So New York’s Wall Street occupiers have been evicted and negotiations with the protesters we visited in London have ended and legal challenges resumed. It is beyond obvious even to a casual observer (such as myself, since real life is happily intruding once again) that legal excuses are being made to shift groups of people who could otherwise be tolerated within the law, even if they are aesthetically undesirable.

This trend started in London on the second day of the protest with spurious leading questions being asked in media interviews about how the protest was an embarrassment and whether worshippers were being inconvenienced. This was before 12 noon on the second day of the London protest so well before any genuine inconvenience could possibly have been experience let alone communicated without journalists chasing the facts in that direction like a herd of ducks.

I’m not sure I know the correct policy response to an eruption of tents in the middle of London, but the media and officialdom making stuff up is surely not the way forward.