Cities' Occupy Encampment Evictions A 'Set-Up'?

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Cities-Occupy-Encampment-by-Ritt-Goldstein-111113-386.html

With the 'homeless and troubled' having come to Occupy, bringing the kinds of issues they sadly too often mean, an 'excuse' for police action to evict Occupy developed, one that's been readily pounced upon. Of course, reports that 'the troubled' were sent to Occupy by police and other authorities have appeared, raising questions if Occupy was 'set-up' for both the ongoing evictions and the derailing of their original objective - the Banks and Wall Street.


As news reports of the moment widely tell of broad efforts by many cities to eliminate Occupy's encampments, some things are vital to recall, especially those suggesting that these eviction actions are being pursued under a 'manufactured pretext'.

Underpinning many of the cities' efforts are alleged public safety concerns about those within Occupy's camps, but the media has also reported upon how 'troubled' individuals have been urged by police to join Occupy. As a matter of fact, I wrote of this myself, " Occupy Facing 'Cloaked' Counterattacks ", and see such urgings of 'the troubled' by authorities as a mechanism to attempt to smear, disrupt and discredit Occupy, as well as provide the pretext for the kinds of eviction actions we're seeing.

Notably, Salt Lake City is one of those cities that has just moved against an Occupy encampment, the reason being a suspected drug overdose death there. While 19 SLC Occupiers were arrested, local KSL.com news reported that the deceased was a "homeless man identified only as 'Mike'".

More at the link --

[formercia]

1. Mike died among those who cared.

I would hope for the same. RIP.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. What it of course means is that the cities are NOT DOING ENOUGH for these people,

and that #Occupy has SHAMED them about it (instead of them simply stepping up and doing the right thing, which is to HELP). Shamed people need to remove that which shames them. I have a lot of experience with that one.

[Donnachaidh]

4. Atlanta started enacting laws to move out the homeless years ago,

Rather than HELP them -- they were disappeared.

But OWS is different -- they are noisy. They fight back by being noisy.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Orlando IIRC recently made it illegal to feed the homeless. SHAMEFUL.

Judge a society by how it treats its weak.

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. Not exactly

If you buy a sandwich for a homeless person, you are fine.

If you want to set a large-scale "soup kitchen" in a public park, you are required to get permits and there is a limit to how frequently you can do so.

[ret5hd]

7. Is there a corresponding limit on how hungry a person is?

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. As far as being a set-up, remember that the NYPD have been sending drunks, druggies, and trouble-

makers to Zuccotti for some time now, hoping to create a situation allowing them to end the encampment, so yes, there it is.