10th October 2011

Sex and drugs on tap, who says it's not a political partaaay? Occupy Wall Street protesters make love as well as class war.

It started as a gathering of furious youngsters, protesting about the supposed lack of opportunities for the average American. But then the freeloaders came along.

As the Occupy Wall Street protest continued in full strength in Manhattan today, the atmosphere in New York's financial district has become increasingly debauched.

Meanwhile the protests against the state of the U.S. political and economic systems have now spread to more than 25 cities - from Sacramento to Seattle, Anchorage to Atlanta and Mobile to Minneapolis.

Conspicuously living among the politically active in the makeshift village in Zuccotti Park are opportunistic junkies and homeless people - making the most of the free food on offer.

Also present and infuriating the hard core of activists are a number of teens looking to turn the gathering into an urban rave.

Among the banners and flags are now discarded packets of condoms, cigarettes and bottles of spirits, while naked youngsters happily get together with just sleeping bags covering their modesty.

A box of free condoms is kept in the main area where protesters are camping. In one shocking picture, a man can be seen defecating on a police car.

‘I got warrants. I’m running from the law,’ a 24-year-old man from Stamford, Connecticut, told the New York Post. ‘I’m not even supposed to be here, but it’s as good a spot as any to hide.’

Protesters said the site smells like a sewer and the free condoms have given visions of what the Woodstock festival was like. But many have come down for the huge amount of food donated.

Deteriorating conditions: Protesters have been sleeping rough in New York for more than three weeks now

Painted support: Occupy Wall Street protesters gather in New York's Zuccotti Park where they have been sleeping, eating and planning protests

Artistic flair: Protesters in New York have shown their support for the movement with drawings and poems

Halloween theme: Pumpkins with the faces of bankers are displayed at the Occupy LA camp on Sunday

Protests against corporate greed and economic inequality spread across America this weekend. The Occupy Wall Street movement, that began in New York last month with a few people, has swelled.

Those who are there for political reasons, have raged against corporate greed and influence over American life, the gap between rich and poor, and hapless, corrupt politicians.

Among the activists, however, clearly there are some on the ground with less noble intentions.

'Most of the kids are trust-fund babies. They don’t need to be here,' Andre, a 40-year-old activist told the New York Post. 'I’ve seen some making out, having sex. It doesn’t look good.'

Making his point: A protester sleeps on the street near the New York Stock Exchange on Sunday night

Park life: Protesters at Zucotti Park in New York were in good spirits on Sunday as demonstrations continued

Church involvement: Religious demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York on Sunday

Time out: Iman Issa, far left, 19, Victor Valdez, near left, 20, Erin Muhs, near right, 23, and Kinsey Diment, far right, 23, rest at the Occupy LA protest camp in Los Angeles, California 

Today the Reverend Al Sharpton is expected to bring his radio show to Zuccotti Park and children are being encouraged to join in as they are off school for Columbus Day.

More than 400 people reportedly converged on the tent city on Friday night, with many sleeping with each other.

One pictures shows two young people lying together with very little clothing on under a sheet.

Above them is the book The Yage Letters, a collection of writings from the fifties and sixties detailing the search for a hallucinogenic plant in the Amazon rainforest.

On Saturday morning a 23-year-old man named Zachary was rushed to hospital after drinking a combination of liquor and cough syrup.

He stopped breathing and was rushed in a serious condition to Downtown Hospital.

The leaders of the protest are furious at the manner in which it has been hijacked and have set up a make-shift internal police to stop the debauched behaviour.

'We want to make sure everyone is here for the right reason,' Ricky Torres, 23, who is part of the security unit, told the New York Post. 

At the protesters' base, exclusive pictures obtained by MailOnline show one demonstrator relieving himself on a police car.

Elsewhere we found piles of stinking refuse clogging Zuccotti Park and the stench of marijuana, despite the best efforts of many of the protesters to keep the area clean.

The shocking images demonstrate the extent to which conditions have deteriorated as demonstrations in downtown Manhattan enter their fourth week. 

Further pictures seen by MailOnline have been censored, as we deemed them too graphic to show.

According to eye witnesses, when people ran to tell nearby police about the man defecating on the squad car they were ignored.

'Some are homeless and people who are not really up to any good.'

He added: 'If we see someone doing something we think the cops are not going to be down with, we take it upon ourselves to stop it.

We make sure everybody’s doing the right thing -- to be peaceful and not upset the cops because they’re here to protect us.'

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