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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Ship them all to Guantanamo!!! 
People should just learn to take it when the banking system gets bailed out after causing millions to lose their homes due to shady loans and dubious business practices, or when many large multinational corporations pay no taxes, while outsourcing jobs, getting big government subsidies, and paying out big bonuses and rewards to themselves.
The sad thing is that none of the 1% whom have caused the current US and worldwide economic calamity have even been seriously investigated, let alone charged, and so it's business as usual at the corporate pig trough.
Things were never better in America (for the 1%)... 
NEWS UPDATE:
Court Order: City can?t keep Occupy Wall Street protesters and their stuff out of Zuccotti Park
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Hours after baton-wielding cops cleared Occupy Wall Street protesters and their tents out of Zuccotti Park, a judge signed a order Tuesday saying the demonstrators can return with their stuff.
Mayor Bloomberg said the city was trying to clarify the restraining order signed by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings, a former civil liberties lawyer.
In the meantime, Zuccotti ? which briefly reopened after a scrub-down ? would be closed to the public, Bloomberg said.
Occupy Wall Street protesters were already on the move, heading to another public space at Canal St. and Sixth Ave. for a 9 a.m. ?action.? It was unclear if they planned to set up camp there.
?Join us as we liberate space and build a movement,? the group said in a statement.
The overnight raid ? which led to the arrest of 100 people, including Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez ? left Zuccotti empty by 7 a.m.
The only people inside were employees of property owner Brookfield Properties, which had asked for the city crackdown.
About 50 people were let back in at 8:10 a.m. before the NYPD closed the park again until the legal issues were sorted out.
?Whose park? Our park!? protesters chanted. ?They stole our freaking tents from the 99%!?
?That was my home,? said Shane Stoops, 23, an occupier from Seattle who said he had been at Zuccotti since the dawn of the protest Sept. 17.
?You see all those garbage trucks? That?s where I live now. They took my life...all my clothes, my four-man tent and mattress, all of my books and three years of drawings.?
Bloomberg said the city planned to let the anti-greed movement return to Zuccotti
as soon as it was cleaned, but without the trappings of the tent city.
?Unfortunately, the park was becoming a place where people came not to protest, but rather to break laws, and in some cases, to harm others,? he said in a statement.
?Protesters have had two months to occupy the park with tents and sleeping bags. Now they will have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments.?
But in a case of legal one-upsmanship, lawyers for Occupy Wall Street got a judge to sign an order that explicitly said they should be allowed in the park with ?tents and other property.?
A hearing on the matter must now be held.
The cleanup operation began around 1 a.m. when a horde of cops surrounded the park and used a bullhorn to notify protesters that sanitation trucks would be clearing out the site.
?If you fail to immediately leave the park, you will be subject to arrest," they said.
The protesters were defiant at first, chanting: "Whose park? Our park! No retreat. No surrender!"
"When the cops closed in, people tried to hold on to one another. Cops pulled people out, but we went back in," said Jose Mediaville, 29, a former Marine from Brooklyn. "A white shirt got frustrated. He yelled, 'Come on, let's do this.'
"I tried to avoid them, but they got me. They smashed people in the hands and broke the human chain. They lifted me up and threw me out like a rag doll," he said.
"If they think this is the end of it, they're crazy," Steve Iskovitz, 51, a mental health counselor from Pittsburgh, said. "People will strike back."
Police began tearing up the tents wholesale by about 1:45 a.m. after throwing reporters out of the park and corralling the protesters in the center.
"The police have us surrounded," Tyrone Greenfield, 23, of Brooklyn, said as sanitation workers tossed tents into Dumpsters.
One young man wearing a gas mask tore up the notice after a cop handed it to him.
"Everybody stay calm, the police want you to become violent," protesters shouted. "Do not become violent. Pass the message."
One protester, 32, who gave his name as Daryl W, called his mother. "We're about to be raided I just thought I'd let you know I love you bye," he said.
"They don't even obey their own rules," Frank Olivo, Bronx, 21, said. "What they're doing is against the law."
Some protesters sang the Beatles song "Revolution." Helicopters flew noisily overhead.
"I have not broken the law tonight," yelled protester Eamon O'Rourke as cops stuffed him into a squad car.
Occupy Wall Street sent out a message on Twitter that said cops were using pepper spray.
City Council member Ydanis Rodriguez was arrested, and a tweet alleged he was beaten and bleeding.
"They took oaths to protect and serve," Jason Lee, 36 of Brooklyn, said. "They broke that oath tonight. They destroyed what we built. That's tyranny by any definition."
Paul Kostora, head of the medical tent, said he was working with a patient when police pulled him away.
"They pulled me out stethoscope, white coat and all as I was telling them I have a patient in there," he said. "One girl has a heart condition and wasn't feeling well. They manhandled her and threw her on the ground."
By 3:30 a.m., cops had cleared the kitchen area of the park, where protesters had formed a human chain, cuffed those arrested with plastic ties and loaded them in vans.
The showdown came after protesters had vowed to "shut down Wall St." on Thursday to mark two months of occupation. "It's still on. It'll be bigger than ever. People are mobilizing now. They're wounded now and preparing for comeback," said Matt Baldwin.
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I have a guess the protestors will be back - a people united, can never be defeated.
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