"occupiers"

Are they really "occupiers"?

Originally the word to occupy meant that a foreign power, through war took command over a foreign land. Within Canada the word "occupy" has come to have an interesting meaning. For Native Canadians it means to claim land that you believe you have a legal claim to and to do so by illegal means including the use of illegal force and intimidation. For protesters of our economic system it means to illegally stay in a park, preventing it from being used for normal use by other citizens. For Palestinians it refers to Israelis livin or having villages in an area in which the Palestinians have some rights, but legally, probably no political rights (see The Jewish People's Rights to the Land of Israel, Amazon on Kindle, for the argument that legally the West Bank is Samaria and belongs to Israel). So to occupy now means either to illegally live on land, or illegally stay on land, or to live on land when others don't want you to be there. I suggest your readers' question what the Canadian occupiers really meant to imply when they chose to define themselves as occupiers of a park.