The movement began as a protest of major economic and political issues, but lately the most divisive issue has become the protests themselves. The Occupy Wall Street encampments that formed across the country to spotlight crimes committed on Wall Street have become rife with problems of their own. There are sanitation hazards and drug overdoses, even occasional deaths and sexual assaults.
On Tuesday, New York and other cities across the country continued the chaotic, disruptive process of picking sides. Police made arrests in at least six states; three civil rights groups filed lawsuits on behalf of protesters. Mayors and city officials from coast to coast held emergency meetings and tried to decide:
Is the most far-reaching protest movement in the past decade solving problems or creating them?
14. Don Graham is a Reagan Republican who inherited the paper from Katherine Graham
And promptly fired all the liberals. He's also a scumbag on top of that.
Moreover, WaPo jumped the shark when they (a) moved to a regional paper format, abandoning pretensions of being a national newspaper in favor of a Hearst publication model;
(b) Got the Carnegie Institute for International Peace to publish a series of major editorials to help convince Congress to invade Iraq.
15. They're just butthurt that DC has not yet evicted the two Occupy sites
Why should they? Their favorite pols want to defund the Park Service.
But trust me, it's on the agenda. I'd bet anything the reason it hasn't happened is because they can't figure out a way of pressuring DC to evict the local Occupy without it coming back on the Administration in a way they've avoided in other blue cities evicting occupy.
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