The rapes...drugs...prostitution...unsanitary living conditions and the degenerates that were hiding in there...nah...can't imagine why normal people would want OWS gone.

Oh I don't think EVERYONE that shows up for a protest agrees with it.
I am not Normal People I guess, anytime there is a big protest be it a Naked bike ride to protest the cost of tea in Vermont, it is interesting to watch the loonies do their stuff. Gay parades are a hoot if one does not run into a relative marching.
Yes I did become interested in the 70's with the anti war marches in SF. Would take a picknick lunch to a hill to watch the hippies and police tangle. Just once when the wind shifted and all the pepper spray came in my direction did I wonder what the heck I was doing there.
I did drive to a site in Napa when all that free food was given as a ransom for Patty Hearst. All the big 18 wheelers loaded with food that the people receiving it were selling in the parking lot for $5.00 a bag to the White and Latino on lookers. A good deal for the onlookers, the poor got money for a nickel bag and the buyers had a weeks free grocery's.
I became addicted to watching all the foolishness of others in California. To this day on a limited budget these protests over most anything is just about the only free entertainment I can get.
This is like free admittance to a Zoo, all these exotic humans, reminds me of the old carnival freak shows that displayed deformed humans.
I say bring it on, especially in the summer when TV just has re runs and one gets tired of the beach.