I read the Occupy AstroTurf opinion piece in Monday’s Wall Street Journal by L. Gordon Crovitz with interest, and noted similarities in our Occupy boulder overnight camping/tent-flap lifting fiasco. “Zuccotti Park (NYC) became a tent city featuring health risks, violence against police and rapes, conditions that left the city to evict the group.” “Lawyers objected in court claiming the erecting of tents was a constitutionally protected act of free speech.” “Occupy Wall Street dropped the case, admitting defeat, as there was never a serious argument that rules prohibiting 24/7 occupation were reasonable restrictions of the time, place and manner of speech permitted under decades of Supreme Court precedent.” Is Boulder’s Occupy movement a grass roots movement, or an “astroturf” movement? AstroTurf: as in phony, fronted, deceptive in purpose. Other cities have learned their lesson and have shut down Occupy campsites. Interesting that once tents are gone, “protests” fade. L. Gordon Crovitz closes, “One lesson from Occupy Wall Street is that social media can help organize like-minded people – but another is that if local authorities allow people to camp out in parks, people will camp out in parks. The challenge for the rest of us is to avoid being fooled by the AstroTurf.”
Kay Coulson
Boulder
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