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Posted on 10/29/2011 4:28:34 PM PDT by BAW
I had to be up early this morning to appear on Fox & Friends. I was finished by 6:30, so I decided to stop by the Occupy DC encampment at McPherson Square in downtown Washington. Conditions were miserable; 40 degrees, dark, windy, muddy, steady rain. The weather, predicted to deteriorate even more later, was enough to test the resolve of the most dedicated anti-capitalist.
The small park is filled with tents. At times there have seemed more tents than protesters, and indeed, a friend who has kept a close eye on Occupy DC suggested to me that many of the tents — which convey the impression of a substantial, permanent protest — are actually unoccupied. That’s hard to prove, short of barging into randomly-selected tents. But even among the tents that are in use — and I saw a total of four early-risers in the park Saturday morning — there is the question of how many Occupy DC protesters are actually homeless people who have come to McPherson Square for shelter, a hot meal, and companionship. . . . On Saturday morning, I met a man who said he was an artist and told me that “the world’s f—ed up” in large part because “Bush took all the money and gave it to the Chinese to pay for the war.” After a while, he told me that he normally lived at a couple of “squats” in other parts of town but that he had met some people from Code Pink who told him they had a tent in McPherson Square. So he came to the park. He’s certainly not alone — there are plenty of other homeless there, he told me — but it’s hard to say how many homeless are part of the permanent Occupy DC contingent.
Early in this charade I heard one of the cooks tell a reporter they got their food from a local food bank not far away. They are taking food intended for the needy to feed their protesters. Typical lefty tactic.
[blink] So what's the problem? It's public property, a no-camping zone ... there is no expectation of privacy. If occupied, so be it, leave it, don't cause trouble. If unoccupied, then abandoned property free for the taking.
Target rich environment for merry pranksters.
At least here in Indy, if you go to a homeless shelter, it’s no booze or drugs. And most of them are run by religious organizations, so you have to be willing to take a dose of that “old time religion” with your free grub and cot.
So it’s easy to see how the Occupy deal would be appealing to most of the “homeless”. All the freebies and none of the pain.
Oh yeah, give me some trip flares, big azz rats. some coffee cans and commo wire. I’d have a ball!
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