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LOL - it's not because of OWS, it's because of the barricades? Did ya ever stop to think about WHY the barricades were ever put there in the first place?!?!?
No kidding.
Why they were put there does not matter at this point. What matters is that bloomberg refused to move them and further refused to respond to a member of his community. Your type of thinking is part of the problem this nation is in today.
What was the purpose those barricades were set up in the first place?
Because people taking the streets for demonstrations are a threat and should be stopped at ANY cost? Perhaps it was a good idea, that you condone to leave those barricades permanently?
At Occupy D.C. at the Freedom Plaza camp the occupy has been a boom for store owners, I have talked to them personaly face to face while ordering food from them while I am down there taking part in Occupy events/protests; of course there are no barricades set up by police.
I have not seen any barracades any place I have been during protest marches etc.
For the most part police have been peaceful, we have to deal with several different police departments, there are the city police, park police and capital police.
I will take it for granted, ted, that you never saw any videos of those OWS people marching down the street chanting "Whose streets?" "Our Streets". Did you see anything like that in DC?
I think the nearest to destruction in DC that I saw reported was the night they tried to shut down the national Tea Party event, with some violence involved.
Can you compare the DC rallies with those in Oakland and Portland? Do you not now that the new eating establishment in NYC said long before the end of the OWS thing that he may have to shut down because people just stopped coming in when the protesters were barricaded.
No kidding.
Why they were put there does not matter at this point. What matters is that bloomberg refused to move them and further refused to respond to a member of his community. Your type of thinking is part of the problem this nation is in today.
No, CK your kind of thinking is the problem. Pure support of that abortion of a protest is our problem in that socialism is what they stood for and you are supporting them.
Because people taking the streets for demonstrations are a threat and should be stopped at ANY cost? Perhaps it was a good idea, that you condone to leave those barricades permanently?
But some don't see trying to protect the majority, the residents, as legal when a good protest is going on. That protest should have met serious police power from the first, especially after they claimed they owned the streets. Either they were saying they owned the streets through legal means or that they were proclaiming ownership through power. I say it was the latter.
Ultimately we have to look at why there are protests to begin with, what brought on these protests
The loudest noise in NYC, in the beginning, was to get the taxpayers to pay their college debts and other debts. I never did sign a paper for them to borrow money on but they thought that kind of redistribution of wealth should take place.
This isn't the fault of OWS.....even the eatery owner admits that. He can look to bloomberg, kelly and bloomberg's "personal army". And then there is that little issue we having choking this nation called "poor economy".
"Epstein blamed the barricades that remained in front of his restaurant even after the Occupy Wall Street protestors were removed from Zuccotti Park."
"The restaurant owner, who operates an eatery and catering business in Boston, said he pressed the city daily for their removal, but got nowhere."
Not their fault? Were the barricades there for a different reason?
And you think it helps the economy to close businesses?
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