Posted on 10/13/2011 9:09:05 AM PDT by tobyhill
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement threatened on Thursday to block any efforts by clean-up crews to enter their camp to clear away three-weeks worth of debris, raising concern about a potential showdown between demonstrators and police.
While New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said their protests can continue as long as laws are obeyed, the city has become concerned over the build-up of trash and general wear and tear on Zuccotti Park, headquarters for the demonstrators.
Bloomberg visited protesters at the park on Wednesday night and informed them it would be cleaned by work crews on Friday, a move demonstrators said was a ploy to permanently drive them from their camp about five blocks from City Hall in lower Manhattan.
"What's been said is that we can come back later, but of course we're skeptical," said Jeff Schurte, 29, who recently earned his master's degree in international development. "This could just be an excuse to get us out permanently."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Just spray them with soapy water. Some of them will melt like the witch in “The Wizard of Oz.”
Could it be polls are showing the public is less than supportive?
As a matter of fact, I haven't seen any polls on the movement, either.
The city released a letter from Brookfield Properties, which owns the public park, complaining that the protesters are breaking numerous laws, including “lewdness, groping, drinking and drug use” and creating “offensive odors.”
“We have received complaints of harassment, one woman stating that she was verbally abused in front of her 5-year-old child,” the letter said.
There are also concerns about electric lights that are broken and unsafe as well as gas generators.
Water cannons are pretty powerful right??
99% approve. Hey, it’s all over their t-shrits, so it must be true.
They’ve got to be attracting rats by now. (the four legged kind)
“...so I told that greedy capitalist pig fascist to take his soap and peddle it somewhere else...”
pigs love to live in pig pens...these demonstrators are no different...
These people are doing more harm to the environment than all of the SUVs combined.
Fire hoses work, too.
I wonder how Mr. Bloomberg will react when there is an outbreak of a “filth disease” that spreads from this park to the rest of New York City. I found this:
“The phrase “filth diseases” was coined in 1858 by British physician Charles Murchison to describe a class of conditions, mostly caused by infectious pathogens, that were associated with squalid living conditions—the overcrowded, unsanitary, and vermin-infested dwellings that were all too numerous in urban areas in the nineteenth century. It was an evocative phrase, popular with social reformers and pioneers of the Public Health movement and the Sanitary Revolution. It was not so much pejorative as accusatory, attributing blame for these diseases to the living conditions rather than to the people forced to live that way. Its use was a political lever that moved public opinion in favor of reforming the conditions that led to so much disease, disability, and premature death.
The filth diseases included infections of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts—diarrhea and dysentery, typhoid, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, and tuberculosis—and skin diseases such as scabies and ringworm. Conditions associated with verminous bedding and clothing, such as louse-borne typhus, also turned out to be filth diseases although they may have not been identified as such at the time. Bubonic plague, long associated with rat-infested dwellings, was another filth disease, though fortunately its visitations were uncommon. One of the goals of nineteenth-century public health reformers was the eradication of filth diseases, which meant improving the housing and living conditions of working people. This in turn depended on better wages and working conditions, so social and economic reform were inseparable from public health reform.”
They’ve created their own third world cesspool and are proud of it!!
but Obama paid $135 million in rent for that spot...
Who would take a 5 year old to or near that mess?
Now wait just one minute, you! This fellow has a Master Degree in International Development.
Get your popcorn!!!Hot buttery popcorn...you can’t enjoy the show without popcorn !!!
I guess they are prostesting free trash pickup too.
Idiots
They say that this was how Bloombergville was cleared out.
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