Posted on 10/13/2011 4:49:21 AM PDT by tobyhill
New York City police plan to evict the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters -- if only temporarily.
The protesters, who have camped out in a city park for more than three weeks, will be forced out Friday so that city crews can help clean the area.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan on Wednesday evening and made the cleaning announcement, citing sanitation concerns from the park’s owner, MyFoxNY.com reports.
Brookfield Properties, the owner of the park, had outlined its concerns in a letter to the city’s police commissioner, Ray Kelly.
The company told police that it had received “hundreds of phone calls and emails” from locals complaining about "lewdness, groping, drinking and drug use, the lack of safe access to and usage of the Park, ongoing noise at all hours, unsanitary conditions and offensive odors,” NBC New York reports.
Brookfield also raised concerns about shipments of “materials” to the park, which they say are unscreened.
The park will be cleaned in stages, beginning Friday morning. Protesters will be allowed to return to their designated areas after cleaning is complete, NBC New York reports.
Brookfield normally cleans and inspects the condition of the park every night, including a power washing, landscaping and trash removal. But the company hasn't been able to do so since the protestors have sent up a tent city there as part of their demonstrations.
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Because the "city" allowed a "privately owned park" to be used for the demonstrations and wouldn't remove the fleabaggers...
Harry Reid would have no problem at all smelling this bunch from a distance.
“My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway,” said Reid in his remarks. “In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it’s true.”—Senator Harry Reid
http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&p=%22harry+reid%22+smell+tourists
They are well organized. One thing commies are good at is organizing. They just don't worry too much about things like cleanliness and the environment. They always leave a big mess behind after their events ("anti-war" rallies, pro-illegal alien rallies, WTO, etc).
In a local city here, there was a mews story about a woman who “wanted” to start a local “Occupy” chapter, but she just didn’t have the gumption, and on her Facebook page, she was begging somebody else to start it up and organize it. “Oh please, oh please.”
Love her go-get-’em attitude. Hahaha!
...and because, IIRC, Bloomy’s gal-pal is on the board of Brookfield.
“Let them wallow in their own filth.
When they get enough of it they will move.
Now they get Maid service?”
There is something about this whole charade that makes me think this whole deal is a kind of political performance art. This “park” is privately owned. So, the mayor says the “performers” can stay there as long as they want? The City of New York, at taxpayer expense is cleaning up, then they move back in?
My conclusion is, nothing about this is as it seems. The average joe, the 53% who hates the sneaky, Machiavellian ways of the nanny-statists, the guy who works every day in a real productive job in the private sector, is being suckered and manipulated into thinking the way the political class wants us to think. This is the purpose of performance art.
This is my take on the charade in New York.
Blame Bloomberg
Will the city provide snacks while they clean their room for them?
Che would have demanded snacks.
“Let them wallow in their own filth.
When they get enough of it they will move.
Now they get Maid service?”
There is something about this whole charade that makes me think this whole deal is a kind of political performance art. This “park” is privately owned. So, the mayor says the “performers” can stay there as long as they want? The City of New York, at taxpayer expense is cleaning up, then they move back in?
My conclusion is, nothing about this is as it seems. The average joe, the 53% who hates the sneaky, Machiavellian ways of the nanny-statists, the guy who works every day in a real productive job in the private sector, is being suckered and manipulated into thinking the way the political class wants us to think. This is the purpose of performance art.
This is my take on the charade in New York.
I was drinking a cup of coffee in the park yesterday morning at 9am.The reports of filth are greatly exagerrated by the MEDIA.With the help of the media this group can quickly STAGE whatever chaos you want.The people in the park looked like a bunch of ‘ lost poor souls’.When they want to cause ‘spontaneous trouble’they call in the trouble-makers from the Unions and other plentiful left-wing groups in NYC.
Ashamed UFT teachers union member
Strange, when the lame street liberal snooze media have gone to great extents to glorify the protests. Quite a contrast to how they treat the Tea Party.
But the company hasn’t been able to do so since the protestors have sent up a tent city there as part of their demonstrations....Your invite came back to bite you, did it? You allowed this crap, you clean it up.
Even the ‘conservative’ media buys in on the sham.I am sure there were business people who visited Wall Street yesterday and wondered where is tha ‘trouble’.
Put the fire hoses on them. This is a completely manufactured circus which deserves no media attention.
Ahh...well.. I wonder who the city manager is connected to? Doesn’t matter I guess...in the course of things..
Bloomberg’s girlfriend sits on the board of Brookfield Properties, which owns Zucotti Park
the Obama administration has just approved a $168.9 million loan guarantee for the Granite Reliable wind farm project owned by Brookfield Asset Management (BAM).
Among its many holdings BAM owns Brookfield Renewable Power, which owns the Granite Reliable and it also owns Brookfield Office Properties, whose holdings include the now famous Zuccotti Park.
The Department of Energy finalized the loan guarantee less than a week after Occupy Wall Street protesters took to Zuccotti Park, and with the Obama administration’s Tuesday endorsement of the protests, rumors are starting to circulate that this could be the reason Brookfield is allowing protesters to remain on its property.
The Granite Reliable Power Project under construction in Coos Bay, New Hampshire is the state’s largest wind farm and the New Hampshire Union Leader questions why Brookfield would need federal subsidies at all, particularly following the bankruptcy of Solyndra.
Mayor Bloomberg’s announcement Monday that protesters could remain as long as they liked, also raised a few eyebrows and it turns out he has a personal connection to Brookfield as well. The mayor’s longtime domestic partner Diana Taylor is on the Board of Directors at Brookfield Properties along with John E. Zuccotti himself.
Cmon don’t you know they are just like the Tea party. Only different. LOL!
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