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'Occupy' movement organizes May Day general strike

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    Peter Johnson, Jr. weighs in

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Disappearing from the headlines and our streets is well for months the Occupy Wall Street movement is back to day and planning to shut down cities from coast to coast.

They're even putting up posters and encouraging people to stay home from work.

Not to shopper bank and in other words disrupt capitalism but are they putting our lives at risk.

For -- right now is Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson junior Peter we -- morning we should point out there right now even though they're trying to stop businesses stop people from going to school.

Nothing's really happened in New York in New York City.

You would have to travel to Havana Cuba to see where the fish people and there you got -- have you been this loud.

Celebrating May Day well that's well occupiers what happened here.

Well unfortunately it it is it appears to be true based upon their own statements and what they're saying is on this -- no work no school.

Don't bank right don't buy.

Close bridges down we know in the past it closed down the Oakland port sure we know there was violence in Oakland and other cities and that we know there's violence here in New York City.

Sell a lot of people and a lot of people -- workers -- only got these people gonna ruin our guard commute.

Crowd against you market in the wall -- are getting getting to work in the gonna have to jostle.

-- and things are people have to drag their kids.

Through school you know -- crowds to write this rule we interviewed someone a few months ago.

On that -- a horrific experience for the child.

So we say well Kate it's a balancing test is the First Amendment is why we're the greatest country in the world.

But you say how could so many bone headed people get its overall figure for so long right and why are they out there today.

And so there are people that have real reasons they see and I'm upset I'm resentful I don't have a job.

I can understand that I want to protest want to make my voice heard.

But also we have anarchist.

We have people that wanted to do harm to our capitalistic system and would do harm to our democracy.

A lot of ways and shutting things down is not part of democracy.

-- right here that's not democracy and what they're doing is they're stopping the 99%.

From getting to work as most people.

Are not on American like these people and once upon a time they had cover from the political left but even they have for the most part abandon them.

In the end Americans of the the -- knows the people that -- to that you are talking that people have a right to protest.

One of the same time we're cognizant that were up coming up on the year anniversary.

Of the killing of Osama bin Laden right that's something that generates a lot of tension.

Throughout the world through our police department in New York City and other cities are on high alert.

As a result of that we here in new report about body bombs from al-Qaeda -- go -- airplanes and so.

The problem that I have is is this a tremendous distraction.

For the people that are supposed to protect this woman had these diverse groups across this -- city on Twitter and FaceBook right breaking off and saying we're gonna make it.

Hell today we don't need held today Nokia we we need a good.

-- stable.

Strong quiet.

Safe legal protest if they wanna do it I think they're wasting their time in a lot of respects if you're gonna do it be legal there is -- -- the general election is a tryout for you.

Trying to get there -- some of the folks out today some some would say so.

We'll be watching this who I don't know -- appeared just a good look at north today.

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