Last night the NYPD finally evicted #OWS from Zuccotti Park in New York followed by a sanitation crew which gave the park a much needed disinfecting.
Naturally, chaos ensued. After a hefty round of screaming, the #OWS folks hired legal counsel and ran to a liberal judge who granted an order which was ultimately shot down. You can read a roundup of that part of the story at Hot Air.
The thing I find interesting is what the evicted #OWS whiners chanted as they marched around the park…
The mayor’s comments at a City Hall news conference came about seven hours after hundreds of police officers moved in to clear the park, after warning that the nearly two-month-old camp would be “cleared and restored” but that demonstrators who did not leave would face arrest. The protesters, about 200 of whom have been staying in the park overnight, initially resisted with chants of “Whose park? Our park!”
Um, no it isn’t.
It isn’t “your park” at all. It’s a public park owned by a private company and you can all shout until you’re blue in the face that you represent the 99% but that doesn’t make it true.
The 99% would like to walk their children in the park. The 99% would like to have lunch in the park. The 99% would like to sit quietly and read a book in the park. The 99% pays taxes to maintain the park.
Hogging and soiling the park for two months doesn’t make it yours.
The 99% is going to have to pay to clean the park you completely ruined.
How many #OWS protesters in Zuccotti Park pay taxes in New York?
How many #OWS protesters pay any taxes at all?
Working people who are trying to pay their bills and raise families put up with you for a while and you got lucky with liberals in local government who sympathized with you at first but you overstayed your welcome.
It is not your park.
The fact that you don’t get that is insulting.