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Yes, but the city is preventing anyone with a tent or a sleeping bag, perfectly legal items to carry, from entering the park.
Prevent the set up, but don't stop them from entering.
Thats where the court case lies, and the fact that they had their private property destroyed because the city wouldn't allow them to pack up their goods and take them with them. They simply destroyed everything.
I don't see a reason why they can't camp out in a public park, don't homeless folks sleep there?
It's all in context Memphis1979. The protesters with tents have intentions.
Although I do think raiding in the middle of the night was wrong.
They should have given them an ultimatum with a date and time.
NYPD has been waffling back an forth (thanks to the mayor) on clearing the camp, then leaving it alone, then taking equipment, then leaving it alone and now raiding it and clearing it themselves.
Other cities are getting their camps cleared as well.
I wonder if some more "phone calls" were made to mayors ?
It's all in context Memphis1979. The protesters with tents have intentions.
Although I do think raiding in the middle of the night was wrong.
They should have given them an ultimatum with a date and time.
NYPD has been waffling back an forth (thanks to the mayor) on clearing the camp, then leaving it alone, then taking equipment, then leaving it alone and now raiding it and clearing it themselves.
Other cities are getting their camps cleared as well.
I wonder if some more "phone calls" were made to mayors ?
The spin on the protestors has cast a negative light on them.
I did hear someone the other day say something interesting. When was the last time we had massive protests? The 60's and 70's really.
No massive, ground up, large percentage of the population has protested in almost 40 years.
People forgot how, this is part of the learning process. (someone please don't mention the TEA party, they were mostly organized by Republicans, and all and all a small percentage of them protested)
The spin on the protestors has cast a negative light on them.
I did hear someone the other day say something interesting. When was the last time we had massive protests? The 60's and 70's really.
No massive, ground up, large percentage of the population has protested in almost 40 years.
People forgot how, this is part of the learning process. (someone please don't mention the TEA party, they were mostly organized by Republicans, and all and all a small percentage of them protested)
So because the Tea Party events didn't involve rapes, assaults, thefts, illegal camping, gun fire or health concerns due to horrible conditions you don't feel they were real protests? I'm very much glad that our Tea Party events didn't look anything like today's OWS, we're better than that.
So because the Tea Party events didn't involve rapes, assaults, thefts, illegal camping, gun fire or health concerns due to horrible conditions you don't feel they were real protests? I'm very much glad that our Tea Party events didn't look anything like today's OWS, we're better than that.
No, TEA party protests had a start and end time. They were "rallies" not protests.
Protests, like those in the civil rights era and Vietnam war era never ended, they had major rallies, but it was a non stop protests, all the time, everywhere. Massive numbers of people camped out on the lawn in front of the white house, and in campuses across the country.
OWS is similar to that, because it had no party start, it was just people mad, and they didn't want to take it anymore. The TEA party was organized by Republican backers, it was nothing but Republican rallies, and thats all it ever was. And, as we see now, they've pretty much shut up because their message was silly and incoherent. Keep your government hands off my government healthcare, but don't tax me? Really?
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I'm very much glad that our Tea Party events didn't look anything like today's OWS, we're better than that.
