
Occupy DC Protester Kevin Wiley of Silver Spring, Md. clears out all camping material out of his tent at McPherson Square, Washington, DC, Monday, January 30, 2012. Tents still remain throughout McPherson Square less then an hour before the deadline set by the National Park Service for Occupy DC protesters to remove camping material from McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

Occupy DC Protester Aron R. of Washington, DC clears out all camping material out of his tent he's been staying in with his girlfriend at McPherson Square, Washington, DC, Monday, January 30, 2012. Tents still remain throughout McPherson Square less then an hour before the deadline set by the National Park Service for Occupy DC protesters to remove camping material from McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

Joseph Moehrle of Fredrick, Md. wears a gas mask and waves a United States flag after protesters cover the statue of Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson in the center of McPherson Square with a large blue tarp at noon on the day of a deadline the National Park Service set to remove camping material from McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza, Washington, DC, Monday, January 30, 2012. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

James McPherson of Norfolk, Va., holds an upside-down American flag on Jan. 30, 2012, at the Occupy D.C. encampment at Freedom Plaza in D.C. Park Police said they would begin to enforce the no-camping laws at noon that day. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

Occupy D.C. protesters cover the statue of Major Gen. James McPherson in the center of McPherson Square with a large blue tarp at noon on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 — the deadline the National Park Service set to remove camping material from the square and from Freedom Plaza in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Occupy D.C. protesters cover the statue of Major Gen. James McPherson in the center of McPherson Square with a large blue tarp at noon on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 — the deadline the National Park Service set to remove camping material from the square and from Freedom Plaza in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Occupy D.C. protesters cover the statue of Major Gen. James McPherson in the center of McPherson Square with a large blue tarp at noon on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 — the deadline the National Park Service set to remove camping material from the square and from Freedom Plaza in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Tents still remain throughout McPherson Square less than an hour before the deadline set by the National Park Service for Occupy D.C. protesters to remove camping material from the square and Freedom Plaza in Washington on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Tracy Keith of Chapel Hill, N.C., works the information booth at the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square. Suggestions that the campers there move to join fellow protesters over at Freedom Plaza have not gone over all that well. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)