OWS evicted from Zuccotti Park, threaten to step up violence

posted at 1:52 pm on November 16, 2011 by Howard Portnoy
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Black Friday, the day that marks the official kickoff of the Christmas shopping season, falls a week from this Friday. If the threat of one protester—to firebomb the flagship store of the retail giant Macy’s (video cue 1:01)—becomes a reality, it will be a very black Friday indeed.

The threat is just one of many issuing from the lips of the peaceful, law-abiding hordes, who were formally evicted from Zuccotti Park on Tuesday, when Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Michael Stallman ruled:

The [protesters] have not demonstrated that they have a First Amendment right to remain in Zuccotti Park, along with their tents, structures, generators and other installations to the exclusion of the owner’s reasonable rights and duties to maintain Zuccotti Park, or to the rights to public access of others who might wish to use the space safely.

Neither have the applicants shown a right to a temporary restraining order that would restrict the city’s enforcement of law so as to promote public health and safety.

Lawyers for the protesters have vowed to appeal the decision, though it’s hard to imagine on what grounds they can effectively claim proprietorship over a public space that is privately owned by a third party.

In the meantime, Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway filed a motion on behalf of the city on Tuesday asserting that “people who have a known history of violent interaction with the police” have been gathering in the park, and “makeshift items” that could be used as weapons, “such as cardboard tubes with metal pipes inside, had been observed among the occupiers’ possessions.”

Holloway further noted that after the “occupation” of a traffic lane on the Brooklyn Bridge in October, “knives, mace and hypodermic needles were observed discarded on the roadway.”

The mainstream media’s continued whitewashing of the anti-Wall Street protests as non-violent or as somehow the “ideological counterpart” of “the Tea Party” potentially puts innocent lives in harm’s way.

At one point in the two-month-long farce, this column recommended that the protesters fold up their tents, literally, and return to their lives. Now that that decision has been made for them—and their response has been to threaten innocent civilians with firebombs—they need to be treated like any other terrorists. Your move, Secretary Napolitano.

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