What was he thinking?
Perhaps he was looking for his Giuliani moment. Decisive leader, standing strong at a critical crossroads of history. Whatever it was, Bloomberg sent in the NYPD to clear those smelly socialists out of Zuccotti Park last night.
And with great leaders, it's never just about what they do. It's about how they do it. Just pitch all those tents and sleeping bags into a convoy of garbage trucks. I'm sure there's more than a few inner-city Boy Scout Platoons could use those tents and sleeping bags. But no, just dump them in the garbage trucks in the middle of the night. Instead of much needed donations to the Boy Scouts there's more overtime for the trash collectors.
Sealing off the air-space was another stroke of genius. Keep those nosy newspeople out. What are we, some kind of totalitarian state or something?
Bloomberg forgot a couple of critical facts. Fact number one. Manhattan has the highest concentration of trust-fund socialists on the planet. These are people who inherited great fortunes from their uber-capitalist forbears, but because they never ever had to work a day in their lives themselves and they feel guilty about their good luck, they turn into radicals.
Fact number two. Manhattan has the highest concentration of lawyers on the planet. Put those two facts together, and what Bloomberg has now is one great big headache.
He has single-handedly breathed new life into Occupy Wall Street.
Thanks Mike!
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