Angry Residents, Businesses Plan Anti-Occupy Wall Street Protest

[Synicus Maximus]

Source: NBC New York

Downtown residents and business owners angry that their neighborhood has been occupied for two months by the Wall Street demonstration are staging a protest of the protest Monday, declaring that City Hall has let it get out of control.

Angry over all-day drumming, people urinating and defecating on the streets and verbal attacks from protesters, organizers say they will rally at City Hall Monday to send officials a message.

"Laws are clearly being violated and we simply want them enforced," Lower Manhattan resident Linda Gertsman told NBC New York.

Read more: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Occupy-Wall-Street-Protest-of-the-Protest-Businesses-Residents-City-Hall-133796083.html

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Don't they realize that OWS is working for them?

[kestrel91316]

1. People never urinated and defecated on the streets of NYC prior to OWC??

Wow. Coulda fooled me.

[Ian David]

2. I thought New York actually paid people to urinate on the sidewalks. n/t

[SteppingRazor]

3. Well, hold on though.

People do live in Manhattan, and they have as much right to state their grievances as anyone in Zuccotti does. Much as I support 99 percent of what OWS is for, If it was in my back yard, I'd probably get a bit tired of it after a few months too. I'm not saying I agree with the downtown residents, but I certainly understand where they're coming from, y'know?

[harvey007]

4. Just keep this song circulating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xq3BYw4xjxE

[Tuvok Obama]

5. This is the fatal flaw in the "we are the 99 percent" approach

In actual practice, it tends to translate into: "We are the 99 percent, and so are you unless you disagree with the plans and methods of those of us who thought of the slogan 'we are the 99 percent' first."

These business owners are not automatically assigned the position of being part of "the one percent" merely because they don't want the disruption caused by the occupation to put them out of business. They, too are concerned about feeding their families and paying their mortgages.

[FreeBillClinton]

6. Good for them! Glad to see OWS is inspiring people to participate in our democracy

[and-justice-for-all]

7. I wonder what the complainers said to the protesters...

to get a response. As if reliving ones self in public is new.

[guitar man]

8. They know not what they do

The drums must not stop... It is very very bad when the drums stop! :o

[truthisfreedom]

10. If I lived down there (I work from home very often) I'd be driven nuts by the drums.

But I'd likely temporarily stay elsewhere or go on an extended vacation. Not everyone is in a position to do that, though.

[guitar man]

11. I understand

.... But if the drums stop, an unimaginable horror will take place... a thousand times worse than the drums. It's so terrible I'm afraid to speak it here :scared:

[freshwest]

14. I'm not afraid. Spill your guts. LOL.

[guitar man]

15. Ok you asked for it

Scroll down if you dare...





When the drums stop,next up is....




















BASS SOLO!!! :wow: :spray:

:rofl:

:hi:

[freshwest]

16. It would be an improvement...

[freshwest]

13. I'd be in the hospital. But I want them to stay, just realize that people live there.

[backscatter712]

9. All two of their recycled teabagger shills?

Or are they going to slap new graphics on the FreedomWorks buses and bring them in from the Deep South?

Gotta love the right-wing and their rent-a-mobs.

[PETRUS]

12. It's been a couple of weeks since I was at Zuccotti.

But while I was there, community relations were pretty good. The protestors negotiated limited drumming hours with the residents, for example. And yes, of course there are some cranky people but the majority of the residents expressed support for the protest.

[geomon666]

17. So what are they? The Against Our Own Best Interest Movement?

Get a brains morans!

[fasttense]

18. Sounds like just another Koch Brother funded front group.

I bet each of them was paid to pretend they were something they were not, just like the brooks brothers protests in Florida and the teabaggers.

Don't believe it. It just too convenient for the 1%.