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Originally Posted by GregE
Well, I suppose those three hundred people could instead have stayed home and used those very same laptops to write letters to their congressmen.
Now, that would have really made the government stand up and take notice. right?  |
I'm not saying they don't have the right to protest or shouldn't protest. They do have the right, and they should protest if they feel that badly about it.
The problem is they aren't really protesting so much as they are camping out twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. That's not a protest; It's a cross between a campground and a circus. If you do that in a public park in NYC - or any other city - it's only a matter of time before the homeless say "Hey, free tents and free food". Combined with the fact that the criminal element sees a huge target, and you went from a little protest to dozens of serious crimes being committed.