I remember walking by Zuchatti Park every morning on my way to work and seeing these miscreants in “their” camps. One morning when I was walking by, the miscreants, all of their crap, and their stench were gone! Surrounding the park shoulder to shoulder were hundreds of NYCPD officers. I caught the attention of a couple of them and said “thank you!” They smiled and nodded (almost as if they were not supposed to publicly display acknowledgment of gratitude...). They knew that real Americans supported them and what they did.
I’m surprised that the miscreants/communists haven’t tried to pull something like this again with their buddy “Big Bird” in the mayor’s office. That POS would probably March with them in solidarity!
During this period, I was living in DC, and decided one day that I would go down to the Occupy area in DC and review it myself.
I came to realize upon arrival....that there were two Occupy camps.
The first one was behind the White House (north) about two blocks. This was the ‘punk’ camp, where rats were among the campers. Strong evidence of drugs (not weed, but the strong stuff). Garbage lay on the ground. Local coffee shops were complaining because of bad sanitation. Throw-up and urine were in the air...heavily scented. The whole thing was run by mostly 20-to-25 year old kids with no real understanding....but there were two or three guys who were the gurus and managers of interviews. They’d do their speak, and then kinda walk off. I got the impression that they didn’t want to stay much around their own camp.
The second camp was two blocks east of the White House. Oddly, this was an organized, fairly clean, and absolutely no funky smells or rats. They had a committee which ran the camp like a military organization. Oddly, it was mostly people over age forty (no college students). They had signs to convey messages. From this camp, there were various people that you could approach, discuss their views, and get a good general view of the whole strategy and complaint.....something you couldn’t get from camp one because everyone seemed to be doped up.
There were various people which came to note the two camps and the city itself suggested on several occasions that they wanted the two camps to merge....preferably over with the more organized and sanitary crowd....but the punks refused. After months of talking with the punks....the cops arrived one day and tore down their operation. Oddly, they just simply disappeared. The other group continued on.
Somewhere in the background strategy of the White House and Democrats...the Occupy theme had some purpose. Here we are five years later, and I have to admit that it’s the most marginal political strategy that I’ve seen in two decades. Other than news journalists trying to hype their message and pretend they were onto something....it was a one-star effort and never got bought by the general public.