The Occupy Wall Street Library is gone. No, not just gone. Destroyed by the NYPD on orders of Michael Bloomberg:
2:44 a.m. NYPD destroys OWS Library. 5,000 donated books in dumpster.
NYPD destroying american cultural history, they’re destroying the documents, the books, the artwork of an event in our nation’s history … Right now, the NYPD are throwing over 5,000 books from our library into a dumpster. Will they burn them? … Call 311 or 212-639-9675 now and ask why Mayor Bloomberg is throwing the 5,554 books from our library into a dumpster.
Image source: People’s Library
It’s just a matter of time before these goons provoke a response they can’t handle. When peaceful, lawful protest is taken away – what way do societies resort to in order to address grievances?
When outlawed, successful movements continue to respond in a peaceful, illegal way until enough people see that the moral order has been inverted and refuse to comply with the system as it is.