In several downtown areas there the occupy movement set up camp and got run out are hundreds of homeless in tents, etc. Seems to be to be the same things, people living in a community on the street. But if you speak your mind and stand up for a cause, you get arrested. The homeless sleep on the streets live on the streets for months and years, and that ok. Part of the protest is social justice. Standing up for a cause BAD. Homeless on the street GOOD. I thought we should combine the two.
Not to confuse the issue, but a lot of places are getting rid of their homeless population too, by just running them out and bulldozing their camp... It just doesn't make the national news much because nobody cares... Sad.
Most of the occupiers can make bail , pay the court fine , ect If they drug all the homeless off to jail they would haft to feed them . desert rat
homeless people can't sleep on the streets in my town. You never see them. I don't know where they go but I know the police run them away if they try to sleep in a public place.
That's just what Occupy Atlanta did. They were allowed to stay at the local homeless shelter and worked with the shelter, fighting to keep it open as the city tried to close it. According to this article, the latest news I can find, the city is going to close that shelter in a few months. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/judge-orders-midtown-homeless-1330322.html
Actually , things with the feds did change for the 2011 WA Gathering . there were no daily armed patrols within the camp . one day i observed 3 female feds of the nature resource sort on a walk-about ... they were having some sort of intense discussion and one of them just started weeping . mostly though , the women of the gathering were quite relaxed since they were not being harrassed about booby regulations in the national forest . change is good unto happy hobos
the alternative offered is this : all people shall become perfectly socialized . the urbanites are stressed
Besides the fact that many OWS'ers are homeless, trust that a gathering of 100s of homeless individuals in the same public location would result in just as much of a police presence as OWS.
The Bonus Army was the assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. These certificates were promises of payment by the Federal Government. They set up camp on the National Mall. The Attorney General ordered the protesters removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the army to clear the veterans' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.
Note that public location, or public property, is deemed 'government property'. The justification for removing 'occupiers', the same today as then. "Ownership, be it individual or collective, is an illusion. Occupy your own mind first, then be Anonymous".
