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NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment
First time accepted submitter Red_Chaos1 was the first to write with news that, as of around 06:30 UTC, the NYPD appears to have begun removing the encampment of Occupy Wall Street. At 06:34 UTC the Mayor's office issued a tweet declaring: "Occupants of Zuccotti should temporarily leave and remove tents and tarps. Protesters can return after the park is cleared." Around 07:15 UTC the first of several large dumpsters were deposited and the police began throwing tents and other debris into it. Reports also indicate that a Long Range Acoustic Device is on the premises. The police are using helicopters and physical barriers to prevent news coverage, but the Occupiers are streaming the events (alternative stream; #occupywallstreet on irc.indymedia.org is also rather active for those who don't fancy flash or twitter.) As of 09:15 or so, the situation according to those near NYC is that the park has more or less been cleared.
Good. No one knows what they are protesting anyway. From the looks of the lot I saw, they weren't lacking jobs because they were totally qualified, hard working Americans looking for work. Perhaps a haircut and an education might help you attain wealth quicker than living in a cardboard box on someone else's property.
It might also help you not look like a complete fucking retard
You might look up the word asshole, and realize that when you put a statement like that in your post, no one reads the rest. They just move on thinking... "What an asshole."
there doesn't seem to be an awful lot of public property anymore. i don't call that an excuse. private property that is a park, should be either allowed to be treated as one, or have a bigass fence built around it.
property rights perhaps need to be more like trademarks - if you don't defend them they disappear.
of course there's a lot of problems with this idea, but some countries actually have a similar thing operating.