How did this work? The Arapahoe County GOP gets upset at Occupy Denver, Sen. Greg Brophy piously insists the hippies get out of the park, and then, all of a sudden, Gov. Hickenlooper, Mayor Hancock, and Attorney General Suthers start channeling Bull Connor and swing into action?
One can understand the public health and safety issue, and it doesn't seem unreasonable for the State of Colorado not to want people camping on the grounds of the State Capitol. Occupy Wall Street is not literally about occupying physical space, 24/7, but about challenging concentrated financial and political power. The government is not the enemy, and the police are part of the 99%. This protest should not be about tents in city park in Denver in the middle of the night.
That's on the one hand. On the other hand, did state and city government just get punked by right-wing media?
Ultra-conservatives, upset at seeing their thunder stolen by people who really represent the people, have begun what appears to be a co-ordinated whining campaign. Ultra-conservative websites have called for mass complaints to government officials, and there appears to have been attempts at infiltration, i.e. mercenaries posing as Occupy Wall Streeters who cause problems in order to discredit them.
Several Occupy Wall Street sites in various cities, including Dallas, San Diego, and Salt Lake, were forced to move last night. That, also, appears coordinated. Or, it could have been that each city decided, independently, that they wanted to sweep the areas before the weekend when the social media-minded protesters could more easily generate a counter-crowd.
As for infestation by hippies, I've not been to the site, but, from the video reportage, I've yet to see any real hippies in the crowd. They look pretty normal to me, though I doubt they'd fit in all that well at the Denver Country Club.
In any case, though the hippies died out forty years ago, people still make political hay by bashing them, forgetting, apparently, that the hippie critique of the system, i.e. that it's bought and paid for by the powerful elite, was substantially correct. Hippies would never bother themselves to protest it though. Their response was to "drop out."
The Occupy Wall Street protesters don't "drop out." They "drop in." They are less related to hippiedom than to a fine American tradition that goes back much further than hippies. They are heirs to the Jacksonian democrats of the early 19th century, the early union movement, the bonus marchers, Coxey's army, the populist party--that strain of American life which periodically rises up to confront and contain rapacious financial power.
Photo of "dangerous hippies": Denver Post
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