Mayor Quan Apparently lacks the ability to deal with the present situation involving the Occupy Oakland Movement. And the movement needs to realize they have neither the legal or moral right to deny the people of Oakland the use of the plaza or to continue to seriously damage the area businesses. They need to come up with a plan to accomplish their goals without treading on the rights of others.

"And the movement needs to realize they have neither the legal or moral right to deny the people of Oakland the use of the plaza or to continue to seriously damage the area businesses."

I disagree. Who are these people of Oakland you recognize [only]their existence, and civil rights, including the right to protest; is it the "the people of Oakland [that]use []the plaza"; is it "the area businesses" that you are claiming the peaceful protesters "continue to seriously damage"? Or is it the people?

Mayor Quan is apparently the only elected leader we have that recognizes the peoples first amendment right to protest and their right to camp out to do this. Frankly it was people camping out to protest [against England's occupation] that created our nation, still the most free country in the world.

Remember Valley Forge?

Named for an iron forge on Valley Creek, the area was close enough to the British to keep their raiding and foraging parties out of the interior of Pennsylvania, yet far enough away to halt the threat of British surprise attacks. The high ground of Mount Joy and the adjoining elevated ground of Mount Misery combined with the Schuylkill River to the north, made the area easily defensible.

On December 19, 1777, when Washington's poorly fed, ill-equipped army, weary from long marches, struggled into Valley Forge, winds blew as the 12,000 Continentals prepared for winter's fury. Only about 1/3 of them had shoes, and many of their feet were leaving bloody footprints from the marching. Grounds for brigade encampments were selected, and defense lines were planned and begun. Though construction of more than a thousand huts provided shelter, it did little to offset the critical shortages that continually plagued the army.

Today the struggle is between the people who wish to occupy the planet and the investments bankers and hedge funds that currently rule over it.

Mayor Quan seems to be the only elected official who supports the people, while our local Pacific Heights Mafia that just [bought] the Mayor's Office for Ed Lee wants to arrest everyone. Why, so they can feed the prison industrial complex they support, because it protects their unrestrained greed from being checked by the people.