What I Did Not Find in Liberty Plaza

It was quiet in Zuccotti Park during the days before the reckoning. These were the halcyon times, shortly before the Mayor and his minions brought down the hammer, transforming tent city into a demilitarized zone … a deflated wasteland of anger, resentment and fear.

This was way back in the waning days of October, just before the winds of change blew cold, and the sense of impending doom grew pungent. It would be fair to say that – by then  – Occupy Wall Street had already exceeded any and all reasonable expectations, for the simple reason that – from the outset –­ there really were no expectations … just a swarming cluster of ne’er-do-wells, who most pundits assumed were either too young, too smug, or too green to take this thing where it needed to go.

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