The Asheville Police Department issued a press release earlier today on an incident involving the occupants. According to one report, they set out to clean downtown, but the police started bothering them when they were cleaning the windows of a bank. The address reported was 1 North Pack Square, and the bank there is Forest Commercial, hardly a giant on Wall Street. The Asheville Citizen-Times clarifies they were cleaning Merrill Lynch.
This again illustrates the problem. Part of the population believes it has the right to control the property it earns through the trading of labor and other goods. Another part of the population says there is no such thing as property rights. Instead, it can do what it wants with whatever it wants; and it can acquire anything it wants by peaceful asking, which is not to be confused with begging.
The police arrived on the scene after people who had some expectation of being able to conduct business on the property, whether by paying rent or taxes, asked the people who were peacefully washing the windows to leave their property alone.
