I didn’t plan to write about the Ocuupy Wall Street demonstrations today, because I don’t want to start sounding monotonous. No matter how clever your point, if you say it over and over again it starts to sound like a chant, and chanting is the thing I like least about mass
George Washington, Occupying Wall St.
protests. So, I’ll just link to this Keith Olberman thingie and move on. Two things in the last 24 hours made me look at events from new angles, so here I am writing about OWS again.
First, facebook is amazing. I added a friend, because she is a facebook friend of my cousin Dean and follows my Aunt Bernice’s fan page, and she wrote back, informing me that we are cousins! Well, knock me down with a feather. So I checked on her home page, and she is all over the Occupy Wall Street thing, so not only did I discover a long lost relative but we also have some political opinions in common. Hi, Ellen!
The other thing was an article I read over on Huffpo bringing up an aspect of the demonstrations which, once you think about it, is pretty obvious, but I hadn’t thought about it before. Tourists in New York are heading down there by the busloads.
It’s totally natural. Tourists are always in that area anyway – Wall St., Battery Park, the site of the World Trade Center, ferries to Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and Staten Island, and much, much more.
It is an area of great historical importance. New York, of course, was the first capital of the United States and it was right there at 26 Wall St. where George Washington was sworn in as the nation’s first president on April 30th, 1789.
So, when tourists come to see a bit of American history, it’s no surprise that they want to see a bit of American history in the making.
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