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| DATE | 2016-11-14 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] I'm sure it's a coincidence, part n+1
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On 11/14/2016 10:54 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
>
>> > your getting Rudy Guiliani in the administration. Your likely going to
>> > see tghe best administration of your lifetime
> 'Giuliani'.
>
> Ah yea! The man who said Mr. Trump was a 'genius' for finding a way to
> lose the better part of a billion dollars in a single year running a
> casino, and who explained that 'everybody' commits adultery -- the
> politician whom journalist Jimmy Breslin once called "a small man in
> search of a balcony". The guy who said "freedom is about the
> willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a
> great deal of discretion about what you do'. The man who never met an
> act of prosecutorial excess or abuse of police authority that he didn't
> like.
>
> In 2000, two undercover New York Police Department detectives shot and
> killed 26-year-old Patrick Dorismond. The detectives asked Dorismond if
> he knew where they could find some pot. Dorismond, no pot dealer, was
> offended at the question, and a scuffle broke out. One of the officers
> pulled a gun. The detectives claim Dorismond tried to grab it. After the
> incident, Giuliani (illegally) released Dorismond’s juvenile record,
> which by law was supposed to remain sealed. Citing Dorismond’s record
> as a minor, Giuliani then proclaimed the dead man "no altar boy."
> (Actually, Dorismond _had_ been an altar boy.)
>
> The city eventually paid $2.25 million to Dorismond’s family. The
> detective was cleared. Giuliani defended the release of Dorismond’s
> juvenile records by claiming the man had no right to privacy after
> death. (Charming.)
>
> Giuliani also defended the officers who shot Amadou Diallo 19 times
> after he pulled a wallet out of his jacket to show them his ID.
>
> He doesn't much like the First Amendment, either: He waged war on a
> Brooklyn art museum because it displayed a painting he found offensive.
> He later tried to assemble a "decency task force" to seek out art at
> public museums for possible censorship.
>
> In giving Giuliani a lifetime “muzzle award” for his hostility to free
> speech, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free
> Expression wrote, "He has stifled speech and press to so unprecedented a
> degree, and in so many and varied forms, that simply keeping up with the
> city’s censorious activity has proved a challenge for defenders of free
> expression." First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams called Giuliani "the
> single most consistent opponent of First Amendment rights in living
> memory." In a 2007 profile for Washington Monthly, Rachel Morris pointed
> out that as mayor Giuliani lost 35 First Amendment lawsuits.
>
> A New York Times reported in 2008 about the man's consistent pattern of
> petty vindictiveness citing one man confronted Giuliani during a radio
> show about a red light sting in his neighborhood. When Giuliani didn’t
> respond, the man went to the New York Daily News. The same morning the
> article ran, NYPD cops showed up at the man’s door to arrest him on a
> 13-year-old traffic warrant. The NYPD then released the man’s
> decades-old record, despite the fact that it was supposed to be sealed.
> An NYPD spokesman also falsely claimed the man had been convicted of
> “sodomy.”
>
> The Times article lays out how Giuliani used licensing bureaus, housing
> codes and other city government infrastructure to punish whistleblowers,
> critics, detractors and disloyalists. He not only tried to get his
> political opponents fired; when he heard they were being considered for
> other positions, he’d call the potential new employers to pressure them
> to look elsewhere.
>
> When civil rights attorney and New York University law professor Joel
> Berger wrote a New York Times op-ed criticizing Giuliani in 1997, the
> mayor’s aides called NYU and threatened to cancel an apprenticeship
> program the city ran with NYU unless the school fired Berger from the
> course he was teaching.
>
> God, what a lovable guy. How can you not respect that?
Who cares what you think. He turned this city from a Hell Hole to the
living city it is today saving millions of Black Lives, which seem to
only matter to him. Whole sections of NYC have been lit up and he laid
down the safety and good governance that made the gentrification by
hipsters possible from Bushwick to the Bronx.
This is why I don't listen to you, Rick. Your rants are in the land of
make believe. Guys like Joel Berger aren't worth shit and never help a
single individual. Why would NYC spend money to support a moron who's
goal is to destroy the city? Fuck off with that. Fuck Joel Berger, and
fuck NYU and everyone like him. They don't have a right to my money.
Hurray for a Mayor who knew who to wield power effectively.
On that note, see yah
--
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