OWS Zucotti Park

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Originally Posted by Cardus

A park rule prohibits people from camping out overnight. This fact was either conveniently or ignorantly -- hard to tell here -- omitted in this thread.

Or you're either ignorantly or conveniently - hard to tell with you - bringing up something settled from 40 days ago. Which is it?

The park is "private", but is open, by contract with the city (it's a tradeoff park, a builder got an extra high building for creating the park) 24 hours. Being in the park is legal 24 hours.

The rule should have been enforced from the beginning.

But it was not. In fact, early on, Bloomberg said he supported the protesters. Bloomberg said camping is fine. Until, you know, at 1:00am this morning, it was not.

In fact, today they posted new signs outside Zucotti Park, that the park closes at 10:00pm. Surrounded by police and barriers right now. No tents permitted, no lying down, etc.

Yet the Mayor has announced that protesters may occupy the park 24 hours a day. They are there right now. The library is back. There is food delivered.

You see, the law and the Constitution doesn't apply to Mayor Bloomberg. He only gets to apply it at his discretion.

Like when multiple press people are illegally prevented from observing Mayor Bloombergs' "legal" attack on the protesters at 1:00am, and press people are arrested illegally for being present while working.

I walked around the park a few weeks ago. There were more people walking around the square than were in it, from what I could tell.

And when the miscreants left the park to protest, they never obtained a permit. Again, this should have been enforced from the beginning.

Intellectually and asthetically, the "movement" was a farce and a disgrace.

Yet it has grown, with several thousand down there tonight. Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg. A lawyer gave you a restraining order today at 6:00am, you ignored it, then you shopped judges until you found another one to overturn it around noon. The original complaint still stands - see you in court. And Zucotti Park is occupied 24 hours a day, still.