Today's New York Daily News headline labels Rudy Giuliani as a "traitor." I fully agree, but for far more serious reasons than his choice in baseball team favorites.
The actions of a President of the United States can have potentially disastrous consequences for the nation and the entire world. Read the following articles that document Giuliani's long history of despotic and unamerican conduct, his false "heroism" on 9/11, and his ongoing support of a defrocked priest friend linked to pedophilia, and then decide if Giuliani is fit to be our next President.
AMERICA'S MARTINET: The DANGEROUS Candidacy of Rudy Giuliani
The mass media sometimes calls him "America's mayor." Critics label him a dangerous fascist. Whether he's the alleged hero who "took charge" on September 11, 2001, or the frightening face of a new American Reich, it appears Rudolph Giuliani will carry George W. Bush's torch into the 2008 presidential election.
When Giuliani emerged from the toxic dust of the World Trade Center the national media caught a quick case of amnesia, preferring the iconic image of a "hero" over reality. They quickly forgot Giuliani's dismal tenure in mayoral office, his life-costing failures to address the threat of terrorism, and his sorry performance on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Before picking up the "hero" moniker, Giuliani was commonly referred to in the city he governed as a despotic fascist and a mean-spirited thug. These accusations didn't just come from civil libertarians either. Former New York Mayor Ed Koch likened Giuliani to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. According to Koch, Giuliani "uses the levers of power to punish any critic." Koch went on to explain, "He doesn't have that right - that's why the First Amendment is so important." Yes, and by the end of 2002 the courts had found Giuliani in violation of that constitutional pillar of American freedom twenty-seven times!
More than 35 successful lawsuits were brought against Giuliani and his administration for blocking free speech. In his book Speaking Freely, First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams said Giuliani had an "insistence on doing the one thing that the First Amendment most clearly forbids: using the power of government to restrict or punish speech critical of government itself."
Giuliani's disdain for freedom of speech is best exemplified by the case of Robert Lederman, an artist that drew caricatures of Giuliani as a dictator and depicted his policies as transforming New York into a police state. Lederman was ARRESTED FORTY-ONE TIMES during Giuliani's reign, not by street cops but police brass under Giuliani's orders, for displaying his art at political demonstrations and on the streets of New York. All were false arrests, as Lederman was never convicted of a crime.
In a similar fashion and again in brazen violation of the First Amendment, Giuliani ordered paid advertisements for New York Magazine removed from public buses because the ads touted the magazine as "possibly the only good thing in New York Rudy hasn't taken credit for." Giuliani's response to criticism thus often proves it was highly justified.
According to the New York Times, the Daily News, and the New York Post, now New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer went on record in October 1998, saying, "the current Mayor thinks he's a dictator, and does not have sufficient respect not only for other branches of government, but also for the citizenry and its opportunities to speak out and be heard."
Spitzer's statements, like Lederman's false arrests, stemmed from Giuliani's totalitarian "zero tolerance" policies, which he claimed would improve the "quality of life" in New York by punishing trivial violations such as jaywalking, drinking in public, marijuana possession, and panhandling, and even non-violations such as Lederman's persistent expressions of free speech. Under this policy, New Yorkers were handcuffed and dragged off to jail for peacefully drinking beer on their front stoops - the New York City equivalent of hanging out on the porch. Marijuana possession arrests increased by well over 4,000 percent. Arrests were even made for such things as riding a bike without a bell on it and sitting on milk crates on the sidewalk.
Giuliani's courtship of rogue police officers and seduction of the NYPD to become his personal Gestapo began in September 1992, when he addressed an angry rally of cops protesting then-mayor Dinkins's proposal for a civilian board to review police misconduct.
It was a rowdy, often threatening, crowd. Hundreds of white off-duty cops drank heavily (a violation for which, under Giuliani, many citizens would later be arrested), and a few waved signs like "Dump the Washroom Attendant," a racist reference to mayor Dinkins. Twice, Giuliani called the Dinkins proposal "bullshit." The crowd cheered, and Giuliani was jubilant. "Rudy was out there inciting white cops to riot," Mr. Dinkins stated.
As mayor, Giuliani's racial and ethnic biases and favoritisms were blatant. For over a century the public use of firecrackers by the Asian-American community for their New Years celebration, a religious and cultural tradition, had been allowed. In 1997 though Giuliani lined Chinatown streets with hundreds of police to suppress this, and even refused to allow a permit for a professionally supervised display. The Christian equivalent of this would be banning Christmas trees and decorations because they occasionally start fires. Giuliani never relented on this. On the Jewish festival of Purim however, when fireworks are used in the streets of Jewish neighborhoods, the police continued to look the other way! They also ignored bonfires set in Jewish neighborhood streets to destroy leavened bread before Passover. Can you imagine the police response to this in any poor, Black, Hispanic, or Asian-American community? Giuliani's lasting legacy is that in New York fireworks are OK on Purim, but celebrate the 4th of July with them and you can get busted. So much for "Independence" Day.
Eventually almost 70,000 citizens sued the city for such police abuses as strip-searching suspected jaywalkers. In 1999 James Savage, president of the New York City police union, referred to Giuliani's zero tolerance policy as "a blueprint for a police state and tyranny." Under the guise of fighting crime, Giuliani had thus transformed the NYPD into his own private Gestapo, going as far as assigning two NYPD detectives, at taxpayer expense, as round-the-clock bodyguards for his MISTRESS. This after his closing down all the strip clubs on "moral grounds!"
Giuliani shored up control of the police department by appointing crony Howard Safir as commissioner. Safir then made the department's Street Crimes Unit into what New York journalist Nat Hentoff described as a "rogue operation" that made "Dirty Harry look like Mahatma Gandhi." Fashion-wise, the unit had a resemblance to Guatemala's notorious military death squads, wearing "We Own the Night" t-shirts, and shirts citing Ernest Hemingway's "There is no hunting like the hunting of man" quote - quite a variation from standard issue uniforms!
This is the police unit that became notorious for shooting innocent African immigrant Amadou Diallo FORTY TIMES as he reached for his wallet after being ordered to show identification. When New Yorkers took to the streets to protest the unjustified killing, Giuliani told the press that people were protesting due to "their own personal inadequacies."
Hatian immigrant Abner Louima, arrested in 1997 on a minor charge, was brutally beaten on the trip to Brooklyn's 70th precinct. There officers took him into a bathroom where convicted rogue cop Justin Volpe sadistically shoved a plunger handle up Louima's rectum, then forced the same object into his mouth, breaking his teeth. Louima was hospitalized with serious injuries, and stated that during his torture one of these sadists said to him "This is Giuliani time!"
When Safir left, Giuliani appointed Bernard Kerik to take his place. This is the man Giuliani also recommended to head up Homeland Security. Kerik later pleaded guilty to accepting gifts and loans from businesses with alleged organized crime ties while he served as police commissioner.
Some credit Giuliani's Draconian excesses with the drop in crime during his tenure, but he just happened to be in the right place at the right time to take credit for this. During this period crime dropped similarly nationwide, mostly the result of changing demographics and better policing methods.
Eventually the Giuliani-sanctioned anything-goes extremism infected other units in the police department. When plainclothes cops asked a black man on the street to sell them marijuana, the man, Patrick Dorismond, took offense to being called a drug dealer and got into a scuffle with the unidentified officers, who then SHOT HIM DEAD. Giuliani issued a knee-jerk defense of the killer cops, telling the press that Dorismond was "no altar boy." Salon.com pointed out that in fact he WAS an altar boy! Desperate to justify the killing, Giuliani ordered the ILLEGAL release of Dorismond's sealed juvenile record - for disorderly conduct! It seems that under Giuliani, this justifies the death penalty. Giuliani's contribution to Dorismond's funeral was a squadron of police in full riot gear, inciting violence that would not have occurred without their unnecessary and disrespectful presence.
Former schools Chancellor Rudy Crew, a one-time pal of Giuliani, stated: "There's something very deeply pathological about Rudy's humanity - He was barren, completely emotionally barren, on the issue of race." Giuliani's vile racism has even been acknowledged by his successor, Mayor Bloomberg: "You forget that every single decision [in the Giuliani administration], everybody, every story,
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> Today's New York Daily News headline labels Rudy Giuliani as a "traitor." > I fully agree, but for far more serious reasons than his choice in > baseball team favorites.
> The actions of a President of the United States can have potentially > disastrous consequences for the nation and the entire world. Read the > following articles that document Giuliani's long history of despotic and > unamerican conduct, his false "heroism" on 9/11, and his ongoing support > of a defrocked priest friend linked to pedophilia, and then decide if > Giuliani is fit to be our next President.
> AMERICA'S MARTINET: The DANGEROUS Candidacy of Rudy Giuliani
> The mass media sometimes calls him "America's mayor." Critics label him a > dangerous fascist. Whether he's the alleged hero who "took charge" on > September 11, 2001, or the frightening face of a new American Reich, it > appears Rudolph Giuliani will carry George W. Bush's torch into the 2008 > presidential election.
> When Giuliani emerged from the toxic dust of the World Trade Center the > national media caught a quick case of amnesia, preferring the iconic image > of a "hero" over reality. They quickly forgot Giuliani's dismal tenure in > mayoral office, his life-costing failures to address the threat of > terrorism, and his sorry performance on the morning of September 11, 2001.
> Before picking up the "hero" moniker, Giuliani was commonly referred to in > the city he governed as a despotic fascist and a mean-spirited thug. > These accusations didn't just come from civil libertarians either. Former > New York Mayor Ed Koch likened Giuliani to former Chilean dictator Augusto > Pinochet. According to Koch, Giuliani "uses the levers of power to punish > any critic." Koch went on to explain, "He doesn't have that right - that's > why the First Amendment is so important." Yes, and by the end of 2002 the > courts had found Giuliani in violation of that constitutional pillar of > American freedom twenty-seven times!
> More than 35 successful lawsuits were brought against Giuliani and his > administration for blocking free speech. In his book Speaking Freely, > First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams said Giuliani had an "insistence on > doing the one thing that the First Amendment most clearly forbids: > using the power of government to restrict or punish speech critical of > government itself."
> Giuliani's disdain for freedom of speech is best exemplified by the case > of Robert Lederman, an artist that drew caricatures of Giuliani as a > dictator and depicted his policies as transforming New York into a police > state. Lederman was ARRESTED FORTY-ONE TIMES during Giuliani's reign, not > by street cops but police brass under Giuliani's orders, for displaying > his art at political demonstrations and on the streets of New York. All > were false arrests, as Lederman was never convicted of a crime.
> In a similar fashion and again in brazen violation of the First Amendment, > Giuliani ordered paid advertisements for New York Magazine removed from > public buses because the ads touted the magazine as "possibly the only > good thing in New York Rudy hasn't taken credit for." Giuliani's response > to criticism thus often proves it was highly justified.
> According to the New York Times, the Daily News, and the New York Post, > now New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer went on record in October 1998, > saying, "the current Mayor thinks he's a dictator, and does not have > sufficient respect not only for other branches of government, but also for > the citizenry and its opportunities to speak out and be heard."
> Spitzer's statements, like Lederman's false arrests, stemmed from > Giuliani's totalitarian "zero tolerance" policies, which he claimed would > improve the "quality of life" in New York by punishing trivial violations > such as jaywalking, drinking in public, marijuana possession, and > panhandling, and even non-violations such as Lederman's persistent > expressions of free speech. Under this policy, New Yorkers were handcuffed > and dragged off to jail for peacefully drinking beer on their front > stoops - the New York City equivalent of hanging out on the porch. > Marijuana possession arrests increased by well over 4,000 percent. > Arrests were even made for such things as riding a bike without a bell on > it and sitting on milk crates on the sidewalk.
> Giuliani's courtship of rogue police officers and seduction of the NYPD to > become his personal Gestapo began in September 1992, when he addressed an > angry rally of cops protesting then-mayor Dinkins's proposal for a > civilian board to review police misconduct.
> It was a rowdy, often threatening, crowd. Hundreds of white off-duty cops > drank heavily (a violation for which, under Giuliani, many citizens would > later be arrested), and a few waved signs like "Dump the Washroom > Attendant," a racist reference to mayor Dinkins. Twice, Giuliani called > the Dinkins proposal "bullshit." The crowd cheered, and Giuliani was > jubilant. "Rudy was out there inciting white cops to riot," Mr. Dinkins > stated.
> As mayor, Giuliani's racial and ethnic biases and favoritisms were > blatant. For over a century the public use of firecrackers by the > Asian-American community for their New Years celebration, a religious and > cultural tradition, had been allowed. In 1997 though Giuliani lined > Chinatown streets with hundreds of police to suppress this, and even > refused to allow a permit for a professionally supervised display. The > Christian equivalent of this would be banning Christmas trees and > decorations because they occasionally start fires. Giuliani never > relented on this. On the Jewish festival of Purim however, when fireworks > are used in the streets of Jewish neighborhoods, the police continued to > look the other way! They also ignored bonfires set in Jewish neighborhood > streets to destroy leavened bread before Passover. Can you imagine the > police response to this in any poor, Black, Hispanic, or Asian-American > community? Giuliani's lasting legacy is that in New York fireworks are OK > on Purim, but celebrate the 4th of July with them and you can get busted. > So much for "Independence" Day.
> Eventually almost 70,000 citizens sued the city for such police abuses as > strip-searching suspected jaywalkers. In 1999 James Savage, president of > the New York City police union, referred to Giuliani's zero tolerance > policy as "a blueprint for a police state and tyranny." Under the guise of > fighting crime, Giuliani had thus transformed the NYPD into his own > private Gestapo, going as far as assigning two NYPD detectives, at > taxpayer expense, as round-the-clock bodyguards for his MISTRESS. This > after his closing down all the strip clubs on "moral grounds!"
> Giuliani shored up control of the police department by appointing crony > Howard Safir as commissioner. Safir then made the department's Street > Crimes Unit into what New York journalist Nat Hentoff described as a > "rogue operation" that made "Dirty Harry look like Mahatma Gandhi." > Fashion-wise, the unit had a resemblance to Guatemala's notorious military > death squads, wearing "We Own the Night" t-shirts, and shirts citing > Ernest Hemingway's "There is no hunting like the hunting of man" quote - > quite a variation from standard issue uniforms!
> This is the police unit that became notorious for shooting innocent > African immigrant Amadou Diallo FORTY TIMES as he reached for his wallet > after being ordered to show identification. When New Yorkers took to the > streets to protest the unjustified killing, Giuliani told the press that > people were protesting due to "their own personal inadequacies."
> Hatian immigrant Abner Louima, arrested in 1997 on a minor charge, was > brutally beaten on the trip to Brooklyn's 70th precinct. There officers > took him into a bathroom where convicted rogue cop Justin Volpe > sadistically shoved a plunger handle up Louima's rectum, then forced the > same object into his mouth, breaking his teeth. Louima was hospitalized > with serious injuries, and stated that during his torture one of these > sadists said to him "This is Giuliani time!"
> When Safir left, Giuliani appointed Bernard Kerik to take his place. This > is the man Giuliani also recommended to head up Homeland Security. Kerik > later pleaded guilty to accepting gifts and loans from businesses with > alleged organized crime ties while he served as police commissioner.
> Some credit Giuliani's Draconian excesses with the drop in crime during > his tenure, but he just happened to be in the right place at the right > time to take credit for this. During this period crime dropped similarly > nationwide, mostly the result of changing demographics and better policing > methods.
> Eventually the Giuliani-sanctioned anything-goes extremism infected other > units in the police department. When plainclothes cops asked a black man > on the street to sell them marijuana, the man, Patrick Dorismond, took > offense to being called a drug dealer and got into a scuffle with the > unidentified officers, who then SHOT HIM DEAD. Giuliani issued a > knee-jerk defense of the killer cops, telling the press that Dorismond was > "no altar boy." Salon.com pointed out that in fact he WAS an altar boy! > Desperate to justify the killing, Giuliani ordered the ILLEGAL release of > Dorismond's sealed juvenile record - for disorderly conduct! It seems > that under Giuliani, this justifies the death penalty. Giuliani's > contribution to Dorismond's funeral was a squadron of police in full riot > gear, inciting violence that would not have occurred without their > unnecessary
And I wish bush had done the same before he f***ed this country up. But we don't always get what we want.
A short civil war would have been worth it to prevent him from gaining power. I'm not blaming all of the problems on him but come on...ask yourself where we'd be today had 600 more idiots in Florida known how to punch holes correctly
> "Alan Whitenton" <AWHITEN...@comcast.net> wrote... >> Why would you want a socialist pig that that is anti-white to >> run for president? > Anti-white?
Well, did she ever root for the South Side team?
Catch you later. --Robert Machemer
-- Robert Paul Aubrey Machemer | For each time he falls, he shall Amherst College, Math & Classics | rise again, and woe to the wicked! IF22: Cliff wins best film, cast | --Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha) "Can't complain; had his chance, and in modern parlance, blew it."
>>>>>> Why? You want 4 more years of a Republican presidency?
>>>>>>>> Vote for Hillary
>>>>>Wow I didn't know Gore switched parties
>>>> He didn't. That's the point.
>>>Gore wouldn't lose to any Republican candidate. He'd be much more likely >>>to >>>be defeated by someone in his own party.
>> Right. We saw in 2000 what a savvy and charismatic campaigner he is.
>Whatever your point is, more people voted for him than anyone else
My point, which is glaringly obvious, is that Gore thoroughly blew an election which was his to lose. He was riding the coattails of a highly popular, successful president and running against a weak opponent. With everything going in this favor, he used his electoral ineptness to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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