>Zuccoti Park: A right to mooch ?
the Staff of the Ridgewood blog
Just shy of the second month anniversary of the “Occupy Wall Street ” movement “protesters” were awaken from their sleep by New York’s Finest asking them to vacate Zuccotti Park the public park that had become there home.
In a through back to the 1960’s the group initially tapped in to the angst of the economic downturn and the cronyism of the last ten years ,but began to lose traction when it began to appear they were looking to imposes social change through the adaption of you guested it, socialism . The lack of originality and lack of a focused message lead the OWS as it is now called to quickly to devolve to both another tourist destination and 24/7 tryouts for reality TV.
The group managed to muster frequent disturbances in public places and at public events ,but as time wore on Zuccotti Park seemed to attract more and more crime ,drug dealing ,security threats and lack of proper sanitation.. I mean after all we a government that thinks a 5 years old is a threat to national security and needs to be strip searched at the airport so its hard not to see how authorities would begin to fear the worst of the “protesters” .
Threats as well as random acts of violence and disruptions left the public asking why only the rights of the protesters seemed to count and the rights of businesses and families living in the area were not being protected. The group seemed to be a favorite of the media and politicians looking to evade responsibility for there own failures of judgement.
The “protesters” image was also hurt by by the enormous amount of IPAD’s and IPHONE’s in use leaving the impression that the group was nothing but a mix of spoiled brats and professional “protesters”. This was born out when links to ACORN were discovered as well as ties to the Obama administration were suggested . Left wing celebrity visits as well as the groups ability to raise seemingly large amounts of money effortlessly also began to hurt the groups PR. The slick professionalism of the website and various other support left people out side the movement increasingly skeptical.
Finally the Mayor who up till now had seemed ineffectual called for there removal saying that the first amendment does not support building a tent city on private property. The decision was spurred on when the city realized that the “protest” was costing more that it was bringing in in tourist dollars and other revenue . New York being the place where money is always first finally acted to defend itself and asked the “protesters” to leave.
With over 200 arrested ,the group was forcible removed and left marauding the streets of lower Manhattan .”Protesters” manged to get a TRO against NYC but most legal experts suggest its time to move on.
