OWS - They Are Defecating On Our Doorsteps

Infuriated lower Manhattan residents went ballistic on Zuccotti Park protesters at a chaotic Community Board 1 meeting tonight while blasting politicians for allowing the siege to continue without any end in sight.

"They are defecating on our doorsteps," fumed Katherine Hughes, a stay at home mom who has the misfortune of living one block from the chaos. "A lot of people are very frustrated. A lot of people are concerned about the safety of our kids."

Fed up homeowners said that they've been subjected to insults and harassment as they trek to their jobs each morning. "The protesters taunt people who are on their way to work," said James Fernandez, 51, whose apartment overlooks the park.

Board member Paul Cantor said that residents are fed up with the incessant racket that emanates from the protest at all hours. "It's mostly a noise issue," he said. If people can't sleep and children can't sleep because the protesters are banging drums then that's a problem."

Funny! Sounds like something from the Onion.

They had a point until they played the "Think of the children"
card.

"If people can't sleep and children can't sleep because the protesters are banging drums then that's a problem."

Derp, like there isn't a clear and present problem that these protestors are attempting to get you to consider.

>>4
Yes, fucking with random civilians by keeping them awake all night because playing a drum 24/7 will somehow fix things is logical.

Liberal logic is why we can't have good things.

I've seen the Zombie blog. I must say. Calling these people rabid communist hippies would be an understatement. It's even worse than I imagined.

OWS is over after Tuesday:

Friends, mediation with the drummers has been called off. It has gone on for more than 2 weeks and it has reached a dead end. The drummers formed a working group called Pulse and agreed to 2 hrs/day at times during the mediation, and more recently that changed to 4 hrs/day. It’s my feeling that we may have a fighting chance with the community board if we could indeed limit drumming and loud instrumentation to 12-2 PM and 4-6 PM, however that isn’t what’s happening.

Last night the drumming was near continuous until 10:30 PM at night. Today it began again at 11 AM. The drummers are fighting among themselves, there is no cohesive group. There is one assemblage called Pulse that organized most of the drummers into a group and went to GA for formal recognition and with a proposal…

At this point we have lost the support of allies in the Community Board and the state senator and city electeds who have been fighting the city to stave off our eviction, get us toilets, etc. On Tuesday there is a Community Board vote, which will be packed with media cameras and community members with real grievances. We have sadly demonstrated to them that we are unable to collectively 1) keep our space and surrounding areas clean and sanitary, 2) keep the park safe, 3) deal with internal conflict and enforce the Good Neighbor Policy that was passed by the General Assembly…

In the meantime, there are other drummers who refuse to acknowledge OWS or the GA as a body they are interested in, and these drummers show up on site when they fell like it and drum when they feel like it. Over the weekend, it was for 10 or 11 hours straight, until late night.

So in the meantime, while we are grateful for the negotiations and positive relations with Pulse, we recognize that the issue of whether we’re evicted over drumming or not remains. For that reason we are asking for people to show up during quiet hour shifts, to ensure that drumming does not start.

tl;dr

OWS is an embarrassment to the human race. So much for the anti-tea party.

fucking drums, you can't play any instrument but you want to pretend to be creative so you go for drums or shitty learner chords on the guitar and awful poetry

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They do suck pretty bad. I think they are on drugs.

Get a fire hose, liquid sludge pump, a huge tank full of liquid pig shit.....

Spray the shit,and repeat on the protesters.

screw volunteer firefighter, volunteer for the riot police. community service that gets you directly involved with the people who need a kick the face the most.

I wish the OWS protests were much more, but it's too populist to make any real changes.