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Chan790

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6. Or simply a mentally-ill person.

Reply to backscatter712 (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 22, 2012, 07:15 PM

Mar 2012

It's NYC. There are thousands of them living on the streets on account of the sensitivity and relative-importance for the well-being of the homeless and mentally-ill by Bloomberg, Cuomo, Patterson, Guiliani and Pataki. Literally the only NYC mayor or NY governor in recent history to care to try to solve the issue rather than look at it as problem (and in most cases exacerbate the problem by cutting shelter funding and services) was Spitzer.

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Occupy Wall Street: (Buckets Of) Shit Happens at Downtown ATM. Occupiers Blamed *VIDEO* [View all] xchrom Mar 2012 OP

Naw, the NYPD would never stoop to false-flag incidents to try to discredit political dissent. backscatter712 Mar 2012 #1

... xchrom Mar 2012 #3

Why would anyone do that? Broderick Mar 2012 #2

False-flag, like I said. backscatter712 Mar 2012 #4

Or simply a mentally-ill person. Chan790 Mar 2012 #6

It's very telling, that they need to lie in order to try to make us look bad. nt Zorra Mar 2012 #5

Looks like they are working overtime before the Spring, to try to discredit the movement. sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #7