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Want to See a Bulldozer Take Down the Occupy Salt Lake City Camp?

Want to See a Bulldozer Take Down the Occupy Salt Lake City Camp?

Salt Lake City police dismantle tents at the Occupy Salt Lake City encampment in Utah Saturday. Protesters were ordered out after a man was found dead in his tent the day before. (Image source: Salt Lake Tribune)

Police evicted the Occupy Salt Lake City protesters who had made Utah’s Pioneer Park their campsite, arresting 19 people Saturday who refused to comply.

Despite the arrests, the protesters’ removal was peaceful and no incidents of violence were reported, and city sanitation crews arrived to clear debris from the park — with a bulldozer.

Protesters were ordered to vacate after a man was found dead in his tent at the encampment Friday, apparently due to carbon monoxide poisoning and a drug overdose.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported:

Want to See a Bulldozer Take Down the Occupy Salt Lake City Camp?

Occupy Salt Lake City protesters are led away by police after refusing to comply with eviction orders. (Image source: Salt Lake Tribune)

About 5:30 p.m., a massive fleet of police vehicles arrived at the south end of the park, carrying more than 70 officers from the city as well as from the county’s Unified Police Department. About an hour later, as an officer addressed the crowd through a bullhorn, other officers waving flashlights began shaking down tents, which looked like deflating balloons.

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Police directed campers to gather their belongings while offering to help protesters find places to stay overnight. Officers first swept the east side of the park, as protesters gathered around them, and by 5:47 p.m., police began clearing tents on the west side.

Sanitation workers then moved in with a front-end loader and two dump trucks to clear debris from the campsite locations.

“This is what a police state looks like,” said protester Drew Baker, 21, who led others in a chant.

According to the Tribune, three of the group’s main organizers were arrested around 7 p.m. when they attempted to re-erect a tent in an area that had already been cleared.

Protesters will be permitted to demonstrate in the park during the daytime but no camping will be allowed.

Want to See a Bulldozer Take Down the Occupy Salt Lake City Camp?

Occupy Salt Lake City protestors yell as police arrive, at the encampment in a city park, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, in Salt Lake City. City officials rescinded permits for the group to stay in the parks overnight on Friday, about 12 hours after a man was found dead of a likely drug overdose in a Pioneer Park tent. (AP Photo/Colin E. Braley)

 

Editor’s note: The equipment used to disassemble the camp has been widely referred to as a bulldozer, though as some observant readers have pointed out, it is a front-end loader. (H/t Blaze reader Dennis.)

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  • Dean0
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:28am

    I liked the FAT GUY leaning on the shovel. Wonder how much pay he gets “supervising” the other workers?

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    • junkmaninohio
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:44am

      The picture of the two OWS protestors with their mouths wide open confirms my discription of what a brain dead, mouth breathing empty headed, unsanitary parasite looks like.

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    • liberalisrunamuckus
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:46am

      obama finally creates a shovel ready job

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    • repup
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:52am

      he gets less cuz he has something to lean on

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:56am

      Bring in the giant pooper scooper to collect the protestors.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:03am

      Doesn’t matter. They’ll be back. This bulldozer is doing the job that mama used to do for these pigs, clean up after them. These occupy spaces look like third world ghettoes. Makes me want to walk out of my capitalist purchased clean home and go wallow in filth and squalor.

      As I watch these events it makes me realize that the Tea party is the only people who still abide by the rule of law. That’s where this is going- none of these robots will ever be held accountable for their actions until we decide that we no longer follow the law. I love the whole nonviolent thing, but God has endowed us with the right to protect ourselves. What do we do?

      I guess if it’s revolution they want, revolution they shall get. What a bunch of little eichmanns.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:08am

      I’ve seen alot of demo in my time, but that is the best use of a Cat I’ve seen. Maybe Cat will be able to finally expand like Hussein said. After all there is a very large need for them at this time for this specialty job.

      I can not believe they are not wearing full bio suits, guess we will see a large number of workmans comps now.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:09am

      @Junkman — Any chance Hollywood is getting ready for the next movie of zombies called:

      “Night of the Living Dead — The #Occupy zombies still are zombies.”

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:09am

      You can tell those were union employees, one had a shovel with no apparent idea as to what to use it for.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:15am

      The more I see of these protesters, the more I KNOW their head is filled with things a dog would not eat and a cat would want to cover up.

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    • Unix
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:17am

      Now they need to start doing this at all of the camps…shut them down, get them off the streets and out of our hair.

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    • Teufel Hunden
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:25am

      With the low hovering around 31 degrees last night, I would have waited until about 3:00 am and then gone in with the fire department and hosed them down while they slept. Tent by tent.

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    • last frontier
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:26am

      I got a better idea! leave the loader and the high paid operator back at the shop, get a 19 yard dumpster tell those fat guys in orange they have 30 mins to load it and then go home. You save some carbon credits by not using the loader and you cleaned some donuts out of a handful of fat guys arteries, so when they retire at 55 they don’t put to much a burden on the Taxpayer.

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    • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:26am

      The man leaning on the shovel, is a unionized FAT CAT city employee.

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    • AmericanStrega
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:43am

      It looked to me that he was waiting for the loader to get finished with it’s job before he started his part. However, I have seen many-a-worker supported by his/her shovel at worksites. :)

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:47am

      I was wondering how many OWS protesters he ate.

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:07pm

      The poor working stiff that pay tax’s are going to pay for these slime balls mess!

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:16pm

      In New York I’ll bet they have trans fats and salt in those unlicenced kitcens. Bloomy should do something!

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    • freedomofspeech
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:20pm

      Sad, someone had to die first:( I thought the mantra was” you are your brother’s keeper”?

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:26pm

      You know what, that guy has a job, he‘s doing it and I’ll bet you anything that he pays his bills. I would also suspect that he pays taxes, possibly has a family and probably follows the directions his boss gives him. He may be overweight, but I’m not going to fault him on that. And I don‘t agree that he’s a “Fat Cat union employee”. The DPW workers I know don’t make anything near the pay scale that the BOE union reps or some of the BOE administrators in our town.

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    • shoelessjs
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:45pm

      Thank you Salt Lake Police, Unified Police and Sanitation Workers for cleaning up this mess. You are to be commended for the peaceful way you handled this and for the respect you showed the legitimate protesters.

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    • Formula382
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:49pm

      Apparently, the only thing OWS has been successful at accomplishing is once again, wasting tax payer dollars. They did it before they protested and they do it while protesting. And these clowns think they can live without the 1%? Get real, they need the 1% just like birds in africa need to feed off of the water buffalos.

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    • orionreplay6607
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:09pm

      Yes, the fat guy. He leans on the shovel for the first several minutes then flips the pallet forward… only then to lean on the shovel again. I was rolling on the floor watching it and then saw these comments. I had to chime in too.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:11pm

      Were that a Union worker operating the Bull-dozer. Hey, that gives new meaning to BULL-dozer!

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    • MuskratProblem
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:12pm

      What makes me laugh is that it takes place in Utah. Really? That is the one state in the Union OWS is not changing any time soon.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:12pm

      What does “Unified Police” mean? First time I’ve heard of that.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:21pm

      Sorry for the poor grammar. I was thinking, “Were those Union workers” and “Was that a Union worker operating the bull-dozer” and put the 2 together… “Were that a Union worker operating the Bull-dozer”
      My bad.

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    • mils
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:24pm

      your headline was a little misleading….
      the bulldozers were to clear out the “left behind” trash. the real trash had basically left…

      these guys were peaceful, yet if this is the class of people, or lower , that are found at these “encampments”…then they are full of trashy, some over educated, trashy, hate America, trashy, don’t understand how the political syste
      m works or we’d be in Washington making a nasty mess, people..

      If they don’t freeze over the winter, or die like the one did in slc…it will be completely out of hand come spring and the 2012 election.

      It appears that no one is coming forward and stopping these people from infringing on others, eg business they have effectively shut down and out at the new york location..
      This is not like the revolution..it’s disgusting to even comepare the efforts, reasons, people

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    • funkonaut
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:25pm

      They started to clean up the area by hand but found lots of used syringes in many of the tents. The last thing the police wanted was to get the cleanup crew infected with the OWS creeping crud, so they called in the front loaders. That’s why the guys with shovels are standing around. they were told to not touch anything and to use the heavy equipment.

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    • FNTM
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:30pm

      Bad looking ?woman? too.

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    • FNTM
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:32pm

      Anyone else notice how shiny and ‘unused’ that shovel looked?

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    • YoungBloodNews
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:43pm

      Gee, I wonder who’s gonna foot the bill for their mess and the clean-up. Just like the tea party rallies, right MSM…

      “This is what a police state looks like,” said protester Drew Baker, 21
      No Drew, a police state is those VIPR squads being set up on the highways.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:51pm

      we are about to see what a police nation looks like.
      this is nothing. look at a graph for how tyranny works… is gradual, gradual, gradual, instant straight up. it’s like a frog in boiling water theory… it doesn’t notice, until it’s cooked.

      i don’t agree with what the OWS people are saying, they really need to go after our fake currency and control inflation\deflation mechanism we have put in place. they need to call for the impeachment of our unconstitutional president, even though swore to uphold and protect it with his life. bush and obama should have been impeached… they both do not care about “The People”. who did they bail out? the mortgage holders? or the banks and corporations? exactly.

      Look, just be careful making fun of people who are fighting for your liberty, this is EXACTLY, almost action for action, what happened in Germany pre WW1. no joke. look it up.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:06pm

      I sure hope they’re not taking those bulldozed tents to the landfill. They might stink it up.

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    • Look4DBigPicture
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:16pm

      @LIBERALISRUNAMUCKUS…Thanks for your comment … you made me laugh!

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    • NDPINDNT
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:25pm

      At least he’s working. Not like the entitlement junkies they chased off.

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:25pm

      The FAT GUY has seniority in the union. This is how your tax money is spent.

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    • sandmannc40
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:26pm

      Does it matter? At least he is “working” more than OWS protesters are doing.

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    • spacemanspiff54321
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:27pm

      I keep thinking of Charlton Heston in Soylent Green.

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    • otmonger
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:32pm

      I don’t mind the fat guy as long as he earns his own big macs.

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    • SANE_I think
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:56pm

      WOW, you guys are a tufffff crowd. Making fun of a guy who has a job and pays taxes? Really? Just a little FYI, as a city or state laborer, he only makes about %50 to %60 of what a private sector union laborer makes. I know in my state ( RI ) The state rate for a laborer is a pay scale 9, or about $28K per year. Private sector union laborers make $28 per hour here.

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    • drst4scss
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 3:01pm

      THe Fat leaningon the shovel… He is Union!!! at least 75.00 per hour plus benefits and paid time off!!!

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    • downthewell
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 3:44pm

      Those OWS people weren’t happy campers LOL

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/55751455@N02/6334205305/in/photostream

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    • mils
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 3:46pm

      also, a group of these OWS people tried to take over private vacant lot..because it was turning to “garbage” and they wanted it.
      .eminent domain of a different sort emerging..

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    • tradexpertbuysell
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 3:56pm

      The 60s chant “Police Brutality!”
      The 2011s chant “Hippy Brutality!”
      The times they are a changin!

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 4:59pm

      FNTM…. use is what makes a shovel shine. Use one and find out how it works.

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    • blattack
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:14pm

      I like the fact that these bum low life stinky no goods are being removed ,,,,,,,,,,,,,O at least the “FAT GUY” got a job. They make a mess and some one else has to clean it up…there lies the real problem, no respect for others, put them all in fema camps for awhile.

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    • badgesjacksonSOUNDEDcool
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:59pm

      @LIBERALISRUNAMUCKUS oh, you’re good.

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    • hsolo91
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:06pm

      He makes between 16k and 23k a year. In utah all government employee wages are public.

      http://www.utahsright.com/salaries.php?city=slc&query=sanitation

      You are welcome

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    • InformedbyBlaze
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 7:23pm

      For The-Monk:
      “Unified Police” is the name of the law enforcement force that was formed to take in several small cities in the Salt Lake Valley. Stupid name, but basically means “Police force for cities too small, cheap, or lazy to do their own thing”. Supposedly economies of scale etc.

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 7:30pm

      jb.kibs
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:51pm
      ____________________________________________

      Delusional

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    • toto
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 7:54pm

      I see nothing but low lives among the demonstrators. The contrast with the Tea Party is night and day. Juvenile thinkers and delinquents versus grown ups. And just who would you prefer to lead your country, the ones that are rah rahing the juveniles or the grown ups? Seems like a no brainer to me.

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    • Komponist-ZAH
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:45pm

      He should have been supervising the OWS people, who should have been made to clean up their own mess. Might have taught them some responsibility (a long shot, I know…).

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    • Sandman75
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 5:43am

      Probably 20 dollars an hour with Stimulus funds, looks like we found a “shovel ready project” after all. Also to the Blaze author That is not a bulldozer, it’s a front-end loader.

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 8:28am

      When the bulldozers are through cleaning out Pioneer Park in Utah, please send them over to Nevada to clean up that vermin Dirty Harry and the riffraff with him, than turn due west to Kalifornia and bulldoze Nancy Pelosi, Diane Finestein and Barbara Boxer, the Communist traitors and hooligans that they are and represent.

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    • proudinfidel54
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 9:03am

      ON THE BAYOU, yeh, they need those machines like on Soylent Green…lol

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    • Eleutheria
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 9:06am

      Whenever I see three or more union employees, I usually only see one working. The others stand around with their hands in their pockets or leaning on shovels.

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    • satostud
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 9:52am

      He probably makes pretty good money as a supervisor. Unless he was just a fat lazy city worker, pissed that he had to get out from behind his desk and stop playing angry chicken.

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    • George Patton
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 10:58am

      Junkmaninohio quote “The picture of the two OWS protestors with their mouths wide open confirms my discription of what a brain dead, mouth breathing empty headed, unsanitary parasite looks like.”
      ——————————————————————————————————————————————————
      If you look at that picture and imagine them with a little movie make-up on they’d look exactly like zombies….haha.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:52am

      They’ve never had to do this at a Tea Party rally. Mainly because a Tea Party rally lasts about two hours and then people rush home to have 3 helpings of dinner on the couch and watch Hannity and Walker, Texas Ranger. Fatty Mc Weekend Warrior.

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    • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 4:42pm

      If the only thing you got out of this after reading this story and viewing the video was a man leaning on a shovel, you are pathetically shallow. Oh and by the way, he wasn’t leaning on the shovel, he was merely standing clear of the bulldozer. Do me a favor, switch sides, it would definitely help the conservative side without you with us.

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    • drew22
      Posted on November 14, 2011 at 6:39pm

      Probably not as much as mickey moore

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:28am

    That protester is wrong on so many counts:

    a. A “police state” would have sent in troops with guns blazing and liquidated every one like in the Tieneman square massacres or w/Assad in Syria.

    B. This is a successful cleanup. Should have been done long before.

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:45am

      I dunno, Snow…at the ripe old age of 21 you know he has just seen everything and knows all about police states and how other country’s put down protests. I mean, he probably read all about it in some book from some fancy poli-sci class his mummy & daddy mortgaged their house to send him to. Damn capitalist bastard parents…who do they think they are!

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    • Mtroom
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:52am

      And C. Thank you OWS for making that police state happen..

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    • taxwarrior
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:54am

      A police state would have had the bulldozer show up and start pushing down the tents with the protesters still in them.

      A police state would have never let this go on so long.

      A police state would have taken all these protesters to a different kind of camp where we would never see any of them again.

      No, all you members of OBAMA’S ARMY this is not what a police state looks like. This is what democracy looks like. The majority of folks wanted your smelly Obamaville cleaned out and that’s what happened.

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    • rambosharley
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:20am

      Mr. (know it all) Drew Baker 21….has no clue what a “police state” looks like! Not one iota!

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    • whatthecrazy
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Good deal now spray a couple of barrels of lysol and let the grounds recover from the stench……..and wait for next assault………………………

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    • orionreplay6607
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:15pm

      Exactly. A Police State would have arrested all the protesters, then either executed them or sent them to slave camps (execution probably preferred). This 20-something has had an extremely light life of Xbox on the couch, Doritos, and Starbucks Lattes. Now he will go back to that life and from his couch, shake a non-calloused fist at “The Man” and recall these protests with vigor.

      He will utterly disregard that it is this beautiful country that allows him to protest and say his peace without fear of arrest or execution.

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    • IronSights
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:23pm

      I don’t understand why the city is footing the bill to clean this up. They should have arrested everyone who hadn’t left by the announced time. After processing and getting them a stylish orange jumpsuite, brought the convicts back to do the clean up instead of city employees. I’m sure they were paid overtime since it was done in the middle of the night/ early morning, outside their normal scheduled hours.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:56pm

      This was an Obama stimulus package. The OWS crowd will have to buy new crap..

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 3:27pm

      This is the warm-up act for a police state. It’s purpose is to desensitize the television zombies to images of mobs, fires, looting, police in body armor, civilian arrests, tear gas, MACE, etc. The next encampment that is to be destroyed will be better prepared. Tire spikes for the “enloader”, molotov cocktails for police vehicles, retaliation against property, etc.

      Ghandhi and MLK showed the purpose of peaceful civil disobedience is to provoke the authorities to use mindless force and violence. The Liberal press then sympathizes with demonstrators and their causes.

      Passive aggression works much better against these demonstrators. Be creative.

      (1) Play Barry Manilow between 6 and 9 AM when they are sleeping in their tents.
      (2) Barricade the park so the no drugs or weapons are brought in.
      (3) Enforce fire codes. No open flames. Widen the aisles.
      (4) Power wash the sidewalks several times a day during nap time.
      (5) Idle diesel city garbage trucks upwind.
      (6) Cordon off an safe observation area for the press and gawkers.
      (7) Publish photographs of demonstrators on a Social Website.

      The technique of Jujitsu is to use an opponent’s force or energy against himself rather than opposing it directly.

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:30pm

      @Snow

      Couldn’t a president who say was against these protest deem them “enemy combatants” for hostile acts against the state and essentially eliminate them all or lock them up indefinitely? 

      Aren’t all the calls for these “protests” to be removed pretty much the bottom up crying for the top to come down? 

      Just a few thoughts to ponder………

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  • Bobbyinwastate
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:28am

    People are mostly sheep. Let’s give them good leadership to follow. Vote out this bunch and while we are at it, let’s go for term limits for Congress too.

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  • LastAmerican
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:27am

    Pigs are cleaner than them and they wallow in the mud all day

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    • TX_45_ACP
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:58am

      They trash the sites they occupy. Greenpeace should be fuming…

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  • Tired of Idiotic Comments
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:26am

    We need to use bulldozers to get the trash out of the White House.

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:50am

      Can’t come soon enough, all us Lazy People will have to Vote them OUT !!

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    • Robert Hawk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:51am

      How about we bull doze the entire of Washington DC, and let them use the Little White house in Pine Mt Georgia? We can sell air force one and purchase a leer jet, and have the president ride in a humvee. We can send his kids to the local public school and have his wife volunteer at the local hospital (with only one pair of shoes of course).
      We can provide congress with private quarters at the local trailer park and a banquet room at the Holiday Inn.
      The judicial branch can work from the local court house, with residence in the closest apartment complex.
      The treasury can exist in one of the local banks which have gone bust or an empty car dealership. The entire event will cost us less than 40 million per year, which is a vast savings from the several trillions we are spending now.
      We can turn the bull dozed DC into a wild life refuge/state park, Keeping the monuments of course.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:07am

      Robert

      I’m officially nominating you as the govt reform chairman. Your plan will be implemented immediately.

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    • PossumStu
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:12pm

      Slap, I‘m seconding Robert’s nomination. That is the most eloquent proposal on government reform I have ever heard in my life. I’m sharing that with a few friends.

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    • Devil Dog 7175
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:21pm

      I LIke It!!!

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    • Itshardtobehumble
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 2:35pm

      Dont forget congress!

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:25am

    Also most dozers use blades. While front end loaders can use the buckets on the front as blades.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 3:33pm

      The fat guy is not leaning on a shovel, thats a gravel scoop. A shovel is used for digging you won’t do much digging with that scoop but, you can move some trash

      OMG

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:23am

    Sure would be nice if people could tell the difference between a bulldozer and front end loader. Most dozer’s have tracks. While most front end loaders have rubber wheels.

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    • Robert Hawk
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:30am

      Too technical for this crowd, it was enough that they used heavy equipment to tear down the camp and remove the remaining debris.

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    • whowaaa
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:33am

      there is a saying…dont major on minors…..;>

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    • sawbuck
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:37am

      I was thinking the same thing.
      The OWS CROWD dont know what a “Job” looks like.
      So I guess it all rounds out.

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    • Silverwolf00
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:16am

      Yeah well most people don’t know the difference between a truck and pub and a transfer either… Most people do not work in construction and would not need to know the different equipment and their respective names…

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    • Silverwolf00
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:22am

      I meant truck and pup not pub… although… Actually a track hoe with an opposing thumb would have worked much better… Could have picked that crap up piece by piece if they wanted to….

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    • PeteHDO
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:54pm

      I know it’s a small poipint but you are right that is a front end loader. The results would be a lot different if a “dozer” was used. The reporters/editors lead a sheltered life when you can’t tell the difference or stretch the truth for added meaning.

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    • skippy6
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 1:35pm

      That’s not a bulldozer!! common blaze, do your homework…..a bulldozer would push the dirty peo… I mean push dirt….

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  • thegodfather
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:22am

    Another liberal housing development……FAIL.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:31am

      Unfortunately, cleaning out a Rat’s Nest… does not remove the Organizers and their Legions.

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  • grayling646
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:22am

    Kudo’s to Salt Lake. This needs to be done at every occupy event where crimes have occurred. Which, I think, includes just about all of them.

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  • pavnvet
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:22am

    Salt Lake City is probably the cleanest city in America you will ever visit. These people were shown that laws enacted by citizens for the good of all do mean something. That idiot that said this is a police state should go to Iran or Syria where you will be shot for protesting the government during normal daylight hours…..forget about camping overnight on public property. These naive people need a dose of reality and realize you are what you make of yourself in this country. Thank God.

    Too bad Bumbleberg in New York didn’t take the same action.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:15am

      Bumbleburg is too busy trying to take away citizens rights to protect themselves with firearms. Too busy filing lawsuit after lawsuit to drain the NRA.

      Speaking of which, doesn’t it seem that most of the millionaires and billionaires are lefties? Damn 1%’ers.

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    • schlitten15
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 12:23pm

      Salt Lake City is the cleanest City I have ever seen. Bloomberg doesn’t have the guts to do anything to get rid of these slime balls. I hope they vote him out next time around.

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  • Two Cents
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:21am

    Hey #OccupySLC, this is what having a job looks like.

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  • Kankokage
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:20am

    About damn time. I drive past the SLC group in front of the Federal Reserve every day. There’s actually only two people out there with 30 signs. If these kids wanted to get a message across, they should have done so a month ago. Now they are just acting like vermin and leeches, no plan, no message, only desire to suck lifeblood out of others’ efforts. I mean, even the vagrants are beginning to hate them! I can’t believe so many leftists still think these kids and their temper tantrum is wonderful.

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    • georgeisn6
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:39am

      These people are acting just like our fearless leader, no plan, no objective, no brains, no mussel, no will, no maus. no nothing.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:20am

    Finally! Some Shovel Ready Jobs!

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:35am

      How do the Unionized? city workers feel about rousting their goomba’s?

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  • mobowman
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:19am

    All the the arrested should be given community service … to clean up the locations they have been trashing in the name of the ‘First Amendment”. Then maybe they will be better prepared to help around the house when they move back into ‘Mom and Dad’s’ basement. Doesn’t this group just make you proud to be an American?!

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    • cwrink
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:26am

      How about community service for those that got arrested.. Hats off to the law enforcement. We thank you.

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    • Southernguy
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:40am

      Better yet…..make em’ clean it all up after the first foot of snow falls, lol

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:20am

      That’s a joke right?hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

      You’re funny! Community service? These people don’t even wake up until 3pm. Sadly enough, no fines will be paid, no comm service ordered, and no resolution will occur because of this. And if ordered will simply be disregarded. Here’s a joke to respond to your joke- when you need the law to be enforced and justice to be done, who do you call? Eric holder of course!

      Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

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  • easternplains
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:18am

    That’s a front end loader with clam shell bucket.

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  • eddie333
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:15am

    If they had wanted to keep their stuff, they would have taken it with them. Instead, they left it for the govt to clean up–at the expense of the taxpayer. THANKS, LOSERS, FOR WASTING MORE TAX PAYER MONEY WITH YOUR IDIOT BEHAVIORS!!!

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    • FREEDOMFORTHEPEOPLE
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 4:09pm

      did you ever consider that your tax money doesn’t go to cleaning up???? rather in the pockets of those you so proudly defend……taxes!!! hahahaha

      Our taxes are used for purposes that no one can imagine,and, we’re not even allowed to question. You’re worried about the cleaning expense, but you should worry about the millions of dollars of OUR TAX DOLLARS per DAY that are wasted on the “war on terror”!!! Get off this site and read a book first…it would do you a lot of good!

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:28pm

      @eddie333
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:15am
      If they had wanted to keep their stuff, they would have taken it with them. Instead, they left it for the govt to clean up–at the expense of the taxpayer. THANKS, LOSERS, FOR WASTING MORE TAX PAYER MONEY WITH YOUR IDIOT BEHAVIORS!!!
      ****
      You’ll notice, it was provided to them in donations, and they‘re sure that the next time they’re paid to protest, soros et al will provide again, so why bother with it. Easy come, easy go! Notice our military PAY for ALL their gear, you’d never catch them leaving a mess behind for bulldozers! I DARE SAY THE AVERAGE BATTLEFIELD IS IN BETTER SHAPE AFTER THEY LEAVE THAN AN OCCUPANTS PARK!

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    • Max jones
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:47pm

      @freedomfor the people…..Wow you are right!!!!!I know you can defend yourself from the jihadist murderers and can keep the conflict away from your lov ed ones, right? You must be a very young, and ignorant kid.9/11 changed everything about living in the U.S.A.. Go back to your dreamland. Its never going to be like it was. Your life is at risk every day, from jihadist hatred…so is mine and my wife and kids. I believe that money for defense is money very well spent. I bet your automoblile needs maintenance right now, Go get your oil changed, and be thankful that there are people looking out for you. Your very existence depends on them.

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  • just the facts
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:15am

    Typical democrat/marxist/socialist/communist whatever. Now the sane must come in and pick up after them.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:15am

    These idiots think they can go unhindered and do anything they want. This is a free society but within bounds. I laughed when he said it was a police state. Buddy, you have not even come close to experiencing a police state. When the police come drag your __________ and throw you in jail forever or beat you to death, then and only then have you experienced a police state.

    This guy is probably a high-school dropout.

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    • just the facts
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:32am

      So true. Remember though,the education realm has taken a lot of history out of the schools. The students are not being taught.

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    • copatriots
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:36am

      Nope, CO. I‘m guessing he’s one of our fine college-educated crowd which means nothing more than he was fully Marxist-educated. Oh, and he racked up a boatload of student loans with his worthless degree that he wants the rest of society to pay off sine he’s too good to work for a $15 a hour Starbucks job with his philosophy degree.

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    • TPartyXpress
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:30am

      I suspect the HS dropped him out of self respect. If it ever had any.

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  • 5headspro.com
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:15am

    I cant believe it took this long. WOW. They need to do that in all of the occupy cities.

    and before anyone says, “constitutional rights violations” I will say, they had their time, they protested, it was not peaceful and infringed on others rights. So it is time to pack up and go. And maybe find a job to pay for all of the $$$$$ you cost each city.

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  • junkmaninohio
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:14am

    Now they need to fumigate the entire area to get rid of the vermin, disease, and human waste. You can make the analogy.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:13am

    Finally law enforcement removed the cockroaches,now delouse the area.

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    • db321
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:18am

      Obama, Van Jones and Soros are going to be mad. It appears that the Police are acting stupidly.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:24am

      Indeed restoring order now is too early someone didn’t get the memo,much more violence is needed before Barry can crack down on the normal citizens who aren’t protesting.

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  • majorsco
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:12am

    What took so long?

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    • nocalifornia
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:19am

      The Obummer looked at the poll numbers and finally figured out that he does indeed “own OWS” as the Great Former Mayor of New York said, the consequence of which is the total lose of independents.

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    • Desert Dog
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:19am

      Hmmmmmmm, don’t remember any bulldozes after our Tea Party Rallies.

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    • majorsco
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:48am

      Our tea party rallies were peaceful, orderly, didn’t break any laws, didn’t interfere with anyone, and still the message got out in a constructive way. These protesters are destructive and should be removed.

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  • hi
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:10am

    Occupiers accomplished nothing but rape and pollution.

    It’s nice to finally see their legacy being bulldozed. They will probably have to do the same thing to the Whitehouse when Obama is thrown out in 2012.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:16am

      The sulfur will be very difficult to remove,and an exorcism would be required as well.

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  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:10am

    They should arrest the protestors, dress them in pink jump suits and force them to crawl on their hands and knees and pick up every last spec of trash from every park and public place they have trashed.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:15am

      OK, we’ll do that, just as soon as you go to Iraq and pick up every last piece of rubble.

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    • BluifoxEd
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:21am

      On a chain gang also.

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    • gracentruth
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 6:22pm

      Excellent idea – cleaning up after yourself develops a sense of responsibility and shows environmental sense.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:08am

    They will just… go to Higher Ground!

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:13am

      winter is coming, they need the police to shut them down so they will be able to claim permenant victim status. Ocuupiers want to be shut down.

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