Just outside City Hall Park, a small group of protesters picketed behind a blue barricade. The largely elder crowd held signs demanding an end to official harassment of the Liberty Square new colonists.
The signs also identify their association with the website bailoutthepeople.org., whose home page resounds:
Drop All Charges on the 'Occupy Wall Street' Arrestees!
Stop Police Attacks & Arrests!
Support 'Occupy Wall Street'!
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The support is appreciated and appropriate; I am, however, left to wonder whether it is actually an example of momentum gained or is simply an extended instrument of #OccupyWallst (whichever) and/or the General Assembly, and therefor a misleading indication of waxing support from the community. The media team for the GA is very aggressively promotional, which gives me some anxiety about how "strategically" they are representing themselves and us with their coverage. Image-consciousness is alarming to me in a supposedly subversive organization, this is, in fact, the Global media-terrorist State (final clause should allow those who differ to dismiss me altogether as a whack job).
Keep thinking for yourselves.