day so the people can see, you slithering reptiles.
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he he he…. not fare, not fare, wah, wah, wah.,…. lol just like one of your earlier post, “ I was here first” ha ha ha whew you trolls are a trip for sure…. and the little troll went weee weee weee on the sidewalk all the way home…just a poop‘n and a puff’n
Stand Strong America
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 3:37pmTheVoice1
There you go again saying “troll” a thousand times as if that’s going to make me shut up or as if it gives you any relevance. Somebody give this idiot a round of applause, he is desperate.
Here’s a laugh for you, dumbtard.
HA.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 5:57pmi’m not buying any of this really, somethings awry, someones dog is wagging, just can’t tell whose and why yet…
Report Post »lengid67
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 9:40pmWhat part of privet property don’t you understand? what part of unsanitary don’t you understand? What part of illegals taking jobs some of these sorry idiots left to go to the stupidest gathering in the history of this country? Not only that they will come away with all kinds of filthy deceases and nothing will change. What they want to change will hurt them more than the one’s that they are protesting against. All those people have to do is pick up their marbles and go to Mexico of some other nation and they will be living on the street and marching in soup lines. Once again fools, you can not hurt the rich. They have the money you need, the jobs some of you want. The free money these fools want from the tax payer comes from the very people you want this sorry administration to take and give to people like these, want last long when there are no jobs to make any more. Man, these people can not be here from a normal birth, they have to have been grown in a green house. These are cabbage patch kids that has reached teen age, there can not be adults out there.
Report Post »proliance
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:13amI’m all for protecting freedom of speech, even when I disagree with the message. But turning a public park into a living space by putting up tents and kitchens is not protected speech. This took way too long.
Report Post »wildbill_b
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:24amActually Zucotti Park is privately owned and maintained.
Zuccotti Park, formerly called Liberty Plaza Park, is a 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m2) publicly accessible park in Lower Manhattan, New York City, privately owned by Brookfield Properties.**** The park was created in 1968 by United States Steel, after the property owners negotiated its creation with city officials, and named Liberty Plaza Park and situated beside One Liberty Plaza. It is located between Broadway, Trinity Place, Liberty Street and Cedar Street. The park’s northwest corner is across the street from Four World Trade Center. It has been popular with local tourists and financial workers.
They have been criminal trespassers on PRIVATE property since day one and were NEVER lawfully assembled to protest for redress. They were and always will be “idiiots”. Peace
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:45am@wildbill_b.. Wiki ???? Lmao I hope you don’t go there for all your info..
Locked
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:58amWildbill is half right. The part is privately owned, but the building of it brought an agreement with the city that it would be used for public space and open 24/7. The owners can set their own rules on what is and is not allowed (ie, tents), but they are not allowed to close the park just because they don’t like whoever is in it.
Report Post »Timothy_Reid
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:47amand here’s the important question…..regardless of ownership, how is the property zoned? I don’t know the answer to that, but it does make a difference.
Report Post »100 Million Patriots Standing
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:53amDid not the White House pay the park owners lots of money right after the protest started?
Report Post »llotus
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 12:44pmv-manmace……..please go back in your tent. You are scaring this old woman. Lotus.
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 1:59pmllotus
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 12:44pm
v-manmace……..please go back in your tent. You are scaring this old woman. Lotus.
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he can’t go back in his tent honey, they removed it last nite, lol lol he is in a troll fit about it… lol
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 3:39pmllotus
I don’t have a tent, I have a house, and ALL my bills are paid, on time. Try again.
Hey Trollvoice1…where’s your pom poms? You male cheerleader…
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:12amIt’s about time! The party’s over!
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:11ambooted out so they can clean the mess.. then they will let them go right back up and mess it up again.. what a joke..
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:22amGet it right…it‘s JACKbooted out by Entitled Unionized Public Servants who’ve totally overstepped the bounds of their charter.
Their job isn’t to protect the Robber Barons and the Federal Reserve… or to prevent the assemblage and occupation of some public area freely accessible to everyone, even though the Fed prints money to keep these Nazis employed….it’s still OUR MONEY…it goes on EVERYONE’S debt- the National Debt.
THEY WORK FOR US- NOT THE BANKS AND THE FED.
And the people will spit them out like the lukewarm vomit they are.
Keep licking boots while these Nazis are raiding picnics for growing and eating their own food, shutting down lemonade stands of little girls, raiding organic food stores, poisoning your water with uranium and fluoride, spraying you with aluminum dioxide chemtrails, trying to lock people up for life for video recording them, beating people to death, tasering people to death, shooting people to death, shooting vets in the head with teargas canisters, flashbanging people trying to recover a fallen vet’s body, beating homeless people to death in public, etc.etc.etc.
You’re going to be treated just like them when the guillotines are erected.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:39am@V-man
The police were never set up to work for “us”. They are a creation of the 19th century and meant to protect specific powered interests, none of them ours.
Sheriffs work for us and are beholden to us, and have been since their invention in Anglo Saxon England (Shire Reeves, where a Shire was an area of land and the Reeves were charged with reporting matters to be taken before the village council for legal consideration, with the Shire Reeve being the head honco for the other Reeves who reported to him).
It’s no mistake that the push was on early to blur the distinction between these two groups, but they haven’t done so quite yet. We still elect Sheriffs after all, but have no say in who is in charge of the police.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 11:19amI understand the nuance of that, Ghost. The Sheriffs have openly decided to go along with this tyranny by cooperating with these Nazis and not standing up for our rights. They have also federalized through the Threat Fusion Centers.
I sit here and wonder why they don’t go arrest the TSA Nazis at the airports…and allow them to violate people’s rights and break the laws that any other citizen would be arrested for…
Report Post »DizziNY
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 9:41pmV-Man- While you may be right about The Fed, The IRS, the busts on the organic farms, the fluoride in the water, etc. Not ALL law enforcement do bad things. Maybe you need to check out Oath Keepers. I know plenty of cops that are good. Either way, OWS are nothing but a bunch of commies who want everything for free. And do me a favor4, DON’T attack if you respond back ok. You need to chill out a little because if you don’t. nobody will listen to you. Look how the media treats Dr Paul, and he doesn’t flip out but yet they censor him. Why? because he tells the truth, but, the truth he does get through, doesn’t fall on deaf ears 100%.
Report Post »DizziNY
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 9:45pm@V-Man- And our money doesn’t go to the national debt, it goes to The IRS which was created to pay back The Fed. NONE of our money goes to any programs that the gov’t has running really. A lot of our money goes overseas instead of it being used for America. I say, stop sending our money to foreign countries and stop paying the POTUS $400,000 a year. odumbo got most of his money from Wall Street for his campaign.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 12:13amDizziNY
Yea, that money goes back to pay the Fed…for the national debt. They use taxes to service the NATIONAL DEBT. I know about the Oathkeepers, and I support them, and I never said every cop is bad.
All of that money for services they borrow from the Federal Reserve, and then the Fed tacks that loan onto our….dun dunna dunn!
National Debt. Because we are NOT generating enough revenue federally to pay back ANY of those loans. Nearly 100% of our GDP goes to pay the National Debt. We’re 14 trillion + dollars in debt.
Report Post »Alismum
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:08amThe meaningless know-nothings have crawlled back into their holes. My fear is that when the return, they will bring guns.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:26amThe closest most of them have ever came to a gun was playing COD. They would do more damage to themselves than police if they brought guns.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:20amDoubtful, they’re more of the baseball bat and razor blade variety thug. Guns may appear here or there, but as a whole they seem incapable, thus far, of such a thing. They’ll throw firebombs, sure, but it never enters their mind to get firearms. Even if it did, they’re spent their lives disarmed by choice, their competence will be non-existent, and they‘ll be more a danger to what they’re not aiming at rather than what they are aiming at.
Report Post »toomuchgovt
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:07amYNN in NY reported the “protesters” left peacefully without incident, after an agreement was made they can return once the city cleans up their mess.
Again I ask, when will the taxpayers ask for reimbursement? Tea Parties had to pay for permits, sanitation, and security for all events. If we were even granted a permit. We soon found out about the “no free speech zones in America”.
So again I find out the law applies to everyone here today except them. This mess should have been dealt with the first night. If you want to protest, fine but all laws should be applied equally.
Yes Virginia “this is what democracy looks like”
Report Post »wellhangingchad
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:32amIn west palm beach, fl the liberal mayor only charged $1 for their permit. And they can stay as long as they like. I would be curious to see what she charged for the tea party tax day rally. Thank God the occupy west palm beach protest is such a joke. Only around 15 people and a small handful of tents. Still an eyesore!
Report Post »Steverino
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:44amA simple definition of fascism is to make laws banning EVERYTHING, and then selectively enforcing them against your enemies.
Report Post »Hmmmmm….
Tea Parties: Need permits, have time limits, must provide sanitation and waste disposal…
OWS: ummm… Not so much.
Fascinating, no?
Steve
biohazard23
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:22am@wellhangingchad, we have about that many here in Tampa. It’s a rather pathetic-looking bunch all huddled together. Makes me laugh every time I have to drive passed them.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 9:49am…drive “past” them…
LOL Makes me laugh every time.
TEA
Report Post »commentator88
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 11:22amWhen will the tax payers ask for reimbursement from all the banks and big business that screwed us over? That’s the bigger question here.
Report Post »PingPongPing
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:05amthey should have denied them to stay since DAY ONE!!!
Report Post »THIS IS LONG OVERDUE~!
flyboy7600
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:04amIt’s about time. This stupidity has gone on long enough!
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:02amNYC knows that if OWS continues their slimefest that NYC could become toast- businesses cannot operate under the unsanitary conditions that prevail there. Yuk, who wants to go in and eat walking through the smell of human waste?
Report Post »commentator88
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 11:29amThe occupy members cleaned up the park on a regular basis. It wasn’t perfect but when is an occupation tidy and perfect?
Report Post »You know what hurts small businesses? A crashed economy due to Wall Street gambling.
fatsomann
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:02amIf OWSers want to live like 3rd world citizens there are plenty of places for each to move to. Bon voyage & good luck. I can’t imagine why anyone would make the choice to live the way they have. Low self esteem and lack of respect for their life and the lives of others? Most people I know try to better themselves not step back in time. First amendent rights they cry. We all have 1st amendment rights. Most of us choose to exercise these rights peacefully and not break laws and infringe on other peoples rights.
Report Post »NickyLouse
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:13amIt is REQUIRED that people who assemble to petition grievances do so PEACEABLY according to the 1st Amendment.
Report Post »Sandy
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:51amThey have been paid to stay there. Some have admitted on video approx. $100 per day. Meals paid for, water paid for, tents paid for, condoms paid for and money on top of that. That’s why they selected to stay there……..
Report Post »DizziNY
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 9:27pmNicky- These people do not respect The Constitution.
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:01amOnce it got cold I’m sure it weeded out the weak and made it easier to manage. Swoop in and take it back to replace order. They will be back next year, maybe sooner and much more violent! Be prepared.
Report Post »TEA!!
arfarb55
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:01amWhat took so long? These fools need the discipline they’ve never received at home. Grow up, do something PRODUCTIVE for a change. I am sick and tired of supporting you lazy bums with my tax dollars. I WORK EVERY DAY, WHY CANT YOU?
Report Post »DizziNY
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 9:35pmThey can work but they are entitled don’t you know? They expect everything for free. These people are nothing but lazy BUMS who are out to start trouble. They are slobs and a disgrace to America. I work three jobs AND go to college. Why can’t they? Oh wait, I already answered that, lol :)
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:59amThe only good thing I can say about all of this moronic activity is that the Occupy ordeals syphoned off a lot of that union money that would otherwise have gone to election activity next year. No, they are not broke, but they have a some less.
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:01amLOL, need more coffee. That should be “some less.”
Report Post »oz24
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:22amthought you were just trying to sound italian for some reason!
Report Post »wboehmer
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:58amWasn’t this inevitable? Clear out the irresponsible ne’er do wells, then bring in the bulldozers to clean up their garbage.
Report Post »dgktowntx
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:58amGo home…enjoy youe capitalist corporate Christmas…..Mommy and Daddy have something under the tree for you….
Report Post »SICKANTIRED
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:53amI Love it….
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:52amLet’s wait and see if Barry takes credit for this too.
Report Post »dgktowntx
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:05amAnd I..Auh..I decided that auh…it was time to auh..time to put an end…to this auh….set that damn prompter up…and auh we ..we decided that it was time to put an end to this phase of the…auh the protests…The people auh have spoken auh…Lets be clear..auh my admin…auh stration…
Report Post »GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:52amOh geez, I was hoping they would just stay there forever………and keep costing the citizens of NYC millions of dollars. I feel no sympathy for NYC……………you got what you deserved. Keep voting Democrat and I pray the OWS keep coming back and sticking it to your wallets.
Report Post »Disc_Coastie
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 4:22pmExactly… Mr. Bloomberg has encouraged this, supported this and applauded this “movement”! They deserve EVERY bad thing that happens while they allow this… Mr. Obama has said that he “stands” with the occupiers (He should bring toilet paper when he visits Seattle!) and Princess Piglosi said “God Bless Them”… Charles Dickens is rolling over in his grave!!!
Progressives are Cancer, 2012 continues the Cure!
Report Post »sallyredneck
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:51amThey were stung, they thought no one would attempt this, soon the leaders will try something even more
Report Post »dangerous.
momrules
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:32amI’m in complete agreement with you. The other players have been awfully quiet, the Black Panthers, the KKK, the Muslims, the union thugs. I wonder how many of the protesters are ready to die for their cause. The *useful idiots* will see what true rioting is when the really bad guys come out and they are going to be caught up in the mix.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:50amI realize this is off subject but – Iran does have a few floating Islands out there in the sea with submersible capabilities you know?
Report Post »bbr48
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:47amParty’s over. Go home to mom and dad for for God’s sake take a shower and get a life
Report Post »Smaug090
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:44amCut off at the source. About time, well done.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:40amsweet
Report Post »commentator88
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 11:38amYou have a picture of Jesus for your profile picture and you support the crackdown on peaceful protest? Do you see how big of hypocrite you are or are you just that blind? I‘ve read the bible and I don’t remember the passage that said go forth my children and ridicule every dissenting opinion.
chips1
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 12:14pmCOMMEN:
Report Post »Cleaniness is next to Godliness. These people were next to sataniness.
DizziNY
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 9:25pm**- Peaceful? LOL, please, all these OWS loser want to do is start trouble. They complain about not having a job yet many of them quit their jobs to sit in a park for 2 months. Please, they need to go occupy a desk somewhere and be PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY instead of defecating/urinating/harassing/raping women/destroying small business owners property.
Report Post »DizziNY
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 9:29pmComentstor88- Get a life and stop harassing people. OWS are the ones who are saying to get the Jews out of America. THAT is NAZI speech. If you support OWS you support Nazism and Antisemitism pal.
Report Post »patriot4ever
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:40amIt‘s about time they did ’something‘ about that rabble even if it’s way too little way too late.
Report Post »schlitten15
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 8:31amBloomberg had to keep face. This should have been stopped as soon as the tents were put up.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:37amJust like spraying for roaches….you kill a few but they just move to another apartment.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 6:44amBut these will end up being like German Cockroaches….you just can’t get rid of them. I know, had them in Bermuda when the neighbor moved out and they no longer had anything to eat in the empty apartment.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:04amYes, these guy‘s are doing something they shouldn’t do – but may be forced to do later on.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:22am@Lorainn
All cockroaches in these united States are German cockroaches.
Report Post »commentator88
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 11:34am“People are so bothered by the way we’re treating the Jews. They can’t understand it, because they are God’s creatures. But cockroaches are also God’s creatures, and we destroy them.” -German Propaganda Essay Contest
http://www.aish.com/ho/o/48954321.html
For Glenn Beck lovers who are always concerned about fascism and the Nazi state you sure do sound a lot like Nazis.