Jim Thome And Other Friends

“The inner 10 year old in all of us?” Thank you, that describes baseball in a nutshell.

Ironically, I was 10 years old when I was first introduced to the game, courtesy of my 5th grade teacher who was a Mets fan but moved from NYC to California to teach at a suburban Bay Area school. He procured a TV from the A/V department, hooked up the rabbit ears and we watched the World Series during class time (ah, the days of daytime baseball…). Thanks, Mr. Aquilina, wherever you are…

Good for you, Shoe! xo

Love how you show why you support bullying, sorry but this post just like all the others show that you would lie about who Murrow is and would be bashing him also, because this post is a joke with all the lies in it and name calling, you show that you are igorant on journalism and KO and facts and tolerance. Keep showing that BG is everything that they say KO is and always will be and if BG says different then they will be lying. Sorry but this has been debunked over and over again showing that you do not know what facts are and never will.

here again is who Gibson is KO is not BB, thier is no such thing as bath tub boy that is something that was made up by John Gibson because KO was not allowed to call him worst person. Also anyone that uses that name shows that they have zero clue what being human is. John Gibson thought it was funny to make fun of Stewart’s pain on 911, he thought it was funny to make fun of Lugar’s suicude by his I could never quit you quto, UPDATE: John Gibson has “apologized” for his distasteful comments on Heath Ledger’s death. Though he first defended his statements on his radio show yesterday — there is “no point in passing up a good joke,” he said, and repeated his “Brokeback Mountain” joke saying, “I’m not giving that up” — he eventually caved to pressure to apologize and did so on his television show.
Still, his apology seemed forced, and relatively half-hearted:
Those who knew him say he was a good actor and a loving dad. And what happened to him was terrible, but was evidently an accident. Once again, to anyone offended by my comments, I’m sorry. But I’m also sorry that Heath Ledger is no longer alive and with us.
ThinkProgress has the audio of Gibson’s defense of his comments, and MediaMatters has the video of his “apology.”
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ORIGINAL ITEM: Fox News’ John Gibson found a way to outdo MSNBC’s Courtney Hazlett for the most inappropriate comment on Heath Ledger’s death. ThinkProgress reports that, on his radio show yesterday (which opened with funeral music), Gibson called Ledger a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.” Making fun of the famous “I wish I knew how to quit you” line from “Brokeback Mountain,” Gibson said of his death, “Well, he found out how to quit you.”
This is not Gibson’s first time making inappropriate comments in the wake of tragedy. In July 2005, just one day before the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London, Gibson said that “the International Olympic Committee missed a golden opportunity….If they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn’t worry about terrorism. They’d blow up Paris, and who cares?” The next day, after the London bombings, Gibson.
Also only people that live in alterante universes think that this is Obama’s Monica lewsinsky. Excuse me, were was the cover up, were was Obama lying, wow were was Obama having a affair with a intern. You really show that you have no idea what you talk about.
Also I love how you put out a made up Special Comment that KO never gave. Showing that you do not know what pardoy is. This story has nothing to do with KO, so keep showing how igonrant you are on KO and that you have zero clue what make believe aka pardoy sketch and reality are.
KO is not BB that is a made up story and anyone that uses it shows that they have zero idea what being human is.
Wow once again you show that you not KO are the immature one, and do not say different because that would be a lie. Only people that are igorant about who KO is and what immature behavior like you would believe those made up talking points, that again are debunked like everything that you say, and again I am someone who would care crap if Ko was that, that is how I know that KO is opposite of immature and that those talking points describe you to a tee.
Keep showing that you do not know what being human means, only people in alternate unvierses would believe the made up lie by Gibson that get’s debunked.
Keep lying and showing how igorant you are about who KO is, sorry KO is no crybaby that is who you and Gibson are.
Wow BG the only person that thinks that a made debunked story by a person that loves to make fun of people’s pain and thinks that making fun of sucide is funny. Please keep showing how igorant you are about KO and that you have no idea what being human means. You really make me respect KO more and show why he this generations Murrow. Sorry that story and name have been debunked over and over again, keep showing how igorant you are when it comes to truth. Now get off the blog and let people talk baseball.

Sorry
Wow a video that is beyond stupid and shows that you have no idea what domestic terroism is. You show that you do not know what being human is. Occupy is not and never will be a terroism group.
This is what real domestic terroism is The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. It would remain the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 lives, including 19 children under the age of 6,[1] and injured more than 680 people.[2] The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a sixteen-block radius, destroyed or burned 86 cars, and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings.[3][4] The bomb was estimated to have caused at least $652 million worth of damage.[5] Extensive rescue efforts were undertaken by local, state, federal, and worldwide agencies in the wake of the bombing, and substantial donations were received from across the country. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) activated eleven of its Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces, consisting of 665 rescue workers who assisted in rescue and recovery operations.[6][7]
Within 90 minutes of the explosion, Timothy McVeigh was stopped by Oklahoma State Trooper Charlie Hanger for driving without a license plate and arrested for unlawfully carrying a weapon.[8][9] Forensic evidence quickly linked McVeigh and Terry Nichols to the attack; Nichols was arrested,[10] and within days both were charged. Michael and Lori Fortier were later identified as accomplices. McVeigh, an American militia movement sympathizer who was a Gulf War veteran, had detonated an explosive-filled Ryder rental truck parked in front of the building. McVeigh’s co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, had assisted in the bomb preparation. Motivated by his hatred of the federal government and angered by what he perceived as its mishandling of the Waco Siege (1993) and the Ruby Ridge incident (1992), McVeigh timed his attack to coincide with the second anniversary of the deadly fire that ended the siege at Waco.[11][12]
The official investigation, known as “OKBOMB”, was the largest criminal investigation case in American history; FBI agents conducted 28,000 interviews, amassing 3.5 short tons (3.2 t) of evidence, and collected nearly one billion pieces of information.[13][14][15] The bombers were tried and convicted in 1997. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, and Nichols was sentenced to life in prison. Michael and Lori Fortier testified against McVeigh and Nichols; Michael was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to warn the U.S. government, and Lori received immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony. As with other large-scale terrorist attacks, conspiracy theories dispute the official claims and allege the involvement of additional perpetrators.
As a result of the bombing, the U.S. government passed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which tightened the standards for habeas corpus in the United States,[16] as well as legislation designed to increase the protection around federal buildings to deter future terrorist attacks. On April 19, 2000, the Oklahoma City National Memorial was dedicated on the site of the Murrah Federal Building, commemorating the victims of the bombing. Annual remembrance services are held at the same time of day as the original explosion occurred.
Contents [hide]
1 Planning
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Target selection
1.3 Gathering materials
1.4 Building the bomb
2 Bombing
3 Arrests
4 Casualties
5 Response and relief
5.1 Rescue efforts
5.2 Humanitarian aid
5.3 Federal and state government aid
5.4 International reaction
5.5 Children affected
5.6 Media coverage
6 Trials and sentencing of the conspirators
6.1 Timothy McVeigh
6.2 Terry Nichols
6.3 Michael Fortier
6.4 Others
7 Aftermath
7.1 Legislation
7.1.1 Oklahoma School Curriculum
7.2 Building security and construction
7.3 Discussion of the nature of dissent
7.4 Conspiracy theories
8 Evacuation Issues
9 Memorial observances
9.1 Oklahoma City National Memorial
9.2 St. Joseph’s Old Cathedral
9.3 Remembrance observance
10 See also
11 References
12 Further reading
13 External links
[edit]Planning

[edit]Motivation

McVeigh and Nichols cited the federal government’s actions against the Branch Davidian compound in the 1993 Waco Siege (shown above) as a reason they perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing.
The chief conspirators, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, met in 1988 at Fort Benning during basic training for the U.S. Army.[17] Michael Fortier, McVeigh’s accomplice, was his Army roommate.[18] The three shared interests in survivalism and opposed gun control.[19][20] They expressed anger at the federal government’s handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco Siege—a 1993 51-day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which began with a botched ATF attempt to execute a search warrant leading to a fire fight (it is unknown whether ATF agents or Branch Davidians fired the first shot) and ended with the burning and shooting deaths of David Koresh and 75 others.[21] In March 1993, McVeigh visited the Waco site during the standoff, and then again after its conclusion.[22] McVeigh later decided to bomb a federal building as a response to the raids.[12][23][24][25]
[edit]Target selection

Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building as it appeared before its destruction
McVeigh initially intended only to destroy a federal building, but he later decided that his message would be better received if many people were killed in the bombing.[26] McVeigh’s criterion for potential attack sites was that the target should house at least two of three federal law-enforcement agencies: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He regarded the presence of additional law-enforcement agencies, such as the Secret Service or the U.S. Marshals Service, as a bonus.[27]
McVeigh, a resident of Kingman, Arizona, considered targets in Missouri, Arizona, Texas, and Arkansas.[27] McVeigh stated in his authorized biography that he wanted to minimize nongovernmental casualties, so he ruled out a 40-story government building in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of the presence of a florist’s shop on the ground floor.[28] In December 1994, McVeigh and Fortier visited Oklahoma City to inspect their target: the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.[23] The Murrah building had been previously targeted in October 1983 by white supremacist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, including founder James Ellison and Richard Snell. The group had plotted to park “a van or trailer in front of the Federal Building and blow it up with rockets detonated by a timer.”[29] After Snell’s appeal for murdering two people in unrelated cases was denied, he was executed the same day as the Murrah bombing.[30]
The nine-story building, built in 1977, was named for a federal judge and housed fourteen federal agencies including the DEA, ATF, Social Security Administration, and recruiting offices for the Army and Marine Corps.[31] The Murrah building was chosen for its glass front—which was expected to shatter under the impact of the blast—and its adjacent large, open parking lot across the street, which might absorb and dissipate some of the force, and protect the occupants of nearby non-federal buildings.[28] In addition, McVeigh believed that the open space around the building would provide better photo opportunities for propaganda purposes.[28] The attack was planned to take place on April 19, 1995, to coincide with the anniversary of the Waco Siege and the 220th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.[32]
[edit]Gathering materials
“The truck rental — $250. The fertilizer was about… it was either $250 or $500. The nitro methane was the big cost. It was like $1,500. Actually, lemme see, 900, 2,700,… we’re talking $3,500 there… Lets round it up. I just gave you the major expenses, so go to like five grand… what’s five grand?”
—Timothy McVeigh, on the cost of the preparations[33]
McVeigh and Nichols purchased or stole the materials they needed to manufacture the bomb, which they stored in rented sheds. In August 1994, McVeigh obtained nine Kinestiks from gun collector Roger E. Moore, and ignited the devices with Nichols outside Nichols’ home in Herington, Kansas.[34][35] On September 30, 1994, Nichols bought forty 50-pound (23 kg) bags of ammonium nitrate from Mid-Kansas Coop in McPherson, Kansas, this would be enough to fertilize 4.25 acres of farmland at a rate of 160 pounds of nitrogen per acre; an amount commonly used for corn {2000 pounds of AN divided by (160 lb/acre divided by 0.34 lb N/lb AN) equals 4.25 acres}. Nichols bought an additional 50-pound (23 kg) bag on October 18, 1994.[23] McVeigh approached Fortier and asked him to assist with the bombing project, but he refused.[36][37]
They allegedly robbed gun collector Roger E. Moore in his home of $60,000 worth of guns, gold, silver, and jewels, transporting the property in the victim’s own van.[36] McVeigh had previously visited Moore’s ranch, but doubts have been raised about Nichols and McVeigh’s involvement in the robbery for several reasons. The robbers wore ski masks (making a positive identification impossible), and the physical description given did not match Nichols.[38] Also, Aryan Republican Army robbers were operating in the area of Moore’s ranch at the time.[39] McVeigh did not need to raise money for the bomb, which only cost about $5,000. In all, the truck rental cost about $250, the fertilizer less than $500, and the nitromethane $2,780, with a cheap car being used as a getaway vehicle.[40] McVeigh wrote a letter to Moore in which he claimed that the robbery had been committed by government agents.[41] Despite these doubts, items that were stolen from Moore were later found in Nichols’ home and in a storage shed that he had rented.[42][43]
In October 1994, McVeigh showed Michael Fortier and his wife, Lori, a diagram he had drawn of the bomb he wanted to build.[44] McVeigh planned to construct a bomb containing more than 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, mixed with about 1,200 pounds (540 kg) of liquid nitromethane and 350 pounds (160 kg) of Tovex. Including the weight of the sixteen 55-U.S.-gallon drums in which the explosive mixture was to be packed, the bomb would have a combined weight of about 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg).[45] McVeigh had originally intended to use hydrazine rocket fuel, but it proved to be too expensive.[36] In October 1994, posing as a motorcycle racer, McVeigh obtained three 55-U.S.-gallon (46 imp gal; 210 L) drums of nitromethane on the pretense that he and some fellow bikers needed the fuel for racing.[46]
McVeigh rented a storage space, in which he stockpiled seven crates of 18-inch-long Tovex sausages, 80 spools of shock tube, and 500 electric blasting caps, which he and Nichols had stolen from a Martin Marietta Aggregates quarry in Marion, Kansas. He decided not to steal any of the 40,000 pounds (18,000 kg) of ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil) he found at the scene, as he did not believe it to be powerful enough (although he did obtain seventeen bags of ANFO from another source for use in the bomb). McVeigh made a prototype bomb using a plastic Gatorade jug containing ammonium nitrate prills, liquid nitromethane, a piece of Tovex sausage, and a blasting cap.[47] The prototype was detonated in the desert to avoid detection.[47]
“Think about the people as if they were storm troopers in Star Wars. They may be individually innocent, but they are guilty because they work for the Evil Empire.”
—McVeigh reflecting on the deaths of victims in the bombing[48]
Later, speaking about the military mindset with which he went about the preparations, he said, “You learn how to handle killing in the military. I face the consequences, but you learn to accept it.” He compared his actions to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, rather than the attack on Pearl Harbor, reasoning it was necessary to prevent more lives from being lost.[48]
On April 14, 1995, McVeigh paid for a motel room at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas.[49] The following day he rented a 1993 Ford F-700 truck from Ryder under the name Robert D. Kling, an alias he adopted because he knew an Army soldier named Kling with whom he shared physical characteristics, and because it reminded him of the Klingon warriors of Star Trek.[49][50][51] On April 16, 1995, he drove to Oklahoma City with fellow conspirator Terry Nichols where he parked a getaway car several blocks away from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.[52] The nearby Regency Towers Apartments’ lobby security camera recorded images of Nichols’ pickup truck as it drove to the federal building.[53] After removing the license plate from the car, he left a note covering the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) plate that read, “Not abandoned. Please do not tow. Will move by April 23. (Needs battery & cable).”[23][54] Both men then returned to Kansas.
[edit]Building the bomb
On April 17–18, 1995, McVeigh and Nichols removed their supplies from their storage unit in Herington, Kansas, where Nichols lived. They loaded their bomb supplies into a Ryder rental truck.[55] The two then drove to Geary Lake State Park, where they nailed boards onto the floor of the truck to hold the thirteen barrels in place and mixed the chemicals using plastic buckets and a bathroom scale.[56] Each filled barrel weighed nearly 500 pounds (230 kg).[57] McVeigh added more explosives to the driver’s side of the cargo bay, which he could ignite (killing himself in the process) at close range with his Glock 21 pistol in case the primary fuses failed.[58] During McVeigh’s trial, Lori Fortier (the wife of Michael Fortier) stated that McVeigh claimed to have arranged the barrels in order to form a shaped charge.[44] This was achieved by tamping the aluminum side panel of the truck with bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer to direct the blast laterally towards the building.[59] Specifically, McVeigh arranged the barrels in the shape of a backwards J; he later said that for pure destructive power, he would have put the barrels on the side of the cargo bay closest to the Murrah Building; however, such an unevenly distributed 7,000-pound (3,200 kg) load might have broken an axle, flipped the truck over, or at least caused it to lean to one side, which could have drawn attention.[57]
McVeigh then added a dual-fuse ignition system accessible from the truck’s front cab. He drilled two holes in the cab of the truck under the seat, while two holes were also drilled in the body of the truck. One green cannon fuse was run through each hole into the cab. These time-delayed fuses led from the cab of the truck, through plastic fish-tank tubing conduit, to two sets of non-electric blasting caps which would ignite around 350 pounds of high grade explosives that McVeigh stole from a rock quarry.[57] The tubing was painted yellow to blend in with the truck’s livery, and duct-taped in place to the wall to make them harder to disable by yanking from the outside.[57] The fuses were set up to initiate, through shock tubes, the 350 pounds (160 kg) of Tovex Blastrite Gel “sausages”, which would in turn set off the configuration of barrels. Of the thirteen filled barrels, nine contained ammonium nitrate and nitromethane, and four contained a mixture of the fertilizer and about 4-U.S.-gallon (3.3 imp gal; 15 L) of diesel fuel.[57] Additional materials and tools used for manufacturing the bomb were left in the truck to be destroyed in the blast.[57] After finishing the truck bomb, the two men separated; Nichols returned home to Herington and McVeigh with the truck to Junction City.
[edit]Bombing

McVeigh’s movement in the Ryder truck (red dashed line) and escape on foot (blue dashed line) on the day of the bombing

An aerial view, looking from the north, of the destruction
McVeigh’s original plan had been to detonate the bomb at 11:00 am CST, but at dawn on April 19, 1995, he decided instead to destroy the building at 9:00 am CST.[60] As he drove toward the Murrah Federal Building in the Ryder truck, McVeigh carried with him an envelope containing pages from The Turner Diaries—a fictional account of white supremacists who ignite a revolution by blowing up the FBI headquarters at 9:15 one morning using a truck bomb.[23] McVeigh wore a printed T-shirt with the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Sic semper tyrannis (“Thus always to tyrants”, which was shouted by John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln) and “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” (from Thomas Jefferson).[32] He also carried an envelope of anti-government materials that included a bumper sticker with Thomas Jefferson slogan, “When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Underneath, McVeigh had scrawled, “Maybe now, there will be liberty!” and a hand-copied quote by John Locke asserting that a man has a right to kill someone who takes away his liberty.[23][61]
McVeigh entered Oklahoma City at 8:50 am CST.[62] At 8:57 am CST the Regency Towers Apartments’ lobby security camera that had recorded Nichols’ pickup truck three days earlier recorded the Ryder truck heading towards the Murrah Federal Building.[63] At the same moment, McVeigh lit the five-minute fuse. Three minutes later, still a block away, he lit the two-minute fuse. He parked the Ryder truck in a drop-off zone situated under the building’s day-care center, exited and locked the truck, and as he headed to his getaway vehicle, dropped the keys to the truck a few blocks away.[64]
At 9:02 am CST, the Ryder truck, containing in excess of 4,800 pounds (2,200 kg)[65] of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel mixture, detonated in front of the north side of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.[44] Hundreds of people were killed or injured. One third of the building was destroyed by the explosion,[66] which created a 30-foot (9.1 m) wide, 8-foot (2.4 m) deep crater on NW 5th Street next to the building.[67] The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a sixteen-block radius, and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings.[3][4] The broken glass alone accounted for 5% of the death total and 69% of the injuries outside the Murrah Federal Building.[4] The blast destroyed or burned 86 cars around the site.[3][68] The destruction of the buildings left several hundred people homeless and shut down multiple offices in downtown Oklahoma City.[69] The explosion was estimated to have caused at least $652 million worth of damage.[70]
The effects of the blast were equivalent to over 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of TNT,[59][71] and could be heard and felt up to 55 miles (89 km) away.[69] Seismometers at Science Museum Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, 4.3 miles (6.9 km) away, and in Norman, Oklahoma, 16.1 miles (25.9 km) away, recorded the blast as measuring approximately 3.0 on the Richter scale.[72]
[edit]Arrests

Initially, the FBI had three hypotheses regarding who might have been responsible for the bombing. The first was international terrorists, possibly the same group that had carried out the World Trade Center bombing two years earlier. The FBI also thought that a drug cartel might have been carrying out an act of vengeance against DEA agents as the building held a DEA office. The last hypothesis was that the bombing was done by Christian fascists acting on conspiracy theories.[73]

Sketch used by the FBI (left) and McVeigh (right)
McVeigh was arrested within 90 minutes of the explosion,[74] as he was traveling north on Interstate 35 near Perry in Noble County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma State Trooper Charlie Hanger stopped McVeigh for driving his yellow 1977 Mercury Marquis without a license plate, and arrested him for having a concealed weapon.[8][75] For his home address, McVeigh falsely claimed he resided at Terry Nichols’ brother James’ house in Michigan.[76] After booking McVeigh, Hanger searched his police car and found a business card McVeigh had hidden while he was handcuffed.[77] Written on the back of the card, which was from a Wisconsin military surplus store, were the words “TNT at $5 a stick. Need more.”[78] The card was later used as evidence during McVeigh’s trial.[78]
While investigating the VIN from an axle of the truck used in the explosion and the remnants of the license plate, federal agents were able to link the truck to a specific Ryder rental agency in Junction City. Using a sketch created with the assistance of Eldon Elliot, owner of the agency, the agents were able to implicate McVeigh in the bombing.[13][23][79] McVeigh was also identified by Lea McGown of the Dreamland Motel, who remembered him parking a large yellow Ryder truck in the lot; McVeigh had signed in under his real name at the motel, using an address that matched the one on his forged license and the charge sheet at the Perry Police Station.[9][23] Before signing his real name at the motel, McVeigh had used false names for his transactions. However, McGown noted, “People are so used to signing their own name that when they go to sign a phony name, they almost always go to write, and then look up for a moment as if to remember the new name they want to use. That’s what [McVeigh] did, and when he looked up I started talking to him, and it threw him.”[23]

McVeigh about to exit the Perry, Oklahoma, courthouse on April 21, 1995
After an April 21, 1995, court hearing on the gun charges, but before McVeigh’s release, federal agents took him into custody as they continued their investigation into the bombing.[23] Rather than talk to investigators about the bombing, McVeigh demanded an attorney. Having been tipped off by the arrival of police and helicopters that a bombing suspect was inside, a restless crowd began to gather outside the jail. McVeigh’s requests for a bulletproof vest or transport by helicopter were denied.[80]
Federal agents obtained a warrant to search the house of McVeigh’s father, Bill, following which they broke down the door and wired the house and telephone with listening devices.[81] FBI investigators used the resulting information gained, along with the fake address McVeigh had been using, to begin their search for the Nichols brothers, Terry and James.[76] On April 21, 1995, Terry learned that he was being hunted, and turned himself in.[10] Investigators discovered incriminating evidence at his home: ammonium nitrate and blasting caps, the electric drill used to drill out the locks at the quarry, books on bomb-making, a copy of Hunter (a 1989 novel by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of the white nationalist National Alliance) and a hand-drawn map of downtown Oklahoma City, on which was marked the Murrah Building and the spot where McVeigh’s getaway car was hidden.[82][83] After a nine-hour interrogation, Terry Nichols was formally held in federal custody until his trial.[84] On April 25, 1995, James Nichols was also arrested, but he was released after 32 days due to lack of evidence.[85] McVeigh’s sister Jennifer was accused of illegally mailing bullets to McVeigh,[86] but she was granted immunity in exchange for testifying against him.[87]
Ibrahim Ahmad, a Jordanian-American traveling from his home in Oklahoma City to visit family in Jordan on April 19, 1995, was also arrested in what was described as an “initial dragnet.” There was concern that Middle Eastern terrorists could have been behind the attack. Further investigation cleared Ahmad of any involvement in the bombing.[88][89]
[edit]Casualties

Floor-by-floor diagram detailing the location of the victims in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
It is estimated that 646 people were inside the building when the bomb exploded.[90] By the end of the day of the bombing, twenty were confirmed dead, including six children, and over one hundred injured.[91] The toll eventually reached 168 confirmed dead, not including an unmatched leg that could have belonged to a possible, unidentified 169th victim.[92] Most of the deaths resulted from the collapse of the building, rather than the bomb blast itself.[93] Those killed included 163 who were in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, one person in the Athenian Building, one woman in a parking lot across the street, a man and woman in the Oklahoma Water Resources building, and a rescue worker struck on the head by debris.[94]
The victims, including three pregnant women, ranged in age from three months to seventy-three years.[1][94] Of the dead, 99 worked for the federal government.[95] Eight of the victims were federal law enforcement agents; four from the United States Secret Service, two from the United States Customs Service, one from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, and one from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nineteen of the victims were children, fifteen of whom were in the America’s Kids Day Care Center.[96] The bodies of the 168 victims were identified at a temporary morgue set up at the scene.[97] A team of 24 identified the victims using full-body X-rays, dental examinations, fingerprinting, blood tests, and DNA testing.[95][98][99] More than 680 people were injured. The majority of the injuries were abrasions, severe burns, and bone fractures.[2]
McVeigh later justified his killing of children in the bombing: “I didn’t define the rules of engagement in this conflict. The rules, if not written down, are defined by the aggressor. It was brutal, no holds barred. Women and kids were killed at Waco and Ruby Ridge. You put back in [the government's] faces exactly what they’re giving out.”[100]
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Here is what Occupy is was the name given to a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City’s Wall Street financial district.
The Canadian group and magazine Adbusters initiated the call for protest with assistance from the Manhattan-based public relations firm Workhorse, who was well known for its successful work on client brands including Mercedes and Saks Fifth Avenue. The ensuing series of events helped lead to media awareness that inspired Occupy protests and movements around the world. In awarding Workhorse its Platinum Award, industry publication PRNews noted “The results, obviously, have been spectacular. There’s hardly a newspaper, Internet or broadcast media outlet that hasn’t covered OWS.”[7]
The main issues raised by Occupy Wall Street were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the perceived undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. The OWS slogan, We are the 99%, refers to income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. To achieve their goals, protesters acted on consensus-based decisions made in general assemblies which emphasized direct action over petitioning authorities for redress.[8][nb 1]
Protesters were forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. After several unsuccessful attempts to re-occupy the original location, protesters turned their focus to occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, college and university campuses.
On December 29, 2012 Naomi Wolf of The Guardian newspaper provided U.S. Government documents which revealed that the FBI and DHS had monitored Occupy Wall Street through its joint terrorism task force despite labelling it a peaceful movement.[9]
Contents [hide]
1 Origins
2 Overview
2.1 “We are the 99%”
2.2 Income inequality
2.3 Goals
2.4 Protester demographics
2.5 Main organization
2.6 Funding
2.7 The People’s Library
3 Zuccotti Park encampment
4 Security, crime and legal issues
4.1 Brooklyn Bridge arrests
4.2 Court cases
5 Notable responses
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links
[edit]Origins

The original protest was initiated by Kalle Lasn and Micah White of Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, who conceived of a September 17 occupation in lower Manhattan. Lasn registered the OccupyWallStreet.org web address on June 9.[10] That same month, Adbusters emailed its subscribers saying “America needs its own Tahrir.” White said the reception of the idea “snowballed from there.”[10][11] In a blog post on July 13 of 2011,[12] Adbusters proposed a peaceful occupation of Wall Street to protest corporate influence on democracy, the lack of legal consequences for those who brought about the global crisis of monetary insolvency, and an increasing disparity in wealth.[11] The protest was promoted with an image featuring a dancer atop Wall Street’s iconic Charging Bull statue.[13][14][15]
However, they weren’t the first ones. In 2008, when the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was passed, numerous people from across the political spectrum went out on the streets and protested, starting on September 25, 2008. Groups such as Democracy for America, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, labor unions like the AFL-CIO and United Federation of Teachers were involved in the protests.[16] However, TrueMajority members and those that were part of USAction organized the protests in what started as 100 places on September 26, but eventually spread to over 251 places nationwide by September 28 ranging from Los Angeles to Rochester [16][17][18][19][20] By October, the movement opposing the bailout had spread to cities ranging from Rochester, Detroit, Los Angeles, Buffalo, Baltimore, Charlotte, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Boston, San Diego and Tampa Bay[21][22] In a news story, CNN wrote that organizers remarked that those protesting had “no agenda, no leaders, no organizing group” but to make the financial services companies pay.[16] While a protest was planned in Washington D.C., activists planned others such as protesting in front of the headquarters of AIG in Hartford, Connecticut. In a conversation of Democracy Now!, a reporter and editor of the New York Indypendent Newspaper Arun Gupta described the bailout as “a financial September 11th…and…[an] extreme power grab that would give these huge sweeping new powers to the Treasury Department” which was sent out was an email to “about 150 activists, organizers and media folks…in New York City…and it just exploded…resulting in actions against the bailout…being endorsed and…forwarded by True Majority, Code Pink, United for Peace and Justice.”[18] Gupta continued, noting that “all over the country now, there are going to be protests in various financial centers” and his call for people to “self-organize” was successful. Ralph Nader noted later in the show that the protests were “leaderless” but recommended that it be “more than just a rally of protests,” that it “demand something” and “be focused.” The Real News Network reported that “the largest gathering took place in New York City where several hundred protesters yelled their enthusiastic support [against the bailout]” where people yelled “the bailout is bullsh*t!” along with one person with a drum. Some protesting carried signs reading “No Blank Checks For Wall Street”, “Our Hard-Earned Pensions Are Not Up For Grabs”, “Tax the rich,” and “No Bail-out and others “repeated calls for the government to spend money on education, health care and housing as freely and readily as it was proposing to do for Wall Street” and others shouted “No more bail, send them [the bankers] to jail!”[23][24] The Los Angeles Times wrote that there was over 1,000 protesting in front of the New York Stock Exchange in September 2008, calling the bailout a “class war crime.”[25]
The second group’s connection is debated among observers and others. Some have even argued that the Tea Party Movement was born out the populist anger against the bailout like Fox Business News since those involved were protesting the bailouts under Barack Obama starting in February 2009 and that “Tea Party-backed candidates…unified in their disgust for excessive government spending in general and taxpayer-backed bailouts in particular, not least those targeting big banks.” [26][27] This is in addition to the fact that the movement was started a populist “organizing against President Barack Obama’s proposed $750 billion stimulus package” and which ended up morphing into protests “against the stimulus package, the bank bailouts, and health-care legislation” including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the continuing bailouts of Big Business[28][29][30] However, over time, the movement quickly devolved from its origins, began to decline and began to focus on electing candidates instead of engaging in direct action.[31][32]
Even with this history, numerous blogs, videos and other sources argue that investigative reporter David DeGraw was the founder of 99% movement, which was the precursor to Occupy Wall Street.[33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] One article on alternet even claims that DeGraw is “widely claimed as the originator for “we are the 99%.”[43] David G Mattichak Jr, of Moot Magazine affirmed this in his article, crediting DeGraw with launching “the 99% movement” which originally was “aimed at very specific objectives outlined by DeGraw…[including] …the…seminal message of the evils of central banking and its demands for the Federal Reserve to be dismantled.”[44] Then in an unrelated incident, a group called New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts (NYAB) was formed, which promoted a “sleep in” in lower Manhattan called “Bloombergville,” in July 2011, preceding OWS, and provided a number of activists to begin organising.[45][46] Activist, anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber and several of his associates attended the NYAB general assembly but, disappointed that the event was intended to be a precursor to marching on Wall Street with predetermined demands, Graeber and his small group created their own general assembly, which eventually developed into the New York General Assembly. The group began holding weekly meetings to work out issues and the movement’s direction, such as whether or not to have a set of demands, forming working groups and whether or not to have leaders.[10][47][48][nb 2] The Internet group Anonymous created a video encouraging its supporters to take part in the protests.[49] The U.S. Day of Rage, a group that organized to protest “corporate influence [that] corrupts our political parties, our elections, and the institutions of government,” also joined the movement.[50][51] The protest itself began on September 17; a Facebook page for the demonstrations began two days later on September 19 featuring a YouTube video of earlier events. By mid-October, Facebook listed 125 Occupy-related pages.[52]
The original location for the protest was One Chase Manhattan Plaza, with Bowling Green Park (the site of the “Charging Bull”) and Zuccotti Park as alternate choices. Police discovered this before the protest began and fenced off two locations; but they left Zuccotti Park, the group’s third choice, open. Since the park was private property, police could not legally force protesters to leave without being requested to do so by the property owner.[53][54] At a press conference held the same day the protests began, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg explained, “people have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we’ll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it.”[51]
Because of its connection to the financial system, lower Manhattan has seen many riots and protests since the 1800s,[55] and OWS has been compared to other historical protests in the United States.[56] Commentators have put OWS within the political tradition of other movements that made themselves known by occupation of public spaces, such as Coxey’s Army in 1894, the Bonus Marchers in 1932, and the May Day protesters in 1971.[57][58]
More recent prototypes for OWS include the British student protests of 2010, 2009-2010 Iranian election protests, the Arab Spring protests,[59] and, more closely related, protests in Greece and Spain. These antecedents have in common with OWS a reliance on social media and electronic messaging, as well as the belief that financial institutions, corporations, and the political elite have been malfeasant in their behavior toward youth and the middle class.[60][61] Occupy Wall Street, in turn, gave rise to the Occupy movement in the United States.[62][63][64] David Graeber has argued that the Occupy movement, in its anti-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian consensus-based politics, its refusal to accept the legitimacy of the existing legal and political order, and its embrace of prefigurative politics, has roots in an anarchist political tradition.[65] Sociologist Dana Williams has likewise argued that “the most immediate inspiration for Occupy is anarchism,” and the LA Times has identified the “controversial, anarchist-inspired organizational style” as one of the hallmarks of OWS.[66][67]
[edit]Overview

[edit]“We are the 99%”
Main article: We are the 99%
The Occupy protesters’ slogan “We are the 99%” refers to the protester’s perceptions of, and attitudes regarding, income disparity in the US, which has been a main issue for OWS. It derives from a “We the 99%” flyer calling for OWS’s second General Assembly in August 2011. The variation “We are the 99%” originated from a tumblr page of the same name.[68][69] Huffington Post reporter Paul Taylor said the slogan is “arguably the most successful slogan since ‘Hell no, we won’t go!’” of the Vietnam War era, and that the majority of Democrats, independents and Republicans see the income gap as causing social friction.[68] The slogan was boosted by statistics which were confirmed by a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released in October 2011.[70]
[edit]Income inequality

A chart showing the disparity in income distribution in the United States.[71][72] Wealth inequality and income inequality have been central concerns among OWS protesters.[73][74][75]
Income inequality is a focal point of the Occupy Wall Street protests,[76][77][78] as it had risen to the levels not seen since the Great Depression.[79] The focus on income inequality by the movement was studied by Arindajit Dube and Ethan Kaplan of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who noted that “inequality in the U.S. has risen dramatically over the past 40 years. So it is not too surprising to witness the rise of a social movement focused on redistribution…Greater inequality may reflect as well as exacerbate factors that make it relatively more difficult for lower-income individuals to mobilize on behalf of their interests…Yet, even the economic crisis of 2007 did not initially produce a left social movement…Only after it became increasingly clear that the political process was unable to enact serious reforms to address the causes or consequences of the economic crisis did we see the emergence of the OWS movement…Overall, a focus on the 1 percent concentrates attention on the aspect of inequality most clearly tied to the distribution of income between labor and capital…We think OWS has already begun to influence the public policy making process.”[80][citation needed] An article on the same subject published in Salon Magazine by Natasha Leonard noted “Occupy has been central to driving media stories about income inequality in America. Late last week, Radio Dispatch’s John Knefel compiled a report for media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), which illustrates Occupy’s success: Media focus on the movement in the past half year, according to the report, has been almost directly proportional to the attention paid to income inequality and corporate greed by mainstream outlets. During peak media coverage of the movement last October, mentions of the term “income inequality” increased “fourfold”…tokens of Occupy rhetoric — most notably the idea of a “99 percent” against a “1 percent” — has seeped into everyday cultural parlance.”[81] As income inequality remained on people’s minds, Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney said such a focus was about envy and class warfare.[82]
[edit]Goals
OWS’s goals include a reduction in the influence of corporations on politics,[83] more balanced distribution of income,[83] more and better jobs,[83] bank reform[64] (especially to curtail speculative trading by banks), forgiveness of student loan debt[83][84] or other relief for indebted students,[85][86] and alleviation of the foreclosure situation.[87] Some media label the protests “anti-capitalist”,[88] while others dispute the relevance of this label.[89] Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times noted “while alarmists seem to think that the movement is a ‘mob’ trying to overthrow capitalism, one can make a case that, on the contrary, it highlights the need to restore basic capitalist principles like accountability.”[90] Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi asserted, “These people aren’t protesting money. They’re not protesting banking. They’re protesting corruption on Wall Street.”[91] In contradiction to such views, academic Slavoj Zizek wrote, “capitalism is now clearly re-emerging as the name of the problem.”[92]
Some protestors have favored a fairly concrete set of national policy proposals.[93][94] One OWS group that favored specific demands created a document entitled the 99 Percent Declaration,[95] but this was regarded as an attempt to “co-opt” the “Occupy” name,[96] and the document and group were rejected by the General Assemblies of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Philadelphia.[96] However others, such as those who issued the Liberty Square Blueprint, are opposed to setting demands, saying they would limit the movement by implying conditions and limiting the duration of the movement.[97] David Graeber, an OWS participant, has also criticized the idea that the movement must have clearly defined demands, arguing that it would be a counterproductive legitimization of the very power structures the movement seeks to challenge.[98] In a similar vein, scholar and activist Judith Butler has challenged the assertion that OWS should make concrete demands: “So what are the demands that all these people are making? Either they say there are no demands and that leaves your critics confused. Or they say that demands for social equality, that demands for economic justice are impossible demands and impossible demands are just not practical. But we disagree. If hope is an impossible demand then we demand the impossible.”[99]
[edit]Protester demographics

Protestors march up Wall Street towards the New York Stock Exchange, November 2011.
Early on the protesters were mostly young, partly because social networks through which they promoted the protests are primarily used by young people.[100][101] As the protest grew, older protesters also became involved.[102] The average age of the protesters was 33, with people in their 20s balanced by people in their 40s.[103] Various religious faiths have been represented at the protest including Muslims, Jews, and Christians.[104] Rabbi Chaim Gruber,[105] however, is reportedly the only clergy member to have actually camped at Zuccotti Park.[106][107][108] The Associated Press reported in October that there was “diversity of age, gender and race” at the protest.[102] A study based on survey responses at OccupyWallSt.org reported that the protesters were 81.2% White, 6.8% Hispanic, 2.8% Asian, 1.6% Black, and 7.6% identifying as “other”.[109][110]
According to a survey of occupywallst.org website visitors[111] by the Baruch College School of Public Affairs published on October 19, of 1,619 web respondents, one-third were older than 35, half were employed full-time, 13% were unemployed and 13% earned over $75,000. When given the option of identifying themselves as Democrat, Republican or Independent/Other 27.3% of the respondents called themselves Democrats, 2.4% called themselves Republicans, while the rest, 70%, called themselves independents.[112] A survey of 301 respondents by a Fordham University political science professor identified the protester’s political affiliations as 25% Democrat, 2% Republican, 11% Socialist, 11% Green Party, 0% Tea Party, and 12% “Other”; meanwhile, 39% of the respondents said they did not identify with any political party.[113] Ideologically the Fordham survey found 80% self-identifying as slightly to extremely liberal, 15% as moderate, and 6% as slightly to extremely conservative.[113]
A study released by City University of New York found that over a third of protestors had incomes over $100,000, 76 percent had bachelor’s degrees, and 39 percent had graduate degrees. While a large percent of them were employed, they largely reported they were “unconstrained by highly demanding family or work commitments”. The study also found that they disproportionally represented upper-class, highly educated white males.[114][115] Said one of the authors of the study, Ruth Milkman, “It’s a pretty affluent demographic and highly educated. Many were the children of the elite, if you will.”[116]
[edit]Main organization

Protesters engaging in the ‘human microphone’
The assembly is the main OWS decision-making body and uses a modified consensus process, where participants attempt to reach consensus and then drop to a 9/10 vote if consensus is not reached. Consensus is a process of common sentiment. It is not agreement. Participants are given room for dissent and complex ideas are able to form. The process has been used in many indigenous traditions, Quaker practices, the women’s liberation movement, anti-nuclear movement, and alter-globalization movement. In the assembly OWS working groups and affinity groups discuss their thoughts and needs, and the meetings are open to the public for both attendance and speaking.[117] The meetings are without formal leadership. Meeting participants comment upon committee proposals using a process called a “stack”, which is a queue of speakers that anyone can join. New York uses what is called a progressive stack, in which people from marginalized groups are sometimes allowed to speak before people from dominant groups. Facilitators and “stack-keepers” urge speakers to “step forward, or step back” based on which group they belong to, meaning that women and minorities may move to the front of the line, while white men must often wait for a turn to speak.[118][119] Participants take minutes of the meetings so that other participants, who are not in attendance, can be kept up-to-date.[120][121] In addition to the over 70 working groups[122] that perform much of the daily work and planning of Occupy Wall Street, the organizational structure also includes “spokes councils,” at which every working group can participate.[123]
Even with the perception of a movement with no leaders, leaders have emerged. A facilitator of some of the movement’s more contentious discussions, Nicole Carty, says “Usually when we think of leadership, we think of authority, but nobody has authority here,” – “People lead by example, stepping up when they need to and stepping back when they need to.”[124] According to Fordham University communications professor Paul Levinson, Occupy Wall Street and similar movements symbolize another rise of direct democracy that has not actually been seen since ancient times.[125][126]
[edit]Funding
During the beginning weeks of the park encampment it was reported that most of OWS funding was coming from donors with incomes in the $50,000 to $100,000 range, and the median donation was $22.[103] According to finance group member Pete Dutro, OWS had accumulated over $700,000.[127] The largest single donor to the movement was former New York Mercantile Exchange vice chairman Robert Halper, who was noted by media as having also given the maximum allowable campaign contribution to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.[128] During the period that protesters were encamped in the park the funds were being used to purchase food and other necessities and to bail out fellow protesters. With the closure of the park to overnight camping on November 15, members of the OWS finance committee stated they would initiate a process to streamline the movement and re-evaluate their budget and eliminate or merge some of the “working groups” they no longer needed on a day-to-day basis.[129][130]
Met with increasing costs and significant overhead expenses in order to sustain the movement, an internal audit from the fiscal management team known as the “accounting working group” revealed on March 2, 2012, that only $44,000 of the several hundred thousand dollars raised still remained available. The report warned that if current revenues and expenses were maintained at current levels, then funds would run out in three weeks.[131][132] Some of the movement’s biggest costs include ground-level activities such as food kitchens, street medics, bus tickets, subway passes, and printing expenses.[133][134] In late February 2012 it was reported that a group of business leaders including Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield, Danny Goldberg, Norman Lear, and Terri Gardner[135] created a new working group, the Movement Resource Group, and with it have pledged $300,000 with plans to add $1,500,000 more.[136][137] The money would be made available in the form of grants of up to $25,000 for eligible recipients.
[edit]The People’s Library
Main article: The People’s Library

Writers Jennifer Egan, Lynn Nottage and Jonathan Lethem giving a reading at the library on November 7, 2011
The People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street was started a few days after the protest when a pile of books was left in a cardboard box at Zuccotti Park. The books were passed around and organized, and as time passed, it received additional books and resources from readers, private citizens, authors and corporations.[138] As of November 2011 the library had 5,554 books cataloged in LibraryThing and its collection was described as including some rare or unique articles of historical interest.[139] According to American Libraries, the library’s collection had “thousands of circulating volumes,” which included “holy books of every faith, books reflecting the entire political spectrum, and works for all ages on a huge range of topics.”[138] Following the example of the OWS People’s Library, protestors throughout North America and Europe formed sister libraries at their encampments.[140]
[edit]Zuccotti Park encampment

Main article: Timeline of Occupy Wall Street

Encampment at Zuccotti Park and ‘People’s Library’ with over 5,000 books, wi-fi internet, and a reference service, often staffed by professional librarians, procuring material through the interlibrary loan system.
Prior to being closed to overnight use and during the occupation of the space, somewhere between 100 and 200 people slept in Zuccotti Park. Initially tents were not allowed and protesters slept in sleeping bags or under blankets.[141] Meal service started at a total cost of about $1,000 per day. While some visitors ate at nearby restaurants, according to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post many businesses surrounding the park were adversely affected.[142][143][144] Contribution boxes collected about $5,000 a day, and supplies came in from around the country.[142] Eric Smith, a local chef who was laid off at the Sheraton in Midtown, said that he was running a five-star restaurant in the park.[145] In late October kitchen volunteers complained about working 18-hour days to feed people who were not part of the movement and served only brown rice, simple sandwiches, and potato chips for three days.[146]
Many protesters used the bathrooms of nearby business establishments. Some supporters donated use of their bathrooms for showers and the sanitary needs of protesters.[147]
New York City requires a permit to use “amplified sound,” including electric bullhorns. Since Occupy Wall Street did not have a permit, the protesters created the “human microphone” in which a speaker pauses while the nearby members of the audience repeat the phrase in unison. The effect has been called “comic or exhilarating—often all at once.” Some feel this provided a further unifying effect for the crowd.[148][149]
During the weeks that overnight use of the park was allowed, a separate area was set aside for an information area which contained laptop computers and several wireless routers.[150][151] The items were powered with gas generators until the New York City Fire Department removed them on October 28, saying they were a fire hazard.[152] Protesters then used bicycles rigged with an electricity-generating apparatus to charge batteries to power the protesters’ laptops and other electronics.[153] According to the Columbia Journalism Review’s New Frontier Database, the media team, while unofficial, ran websites like Occupytogether.org, video livestream, a “steady flow of updates on Twitter, and Tumblr” as well as Skype sessions with other demonstrators.[154]

Zuccotti Park, cleared and cleaned on November 15, 2011
On October 6, Brookfield Office Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park, issued a statement saying: “Sanitation is a growing concern… Normally the park is cleaned and inspected every weeknight [but] because the protesters refuse to cooperate … the park has not been cleaned since Friday, September 16 and as a result, sanitary conditions have reached unacceptable levels.”[155][156]
On October 13, New York City’s mayor Bloomberg and Brookfield announced that the park must be vacated for cleaning the following morning at 7 am.[157] However, protesters vowed to “defend the occupation” after police said they wouldn’t allow them to return with sleeping bags and other gear following the cleaning, and many protesters spent the night sweeping and mopping the park.[158][159] The next morning the property owner postponed its cleaning effort.[158] Having prepared for a confrontation with the authorities to prevent the cleaning effort from proceeding, some protesters clashed with police in riot gear outside City Hall after it was canceled.[157]
On October 20, residents at a community board meeting complained about inadequate sanitation, verbal taunts and harassment by protesters, noise, and related issues. One resident angrily complained that the protesters “[a]re defecating on our doorsteps”; board member Tricia Joyce said, “They have to have some parameters. That doesn’t mean the protests have to stop. I’m hoping we can strike a balance on parameters because this could be a long term stay.”[160]
Shortly after midnight on November 15, 2011, the New York City Police Department gave protesters notice from the park’s owner (Brookfield Office Properties) to leave Zuccotti Park due to its purportedly unsanitary and hazardous conditions. The notice stated that they could return without sleeping bags, tarps or tents.[161][162] About an hour later, police in riot gear began removing protesters from the park, arresting some 200 people in the process, including a number of journalists.
On December 31, 2011, Protesters started to re-occupy the park. At one point, protesters started to push police barricades into the streets. Police quickly put the barricades back up. Occupiers then started to take down barricades from all sides of the park and stored them in a pile in the middle of Zuccotti Park.[163] Police called in re-enforcements while at the same time more activists entered the park. Police tried to enter the park, but were pushed back by protesters. There were reports of pepper-spray being used by the police. About 12:40 am after the group celebrated New Years in the park, They exited the park and marched down Broadway. Police, in riot gear, started to clear out the park around 1:30 am Sixty-eight people were arrested—including one accused of stabbing a police officer in the hand with a pair of scissors—in connection with the event, which was over within several hours.[164]
Since the closure of the Zuccotti Park encampment, some former campers have been allowed to sleep in local churches, but how much longer they will be welcomed is in question and even former park occupiers debate whether or not they can continue to provide funds and meals for homeless protesters. Since the removal, New York protesters have been divided in their opinion as to the importance of the occupation of a space with some believing that actual encampment is unnecessary, and even a burden.[165] Since the closure of the Zuccotti Park encampment, the movement has turned its focus on occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, college and university campuses, and Wall Street itself. Since its inception, the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City have cost the city an estimated $17 million in overtime fees to provide policing of protests and encampment inside Zuccotti Park.[166][167][168]
On March 17, 2012, Occupy Wall Street demonstrators attempted to mark the movement’s six-month anniversary by reoccupying Zuccotti Park. Protestors were soon cleared away by Police, who made over 70 arrests. Veteran protesters said the force used by police was the most violent they had witnessed and a Guardian reporter witnessed a protester being slammed into a glass door by a police officer.[169][170] On March 24, hundreds of OWS protesters marched from Zuccotti Park to Union Square in a demonstration against police violence.[171]
On September 17, 2012, protesters returned to Zuccotti Park to mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the occupation. Protesters blocked access to the New York Stock Exchange as well as other intersections in the area. This, along with several violations of Zuccotti Park rules, lead police to surround groups of protesters, at times pulling protesters from the crowds to be arrested for blocking pedestrian traffic. A police lieutenant instructed reporters not to take pictures. The New York Times reported that two officers shoved city councilman Jumaane D. Williams off a bench with batons after he refused two orders to move. A spokesman for Williams later stated that he had been pushed by police while trying to explain his reason for being in the park, but was not arrested or injured. There were 185 arrests across the city.[172][173][174][175]
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Wow were are the mass killings of innocent people, and do not post debunked crap about Occupy According to internal documents newly released by the FBI, the agency spearheaded a nationwide law enforcement effort to investigate and monitor the Occupy Wall Street movement. In certain documents, divisions of the FBI refer to the Occupy Wall Street protests as a “criminal activity” or even “domestic terrorism.”

The internal papers were obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice fund via a Freedom of Information Act Request. The fund, a legal nonprofit that focuses on civil rights, says it believes the 112 pages of documents, available for public viewing on its website, are only “the tip of the iceberg.”

“This production … is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBI’s surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protestors organizing with the Occupy movement,” wrote Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the fund’s executive director, in a press release Saturday.

According to the documents, the FBI coordinated extensively with private companies, including banks, that feared they could be affected by Occupy protests. Occupy, which took root in New York City’s Zuccotti Park in September 2011 and spread to cities across the country, targeted corporations and other forces it believed to perpetuate social inequality. The FBI’s investigation included the movement’s manifestations in New York; Milwaukee; Indianapolis; Anchorage, Alaska; Jacksonville, Fla.; Richmond, Va.; and Memphis, Tenn., among others.

The FBI did not immediately respond to The Huffington Post’s requests for comment Sunday.

In September, the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union obtained documents that detailed the FBI’s surveillance of the Occupy movement in that region. At the time, the FBI told the San Francisco Chronicle that its investigations were being performed in a way that “respects liberty and privacy and avoids unnecessary intrusions into the lives of law-abiding people.”

According to the new documents, the FBI began meeting with representatives of the New York Stock Exchange and other businesses as early as August 2011, a month before the Zuccotti Park protests.

In Jackson, Miss., the local FBI office attended a meeting with private banks and the police to discuss a “National Bad Bank Sit-In-Day” protest in December 2011.

The documents are heavily redacted, a point that the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund considers to be evidence of the FBI’s attempt to withhold relevant information. The fund is filing an appeal to obtain further details of the FBI’s investigation, according to the release.
Wow the business industry which they were posting were saying this, wow they have no crediblity espically the way that they have tried destory this country. You show me that I should never listen to you because you do not want to see that Corporations are the ones runing this country not the government that is how igorant you are about facts.
Wow keep showing that you have no idea what Occupy is about and never will. You show why KO has no idea how to lie. Also this has nothing to do with KO or baseball, go to we are igorant about Occupy blogs and let people talk baseball.

He would just get himself fired from that job too.

Wow again here is who Gibson is here again is who Gibson is KO is not BB, thier is no such thing as bath tub boy that is something that was made up by John Gibson because KO was not allowed to call him worst person. Also anyone that uses that name shows that they have zero clue what being human is. John Gibson thought it was funny to make fun of Stewart’s pain on 911, he thought it was funny to make fun of Lugar’s suicude by his I could never quit you quto, UPDATE: John Gibson has “apologized” for his distasteful comments on Heath Ledger’s death. Though he first defended his statements on his radio show yesterday — there is “no point in passing up a good joke,” he said, and repeated his “Brokeback Mountain” joke saying, “I’m not giving that up” — he eventually caved to pressure to apologize and did so on his television show.
Still, his apology seemed forced, and relatively half-hearted:
Those who knew him say he was a good actor and a loving dad. And what happened to him was terrible, but was evidently an accident. Once again, to anyone offended by my comments, I’m sorry. But I’m also sorry that Heath Ledger is no longer alive and with us.
ThinkProgress has the audio of Gibson’s defense of his comments, and MediaMatters has the video of his “apology.”
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ORIGINAL ITEM: Fox News’ John Gibson found a way to outdo MSNBC’s Courtney Hazlett for the most inappropriate comment on Heath Ledger’s death. ThinkProgress reports that, on his radio show yesterday (which opened with funeral music), Gibson called Ledger a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.” Making fun of the famous “I wish I knew how to quit you” line from “Brokeback Mountain,” Gibson said of his death, “Well, he found out how to quit you.”
This is not Gibson’s first time making inappropriate comments in the wake of tragedy. In July 2005, just one day before the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London, Gibson said that “the International Olympic Committee missed a golden opportunity….If they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn’t worry about terrorism. They’d blow up Paris, and who cares?” The next day, after the London bombings, Gibson.
Also only people that live in alterante universes think that this is Obama’s Monica lewsinsky. Excuse me, were was the cover up, were was Obama lying, wow were was Obama having a affair with a intern. You really show that you have no idea what you talk about.
Also I love how you put out a made up Special Comment that KO never gave. Showing that you do not know what pardoy is. This story has nothing to do with KO, so keep showing how igonrant you are on KO and that you have zero clue what make believe aka pardoy sketch and reality are.
KO is not BB that is a made up story and anyone that uses it shows that they have zero idea what being human is.
Wow once again you show that you not KO are the immature one, and do not say different because that would be a lie. Only people that are igorant about who KO is and what immature behavior like you would believe those made up talking points, that again are debunked like everything that you say, and again I am someone who would care crap if Ko was that, that is how I know that KO is opposite of immature and that those talking points describe you to a tee.
Keep showing that you do not know what being human means, only people in alternate unvierses would believe the made up lie by Gibson that get’s debunked.
Keep lying and showing how igorant you are about who KO is, sorry KO is no crybaby that is who you and Gibson are.
Wow BG the only person that thinks that a made debunked story by a person that loves to make fun of people’s pain and thinks that making fun of sucide is funny. Please keep showing how igorant you are about KO and that you have no idea what being human means. You really make me respect KO more and show why he this generations Murrow. Sorry that story and name have been debunked over and over again, keep showing how igorant you are when it comes to truth. Now get off the blog and let people talk baseball.

Wow
Again has nothing to do with KO or baseball.

Also BB is not KO, you again show that you love to support people that do not know what being human means, here again is who Gibson is here again is who Gibson is KO is not BB, thier is no such thing as bath tub boy that is something that was made up by John Gibson because KO was not allowed to call him worst person. Also anyone that uses that name shows that they have zero clue what being human is. John Gibson thought it was funny to make fun of Stewart’s pain on 911, he thought it was funny to make fun of Lugar’s suicude by his I could never quit you quto, UPDATE: John Gibson has “apologized” for his distasteful comments on Heath Ledger’s death. Though he first defended his statements on his radio show yesterday — there is “no point in passing up a good joke,” he said, and repeated his “Brokeback Mountain” joke saying, “I’m not giving that up” — he eventually caved to pressure to apologize and did so on his television show.
Still, his apology seemed forced, and relatively half-hearted:
Those who knew him say he was a good actor and a loving dad. And what happened to him was terrible, but was evidently an accident. Once again, to anyone offended by my comments, I’m sorry. But I’m also sorry that Heath Ledger is no longer alive and with us.
ThinkProgress has the audio of Gibson’s defense of his comments, and MediaMatters has the video of his “apology.”
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ORIGINAL ITEM: Fox News’ John Gibson found a way to outdo MSNBC’s Courtney Hazlett for the most inappropriate comment on Heath Ledger’s death. ThinkProgress reports that, on his radio show yesterday (which opened with funeral music), Gibson called Ledger a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.” Making fun of the famous “I wish I knew how to quit you” line from “Brokeback Mountain,” Gibson said of his death, “Well, he found out how to quit you.”
This is not Gibson’s first time making inappropriate comments in the wake of tragedy. In July 2005, just one day before the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London, Gibson said that “the International Olympic Committee missed a golden opportunity….If they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn’t worry about terrorism. They’d blow up Paris, and who cares?” The next day, after the London bombings, Gibson.
Also only people that live in alterante universes think that this is Obama’s Monica lewsinsky. Excuse me, were was the cover up, were was Obama lying, wow were was Obama having a affair with a intern. You really show that you have no idea what you talk about.
Also I love how you put out a made up Special Comment that KO never gave. Showing that you do not know what pardoy is. This story has nothing to do with KO, so keep showing how igonrant you are on KO and that you have zero clue what make believe aka pardoy sketch and reality are.
KO is not BB that is a made up story and anyone that uses it shows that they have zero idea what being human is.
Wow once again you show that you not KO are the immature one, and do not say different because that would be a lie. Only people that are igorant about who KO is and what immature behavior like you would believe those made up talking points, that again are debunked like everything that you say, and again I am someone who would care crap if Ko was that, that is how I know that KO is opposite of immature and that those talking points describe you to a tee.
Keep showing that you do not know what being human means, only people in alternate unvierses would believe the made up lie by Gibson that get’s debunked.
Keep lying and showing how igorant you are about who KO is, sorry KO is no crybaby that is who you and Gibson are.
Wow BG the only person that thinks that a made debunked story by a person that loves to make fun of people’s pain and thinks that making fun of sucide is funny. Please keep showing how igorant you are about KO and that you have no idea what being human means. You really make me respect KO more and show why he this generations Murrow. Sorry that story and name have been debunked over and over again, keep showing how igorant you are when it comes to truth. Now get off the blog and let people talk baseball.
You again show that you do not know what tolerance is and that you are everything that you claim KO is. Sorry but that story and name have been debunked and always will be debunked, you just show how ingorant you are by putting out this debunked story and name, but I am not suprise with the fact that you think it okay to make fun of Muslims, the people that we need to go after are the extremist and they are in every religon.

The Times Square Bomber was Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old Pakistan-born resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who had become a U.S. citizen in April 2009.
The Fort Hood shooter was Nidal Malik Hasan, a radical Muslim.
Neith one had anything to do with any Tea Party protest.
This generation’s Murrow my ass.
#BathtubBoy #KrustytheClown #Cunt
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“Well do you have a degree in economics?” :-1
“Yes ma’am, I do. Highest honors.”
“…ok”
Yeah, I’d call that being PWNED
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