Claim of 'Threats' in Protest an Attempt to Discredit OWS?

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Hold on just a minute there. It turns out there won't be any cleanup at Zuccotti Park, after all. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this morning the company that operates the park, Brookfield Office Properties, had withdrawn its request for police help with the cleanup ... and had canceled the operation.

Brookfield, whose board of directors includes Bloomberg's girlfriend, called off its plans after supposedly being "inundated" with threats from public officials, CNN reported. Interestingly, no officials were named specifically.

The claim that unnamed public officials had threatened the company seems, in many respects, like a face-saving tactic to make it seem as though the protesters themselves had nothing to do with the decision to back off. Heaven forbid these people who have been described in the press as vagrants, hippies and malcontents should actually be credited with acting responsibly. Yet that's exactly what they did.

http://www.theprovocation.net/2011/10/protesters-clean-up-force-bloomberg-to.html