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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
personally i don't agree with protesting without a clear message but the fact they are speaks loudly of the frustration of many americans and i support their right to do it..
I see no reason why these people can't be allowed to protest unhindered. There is no reason for police to be there. No cops = no violence.
Sure it sucks having a bunch of people camping ,shitting in your parks, but oh well. We bailed out the banks for billions because they were having a hard time, we can spend a bit of that to clean up the parks after..
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The frustration is staggering. People are pissed. At one point exactly half of the houses on my street were vacant. People are loosing their jobs, houses, cars, etc etc etc.
There is no reason why these people cannot protest unhindered. With that said, there are a lot of issues just by the nature of these protests. Generally speaking protests is where you show up for ten hours - then go home. But the very nature of these protests are borderline illegal. These are public parks, not campgrounds. The park they are using in NYC doesn't have bathroom facilities for hundreds of people over a long term. They can't be serving food in bulk without permits.
Protesters have rights. But so do the citizens and business in the area of the park. They don't want war drums being beat at 2am, and they don't want hundreds of people being served on the street. It's a public park, not a circus.
And I love your comment about how we can afford to bail out the banks, so we can afford to clean up our parks. No, we can't. This is a democracy - We should have let the banks fail. But it's costing our cities millions of dollars that they cannot afford. They are targeting "corporate greed" which is vague, while forcing local cities to pay the bill for police, clean up, and damages. For some cities, this is coming out to millions of dollars.