The citizens have had enough.
Those who have a job want to get to theirs, and there is nothing amiss about it, even if they work for the reviled yet august institution of Wall Street.
When protest force those who have no reason to protest to seek protection, then one must protest such protest.
The disgruntled youth, hippies, layabouts, shiftless drifters, and like unemployed that populate Occupy Wall Street have no right to turn the public square into their private -- yet still very public -- temper tantrum.
Law and order are a necessity, even for those understandable aggrieved and justifiably angry. If they want to be heard, let them vote, let them organize peacefully, let them propose meaningful options. Chanting "I am the 99%" is a hollow oxymoron that only betrays the witless danger of "Change for the sake of Change," a transition which has widened and deepened the suffering and frustration in this country.
Pouting en masse is not a political platform. Refusing to grow up does not extend to one the refuge of preventing grown-ups from living their lives and carrying for the families.
The citizens of New York City have suffered enough. The American do not deserve the unending up-in-arms unrest of demonstrators who demonstrate for the hell of it.
From terrorist attacks to hurricanes, from blizzards to failing businesses, we are all entitled to peace and quiet that comes from living in the United States of American, a nation whose life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are predicated on the truth that all men, though created equal, have no right to enforce their equality on others, or their unwillingness to shoulder their freedom and the burdens of not exercising it.
A big shout-out to the New York Police Department for finally putting an end to the pity-party of the self-disenfranchised. If they do not want to work, if they do not want to participate, if they refuse to share in the sacrifice of effective political engagement, then let them be thrown off the street.
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