work, buy, consume, die..... Do everything you can to stop them!!!!

you fucking liberals are a piece of work. I have a great idea when your being robbed,raped,or assaulted dont call the police call the asshole who makes mab sites like this one. PS you scumbags are not worth the time of day

COPS-HITMEN FOR THE RICH-IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY THEY WILL STOMP YOU DOWN

a police state will be installed...the police will come kill us all

yeah i too think this is an outrage. obviously if the courts had decided to see what might come of it the least the city could do is ride it out. as usual theyve jumped the gun taking the law into their own hands. meaning theyve interpreted the law rather than defending it. i think by now we should be used to it, but some how it never seems to amaze me how beligerant and uncaring the police can manage to be. more power to all of you who were screwed over believe me there are people here that support you. if any of you guys know lucas from l.a. or strange from dallas we are down here in mexico listening to los crudos and cheering for you guys. dont ever play the game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i really believed the goverment was doing the right thing . i was fooled , i've been personly fucked with sooooooooooooooo bad resently on more than one accasion(after the first it came like rapid fire) know i'm jioning the groud. talk to me emial tj6999395@aol.com

havent any of you seen planet of the apes??? if we aren't careful, the same thing will happen to us. Secret NASA files already show monkeys sent into space came back with 10x the IQ...

i've read other articles about the 13th street squatter evictions where there were eye witness accounts of the police laughing as they beat the squatters. and to all those saying cops are your best friends, 've had a cop pull a gun on me for smoking a cigarette. in the words of downset."this is america the hateful"

keep fighting!!!!

police bastards!!are once agin caught in the act of supporting the wealthy power hungry hypocrates . the take away peoples homes and destroy lives without a second though. we must opean the eyes of society and put an end to this abuse of power socicity and put a stop to this endles

Well, after reading some the feedback below I am amazed at how ignorant some people can be. The police are not our friends and they are not here to protect us, but to protect the rich and their property. This isn't an opinion it is a fact, you only have to look at the law to seee that 80% revolves around property. The harrassment of people living peacefully in a building that they have maintained for ten years is disgusting. This is another exploitation of the working classes, takin away buildings which they built in the first place. The injustice is sickening and those that condone it are worse than ignorant they are pathetic. You can contact me via e-mail is: www.fishbowl01@hotmail.com P.s I am really impressed by this website, please keep up the good work.

That pisses me off,If the building was abandended,then they should'nt have to leave.

We all need to get together and form an organization to publicize our cases. I was hired by the city of hampton virginia and worked there 8 years as a firefighter\emt. For 2 years I served as an emt cardiac tech. My supervisors Lt. Donnie Fromal and Lt. Joe Stevens ordered me to let black people die on 911 calls. Although I never followed these orders my co-workers did and I have documented numerous cases where this happened and need help getting them prosecuted for 1st degree murder. I can be reached at PO Box 17171 charlotte N.C. 28227. I eventually was terminated.

This madness is going to have to stop. If it doesn't stop now things will get worse because they are getting close to Martial Law. The people here in the U.S. will not tolerate it. Especially the inocent.;

Those cops are nothing but robots for the system. People need to WAKE UP, and realize that our rights are being taken away every day. When the time comes those officers of the law will get what they deserve. SEND MORE COPS

yeah those damn pig can go suck a nut

This page sucks. Boo hoo hoo to all of you who have been wronged by a cop...boo hoo hoo you dumb bastards!

I remember a case where me and my friend, Muktar Hisbiani were evicted from squatting under a bridge. The police said local residents complained about our collection of excrement....strange.

Why you would bother making a page about this is beyond me, but I liked how the cop's were removing that one waif in the picture...try and post more of them, they're good for a luagh.

that is sad. I think that the cops would have a little more to worry about than just a few people living in semi abandoned houses. The cops should be worried about drug busts, murders, rapes, and other more important things. These people did no harm to anyone, why should they get that kind of treatment?

I have to say that most of these rather ignorant statements about sqautters make me sick. squatters are rarely just too lazy to go out and get a job. Infact this government is responsible for there even being squatters. The problem stems from the country being run by big corporations who pay wages that barely support one person let alone a family that might have to live in a squat. I don't believe we should blow up police stations or say "Fuck the Cops" that won't solve anything. We can't say the squatters deserved what they got either.Nobody deserves to be treated in such a vicious way. I have no respect for a country that would allow these people to be treated so unfairly. Would you rather have them on welfare being supported by our taxes. most of you people who stated that "they got what they deserved" probably want to eliminate welfare as well. You go ahead and act like you are so special because you can support yourself and you were able to go to college. Some people have circumstances that prevent them from even finishing High School. ( most of the high school dropouts i've met are far more inteligent than the college graduates I've met.)

Its really sad how many ignorant fools we got in this country. True, the squaters were not supposed to be there in the first place, but after so many many years of hard work and struggle they should of been given a fair chance in the courts. This fair chance was deprived from then by the city officials and their "enforcers" (the cops). This situation is ironic really. Seems to me that the this same exact situation (on a much larger scale of coarse) occured about 230 years ago when the citizens of what we now call America were suddenely put under the control of their "leaders" (Britin) after being neglected and abandoned for many years. All their hard work and efort put at risk. Its sad to see that we are oppresing the same ideals that once led to our freedom. Just remember, before George Washington was a rebelious basterd before he became our country's hero.

Why is the link that I found entitled "Pigs evict..." and what exactly to you know about what was going on in these buildings? I am sure that they were a "Thriving Community" of good people doing nothing more than trying to make a better life for themselves. Give me a break.

pol!ce and the goverment bullsh!t can suck a big fat DICK!!!!!!

i can't believe some of the actions these cities take...they complain about the homeless being on the streets and then when the kids get out and find a place to stay and fix it up (nothing diffrent than what the first people did) its taken from them and condemned..and money does mean alot in this country, if a poor man lived next to a building of squat kids and he complained...well, that would go unanswered..but if a fat pocket politician complains about a neighborhood miles from his own with kids living for free...ohhh, well then the pigs have to do sumthing dont they? thats a bunch of shit! if the pigs wanna fite..well, i say lets fite..cause when it comes down to it, theres more of us then there are of them..so when the day comes you can find me up front with the other guys...hair spiked and chains swinging....WE'RE THE PROLES..DONT BACK DOWN..YOU MUST KEEP YER PRIDE AND HOLD YER GROUND..Oi!Oi!

OH COME ON GUYS, GIVE THE FUCKING BUMS A BREAK!! IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF THE BUILDING WOULD COLLAPSE AND KILL ALL THESE SQUATTERS. YOU KNOW IF ONE OF YOU ON THIS SITE, WHO ARE DEFENDING THESE PIECES OF SHIT, WERE TO GET ROBBED FOR MONEY FROM ONE OF THESE NASTY ASS FILTHY SQUATTERS YOU WOULD WINE AND BITCH TO THE POLICE AND WANT TO MAKE A REPORT THEN BITCH AND MOAN ABOUT ALL THESE HOMELESS SCUM BAGS SLEEPING IN VACANT BUILDINGS AND HOW CAN WE GET RID OF THEM. MAYBE ONE OF YOU TREE HUGGING, PROTECT THE SCUM LOVERS SHOULD GET ROBBED OR KILLED. THE POLICE DID THE RIGHT THING. COPS HAVE A THANKLESS JOB, THEY SAVE YOUR ASS WHEN YOU WANT THEM TO THEN YOU ALL BITCH WHEN THEY CATCH YOU DOING SOMETHING WRONG. IF THEY HARM OR KILL YOUR FAMILY THEY WERENT THERE FAST ENOUGH. BUT IF YOU TRY TO RESIST ARREST AND GET HURT THEY ARE ABUSIVE MOTHER FUCKERS. FUCK ALL YOU TREE HUGGIN, SAVE THE HUMANITY WHINEY ASS BITCHES. COPS RULE AND HALF OF YOU OUT THERE THAT BAG ON THEM COULDNT MAKE THE CUT IF YOU EVER TRIED TO BECOME A COP. SQUISSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH--- OH SHIT A BUILDING JUST COLLAPSED ON A BUNCH OF SQUATTERS.

I was in 541 when it was evicted. I'd lived there many years. It's great to see the evictions still being discussed so long after it happened. Some news to supporters and detractors: NO ONE, not the new york times or cnn has ever gotten the real story. The evictions were illegal. The city was _losing badly_ in court when we were evicted. The executive branch (aka the mayor) can temporarily overrule a court decision it find unfavorable. This law is supposed to shield New Yorkers from judicial error. It is supposed to be used to protect New Yorkers. It is, as written in the legislation, not supposed to be used to circumvent the courts and allow action. If a wing-nut judge found that NYPD had to be disbanded because of Civil Rights Abuses, the city can legally say: no, I don't think so.... this needs further review. In evicting us squatters nothing of the sort occurred. The courts had found the buildings _safe_. And found our claims of ownership persuasive. NYC wrongly invoked it's sheild-law stay in order to have the buildings evicted. No, the squatters weren't outlaws. The city, really, truly, was. The city acted illegally. Before you knee-jerk anti-squatter respond to this, check the facts... go to the court records, not the newspapers. Reporters work under very severe time constraints, as a result legally complex issues are _always_ very poorly reported on. It was convenient to report on this case as : freethinking wild-hair squatters innocent artistic types try to buck societal rules and regs and get busted by the city. That's everyone's preconception, that's the story everyone was ready to hear. It has nothing to do with reality. Bizarrely perhaps, but all the same true, our legal team kicked the city's butt. Please try to understand this: The courts, not me, not the New York Times, the courts had _already_ found in favor of the squatters, had already totally rejected the city's claims that the building were in danger of collapsing. We had recently completed repointing the brickwork on 541 East 13th street. Please, if the city was concerned about the squatter's health/lawsuits, they would have evicted us when we entered the dilapidated windowless rubble-filled building at 541 East 13, not 10 years later, after we'd repointed the walls, ousted drug-dealers from the block, cleaned up the enitre building, put in new plumbing, and new windows and electrical service, set up a neighborhood soup kitchen (at 539), created a bike shop that rebuilt abandoned junk bikes (also at 539) and gave them to neighborhood kids, created a real working blacksmith's forge (at 545 E 13) that trained locals in that lost art. Funny how Guliani bent over backwards to evict us only after a real-estate developer and democratic city councilman Antonio Pagan (who'd bucked the party and endorsed Republican Giuliani over dem David Dinkins)decided he wanted to develop that block. Sure there was a downside to the squatters, we had our share of wacko's and losers and bums, but, uh, pardon me... take a look around: Do you see any shortage of wackos losers and bums anywhere? By the way, anyone who thinks squatting is living rent-free, should squat in NY for a month or two. It ain't free. It's a helluva lot easier to pay rent, as I do now. But squatting was and is a political statement against the status quo. A way for the financially and politically disenfranchised to get not only a place to live, but to set down roots in a community the way _only_ a property owner can. A way to perhaps acquire some of the political clout that_only_ property owners have. Renters are the transients (spritually if not always literally), on whom the landed gentry feed. In NYC Real Esate is king. Squatting was and is a political movement that threatens the underpinnings of the United States class system. No wonder the city took us seriously enough to violate their own laws to get rid of us. In Brazil, they massacre the poor peasants who have the nerve to claim ownership of unused land, who seek to toil and work the land for their own profit rather than the profit of their masters. I suppose us US squatters should feel lucky that we are only beaten and illegally evicted, it could be worse eh? For what it's worth, I praise the policeman who did not shoot a 545 squatter. A squatter should have, could have, been killed at the evictions. He tried very hard to get himself shot (he was invincibly drunk at the time, and with an assault rifle pointed at his chest, and a swat cop telling him to put his hands over his head NOW... instead made a fast unmistabeable motion of reaching for a weapon in his waistband... he had no weapon, he was trying to get shot. Incredibly, the cop didn't shoot. If he had I would have testified in court on behalf of that cop. Shooting would have been justified. To this day I don't know why the cop didn't fire: bless him, enough if he did kick our asses illegally into the street and is a tool of forces he doesn't quite understand. With all the discussion of killer cops I think this kind of story should be told. Take care, learn the truth, educate yourself, defend the squats, defend the first amendment. Defend Steal this Radio! Free American Political Prisoners Leonard Peltier and Abu Mumia Jamal. Demand justice for Lori Berenson (www.freelori.org) this message courtesy of: Queequeg's Uncle.

I really don't understand what the problem is with letting these people be. First of all, I think the people who oppose it are just mad because these squatters found a way of life that didn't involve working your fingers to the bone 40 hours a week, just so you can feed yourself. Instead they put together a community that shared everything so that they could live an alternative lifestyle free from regular American society. You just wouldn't leave them to it would you? Second, To the person concerned for the children, how is it beneficial to these peoples children to kick them out of their homes. Oh, these living conditions aren't suitable for these people so let's put them back on the streets, and seperate them from they're providers so they don't have enough money to eat. To the people concerned with taxes and so on. You should be just as upset. The government took these buildings from these people, who were living indipendent from the system, and forced them to leech off of the system. So now you're paying taxes for them to eat Basically what I'm trying to say is, all were looking at is a difference of culture. But what the politicians did to these people is the equivalent of kicking you out of your home, and taking away you're source of income. The only ones who benefit from this are the people who run the city. Every one else got fucked in the ass, and they don't even know it p.s. if the away I put that last line wasn't "politcally correct enough for you. Fuck you p.p.s I do agree with the guy who said it's the politicians fault and not the cops. All the cops are are skapegoats to these sleazebags. Fight the real fuckin enemy. p.p.p.s all of you who assumed what these people are like. I bet you'd be suprised most of them, from my experience with squatters have never owned guns and are not drug addicts. Sorry tio burst your bubble there fuck-o

One more thing, to the guy who was blabbering about being robbed or hurt buy a "bum" you are being ignorant, and hypocritical. Why would someone steal if they have no need to steal. What the city did was create a reason for people like that to have to resort to theft And I bet most of them still don't steal. Stop trying to feed us that bull shit and trying to make us out as tree huggers just because what we have to say makes more sense than what you have to say.

I'm amazed at all the idiotic feedback on this page, by all the people who attack mediafilter for daring to criticise the lot of morons who run your city and the amoral pigs who carry out their masters' orders no matter how odious. Anyone stupid enough to think that Official Low Income Housing is going to be better than what these squatters did by themselves with an empty building really does have their head lodged very far up their ass indeed. I guess some people get pretty riled up, in their middle class stupor, by the suggestion that YES, some people are still _truly_ independant in this day and age.. they take care of business themselves, they don't need Programs, government assistance, regulations, money, education or governmental sanction to do so.. these squatters know an independance and self-reliance that these fucking scum will never know their entire lives... and I think that beneath the rhetoric that really gets their panties in a bunch. If these responses are any indication, your local mass media has done a smashing job of turning the vast majority of the populace's minds to mush. People who support squatters are not 'liberals'.. we are anarchists, and we are the only true free people left on the face of this earth. Shut the FUCK UP and get back in your cubicile wage-slaves... we don't need you, your precious money, or the government you depend on as an infant does the tit. free@sdf.lonestar.org

PROTECTION IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR LIBERTY! There is no reason for anyone to give up their unalienable rights, not even for protection. In the immortal words of Patric Henry, "I smell a rat!" (POVERTY IS NOT CAUSED BY THE POOR!) A.J. Zondler

Its all about power, the gov't wants power over eveyrone, and squatters everywhere try to free themselves of this power by living off society, living their life free of oppression and pressure to be something the systems wants them to be, i think its sad that mayor guilani has done this, why can't he just let innocent people, striving to free themselves of being oppressed, let them be, hell, and from the sounds of it, they fixed up this area or NYC, and hell, if people don't want to help them out by giving them change, then they don't have to, anyways, it sad that NYPD and the city of NY has to fuck something good up

nice page!

WHERE ARE I WHEN MY POLICE GOT STOLEN

How come I notice that all of the responses to this issue that are in favor of the police use overgeneralizations and discrimination to get the point across? Could it be that you have enough money to feel safe? It is the same all over the nation, police brutality to the poor while Mr. Money gets away with anything and everything. It is people like you that have fallen under the mind control of entertainment and believe everything you're told by a government that wants you to be mindless sheep. Time to revolt is now. I am not a liberal I am not a conservative. I am an observer. I thought the court rulings should have presidence over all, I guess it is wrong to be a constitutionalist.

SUPPORT THE NYPD. THEY DO A GOOD JOB AND THEY DESERVE OUR RESPECT AND SUPPORT.

Police Are at the bottom of the corrupt government we live with, and it goes all the way to Capital Hill. It's a sad state of affairs for our country. The Police have less constraints placed on them as the months and years go by It's getting close to the point where a law-abiding citizen has to fear the Police as much as the criminal. If you're innocent, they just lie to make you guilty in the courts. We have 1 out of every 150 people in prison in this country, and it'll get worse unless the judicial system is cleaned up.

I live in a country (India) were the police are far, far worse than in New York.I can therefore empathise with the victims of this act ( by the city and its cops). The cops - and their defenders - claim to doing their jobs. They seem to have forgotten the NUREMBER PRECEDENT. You can commit crimes against humanity and excuse yourself on the basis of 'superiors' orders,' no way! A crime against humanity is a crime against humanity, superiors' orders or not. Freedom, it is said, brings with it responsibility, AND SO DOES AUTHORITY AND POWER! So please don't make lame excuses. The good cop and soldier is one who uses his intelligence and CONSCIENCE all the time, and REFUSES to commit wrong if so ordered. This is the only way to safeguard Democracy. If you will be zombies you will certainly destroy democracy, and will suffer for it. So get real. However, I would insist that under any and all circumstances, one must uphold the standard of civilized behaviour, even if your opponents have behaved like beasts, you must NOT! If you do, you will give them victory by joining them in the gutter, and excuse their behaviour by your own. Don't DON'T ever call the cops pigs , or any such thing. Even if they are wrong, they are still human. You must fight to force theem to be human, (like Gandhi or Dr. King) or you will certainly lose! My greatest ideal in such cases is Lincoln, who told his supporters in the Civil War, that they were fighting NOT TO PUNISH & DESTROY their opponents, but to bring them back to their former allegiance as their brethren. If you want to win, then this must also be your goal. Fight not to demonize and destroy your opponents, but to reveal the human in him. The discoveries will be beautiful. Try it. You will enjoy the results. I am not to be misunderstood as a pacifist. I believe that there is a time for peace and a time for war. But there is never time for hatered, anger, revenge or brutality. When you sin against your wronger, you join him in his evil, and become a beast yo0urself. This is a self-defeating course. Avoid it. Best of luck. John Joseph ideologue@india.com

WAY TO GO RUDOLF!!!

Why don't they own houses, or at very least,rent an apartment,(ughhh)

Giuliani is an aspiring Hitler. If he had his way, these "squatters" would be hauled off to the ovens. On a seperate note from all this, did you know that Giuliani actually banned dancing from bars and clubs? they need a permit from the city. I actually witnessed my friend being forced to stop dancing at coney island high. DANCING!?!?!?!? keep in mind, i dont mean slam dancing or anything silly and destructive like that, or anything exotic or exposing. im just talking about simple innocent dancing. Dancing is a form of self expression, as is visual art, literature, etc. It is typical facist tacticts to strip the people of these "rights". I guess we will soon see book-burning rallies in washington square park. Also, dont hate the cops who raided the squatters, they are doing their job. I dont hate the bouncer who made my friend stop dancing, cause he was just covering his own ass. The truth is, this is the fault of us ALL for allowing this shit to be passed as law and ignoring it. As long as we sit around like stupid sheep, we DESERVE the fate that awaits us. can you say "Big Brother"? "Fourth Reich"?

It is clearly shown in this article that a new form of minority has been born in america, that of the poor. Where has the human heart gone? Has the word "compassion" been totally erased from the vocabulary of the current establishment? I may not be good looking or rich, but at least I'm not a black man or a poor man or both living in america. I will pray for these people, in the end it's all one can really do. ~Icarus july 12 99....Australia

The "Rambo complex" of the police is apparent in this case. Law enforcement loves raids, the chance to flex their judicature muscle, to the quaking fears of the abused public. A problem is the average American is unaware of the comprehensive abuse of law enforcement. Over the past 20 years Americans have given back to the police, all the hard won rights and protections by previous generations. The Middle American is to busy working and racing around to keep up with the Jones, to be responsible for their liberty, hence, in exchange for what Americans believe is enhanced protection, Americans have given the police broad new powers. Today a legal expert would have to think hard to uncover an example of when a search warrant is necessary to raid a citizens home or office. BE AWARE LAW ENFORCEMENT IS DEVELOPING NEW DNA PROFILING. SOON EVERY MAN WOMEN AND CHILD WILL HAVE TO GIVE A SAMPLE. Law enforcement will begin profiling taking specific genetic traits and sorting them in to high-risk categories, and begin watching and building cases.

i was in the are right after that had happened and got jailed for insighting a riot. im glad that you have put this out. squat the world..... peahead

you voted for a dictator and have gotten one. The Question remains, how do we get rid of him and how long will it take to rid the force of his infested kinds who were an accident waiting to happen?

This is just one more example of making money a higher priority than individual happiness. I suppose it's a flaw in capitalism that elevates money to such levels, and I shouldn't complain since I have no better solution. But I can't understand why people can't be just a little nicer and see that their own profit margins can't possibly be as important as someone elses welfare. I don't think that this is about the police at all, but about the distorted priorities of those in power, both politically and financially. It's completely acceptable to throw more than a hundred people out of their homes because of a legal technicality, and it's commonplace to lay off thousands of hard working people if you need to "streamline" your corporation. I absolutely don't understand how we justify this type of mentality. To me, this situation is just one example of the distorted priorities and values we carry in this country. I think I might move overseas.

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"The residents barricaded the street with an overturned car and dumpsters," How is destroying private property civil disobedience? How is overturning a car non-violent? In its own definition it is violent. Everyone has a political agenda. Try to rmember that

"FUK THA POLICE CUZ THEY'LL NEVER FIND PEACE AS LONG AS WE'R ON THA STREETZ!!!!"......"....IT DONT STOP TILL THA CASKET DROPS..."....NEVER GIVE UP THA FIGHT YA HEAR ME....NEVER GIVE UP THA FFFIIIIGGGHHHTTT!!!

I appreciate your recognition of this wrong but I caution a hard line statement of "thriving community" and "Ignore the orders of a judge". I only say this in the hopes that evidence can support these claims and validate your opinion. I it is indeed true, it is yet another disgusting tactic of the gestapo that passes for the 'law enforcement' community in this nation.

The owner of the property is the owner. your problem is with the owner, not the public.Pay your rent as agreed and there are no problems.However,if the owner/landloard/absentee-landloard/representive of the owner/or others/will not inspect the property and fix the most pressing problems then you are bound by human nature/human obligation to all of us not to pay your agreed upon weekly/monthly/yearly/ rent. But to show good intentions you need to put your rent in escrow at your bank. Thank you, Joe I wish I could help some way. Love ya. Try to help all I can in the future. joedell711@earthlink.net

It`s amazing but my Mother used to tell me that the majority of all oppression can be traced to jealousy. I used to think this was an oversimplification but after reading these posts I see its absolutely true. These posts by "Haves" jealous of "Havenots" for squatting and trying to make something out of nothing are truly revealing. When children play on the beach, some build sand castles and some kick them down. American Woman

Hello my name is Darren Whiteker and I am a supporter of undermining the heartless law of our government not that what I read at your site was an anarchist stand but I feel you should not need the devils currency to survive I do believe that squaters should consider leaving the urban areas it is a lot easier to survive food wise and traveling unoticed the earth can still feed its creatures unlike the cold concrete I am an anarchist and do not appriciate what they did to those souls but you need to be careful and discreet you are not an exepted citizen and this freeloader lifestyle is despised by the majority of the public who don't understand lifes to sort to be ridiculed and taxed. -DARREN ALEXANDER WHITEKER

Hello my name is Darren Whiteker and I am a supporter of undermining the heartless law of our government not that what I read at your site was an anarchist stand but I feel you should not need the devils currency to survive I do believe that squaters should consider leaving the urban areas it is a lot easier to survive food wise and traveling unoticed the earth can still feed its creatures unlike the cold concrete I am an anarchist and do not appriciate what they did to those souls but you need to be careful and discreet you are not an exepted citizen and this freeloader lifestyle is despised by the majority of the public who don't understand lifes to sort to be ridiculed and taxed. -DARREN ALEXANDER WHITEKER 8817 RT 22 EAST STOUTSVILLE OH, 43154

So what your saying is that if I decided to put a tent in your back yard and live there that would be OK right??? Yes the court ruled one thing but welcome to our wonderfull legal system. I look at it like this.......if it was your building woudl you want people living there?? And when the roof fell in and killed people and you were sued woudl you be happy about it?? In the end what the City did was save the taxpayers money. So next time before you condemn someones actions put yourself in their shoes.

damn that is brutil, Danny Johnson Cambridge MD 21613

You can't erase all of my posts, can you? That's not nice. I read a salon.com article the other day claiming Ghouliani has done good for the poor. All he has done is turn some of them into mindless capatilist slaves like the rest of us. To answer the earlier question of whether I would allow someone to pitch a tent in my backyard because they didn't have anywhere else to go... yes I most cerntainly would. Money is an obsolete idea, and only serves to bring us down. A double-bind if you would: without money we suffer on the streets, but with it we still cannot "afford" budgiting for scientific and medical research. Capital Moves! sc: the xenu

Ok, I'm back. There is something horribly wrong when Ghouliani has $8 million in the bank for a senate campaign, and there are still homeless people walking the streets of New York. I am generally reluctant to call someone a pig, but in this case Ghouliani fits the profile with a nice slab of bacon... Ghouliani's bacon. If there are any questions as to whether or not capatilism works, this should be a sufficient answer. I burn the american flag in the face of such conditions. !Viva Zapata! We need to revolt. My screen name- The Xenu

Anyone who attempts to, in any manner, justify or protect any part of the government in this country is a traitor! The government, or rather fraud that calls itself our public government, in legal fact and according to its own professed "laws," is a foreign invading and occupying force. The people of this country, right now, have the legal right and certainly enough cause to eradicate this fraud, pursuant to the Declaration of Independence, by any means whatsoever. Go to http://onward.to/NewWorldOrder for details of legal evidence. For those idiots, like proxy-124.iap.bryant.webtv.net. Sunday, March 22, 1998 20:15:57, who posted to this feedback page something to the effect of: "Give me a fucking break!!!! Go get a job,pay rent & taxes like the rest of us and get on with your lives!!," I respond by saying that such trash (I can't call this trash people) are, intentional or totally deluded, vicious and filthy liars. A job, paying rent and taxes denies anyone unlucky enough to be in that situation all of their life, liberty, dignity and spirituality. The mindset of this trash is simple: they are miserable and they want everyone around them to be more miserable than they are. Incidentally, all rent, taxes, and other recurring expenses have been created out of nothing. None of those expenses derive from any concrete or legitimate source and the people of this country get nothing in return for all of those expenses. They instead derive from the fact that the money in this country is fraud (and illegal under the United States Constitution) and ultimately stem from "payments" made to "pay off" a fraudulent "national debt." Go to http://onward.to/NewWorldOrder for details on this money fraud.

I think that this is B.S. If someone tried to drive me out of my home, i would kill em... especially when they don't have any specific reason...

In response to nas-21-198.la.navinet.net... Dude, you're runnin' blind. The Federal Reserve is run by pig americans, who infact control the rest of the worlds economy, not the other way around. Those "black helicopters" are really the national guard's and the military's. Capitalists are who you have to fear, not "foreigners"(the last time i checked we were all born on the same planet!). It will be a great day when we can all live together... without any governments to interfere with our growth as a people. I guess it's good that a lot of your type like to take themselves off "the grid", that way you can't proselite your narrowmindedness and ideas of government. Still, in the end, capitilism is every slave's enemy, and, so far, every governments rape machine. What the world needs is a nice cup of tomato juice =). P.S. Return the Cuban kid to his father!

Interesting point of view...

Arrgh... Someone needs to learn to spell C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-M. The nerve of some people. =P

FUCK THE BUMS...LET THEM FREEZE TO DEATH

vgxvgxvgxvgxvgxvgxvgxvgxvgxvgxvgxvgxvgx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You dumbass. I suppose that besides being a dumbshit capitalist you're also a junkie. You need to check your Boston piece 'o shit head. XENU IS COMING!!!!!!!! PREPARE YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!! Go throw some tea or shit.

the whole fact of the matter is that the cops and the goverment are corrupt, their are 3 males in my family who were cops and they all told me never to become one, i've herd stories that make the cops the really bad people, the ones to be affraid of, now i'm not saying all cops are bad but some are, i've herd stories of cops doing drugs, raping women, beating people for no reason, stealing, arson, and many other things. all the members of my family who were cops resigned because they said that the goverment is corrupt, and that while they were working as cops they were requested not to say anything about things that have happened, myself i dont trust the damn pigs anymore than i can throw them, i would never request their help and i would rather get really hurt befor i called them. FUCK the pigs they are the criminals and i dont want to hear any of you cops responding telling me to live life in your shoes, because i dont need to, i've SEEN and herd to much to even think about about it any more, and you guys wonder why everyone hates you, well i just told you. Dustin

Rudy for Senator....Rudy for President!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really not sorry you're still on a dial-up connection. Dumb GLORP. Werd to all the people with three nostrils. XENU IS COMING!!! PREPARE YOURSELVES!!!

I just have to wonder how anyone could carry out such an assignment as this. My chin is on the floor, and I don't have a great deal of respect for police or for government these days. I have to go away an think about this for awhile.

everyone of those pigs who layed hands on the homesteaders should loose their jobs if the homesteaders were protesting in a non violent way thats freedom of speech but this is just another example of showing free to the people in power of the uniform ps. they could of evicted them in a non violent way but no pps.F*** da police written by josh aka spank dog of il. 14rs of age

THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHAT IS GOING ON ALL OVER THE US. I CHOOSE TO CALL THESE CITIZENS UPHOLDING THE LAW IN UNIFORM "PIGS" BECAUSE THEY DON'T OPPERATE AS A CITIZEN THEY OPPERATE AS A TOOL FOR AT TIMES WHAT IS AT LEAST QUESTIONABLE MOTIVATIONS. THIS IS WHAT I SEE,I WILL FEEL THIS WAY UNTIL I SEE SOMETHING TO THE CONTRARY. I WOULDN'T EVER CALL ON THEM IF THEY WOULDN'T TAKE MY TAX MONEY!!!!!

All of the hypocritical kniving reactionary right wing Republican assholes who suggest that "our police don't break into homes in 'our' America" (as in the case of Elian Gonzalez in Little Havana, Miami) need to be directed to this page. In the Elian case, it was a necessary event in light of the pychotic paranoid anti-Castro scum who were holding the boy hostage. It was never something that should have happened to these squatters in NYC. SHAME! Jim Kube Chicago

Guliani is a Nazi and a disgrace to the human race.

I was punched, stomped, kicked and struck with rifle butts, by members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol; which left me physically scarred for life. After the beating, I was taken to the Pulaski County Hospital for treatment. I submitted to a polygraph test ( prior to the hearing ) and passed successfully, confirming my charges and proving the trooper's charges to be false. I was still sent to prison for 3 yrs on false charges. Sincerely, David Howard-2331 South Duquesne-Joplin,Missouri PS: I was originally sentenced to serve 27 years and I was released after having serves 3 years by a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

The FBI uses Stoelting Ultrascribe machines to eliminate suspects...That's why I trust the FBI. Sincerely, David Howard-2331 South Duquesne-Joplin,Missouri

I do not feel that the police should have interviened in this situation because the judge made his judgement. I do not see how HDP has the athority to send the police into a cituation of that occord. That is the job of the judge to issue warrents. Since He /She did not issue the warrent, the sezure was unconstitutional and should have never happened.

g GET A JOB GET A MORTGAGE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE WHO WORK HARD TOO PROVIDE FOR THEMSELVES AND THERE FAMILY U BUNH OF FUCKING TREEHUGGING SANDAL WEARING SCUM OF THE EARTH SHAME THE COPS CANT SHOOT U LOT MIGHT SAVE SOME MONEY ON OUR TAXES IF WE DIDNT HAVE TOO LOOK AFTER U LOT et a job get a mortgage and stop acting like a bunch of fucking freeloaders

:"g GET A JOB GET A MORTGAGE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE WHO WORK HARD TOO PROVIDE FOR THEMSELVES AND THERE FAMILY U BUNH OF FUCKING TREEHUGGING SANDAL WEARING SCUM OF THE EARTH SHAME THE COPS CANT SHOOT U LOT MIGHT SAVE SOME MONEY ON OUR TAXES IF WE DIDNT HAVE TOO LOOK AFTER U LOT et a job get a mortgage and stop acting like a bunch of fucking freeloaders" You obviously don't know how to use the word "too" correctly in a sentence. I apologize for your stupidity. Not really, I can't stand stupid people. For example: Minimum wage here in the US (not the UK) is not enough to pay for a place to live, much less get a mortgage. Dumbass. ***Xenu Is Here*** ***Save Yourself***

Ha! Once again the people that are suposed to protect us fuck the people over again. Personaly i'm fed up with there bullshit tactics and unbalievable joy of hasseling and hurting people in our society. It's obvious that the police and other law inforcement agencies think that they are above the law. I mean who else could kill a man in cold blood while handcuffed and on his stomach and say it was self defense. Thats fuckin bullshit!!! I think that this website is great to let people know whats goin on and what thier rights are. I would just like to add that they've been fuckin with us for long enough and its time for us to let them know that we aren't gonna take it anymore and that paybacks a bitch. For all you cops that are reading this FUCK YOU!!!

ALL POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE!!!!SMASH THE PIG POWER STRUCTURE.REMEMBER 1967 1969.POLICE KILL WITH OUT PITY.MISUSE OFF POWER FUEL BY RACIAL HATRED,BUT THIS TIME BY CIVILIAN HATRED.BLACK PANTHER CAN DO IT SO CAN WE.TAKE ARMS.DEFENSE YOUR SELF FROM THOSE TRIGGER,CLUB HAPPY BLOOD THIRSTY IM HOLIER THAN THOU COZ I AM COP PIGSSSSSS.POLICE BRUTALITY MUST STOP!........COPS WILL PROTECT YOU,BUT WHO WILL PROTECT US FROM THE COPS???????????????????

ALL POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE.SMASH THE PIG POWER STRUCTURE!!!!!!!!

I trust you've made it this far down the page, The sqatters should still be there today (except those who choose not to). I believe in freedom of choice, expression, religion, and self governance. My mother was married to an officer "of the law" when she had a gun put to her head. You wouldn't think that something like that would happen in Roscommon county MI, but it did. I didn't want to believe it but I know my mom would not lie to me. Yep, no-one is safe from the gun, not even a family member of an officer. In case you didn't figure it out, the man with the gun also sported a badge... Yeah, it was her husband. It could happen to anyone. With that in mind, I dont feel that humanity is safe. Sure I have since met decent, sincere officers, but these guys are becoming quite rare. Here's a scenario for those who absolutely LOVE justice: Here in Michigan, and I'm sure it varies from state to state, but here in order to drive there are several state mandated necessities: First, (obvious) a drivers license. Now here's where it gets interesting: To OWN an automobile you must A.] Acquire the vehicle (purchase) B.] Insure the vehicle (plpd) C.] Register/Plate the vehicle. ...On the outset it sounds simple enough, but when the average hooptie will run you about $400-$600 (not including repairs), The mandated insurance costs 'bout $100 month (more or less) and plates run around $50, It gets kinda pricy. Did I mention that you'll probably have to sink about $100-$200 or more just to make the car drivable? I'm no math genius, but you'll spend close to $1k to be ready to go. Oh yeah, it's MI, you NEED the car to get the job to get the car. It gets freakin' cold here in the winter. I'm quite thankful for the fact my car runs good now, but get caught driving with no plate or insurance? Go To Jail, do NOT pass go, the state collects 225 dollars. Here's the bonus: Our jail charges $30 a night for rooming charges, and the cots are made of cement. Oh yeah, ever heard of an MDT? This little computer in the officers cars' lets them check any plate on any car. Hmm... The police state isn't coming, it's already here.

pay for your own living space and stop complaining when something you DONT OWN gets taken away.

Ownership is seriously over-rated. Folding assignments to be turned into the professor sucks ass. And yes, the "founding fathers" of this country were all freemasons. 55555555555555555555555.

hi ithink its agood thing that such things can be brought to the attention of the world i understand the situation of the sqautters and sympathyes and yes the police are just ordinary folk , with the growth in global capitalism the individual is becoming less important with every day that passes more so in these last few years, the value of our labours is being manipulated and diminished to the point where the majority are simply becoming a means to an end for the petty boursgou govermental,financial,institutional minority that we are in debt to work for and sometimes die for ,yes the police were just doing what they were ordered to do it is not an officers perogative to decide which order he will or will not follow , however i believe the whole point here is that the "system" used illegal or otherwise unscrupulus means to curcumnavigate the law there fore i can only deduce that the officers in qeustion were ordered to do an illegal thing without the bonafide backing or consent of local goverment legislation,so the question begs to be asked who is or what is so powerful that it can manipulate and use for its own ends our police forces , our intteligence organizations e.t.c , well i can tell you its name and if it could ttalk to us it would probably borrow the following quote "i have many names and my armies are legion" public meet !money! or is it dollar ,pound ,franc,lira,you get my point in the end the police will end up the victims of the very same policies that they are being pushed to enforce i would like to add that im not a communist etc but equality,equal opportunity for all ,a level playing field in all aspects of our lives a maternal and paternal goverment that is honest working for and with the consent of the people any way im no orater so sorry if its strung together a bit !!!D ,LONDON ,""

DON4T BELIEVE... resist....

This is a very real problem that can happen to anyone who owns property. You do not have to be the city to be affected by this problem. Squaters can come on to any property and have rights to live there and you flip the bill for everything, even the legal bills. What a lot of people don't understand this a real legal right for squaters and was made a very very long time ago when land was different and it was not like it is now. It is up to our gov. and us to push a bill that would change that, you could work all your life to buy that land to do whatever and squaters can take it over and there is nothing you can do. There was two sides to this incident and needed to be address so future things could be changed. What the cops did was not the individual police office but the ones above them. Now, the city could have looked at these buildings a whole different way and started homes for the homeless, after all they spend more money on their parties and way of life in office. They do need to address the problem of homeless families. Working out something where everyone could have benefit was not far to get to. If NYC was smart, they could have drawn a whole lot of great PR towards their city and not to mention the Mayor . . . if they would have worked something out to benefit everyone, not to mention set a great example to other cities that leave buildings to rot and be more of a problem of harboring viloence and drug action. We all could come up with a solution because we live on this level. All political persons', including our gov. don't understand because their lives our taken care of. They have the money and they don't face the problems that we face. So its up to us to not bitch but to see if we can help make a difference. This should be a teaching example on what we should do if we here about something like this again.

Why can't we be like England?

Can you say police state? I knew you could. Let the folks know that don't have a curios enough noodle to seek and find on their own. How bout?

GET A JOB AND PAY YOUR RENT. IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WHO WOULD LIKE TO PAY MINE

FIRST OF ALL, IT A CASE OF THESE SQUATERS TRESPASSING, REGARDLESS OF HOW LONG THEY HAVE BEEN THERE. THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN EVICTED A LONG TIME AGO. THEY NEED TO GO OUT AND WORK LIKE OTHER TAX PAYING CITIZENS AND BUY OR RENT THERE OWN PLACE.

One thing NYPD don't have SWAT they have ESU. Should people be living rent free? Thats right get them out or tell them to get a job and pay rent.

some pigs have no sense of any humane feelings towards others and it is sick. all people are created equil and have the right to the same treatment as others. kimberley

fuck all you assholes that are supporting those pigs. even if it says on a fucking peice of paper all men are created equil it is not all ways carried out some people CANT get a job YES they CANT get a job. okye they dont pay rent but do u think they want to live like that fuck u i dont think so all people have a right to have a roof over there head and food in there mouths but not all people can afford it so all you assholes instead of critisiing them and help get of your high horse and fucking help then.

Well I hope that none of you that where involed in the forcefull eviction happen for some reason stand in front of Judge Elliot Wilk.

On May 6 1992 six New York city police officers and one retired NY police officer(Kenneth Eurell) were arrested in a five month undercover drug operation. The Suffolk county police dept. tapped the phone of a low level street dealer and soon found out that NYC police officers were involved in a multi-level drug operation. Suffolk county in cooperation with the NYPD internal affairs unit arrested all of the officers involved and 49 civilians. The probe which lasted five months included undercover drug buys and electronic surveillance. Twenty-five vehicles were seized and over $30,000 in cash. Also seized was an undisclosed amount of drugs. The cops acted as venture capitalists and pooled their money to buy cocaine from known Brooklyn drug dealers for resale in Suffolk county. According to suffolk authorities the cops made purchases that amounted to four ounces at a time. Eurells admitted involement to the Southern District(which he later cooperated with in an ongoing undercover probe of his former partner Michael Dowd and Columbian drug dealers) were purchases of up to one kilo. Below you can read the true story of one of the key players in the New York police departments biggest scandles ever.

http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/bluewall/main.html

I WONDER WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON?

#1. There is no such thing as "riot cops". Just cops. I know it sounds better and inflames more . but its not accurate. 2. These are not "Homesteaders", but a collection of anarchists, drug addicts , and others that are just angry at the world and expect something for nothing. In other words, societyS' garbage. 3. You might want to think about lending your alLlgiance to this scum. One was found to have killed his girlfriend, cut off her head , placed it in a Port Authority locker, and then made soup from the rest of her body and fed it to fellow "Homeless People" in and around Tompkins Square Park, (Daniel Rakowitz, anybody recall?) 4. Yes the cops come heavily armed , as they know the monsters they are dealing with. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY.

In response to 'spider-wg014.proxy.aol.com' Anarchists are "societyS' garbage" [sic]? Drug addicts too? Does anyone remember the 'French Connection'?... Basically the US agreeded to help the French sell the South Vietnameses' heroin in exchange for South Vietnams military support. Uncle Sam - Proud sponsor of heroin addicts from NYC to Compton. As for anarchists... Do you even know what anarchy means? Did you know that the majority of anarchists in this country are PACIFISTS, or are you too busy figuring out what today's special is at the local Krispy Kreme? How is the term 'riot cops' inaccurate? Aren's most cops taught riot police tactics? How is a cop with a kevlar helmut, face-shield or gas mask, class IIa or IIIa body armour, can of OC, ballistic body shield, knee-pads/elbow-pads, and a big-ass rubber bullet gun NOT a riot cop?!! Maybe he's just a regular symbol of the police state that is the USA. And what of the cops killing innocents?!! "Oops... It was just a cellphone."!!! "You might want to think about lending your alLlgiance to this scum." [sic] cnlm

Hah! 'Agreeded' lol

I wated to know what the first capital of the United states of amarica was. Please give it to me, Although the story was cool. Was the first capital really New York City? Please give me a response. The last thing I wanted to ask you was if you could get me landmarks of the NorthEast?

I think it was the right thing to do, and if we didn't have police like that where would we be today.Police are the only thing that make me do the right things besides my mom and dad. So I just wanted to tell you that because there are a lot of things that can go wrong.

My name is Tyler Clark and I want everyone to Know that!!!

I honestly think that it was wrong for the city and police to do so and take the homes from the people that lived there from many years.. i am not to sure what happined but i know if i was goin to get kicked out of my home like that i would fight to save my home too..i am a squater my self and i will do so for many more years i do not beleave that you should have to pay to live in a place that is abandoned.. i really bleave with full haertly in squaters rights..I will close with this,'FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND SQUATERS RIGHTS FOR THOSE WHO BELAVE!!

I honestly think that it was wrong for the city and police to do so and take the homes from the people that lived there from many years.. i am not to sure what happined but i know if i was goin to get kicked out of my home like that i would fight to save my home too..i am a squater my self and i will do so for many more years i do not beleave that you should have to pay to live in a place that is abandoned.. i really bleave with full haertly in squaters rights..I will close with this,'FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND SQUATERS RIGHTS FOR THOSE WHO BELAVE!! streetkid22@hotmail.com

i cannot make a judgement about this because I do not know all of the facts. I do know, however, that police in comparison to civilians are far more likely to kill an innocent person accidentally. An armed citizenry is a far better crime deterrent than a few police. This can be proven by the dramatic increase in violent crime since the ban on private ownership of firearms in S. Africa, Australia, and Britain. The fact of the matter is, police usually aren't there when you need them. I am vehemently opposed to the current state in law enforcement. I see most police as nothing more than an occupying force. I don't think that they are the enemy, however, and will not advocate violence against them. We need to be prepared to defend ourselves from criminals and tyrants alike. We went to war in the Balkans to stop the exact sort of thing that happens in our own land (e.g. WACO, RUBY RIDGE, etc.) The nation that we live in is not as it was intended to be. If you agree with me than move to Texas elect a Governor who feels the same and secede.

This is not a problem that is restricted to NY. It is a global epidemic, the abuse of political power and force by the propertied majority against non conformity. The poor, oppressed or educated challenge the conspiracy of the media and politicians and feed off the ignorant masses who are too lazy to independantly educate and inform themselves and are puppets of the mass media and political reacyionaries. SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE. In Sydney Australia the same arguments are made about squatting. Australia like many colonial outposts of western imperialism was founded on the basis of European invaders squatting on indigenous lands and subordinating the rights of traditional owners. Refuse to accept the dominant view.

This is not a problem that is restricted to NY. It is a global epidemic, the abuse of political power and force by the propertied majority against non conformity. The poor, oppressed or educated challenge the conspiracy of the media and politicians and feed off the ignorant masses who are too lazy to independantly educate and inform themselves and are puppets of the mass media and political reacyionaries. SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE. In Sydney Australia the same arguments are made about squatting. Australia like many colonial outposts of western imperialism was founded on the basis of European invaders squatting on indigenous lands and subordinating the rights of traditional owners. Refuse to accept the dominant view.

pigs suck

this blows big donkey balls! It seems the government, local and national alike, has forgot that its sole sole purpose is to represent and protect, not repudiate our people. Why do so many in such important positions think they are dealing with statistics and not human lives...

pigs fuckin suck

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Pigs; the name is well earned ~ it was not bestowed by mindless individuals nor without good reason. I have witnessed lives destroyed, and ended by these "things", reason being "because we can". A pig "accidently" kills an innocent person; the very worst punishment it will receive is unemployment. These things create a large portion of the "crime" we see. They push, intimidate, ruin, belittle, frame, steal from, setup, etc ad infinitum, decent people constantly, is it any wonder people wish to kill them? If I were to come upon one that needed life saving intervention, - accident, etc, I would not lend a hand. It is unfortunate, but these things are going to be slowed by brute force only, anyone who feels they must commit suicide by pig should consider waiting untill they have the opportunity to dispatch a few of the brethran first. The only downside to another swine slaughtering is the pain left with its family.

Why are you even bothering to post this? Most people don't care about police brutality. They just want to feel 'safe', so they ignore it.

Oh, please don't call cops pigs. Pigs provide us with food, cops provide us with nothing. Calling a cop a pig is insulting the real pigs that are slaughtered for food. For the guy who said let the homeless people live in his house, my question is this, why should he allow them to live in his house, when there is already land available? For the guy who said that if you call the cops, they'll be your best friend, all I have to say is this, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, thats funny. If a male cop actually got of his ass to respond, I doubt they'd be very helpful. They'd probably use the "there is no law being committed" routine. And if a female cop actually stopped giving her boss a blowjob to 'earn' her promotion, you'd get the same routine. And that's assuming that anyone would be stupid enough to a worthless piece of shit in the first place.

Ooops, there's supposed to be call in between "to" and "a".

fuck squatter sympathy

i think the police were right in there actions.they were doing there job.the police cannot take chances with people they do not even know.they always have to be alert and aware of their surroundings because someone is always trying to kill them, so they cannot take chances.they can by law, use whatever force necessary that it takes to take control of a situation.no true policeman will misuse this great commision.

there are some good pigs. that being said, my brothers and sisters, we all know that money is the commodity of the fragile ego, its use provides a device for people to measure their status, an evil bi-product since we came out of the tribes. we have replaced the peace found in the buzzing of insects and smell of meadow flowers with fear. self realization through education is what they do not want. violence can not be the answer, as we do not want to live in a violent world, and they will always have more money to buy bigger guns, or will simply bomb or disease the whole lot of us. that scared little boy doesn't want to give up what he has, and may resort to taking us down with him. the earth to the people. deface. squat. make yourself a nuisance. consume little. the earth will heal, but not within my lifetime. the only question is whether it will be after overshoot and dieback. this is the corporate sponsored apocalypse. peace muthafuckas

Life is too short to be so up in arms against the 'man'. Kick back, play by the rules, and smell the roses. If you don't you'll all die lonely, miserable, self appreciating lives as self appointed martyrs. Fix your problems in your own life, instead of passing the buck.

hey that suckes

I am outraged you want to support squaters. I should feel sorry for them being evicted from a place they didn't own in the first place and took it upon themselves to fix it up. Get Real and support something of value like higher pay for cops. JIM McCARTNEY

In times such as these, you people should examine your priorities! We have become the target of every third world towel head with a cause and all you can do is bad mouth the police! Wake up and smell the real world you bunch of liberal clowns!You won"t realize the magnitude of these tragedies until osama flies up your ass with a 747!!!!!!!!!

Squatting is for scumbags that refuse work hard like the rest of America for a home, food, and life staples. The police did what neede to be done. there's to many freeloaders living off the working people to begin with. To all you " hard hittin' cop haters" out there, find something intelligent and worthwhile to complain about and harrass. America's law enforcement officers are hard working Americans with families, values, and morals. Lay off.

well if you bums paid rent and stop trying to live off others for free you would have some where to live stop counting on daddy and mommy and move back to cup cake land

This is disgusting, all of this is your because Bush and the rest of your elected representatives have no interest in the human rights of it's citizens (or any other elected government in the world for that mattter. If the city can't provide adequate clean and crime free housing then if the people are able to take their quality of life into their own hands, no buerecratic body should have the right to stop them. How dare the USA accuyse (and bomb) other nations based on human rights records when ther US's own elected representatives ignore their own legal processes, hold themselves above the law and hide behind a corrupt and militarised police force whose only job is to defend corparate and government interests. This is all wrong. The police and governments, parks, cities and sidewalks are owned by the citizens, they are ours. Right now the USA is leading the world with terrible examples, using violence as a first response and dismantling any sembelance of civil rights. This is being used by governments across the world as an exuse to ignore human rights conventions ie Howard in Australia with refugees, Israel with Palestine etc etc. Go the homesteaders, shame on the city representatives and the police involved in this barbarism. The use of police to control our rights to protest is increasing with every day, ie Melbourne, Australia, Seatle, Prague etc etc. Police or criminals they are both the same, the gunmen who invade our lives and kill people's relatives, falsifying evidence. Some examples from Australia, - Brisbane, Queensland 2001 - copper is caught on camera bashing into suspect (who is cowering against wall) with a fence paling. Upon impact suspect is jumped and bashed (really bashed) by as couple dozen police. State representative, (Premiere) goes on telivision quote "the police were doing their job, we've got the best police force in the world". Evil fucks, all of em, police and governmnents, unite the world, fight the corruption, peace

Too many stories like this go unheard. It would be stronger if the names of the injured and their roles in the Court Actions were described. We need a forum, mainstream news sources are too much under Political control to report this kind of News.

Wish I could live some where for ten years FREE. Don't blame the the brave men and women in Law Enforcement. Blame yourselfs for not doing anything about it and letting the situation get so out of hand that the City and Police had to do something about it. If you feel this strongly about the RIGHTS of squatters, you bleeding heart liberals, should have done something about this problem!!!

After Sept.11, I think we should be more worried about helping our neighbor than putting them on the street. When many of these people were thrown out they had no place to go. In America women and children are the highest growing population of the homeless people. We are suppost to help those who can't help themselves by doing our part a little at a time not just in a time of disaster. We all have to live with each other so why don't we take care of and look out for each other.

this is just one more example of the rpoof...it's coming...and to the pigs and politicians, i say this...like you are so fond of saying to the "terrorists" you love to bomb, there will be no place to run and no place to hide...the revolution is coming people...it says in the constitution that if ever the powers that be fail to serve the people, abolish them and start over...power to the everyman...AW HELLL, YA CAN'T STOP US NOW!!!!

This artical shows how we treat our own down trodden huddled mass's like they are terrorist or common criminals.But the big picture is NYC's now former Mayor was truely and still is a heartless cold bastard who dosen't care about those who are down and out on the streets of NYc. And people praise him it make me sick.The man is a two faced punk.And NYPD are just moderen day SS men.America should be ashamed and NYC has no right to sing GOD BLESS AMERICA.

This artical shows how we treat our own down trodden huddled mass's like they are terrorist or common criminals.But the big picture is NYC's now former Mayor was truely and still is a heartless cold bastard who dosen't care about those who are down and out on the streets of NYc. And people praise him it make me sick.The man is a two faced punk.And NYPD are just moderen day SS men.America should be ashamed and NYC has no right to sing GOD BLESS AMERICA.

This is poor sensationalist reporting of what was a lawful action to evict people who had no lawful right to hold up the progress of safe housing for those who need it.

don't kick them out. that would be a big problem. if the buldings or gone then they have to find some where elseto go and they'll bitch about thet to. then that will lead to wanting more welfair to move into low mortage homes.is america the only country in the world where you can move into a new home and have everybody else pay for it.

another color other than red might keep viewrers on the page..

You all are dumb!

i thinkk not my friends

Hey Thank you for letting all of us know how well the police dept and its fine officers are doing its jobs. I am glad my hard earned tax dollars are being used to remove trespassers, drug addicts and people who choose to act with disobedience against society. I applaud the efforts of our police officer, but then again I am not a crying , sniviling, creepy, Aclu calling, unemployed, liberal, loser. GOD BLESS ALL POLICE OFFICERS

LOL - nearly 7 years later and people are still talking about this. It's amazing how the "Have Nots" hate the "Haves" for having. We live in a capatalistic society, people. You have the right to 'pursue' happiness. There is no guarantee that you'll get there. If you tie having money into happiness, go about pursuing it...not begrudging those that have succeeded at it. Too many people are victims of their own self-imposed limitations, not the "Haves" of society.

THAT WAS BULL SHIT ITS GREAT YOU ARE LETTING PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT ALL THAT

god bless the homeless and those who speak out for them and help to amplify their voices. i tend to think that the aggressive right wing facism displayed in some of the comments above is just another example of the shambles that the moral character of our country is in. i for one appreciate the truth that is passed along in sites like this one.

Good chase the losers out!The buildings mos likely were unsafe:-)

fuck you they are just doing there job. That job is to clear trash off the street and evict trespassers out of a building. Also the reason they were so heavily armed and had riot gear was because they were out numbered by the squatters.

They were only doing there job!!!!!!!!!

boy this page is hard to read...maybe I would have stayed and read more if it was a different colour

Yes the police are only doing their job, unfortunately they're not doing it for the people who pay them, the public, they're doing it to protect the interests of those who pay nothing, the rich. So respect them if you wish, but then you might as well respect Jim Jones for his mass suicide because he didn't know any better either. -JAB

U.S. police and police in quite a few countries and goverments are the best... money, power and greed, can buy....

First of all, most of the squatters I met in '94 were just rich runaways. None of them were from NYC. They deserved to be taken away. Get the fuck out of my town. Besides, they could get a fucking job...always asking for change on St. Marks...GTE A FUCKING JOB!!!!!!!

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the squatters were in the wrong.

Dimbulah is a shithole and so is the teacher

Those pigs hit my mom because she is a squatter and she has balls on her chin she is a ballchinian

iam a squatter and i have hairy hammeroids

HONDA FUCKIN RULE!!!!!!!!!!

stanley Likes little boys

horny

These people don't have a "right" to their homes. it never belonged to them. If I went on vacation and someone moved into my house, I don't care how much they "fixed it up" it doesn't matter at all. the house still belongs to me. when I come back and want to use my house, I'll burn out any rats that are in there.

dirty squaters take a bath, lower east side scum. why squat on ave D when mommy and daddy have loot? wanna rebel? get a job loosers

You are an idiot

Guerilla Black feels yo pain -GB

I have 6 abandoned prop. and I don't care who will move in and renovate them. When I am ready to develop those places, I won't ask for back rent or any payment. but you better believe that YOU WILL BE OUT OF THE PROPERTY - ANY WAY POSSIBLE.

i cant believ those pigs would do this... oink oink idiots

i bet most of you are dead from the aids now..

if you need to go in whi use the swat team and people were hurt and they knew there rights and were tring to show there right and shouldent have bene hutr