The Squalid Legacy Of Occupy Camps - A Photo Essay

From the beginning, Occupy has portrayed itself as something better. It was a better protest than had gone before. It was better at understanding the issues and it was going to change the world. While it preened, it filled the virtual world with  tweets, videos and posted every trivial thing going on its life. It roared its self-importance to the world but in the end, it was the mouse that roared and it was a motley and expensive mouse at that.

In an attempt to clean up its tarnished image, Occupy now expresses deep concern for the impoverished in the world but for anyone with a brain, it isn't working. The simple reality is that Occupy has cost the 99% millions of dollars in vandalized property and damage to city parks around the world and they have established a legacy that will live on long after the camps and the hissy-fits are gone. 

An Occupy protester vandalizing a small business they claim to support

St. Paul's Cathedral vandalized by Occupy protesters

While it continues to struggle on, trying to hold itself together and to convince us that it will lead us out of bondage to the New Jerusalem, the bloom has come off the rose. Memories are long and Occupy's actions speak much louder than its words.

Here are only a few samples of Occupy's legacy.

The New Jerusalem or as some might call it "The Sty"

Occupy Toronto resulted in $60,000 damage to St. James Park

Beginning the clean up of Zuccoti Park - $13 million cost to NYC

Member of LAPD cleaning up the mess and damage done by Occupy LA

Health, safety and cleanliness were never a concern, just donations

The aftermath

Michael Moore exhorting Occupy protesters to keep at it

Where Michael Moore retreats to after encouraging Occupy
protesters to live in squalor and damage our cities

Occupy brought no new ideas just squalor, vandalism and crime to our communities. It made a mockery of our laws, trivialized democracy and damaged our parks at a cost of millions across North America. It was an indiscriminate orgy of self-indulgence that accomplished nothing except empower a group of people without the values, the experience or the knowledge to use that empowerment responsibly.

The real tragedy is not the cost, it is the fact that so many within and who supported this temper tantrum don't have the values to feel either ashamed or embarrassed by what has been done to our cities and the broader 99%. They are too busy continuing the cause to think about what they've already wrought or to help clean up their mess. 

It was never a revolution, it was an expensive tantrum of the clueless.

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