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31 Arrests Over Occupy DC Structure
NBC Washington ^ | December 5, 2011

Posted on 12/05/2011 5:03:11 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

Police tied ropes around several Occupy DC protesters and plucked them off the roof of a temporary structure in the McPherson Square on Sunday night, capping a contentious day between law enforcement and demonstrators.

At the end of Sunday night, 31 had been taken into police custody.

The clash was set off by am approximately 20-foot-high structure, built by protesters overnight Saturday without a permit. Park Police declared the shack-like structure a safety hazard and ordered it removed Sunday.

Spokesperson Sgt. David Schlosser told News4: "Park Police and the National Park Service firmly support people's first amendment rights to assemble and to seek redress from their government. In this instance, the issue is a life safety issue, the structural integrity of the building."

The Occupy DC group insisted that the structure, constructed out of plywood and 2x4's, met health and safety requirements.

The City Paper's Lydia DePillis reports that one of the structure's architects, Cecelia Azerduy, dubbed it "the People's Pentagon."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcwashington.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; occupy; occuscum; ows; owscrime; owsisajoke

1 posted on 12/05/2011 5:03:14 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’m shocked police let the structure get that large in the first place.


2 posted on 12/05/2011 5:11:25 AM PST by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This is not what our forefathers intended.


3 posted on 12/05/2011 5:11:39 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If the cops didn’t get them, the unions would have.


4 posted on 12/05/2011 5:13:18 AM PST by ILS21R (Never give up)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The Occupy DC group insisted that the structure, constructed out of plywood and 2x4's, met health and safety requirements.

I think their mistake was using actual plywood. Should have gone with the pressboard and Tyvec to make a more typical tract mansion.

5 posted on 12/05/2011 5:16:53 AM PST by palmer (Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
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To: Java4Jay

Well, we know it wasn’t the Amish. If they’s started on Saturday night, but Sunday it would have been under roof, and furnished.


6 posted on 12/05/2011 5:19:23 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Obama's Army


7 posted on 12/05/2011 5:22:59 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The Occupy DC group insisted that the structure, constructed out of plywood and 2x4's, met health and safety requirements.

Should have stuck to playing with Legos...

8 posted on 12/05/2011 5:23:19 AM PST by Jonah Hex ("To Serve Manatee" is a cookbook!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I guess these kids didn’t know there is a difference between protesting and homesteading.

No It shouldn’t have gotten past unloading the lumber.


9 posted on 12/05/2011 5:28:17 AM PST by Venturer
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Was it built by union carpenters?


10 posted on 12/05/2011 5:30:58 AM PST by vollmond (I'm an issues voter. If you're a Democrat, I've got issues.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If they were willing to work as hard at getting a job as they are at getting handouts ...


11 posted on 12/05/2011 5:31:10 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Sgt. David Schlosser, a Park Police spokesman, said the structure was to be taken down Sunday night. An inspector had viewed it earlier and deemed the shelter not safe.

Not safe? Why, it looks *perfectly* safe! [rolls eyes]


12 posted on 12/05/2011 5:45:33 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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Awww. Isn’t that cute. The kiddies are building a clubhouse.


13 posted on 12/05/2011 5:51:21 AM PST by digger48
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Cecelia Azerduy doesn’t sound amish-must be a state dept. visa holder from the spring campain overseas.


14 posted on 12/05/2011 5:56:26 AM PST by eglman
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To: COBOL2Java
Where's the half moon cutout and the Sears catalogue?

Leni

15 posted on 12/05/2011 6:22:03 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: COBOL2Java

going for that tetra-deca-hedonal-cannabinol architecture.


16 posted on 12/05/2011 6:25:11 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Police tied ropes around several Occupy DC protestors...”

Did the cops tie the ropes around the necks of the protestors?


17 posted on 12/05/2011 6:28:02 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (The "Occupy Wall Street" losers should try occupying their local employment office. GET A JOB!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

18 posted on 12/05/2011 6:55:22 AM PST by Bobalu (even Jesus knew the poor would always be with us)
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