Wilmington Mayor Blinks; Occupy Delaware Remains
The arbitrary deadline set by Mayor Baker has come and gone and, yet, the Occupy Delaware protesters remain in Spencer Plaza.
While the city set a deadline for dispersal, officials took no physical action to remove the campers and instead seem inclined to keep the battle in the courts.
I’m not sure that the City thought about the May 1st date. Did no one on the Mayor’s staff realize that it was May Day and that large-scale protests and a general strike were already planned for that day?
Also, the claim that the protest is preventing public use of the Plaza is total bunk. Spencer Plaza goes unused throughout the year and not one request to use the Plaza has been received by the City since Occupy started their protest there.
I wish the media could have gotten another fun quote from the Mayor in response. Oh well…
The only time I have seen the plaza used was back four years ago when the black community could still afford to have an August Quarterly parade and the judging platform was set up there.
The city now charges too much for police for the parade to go on.
My gosh… Doesn’t Mayor Baker look like a Sith Lord in that video on WDEL?
(nod to Pandora…) Creepy….
Why do the Occupiers hate large corporations and their huge profits, yet most, if not all, of the Occupiers have Apple IPhones or laptops, or other smart phones, use Twitter, Facebook, etc.?
And to clear Spencer Plaza, all the police need to do is go in and start swinging clubs and cracking skulls.
Yes, deputize me. I’d be in there in a flash.
Just because you think large corporations should be accountable to the people or that their power should be constrained does not mean you can’t use a product made by a large corporation. There is no living outside the system, but that doesn’t mean you can’t criticize the system.