Wall Street Protests

Lamplighter · 03-22-2012, 11:20 AM

They went and cancelled the afternoon TV soap operas,
but Lake Oswego is much better entertainment.

When these folk say "Keep out of our lake",
they mean it and will do whatever is necessary.

The Lake Oswego Review
By Kara Hansen Murphey
Mar 22, 2012
Occupation on hold
Lake Corp. considers lowering lake,
cordoning off Lakewood Bay to foil protestors

Quote:

Ugly winter weather has led organizers of a local Occupy event
to postpone their protest of the Lake Oswego Corporation’s long-held control of Oswego Lake.

Occupy Oswego Lake had been set for today.
But in a message posted this week on the group’s Facebook page,
organizers said they’re putting it off to a date they’ll announce later.

Quote:

“Hint: When it’s sunny, expect us,” the Facebook page says.
<snip>
“The Lake Oswego Corporation derives its power of control from a general,
yet unnecessary, acceptance of the status quo,”Occupy organizers wrote.
“This case is indicative of a larger phenomenon in our society, where money
is used to secure extralegal privileges for the few at the expense of the many.
And, as is true in a larger sense, attempts from within the political system
to correct this overreach of monied interests have thus far been unsuccessful in any real sense.

“We need only to defy the imaginary authority of the Lake Oswego Corporation by making a bit of a splash.”

<snip>
In advance of the potential Occupy Oswego Lake event this week,
lakefront property owners were preparing for a possible flood of Portland-area protestors.

Quote:

“We do have options available to us which we may or may not
choose to employ as events dictate,” Lake Oswego Corporation board president Doug Thomas
wrote in a message to shareholders.

Possible tactics included lowering the lake by at least 4 feet,
creating a soggy strip of land between public parks properties and the water.

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Stay tuned... we'll be here for another two weeks

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