Occupy DC needs to vacate parks and move on to suites

From my perspective as a veteran of student protests, the activists and hangers-on among the Occupy DC groups have gotten off easy. In May 1971 I joined idealistic college students nationwide who believed “the movement” could stop the Vietnam War by showing up in the capital city. We were organized. Decades before the Internet brought us email and instant messaging, we used fliers and the phone.

The plan was simple: College students would arrive in D.C. the night before the mass march, camp in the parks or bunk with friends, arise the next morning and overwhelm the capital. We might block roads. We would march up Pennsylvania Avenue. We certainly would fill the National Mall.