Held off until after the election. he can act more confidently now he has a clear mandate

Waited for the bad weather to set in. I walked by the camp earlier today and those peeps looked miserable

Let the squalor and petty crime rise to the point where there is public pressure to act, and even possible lawsuits against the city for not enforcing the law.

Deflect attention from the banks, so they can operate normally. OSF seems to have forgotten about them.

Waited until the news cycle died down.

Of course, Oakland will have to act on theirs, now there's been a murder.

The festival is over, kids.

Right of free speech and assembly. All for it.

Right to keep occupying public space, breaking laws against overnight camping, costing the city (and me as a taxpayer) money for added sanitation, policing; costing merchants money with depressed sales and shoplifting problems - not so much. You raised a lot of great issues. What, you think more drum circles will actually get the socio-economic and political machines to start changing? Go home. Take a hot shower in your own bathroom. Then work for change in your own community/neighborhood. Run for office. Volunteer. You made your point. But you're starting to move from consciousness-raising to nuisance. Fast. I agree with a lot of the sentiment. But I'm pretty tired of the whole camp. Oh, and clean up the place when you leave, willya? (And let me get this straight - some think the City is obligated to spend money it doesn't have to provide you with toilets, first aid stations, drinking water, etc? Why on earth? If I decide to go camp in the plaza and put up a sign, will they provide them for me? I wouldn't expect it. Neither should you.)

While I support the Occupy Movement, I am connected to the Ferry Building and have lots of friends who work both inside and out at the vendors tents who have been impacted by the more unsavory elements of the camp. Shoplifting has gone up exponentially and we're not talking just cookies here. Further more, just because it is a tourist destination doesn't mean there are a ton of rich folks wafting around. We workers are a humble lot and many of the businesses are small farms, mom and pop kind of shops and stealing has hit the bottom line for a number of folks here. No need to worry about the restrooms, the bathrooms are well stocked and overall there is no problem with more folks using the facilities, but security has had their arms full with cleaning up the massive amounts of graffiti, feces smeared in the bathrooms, etc. We had a woman last week squat in the women's bathroom and relieve herself right there on the floor, numbers 1 & 2. A friend outside at the tents had the contents of her table with all her wears taken right before her, and another friend witnessed a person defecating a few feet from her stall in the early hours of the morning. While, this is a handful of folks who are operating like this, it still creates tension and takes some of the wind out of the movement. I love what Occupy stands for, I get it, I'm down. Just a little respect all around for everyone would be cool.

So how long does it take a solar shower to heat up 100 gallons of water given San Francisco's weather? Let's see, there are about 100 occupies times 10 gallons each,...you do the math. Oh, and who pays for all the for it all. No the campers ( I hope).

I expect OSF to be neutralized in the next few days

Ed Lee realizes that many times more San Franciscans support the Occupation than voted for him for mayor.

I wish the Occupy movement would use their energy to actually accomplish something productive. The fatal link between banking and the governments of the Western world threatens the entire global economy and the fuse has been lit in the European Union. Italian and Spanish bond yields are spiking up to near 7%, an unsustainable level at which these countries will no longer be able to finance the public debt or run the day to day functioning of the government. It is the US subprime crisis Euro - style only one hundred times bigger. Within a very short period of time the banks of the world will be in a position to blackmail the governments to force the taxpayers to take the losses on their risky bets. "Bail us out or we will destroy the global economy and cause the next Great Depression" Can't someone in the Occupy movement clarify what actually needs to be done to keep the banks and financiers of the world in line? For example, the underwriting of credit default swaps on sovereign debt is actually a form of insurance fraud. If the attorney general and justice department had any guts they would break up the oligopoly of large banks which control and manipulate the derivatives market to their satisfaction and profits. What is the Occupy movement doing to stop this?

In the city where I live, Philadelphia, the entire movement is a disgusting joke. Women are being raped, people are urinating on the sidewalk and no one is addressing the real issues. People please. Protest on the sidewalk and clarify what needs to be accomplished or you are wasting your time