Tim Kearney, Philadelphia, kearney172@gmail.com
Sad changes
Tony Auth's talent captures irony so well in his message about Occupy Philadelphia (Wednesday). It's sad to see a movement that has some very sympathetic messages (unacceptable growth of the divide between the well off and the poor, bailouts going to those who, in some cases, trashed our economy) go off the rails. I wish the occupiers would show up in force both at the polls at election time and at the doors of Congress.
Diane Moskal, Abington
Clean up the mess
The time has come for Mayor Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey to show some leadership and remove the protesters from Dilworth Plaza and keep them out. This vague, unfocused, and leaderless group has become a filthy, dirty, crime-ridden eyesore that serves no purpose other than to let lazy hippies relive the 1960s. Get this mess cleaned up before the Thanksgiving Day Parade and Christmas shopping season.
Nikola Sizgorich, Philadelphia
Lost relevance
It says all that needs to be said about the encampment when the most coherent spokesperson that Monica Yant Kinney can find is a tattoo-encrusted boob who proudly proclaims that he gave up his job, apartment, and life savings in order to take part in this insanity that he says "now consumes him" ("Occupiers should go before movement loses relevance," Wednesday). He says that he's not leaving until "every issue of every human on this planet is resolved." Even Jesus didn't pull that off and his message was more lucid.
Kyran Connelly, Bensalem, Emerzig@aol.com
And Congress?
