Posted on 11/12/2011 9:01:25 PM PST by YJIeditor
A young reporter went to the Occupy Portland camp and found lots of anger but not much more. The occupants of the camp itself were, he found, less than impressive. It's a good piece, no matter your politics. Check it out.
It’s cold and wet here....you’d think it wouldn’t be too hard to make the idiots get outta there and go someplace warm. Guess we’ll find out.
Makes for a very long day.
About the only thing the OWSers haven’t done is to link up hands in a coast to coast human chain.
From what I've read, most of the Occupusses go home at night to their warm & cozys.
It would be easier to evict at night since there aren't that many of them.
What started as a intellectual rally against the status quo, a scream into the ever-encroaching night, has become a joke of a camping ground, where all you can smell is the scent of freshly smoked Ganja, and maybe, the strong whiff of whiskey off an old man’s breath, a old man who you will inevitably find standing next to you, asking for spare quarters and cigarettes.
It is an occupation of the hopeless and the homeless.
Looks like one starry-eyed utopian muddle-head is finally seeing through their own mythology.
In Salem MA, the so-called "Occupy Salem" movement seems to lack the capacity to actually stay overnight at a small park in Riley Plaza (not much room to camp and maybe the mayor said no?) so they only come out at night, with signs saying Occupy Salem and End the Wars. During Halloween they were hard pressed to get even a dozen people involved. --------------------------------
Ayuh, Occupy Maine. Ya can't get there from here.
OOPS! I mean they only come out by day.
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