National Park Service Gives Occupy D.C. Until Monday To Vacate Rat-Infested Camp…
About time.
(WaPo) — The National Park Service said Friday that it will begin enforcing its long-standing regulation prohibiting camping on federal parkland at the Occupy sites at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza at noon Monday.
To comply with the no-camping rules, protesters must remove all evidence of camping, including bedding, storage containers and anything used to make a fire, the Park Service said. If the protesters don’t comply, they may be arrested and their property seized.
“Many of us will be likely to defend the park with the passion anyone would show defending their home,” Sam Jewler, who has been protesting at McPherson Square, said. “We are fighting for the betterment of D.C., America and the world, and we intend to continue using our First Amendment rights to do so.”
The Park Service distributed
fliers outlining the regulations and noted that it had “repeatedly advised participants” of the rules and had sought “voluntary compliance.”Three protesters were arrested at McPherson Square early Friday, but Carol Johnson, spokeswoman for the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said they were not charged with camping. Two of the protesters were charged with disorderly conduct, and one had an outstanding warrant for another offense.
The Park Service has long supported protesters’ right to conduct a “24-hour vigil” in the camps, where protesters have been living in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement since October and have installed portable toilets and, in the case of Freedom Plaza, a nearly full-service kitchen. The camps have come under fire because of health and safety concerns .
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Jeesh, evacuate and torch the place. The only way to be sure.
“…Two of the protesters were charged with disorderly conduct, and one had an outstanding warrant for another offense….”
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an all too common theme with the occuturds…
Why till Monday?
Do they have a permit, no? Lock’em up.
A 24 hour “vigil” doesn’t require sleeping bags and tents. Good call!
If we would have had a real winter these guys would’ve been gone already.
Damn you El Nina….!!!!!
I hate these OWS scum.. Can you imagine what they’re going to be like come this Nov???
You know the Tea Party needs to Take Over the OWS and teach these worthless fucks some lesson’s ….
Were any rats arrested?
They’re not telling us just how bad the rat infestation is. By now, it must have reached epidemic, historic, unprecedented levels.
A 3 month old female can give birth to 12 little democrats every 3 weeks.
And now, the new law reads that you can’t kill them; you need to humanely capture them and relocate them… to Virgina or Maryland.
The rats have had it with the nasty bastards.
0-hole has clamped down on law enforcement. Probably threatened them so they won’t act “stupidly.” They are afraid to enforce the law.
I think ows scum will be o-hole’s achilles heel.
America hates these filthy bastards that o-hole so adores.
These nasty pissing shitters who inspired him to run for totus.
ROFL
@Hickster:
We have it on good authority no rats were harmed in this eviction and most have been relocated to Maryland and Northern VA. With their immediate families of course.
@chickadee:
“These nasty pissing shitters”
Nope! The rats are protected,catch and humanely release(Enviro-nuts).The rats are probably much cleaner than the other HUMAN vermin there.I’d invite one of the rats into my home,before I would one of these nasty protesters.Maybe the rats will all make a break for the White House.Perfect payback.
If they were Tea partiers they would have been beaten with truncheons and arrested with no warning whatsoever.
The Park Service never said which Monday of what year.
This humane catch and release program for rats is insane.
Compassion for such vermin that spread hideous diseases shows you just how far the leftists will go to present themselves as caring people. It is absurd beyond words. We are at war with rodents. LOL And have been for centuries. Nothing has changed. Rats still infect people with life threatening diseases.
This is how the left loves the dangerous muzz too. Selflessly and with great compassion.
We are the bad guys because we want to eradicate these dangerous pests. Both two and four legged.
How can we trust our well being to such idiots who put rats and muzz before human beings ????
@vt,
@vagabond & CO.
LOL.
such a deal, huh?
Hey! Don’t forget to de-louse them, too! Whatever treatment for bedbugs that is effective, that too!
The park Service will also give participation trophies to the Occupodders.
“First Amendment Rights” a 24 hour vigil????
Someone needs to tell this moron that vigil means being vigilant, not sleeping, eating, shitting, getting high and having sex…those things are called living, or in this case, squatting.
So why are they not occupying obama’s home, since obama is the largest recipient of Wall Street lobbyist money and the chief cause of the misery index?
I guess Kenya is too far away, poorer than OWS, and not in the news…
Notice nothing happened until the House Repubs got some guts and called the head honcho on the carpet. Good God why don’t more of the Repubs wake up, get some guts and start shutting this liberal crap down?????????
You know that without the prodding of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee on the Park Services, the marxist occupier pests would be setting up a shantytown in the Lincoln Memorial next,
Time for an airstrike
Nobody wants the rodents.
Was reading a peculiar custom/tradition of Papua New Guinea marriages where there is the “pig ceremony”. Let’s just hope OWS marriages don’t lead to the “rat ceremony” traditions.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++hen the “handing over of the pigs” ceremony began.
The villagers lining up on four sides of a square, facing the tethered animals in the middle. The bride’s relatives were summoned to inspect the pigs. That done, their ropes were untied and then they were handed over to Danielle’s mother.
In the interests of establishing a good relationship with the in-laws, she returned two pigs to the groom’s family. The other two had already been ear-marked for next day’s wedding feast. This was to be held on a patch of land belonging to Moses’ brothers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16730782
for those curious about the tradition.
Infested with rattus democratus, a worthless subspecies. In contrast with
rattus rattus or rattus norvegicus, useful prey for serpentes. No respecting
snake would eat a democrat, i.e., food poisoning.
Can’t you see it now? The rats will all move over to the WH to be with their leader since they seem to love him so much anyway…
Rank and file National Park Service employees were undoubtedly against the OWS camping out. They know what happens to the resource they are charged to protect. The folks at the top, who are Obama appointees, are getting their marching orders on this one from the boss. That’s why NPS has let it go on so long. Your church or scout group wouldn’t be there 5 minutes if you started pitching tents.
Will the park Service realy evict them or will the chicken out?
wait, Rats are good!!! don’t they carry the plague—think of how many will become infected and spread it to the rest of the group — this could be a blessing!!! this could be a win,win thing!!!