Occupiers

The Holiday in Lights display in Albany, NY's Washington Park was severely vandalized two nights before Christmas. This annual event supported by many corporate sponsors, raises money for the Police Athletic League for youth programs. The Occupy Wall Street fools were allowed to break the 11:00 PM curfew in Academy Park for several months. They erected tents and started living there with unsanitary conditions and disruptive behavior. When Mayor Jennings finally changed his mind, the curfew was enforced and the protestors went raucous. Not surprising, a couple of nights later the Washington Park event was attacked with 30 thousand dollars with of destruction. In the beginning the Occupy Wall Street crowd was protesting corporations and their, so called, greed. They added the police to their enemy list after being forced to obey the laws of the city. The vandalism in Washington Park was directed at the donated corporate displays in the shadow of darkness. Hundreds of electric lines were cut to hurt the efforts of the PAL. In truth, the hundreds of youngsters that are served by the programs of the PAL are the ones that these idiots hurt the most. This was not a spontaneous act of teen-age vandalism. It was calculated, well planned and had all the proper tools in place. If not the crazy occupiers then who? ------ Grandpa Gordon