iOS app Android app  Ann Medlock   The Mayor & Occupy Wall
Street  Posted: 11/16/11 04:00 PM ET  As the world got the news
about yesterday's dismantling of Occupy Wall Street, I found my
B.S. detector registering off the dial.  In mid-October, I went
to Zuccotti to carry out a plan hatched after watching a Jon
Stewart show that focused some OWS coverage on potty jokes. New
York City hasn't allowed portapotties at Zuccotti so the nearby
food shops were being besieged by Occupiers with no money
wanting to use the bathrooms.  No portapotties of course leads
to sanitation concerns and any assemblage of people generates
trash. But the Occupiers responded to the mayor's first plan to
evacuate the park so it could be cleaned by forming a Cleanup
Team that was busily pushing brooms and filling trash cans when
we got there.  Knowing all that, I read as bull the mayor's
statement yesterday that the park had to be cleaned. The OWS
Cleanup Team was dealing with the trash and the "sanitation
problems" would be solved by t