Obtuse Observer

Mayor Michael Bloomberg shut down Zuccotti Park early this morning (late last night.)  This morning a judge issued a temporary restraining order halting the removal that had already begun. 

Apparently Bloomberg is reviewing the order and deciding what to do about it.

From the article linked above:

The park had become a health and fire safety hazard and that “unfortunately … (it) became a place not to protest, but to break the law,”

“Inaction was not an option,” he said. “We could not wait for someone in the park to get killed.”

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said around 200 were arrested overnight, including dozens who tried to resist by linking arms at the center of Zuccotti Park or chaining themselves together with bicycle locks.

Also from the article

Ryan Peters, 29, from Chicago, who took a leave of absence from the advertising agency where he works to tour different Occupy protests, cried as he told msnbc.com’s Miranda Leitsinger that about 30 people had chained themselves up inside the Occupy protest’s kitchen area.

“People want to fight for something that’s really important,” he said. “It makes me cry every time I think of them (the people in the kitchen) getting locked down in the park … these guys are patriots.”

Cried?  He cried?  Good lord.  In any event what is it that is really important that they are fighting for?  So far no actual list of what they want?  Only these unofficial demands that have been eviscerated by people with a modicum of common sense and a basic understanding of economics?  This guy is a symbol.  The OWS crowd doesn’t do much thinking.  They do a lot of feeling.  I can sympathize with a lot of that feeling.  I’m in my 40s and still paying off student loans from the 80s.  It sucks that good jobs can be hard to find.  Who wouldn’t like to see greater harmony of wealth.  However, when we move beyond feeling and start thinking we recognize that forgiving all debt would destroy our economy, that free college effects a huge wealth transfer from the poorer to the wealthier, that harmonizing wealth requires totalitarianism, and thought it has been tried and it works it has a proven track record of killing over a hundred million and making everyone that survives equally poor and that jobs are none too common for literature majors the OWS bunch reveal themselves as perhaps well intentioned but ill informed people making a great big mess in many cities and effecting none of the change they feel would be good… but wouldn’t.  Pretty sure that was just long and not a run-on sentence.  Maybe an OWS English major can review it for grammar.