Michael Bloomberg—Public Enemy #1

The rancid irrationality of the Occupiers and their apologists has reached its apogee with the recent excoriation of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who after weeks of indulgence, finally decided that the normal residents of his city deserved a bit of looking after.

Prominent politicians with something to lose, from Obama to Pelosi, have, of course, backed away from their original support of these modern gypsies whose message has devolved from a familiar socialist appeal for economic fairness to a tirade self centered on the movement's right to exist and behave as it pleases regardless of social consequence. The specifics of political and economic reform are no longer discussed in any depth for the very simple reason that the surviving occupiers do not possess the square root of the intelligence necessary to understand the complicated issues involved.

However, the occupiers and some far left commentators are bright enough to join a mindless mob and to pile on a chosen enemy, who currently happens to be Mayor Bloomberg. Given the value system of the mob, Mayor Michael is an ideal choice. He's rich, accomplished, and capable of speaking and showering like a human being. Because he doesn't defecate on police vehicles, defame, and rape, he's easily distinguishable from the mob, which makes life simple, as it must be for mob members.

The ultimate irony is the 99% slogan adopted by the Occupiers, probably the members' only exposure to mathematics. For the fact is that the Occupiers themselves are the true one percenters, and Mayor Bloomberg, for all his admitted faults, is belatedly laboring to protect the overwhelming majority of decent citizens who, regardless of what they think about the now forgotten economic mission, are repulsed by what the movement has become.

(c) 2011 Gordon Osmond