Nothing. They will keep doing it. On Boston’s Ch 5 the other night one of them promised “we’ll move to the suburbs next”.
Oh really, like Salem which, during Halloween had “Occupy Salem” on a small piece of land nr downtown...only it wasn’t really Occupy because they realized they couldn’t camp out
(or didn’t want to) so they just stood out there with anti-war
signs, etc.
On my facebook a college buddy of mine said no longer will people be subjected to “Lynn Beach at low tide” (famed
for smelly algae) and he linked to a vid with Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “That Smell”. In the Boston Herald someone scoffed at people calling them “hippies”. They sure looked like hippies to me in pix I saw, including signs featuring what some call “the peace sign” and some “the footprint of
the American chicken”.
This was a chance for college kids born WAY after the 60s
to dress as their parents or maybe grandparents did, or perhaps with a bit of grunge thrown in, and get out the old chants: Hey hey! Ho ho! Wall Street has got to go! What do we want, when do we want it. etc.
They have killed business. Boston has a place called Milk St. Cafe and the owners set up another one nr Zuccotti Park, NYC...first the NYC Milk St Cafe had to lay off a bunch of people due to loss of business from the protestors, and recently it was said they might shut down
totally. This isn’t a big corporation, it’s a small/medium sized business.
And they think this will bind them to their cause? The last time we saw protests like these, the people responded by 49 states voting for the Republican presidential candidate.
(Mass. of course was “The One And Only”, as bumper stickers proclaimed. Heck I was 10 in ‘72 but I remember those.)
I suspect that's why dems are blocking 'Occupy' from their Charlotte meeting...
Let me recommend Occupy Harvard, just next door and still a going concern AFAIK -- I'm sure Elizabeth Warren will welcome her intellectual progeny with open arms!
BTW, did anyone catch Todd Feinberg on the 'RKO morning show last week or so -- he opined that as far as he could tell, all America's problems today have their roots in Harvard -- LOL! Too true!
And -- just to pass this along and give it wider currency -- one of the callers to the morning show referred to those less-than-useful idiots as the "Occu-poopers," which seems like as good a term as any . . . ;-)