Mayor Bloomberg: Your struggle against #OWS is creating unnecessary PAIN.

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Please stop it. Allow this movement to grow and reach its apogee unimpeded. It will do so with or without you. Working against it merely creates unpleasant struggle and pain for everyone. Cease immediately. There is too much pain and struggle in the world and #Occupy is its peaceful solution. Sit back and watch something beautiful happen. Thank you very much.

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1. It is also causing big bills footed by taxpayers

The large police presence is for intimidation purposes. It is way beyond anything needed for order. Bloomberg, stop wasting OUR money!

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2. ...

:hi:

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3. Really, when it comes down to it

This is the first true crisis of his administration. He didn't have to deal with 9/11, and the Ground Zero mosque non-issue was relatively easy to finesse. He wants to make sure that people still DO come to NYC, it really does help the economy. But if the protests are ever considered a threat to ordinary people looking to visit, he knows that's bad, very bad. All it takes is somebody's Aunt Millie who couldn't get into a Broadway show on her vacation, and everybody in Millie's town is going to think twice before taking a pleasure trip to the Big Apple.

Also, he knows how trigger-happy his cops are. Clearly, many of the commanders and senior people were rookies when the Vietnam antiwar protests were going on, and they've rehearsed in their minds a million times "how they would have done it better". Add to that some hotshots whose only knowledge of that time are from history books, and their delusions of grandeur, and you have the ingredients for a really nasty situation, like Chicago 1968. If that happens, bye-bye tourism.

Consider the fact that Bloomie is indeed one of the 1%, and he knows that he MUST have the tax revenue that the other one percenters supply to the city. If major financial corporations move out of the area, he's lost that. He's up on a tightwire, trying to piss off everybody a little so he doesn't push anybody past their breaking point.

[saras]

4. No pain is unnecessary to a sadist...

Pain and struggle are the GOALS of the Republicans. Whatever age you want to project it into, whether 1950s, 1250s or 0050s, they believe, fully and truly, in a war of all against all. So no matter how they lose, they are making the world better, in their view, by fighting with the nastiest tools they have at their disposal.

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5. Kick.

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6. Anonymous are more sick of it than I:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwVF9K8_x-s&feature=related