The US Autumn revolution: Occupy Wall Street: - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg's nightmare scenario

Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg exercised a show of brute force shortly after midnight Tuesday morning and ordered police to clear Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, New York. The place where the Occupy Wall Street protestors had decided to settle for the past few months, protesting by day and sleeping in tents by night.

The Mayor might think differently but Occupy Wall Street could become his public-relations nightmare. It could even make him go down in history as another public official who caved in to his own moneyed interests. Bloomberg could very well be remembered as a desperate mayor who bowed to the will of his wealthy citizens — the very population group that Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have targeted.

Bloomberg should know better than most people that whenever a figure in a position of authority resorts to an overt public demonstration of force, people who find themselves in a lose, lose situation can and will react with powerful emotions and often with violence.

A blogger wrote: "Perhaps New York Mayor Bloomberg, much like the obnoxiously rich plutocrats and right-wing puppets in the media paid to tout their corporate bottom line, fears this truly people-inspired movement might end in a Egyptian style revolt in which the 99 percent plebeians reclaim their country. After all, you can only beat the living crap out of your wife before she eventually rises up and runs you down with her car."

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