Zuccotti Park Evicted and Dis-Infected.

[Singleshotsam]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/booted-out-occupy-wall-street-evicted-by-police-in-midnight-raid/
 
Basically it's a Fox News clip of reports from the Eviction of OWS from Zuccotti Park around 1:00 a.m. this morning.  Good riddance to bad rubbish.
 

NYPD officers swooped down on Occupy Wall Street shortly after midnight to evict the protestors from their Zuccotti Park campground,  kicking off a series of arrests and leaving the movement in disarray.

Police arrested at least 70 protesters, including some who chained themselves together inside the Occupiers’ kitchen tent.
I arrived on the scene shortly after the first wave of arrests took place in the park. The remaining protestors swarmed the police barricades that had been set up to prevent anyone from getting within a city block of the Zuccotti Park site.
(Related: Live video of the day of the raid)
The Occupiers gathered around me were furious and confused. Early attempts to get a consensus on next steps were drowned out by verbal abuse directed at the police.
Some of the organizers announced that all Occupiers should break up into small groups to avoid the police informants they claimed were in the crowd. The group nearest to me discussed linking arms and walking directly through a police phalanx, but others backed off at the thought of intentional mass arrest.
The next two hours, Occupiers played a cat-and-mouse game with police in full riot gear, trying to make their way back into Zuccotti Park. When it became clear that the human microphone technique would not be able to outwit trained officers with surveillance helicopters on site, a stalemate ensued.
But that uneasy calm ended around 3:00 in the morning when violence broke on one of the barricaded street corners.
     
Some video I took from one of those corners is below (Content Warning for Language):

Before the raid started, police passed out leaflets that the park would be “cleared and restored” before the morning, according to the New York Times. Officers set up a battery of flood lights before they moved on the Occupy site and began to confiscate and discard property left behind.
A police Captain reportedly announced that “The city has determined that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park poses an increasing health and fire safety hazard.” Protestors responded by gathering in the kitchen area of Zuccotti and chanting “No retreat, no surrender,” “This is our home” and “Barricade!”
The move may have been in response to the Occupiers’ threats to shut down Wall Street and the New York City subway on Thursday to commemorate two months of successful occupation.
Looks like the Occupiers may have to put their celebration on hold.
As for what’s next, the Mayor’s office tweeted out that the protestors must leave the park but will be allowed to return after it has been cleared– without any tents or sleeping bags.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement Tuesday that the evacuation was conducted in the middle of the night “to reduce the risk of confrontation in the park, and to minimize disruption to the surrounding neighborhood.”
He said after the cleaning, protesters would be allowed to return but “must follow all park rules.”
“The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day,” Bloomberg said. “Ever since the occupation began, that law has not been complied with, as the park has been taken over by protesters, making it unavailable to anyone else.”
If the city enforces park rules against structures and overnight sleeping,  it would eliminate Zuccotti Park as a home base for the Occupiers. That means the Occupiers will have to find a new home, or disperse for the winter.
But at this point, the City of New York has regained the initiative its battle with Occupy Wall Street.
The Associated Press Contributed to this report.
 

[ironglow]

  The Flea Party is finally being ejected from Zucotti Park.  The owner of the park didn't really want them there in the first place, but political pressure forced him to cave.  Eventually, wherever the radical left gathers..the stench, smell, disease and putrifaction...forced officials to evict the riotous squatters.
   So, now who cleans up the mess ?  According to the news the leftist squatters WILL NOT be cleaning up after themselves. but rather the sanitation dept will be doing the cleaning at public expense. 
   From the news;
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    "About 70 people were arrested, including some who chained themselves together, while officers cleared the park so that sanitation crews could clean it.
Protesters at the two-month-old encampment were told they could come back after the cleaning, but under new tougher rules, including no tents, sleeping bags or tarps, which would effectively put an end to the encampment if enforced".
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     That's the way the leftists always operate..move in on something decent, trash it in every way possible..then exit and leave the mess for others to clean up.
   Compare that to the Tea Party, who not only cleaned up after their own rallies...but often have cleaned up after the sloppy and filthy liberals have left areas of their protests...
     http://www.theblaze.com/stories/so-who-is-cleaning-up-the-wisconsin-capitol-after-union-protests/
   
     http://www.redstate.com/tomtflorida/2011/03/06/tea-party-cleaning-up-after-the-leftagain/
 
     Few things can illustrate the difference in the  character, citizenship and decency between the right and left so well as how they have treated and left, public and private property in their wake.
    Then too in many cases, being raised by 'aging hippie' parents, probably doesn't instill much respect for others OR their property.
     

[magooch]

The entitlement mentality on full display.

[powderman]

Mayor: Raid done overnight to reduce confrontation   Associated Press Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:01 AM
Updated today at 8:02 AM        NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says Zuccotti Park was evacuated in the middle of the night "to reduce the risk of confrontation."
He said in a statement early Tuesday morning that it was also conducted overnight "to minimize disruption to the surrounding neighborhood."
Bloomberg says protesters will be allowed back in the park after it is cleaned. But he says protesters will not be allowed to use tents, sleeping bags, or tarps and will have to follow all park rules.
He says the law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day.
Since the Occupy Wall Street protesters took it over almost two months ago, he says it has not been available to anyone else.

[magooch]

So the mayor finally grew a pair.

[powderman]

HEH. I believe this is the 3rd post on the same thing. I didn't recognize IGs post so now there are 3 of them. Maybe We need to be more specific in the titles to our stories. Hope the mods will combine them with a title we all recognize. Sorry I didn't read more before I posted. POWDERMAN. 

[dukkillr]

HEH. I believe this is the 3rd post on the same thing. I didn't recognize IGs post so now there are 3 of them. Maybe We need to be more specific in the titles to our stories. Hope the mods will combine them with a title we all recognize. Sorry I didn't read more before I posted. POWDERMAN. 

Done.  I tried to pick the most obvious of the titles.

[BBF]

The cleanup is way overdue, IMO the first day the Park Rules were violated the arrests/citations should have been done.

[ironglow]

The cleanup is way overdue, IMO the first day the Park Rules were violated the arrests/citations should have been done.

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  Scatter;
   No question about it..If you or I had gone there a year ago and either pitched a tent or took a leak & a dump in the park, we would have been hauled off immediately..and rightly so....

[powderman]

DUK. Thanks. POWDERMAN. 

[SwampThing762]

  The Flea Party is finally being ejected from Zucotti Park. 
   So, now who cleans up the mess ?  According to the news the leftist squatters WILL NOT be cleaning up after themselves. but rather the sanitation dept will be doing the cleaning at public expense. 
 

Finally!! Shovel-ready jobs under the Obummer regime!!

ST762

[magooch]

And what exactly would be that idea--get a share of other peoples prosperity by being a lazy a-hole?

[ironglow]

The cleanup is way overdue, IMO the first day the Park Rules were violated the arrests/citations should have been done.

Yeah, but can they evict an 'idea'.....?
 
TM7

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  Often, crazy ideas die of their own weight.......and the disgusting and criminal actions of this nutsy crowd will help to kill it !

[ironglow]

 TM;
  Do you really believe that people should be encouraged orallowed to pitch tents, smoke dope, urinate and deficate all over public streets and parks ?

[BBF]

I have no critique to the subject of the occupation but a mayor "barf" reaction to the behavior of those people.
 
Re Park: I appears it is being reoccupied to some extend.

[OldSchoolRanger]

Yeah, but can they evict an 'idea'.....?
 
TM7

I believe Mrs. Peyser can show you what ordinary New Yorkers think about their "idea".

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sanity_prevails_but_loons_just_don_pheywxlvfehKba7UrsZSgJ

More local follow up on the OWS cleanup.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/conditions_just_offal_ZPpC4vbKIacJIdGJhvgXnJ

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/city_basking_in_evict_ory_vqNkQMrKljVXpAsWiWHo2M/0

[SHOOTALL]

It seems hard to have a country when half the people obey the laws , work and contribute to the building of the country and the other half only takes with out working and is in a constant state of hand out to recieve pay for doing nothing. I for one am not in favor of this arrangement .

[powderman]

OSR. Thanks for the links. No reason to sort anything, should have trashed it all. Way past time for taking out the trash. Scary to realize that these scum vote and breed. POWDERMAN. 

[billy_56081]

Be nice to see a Kent stae times 10 thousand here.

[powderman]

I'm looking forward to the pics as 2 ft of snow and sub zero temps get there. POWDERMAN. 

[BBF]

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No, I don't except in dire circumstances...Do you think a small group of serial criminals should game the system, swindle, subdue our economy, write phoney paper, claim they are too big to fail and get bailed out, buy Congress, promote endless wars, and generally foment more misery than the planet has ever seen.....and get away with it??
 
..TM7

One of the few things that emotionally sustains me is the hope that those evildoers will answer to that either on earth or thereafter.