Occupy Wall Street Gets Its Generators Back

Atlantic Wire ^ | November 8th 2011 | Adam Martin

[Cardhu]

Occupy Wall Street got its confiscated generators back on Tuesday after its legal team pressed the Fire Department of New York to release them.

The machines were picked up from the New York City Fire Academy at Randall's Island by the Wikileaks truck, which has been stationed next to Zuccotti Park since the protest's inception. The vehicle with the generator on board made its way back to Zuccotti Park hours before a planned concert by Graham Nash and David Crosby.

Yetta Kurland, a lawyer representing the protesters, said the generators did not violate any FDNY code.

The protesters have been without machine-generated power since Oct. 28, when police and firefighters seized their gas and biodeisel generators on the grounds that they were a fire hazard. Protesters have been using bicycle-powered generators to charge batteries in the park, but they were without steady power as a freak snowstorm hit on Oct. 29.

Lawyers for the protesters sent the FDNY a letter on Oct. 29 demanding the return of their equipment. Last week the fire department gave in. "I believe they gave the generators back because they had no basis to confiscate them," Kurland said. "When there’s a fire inspection, the normal procedure is for the FDNY to give corrective feedback ... That didn’t happen here. Rather than saying do this or that or taking corrective steps, they simply confiscated the generators and didn’t even list on the confiscation order what the specific violations were."

Kurland added that the return of the equipment came with no stipulation about how and where it could be used. "Generators in parks are not automatically violations of any safety codes," Kurland said. "In fact, the regulations say you can have a diesel generator or a gasoline generator as long as it’s under a certain BTU

[Vermont Lt]

I just want to leave them alone. I want them to not block public ways and access to merchants.

Aside from that, toss them a bar of soap and some condoms. Then just leave then alone.

I don’t care what happens to them.

[DrewsMum]

Hey yellow belly....those people are communists.... And communists are traitors and out founders said traitors should be put to death...are you calling them “Hitler”? Personally, I wouldn’t be bothered a bit of those idiots starved to death because they’re too stupid to go work

[Rome2000]

I have punched 2 hippies in the face personally, I'm not proud of it.

It's their stink that sets me off.

The domestic marxists don't need to be exterminated.

Just their right to vote.