"OK, we've put up with your dress up pay time crap long enough."

"This isn't playtime, it's not dress up and we aren't interested in your approval or a time limit on peaceful protest."

'Don't make me come up there!"

"You don't get this, do you?"

Weaver95: according to my twitter feed, they're prepping for another 2am police beat down that the media can ignore.

uh huh.

Weaver95: Blargosaurus: SilentStrider: And if the OWS were smart enough, they'd say "No thanks, we like it here", and not leave.

That appears to be what they're doing.

according to my twitter feed, they're prepping for another 2am police beat down that the media can ignore.

The last time I trusted your twitter feed, I ended up looking like a moron.

/Not that thats unusual, but, just sayin.

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What the fark is that?

Point02GPA: Tread Jack:

I just now got my 67th Birthday congratulations from Fark. The terrible/strange thing is...I've been telling everyone I'll would be 66. Getting old is rough.

Happy 68th Birthday!

FTA:
"No matter what happens we will be reoccupying at 6 a.m. the day after arrests have been made."

From a radical point of view that sounds good. The envelope, it must be pushed.

If you're a mayor and you don't want OWS people in your parks, tell the people who are causing them to be there to fix things so that the OWS people will go home.

"Allowing unpermitted groups to assemble in the park for days and nights on end has undermined the City's authority and set an uncomfortable precedent"

Yeah, it's much better when people protest for one day then everyone can forget about it.

The permit to protest is the first amendment

I'm not really sure how I feel about the issues at the heart of the current protests, but I'm positive that I'm furious people are getting screwed over by The Man all over again for having an opinion and the fortitude to speak their mind.

Is that Oprah with Louis Farrakhan?

/that is one angry monkey

What a crock of shiat. The mayor cited the reason being that they had to spend $100,000 on extra police security for the protest on just Saturday alone... it also said only 600 people showed up.

So the city felt the need to pay $165 per person for security? WHAT THE fark? Thats like a cop for every 2 people?

friedlinx: Is that Oprah with Louis Farrakhan?

/that is one angry monkey


They don't even look like either of those people.

I've never heard anyone in Atlanta, especially anyone in any position of power, talk like that. Typical southern stereotype.

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Is that Oprah with Louis Farrakhan?

/that is one angry monkey

Too bad his prostate cancer isn't more aggressive,

They should let us non Commies shoot rubber bullets at them and pay money like at the carnival!

The last time Atlanta was occupied it was burned to the ground. I think they have some PTSD from that.

/on the other hand, they are kinda due.

frizzantik: "Allowing unpermitted groups to assemble in the park for days and nights on end has undermined the City's authority and set an uncomfortable precedent"

Yeah, it's much better when people protest for one day then everyone can forget about it.

The permit to protest is the first amendment

but, but.... its just a piece of paper, right?

/or is that only for when Obama wants to ignore congress to push for things the hippies like?

Atlanta has ways of dealing with troublemakers.

It was then rapidly followed with "Go on! Git out of here with that!" and a chasing with a broom.

armoredbulldozer: Too bad his prostate cancer isn't more aggressive,

Hell, it's stacked up over 6 feet of asshole already. What do you want from a tumor?

..."The right of the people peaceably to assemble to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

I don't see anything in there about camping overnight. If you want to protest every day, fine. Go home when the park closes, and come back in the morning. And don't clutter up the park when some OTHER deserving citizens have obtained a temporary permit for its use. The U.S. Constitution doesn't enshrine radical politics; it spells out the form of -- and limitations on -- elected representative government. There is no right to "occupy;" that's a form of civil disobedience, and the whole point of civil disobedience is that its practitioners are subject to arrest. You wanna be radical? Fine, go to jail. Operation Rescue did in the 1980s, and I didn't see many lefties up in arms about THOSE arrests.

/Was a lefty counterprotester against those clowns.

I do think that Mayor Reed has a point about them attempting to escalate the situation purposely. I have been trying to understand this thing from day one and have been watching their (Occupy Atlanta) livestreams, which have been documenting what they have been doing. Last Saturday, they marched up to where the police are staging and started antagonizing them (including shouting "Fark the police!" That's just not a smart move in my book.

Seems like the OA group is trying to get a confrontation just for the sake of having a confrontation. They were being ignored so they threw a two day hip hop concert, advertising Ludacris (who didn't show) in hopes of attracting a huge crowd to bolster their rapidly declining numbers. They also brought in diesel powered generators because if you can't have all of the creature comforts of home, what's the point of protesting?

From what I've seen, OA has almost nothing in common with OWS other than the letter O. Heck, they took the subway to the rich part of town to go protest at the mall and got lost because most had never set foot on public transit before (uh, MARTA? I'll get my LL Bean jacket dirty). OA seems like mostly a mix of GSU students with romantic notions of protests of the past and opportunist concert promoters getting free publicity for their unknown bands any way they can. So far I've seen very little complaint out of them about the corporatization of our government and almost everything about "give me some free stuff too".

/Did think it was funny when the local Tea Party leader got her bluff called and refused to debate one of the OA leaders.

EngineerAU, you'd like this link:

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/broad-concerns-as-protest-1208007.htm l (new window)

That's an AJC Q&A session with the leader of Occupy Atlanta (as in the guy discussing things with Mayor Reed and community leaders).

Regarding their protests at the mall, the ones that DID make it up to the mall were quickly shut down and kicked out as apparently the organizers didn't know that the mall was private property.

Blargosaurus: SilentStrider: And if the OWS were smart enough, they'd say "No thanks, we like it here", and not leave.

That appears to be what they're doing.

Worth getting arrested over? Hope so, because that's probably what the law demands if that's the case. The loud bearded guy seems to think so, I guess.

The city doesn't have to do anything except wait for the cold weather to set in. The first good freeze and these pussies will disappear. Very few protestors occupy the park overnight, they just appear during daylight hours when news media cameras are present.

OA lost me when they were using the call-and-response "human PA system," despite the fact they had an actual powered megaphone. All just to come to "consensus" (obviously steered by the jerk with the megaphone) that John Lewis couldn't talk to them.

BuzzBoy: The city doesn't have to do anything except wait for the cold weather to set in

We're talking Atlanta, not Buffalo....

mbillips: OA lost me when they were using the call-and-response "human PA system," despite the fact they had an actual powered megaphone

that's what lost you?

"We're talking Atlanta, not Buffalo...."

I'm talking ATL ! The wimp factor is great in the park, 40 degrees and it's, "armageddon outta here" !

WhyteRaven74: BuzzBoy: The city doesn't have to do anything except wait for the cold weather to set in

We're talking Atlanta, not Buffalo....

You get lows in the '20s in Atlanta in January and February. Occasionally drops below 10 degrees. Rains a lot in November/December, too. We're talking Atlanta, not San Diego.

From Flickr's photostream of Occupy Atlanta:

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