Occupy Wall Street costing taxpayers $2 million in police overtime – and counting – NYPD says

New York Daily News ^ | Oct 7, 2011 | Rocco Parascandola, Reuven Blau, Helen Kennedy

[ETL]

The NYPD said Thursday that three weeks of anti-Wall Street demonstrations have cost the city $2 million in police overtime and defended the use of pepper spray and batons to control rowdy crowds.

"I think the vast majority of people who protest were peaceful," said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

"But there's clearly a core group of self-styled anarchists - that's what they call themselves - who want to have a confrontation with police."

OCCUPY WALL STREET: SCENES OF PROTEST

He said that following Wednesday's 10,000-strong union march, a much smaller group tried to storm police barricades at Wall Street and Broadway.

"They locked their arms. They counted down - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. Then they decided to charge the police. That is going to be met with some physical force," Kelly said.

[mewzilla]

Happen to know if tea partiers in that neck of the woods are required to get permits?

[Arrowhead1952]

I know the ones in Austin were told to get permits for the one at the capitol. I don’t know if the one at the Alamo had permits.

[MinuteGal]

Well, not to be Pecksniffian about it, I'm tickled pink that NYC taxpayers are footing the bill for the anarchists. I hope the costs reach the stratosphere. Serves 'em right!

NYC voters LUV their liberals, their revolutionaries, their Democrats, their socialists, their communists, their radicals, their art shows drenched in urine, their socialite Ponzi schemers, their gay parades, their loony mayors, their $10 packages of cigarettes, their Schumers and Weiners, their anti-American, nest-of-spies U.N. building, their Obama handouts, their propagandists at the NYSlimes....what have I missed?

In fact, I believe that NYC's moronic masses are actually enjoying the demonstrations in their midst no end.

The moveable feast of politics is the one entertainment that unites all of them. The "occupation" street theater and pageantry is both dramatic and amusing, both riveting and boring....and it's FREE for the watching!

(....yep, they think it's free, hah).

So let the NYC geniuses foot the bill for what they have brought upon themselves over the decades by their zombie-like voting. Occupation of their city's parks and streets is the new fall spectator sport for these idiots.

New York, New York, that Wonderful Town....

Bring on the pom-pom girls!

Leni

[ETL]

Excellent observations and points!

[Yorlik803]

Well, thats the sensible solution, but here is what they really should do:
Start arresting them and fining them. They cant leave jail til the fine is paid. And for each day they are in jail, they are charged for food and housing.
The not so sensible but really fun solution: Just get the scoop trucks like the had in “Soylent Green”. Scoop them up, transport to maybe,New Jersy.

[ExTexasRedhead]

This display of Liberal human waste will backfire on the Wannabe Dictator, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Schumer, Dodd, Kerry, and the rest of the anti-American ilk who reside in the RAT Party. We The People can get an up close and personal view of the vermin out to destroy our country and steal our freedom. Behold the dregs of society who reside in the RAT/Socialist Party.

[ETL]

They're calling it "Day[s] Of Rage" after Bill Ayers's Weather Underground's "Days Of Rage" in 1969. A collection of communist-anarchist groups is behind it.

The following is from their website:

http://usdayofrage.org/
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"Gleeful about the raging riots that held England captive this week, the tweet has gone out to activists and ‘disaffected’ youth to “occupy wall street Sept 17” today. Social Networks FaceBook and Twitter are abuzz with plans for coming anarchy on U.S. soil.

The Days of Rage will continue beyond the ‘occupation’ of Wall Street with activists being told “bring your tent”.

http://www.black-and-right.com/2011/08/14/the-us-day-of-rage-is-coming/
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The original "Day(s) of Rage"

Days of Rage riots (1969)
The Days of Rage riots in Chicago took place over a 4-day period beginning October 8, 1969, after members of the Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, converged on the city to confront police in the streets in response to the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam War activists known as the "Chicago Eight".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage
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Exclusive: Bill Ayers Talks About Election Night in Grant Park

From NBC Chicago, Jan 21, 2009:

Bill Ayers was "overflowing with happiness, relief, love" when he and his wife went to Grant Park with tens of thousands of Chicagoans to celebrate the election of President Barack Obama.

Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, spoke exclusively with NBC Chicago's Dick Johnson about why they joined the Election Night celebration in the park, where 40 years before they helped stage the Days of Rage riots.

The couple said they got last-minute tickets from a friend to be in Grant Park that night.

"I couldn't stop crying a couple of times. I found the exact spot where I was beaten 40 years ago," Ayers said. "But I've never been in a crowd that large that wasn't edged with either anger or drunkenness or gluttony, and it was really an extraordinary feeling."

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Exclusive-Bill-Ayers-Talks-About-Election-Night-in-Grant-Park.html
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Michelle Obama on the night of the 2008 election victory:

Source: TIME Magazine:
http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1857184,00.html
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"The raised fist (also known as the clenched fist) is a salute and logo most often used by left-wing activists, such as: Marxists, anarchists, socialists, communists, pacifists, trade unionists, and black nationalists. The raised fist is usually regarded as an expression of solidarity, strength or defiance."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
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Anarcho-syndicalism

A common Anarcho-Syndicalist flag.

In the early 20th century, anarcho-syndicalism arose as a distinct school of thought within anarchism.[78] With greater focus on the labour movement than previous forms of anarchism, syndicalism posits radical trade unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the state with a new society, democratically self-managed by the workers.

Anarcho-syndicalists seek to abolish the wage system and private ownership of the means of production, which they believe lead to class divisions. Important principles include workers' solidarity, direct action (such as general strikes and workplace recuperations), and workers' self-management. This is compatible with other branches of anarchism, and anarcho-syndicalists often subscribe to anarchist communist or collectivist anarchist economic systems.[79] Its advocates propose labour organization as a means to create the foundations of a non-hierarchical anarchist society within the current system and bring about social revolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
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January 12, 2009:
Revolutionary ferment in Greece – a taste of what is to come for the whole of Europe
http://www.marxist.com/revolutionary-ferment-greece-taste-for-europe.htm
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
--B.H. Obama

YouTube Video:
The O'Reilly Factor confronts Bill Ayers:
October 24, 2008:
(note the red communist star, and anarcho-syndicalist red and black, on his shirt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3uvK9gTIY
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Bill Ayers: "I considered myself partly an anarchist then and I consider myself partly an anarchist now. I mean, I'm as much an anarchist as I am a Marxist which is to say I find a lot of the ideas in anarchism appealing."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443241,00.html

[opentalk]

Evidently, the private park they have been using is owned by "Brookfield Office properties"... part of Brookfield Asset Management Inc.

NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's long time girl friend Diana L. Taylor is on the board of directors for Brookfield Properties.

Another division of Brookfield (renewable energy) may have receive DOE energy loans.

[MinuteGal]

Bump for #23...the lowdown on WHY NEW YORK CITY TAXPAYERS SHOULD PAY FOR WHAT THEY THEMSELVES HATH WROUGHT!

I hope NYC Rat-lovers have to pay through the snoot for the "occupation" forces in their parks and streets.

Read all about it in #23!

Leni

[mewzilla]

That figures. But the protest has been moving off the private property, right? In which case, they bloody well better have a permit. Unless Bloombug has decided not to enforce the law.

[algernonpj]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2490938/posts?page=2655#2655 ==>
http://alanpetersnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/10/intel-briefing-not-restricted-radical.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2490938/posts?page=2659#2659

[Bizzy Bugz]

Minute Gal You are always on the button and have a very amusing way of saying it too. Love to read your posts

[SouthTexas]

I think it is backfiring on them so far, even as the media does their best to portray them as having some real agenda and purpose other than destroying what’s left of this country.

Sometimes I really wonder, but I try to believe the American people are not stupid and see this for what it actually is, more of the left’s propaganda.

[MinuteGal]

Thanks for the accolade, Bizzy.

I just love to burst the balloons of hypocrisy, double-standards, moral equivalencies and the unwitting, unknowing, uneducated shooting-oneself-in-the-foot as perpetually practiced in Gotham City by its narcissistic, know-it-all, self-immolating 'Rat voters.

Whew!

Leni

[Ted Grant]

I know they set out for a ‘permanent’ occupation of Washington Square Park, but I just walked through the park about 30 minutes ago and I didn’t see any signs of a significant permanent occupation.

[ETL]

There was a large gathering of the clueless a-holes there when I was there last, on Wednesday.

Occupy Wall St. protesters march from Zuccotti Park to Washington Sq. and back, escape NYPD trouble
Sunday, October 9th 2011

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/09/2011-10-09_occupy_wall_st_protesters_march_from_zuccotti_park_to_washington_sq_and_back_esc.html?r=ny_local&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fny_local+%28NY+Local%29

[NVDave]

I fully agree with you. The local PD’s and politicians where these protests are happening are ostensibly liberal. It ain’t like these protests are happening on conservatives’ doorsteps.

Let the kids give the local liberal pol’s a full dose of what they claim to support, and when the PD’s crack down, hey, it ain’t Sheriff Joe doing the head-crackin’.

[Atlantan]

It’s getting weird on Wall Street.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/park_wreck_freeloaders_GyDZGW4tFXDRx0oNRycVvK

[This I Wonder32460]

Bill them and take them to court if they don’t pay. It’s like now if someone is irresponsible and is lost in the wilderness or at sea, they bill them for search and rescue. Bill the protestors/rioters for cleanup, police details etc. Most things in life are not free and they shouldn’t be allowed to disrupt the community without paying restitution for the resources they are using/abusing. They are taking money from tight budgets that could go to programs that actually benefit the community.

[Ted Grant]

I passed through yesterday and saw the crowd. Today, nothing. Permanent?