My Fox - Occupy Worcester had more than 20 arrests Saturday night after protesters attempted to camp out at a city park downtown. "Basically we just had a few diehards who kind of said I'm willing to get arrested for this cause because at the very least if we can't occupy the commons we can get community support" said Joe Williams, one of those arrested. The Common in downtown Worcester closes at 10 pm and no permits are given to sleep in city parks. "Rules, laws, and statutes apply to all. Occupy Worcester was well aware our parks close at 10pm" said city manager Michael O'Brien. "They gave everyone a few warnings. If you stay in the park you're going to be arrested for trespassing and the core group of us that decided to stay we just linked up arms" said Williams. Occupy Worcester currently has a state permit to camp at Lake Park but that expires this month.
Why are you here? That's a damn good question to be asking yourself...Because if you're "occupying" in Worcester, you're a dickhead. Look, I've already complained about the fact that all these satellite protests should really be gathering in one place, no more of this rag tag protesting in whatever city you please, stop being lazy and team up, agree to meet in one place.
But short of that, shouldn't you at the very least regionalize this thing? I mean is there any point to having Occupy movements in Boston, Manchester, Salem (because downtown Salem is one of the pinnancles of high finance), and Worchester? You're all within one freaking hour of eachother! How lazy can you all be? I mean, this is probably why you're in the situation you're in to begin with...You can't even bother yourself to travel an hour or less to join the real protest, you're just camping out wherever is convenient to you. No wonder you can't get jobs, so fucking lethargic. Like I really don't want to have to make fun of this thing all the time, but you can't even protest appropriately. Honestly, get freaking organized. This is just getting silly. Getting arrested for protesting in Worcester, I mean come on...what were you protesting? The capitalist punk-rock scene at the Palladium? Protesting outside a local ATM machine? Come on, get real here. I want to root for you, but you're making it incredibly difficult.
