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I get nervous when too many media types become all for or all against something. THat’s not a natural thing to happen.

But lets look at OWS for a minute. These people actually in the trenches doing the OWSing are clearly not very bright, on average. There is clearly an element in their crowd that is hard core communism. I’m not ready to label them all as communists though. But there is that element in their crowds. There also seems to be run of the mill anarchists involved. there are also libertarians and average democrats and independents even a few republicans. It appears to me to be a diverse group of people with just two things they all seem to have in common: lower than average skills and lower than average income.

That should be a warning sign to all of us. This is what happens when a nation starts having long lasting economic problems. The people on the bottom who are suffering the most lose their patience and get angry...and when they get angry, reason and logic are no longer valuable commodities. They don’t care anymore. They are just mad as hell and are ready to make everyone aware of it.

I don’t think it is constitutional to break up these protests. But the cops on the streets are not stupid. They know what is coming if these angry people are allowed to congregate long enough in large enough numbers. They will eventually transform from protestors to rioters and looters. I believe this is why the cops are beginning to lose patience with the OWS protesters. The longer the protests go on, the more of a magnet they become for all the angry people to come out of the shadows and join in.

"I don’t think it is constitutional to break up these protests."

People have the right to peacably assemble. They DO NOT have the right to take up residence in a private park. It is absolutely constitutional to throw these idiots out of the park, and to arrest them if they refuse, and to arrest them if they insist on setting up little socialist communes anywhere else, unless it is on property they own themselves.

I don’t think it is constitutional to break up these protests.

Free speech does not give one the right to squat on private property (Zucatti Park is privately owned), to vandalize private property, to obstruct roads, bridges, and businesses, to create public health dangers, or to use public services to support them.

Somehow these spoiled brats think that civilization must finance their lives to support their free speech.

A right is something that does not require the service of another. You have free speech, but you don't have the right to take someone else's soapbox.