New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has issued an ultimatum to the Occupy Wall Street protesters: vacate by 7 am on Friday. This afternoon, like children, they began to clean up after themselves, picking up the trash that has accumulated over four weeks. However the protesters are now vowing to “resist” in the morning (see update).
For weeks the owner of the park and residents have complained that the protestors were violating a host of city ordinances and posed a public danger. Yesterday Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly finally agreed and ordered the mandatory eviction.
Most of the mainstream media have ignored the unsanitary and dangerous conditions at Zuccotti Park, where the OWS protesters have lived for four weeks.
Now the park is a mess of trash, tents, mattresses, urine and sleeping bags. And residents have complained about lewdness, drug use, loud drumming, public urination as well as sexual assaults.
Commissioner Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg told the protesters they had to clear out by Friday morning and the city would clean up their mess. Kelly told reporters:
“After it’s cleaned, they’ll be able to come back. … But they won’t be able to bring back the gear. The sleeping bags, that sort of thing, will not be able to be brought back into the park.”
Nothing happens easily in New York City, however. Today Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer tried to invoke the protesters’ First Amendment rights to continue living in the filth: ”There is no need to rush into hasty, precipitous action when it comes to the peace and safety of our community.” He was supported by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), whose congressional district abuts the park.
UPDATE: About 1,000 protesters vowed to “resist” being evicted in the morning. Tonight, according to CNN, they chanted: “”All day! All week! Occupy Wall Street!”
Worker of the World Unite. Stand strong with Obama and the Democratic Party. Don’t let those lame, pansy, nancy-boy NYC cops try and push you around. Stand up for your rights. Long Live the Revolution.
“The Poor Peasants’ Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.”
V.I. Lenin
Love you OWS. Obama says Communism is sure to work this time.
Trash? Would such great, wondrous, and upright Americans, representing 99% of the world due some a monstrous thing? Cleaning up trash costs money, and worse yet, it’s bad for the environment! No dear author, you must be mistaken.
Then again, maybe they are trying to, “create,” jobs for people. To bad it’s not jobs for themselves. Or maybe it’s to punish the corporate goons, except the city gets stuck with the bill. So, it must be a sign of solidarity with the government employees. See, they support your work! Aren’t they nice, kind, considerate, non-violent protesters?
Prayerfully hoping the New York Police and National Guard will remove the stench as in protesters. I pray the protesters will be removed and if necessary
arrested if they fail to co-operate with law enforcement. If they leave a mess; charge them with littering, if they urinate and defecate on private property, city property… arrest on the spot and jail them for ten days. I hope my tax dollars will remove the stench from the area tomorrow. I am sick and tired of the stench! Clean up the animals and if necessary; bus them into recruiting depots, shave their heads and send them through thirteen weeks of boot camp training. Leave time around seven days, maximum. Day Eight… ship them to schools for further military training and by January 2012… ship them all overseas to fight our battles. I hope to God that the hitch will last four years with an option of reup as in re-enlistment for an additional two years. Come on CONGRESS… pass my legilation now! God bless America and so long to the stench across the nation. My God rules the roost and I am one of the men that laid the concrete to this great nation known to the world as America!! PP
Hey, they’re just like teaparty members! According to congresswitch Wasserman, the tea partiers did the same thing, pooped on cars, left a mess. I mean they must have once, at least! And of course the mainstream media, so friendly to their cause, failed to show us any of it….The attempts by leftwing nuts to show the negative similarities to this and the tea party gatherings shows how far from reality these halwits function.
We live in a bad movie.
A policeman who was once a neighbor of mine once described the deployment of a nightstick as a ‘wood shampoo’.
Looking at this lot they seem to all be in need of a good bath. And a shampoo.
Long live the Flea Party.
Stand strong brothers (and sisters)! Take it to the racist, zionist, capitalist swine of the Man!
Kuddos to the wag that dubbed them “The Pot Party” as opposed to “The Tea Party”!
Svin
Funny thing, I know a few Tea-Partiers who hate the current drug laws and liberals who believe in them hook line and sinker (don’t do something that’s “bad for you, be a dolt like me, wah”). I
In fact, the Tea partiers I know are neither like you people NOR what some idiot lib make them out. The perception of the tea party in this country is weird. Every one of them are basically Ron Paul supporters who feel they’ve been Hijacked by conjobs, and demonized by libs. I’m trying to convince them to not vote R, just like they won’t vote D. Unless it’s Ron Paul. They should vote for him if they can. Lesser of two evils? More like McSame.
And, yes, they hate me throwing the teabagger name around, but I think they realize I’m not aiming it at them, and I just like to make fun of stupid people. I’m really aiming it at some republican righty idiot who calls him self that, but is clearly not interested in the constitution. I hate most conjobs, but I have more teaparty friends than libtard friends. In fact I’ve been trying to convert libtards I known toward libertarianism, which is what they really believe in, they just don’t realize it. They hate the conjobs too, so like my teaparty friends think they need to align with the “lesser” of two evils. It’s not lesser, it’s the same. Some conservative threatening your lively hood because you don’t act like him, is not interested in upholding the constitution. What they believe in is just as fascist as the commies.
If the Tea Party is what you say it is why isn’t Paul much higher in the polls? Why isn’t he higher than Cain at least?
Does that mean we can quit hearing about these idiots? Or are they going to go riot and burn cars instead? Typical.
They should really be made to clean up after themselves…but that would make them victims I’d guess…
Why should anyone expect them to clean up after themselves? They apparently don’t do anything else for themselves…
Both Brookfield & the City backed down from the 7:00 AM deadline. They have “postponed” the municipal/ corporate clearing and cleaning effort indefinitely. The Occupation Army made an effort beginning yesterday afternoon and continuing through last night to clean up their own mess. I’ve seen no reports on how thorough or systematic a job they did.
Under the City’s withdrawn order the Occupation Army would be required to evacuate Zuccotti for the clean-up but could return aftet its completion. However, they couldn’t bring any of their kit (tents, sleeping bags, tarps, tables, computers, generators, etc.) back in. Now all the furnishings, equipment and accoutrements will stay, along with the army.
Alas, no Rudy in sight.
I’ve been hoping for an outbreak of e. coli or other feces-borne disease among the participants.
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