And common human decency.

@gppp,

Apparently, it isn’t as common as we think it is, or if you are as old as I am, as it used to be.

Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer

If the City will not supply or authorize portable toilets and the local businesses block the use of their toilets where are people supposed to go.

To actual jobs?

How about observing the rules which previously governed the park? These include not camping out and not sleeping in the park. Is the city, and are the local businesses, under some obligation to provide toilet facilities for people who are not observing park rules or patronizing the businesses? As it is, lunch shops are losing money hand over fist because the Occupiers don’t buy and the work crews in the area can’t get to them and can’t eat their lunches in the park as they used to. The takeover of the space 24/7 shows no respect for the neighborhood.

They are supposed to go to Trinity, Wall Street and afford themselves of solidarity.

I miss the good old days of tear gas, police batons, rubber bullets and water canon. Throw in a German Shepherd or two for good measure.

You know, this reminds me of what we did when the 1979 BCP replaced the 1928 BCP.

Well….not quite….when that happened instead of Occupying Our Church, (OOC) we (and our money) just stayed home.

Excellent idea, Ordinariate Bound! Trinity Wall St. should make its bathroom facilities available to the Occupiers. Its endowment would surely cover the water use, cleaning, and toilet paper supplies, especially since Trinity is so supportive of the OWS goals, whatever they turn out to be.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_hell_kitchen_i5biNyYYhpa8MSYIL9xSDL

The Occupiers are communists and wipe commerce out of cities.

The Tea Party are capitalists and will wipe the Occupiers out of the cities.

I miss the good old days of tear gas, police batons, rubber bullets and water canon. Throw in a German Shepherd or two for good measure.

It’s pretty damn clear that if the cops don’t get rid of the occupiers, the Tea Party will.

@ John
October 27, 2011

The “John” issue is and always was a problem for “99%” to think and have thought about before commencing the undertaking and made arrangements for it. After all it was meant to be a long term “occupation”.

This shows another difference. The OWS folks think that this issue is “someone else’s problem.” They are not responsible for solving it. This is much different from the behavior of the Tea Party groups, which left venues cleaner than they were before the Tea Party met.

John:
Home.

I am soooooooooooo sorry that some PhD in Applied Linguistics can’t get a job in his/her chosen field. I have a BSEd in Social Studies and got laid off. I don’t have a job either, but instead of creating problems I am doing what every CITIZEN is supposed to do: Be responsible and look for work outside my field, pay my bills and not be a complete free-loader.

1) Don’t hate the linguistics. Hate the degreeholder.

2) This article has finally pinned down for me the crucial differences between medieval reenactment groups being composed of some hippie-like people, and of them really being hippies. The difference is that medieval reenactment groups are scrupulously clean and organized campers, with a strong dose of Scout training. Real hippies would act like the Occupy folks.

Btw, open flame in, or close to, a tent is very dangerous. I can’t imagine what one in a crowded tent would be like.

As I understand it, the occupiers are protesting “GREED”?

If so, what are they doing there, aren’t they being “greedy”? Wanting someone else’s money?
Just say’n.
Grannie Gloria

aren’t they being “greedy”? Wanting someone else’s money?

They are communists – part of the Organisation for World Socialism.

The Tea Party round here won’t stand for open communism on the streets of This Great Nation for much longer, believe me!

According to Michael Moore, “It’s absolutely criminal that this young man (Scott Olsen) went to Iraq for a war he didn’t agree with, and the only place he had to worry about was here in his own country, in Oakland, California.”……Well, the war in Iraq has been going on for about 10 years, so Olsen, who is 24, was 13 when he enlisted in the Marines?……Oh, never mind! Why waste time using any logic?