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   XPost: boulder.general   
   From: Jen@no-spam.pst   
      
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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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