Hmm. Occupy Buffalo has staked a claim outside of Buffalo City Hall in Niagara Square, facing the McKinley Monument. Occupy Buffalo doesn't have anywhere near the numbers or violence as other cities do. Their issues aren't clear at all, a general discontent--bigotry, racism, feeling gauged by banks. City Hall is just fine with the protesters, which for the most part have ignored city corruption as the cause of most of the city's problems.
What would President McKinley have to say if he were here and saw people protesting in front of his monument, with its four sleeping lions representing strength and turtles representing eternal life? Who can say? Carl Sandburg wrote about the monument in his poem Slants of Buffalo, New York: "A forefinger of stone, dreamed by a sculptor, points to the sky/It says: This way! This way!"
"I'm impressed by the monument anyway, which I've never seen before"