November 16, 2011
BLOOMBERG ENSURES PARK IS “ACCESSIBLE TO ALL” BY KICKING EVERYONE OUT NEW YORK - One of the richest individuals in the world, who continues to make a profit by servicing the financial industry*, Mayer4Life Michael Bloomberg sent hundreds of New York City’s gun-running ticket-fixing mostly racists Finest to clear a public park of its protesters. The Mayor’s legal rational, backed up by a court ruling yesterday, maintained that while the park’s charter stated it must be “accessible to all, all the time” - the protesters presence made it “unavailable to anyone else.” So, obviously, it’s best to arrest 200 people in a 24-hour public space. Good call. True, not everyone was welcome. The Mayer was recently booed out of the park to chants of “billionaire Bloomberg”. But it is hard to imagine how a movement whose mantra is “we are the 99%” could be viewed as some kind of exclusive entity, blackballing those who want come and chant and play bongos. The protests that began two months ago at the center of a financial collapse that still costs millions of American jobs a year, may be lacking in specific demands but doesn’t seem to be lacking in things to be pissed at. Among the most prominent is income inequality, the fact that over the past thirty years (read: since Saint Regan), while average wages remained stagnant, the top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation’s income. And the top 0.1 earned about 20% more than that. Among them? Oh, right, Mayer Bloomberg. The same guy who bought himself an exemption from New York’s two-term limitation. Yes, a real voice of the people, a guy who during a blizzard waited a week before remembering that he was also the Mayor of Brooklyn, a guy who spends a quarter of his time in the Caribbean, who raises rates on landlords and renters while giving tax exemptions to condo owners, is standing up for the entire 100% - free now to stroll through Zuccotti park, fly a kite, eat a sandwich, exorcize a first amendment right…. oh, wait. Scratch that. Well, two out of three aint bad. And so daily life grinds on in New York. Wall Street readies for Christmas bonus season, the police plant drugs on residents of Bed-Stuy, the New York Post jizzes it’s pants at the Mayor’s midnight raid and says that a major problem in Zuccotti park was “freaks” and “the homeless moving in” - because those are categories of Americans without rights, particularly the homeless, the products of a weak job market and a lack of government services, the exact things the OWS movement is all about. And Santas all across America start jogging in the morning, because they’ll all be having to tighten their belts yet again. But not Mister Bloomberg. If the past is any indication, he’ll be in the Caribbean. Sodomizing his girlfriend. The former New York State superintendent of Banks - one of the lead regulators during the housing/derivatives/securities boom. The sodomy part is a joke. The rest should be. *Fact that sounds like a joke: Traders at big financial firms don’t “ichat” or “gchat”, they “Bloomberg”… like a verb.

BLOOMBERG ENSURES PARK IS “ACCESSIBLE TO ALL” BY KICKING EVERYONE OUT

NEW YORK - One of the richest individuals in the world, who continues to make a profit by servicing the financial industry*, Mayer4Life Michael Bloomberg sent hundreds of New York City’s gun-running ticket-fixing mostly racists Finest to clear a public park of its protesters.

The Mayor’s legal rational, backed up by a court ruling yesterday, maintained that while the park’s charter stated it must be “accessible to all, all the time” - the protesters presence made it “unavailable to anyone else.” So, obviously, it’s best to arrest 200 people in a 24-hour public space. Good call.

True, not everyone was welcome. The Mayer was recently booed out of the park to chants of “billionaire Bloomberg”. But it is hard to imagine how a movement whose mantra is “we are the 99%” could be viewed as some kind of exclusive entity, blackballing those who want come and chant and play bongos.

The protests that began two months ago at the center of a financial collapse that still costs millions of American jobs a year, may be lacking in specific demands but doesn’t seem to be lacking in things to be pissed at. Among the most prominent is income inequality, the fact that over the past thirty years (read: since Saint Regan), while average wages remained stagnant, the top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation’s income. And the top 0.1 earned about 20% more than that. Among them? Oh, right, Mayer Bloomberg. The same guy who bought himself an exemption from New York’s two-term limitation.

Yes, a real voice of the people, a guy who during a blizzard waited a week before remembering that he was also the Mayor of Brooklyn, a guy who spends a quarter of his time in the Caribbean, who raises rates on landlords and renters while giving tax exemptions to condo owners, is standing up for the entire 100% - free now to stroll through Zuccotti park, fly a kite, eat a sandwich, exorcize a first amendment right…. oh, wait. Scratch that. Well, two out of three aint bad.

And so daily life grinds on in New York. Wall Street readies for Christmas bonus season, the police plant drugs on residents of Bed-Stuy, the New York Post jizzes it’s pants at the Mayor’s midnight raid and says that a major problem in Zuccotti park was “freaks” and “the homeless moving in” - because those are categories of Americans without rights, particularly the homeless, the products of a weak job market and a lack of government services, the exact things the OWS movement is all about. And Santas all across America start jogging in the morning, because they’ll all be having to tighten their belts yet again. But not Mister Bloomberg. If the past is any indication, he’ll be in the Caribbean. Sodomizing his girlfriend. The former New York State superintendent of Banks - one of the lead regulators during the housing/derivatives/securities boom.

The sodomy part is a joke. The rest should be.

*Fact that sounds like a joke: Traders at big financial firms don’t “ichat” or “gchat”, they “Bloomberg”… like a verb.

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