Showdown looms between Wall St protesters and cops

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

Associated Press | AP – 1 hr 9 mins ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials on Thursday moved to put an end to Wall Street protesters' month-long occupation of a park that spawned similar gatherings across the nation, setting up a potential confrontation with police and an uncertain future for a movement that claims to speak for the disillusioned middle class.

Demonstrators at the half-acre park in lower Manhattan have said they won't go anywhere at the Friday morning deadline when the park's owners, their patience worn thin, want them to clear out and stop pitching tents or using sleeping bags.

The company that owns the private park where the demonstrators have camped out said it has become trashed and unsanitary. Brookfield Office Properties planned to begin a section-by-section power-washing of Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street, at 7 a.m.

"They're going to use the cleanup to get us out of here," said Justin Wedes, a 25-year-old part-time public high school science teacher from Brooklyn who was one of about 400 people in the park Thursday night. "It's a de facto eviction notice."

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[midnight]

1. K&R for the protestors....

[nineteen50]

2. If only we could get our government and police force to get ride of corporation

that trash and un-sanitize our water, land and air with their
toxic wastes.

[Amonester]

7. If it (still) was our government.

If it (still) was 1960.

[harvey007]

3. Crackdowns are happening nationwide

What ever happened to 'the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances?"

[tama]

10. Government

has right to peaceably disassemble - and that is the only inherent right it has.

All other rights government has are given by people, government gets its rights from people, not the other way around.

[Hissyspit]

4. I've been updating events from Liberty/Zucotti Park here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2113231

[dragonlady]

5. Lawrence O'Donnell showed video of the protesters cleaning

They were sweeping and scrubbing everything and the place looked really good. No more cleaning required. (They can come to our house when they're through.)

[SoapBox]

6. I hope it doesn't get ugly, with the NYC Police Militia.

Guess that the 1% are going to finally try and put down the movement.

...don't think that it's gonna work.

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Maybe ...

The OWS protester should offer to help in the "clean-up." If that's the reason they are being "disbanded", that reason goes away. And it wouldn't be a bad PR move.

[me b zola]

9. Glad to help you catch up

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2112060

Lots of discussion on this today, many posts in GD.

[No Elephants]

12. Please see Reply #5.

[Downwinder]

11. Government has to keep its thumb on the pulse (jugular) of the community.

[No Elephants]

13. Or eliminate the pulse, ala Kent State. Pahtato, pahtahto.