New York, NY – Giuliani: I’d Have Stopped OWS Protesters on Day One

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    N.Y. City police officers barricade out protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement in Manhattan November 17, 2011. New York police prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street on Thursday, arresting at least 177 people in repeated clashes with an Occupy Wall Street rally that drew fewer demonstrators than expected.  REUTERS/Eduardo MunozNew York, NY – The First Amendment does not give Occupy Wall Street protesters the right to take over private property and engage in illegal activities, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says.

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    “You have no right to pitch a tent in the middle of New York City, I’m sorry,” Giuliani said on Sean Hannity’s radio show. “That is not the First Amendment.”

    President Barack Obama’s empathy for the 2-month-old movement and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s lack of action to stop it are an embarrassment to the nation and the city, Giuliani said.

    He described the protesters as “disgruntled bums” and “leftover hippies from the ’60s and ’70s.”

    “When I see them on television sometimes, particularly the older ones, it looks like I’m seeing the leftover effects of having taken too many drugs when they were 20 years old,” he said. “They make no sense. They babble.”

    “I would have stopped it on Day One,” he said. “I would have handled this differently. I took over a city that had had two riots in the two years before I was mayor. I didn’t have a riot, because I didn’t let it start.”


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    12 years ago

    His honor is correct. He would have stopped them on Day one.

    MosheM
    MosheM
    12 years ago

    Yup, we miss Rudy.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    12 years ago

    His honor should be more concerned with all other nonsense he has uttered. The fact and those fools who have not learned should let Wall Street wither away. Nevada will give you a better return than computer generated stock price and the fancy toilet paper poeple are sold.

    pbalaw
    pbalaw
    12 years ago

    It might be better that it did happen, all these Dems supporting them in the beginning…

    12 years ago

    I am sure if he would stay longer in city hall, we would be much better off today. It’s a loss to N.Y.C. Why did’nt he over rite the rule like mike Bloomberg to stay another 4 year term.

    Geulah
    Geulah
    12 years ago

    Maybe Rudy would have until he learned that the private owners of the park didn’t ask the city to rid the park of the vagrants. I wonder how much money changed hands so the private owners of the park wouldn’t call in the cops from the beginning. My landlord would call the cops if vagrants were camped out on the grounds. Why didn’t the private owners of the park?

    OyGevald
    OyGevald
    12 years ago

    Rudy is sorely being missed in NYC. Even the protesters would’nt be able to decry Rudy as being the 1% as they do Bloomberg. That aside, all politicians including Rudy have “skeletons in the closet” that can come back to haunt them, as did his choice of police commissioner. But run the city he did! Took it back from the dumps that a black mayor brought it down to and raised the standards to one New Yorkers could be proud of. No black man has done that. Not at city government. Not at Federal government. No one will deny that Obama is not able to bring America back to its days of pride.

    12 years ago

    The only politician who actually acts on what he says. That’s why he isn’t president yet. We are not ready to elect a down to earth politician who doesn’t make empty promises. Let’s face it, the American majority is not ready to face real change.

    bubble
    bubble
    12 years ago

    CAn he run for another set of term. Boy would he clean up the mess Bloomberg will be leaving.

    madaan
    madaan
    12 years ago

    Yes, Rudy would have indeed stopped the narishkeit early on, and the atmosphere would have, literally, smelled much better in Zuccotti Park over the last several weeks.

    That said, it really is actually for the best if the incoherent stenchbaggers stay, stay, and stay some more. Let them bang on their bongo drums as long as the little dear-hearts like:

    All that this ongoing display of filth, illogical incoherence, violence, bad smells, hypocrisy and simian-level “intellect” of the stenchbaggers does is INCREASE the number of regular Americans who vow to vote against the Dear Leader of the immature children in adult bodies, ensuring that he only befouls his office for one term:

    VOTE ANYONE BUT OBAMA IN NOVEMBER 2012.

    12 years ago

    He’s 100% correct, just look at the aged Raging Grannies protesting with these youngster.

    12 years ago

    I have followed the media about these demonstrations and riots, and it is difficult to find a clear message of the purpose of it all. It appears that this is simply the pent up rage of the tanked economy, unemployment, the looming destruction of the medical field and rationed health care, the growing interference of the government (yeah, I know, it sounds Republican), and the wagging foreign policy. The only consistency we see is the Obama administration being perpetually wishy-washy. So the population is angry, and perhaps rightfully so. But it remains difficult to guess just what is intended with the riots. How will camping out in a park in cold November weather fix anything? Why would Obama support this, other than suggesting that he has a heated home and they don’t – but are free to sleep in the cold if they wish?

    RachelJD
    RachelJD
    12 years ago

    that they gave him their votes (95%+) just because he looked like them. Foolish reason to vote for someone

    So what about frum jews voting for other frum Jews simply because he’s a Yidden?
    The only reason to vote for a candidate is b/c he or she is the best qualified. Race, religion, gender etc have nothing to do with ability.

    If the protesters want to really make a difference, they should OCCUPY THE VOTING BOOTHS’

    It’s not just the frum Jews who are racist towards Obama. The Republican Party basically crossed their arms, dug in their heels, and just said no to everything. All they were interested was making sure the first African American President failed spectacularly,

    RachelJD
    RachelJD
    12 years ago

    If the protesters really want to make a difference they should stop occupying wall street and OCCUPY THE VOTING BOOTHS