Forum Post: Occupy Wall Street caused destruction
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 14, 2011, 10:03 a.m. EST by tmacTom
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I can totally understand the frustration with how things are run and think that you have the right to protest. However I have to ask for the destruction to stop! What destruction you ask? Every park that you occupy is getting destroyed and will have to have millions of dollars needed to fix. These are public places that families and people of the 1% that you are trying to represent use. Is any of the money you raising going to fix the damage that you cause? Of course not because that is not your way. Look around! You are part of the system as well. Please move out of the parks. You can keep protesting, but just stop destroying 99% of the public spaces you occupy.
The 99% owns the parks for which their hard-earned money went to through taxation.
All protests, if to be successful, has to be done in public spaces, especially the prominent ones.
In many cases, like Zuccotti Park, the 99% has already put in input as to how they want those parks used, through democratically elected officials, community boards, volunteer groups, city taxes, donations, etc.
So a small, unelected group can now hang out in 60 Wall Street and decide how a community park frequented by tens of thousands of people is used indefinitely because... they say so? That sounds more like the 1% to me.
Those parks were made for and by the 99%. If we destroy them, we paid for them through state and city taxes, it shouldn't matter. They will be rebuilt anyways, again through our taxes. If this is "America" , the great land of the "free", we should be aloud to protest where we want, whenever we want. And if we do not use our PUBLIC spaces as we please through this movement, it will never be heard. If you want the parks in tip top shape, you can use your own pocket money to keep it that way. If not, put a play set in your backyard. The money we are raising does not have to go towards the "damage" we've caused because it has already been taken out through your and my tax dollars.
There is a difference between protesting and blocking use of a public space for 99% of a local community indefinitely. What if the KKK decided to camp out in your public park indefinitely, blocking access for the rest of the community? The first amendment doesn't discriminate between good and bad causes.
uhm sir, Im sorry to say but I don't think a racist group has anything to do with this. They have intent to harm. We have intent to reform.
No one knows what you intent is unless you tell them. I am sure groups with bad intentions would say the same thing. There is a lack of introspection amongst OWS that is turning people off.
If a group says "we are protesting x" do they have a right to hold a public space and block all fair use forever? You are arguing that because you have good intentions you have the right to seize a public space, sit in an atrium and decide how its used, and ignore or pass the buck on legitimate community concerns by the people who fought for that space in the first space. Its like listening to someone defend eminent domain...
115 3/4 Broadway is not being "destroyed."
There's a couple of flower beds that will need to be replanted. That happens every spring.
Be one helluva work party for the clean-up.
Y'all come !