Which Cities Are Leaving ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters Alone?
- Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:48pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(AP)While more U.S. cities are resorting to force to break up the Wall Street protests, many others — Philadelphia, New York, Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., among them — are content to let the demonstrations go on for now.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, for example, said Friday that the several hundred protesters sleeping in Zuccotti Park, the unofficial headquarters of the movement that began in mid-September, can stay as long as they obey the law.
“I can’t talk about other cities,” he said. “Our responsibilities are protect your rights and your safety. And I think we’re trying to do that. We’re trying to act responsibly and safely.”
Still, the city made life a lot harder for the demonstrators: Fire inspectors seized a dozen cans of gasoline and six generators that powered lights, cooking equipment and laptops, saying they were safety hazards.
In the span of three days this week, police broke up protest encampments in Oakland, Calif., Atlanta and, early Friday, San Diego and Nashville, Tenn.
State troopers in Nashville cracked down after authorities imposed a curfew on the protest. Twenty-nine people were arrested and later released after a judge said the demonstrators were not given enough time to comply with the brand-new rule. They received citations for trespassing instead.
Fifty-one people were arrested in San Diego, where authorities descended on a three-week-old encampment at the Civic Center Plaza and Children’s Park and removed tents, canopies, tables and other furniture.
Officials there cited numerous complaints about human and animal feces, urination, drug use and littering, as well as damage to city property — problems reported in many other cities as well. Police said the San Diego demonstrators can return without their tents and other belongings after the park is cleaned up.
Earlier this week, in the most serious clashes of the movement so far, more than 100 people were arrested and a 24-year-old Iraq War veteran suffered a skull fracture after Oakland police armed with tear gas and bean bag rounds broke up a 15-day encampment and repulsed an effort by demonstrators to retake the site.
But other cities have rejected aggressive tactics, at least so far, some of them because they want to avoid the violence seen in Oakland or, as some have speculated, because they are expecting the protests to wither anyway with the onset of cold weather.
Officials are watching the encampments for health and safety problems but say that protesters exercising their rights to free speech and assembly will be allowed to stay as long as they are peaceful and law-abiding.
“We‘re accommodating a free speech event as part of normal business and we’re going to continue to enforce city rules,” said Aaron Pickus, a spokesman for the mayor of Seattle, where about 40 protesters are camping at City Hall. “They have the right to peacefully assemble. Ultimately what the mayor is doing is strike a balance.”
Authorities have similarly taken a largely hands-off approach in Portland, Ore., where about 300 demonstrators are occupying two parks downtown; Memphis, Tenn., where the number of protesters near City Hall has ranged from about a dozen to about 100; and in Salt Lake City, where activists actually held a vigil outside police headquarters this week to thank the department for not using force against them.
Two Portland police officers stroll past a large piece of art as they patrol the Occupy Portland camp in Portland, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)
In the nation’s capital, U.S. Park Police distributed fliers this week at two encampments totaling more than 150 tents near the White House. And while the fliers listed the park service regulations that protesters were violating, including a ban on camping, a park police spokesman said the notices should not be considered warnings.
In Providence, R.I., Public Safety Commissioner Steven Pare said the protesters will not be forcibly removed even after the Sunday afternoon deadline he set for them. He said he intends to seek their ouster by way of court action, something that could take several weeks.
“When you see police having to quell disturbances with tear gas or other means, it‘s not what the police want and it’s not what we want to see in our society,” Pare said.
Similarly, in London, church and local government authorities are going to court to evict protesters camped outside St. Paul’s Cathedral — though officials acknowledged Friday it could take weeks or months to get an order to remove the tent city.
Several hundred protesters against economic inequality and corporate excesses have been camped outside the building since Oct. 15. On Oct. 21 cathedral officials shut the church, saying the campsite represented a health and safety hazard.
It was the first time the 300-year-old church, one of London’s best-known buildings, had closed since German planes bombed the city during World War II.
In Minneapolis, where dozens have been sleeping overnight on a government plaza between a county building and City Hall, the three-week-old occupation has been far tamer than those in other cities, with only a few arrests.
Sheriff Rich Stanek has made it a practice to meet with protesters daily to talk about their issues and the day ahead, and he has refused to engage what he called “the 1 percent” who want to cause trouble.
“We decided that’s not the tactic we want to take. Doing that sometimes requires biting your tongue,” he said. He added: “Some people have said that‘s ’Minnesota nice.‘ It’s a balance.”
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Comments (155)
truthseekerusa
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:21pmSome of those tolerating the ObamaOcufarts will allow them to stay until the area become so infested with rates and vermin that diseases breakout among the squatter that are carried into the general population. Could those infected in the public who get sick sue those municipalities for criminal neglect?
Report Post »truthseekerusa
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:24pmtypos become infested with rats
Report Post »Nlitend1
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 6:15pmIt would probably be impossible to prove that they caused any health issues in others and so it would be deemed a frivolous lawsuit.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:32pmHowever, a solid outbreak of dysentery or cholera would have a serious impact. Usually, the Health Department has to trace it back to the source of origin. I can’t believe these people are so uncivilized as to urinate and defecate in the park area. I guess this is how they want to live.
Report Post »Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:17pmPut out the MG-42s and mow ‘em down. Commies are a threat to our Constitutional Republic, and we shan’t not suffer them any longer.
Liberals demonize Joseph McCarthy, but he is an American patriot. We need more people like him in government.
Freedom of speech, protected by the First Amendment, does not protect treasonous or seditious speech, in which these OWS red diaper doper babies are partaking of.
The only good commie is a dead commie.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:50pmDittoes
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 7:46pm“Put out the MG-42s and mow ‘em down. Commies are a threat to our Constitutional Republic, and we shan’t not suffer them any longer.” What makes you any better than the group you detest?
Report Post »Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:42am@ OLEFROMMN,
What makes me better then the protestors you ask? Well, I believe in the Constitution. I also believe that traitors and seditionists should be punished, as in shooting squads. If you are preaching the abolishment of the Constitution, as these OWS people are doing, you deserve the death of a traitor.
Sedition:
Our Founding Fathers and the Sedition Act of 1798:
http://www.constitution.org/rf/sedition_1798.htm
Treason:
Article III, Section 3 – Treason
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Yes, I’m better than they are (the OWS). I love my country, I don’t collect welfare and handouts (which is a violation of the “Thou shalt not steal; and Thou shalt not covet verses of the Torah.)
I believe in the rule of law, as the U.S. Constitution being the supreme law of the land. You want to take away my Constitution? That is sedition.
Report Post »mficentral
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 10:23amI really like your thinking…. and you name.
Report Post »runngun50
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 11:36am100% with you an this one.
Report Post »Always faithful to the Constitution Of The United States Of America, Declaration Of Independence and The Bill Of Rights.
I’ve been screaming sedition at these pukes since this whole thing started.
Ne_FAL
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 10:35pmMG-42′s are expensive , noisy & give the organizers of this goat roping festival martyrs for the cause. However making a point to enlighten the press that while you as a citizen have the right to PEACEABLY ASSEMBLE(those are the key words) to petition for redress of grievances that does not include the right to graffiti public & private property ,vandalize or otherwise damage public/private property,it does not give you the right to tamper with the wiring of public space lighting to steal electricity to power your electric space heater in your squatters tent creating an electrocution & fire hazard .
Once that speech has been made tear gas & cops with “hats & bats” followed by a cleaning crew with power washers & lots of LYSOL . LYSOL cleans deodorizes & disinfects without all the collateral damage of a napalm strike from a A-10 Warthog.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:09pmThey aren’t moving people in Albany either, though I‘m not sure how many are left now that it’s 30 degrees and snowing.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:02pmFor a month, TV news has had the NYC “occupyers” all over the news. Now that the kooks have a little snow, where are the TV networks? I haven’t seen anything on them.
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 6:53pmDoin’ My Rain/Snow Dance every day for these little leeches..
If I were in charge of any of the Networks, I wouldn’t cover any of
this garbage, they just feed on news cameras anyway
other than MMMMsn, let those Bozos freeze..
Let the Police get all the video they need of them ******
and crapin’ on everything.. …
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:07pmPoor policeman having to endure the worst show of protest in American history, disgusting show of unions, communist, Soros, code pink, etc………these people donot stand for America and they darn sure donot stand for anything most of us believe in.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:51pmAgree. See the guy on the right pointing his finger at the policeman who must endure the disrespect and name calling ? Thanks, Dr Spock and others for instituting this era of no restrictions, no school discipline, no respect for authority, “it’s all about me, there is no shame, do your own thing, never say “no” to your kids, never grow up, looking good is all that matters, blame others for your problems, take from the rich, having “stuff” is all that matters, get it any way you can, and ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you. A modern world where stealing is now called “redistribution” and getting revenge is now called “social justice. “
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:32pmIt’s a smokescreen, watch the other hand. Something else is cooking, like Obama gutting the constitution going around the congress and who knows what else. Rest assured, everything has a reason and these are just some useful idiots.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:51pmThe idiot poking his finger @ the cop is Josh Funn. Note how this 40-something still dresses like a teenager with his skateboard and backpack. Poster-boy for the self-indulgent “useful idiots” that swell the ranks of the Occupy movement.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:35pmSo, we know his name, huh? Do we get to go to his house with a bull horn and stage a demonstration? Anyone know where he lives?
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:01pmIt is no surprise that the cities turning a blind eye to this group of misfits are some of the most liberal cities across the land. Sheriff Stanek’s opinion is the very reason I moved out of Hennepin County. They cater to the cart riders and punish the cart pullers.
I had actually called the HCSD and asked why I was unable to peacefully enjoy a picnic at that “park” with my family because these verbal terrorists (didn’t use that strong of language in my call) were making that an impossibility. The dispatcher was the rudest person I have ever talked to. She made me feel like the suspect and simply blew off any concerns I had. When she asked if I wanted a Sgt. to call me, I simply stated “no thanks, they have more important issues to deal with”.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:54pmGET A JOB… http://youtu.be/Uhx7A86mIJ0
Report Post »vehoae
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:54pmMayor Bloomberg: How considerate of you, on behalf of all taxpayers, to spend millions of dollars to indefinitely protect the rights and safety of the genuine and not-so-genuine rioters/protestors in NYC. I think, however, you might have overlooked the fact that a great majority of those rioters/protesters are not residents of New York City. In fact, I suspect you will find a significant number of illegal aliens amongst the tent cities. I’d lay you odds there are many travelers ad vacationers seeing how they can visit NYC and avoid paying the exhorbitant hotel rates. Of course they‘d have to receive a permit from the demonstrators’ self-developed Communist Governing Council to be assigned a space for their tent.
I think all these rioters/protesters around the U.S. should just go ahead on now and move into one of the Star Communities being prepared as residential agglomerations in accordance with the U.N.’s Agenda-21. Will save a lot of time and effort down the road. Of course, as Mayor of New York City, you already have been working to prepare the city as a Star Community/residential agglomeration.
Who are the 10 Star Beta Communities? Here’s the list: http://www.icleiusa.org/sustainability/star-community-index/star-beta-communities
Learn about your future under the U.N.’s Agenda-21 globalization scheme: http://habitat.igc.org/agenda21/
Report Post »truthseekerusa
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:23pmMaybe it is time for New Yorkers to start circulating recall petitions against Bloomberg?
Report Post »hineni
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:53pmBloomberg’s hands are tied. New Yorkers are, by and large, liberals in a trance; like Pod People ready to rat out conservatives. It’s very oppressive. I and my conservative friends keep our views well hidden from both acquaintances and office workers. We’ve utterly forfeit our freedom of speech to survive. Some of our closest friends don‘t know we’re conservatives. We, however, do have the ability to help our yellow belly bloomberg: We need to free lots of caged rats and mice into Zucotti Park on a regular basis Later, he’ll have a much easier time getting rid of rats. It’s the only peaceful way that we can help the mayor.
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 6:20pmThe two Libotard Cesspools of AMERICA
NewYork and Oakland……Quan and Bloomie..
Just say, YA, SA. BOSS !!!!!!!!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 7:13pmWas wrong about Bloominberg, didn’t think he would kiss
Report Post »Bama’s Libotard agenda for this long..No Spine, Sad when
the Mayor of the biggest city in the U.S. has to bow down
to this kind of crap……Glad My Mayor isn’t !!! There are
Leaders and there are Yes,Sa Men…..
SiToNiTsOrOs1
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:52pmYou can bet that the organizer and chief is behind this. He has to swing the votes of the useful idiots.
The coming financial storm is the fault of present and past politicians who have sold Americans down the river for the sake of saving thier jobs as elected officials. The same folks (Democrats supporting these occupiers) will be the first ones sent to the re-education camps if the radicals get control.
I personally believe that there are enough good Americans out there to prevent the radicals from getting control; however, our situation will still get pretty bad. That in and of itself will be enough to cleanse alot of the corruption from Washington DC.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:22pm762×39
OMG
Report Post »Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:41pm7.62×39. I agree. Long live our Constitutional Republic.
Our Founding Fathers gave us three boxes to solve problems:
The ballot box, the soap box, and the bullet box.
The first two boxes have failed to work. Time to open the third box?
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:44pmWe need strict term limits….end the career politicians. Campain, get elected, serve and go back to the private sector and either suffer or prosper what legislation you proposed and passed.
Report Post »TheSitRep
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:40pm40 year old hipster with a skate board.
Redonkulus!
I am 48 and still enjoy skate boarding but not as a form of transport wtf?
Oh here is me skating http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duTJSPAkaOQ
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:31pmLoved the picture of a grown man(?) carrying his skate board. I guess that must be a statement about his intellectual capacity.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:40pmCrawled out of his parents basement no doubt!
TEA!
Report Post »Founding Father2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:50pmThat is probably why Michael Moore is hanging out with them… MENTAL CAPACITY. He has never grown up and never learned about not lying. Yeah he is a special one. Yeah you know him, a multi-millionaire with stock in halliburton like was reported earlier on theBlaze.
Yesterday he travelled to Oakland to talk to the protesters and rioters there. He told them he was one of them and then backed them up against the mayor, a whiny wuss us a dem. mayor. Here he is talking to them: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/moore_ows_oakland.html. Then on the same site there is another one of the mayor actually begging the protesters for their forgiveness and for their cooperation.
Sad that the Dems have to bend to their every demand… funny I thought they were saying this about the Tea Partiers, but they never say these guys coming… THESE ONES ARE VIOLENT THOUGH.
Report Post »dread_pirate_roberts
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:18pmGee, I wonder if the cities allowing the fine upstanding well groomed protest/occupying jack a$$e$ are the same cities that have been run by liberals for the past 20 to 50 years.
Bet they are!
Report Post »hineni
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:27pmIt’s really not the skateboard that degrades him: it’s his menacing stance. How dare he point his finger and thrust his heck an head like that. The woman next to him is hiding her face. The guy in the maroon shirt looks as though he’s worried about the policeman. I suspect the nasty guy will bang his proud head on his little board.
Report Post »LadyLibertea
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:29pmYeah, here in Portland….the OWS crowd is marching into “the Pearl” and area of high income and academic elites…..but the gay azz mayor Sam Adams supports it. They have ruined the park downtown and it will cost thousands of dollars to fix, and you can smell them a block away. It’s really pathetic. No permits…nothing…yet they are allowed to break the law!…ohh but everyone else has to follows the law…like the Portland Marathon, yeah, they had to get a permit.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:38pmThey all need to sue to get the permit fees refunded .. if OWS doesn’t need them then NO ONE should have to pay.
TEA!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:54pmewwwwwwwww they really smell bad .
Report Post »is the health department gonna move in ?
naahhhhhhhhh they’re Obama voters .
geonj
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:28pmsince these“occupiers” are costing millions in taxpayer dollar, and the police won’t do anything about it, i think the working taxpayers should rise up and drive these trespassers out of the public lands they are destroying.where are the environmentalists and their outrage at the destruction of God’s green earth.
Report Post »TaterSalad
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:28pmBloomberg…….protect the right????? What about the rights of anyone that is NOT a protester that can NOT access the park? Bloomberg……………you’re gone next election!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:20pmAmerica is turning into a communist outpost for whiners and complainers, loafers and malcontents. The Democrats must be happy now.
Report Post »Bear
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:33pmIt is awful to see the disrespect and contempt for our Country, especially when its blamed on Capitalism and not on Washington DC..Had Socialist Government not bailed out the Banks and the AUTO Companies AND capitalism applied with Bankruptcy the Economy would have found the Bottom and they would all be bought out by now but This President won’t let the Unions leaders and thugs down so they Got their pay off for getting this clown elected at the price of the American Tax Payer! Your not there to right a wrong Hippies or you would be in Washington your there to fundamentally transform America through lies and Socialism you Stupid,Liberal,Hippie Morons!
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:53pmthey are…but since to be clear, the “democrats”, as they were once “known”, do not exist, it is full on Communists. They so desire a Russia, Cuba, China, where there is one “Communist” dictator, in charge, and you do what the “collective”, “government” says…or…well..just look up what Che, Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Castro, Cavez all did to those who do not “fall in line”…..
Report Post »Hawke17
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:58pmHey Bear ,….how stupid are you …..Bush bailed out the banks and the auto companies …..isnt he a conservative …..do you believe your own lies?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:03pmHAWKE: Yeah, I’ll trade you one Blame Bush for one Blame Clinton under whom the Democrats ( who worked more of their magic under Bush) played the Discrimination card to buy votes with the disastrous Affordable Housing Act which ultimately lead to the mortgage fiasco and the total economic collapse. You know the cast of characters: Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, ACORN, Barney Frank, CountryWide Financial, Fannie, Freddie, Chris Dodd , etc. Not to even mention the Solnydra mess and other crony capitalism shenanigans still occurring under Obama and the Union mobs.
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:37pmHAWKE17, What in the ever lovin` world makes you think that G.W. Bush is a conservative? I had to hold my nose to vote for him just as I did for his dad. In my humble opinion Sr. and Jr. were only slightly better than their super lefty oponents. Imagine just how screwed up we would be now had the likes of Gore and Kerry held the highest office in the land. Don’t even try to beat us about the head and shoulders with Bush. He’s a progressive that was in the Republican party. I do find him far more honorable than 0bama and his ilk, but that is it.
Report Post »mficentral
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 10:42amHappy now but what goes around comes around. It’s going to bite them in the a$$.
TEA
Report Post »Busdriver4u
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:15pmThis is so typical of Minneapolis. I wouldn’t be surprised if RT Ryback the Mayor was out for a little kumbya. It gets pretty cold up here in January and February maybe that will help keep the riffraff out.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:14pmobama led occupychicago in 1988. he’s behind these all the way TOO. just more of his communist division tactics to destroy America, time to put obama OUT.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:40pmThanks. Someone needs to put out more of this information on the media-camoflagued background of the actions of his community organizer work. So these global Occupy Events are all “spontaneous?“ So Obama and Democrats had nothing to do with this ”grass roots” movement ? Pul-leeze. Someone keep investigating and TELLING the public. Take out a billboard. Hire a sky writer . We much work “around” the media – the way Obama is working “around” congress !
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:43pmHere is the article and PHOTO from that!
http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10/25/barack-obama-led-occupychicago-circa-1988/
TEA!
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:37pmCATB: Thank you for that post, wasn’t aware of that shenanigan, keep up the good work
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:12pmQuestion: If these guys are going to “occupy” these city neighborhoods , how will this affect their voter registration for the 2012 election ?
Report Post »jimay
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:08pmYou’ve heard of Hoovervilles? This is
Report Post »Obamaville
Get it straight
Obamaville
O ba ma ville
ObamaVille
O ba ma ville
!!!
barber2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:15pmGood one. Pass it on ! Am sure the “elites” will not like this name.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:20pmThat is what I have been calling them .. with the misery index and all indicators (foreclosures, etc) as high as the Great Depression what else can they be!
Obamaville!
TEA!
The recovery begins on November 7, 2012!
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:33pmI would prefer OBamavile.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:39pm0bamavilla?
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:08pmThey ought to put laws in place that they can enforce if they don’t have any yet, and enforce the ones they have. I still say the owners of Zuccotti park should just get a trespass warrant against all the occupiers on their land. It could be so simple to fix. Require a permit for anyone to camp, only issue 25 a day and require time for cleaning in between permits. Aren’t there laws against defecating and urinating in public? They should at least require them to pick up and dispose of waste properly! We, dog owners are fined if we don’t pick up after our pets. If they have the laws already, they need to enforce them!
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:35pmThe owner of Zucchini Park is one of O‘Blamer’s biggest supporters and must have the IQ of a Zucchini.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:01pmEnforce the existing laws? Heck no. The Obama Left probably wants to install a new layer of “regulars” to ..a… a…. regulate. ( Just more of his “job creation” – out of the tax payer’s pocket !)
Report Post »georgiavietvet
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:13pmthe owners of zucotti park are liberal democrats
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:07pmthe losers in our state are going to really dampen the Christmas shopping season downtown where they have planted themselves. get these freaks out of here so the hardworking adults can go back to their normal routines please
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:03pmI just love being bullied by the union-backed minority who get bill taxpayers for their Endless Camp-Ins. Talk about “lobbying !“ Just more of that ”social justice” which seems to be infecting our youth.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:01pmI’m curious to see what the protesters look like in December and January when the winter sets in.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:04pmThis is interesting .. who are these protesters and what do they “know” about the issues?
http://www.mrc.org/mrctv-rush.html
TEA!
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:04pmOccupicicles!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:11pmLOL .. ANGELCAT … sooner rather than later also .. I see the weather is getting colder and snow has started on parts of the east coast!
TEA!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:12pm@angelcat:
Report Post »That’s not bad.
CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:56pmThey are NOT bothering with permits or insurance or anything else that the TEA Party was required to buy .. now I understand some TEA Party Organizations are going to ask for refunds of what was paid to their cities. Fair is fair and if OWS does not need them … then why should the TEA Party. I understand one group has asked a city for a refund of $80,000. Let the lawsuits begin.
Report Post »dogpatch65
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:00pmYou’re right. No comparison whatsoever. The Tea Party and the Occupiers are held to entirely different standards, given entirely different coverage, and treated differently by government officials.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:05pmIn Richmond, VA the Tea Party has sent the Mayor (who went down and met with the occupiers there saying he could relate to what they were doing) an invoice for roughly $10,000. If they refuse to pay they have lawyers on stand by.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:06pm@Catb — indeed and this is due to the administration, I can imagine the warnings these state and city governmors and mayors are receiving to “pull the line or get slammed down.” As you stated, the Tea Party groups followed the law, and were demonized by the media — these groups are in clear violation in many areas and nothing is being done.
What will happen when the next group of protesters decide to use lethal force against the police and are responded with in kind?
Report Post »teacherskj
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:08pmI say let the OWS protesters continue costing those cities tax-payer funds and let the Dems. continue to support them, let them be supported by SEIU and Moveon.org, Joy Behar, Whoopi and President Ogh! Bummer….they will pay Nov. 2012.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:10pmInteresting development: Use the same tactics the Left uses – plug up the courts and drown the tax payer in endless “free speech ” expenses . Good to expose the ridiculous comparison to the Tea Party ( who went home after they cleaned up !) and to expose the favoritism being shown to the Occupiers ( who have apparently relocated to new neighborhoods. and do not clean up ) who are being allowed to be “working around ” ( where did I just hear that phrase ??) the laws and the local regulations ..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 5:34pmAtlanta TEA Party … threatens to sue.
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/tea-party-wants-same-1210273.html
TEA!
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:56pmThey should be granted refunds!
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:46pmThat was the first I’d heard of Tea Party doing something about this, but I checked out the articles and yes, folks, it’s true. The Richmond, Virginia Tea Party is claiming that the protesters are using the park without permits and other restrictions that the Tea Party had to abide by and which cost the Tea Party about $10,000. And now, the Tea Party wants their money back. Ain’t life grand???
http://www.wreg.com/news/wtvr-richmond-tea-party-wants-refund-after-seeing-occupy-richmond-protesters-camp-out-for-free-20111026,0,6234748.story?track=rss
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:56pmMaybe Mayor Bloomberg can just create a new NYC neighborhood called Occupy-lyn or Occupy Heights.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:38pmIt should be right next to the sanitation plant, so no one would notice the smell.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:52pmIf they can be peaceful, don’t have a drug den.. don’t perform sexual acts under tars.. keep the place they are at clean.. then it is alright to protest.. but when you get all those other things going.. then no it is not right!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:59pmThey are NOT buying the permits and insurance, etc. required of the TEA Parties … they are anarchists and getting special treatment.
TEA!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:03pmExposed .. who are these people?
http://www.mrc.org/mrctv-rush.html
TEA!
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