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Comment by truth on October 21, 2011 at 10:16pm

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Occupy Wall Street protesters: City will...

Mayor Bloomberg said Friday that he's going to start turning the screws on the Occupy Wall Streeters.

The city is planning to take a harder line on demonstrators camping out in Zuccotti Park - and insist on permits every time they want to march through Lower Manhattan, he said.

"We will start enforcing that more," Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show.

The protesters have a Constitutional right to demonstrate and have mostly been "peaceful," the mayor added.

Comment by Nota Khan on October 11, 2011 at 10:20am

“What they’re trying to do is to take the jobs from the people working in the city,”

Yeah, and remember he also said the bankers were the ones struggling to make ends meet: 

BLOOMBERG: The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That’s the bottom line. Those are the people that work on Wall Street or on the finance sector. [...] People in this day and age need support for their employers. We need the banks, if the banks don’t go out and make loans we will not come out of our economy problems, we will not have jobs. And so anything we can do to responsibly help the banks do that, encourage them to do that is waht we need. I think we spend much too much time worrying about how we got into problems as to how we go forward. [...] Also we always tend to blame the wrong people. We blame the banks. They were part of it, but so were Frddie Mac and Frannie Mae and Congress.

He forgot his buddies in Chicago had been more honest:

Comment by Tammuz Gonzalovich on October 10, 2011 at 4:37pm

How magnanimous of the Mayor!  Please feel free to breathe all the air you desire!!!

Ahem.

I agree with Michael Rivero!

Comment by Michael Rivero on October 10, 2011 at 3:30pm

Under the First Amendment, guaranteeing the right to peacefully assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances, Bloomberg cannot say otherwise.