List: What's the City's Excuse for Clearing Out Occupy SF?

By Benjamin Wachs Fri., Dec. 2 2011 at 7:45 AM

Categories: Humor

What are Mayor Ed Lee's excuses for gutting the Occupy SF camp?

If our bocce ball courts aren't free, nobody's really free
Tourists just hate it when they see a lot of San Franciscans doing something unusual in a public space
The messages on those cardboard signs are hurtful
It's giving San Francisco a reputation for liberalism

It turns out that the First Amendment is a serious health hazard
What do you mean "excuses?" John Avalos lost the fucking election
According to municipal code, homeless people must be at least 5 feet apart for the city to leave them alone to die
Zoning code violation ... or something
Occupy is attracting homeless people to downtown, where they've never, ever, been before
If too many hippies camp on public land without bathing or using money, Burning Man will sue for trademark infringement
It's better than thinking about the deficit
They've promised not to use pepper spray, which makes everything fine again

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Tags:

John Avalos, Justin Herman Plaza, Mayor Ed Lee, Occupy SF, pepper spray

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Troy McCormick

Almost none are from San Francisco, and the only effective way for them to meet their goals is lobbying, and getting up in the morning and going to planning commission, and party central committee, city council, board of supervisor, transit commission, etc meetings. Not failing to bath, work, or stop getting high. They are such a disappointment and if they had been this way in Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, etc They'd all be dead and those countries would still be under dictatorships.

Dgrant6787

Ed Lee the new Solomon? Once again, Ed responds to string pulling from downtown with a wonderful make it all go away solution - move the OWS people to...occupy the parking lot in the Mission nobody can see. The OWS provides a wonderful challenge to the last generation of "liberals." Much like when young people began to oppose the Vietnam war, and older office holders beat their chests about how THEY had fought for civil rights, but not this, now those formerly young, such as Lee, have to say with a straight face, "I support your issues, and we are with you...but stop bothering us in this way...and do NOT expect any of us to do anything about it. - I've got the America's Cup to worry about."