"Occupy Fort Wayne" Wants a Free Home Indefinitely

[henktermaat]

Fortified for the Long Haul: Occupy Fort Wayne Wants a Free Home Indefinitely

"We request a public place, in the heart of our city, to have a platform for discussing all of our citizens concerns. We request that we be allowed to maintain a 24 hour a day presence at this site..."

 

[Plinker]

Permission to exercise a 1st amendment right is ludicrous, I agree. I do plan on going down there at some point this week (possibly tomorrow?) and see if anyone would be willing to listen to an alternative philosophy...

 

[hooky]

The most surprising thing I read was 300k condos in downtown FW. Holy cow, really?

 

[Westside]

Let them stay at a public park. I don't care just as long as they don't:
1) make a mess and not clean it up.
2) don't setup sleeping quarter. (i.e. tents and similar structures)
3) don't impede on my family trying to enjoy the park.

 

[rambone]

Impose a curfew! Ban protests! We must have order!

 

[eldirector]

Meh. They can hang out on the corner with the preacher guy and the 2012 Apocalypse folks. Just don't make a mess of the place.

Maybe they should pool their resources and buy one of those $300K condos? They'd have a permanent place to hang out, rather than on a park bench with the bums.

 

[LegatoRedrivers]

I request a place in my home city, (rent free) where I can shower and sleep and park my car outside of.

Oh, and discuss important issues, yada yada yada.

 

[photoshooter]

Hmmmm... when I was at the one in Indy, the speakers said they want Non-profit (eg Free) Healthcare and Free Education (college)... my question is, who will want the free med school education if they can't come out and make some decent profit?

 

[RockofStrength]

Unless there is some law that forbids them from standing in a public park or some such place for more than X hours I don't understand the demand Surely they don't think that the city is obligated to build them a shelter or something for their convenience...

 

[indykid]

There is a place to hang out that provides free housing and free food. One place in Pendleton and one I believe in Michigan City. There are others that provide the same service.

 

[sloughfoot]

I drove by all 8 of them this afternoon. I could not see or read all the signs, but here are two that I could read.

1. High taxes + big government= less freedom

2. With Liberty and Justice for all.

I don't see anything here that I would disagree with.

So far......

 

[rambone]

I drove by all 8 of them this afternoon. I could not see or read all the signs, but here are two that I could read.

1. High taxes + big government= less freedom

2. With Liberty and Justice for all.

I don't see anything here that I would disagree with.

So far......

Did you slow down enough to smell the drugs in the air and their stinky communist armpits?

 

[sloughfoot]

You are judging them by their appearance? Sure they are young and the hair is long and the jeans aren't pressed. So what, none of them were doing drugs on the street corner.

I'll bet you just forgot to use the purple font?

 

[Markedup]

I posted a reply on the OFW website
this afternoon. Just agitating. Carry in
the parks is OK now.I don't have the balls
to stroll through West Headwaters Park
open carrying today.

Declaration of our Right to Assemble

Thanks

Mark

 

[rambone]

I'll bet you just forgot to use the purple font?

Yes.

 

[Expat]

Unless there is some law that forbids them from standing in a public park or some such place for more than X hours I don't understand the demand Surely they don't think that the city is obligated to build them a shelter or something for their convenience...

I admire you for thinking charitably about them, but it does sound like that is their expectation.

 

[SemperFiUSMC]

This is what happens when you don't spank naughty children.

 

[dice dealer]

Damn Hippies

 

[turnandshoot4]

I drove by this rally on Sat. I gave a honk and a thumbs up.

I saw posters on:

Liberty

Freedom

High taxes going to the banks

Children not having a future because of debt



But no tri-cornered hats. That must be it. To be an approved protest on INGO you must have tri-cornered hats.

 

[IndianaSigma]

Most people think these protesters want free handouts. This is not the case with most of them (some of them are idiots). The main demands of the OWS protests is to get our Congress to stop representing big corporations and the rich only. They are paid to represent ALL of the American people. Another demand is that CEOs stop paying themselves millions of dollars a year while paying their workers minimum wage. People should be fairly compensated for the work they perform. Corporate greed and a bought Congress is a big problem and needs to be addressed.

As for the idiots demanding free healthcare, free welfare, food stamps, etc.......they need to work for it like everyone else.

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