OK Joe, but isn't it the case that the NYPD has been deliberately steering
> the mentally disturbed (sic) homeless to Zuccotti so as to create havoc
> there and raise calls for "order" to be restored.
Don't ask me; I'm 5,686 miles away. But the passages I quoted consisted of OWS participants (who probably shouldn't be taken as representative of the whole) complaining about the police refusing to "intervene" and "find more appropriate accommodations" for others in the Zuccotti Park, something there's absolutely no reason they should do. Protesters who want exclusive legal use of a public space, and for the police to act as their auxiliary marshals (which is a whole different question), can apply for permits. If they choose not to, there are tradeoffs involved.
> It'shardly as if this is about the occupiers being unwilling to fully deal
> with "the public" in some organic sense.
>
Who are "the occupiers," and who's "the public"? Obviously some part of the former expect the police to shield them from a portion of the latter, unless the Daily News article was made up from whole cloth.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."