Mayors in the liberal OWS cities were told from the top to shut down this bunch of miscreants.
The mayors gladly obliged because it was costing the cities a lot of money (law enforcement, sanitation and loss of tourism).
The DBM got the message not to make a big deal of it. So the protests that were starting to be a big embarrassment to Democrats went into that good night with nary a whimper.
If they begin to materialize in the spring, they won’t even get off the ground before they’re shut down again. The thumb screws are in place now.
Last thing Democrats want is a bunch of civil unrest leading into the election. They’re already putting in place a ban on OWS groups near the Charlotte DNC convention next summer. I’m not sure how they’ll carry this off since a good many of the OWS protesters will be inside the hall. They’ll be the delegates.
Boston had these type of protestors in 2004 when Kerry “reported for duty” at what was then the Fleet Center downtown (now TD Garden, where the Bruins skate and the Celtics’ sneakers
squeak on the parquet floor) for the ‘04 DNC. Police kept them in line and gave them a small section to gather in.
The same DBM around here was showing the slow pulldown of the camp, admittedly showing the big failure it was but of
course getting the message out by interviewing the residents of the Boston Moonbat Zoo, as I call it, and
hardly any people with brains like us. Ultra-left newspapers like the Weekly Boston Phoenix glorified them.
>>loss of tourism
Many tourists come to Boston for First Night, the New Years’ celebration. Some come to shop for Christmas before then. It had to go.