{"id":27964,"date":"2011-12-17T09:57:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27964"},"modified":"2012-02-03T01:47:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T05:47:26","slug":"dc-bills-feds-for-occupy-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27964","title":{"rendered":"DC bills Feds for Occupy costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/dec\/16\/gray-asks-feds-16m-cover-occupy-dc-expenses\/\">the Washington Times<\/a>, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray has billed the National Park Service for the costs the District has incurred because of the Occupy DC hippies;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur citizens cannot be expected to pay for the consequences of a decision in which they have no say,\u201d Mr. Gray said in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>While many cities across the globe have seen protesters take to the streets, the Occupy groups have camped on federally controlled land since October and racked up city costs in overtime, public sanitation and park and street maintenance and cleaning, Mr. Gray said in his letter to Director Jonathan B. Jarvis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn neither case was the District Government consulted on the legality or appropriateness of long-term protestors inhabiting these respective locations,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mayor has a point. If the NPS hadn&#8217;t been so willing to allow these hippie fucks to live in the national parks over the last few months as bases to launch their mishavior like blocking traffic and invading private spaces and encouraging bad behavior that needed to be policed and cleaned up afterwards, it probably wouldn&#8217;t have lasted this long.<\/p>\n<p>And that $1.6 million could have been spent for the truly needy instead of the intentionally itinerant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Times, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray has billed the National Park Service &hellip; <a title=\"DC bills Feds for Occupy costs\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27964\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DC bills Feds for Occupy costs<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies","category-occupy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}