Posted on 10/11/2011 11:26:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SEATTLE -- Protesters with Occupy Seattle aren't leaving downtown's Westlake Park until their list of demands are met by the Mayor's Office.
Occupy Seattle organizer Mark Canfield told KING 5 News Tuesday the group was told they must either move their demonstration, which has been at Westlake for more than a week, or police would move them out Wednesday morning.
Canfield said they submitted the demands to Mayor Mike McGinn's office. McGinn has said he supports the Occupy Seattle protesters and offered them space at City Hall Plaza.
Their demands are:
•A meeting with McGinn and Occupy Seattle representatives to discuss long-term occupation
•Four large tents for a kitchen, supplies, medical tent, etc.
•Access to parking
•24-hour access to individual occupancy shelters
•24-hour access to the first level of City Hall for restrooms, meeting areas, etc.
•A written statement from the mayor confirming an indefinite occupancy at City Hall Plaza
As of Tuesday evening, the Mayor's Office told KING 5 News they are reviewing the demands.
A group of between 20 and 50 protesters have been at the Occupy Seattle demonstration each day since it started. Last Friday, on the 10th anniversary of the War in Afghanistan, that number swelled to several hundred.
Westlake Park is run by the Seattle Parks Department is open from 6:00 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week. Last week about 25 protesters were arrested for putting up tents in the park.
Occupy Seattle is part of the nationwide Occupy movement against corporate greed, global commercialization and economic equality.
Probably because they are too stupid to think about that. What’s next, a monthly check because they are not working. Oh wait, they are probably getting that thanks to my taxes. Bunch of communists. All these hippies should be dropped off in some slum in the third world. Then we’ll see if they protest anymore.
It isn’t so much that Socialists are making ridiculous demands, it that I think the city of Seattle will actually buckle to some if not all of these things.
Stinky, dirty New Yawk hippies are bad enough but the artsy fartsy, Starbucks hippies in Seattle can be really obnoxious. I can understand them wanting parking spots for their Volvos but tents? What the hell are they going to do with tents?
I suppose they’ll be demanding ATM machines next.
I think they should give in and give them their free meals. A couple of cans of teargas should feed them all.
Demand? They are all narcissists who think somebody else owes them a living.
Where is “fire hose” Bull Conner when you need him?
And lattes. Don’t forget the lattes.
They can at least turn down their beds. ~sarc
“•A meeting with McGinn and Occupy Seattle representatives to discuss long-term occupation
•Four large tents for a kitchen, supplies, medical tent, etc.
•Access to parking
•24-hour access to individual occupancy shelters
•24-hour access to the first level of City Hall for restrooms, meeting areas, etc.
•A written statement from the mayor confirming an indefinite occupancy at City Hall Plaza”
Or else what?!
This is EXTORTION!
Can you imagine if the Tea Party had done this or even hinted at it?!
Bring out the cops and send these bastards packing!
I think there are some trailers left over from Katrina they could use.
The mayor already offered them the use of the City Hall Plaza. That is more than enough, but he will no doubt cave in to some of the demands.
I admit that I’m a sucker when it comes to free speech. And I think if they can do it without disrupting others that is fine. So the city hall plaza might be a good place if they keep the chanting and disruptions down. And they arrange for their own sanitation (porta-potties, trash removal, etc.). And give them until 6 am this morning.
If not - clean their mess along with them with the fire hoses.
The Pee party has spoken.
Typical hippies- wanting a place for them and the rest of their stoner friends to “crash” for free.
I’m sure Mayor McSchwinn will give them everything they ask, as long as they back his latest bike lane construction plan.
Is it a coincidence that throughout the country all these loser demonstrators were thrown-out of their mothers’ basements at the same time? I think not...
Rogers’ Rules For Rangers:
#1: Don’t forget nothing!
Evidently the Occupiers forgot.
Let them suffer in the rain and cold weather and wait for Dysentery and Dyptheria to break out. Then take lots of notes for the CDC while sipping lattes and coffee as they suffer.
Just sayin’.
Jack.
•A meeting with McGinn and Occupy Seattle representatives to discuss long-term occupation
•Four large tents for a kitchen, supplies, medical tent, etc.
•Access to parking
•24-hour access to individual occupancy shelters
•24-hour access to the first level of City Hall for restrooms, meeting areas, etc.
•A written statement from the mayor confirming an indefinite occupancy at City Hall Plaza
They forgot to include the medical supplies (for the medical tent), food (for the food tent), staffing/union (for all of the tents), and furnishings for all of the above.
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