Weiner Backs Bloomberg On Occupy Camp Attack

Carlos Danger, AKA Anthony Weiner, backed Mayor Bloomberg on his nighttime removal of the Occupy encampment at Zuccotti Park.

Weiner, seen above running in the Ecuadorean pride parade and shouting “Que viva Ecuador!” through a bullhorn as parade-goers chanted Carlos! Carlos!", responded to a Wall Street Journal inquiry about how each prospective mayor would have handled the Occupy encampment and other so-called permit-less protests like this:

Breaking with the other Democrats, former Rep. Anthony Weiner said he largely agreed with how Mr. Bloomberg handled Occupy Wall Street. He said the mayor gave protesters enough time to "blow off some steam," and then "ultimately the police and the mayor were right to move the encampment."

Mr. Weiner said the next mayor would have to decide whether to continue what appears to be the NYPD's current policy on spontaneous Occupy-style marches—allowing permit-less protests and making arrests when safety is jeopardized.

"I think the ideal is to allow people to blow off steam in a way that doesn't endanger their neighbors," he said Sunday.

If anything, Weiner is moving to the right of Bloomberg on permit-less protests, suggesting that the current policy is endangering citizens.

Odd that Carlos Danger, the menace of the Internet, is worried about endangering citizens, and yet there it is, in black and white.

The truth is, Weiner has always been a right-winger/neo-con on foreign policy issues, on so-called law-and-order issues, on Surveillance State issues.

It's not a surprise that he would be to the right of Bloomberg on protests.

Even his choice of words - he wants to allow protesters the right "to blow off steam" - suggests that he doesn't particularly care what protesters have to say or want to engage in dialogue over the issues they're raising.

He simply wants to let them steam blow off and continue on with the status quo.

If there's anybody out there still convinced Weiner is a "liberal" and a "progressive," his stance on issues like Occupy and permit-less protests ought to be disabuse them of that notion.

Weiner, despite his cable TV image and his powder blue pants and the clown circus that follows him, is squarely in the reactionary neo-con/Surveillance State political camp.

Just take a look at his voting record in Congress for proof of that.