Here in St. Louis, the occupation at Kiener Plaza was also accused by Mayor Slay as being filthy and a health menace. Occupy St. Louis was accused of public urination, but our 'darling' Mayor forgot one slight detail---local unions (including Teamsters) brought in Port-A-Potties which have been on site since the beginning of the occupation. Not only did Mayor Slay tell a lie--he told an incredibly stupid lie.

Mayor Jean Quan admitted to the BBC that she was on a conference call with mayors from 18 other cities about coordinating the shutdown of the various Occupy camps. Just who coordinated the call? Homeland Security?

I was in Zuccotti Park with OWS group on monday. The media reports of major health and safety hazards are false. I have been involved in safety administration for large camps in the military. While not everyone smelled as fresh as a daisy, I saw absolutely no filth. Just people camping and policing themselves and their camp up. Troops of volunteers work day and night policing the camp, there were no gas generators to be seen or heard. Power was available via human powered generators attached to exercise bikes. These were being operated pretty much non stop by rotating volunteers. I was rather shocked to find they had swept the park just 4 or 5 hours after I left. Especially when the Mayor reported that they had "Handed out fliers and informed everyone at Zuccotti park to leave before hand." I suppose this is not really a lie as much as a lie of omission. I have no doubt that they told everyone to leave, but the time they gave people to collect their belongings before assaulting the sleeping encampment was most likely minutes instead of hours or days.

Actually, the Adbusters offered two strategies. One was to hunker down, and the other was to declare victory.

Either way, the movement is not going anywhere.

If the States, Citys, Countrys got the Occupiers Message then we would have seen change.. and since change is not made then i guess the message was not got.

States, Citys, Countrys if you want this to end stop being payed off you work for the people not the Bankers, Corp CEO's also arrest and charge and lock up for years the 1% bankers, CEO's, and change how things are done.. till that is done the message has not been made

Shameful. What an example for the rest of the world. Here's how we do it in America...the land of the free, home of the brave, with liberty and justice for 1%.
Teach your children well, this is only the beginning!

What a shocker! a Wall Street bankster type says he hopes they're gone forever....dream on bucko. there are 15 million unemployed...no money for these long term unemployed, no jobs programs, nothing for the millions who are now homeless...except tented camps....for instance in California 2000 per camp off the highway...millions. Maybe you have a trustfund but most working americans do not...we are the 99%

As an former commissiner of Oakland public Housing Authority, and a resident living three blocks from the plaza, the 24/7 whirly birds(HUBUBUBUB!!!) were my first notice of an encamped protest. I walked down to find a vibrantly energetic joyful gathering of everyday people just wanting their voices to be heard. ... IS THAT TOO MUCH??? ... The four evictions sanctioned by our Mayor Quan, who canpained to help the homeless to be housed, is now siding with her over the top police brigade(sweld by bringing in 17 other citie's police, and Hiway patrol agencies, have now turned into the most brutal police state thugs who have a very cruel contingent who are mean to their bones. They are more offensive then anything I have EVER seen in my life. Aren't we all Americans? This is destroying our DEMOCRASY !!! Just speak with us!!! All America is listening!!! ... If Mayor Quan, and every other elected official (in every state, and Wash, D.C.) will not listen, then what rights of representation have we left??? ... How many other citizens in Oakland are siding with this movement? The Mayor's office is up for a recall. I will even confront her face to face! Will she listen then??? You know where my vote will be. Bill Curry

The latest attitude especially he first caller.

Yes we don't want to see them homeless people anymore. Damn they've been making me feel guilty for 2 months now. Please go back under a bridge or in a van down by the river so I don't have to think about why you can't afford to eat.

This is the new meme. That 2 months is too long. Listen swill suckers some these people are 99ers . As in after 99 months of unemployment they are still without means to support themselves.

My Dear Fellows,

Is my outrage misplaced? Although I would have to say that outrage must be good for the heart, because this 80-year-old heart is still going strong, maintaining a low heartbeat and low blood pressure—‘course, no one is around to check either when I am reacting to news on TV or radio…

Is it not our Constitution that makes our country exceptional? And don’t we love to recite the First Amendment, including the priceless phrase “…the right of the people peaceably to assemble…”

Mayor Bloomberg has just said that the first amendment “protects speech but it does not protect tents.” Oh, WOW, just consider, the Supreme Court has ruled that money is speech, yet Bloomberg proclaims that tents are not speech.

If you want to watch the police state in action, as NYPD destroys Zuccoti Park village, you will have to watch Democracy Now, at freespeechtv or linktv, or access it on the internet at www.democracynow.org as I believe they were the only journalists at the scene when the park was raided this morning. If you are not moved, then I would have to say, as Rick Perry did in another context, “you have no heart.” One of the most moving moments was perhaps when Amy Goodman leaned over and picked up out of the debris a battered paperback book, “Brave New World Revisited.”

How is it that we applaud the Arab Spring, as it occurs in foreign countries, and condemn the governments that suppress those protests, and yet around our country storm troopers and riot police are invading encampments, beating and harassing and arresting protesters, evicting them and destroying their belongings?

Shouldn’t the First Amendment trump park rules? How is it that simply making rules about curfews and tents can stop the people’s right to freedom of speech and to peaceably assemble? Who put limits on when or where these protests could take place? Oh, right, remember the “Free Speech Zones” at national political conventions?

A few days ago someone, probably on Fox News, opined that every parent watching these scenes of occupiers is fearful of spotting the face of a child in the crowd. Well, don’t count me in that bunch. I find myself, with hope, scanning the faces I see at those protests for any sign of a grandchild of mine, and do know this, I would stand with that grandchild, in spirit at least.

Is Hope, in fact, still shut up in Pandora’s Box?
Gramma Windy
www.grammawindysblog.blogspot.com

Were any of the Mayors meetings paid for with tax dollars? So the 99% is paying to have our "Rights" violated?

As a 60's radical i feel as if i have been asleep! Thank God this generation is fighting the same crap- i would hate to think all my youthful energy was waste!!GOGOGOGOGO-where can i send money?-lol

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is a liar. She has a history of taking different view points as she feels the political winds changing. There are no "leaders of the movement" for her to talk to. She is using the media as a propaganda machine to try to convince people that the movement is over.

If it is true that the people at "Adbusters" said the movement should disband, then I suspect "someone got to them" with some sort of blackmail or extortion tactic.

The Elites are feeling truly threatened by this movement, so they want to push this protest into "free speech zones" where no one has see or hear the dissent.

The Occupy movement is non-partisan.

So if the Supreme Court rules this behavior is unjust does the 18 city conference call equate to a Criminal Conspiracy?

Where are the recent Democrat sympathizers of OWS?

Did the year 2011 begin with
Democrats continuing their long running defamation of their law abiding Tea Party opposition by smearing them with a horrible crime in January they had nothing to do with while imperiously calling for "civility" as a cynical political gimmick?
Did they end this year by openly sympathizing with the Occupy protesters who are grossly uncivil with a lengthy criminal rap sheet to prove it only to now distance themselves when they got criminally out of control?
Is the Democratic Party doing now everything they falsely accused the Republican Party of doing back in January?

Where is the Democrat establishment from the President on down who were recently sympathizing with the Occupy movement?
As the Democrats quickly abandoned calls for "civility" when it was no longer politically useful to them, are they now washing their hands of angry protesters now that they have become an embarrassing political liability?
The whipsaw media spin on this civil/uncivil cynicism this year is dizzying since the Democrat establishment and their friends in the media cannot get their mendacious story straight.

Time to adjust tactics... winter is coming, but then comes the spring --- you can grow indoors as well as outdoors