The park is private property. I support their ability to protest within the law. If the protesters were conservative minded, most here would support them as well.
If they are breaking the law, they should be dealt with. On the other hand, if they are just dirty and smelly, that does not constitute breaking the law. If they are not breaking the law, the police should get off their backs.
The protesters seem to be made up of three groups: a) anarchists, b) conservative folks who are fed up with the bank bailouts, and c) nutcase/criminals. Not a cohesive group by any means, yet the media is painting them as one.
“Conservative folks fed up with the bank bailouts”??? You’re kidding right? In all of the interviews I’ve seen I’ve not heard ONE “Conservative” among them. Change your statement to liberals who want Communism and you’d be much closer to the truth. These are Radical Marxists, Trotsky-ites, Socialists and Communists - mostly affluent college-age idealists backed by their predecessors who are definitely part of the 1% they claim to be against. Anyone calling for the government to increase regulations on the banking industry, and agreeing with these people’s calls for Free Education, Forgiveness of Student and Housing loans, and raising taxes on the rich to finance more social justice programs have no right referring to themselves as “Conservatives”.
Do you have any links/proof that besides the anarchists & criminals the folks are conservative? (Not referring to the Conservatives who go to heckle, interview, or discuss, but honest-to-goodness “occupiers”...)
Yes, but the park has rules that state the park will be closed on certain evenings for cleaning, and there is no overnight camping allowed. Yet these vermin have ignored all of these rules...the ones the Tea Party followed explicitly...and yet nothing has happened to them! That’s okay with you?
And what about the rights of the small business owners in the area whose stores have been overrun by mobs of squatters who use the store’s bathroom to wash in, leaving their filth behind for the owners and their paying customers to deal with? Is that also okay with you? Why have any laws in the first place if they aren’t going to be enforced?
Mrs. Prince of Space