Maui County Misleading or Misled on Occupy Harassment?
Channel: OWSMaui
Date: 10/02/2012

A little instructional video for the County of Maui from Occupy Wall Street Maui. Topic: don't just swallow what people in uniform tell you. Here's the back-story. Occupy Wall Street Maui went out to the Monsanto site in South Maui for a week-long action, prepared to stay there for a full week. But on Day 1 along came out friendly local PD, who proceeded to sent away our porta-pottie, issue "no-camping" orders, and generally make it difficult for us to be there. 

Among the more intimidating conversations was one with the MPD's "Crisis Negotiator," who made it very clear that we were to leave the site at sunset. And no amount of requests for the legal authority for that action produced any response other than, basically, "Because We Said So..." The ACLU even complained to the County of Maui, or our behalf, about this and other similar bits of petty harassment. So we were more than a little surprised to see a letter from Deputy Corp Counsel to the ACLU claiming, "the protestors left at nightfall of their own volition... nobody told them to leave." The Communications Director for the Mayor, Rod Antone, repeated the same line to "Maui Time Weekly." 

Now, we're hear to tell you that's not an accurate statement. Not by a long way. In fact -- well,  here's our correction. See for yourself.