>From: "Peter McWilliams" >Subject: Happy New Year (BOOM!) >Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 03:36:33 -0800 >X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > >If this isn't an irresistable temptation to a terrorist, I don't know what >is... > >Happy New Year! > >Enjoy, > >Peter > >---- > > > Tourists and Terrorists: Giuliani 2000 > > By Robert Lederman > > > > According to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Times Square on New > > Year's Eve is the safest place to be in all of New York City > > with midtown Manhattan locked down like a giant maximum > > security Federal penitentiary. > > > > Aptly named project Archangel, Mayor Darksides' ominous > > security plans include having his imperial troops, eight > > thousand uniformed cops, stand guard duty in Times Square > > backed up by hundreds of FBI agents, private security guards > > and operatives from other Federal agencies. The remainder of > > the City's 40,000 uniformed police officers will take time out > > from their Christmas assignment of rounding up and arresting > > homeless families to diligently search the subway tunnels and > > streets of New York City for potential terrorists and Giuliani > > critics. > > > > Roofs in Times Square will be manned by crack teams of > > police snipers with night vision scopes mounted on their > > high-powered rifles. Every parked car in a mile long three > > block wide strip of midtown will be towed to prevent the > > deployment of car bombs. The party-going public will be > > herded cattle-like through an endless maze of police barricades > > and metal detectors and treated to body searches in below zero > > temperatures. Many attendees are expected to be arrested on > > the way to the event simply for possessing alcohol, a substance > > zero-tolerance Giuliani believes often leads to terroristic > > anti-social acts such as dancing, solicitation of prostitutes and > > public urination. > > > > Manhole covers will be welded shut. Mailboxes will be sealed. > > Every garbage can in midtown will be removed. Hundreds of > > undercover police officers will be circulating through the > > partying crowd disguised as tourists. As they do in Washington > > Square Park with marijuana sales officers will run sting > > operations, in this case offering to sell high school kids > > everything they need to make their own New Year's bomb and > > then busting them as "terrorists". For the past few weeks the > > NYPD has been bribing hundreds of informants in order to get > > them to report threatening comments they've overheard from > > drunks bragging in neighborhood bars or the thinly-veiled > > threats of community activists. > > > > Are the enormous expenses of this event and it's > > unprecedented and ultimately futile security precautions worth > > the economic and social cost to the taxpayers of New York > > City? This is not a Presidential inauguration, the signing of an > > international peace treaty or anything of genuine public value > > that justifies either the cost or the risks involved. This once > > stirring celebration of diversity and democracy has been > > reduced to nothing more than a slick ad for Disney, the Times > > Square Business Improvement District and the Giuliani for > > U.S. Senate campaign. > > > > Watching the ball drop on New Year's Eve was once an > > authentic celebration by actual New Yorkers who traveled by > > subway from ethnic neighborhoods in all five boroughs. They > > came to share a collective experience in the center of a real > > city. Giuliani's ersatz "party" is closer to Hitler's 1937 > > Olympics celebration than the New Year's event which became > > a symbolic celebration of freedom renowned throughout the > > world. > > > > Giuliani isn't celebrating a New Year so much as his cleansing > > of New Yorkers and authentic New York culture from Times > > Square. The hotdog stands, shoeshine parlors, peep shows, > > all-night movie theaters, hookers, hustlers and gritty texture of > > a flesh and blood city have been replaced by a sterilized > > Mickey Mouse mall every square inch of which has been > > tagged with mind-boggling fluorescent graffiti. This corporate > > freakshow on steroids is prowled by an army of black > > uniformed cops whose sole mission is to protect tourists from > > low income New Yorkers and to uphold the real estate values > > of Giuliani's top contributors. > > > > Aside from terrorists, virtually all of the two million > > participants expected to be in Times Square this New Years > > Eve will be tourists. No sane New Yorker would venture > > anywhere near midtown as Giuliani pulls the lever on his > > Police State 2000. > > > > The idea that Adolf Giuliani's army of poorly trained and > > underpaid cops, who are known to despise Furhrer Giuliani, > > can somehow prevent a genuine attack by determined terrorists > > is ludicrous. Not even the real Hitler with his real Gestapo was > > able to prevent acts by determined terrorists. If actual terrorists > > wanted to make a big splash in Times Square they could have > > securely planted their bombs or gas canisters months ago. > > > > Then what's the point of Project Archangel, Lucifer-Giuliani's > > aptly named contingency plan to thwart a terrorist attack? Like > > the event itself the security arrangements are nothing more than > > an advertisement for Emperor Giuliani and the police state he > > hopes to usher in for the new millennium. > > > > Ironically, the biggest threat to the tourist throngs in Times > > Square will probably be the NYPD itself, which Giuli-anus is > > fond of calling, "the most restrained police force in the U.S.". > > Here's the likeliest disaster scenario. While peering through a > > defective nightscope obtained from a supplier/contributor > > linked to the Giuliani administration a police sniper on the 30th > > floor of a Times Square office building thinks he's seeing a > > drunken tourist make a threatening move, perhaps only > > flipping Giuliani the bird. With no time to do anything but act, > > he takes the poor sucker out. In a domino effect hundreds of > > panicy cops on the street misinterpret the police sniper fire > > Diallo style and begin blasting back. After thousands of rounds > > of newly distributed exploding bullets are expended and the > > Square is littered with dead and wounded tourists, > > Commissioner Safir and Hollowpoint Giuliani will cite > > "contagious fire", the same explanation they gave for how four > > cops fired 41 times at unarmed West African immigrant > > Amadou Diallo last February. > > > > The most cost-effective thing a government can do to reduce > > the threat of terrorism is to stop pissing off so many people. To > > be anything more than an insane act of meaningless violence > > politically-motivated terrorism depends on grievances that are > > popularly understood and commonly agreed with. > > > > Even though Mayor Giuliani has no influence whatsoever on > > foreign policy, the Giuliani administration inordinately fears > > terrorists because it specializes in oppressing people. Vast > > numbers of those who live in New York City now feel > > victimized by the Mayor and his circle of thugs. Like a mob > > boss that expects to be cut down at any moment Giuliani is > > paranoid because he knows better than anyone the multitude of > > people who have a legitimate grievance against him. He went > > so far as to invent bogus warnings from the FBI that City Hall > > was in imminent danger from terrorists in order to restrict > > access to New Yorkers. These imaginary warnings were later > > publicly denied by the FBI itself. > > > > We do face a real terrorist threat in New York City but it's not > > from fundamentalists in turbans or bible belt militias. The main > > suspect resides in Gracie Mansion, has a taxpayer funded office > > in City Hall and lately hides out in his high-tech bunker in the > > World Trade Center. He depicts himself as an advocate of law > > and order while actually being the biggest lawbreaker in the > > entire City. While mouthing platitudes about the glories of > > liberty and free speech and the dignity of work, he uses 680 > > lawyers to subvert the Constitution, is an outright enemy of > > anyone's free speech but his own and has a view of work > > closer to a WWII forced labor camp than an actual job. > > > > As the ball drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve let's > > hope we will be seeing the final curtain call in the career of > > Mayor Rudy Crueliani. If not, we may be seeing the opening > > act in what is sure to be the police state future the Malathion > > Madman foreshadowed in his most infamous quote: > > > > "Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything > > they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. > > Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being > > to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what > > you do and how you do it." Mayor Giuliani, New York > > Times, March 17, 1994. > > > > Have a Happy and safe New Year and do yourself a favor by > > staying far away from Fooliani's nightmarish party in Times > > Square. > > > > Robert Lederman is an artist, a regular columnist for both the > > Grenwich Village Gazette [See: http://www.gvny.com/ ] and > > Street News, and is the author of hundreds of published essays > > concerning Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. His essays and letters > > have appeared in the NY Times, NY Post, Daily News, > > Newsday, Brooklyn Bridge, Park Slope Courier, The Daily > > Challenge, Amsterdam News, Sandbox, Penthouse, Our Town, > > NY Press and are available on hundreds of websites around the > > world. Lederman has been falsely arrested 40 times to date for > > his anti-Giuliani activities and has never been convicted of any > > of the charges. He is best known for creating hundreds of > > paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator. > > > > Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. > > (Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics) > > ARTISTpres@aol.com (718) 743-3722 > > http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html > > Also see: http://www.levymultimedia.com/news.htm for > > Lederman's essays on Malathion and the spraying of toxic > > insecticides on NYC [scroll down the menu to the items > > highlighted in blue]. > > >================================================================ > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: