From Zuccotti Park To Foley Square, The Occupation Grew

 

The numbers have grown. During the Occupation’s initial days, calling the movement’s initial folks “neo-hippies” was not completely off base. Now?  Different story. Last Thursday night, in Foley Square we simply witnessed firsthand, a gathering of the people. Ones of all shapes and sizes. Young, old, black, white, male, female. 

 

All with an array of particular grievances. Including a few self proclaimed capitalists, who came due to Mayor Bloomberg’s hard line surprise for sleeping protesters last Monday in Zuccotti park. People unified under the notion that things are drastically wrong in this country, and need to change. Can this message become loud enough that things DO change? That’s the big question.

 

On Sunday night the story continued as Bloomberg rolled out a good old “Terrorist Press Conference,” to the networks. One that explained how an Al Qaeda supporter in the state of New York who was plotting to hurt returning soldiers and members of the NYPD, was thwarted by Ray Kelly and Co.

 

Was this special event staged in order to deflect attention away from the Sunday afternoon protest that had been taking place outside of the Mayor’s mansion? Perhaps. The move may have also been the only way that Bloomy, owner of the best “Span-Jewish” accent in the city, could help move the headlines from the Occupy Wall Street movement and his own Zuccotti sneak attack, towards something else. Fear.

 

If you can’t change the world, scare the people, right?