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Muggs commented on Bloomberg calls Occupy Wall Street's reported self-policing practices 'outrageous' and 'despicable'

Obviously public protest is needed because the Mayor doesn't understand why Occupy Wall Street exists. Eventually, maybe even he will catch on. There's no reason any governmental agency in the USA should be hostile toward Occupy using public parks. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. The Occupy movement I've seen seems to be people peaceably assembled to petition government for redress of grievances. The US government is "government of the people" so public assembly must be protected. The rights of the people to peaceably assemble to express political grievances must not be inhibited, if we are to be a free society. To suggest that people cannot petition their government on public lands is absurd. Any in government who seek to inhibit us are only trying to hide something. If they weren't afraid of the truth, they could ignore us. We must never give up free speech. The Constitution is not optional. The people are coming and the government probably won't like what happens if it says, "No."

Posted on November 3rd, 2011 1:40pm

Muggs commented on Bloomberg: 'Plain and simple,' Congress caused the mortgage crisis, not the banks

Why does my previous comment not display unless I log in? Muggs wrote on November 1, 2011, 3:36 PM [LINK] The banks bought deregulation from the Republican party. The reason the movement, here, is Occupy Wall Street and not Occupy Washington is because Washington is run by professional politicians who make untold millions of $$ (look at Bush family wealth over last 20 years, or Clinton, or Pelosi), paid by industries. The financial services industry just swallowed up our wealth and they want us to blame Congress for deregulating the financial services industry, thereby allowing them to rape the nation of trillions of dollars. "It's not our fault because Congress allowed us to to it," except for the false documentation. No, the source of the problems are Wall Street (figuratively, if not exclusively). The people know this. Eventually We, The People, shall have more influence over Congress than any corporation or even all of Wall Street.

Posted on November 2nd, 2011 5:40pm