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Occupy feces

It was in jest two months ago when I began calling the Occupy crowd “dirt smelly hippies.” Sadly, the phrase is now accurate. In Portland, Oregon, the city shutdown two parks for two weeks to clean up after these pigs left. 70 dump-truck loads of trash were hauled away. Now in Santa Cruz, California, Occupy Santa Cruz protesters left behind 200 pounds worth of human feces near the Veterans Memorial Building, a community center. Occupy San Francisco had a similar problem with the Ferry Building as these animals are too stupid and uncivilized to act as if they are potty trained.

Paragraphs 13 and 14 of the San Jose Mercury-News report on the mess Occupy Santa Cruz left behind: “At least one incident on the county list wasn’t noted by the Sheriff’s Office: the discovery of an estimated 200 pounds of human feces near the county Veterans Memorial Building, just across the Water Street bridge from the camp. The county called in a hazardous materials team to clean up the mess, and installed a security fence around the building, which is closed for renovations. There is no evidence that linked the excrement to the camp.”

In West Virginia, people pooping around buildings is so unusual that 200 pounds of human excreembt would be a big news story. Evidently, Californians do this all the time.

Oh I have more evidence. Paragraphs 21 and 22 of an Associated Press story on the dismantling of Occupy San Francisco: “Barbara Garcia, head of the city’s public health department, toured the grassy area in the heart of the financial district and across from the city’s iconic Ferry Building. She said authorities found feces and inadequate toilet facilities. Conditions for the spread of respiratory illnesses have also been present and she noted at least one case of scabies.”

This is devolution as people who think they are our moral and intellectual superiors display infantile behavior that in retrospect is a natural outcome from pampering these (rhymes with glass bowls) well into their early adulthood. President Obama extended mommy and daddy’s health insurance to cover these junior community organizers until they are 26.

What a mess.

The Associated Press report:

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Anti-Wall Street protesters vowed Friday to set up tents at a downtown Oakland park and vacant lot less than a week after police removed an encampment outside City Hall.

Occupy Oakland members said at a heated news conference that the latest encampment would be set up Saturday in the revitalized Uptown district, despite division among their ranks over whether the new location near a charter school was appropriate.

Some residents condemned the plan for the camp at the site of a recently installed monument titled, “Remember Them” that features a sculpture of 25 prominent civil rights and humanitarian figures, including Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Mother Teresa and Mohandas Gandhi.

“It’s strategically not a good move,” said Zappa Montag, whose daughter attends the Oakland School for the Arts. “It doesn’t make sense. This is setting up a conflict with this community.”

Johannes Wallmann, who lives across the street from the park, welcomed the protesters.

“Obviously it will be an inconvenience but it all makes sense, given the monument and all. I don’t want this to be a NIMBY kind of thing,” he said, referring to the expression: “not in my back yard.”

During a contentious meeting Friday night, opponents of the new camp site presented a proposal to cancel the planned Saturday encampment and to create a committee to suggest alternative locations.

Speaking in favor of choosing a location that was not near a school or residential neighborhood, Michaela Peters, the charter school’s admissions director, warned that picking a place without full support of the community could backfire.

“We were not asked about the occupation, so this is what I want you to do: I want you to reconsider,” she said.

Several speakers rejected the suggestion that the encampment might endanger children.

The proposal secured 165 approvals to 126 disapprovals, too few to secure its passage under the 90 percent threshold Occupy Oakland requires for official positions.

The planned encampment would be adjacent to the renovated Fox Theater and across the street from the Oakland School for the Arts, a charter school for 600 middle- and high-school students.

Some parents and school officials expressed concern that the encampment and any potential problems might disturb classes, inconvenience families or pose a safety risk to students.

Kate Schatz, a literary arts teacher at the school who has participated in Occupy Oakland, agreed.

“I don’t think they did enough research,” Schatz said about the protesters. “I agree with everything they are supporting, except for this choice.”

Donn Harris, the school’s executive director, said she would take a wait-and-see approach and keep talking with protesters.

Shon Kae, a spokesman for Occupy Oakland, said the group overwhelmingly voted for the new site.

“No matter what we do, it seems like tents are becoming the most feared thing in the United States,” Kae said. “It’s like they’re becoming the new weapons of mass destruction.”

Mayor Jean Quan said Thursday that any camping on city property is illegal and police would have a strategy to prevent any encampment by Occupy Oakland members.

Across San Francisco Bay, the health department declared the Occupy San Francisco encampment in Justin Herman Plaza a public health nuisance. However, the demonstrators remained in the plaza.

Barbara Garcia, head of the city’s public health department, toured the grassy area in the heart of the financial district and across from the city’s iconic Ferry Building.

She said authorities found feces and inadequate toilet facilities. Conditions for the spread of respiratory illnesses have also been present and she noted at least one case of scabies.

Police at the University of California, Davis on Friday dismantled an Occupy encampment on campus and arrested 10 protesters, nine of whom were students. Student activists pitched more than a dozen tents on the UC Davis quad Thursday in defiance of a campus ban on camping.

Graduate student A.J. Morgan says dozens of police officers in riot gear used pepper spray on students who tried to protect the “Occupy UC Davis” camp.

In Los Angeles, police broke up an “Occupy UCLA” encampment on campus and arrested 14 protesters Friday morning.

University spokesman Steve Ritea says about 40 protesters left after police ordered the crowd to disperse at about 5:15 a.m. Friday. Of those arrested, 13 were UCLA students. They’ve been cited for failure to disperse and released.

UPDATE: Robert Stacy McCain: “Shocker: Chicks Don’t Dig Camping Out With a Bunch of Smelly Losers.”

Women apparently don’t like being raped.