UPDATE!! Occupy Portland Now Seeks Credit for "Cleaning Up" Parks

November 23, 2011

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** THE “CLEAN UP” (RAKING) HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO MUD.

After leaving Lownsdale and Chapman Squares in a state that resembled toxic brown fields, Occupy Portland now wants credit for coming back and cleaning them up. How noble.

Moonscape

It appears the City will also give them their photo op. How insulting.

Through their new blog and twitter, Occupiers have been beseeched to come out and rake up some leaves. Leaves. I suppose with all the bluster going on–the weather, not the Occupiers this time–there may actually be a few leaves to rake.

One might wonder, what, with 48 hours’ notice, why the “99%ers” didn’t clean up before the cops shut them down on Sunday, November 13th, but apparently that didn’t come up.

 

Nice Tags, Occupiers!
Bottle of Urine

Occupiers left behind piles of clothes, tarps, bottles, pallets, filth, bottles of urine and piles of feces. In all, 70 dump trucks full of junk were carted off the premises. And do you know who I saw doing most of the work piling that stuff up on the day of the planned riot, I mean eviction? Cops. Earning overtime. Thirty City workers worked shifts on Sunday to clear out the rest of junk left behind by these ingrates. I hope they wore their John Kerry Bunny suits.

Piles of Junk

The shamelessness of these people knows no bounds. An effort to green wash their toxic flotsam and jetsam has begun.  Check out this post from their blog:

[O]n Wednesday, November 23, starting at 8:30 a.m., Parks and Recreation is sponsoring a volunteer cleanup. We can turn out in large numbers. It’s a chance to restore our parks and to build good will with the public by raking leaves and preparing the two parks for reseeding. We can put our bodies where our environmental principles are. [emphasis mine]

The City has spent upwards of a $1,000,000.00 —and climbing—in police overtime, the parks will cost as much as $100,000.00 to restore, if not more. Dump truck drivers with City pensions don’t come cheap. And undoubtedly, the green hats at the National Lawyers Guild will sue the City for every raised voice, boo boo and owie “suffered” by the Occupiers.

Worse, Mayor Sam Adams’ preferential treatment for this group also sets up the City for future lawsuits. If you haven’t read those posts of civil rights attorney, Rees Lloyd, and former law enforcement officer and attorney, Bruce McCain you can’t fully appreciate the lunkheadedness of the Portland City Council in their treatment of Occupy Portland.

Photo Credit: Oregonian

These noble Occupiers now want credit for “cleaning up” the parks. They spent five weeks lashing ropes around trees, planting non native species (bamboo) and violating the “rights” of trees by cutting their branches (please see Commissioner Dan Saltzman for information on how trees have “rights”). They’ve urinated, pooped, and concoted bomb making chemicals at these two parks. Which brings up the question: Where’s the EPA or Randy’s HIT Squad when you need them? I’m sure Randy Leonard would have sent his notorious code enforcement goon squad to shut down Occupy Portland, but he was too busy marching with them to notice the electrical theft and toxic-waste-dump-in-the-making. If Cindy’s XXX Book Store and the Greek Cuisina staged a march and invited Randy, maybe they’d be in business today.

Occupiers robbed the taxpayers and extorted the use of these parks from a bunch of useful idiots sitting on the Rainbow City Council. Those same useful idiots now give these Occupiers a photo op for their scrapbooks—and the media.

Monday via twitter, Occupiers were thrilled to report that Commissioner Nick Fish was reopening the parks to allow the Occupiers to clean them per their suggestion. Even Al Sharpton has more humility than these people. They helpfully linked to the City’s website which showed, yep, Lownsdale and Chapman Squares will be the subject of a volunteer effort today.  Strangely, that reference is now gone from the page. It might have something to do with the outrage felt by Portlanders who caught wind of this fraud on somebody’s radio talk show, I dunno.

Reference to Specific Parks Removed

After propping up this public tantrum as some sort of noble exercise, the City is in worse shape than before. The rule of law is in tatters because of the Mayor’s unequal treatment of this group due to his endorsement of the content of their message. Taxpayers are upset that they must shoulder the burden of paying the bills that weren’t necessary. The City is begging for donations–a huge one, $25,000.00 came in from Umpqua Bank yesterday–(ah, the irony!) to defray the cost of the clean up and CYA.

And now they prop them up again by giving these uncivil lawbreakers a photo op.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

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