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The message these Occupy groups are sending may be a valid one, but you have to question the 'right' of these protesters to what is turing into a permanent encampment on public property. I mean if you or I had set up a tent in either of those parks, we'd have been forcibly removed immediately. Couldn't you or I have an equally valid reason to protest ... and similar first amendement rights? Is it different for them because there are a 'lot of them'? What kind of a message do the authorities send when they allow something by 'a lot of them' that they wouldn't allow from an individual? Might makes right? Mobs can get what they want? The individual is not important?

Personally, I think they would do a better job of getting their message across if they didn't do their protest at taxpayer expense. So far they cost us over a $1 million in our hard earned tax payer dollars. Look at the tea partiers who came to town a couple years back. They held similar protests and were maybe even more effective at getting their message across. (They got Congressmen in power who are doing what they wanted.) BUT they didn't do this on the taxpayer's dollar. They stayed in motels and hotels or even campgrounds and paid their own way ... And they didn't expect Mr. and Mrs. Average Taxpayer to pay for their protests like these folks are doing.

I think the longer they go on staging their protest at our expense, the less they stand a chance of making a difference in any way.

And it's too bad, because the basis for their message is IMHO a valid one.

by Lance on Nov 29, 2011 11:01 am • link • report