A NY 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. “The judge upheld the city’s effective eviction of the protesters after an emergency appeal by the National Lawyers Guild.” Zuccotti Park, where OWS has been squatting (literally and figuratively) is privately owned. If it were ours, we’d quickly put a bunch of foot-long steel spikes in the ground to make sure OWS gets the point about not squatting there.
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After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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