🚀 go-pugleaf

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> "You can't plan for this," Hancock said at a community forum at West
> High School Saturday. "We're at a point in the city where we simply
> can't afford any major surprises."
> But of course, you can plan for this sort of thing. It's very simple:
> don't crush free speech. See? Wasn't that easy? Here's another
> incarnation of that sentence: don't trample on the First Amendment
> because you're afraid of the message.
> 
> One of the expenses the brilliant Mayor has complained about is the
> trash. Specifically, the only trash issue he could cite was mentioned
> during the meeting between delegates from Occupy and the Mayor,
> Hancock murmured about the city having to clean up the wreckage the
> police created from destroying the protest. Can you believe the
> nerve?
> 
> Since Occupy Denver has occupied the park, they have created a place
> where anyone can find food, (shelter as long as the mayor doesn't turn
> the sprinklers on them), have a real security team, experience
> camaraderie and a community that is an alternative to one based on the
> isolation of American cutthroat capitalism. <-- frightening to the
> status quo because it is an integral part of a true shift away from
> our outmoded economic way of life.
> 
> Hancock and Hickenlooper are scared of Occupy because the message is
> antithetical to their life-long mission to cater to the 1%. If you
> were a frightened, unthinking and manipulative despot with the cops at
> your command, you'd probably crush the movement too. But since you're
> not, you should support it.
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