Judge rules against Occupy Wall Street encampment

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By COLLEEN LONG and VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press


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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has upheld the city's dismantling of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, saying that the protesters' first amendment rights don't entitle them to camp out indefinitely in the plaza.

Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman on Tuesday denied a motion by the demonstrators seeking to be allowed back into the park with their tents and sleeping bags.

Police cleared out the protesters in a nighttime sweep early Tuesday. The judge upheld the city's effective eviction of the protesters after an emergency appeal by the National Lawyers Guild.

The protesters have been camped out in privately owned Zuccotti Park since mid-September. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he ordered the sweep because health and safety conditions and become "intolerable" in the crowded plaza.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:haha:

[Hal-9000]

stink > protesters' first amendment rights

[Leefro]

It's a free country until it's against what you believe in

Over here they are still in St Pauls grounds

but the courts are deciding to evict them soon

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It's a free country until it's against what you believe in

Over here they are still in St Pauls grounds

but the courts are deciding to evict them soon

It's very much a free country ;)

The US Constitution allows citizens to peaceably assemble to protest things...it does not however give you the right to permanently camp out on public property ;)

[Leefro]

If you believe you and I live in a free country were fooling ourselves

We ALL break laws but when they don't infringe on yourself it does not seem to matter

[RBP]

Freedom does not equal anarchy.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Freedom does not equal anarchy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQkActP-isE

[Leefro]

Freedom does not equal anarchy.



But was they not peacefully protesting till the police arrived ?

[RBP]

Doesn't matter - there are laws. But that doesn't mean they don't live in a free nation.

[Leefro]

So you don't break laws ??

[RBP]

So you don't break laws ??

Again - moot point. I don't get how you equate that having laws means we don't live in a free nation.

[Leefro]

Doesn't matter - there are laws. But that doesn't mean they don't live in a free nation.

I hate answering a question with a question but was there a law in place before the occupation of wall street ?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I hate answering a question with a question but was there a law in place before the occupation of wall street ?

Yes, you need a permit for the type of demonstration they were having....yet they never got the permit, therefore they were breaking the law ;)

[Leefro]

Hahhahaha a permit to protest peacefully


now that is freedom at work

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I always love it when people try and compare apples and oranges :rolleyes:

[Leefro]

I always love it when people try and compare apples and oranges :rolleyes:

http://www.space-debris.com/bat_gorshin_riddler.jpg

[FBD]

:lol:

sorry OWS, where's your permit again?

First amendement rights are one thing, the city's laws are another. Following the city's laws and getting a required permit isnt necessary for the things to be voiced, but it IS necessary for continued occupation of both public & private property here.

Nice try tho :wave: