Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday #d17 #ows

Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday

NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday after they scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to a church-owned lot they want to use for a new camp site.
Protesters used a wooden ladder to scale the fence or lifted it from below while others cheered them on. A man wearing a Santa suit stood on the ladder among others, as they ignored red "Private Property" signs.
As officers made arrests, protesters shouted obscenities and hollered: "Make them catch you!" The group was inside the lot for a short time before being led out by police in single file through a space in the fence. About 50 people were arrested, police said.
"We're just trying to say that this country has gone in the wrong direction, and we need spaces that we can control and we can decide our future in, and that's what this is about," said David Suker, who was among those who scaled the fence.
Before the arrests, several hundred gathered in Duarte Square, a half-acre wedge of a park at the edge of Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood and across the street from the vacant lot. They gathered partly to mark the three-month anniversary of the Occupy movement and partly to demand use of the lot, owned by Trinity Church.

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Comment by TommyD on December 19, 2011 at 2:32pm: @ Tom The feds private, cant we exercise some civil disobedience there too?

Where does civil disobedience end and mob rule begin?

Would you want people tearing up your property in the process of exercising their rights?

Why are they not storming the FED, demanding entry and "tearing down the wall"?

Comment by truth on December 19, 2011 at 2:23pm: @ Tom The feds private, cant we exercise some civil disobedience there too?

@Allan _ I am hoping sties like his will destroy the fake left right, its us against the powers that be -period! Occupy the tea party !

Comment by allan fairbairn on December 19, 2011 at 2:19pm: Hitchens and his ilk will continue to have their little debates, all carefully framed in a manner that excludes most of the people they claim to care about and most of the people who actually produce change. It worked at university and it works now. But it has little to do with either America or the left as it really is. something like the"occupy movement"

Comment by TommyD on December 17, 2011 at 9:57pm: I fully support ANYONE'S right to protest but I also FULLY support private property rights. If the owners of the propert would not allow them the use of it, end of story, they were trespassing and in violation of the law.

Comment by TommyD on December 17, 2011 at 9:48pm: "Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday after they scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to a church-owned lot they want to use for a new camp site.
Protesters used a wooden ladder to scale the fence or lifted it from below while others cheered them on. A man wearing a Santa suit stood on the ladder among others, as they ignored red "Private Property" signs."

In Texas, this would be legal grounds for the owner of said property to use lethal force on the trespassers.