Protesters Evicted from Zuccotti Park

Posted on November 15, 2011 at 7:00 am by Bob Cesca

I tweeted this last night, but it bears repeating:

The worst trespass in America is to challenge the financial elite. We’re taught from day one to buy their crap, and to never talk back.

Occupy Wall Street is a threat to ongoing consumer complacency in the face of corporate overreach and power consolidation. In the eyes of the masters, this cannot stand. So the protesters were evicted.

But I sure hope they’ll be back.

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  • ranger11

    Isn’t Bloomberg the dude “some people” want for an Indy run? I don’t think that’s gonna work.

    • aleth

      But according to Micheal Moore Obama sent them in… I just don’t get it.

      Bloomberg who Nadler said is the third party candidate.. Bloomberg is the same guy who said the OWS were targeting the wrong people.. I still have not heard any outrage from this “independent bloomberg’s conduct.”

      Somehow, a local issue is the president’s fault. I guess he should have sent the national guard to protect them.. SMH

      • Scopedog

        “But according to Micheal Moore Obama sent them in… I just don’t get it.”

        Wouldn’t be surprised if he said this.

  • Cynicor

    It’s about time they cleared the drug-addicted dirtbags with failed, radical ideas out of Wall Street. But instead of arresting Larry Kudlow, they seem to have gone after OWS.

  • http://twitter.com/SugaRazor Razor

    I think the movement’s pretty much done. It’ll still exist in some form, but the corporate media has managed to set the narrative of hippies being hippies. Tea Party BBQs to Bitch About the Black Guy were SERIOUS BUSINESS, but Occupy is just smelly kids.

    The media has come to defend their shareholder interests and unless there’s a non-violent escalation of the movement – the proverbial “next step” – simply occupying a space isn’t going to do anything at this point.

    • Dan_in_DE

      I agree with all of this, Razor. But I hasten to add, showing up at townhalls and being disruptive just like the teabaggers were doing two years ago is definitely not what that next step should be.

      Some OWSers showed up and “mic-checked” at Bachmann’s thing over the weekend, and if you ask me, this was the last nail in the coffin of any positive media coverage they have enjoyed. And upon seeing the news of the Oakland and Zucotti park evictions, my first thought was, yeah – this is exactly the excuse the authorities were waiting for. That Bachmann incident was just enough negative OWS coverage to justify shutting them down.

    • MrDHalen

      I think the movement needs some leaders. I understand they don’t want politicians, but eventually you need leaders to become the point people for the media. Otherwise, the media can makeup any narrative they want about you.

      It would be great in my opinion if OWS had some EX-Wall Street gurus making the rounds with the media explaining in simple terms to the public that “Our financial markets and corporations are out of control and it has to stop!” They could also call “Bull Shit!” on the CNBC talking heads who pretend to know what they’re talking about.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Janes/607039439 Rick Janes

        Having leaders contradicts some of the points OWS is making. We already have ‘leaders’ up the ying-yang and they aren’t accomplishing what they were sent by the people to do thanks to the corrupt system they work in. This is a new thing, similar to the original democracy of ancient Greece, and I think we should give it a chance to work. If we can force the money out of politics — I know, a tough job — then we can have leaders who are beholden only to the general welfare of the people, as the Constitution intended. To your last point, who really pays attention to what the Talking Heads on CNBC think? I mean, doesn’t ‘Mad Man’ Jim Cramer still work there?

        • MrDHalen

          OWS has succeeded in becoming recognized and lots of people understand and support the movement, but what’s next? Are we just going to sit out in parks forever and hope the people who run government are going to change? The people running our government are doing fine financially and so are the people who have bought them.

          A collapse of the European markets or more police violence against protesters could bring more people into the fold, but more people are needed for change to happen.

          If you don’t want leaders, then you at least need a few key messengers. Messengers pull back the curtains and expose the lies of the CNBC’s. They take away the tools and talking points that corrupt politicians use to muddy the waters and fool good people into voting against their own interest.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Janes/607039439 Rick Janes

      I disagree, Razor. Everytime the cops crack down, the OWS Movement gets bigger. All over the country, people from all walks of life are joining in so it’s pretty hard, as much as they try, for the media to dismiss the entire movement as just a bunch of dirty hippies. Already an Oakland cop who infiltrated the Oakland OWS has publicly expressed his support; in Atlanta, OWS protestors helped save a cop’s home from foreclosure and, increasingly, the military is embracing OWS. Besides, I’m old enough to remember when the civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, and women’s movements wre all dismissed by the media of the time as kooks and radicals and hippies, but they changed America despite that, just as OWS is changing America today.

  • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

    This makes me really sad.

  • Robert Scalzi

    Pacifism usually gets you nothing but stomped on… (modern exceptions, Ghandi, & Dr King) Time to Rise against the machine . grab a few bricks , do not do this near OWS sites , do it somewhere they least expect it. like the suburban McDonalds or Bof A’s tie a note to it that reads we are the United States You are Fucking Poseurs and we think YOU DESERVE A BRICK TODAY.

    • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

      Violence will only get us more violence, Robert.

      The Arab Spring was a fine example of the ultimate triumph of peaceful protest. The problem in this country is that there are not enough people willing to stand up.

      • Robert Scalzi

        In principle I agree, however the Vietnam War would have continued for much longer had there not been Militant action by the movement, it took ALL of the differing methods of protest , peaceful and not so peaceful to bring about the end of that fiasco, and I believe nothing will change w/ only pacifism as the method. WE need to explore all methods to bring down the beast.

        • Scopedog

          “I believe nothing will change w/ only pacifism as the method.”

          Huh. Tell that to Ghandi and Dr. King.

          Oh, and calling for more “militant action” sounds great doesn’t it? Until you consider the consequences. What if innocents get hurt? What if the people you claim you’re fighting for get hurt or lose even more? Have you thought of that?

          If you throw a fist, you damned well better expect to get one in return. Just saying.

          • Robert Scalzi

            If you throw a fist, you damned well better expect to get one in return. Just saying.

            my point exactly…

            I believe in using all the tools in the toolbox.

          • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

            I understand where you’re coming from, but it would get us nowhere that’s good, and even though it may be slow sometimes, peaceful protest has been proven to work.

        • Dan_in_DE

          I would suggest you look up a Bill Ayers interview on the subject. As someone who used to have this viewpoint, he might be the best to convince you of its backwardness.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Janes/607039439 Rick Janes

          Robert, specifically what violent action led to the end of the Vietnam War?

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Janes/607039439 Rick Janes

        Nicloe’s right, Robert. Throwing bricks or other violence only plays into their hands. The 1 Percent are trying to encourage such violence and I wouldn’t be surprised if the current crop of so-called ‘anarchist’ brick-throwers were actually agent provocateurs sent in to try and discredit the OWS Movement.

  • dildenusa

    Bloomberg can never win an independent run at the presidency. It doesn’t have anything to do with his actions regarding the Occupy Wall Street protests, it’s his rabid gun control policies that would sink him.

    Here is the irony. Scum like Bloomberg are hand in glove with the Koch Roach Brothers and certain hard right politicians and federal judges. The tea party republics who are being led around on a leash by the big money on the hard core right don’t realize that the Koch Roaches and their ilk are just as likely to try to take away their guns as President Obama.