Daily News: Bloomberg Radio Address - "I've asked what happens if they cannot (work something out)"

[Hissyspit]

http://live.nydailynews.com/Event/Occupy_Wall_Street_Showdown_at_Zuccotti_Park#ixzz1alccEHKP

10:12 AM Meena Hartenstein

Highlights from Mayor Bloomberg's radio address this morning, via NYDN's Jon Lemire:

"We're going to be monitoring the situation going forward and make no mistake: we will do what's necessary to maintain public health and safety. But there just is a limit to what we can do in a private park. If they want to take a couple of days to work something out, they're welcome to do that.

"I've asked what happens if they cannot (work something out) and the answer I got was that would go ahead and do what they were going to do this morning. From our point of view, I think it would be a little harder at that point in time to provide police protection.

I took a walk through park, night before last. Nice people, everyone wanted to shake your hand, people offered, one guy offered something more than that, I said no thank you. The park is not designed to be a place to sleep. Brookfield has some regulations they will put out they wanted to enforce, they didn't enforce for a while.

- snip -

No one has been a bigger defender of the first amendment than I have. It's one of the great things about America. The city's role is to protect the public health and safety and to enforce the law."

[tk2kewl]

1. "...one guy offered something more than that, I said no thank you."

I have the good shit at home. I can afford it you know.

[glowing]

3. Bull shit. NO one offered that piece of shit anything, unless it was

an undercover infiltrator designed to make the protestors look bad. OWS is a drug and alcohol free zone. No one is supposed to be doing or having any drugs in the area. They know they are subject to arrest and finding illegal drugs would spin the message wildly in disfavor. Also, alcohol makes people do some idiotic things at times... there is no need for it in the park. If you want to go out drinking or smoke some weed, leave the park, take a night off, and do what you need to.... Otherwise, they are insistent on no drugs and no alcohol.

[tk2kewl]

5. I am sure you are right.

:thumbsup:

[annabanana]

2. Like he and the park "owners" are strangers...

sigh

[Javaman]

4. It will play out like this...

either an agent provocateur will start something or some "rouge" police sargent will start something.

in the end bloomboob will claim no responsibility for anything and those responsible will be conveniently lost in the confusion and be a "he said she said" sort of situation. bloomboob can't have any fingers pointed directly at him, no white-shirts and or group of white-shirts will be held responsible and those arrested and beaten up? they will have to go through the humiliating process, which will take years, to clear their names, while in the mean time, the protests will either grow exponentially, or (more than likely), lower Manhattan will be declared a "no protest" zone. The the legal battles will begin. Which will, basically be, mission accomplished for the rich. The legal battles will tie up both people and money for years afterward while the rich and wall street slowly skate away back to business as usual.

If the protests grow, then I see something along the lines of Egypt. They were peaceful then turned into an all out onslaught by the powers that be to break them up. Tear gas, etc.

Want all this to come to a legal and sensible conclusion? fire geithner, and hold Obama's feet to the fire about prosecuting wall street and start legal proceedings. Obama claiming he supports the protesters is nothing but unmitigated bullshit.