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Police Evict Occupy Boston, At Least 46 Arrested

Police Evict Occupy Boston, At Least 46 Arrested

Police lead an Occupy Boston protester away after breaking up the 10-week encampment early Saturday. (Image source: Boston Globe)

Hundreds of Boston police officers tore down the Occupy Boston encampment early Saturday, evicting protesters and bringing the 10-week rally to a close.

At least 46 protesters were arrested in the “lightning-swift operation,” the Boston Globe reported. Police moved in about 5 a.m. and the entire operation was finished in less than an hour, police said.

Police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said protesters were “very accommodating” to police, though about two dozen demonstrators linked arms and sat down in nonviolent protest and police soon began arresting them. She said police moved in to “ensure compliance with the trespassing law.”

The arrests were for trespassing, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, Driscoll said. No injuries were reported.

The city had set a deadline for midnight Thursday for the protesters to abandon the site but police took no action until Saturday.

According to the Globe, demonstrators ran for the camp yelling “Wake up! Wake up!” when police first arrived. Within 20 minutes, about 50 tents had been torn down and a front-end loader was scooping debris from the camp into a garbage truck.

Protesters estimated between 100 and 150 demonstrators had lived in the encampment.

Police Evict Occupy Boston, At Least 46 Arrested

Image source: Boston Globe

Police Evict Occupy Boston, At Least 46 Arrested

Image source: Boston Globe

Protesters first erected the encampment on Sept. 30. Many pulled up stakes and left the encampment Thursday after learning of the midnight deadline Mayor Thomas Menino had set for them to leave the square, but others stayed, and some said they were prepared to be arrested.

Mayor Thomas Menino previously had said the city had no plans to forcibly remove the encampment, he appeared to become increasingly impatient with the protesters in recent days, saying the occupation had become a public health and safety hazard. He issued his ultimatum after a judge ruled on Wednesday that the protesters had no right to stay in Dewey Square.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:39am

    @TEMPEST86
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:24am
    ‘Back in the day people worked 3 jobs to have a decent living, and were respected for their hard work. Quite frankly, you won’t be seeing that anymore.;
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    The point of the demonstrators is exactly that–it is wrong for a society to operate this way–where some people work three jobs just to make ends meet, while others do absolutely nothing but collect the benefits of other people’s hard work. You guys seem to think that the spongers are the unfortunate people without a job, health care, decent place to live, enough food to eat, who get some measly allowance fro welfare. The real spongers are the people who are getting mutli-million dollar Christmas bonuses, while 30% of their workers have been laid off. How can you not get this basic fact?

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    • 19RANDY59
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 12:09pm

      Hey dummy, the reason for the bonus is the guy makes his company money. If you made money with the least amount of effort, you also would pay the person responsible, wouldn’t you. Or would you just have a bunch of people on pay-roll doing nothing. The best thing to happen to anyone is to be laid off from a job that is obsolete. Then they can grow.why am I wasting my time trying to educate an idiot?

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    • ldaopines
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 12:21pm

      And who are all these “unfortunate people”? Unless they’re mentally ill or physically unable, just who are they? I don’t think that anyone objects to helping the truly needy, but don’t tell me that all the entitlements we taxpayers shovel out go to them. Forcing others to compensate laziness or irresponsiblity is greed too. People create their own fortune in this country and we taxpayers pay a huge amount of money in education, student loans, etc. so that people can get a job. What exactly do people do with the opportunity they are given? What do they have to show for their own effort? OWS? There are some greedy CEOs, but take a look at hefty government union pay/benefits as compared to the hard-working pay in the private sector. That’s not just greed, but political evergreening as union dues funnel to Progressives. Why isn’t OWS camped outside the homes of greedy union bosses, Marxist Professors, and Hollywood glitterati? It’s because OWS thing is driven by socialists and anarchists who are more interested in destroying America than actually improving it.

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    • elkhunter48
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 12:34pm

      Pretty simple. I started with nothing. I’m 63 and I still work 10 -12 most EVERY day. This year I’ll be upwards of 400K in income from my hardwork. What do these 20 YO’s do? complain because people like me worked hard and got to where I am?

      Naturally some are given things and don’t work hard for them. Most of them is because their parents worked hard to get there. There are some that simply don‘t work and don’t want to work. What do they deserve?

      More importantly our entitlement programs creates back over 80 years ago have created a slave society dependent on the government tit. The tit isn’t big enough now to support everyone and we have generations of medicare, food stamps, social security, and soon to be unemployment folks that no longer know how to function in the society and EARN a living and EXCEED. They are the foundation of the Progressive Movement that is bent on taking away from hard working people and give to the enslaved people. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO WHAT I”VE EARNED AND WORKED HARD FOR. Wake up and EARN your keep in this society and stop thinking your entitled to a damn thing other than your individual freedome which you are squandering for a hand out.

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    • kansas hawks 3
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 12:53pm

      The point of the demonstrators is to take from someone that works and to give to those that are sitting around waiting for a hand out. They need to get off their @ss stop the poor me cr@p and work just like every one else, Don’t expect to be rich in the first week of working.. God what a bunch of whiny brats….

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 1:00pm

      Human beings are entitled to an eight hour work day, a safe work environment, a living wage, healthcare, good quality education, safe streets in their neighbourhoods, and unpolluted food and water sources. To take away from the basic components of a dignified, normal human life of millions of people in order to give away multi-million dollar kickbacks to Scrooge McDuck is ludicrous. No one is buying this nonsense any more.

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    • Rogue
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 1:27pm

      @ Baik – last post – I agree you should have a safe work environment and unpolluted water and food, that’s what basic regulation is about – and we are the safest nation on the planet in terms of food and worker safety. Good quality education… well, you get a free public school education, but ask the unions about the “quality” part… we spend more per student than any other nation. Safe streets…. if you are backing the OWS crowd, ask them why crime goes up in cities where OWS events are held… it’s because police have to waste time and resources babysitting these fools instead of spending time making residents safe and secure.
      So what you don’t have on your list is the entitled to a 8 hour workday? Living wage? free health care? Hospitals will treat anyone with or without insurance, and we offer low income folks Medicaid… yet more than half our poor simply don’t enroll.

      So what’s left? Entitled to an 8 hour workday: You have the right to work as much (or as little) as you like. You can work one job, 8 hrs/day if you like. If your current job doesn’t offer that, you are free to quit and find work elsewhere. Be prepared to reap the benefits of your (lack of ) hard work.

      Living Wage? Just say what you mean – “Income equality” or “total redistribution of wealth”. THAT is what Occupy boils down to. It’s fine if that is what you truely believe will fix our economy, but be honest about it. You want what others have, and don’t want to have

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    • mike119
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 2:21pm

      the occupy protester work 3 jobs??? when pigs fly out my ass.

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    • dr pepper
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 2:42pm

      I believe it is, we have the right to “life”, “liberty” and the “pursuit of happiness”. Since when does this mean we are entitled to free education, free medical care, all the food you want and/or a decent wage. We have the right to pursue a living and if that means working two or three jobs to achieve a “comfortable” living, then do it. Otherwise, do not and stop complaining about those who do. Education when those words were written was usually from your family or if lucky enough to live in an area that could afford to pay for a teacher at the school. Formal schooling ended by age 12/13 so you could help with the family farm/business. Your ability to purchase food is a direct relationship as to how much you are willing to work/earn. You do not want to work for free, so do not expect for anyone else to do it either, thus no free health care.
      Having someone else work and then taking away their earnings so you can give it to those unwilling (not incapable) to work is paramount to making the worker an indentured servant of the recipients. Andrew Wilkow

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 2:55pm

      I can’t believe those that are complaining about the hard knocks in life and they have NEVER experienced them.. they are complaining about those who OWN companies making money yet they would NEVER consider putting their money or time on the line to do the same.. Yet these very same people are taught by their 1% professors that they are picked on pay to much and should get more.. Can you not THINK these professors are the bottom of the barrel and they are the 1% YOUR school loans are so HIGH to pay THEM their share so they can stay on top..You’ve been DONE .. CONNED.. BAMBOOZLED.. by lazies who are having YOU do their heavy lifting so THEY can get MORE.. FOR THEM NOT YOU..

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    • mike119
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:20pm

      Human beings are entitled.???? why work for it then.

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    • koyettsu
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:48pm

      Except that is not what the demonstrations are about, you guys have no unified message, half of you want to over throw the government, toss out the Consitution and put in place Communism for fairness. Another 1/4 wants to take money from the successful and give it to themselves so they can stay on Unemployment or Welfare. Another portion want jobs another portion are there to do drugs, rob people, rape people and have crazy wild sex. Then there is a tiny teeny portion that think they are there to fix the country. You guys are aligning yourselves with traitors, criminals and deadbeats, your cause is lost and drowned out by the morons you side with.

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    • football lady
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 5:34pm

      I don’t understand the hatred for the rich. The rich provide many jobs, are big philanthropists providing o to countless scholarship funds and many charities and invest making it so that many people in this country will have retirement funds other than social security. Are there crooked rich people? Yes. Are there crooked poor people. Yes. So are there crooked middle class people. So do you hate the movie so called stars who make enormous amounts of money and who use all kinds of loopholes to work around paying more taxes? Do you hate the NFL and NBS players who make more money just by signing on to a team than any of us could ever make in a lifetime? More power to them. I don’t care how much anyone else makes if they have worked for it. I live within my means and am a happy person. With some of you, nothing and I mean NOTHING will ever be enough to satisfy you. What sad lives you must lead. These occupiers should be sent to a communist country to live for a while and see if their whining will get them anywhere there.

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    • ldaopines
      Posted on December 11, 2011 at 2:00am

      Baikonur: Human beings are entitled to an eight hour work day, a safe work environment, a living wage, healthcare, good quality education, safe streets in their neighbourhoods, and unpolluted food and water sources.
      ***************************
      And which druggie/x-con/illiterate will you be hiring for your own business? A good quality education requires a simple classroom, a good teacher, and a willing student. Until Progressives give up teachers’ unions/tenure and until students decide to make an effort and not drop out, we will not achieve your Utopia. As for safe streets, start with OWS and then work your way into the ghettos where the mantra is to not cooperate with the police. Good Luck and Peace Out…

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:57am

      There were not even 46 people together added up for a month. These people came out just to be arrested. They went to iphone contact lists for emergencey show up and get arrested times. I wish the media would tell the truth.

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    • RowdieGal
      Posted on December 11, 2011 at 1:30pm

      I didn’t realize that you, @Baikonur, are not an American. In which case you really have no idea what the hell you‘re talking about since you’re not a citizen of our country. I’m sure you think all Americans live like some TV show such as “Dynasty.” We don’t. And another newsflash: We Americans want absolutely NOTHING to do with your stupid Socialism (that isn’t working), Communism (that hasn’t worked) and Marxism (which is pure evil.) None of these types of government have worked.

      And Stalinism was responsible for the death of millions.

      “After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives also became available, containing official records of the execution of approximately 800,000 prisoners under Stalin for either political or criminal offenses, around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulags and some 390,000 deaths during kulak forced resettlement – for a total of about 3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.” (Stephen G. Wheatcroft, “Victims of Stalinism and the Soviet Secret Police: The Comparability and Reliability of the Archival Data. Not the Last Word”, Source: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 51, No. 2)

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  • Honest_E
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:35am

    The police acted un-stupidly

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:46am

      These chicken “ship” mayors continue to hide behind the “safety and health” reasoning for removing these people. Why don’t you just say that they are in violation of current laws??? Good thing is they are gone….for now I guess….

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:11pm

      Look at the 1st Pic, 4 officers to arrest 1 sleeping girl. This must be a union thing.

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  • Bill Burns
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:26am

    Hundreds of the OWS Gimme mob looking for more handouts fizzle nationwide. But their solace will be this: Nancy Pelosi and Barrack Obama are going down with them.

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  • mule creek ridge
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:09am

    GOOD for Boston!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Bill Burns
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:32am

      Hundreds of the OWS Gimme mob looking for more handouts from those who work fizzle nationwide. But their solace will be this: Obama and Pelosi who both endorsed OWS mobocracy are going down with them.

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    • Stalinist from Balkan
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:35pm

      Strange that you right winger are always talking about “human rights” and “no FEMA camps”,but when comes to the human rights of the other…then it’s “Kill the commies”.So much for “great” character of the right winger.Bunch of pathological hypocrites.

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    • football lady
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 5:36pm

      It’s about time!

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    • ZeitgeistBuster
      Posted on December 11, 2011 at 5:14am

      Hey Stalinist,

      Our rights have limits defined by Natural Law.
      Your rights end where others’ rights begin.

      OWS people are breaking the law. We cannot just look the other way and pretend that breaking the law is OK.

      If our Society descends into lawlessness, then everything comes crashing down with it. Kind of like Rome burning. Nothing but ashes and broken lives left after that. And if it is bad enough, a defenseless country ripe for jealous and vengeful nations to rush in and conquer a dazed and broken society blinded by the false comfort of material wealth, and weakened by a loss of a certain fortitude that only comes from moral firmness.

      Don’t cry for OWS. Cry for yourself.

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  • Diva86
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:55am

    @decendent: I almost spit out my coffee onto the monitor when I read your first comment regarding the top photo of the ‘lady’ (term used very loosely); and then I read your second comment and started laughing again. Thanks for the laugh………….Diva86

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  • palerider54
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:38am

    I am so sick of this entitlement mentality I am tempted to make up some skunk scent with some blue berry pie juice in some mason jars and do some drive by’s of these sites.

    All you see are young hippies that have sat in their liberal classrooms for 4 to 8 yrs. being indoctrinated by their liberal professors that could not make it in the real world. “Those that can, do, and those that can’t, teach” Now they have done what the libs told them to do and they are furious that they are not handed a 200k job.

    Just like the hey I participated, where is my trophy? Get used to losing punks, life aint really fair like you were told it was on the unicorn ranch.
    I am building up a stock pile of skunk scent so I will be ready in the spring.

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    • YoungBloodNews
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:49am

      YO, ITS ALL A HOAX. The ‘protestors’ and ‘cops’ are actors in the violent scenes you see on the MSM and there is PROOF. They are doing stuff like this to get people all worked up and divided.

      Skip to 10:30 to get to the OWS part. Notice the hand gestures as dude points them out…
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yxz1hpiWXY4

      Sheep will be sheep

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    • GilbertAcct
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 12:17pm

      Mad_Hatter_… previously Mad_Hatter… You are working hard today. Does the Romney campaign pay you overtime for Saturdays? You’re probably getting a lot of hits on the daily candidate and american parchment with all your solicition (along with fastfacts, FF, and Clinger_Bible). So did the the Blaze kick you off for your constant advertising? Looks like you made your way back pretty quickly! I love the new name… maybe next time it will be “_Mad_Hatter_”?

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  • ZeroOff4impact
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:34am

    Man that Arrest sure will look SWEET on a job application .! That will surely get you to the top of the applicants cause I know I’ll be looking to hire those with Arrests from a Anti American Protest..
    Stupid is as Stupid does.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:48am

      @ZeroOff4impact
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:34am
      ‘Man that Arrest sure will look SWEET on a job application ’
      ***************
      The generation that hires people does not remain the same. It evolves. Your generation, the one that thinks people protesting against unfairness should be ostrasized, denied jobs, arrested, pepper sprayed, etc. is dying. It’s over. You guys are the ones being ostrasized by polite society now.

      Believe me, no ‘restore this, restore that’ rallies by your right wing clown du jour will ever change that.

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    • sodacrackers2
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 7:45pm

      @bail, so OWSers are “polite society now?”. OWSers are dupes, being used by some very evil people. Equal justice is worth fighting for, so-called “social justice” is just a tricky name for communism. Find out how many died under Chairman Mao, whom the current leftists admire and want to emulate!

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    • RowdieGal
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:01pm

      @Baikonur
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:48am

      The generation that hires people does not remain the same. It evolves. Your generation, the one that thinks people protesting against unfairness should be ostrasized, denied jobs, arrested, pepper sprayed, etc. is dying. It’s over. You guys are the ones being ostrasized by polite society now.
      *********************
      @Baikonur, you’re wrong. You are Oh. So. Wrong.

      You think most of the United States supports Occupy Wall Street? No, they don’t. A recent poll last month showed that support was waning. In fact, only 33% said they support OWS goals. (Which is a miracle in itself that any of them understood the goals since OWS is about as clear as mud about their goals.) http://bit.ly/sch6b7

      For instance, if you OWS protesters are all about the injustice of bank bailouts and CEO multi-million dollar salaries, then why in the hell are you protesting Glenn Beck book signings? It’s inconsistent action vs. ideology that is killing your message. That and the fact that the majority of America finds rapes, drug use, baiting police into confrontations, and overall anarchy tactics repugnant.

      Most Americans understand that hard work requires sacrifice. They understand no one “owes” them anything. They work their asses off at the jobs they have, they get promoted, and they enjoy the fruits of their labor. Something Marxists like you hate because you’re unable to do it.

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  • TEMPEST86
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:29am

    This just kills me, if these people would put this energy in actually searching for a job. Back in the day people worked 3 jobs to live comfortably, and were respected for it. Quite frankly, you won’t be seeing that anymore.

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:34am

      The unemployed are the perfect people for the causes of Barack Hussein Obama Jr.

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    • takemout
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:44am

      Protest, anarchy, unrest, confrontation, revolution is their job. This was well organized and funded by Soros and the public union thugs.

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  • TEMPEST86
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:24am

    It just kills me, if these people put all this energy into actually searching for a job. Back in the day people worked 3 jobs to have a decent living, and were respected for their hard work. Quite frankly, you won’t be seeing that anymore.

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  • Jim in Houston
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:13am

    Their parents must be sooooooo proud!

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    • 19RANDY59
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 12:02pm

      They will be proud, it takes a moron to raise one

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  • Mainer forever
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:13am

    “According to the Globe, demonstrators ran for the camp yelling “Wake up! Wake up!” when police first arrived. Within 20 minutes, about 50 tents had been torn down and a front-end loader was scooping debris from the camp into a garbage truck”…..Ohhhh Yeahhhhh

    This reminds me so much of the time when the Tea Party at the Restore Honor and the cops came…..and;….wait…..that DIDN’T happen at alll!!! (eyes rolling)

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  • Miss Anne
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:12am

    I’ve always hated hippies. Effeminate boys with bad breath, and fat chicks who smell like a monkey’s behind. I can’t believe Ron Paul supports these freaks.

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    • Mainer forever
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:21am

      “Fat chicks that smell like a monkeys behind” ….LOL

      Now that Is Funny Stuff!!!!

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    • palerider54
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:48am

      @MAINER, yeah, its in reference to fat chicks who can’t fit into a shower stall anymore and have enough room to bend and stretch to reach the stinky parts, so they just apply liberal portions of cheap perfume to cover it up. The result is the stench of a monkeys butt.
      Or for any of you country folk, the stench of a horney Billy goats beard
      Now how many of you know why a Billy goats beard stinks?

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    • Stalinist from Balkan
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:28pm

      Great description of the right wingers.

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  • Thom of WI
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:59am

    I am thinking that those laws are not new laws and they have been violating them since September. Don’t ya love it when liberal cities mayors with problems like this have to go against their liberal principals and arrest left leaning people who break their laws? They are forced to act more like Republicans by enforcing the laws and that must make them lose some sleep. Gotta love it!!!

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  • nobummer12
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:57am

    Who is paying to bail them out?

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:19am

      All of these occupy groups mysteriously have bank accounts. Here in Cincinnati,OH, they gave up when the money was running low. I do not know where the money came from; I have only conjecture.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:26am

      Possibly the communist Soros, he‘s destabilized governments in the past so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was him.

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    • copatriots
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:45am

      I’m guessing skimming off the top of the money Corzine stole from MF Global. The rest is going to fund O’s re-election campaign.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:35am

    Long past time they cleaned the place out; we had in Phoenix the Occupy Phx group bring in some tents and sleeping bags, in clear violation of the laws of the city for that park; when the police moved in to clear them out the Occupy Phx band howled about the violation of their right to protest; the officers countered about the city laws have to be enforced and gave I think four warning attempts for them to clear on out with their goods, stating they can protest there, not sleep there.

    Those that refused wound up going to the jailhouse; which I thinks was about four or five.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:46am

      Gallery of Cat Folks…..
      I‘ve said here before that OWS will work to the advantage of the opposition to Obama’s re-election. If this nonsense heats up next spring, and Obama/Holder/the CBC and others start comparing it, again, to the Tea Party, ‘they’ will be victimized most by it.

      It is clear that OWS does not, in any way, represent the 99%. That has always been a complete joke.
      I‘m a TP’er, and it infuriates me and all Tea Partiers. Its like when an elected official gets a few letters protesting some bill. They know for every one letter they get, there‘s 100’s that share that sentiment.

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  • Theodwulf
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:08am

    As a “Tea PaHty guy” I wanted to have first hand accounts of this (bowel) movement. I work nearby (in the North end) , and have, on multiple occasions walked by and through the encampment.I also drive past it on my way home , around 3ish.
    There were never that many of them, around 12ish if you saw 20-30 of them , that was alot. The camp was tiny , and the larger crowds seemed to appear in the late afternoon, and were not there in the mornings. The people I had seen are your typical hippie types( well meaning but delusional folks) amd some known homeless people (ie I had seen them long before Occupy). Lately I have seen alot more media vans around , like they were expecting something to “Happen”.

    You can see the park they were in on google earth, it’s tiny

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:28am

      Lmao, in the beginning of these moronic protests, the local government and police encouraged it and let them stay.. Now they get evicted at every turn.. Hmmmm wonder why ? What happened from the beginning of this till now ? Can someone explain to me ? I would love to hear all the responses ..

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:31am

      Theo….
      The young thing in the pic seems to have quite a blissful look on her face. I’d say she could, quite possibly, be enjoying being handled by males. Probably likes the domination thing.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:36am

      OPPS!……
      I revisited the top photo. I see the woman cop to the left. Maybe THAT was causing the blissful expression. OK…it could be the ‘Dom” thing or the ‘Lesb’ deal, or both. Tough call!

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:38am

      Decendentof56, she has a blissful look because being arrested is like reaching nirvana for these hippies. It is their ultimate and final goal.

      She’s doing it wrong, though, you‘re supposed to kick and scream and act like it isn’t exactly what you had hoped for.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:41am

      Is there a billy club missing? That could explain the look on her face.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:50am

      Freedompurveyor…….
      Oh…I get it. You meanlike the “Mad Hatter” pic below.
      Yep…He’s doing it the right way.

      Do we even have any pics of Tea Partiers being hauled away by police?
      I can’t think of any, or of any trash TP’ers left behind.
      Yea…the Tea Party and OWS are just alike.

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    • RowdieGal
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:56am

      Theodwulf, thanks for a very interesting perspective. It’s all Kabuki theatre to me. Everything is carefully planned to look as though it was organic. The media made fun of the Tea Party, and many called it “astro-turfing.” But the OWS protest is THE biggest astro-turf protest we’ve ever seen! How is it that “suddenly” groups of people were setting up camps across the country (let alone spreading so quickly to other countries?). And the media love to zoom in on a few and then insinuate it was some huge group. However, welcome to the Internet Age where we have folks like you telling the truth.

      Protest all you want, but once you start “camping out,” guess what? You’re now squatting. Pretty much every city doesn‘t want that and all it does is make the protest look like it’s a bunch of self-entitled whiners.

      Here’s the deal: America has its eyes wide open now and we can see OWS for the Marxist movement it is. You don’t represent “the 99%.” And hard-working Americans are getting tired of your crap. Want to see a list of all the leftists that support OWS? Check it out:

      http://www.voterightga.org/OccupySupporters.htm

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  • Southernsoul
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:50am

    What took so long?

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:06am

      Please. They weren’t going to stay there for the roughest times of winter anyways. It seems to me that these last few months all they have been doing is nudging the police, and getting to know them. I bet they will be back in the spring 100 fold.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:09am

      Besides, they got until 2013 to put their major change in motion which ultimately is Obamacare, and all those new tools that will allow them direct access to your accounts and all the records you have ever had in life.

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  • MidWestMom
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:50am

    While I have no use for the occupy groups, I also have no sympathy for the cities they occupy. The mayors etc should have routed them from day one. By tolerating the illegal activities of the protesters, the city governments and their citizens allowed the camps to grow into the messes they are. And now the cities have to clean up the mess…and the citizens will have to pay for it one way or another.

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    • RightThinking1
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:09am

      I certainly agree. The right to freely assemble does not mean that you may do it wherever you wish, and it certainly does not mean that you can set up camp on public property where there are strict rules against it. The mayors/city councils are to blame for this.

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  • RichNGadsden
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:46am

    What caught my eye in the first video where the two hand held signs stating that they were there to defend the Constitution! What? Some of their previously stated goals have been to tear down the Constitution

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  • tbeachhead
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:44am

    Bye bye children. Time for your bathy wathy.

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  • azsmitty
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:42am

    Interesting when one views actual footage of who the occupying people are…………they are not the 99% they claim……….look at their disheveled appearance, lack of hygene, hair cuts, shaves etc. Petty? Would you as a business owner looking to hire a new employee give any of them a second glance where they to show up at your place of buisiness seeking a job? Answer honestly.

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:41am

    I would like to know what exactly happens to those OWS who are arrested. Are they booked, jailed and held for bail, court appearances, fines, what? Do they get this placed on their record? Are they let go and told to be good? What?

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    • Eleutheria
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:56am

      They grow up and become failures.

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    • goodolddays
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:37am

      they go to POS obuma “ community organizer ” school of higher achievement

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:47am

      They’ll become politicians and use their record of arrest as a badge of honor,future democrat politicians the lot of them.

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    • RightThinking1
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:12am

      Here, where I am, they are booked, released on own recognizance. So far all of them have had their court dates continued for some later date. I am guessing that they will end up with, oh, maybe $100 fines.

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  • quicker
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:37am

    And I was hoping to see how long they would have lasted once to temps got to 0 or colder.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:27am

    HAHAHAHA GOOD! They were Ruining the Christmas experience for everyone else. If you could have Seen this group of derelicts you would have actually been shocked! Let‘s hope they STAY away and don’t come back to ruin the Swan Boat experience, as well. There people are NOT SO GOOD for businesses and they need to take their fight to DC, where all the problems originate. BYE BYE.

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  • kaydeebeau
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:26am

    Just like the Tea Party – I well remember needing a front end loader to remove all the trash and debris we left behind after every event I attended…(sarcasm folks)

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:34am

      It’s a wonder that we (TEA!) aren’t banned for life from the NAtional Mall after 8/28!!!!!!!!!!

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:27am

      NO ONE, EVER, who mentions that the Tea Party and OWS have any similarities other than that they were protesting government is a liar….and knows it.

      The Democratic/Socialiats and the militant Black racists (think.. ‘CBC’) who have often used the word “racism” in describing the Tea Party, should NEVER receive a vote form any person able to think objectively. If you are not incensed by those accusations, you just have not been paying attention to what the TP is about.

      I‘ve spoken to ’BLACKS’ who attend our Tea Party meetings. If they were concerned that the TP was racially-motivated, they never expressed it to me. They had the exact concerns as I do. Only their skin color was darker. Race was never discussed or even a concern to us. As we stood and talked, I can say that race was not even part of the equation.

      Any time you hear someone like S.L. Jackson, M. Waters, or E. (”we’re a nation of racial cowards”) Holder speak badly (how else would they speak) of the TP, you are hearing a complete liar.
      The above-mentioned are the only racial cowards I see.

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    • EddardStark
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:51am

      82D What? How has anyone been banned for life from the national mall?

      More delusions of persecution from the right?

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:07am

      EDDARDSTARK……
      I think you know that Airborne’s comment was just rhetorical.
      People’s feelings/agenda are very telling just by their comments.
      By yours, I‘d guess you’ll be voting for more anti-Americanism next Nov.

      I would agree that no one has been stopped from demonstrating at the mall.
      If there ever was a group to be banned, it would have been American and White-hater Farrakan and his MMM.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:07am

      @ED – Sarcasm.

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    • Scooder
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:24am

      At occupy LA they removed 32 tons of trash! Yes I said 32 TONS. These slimebags need to return to occupy their mothers basements.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:27am

      Wow, you picked up your trash. Good for you. And Nazis had the best organized rallies. And Mussolini made the trains run on time. Pull your heads out of your a$$es, folks.

      your sensei  
    • shirleyandpearl
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:25am

      I remember watching the “Restoring Honor” and then forcing myself to watch what i could stomach, “One Nation”. The parks were left in, let’s say: one neat as a pin and the second event, in shambles….. the quality of people differed as night and day from their behaviors. These protesters probably attended the Sharpton “One Nation”, or at least their Obama- worshipping parents did.

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