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Originally Posted by frinkprof
I think we all agree that the occupiers have outstayed their welcome, if they even had one to begin with. Let's put the partisanship aside and find a way to get them to leave without having us make international headlines or giving the occupiers' "message" more acknowledgement than it deserves.
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That's the thing - almost anyone who cares or is paying attention wants the protesters gone. This absolutely includes the Mayor, Council, and The City. The Sun and several political opponents have tried to paint the Mayor as somehow being aligned with the protesters ignoring that the Mayor has been extremely critical not only of the protesters tactics, but messages as well. He's stated repeatedly he wants them gone.
There's a reason why no city has successfully evicted them from public lands. Calgary is far from alone. A situation where the protest tactic itself is occupying public space is a tricky legal situation, which municipalities have difficulties coming to grips with vis-a-vis charter rights and their own by-laws. All while trying not to incite violence and confrontation (see Oakland) and not handing what some protesters want, which is to be dragged kicking and screaming by police in front of all the cameras to see.
If it was as simple as some are making it seem, don't you think they would be gone in every city (or at least most) by now??