re: #252 000G

There really is a ban on sleeping/camping in parks, and it really is within the rights of the city to enforce that. This actually speaks to what McSpiff was muddeldly trying to communicate yesterday; the protesters aren’t particularly protesting against the laws against camping in parks, but those are the laws they’re violating in the largest number.

Protesting the corporations fucking up common property by camping on common property and giving the city a chance to accuse the protesters of fucking it up is self-defeating. You don’t protest the tragedy of the commons by creating one.

However, this is obviously selective enforcement. There’s tons of sanitation issues affecting far more New Yorkers, there’s far, far more homeless in the city then there are protesters, etc. etc.

The reason they’re doing this is because of how visible it is, and they feel like they have to do something. I don’t even think they’re really trying to end the protests. It’s just meaningless action.